Despite Progress, Federal Government Must Speed Up Access to Public Information

“During the Knight Report is undoubtedly a wake up call for federal government, it as well represents an possibility for agencies to make compliance a priority in other words easily achievable,” said John Schloemann, vice president for Eskel Porter Consulting, the information research consulting firm that developed PRT and has been providing government research solutions for more than three decades.

The FOIA mandates

He noted that not only does PRT address the FOIA mandates, nevertheless also relieves pressure on federal chief information officers to identify and move government services to “cloud” computing – another Obama Administration mandate.

Public Records Tracker is affordable at a time when tax earnings are falling together public information requests are on the rise, according to Schloemann. It’s available for a monthly subscription rate of just $125 per user.

Proven way for federal CIO’s to address FOIA

“Our cloud application provides a proven way for federal CIO’s to address FOIA and cloud-computing mandates after a fashion that is economical, flexible, fast and proven,” said Schloemann. “There is in effect no reason for a federal agency to be non-compliant because an easy solution is already available.”