White House issues second-quarter report card for agency open-government plans

Despite a second chance to revise their open-government plans, 11 federal agencies are still falling short, according to White House Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra.

According to the White House's assessment dashboard, the lowest-scoring agencies are the National Science Foundation and the State Department, which have met five of the 10 transparency criteria, and the Agriculture, Commerce and Labor departments, which have met six of the 10 criteria. Eighteen agencies' transparency plans have met all the requirements of the Obama administration's Open Government Directive, Chopra and Cass Sunstein, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, wrote in the White House's "Open Government Blog" Aug. 12.