Obama at 100 Days - 21st Century Right-to-Know Agenda

In the months preceding the 2008 presidential election, the right]to]know community worked together to collaboratively develop a set of government transparency recommendations for what was to be the next administration and Congress. The seventy recommendations were published in a report, titled Moving Toward a 21st Century Right-to-Know Agenda: Recommendations to President]elect Obama and Congress, which was endorsed by more than 300 individuals and organizations. The recommendations urged the new president and Congress to act quickly on a number of key government openness issues while encouraging a more systemic, longer-term approach to a variety of other transparency problems that plague the federal government. Included in the report were five specific recommendations the right-to-know community wanted action on within the first 100 days of the new administration.

1) The president should clearly state in his inaugural address that he will oversee the "most open, honest, and accountable government ever."
Status: Completed.

2) Instruct the agencies to operate in a more open style, making information available to the public in a timely manner and in searchable formats except where prohibited by law.
Status: Significant Progress, But Implementation Incomplete.

3) Identify top documents and top databases to make publicly available.
Status: Some Progress.

4) Rescind Executive Order 13233 to remove impediments to access to historical presidential records.
Status: Completed.

5) Instruct attorney general to issue a FOIA memo that increases the presumption of openness. Status: Completed