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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 1 claim and 8 source dossiers.
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The Office of Inspector General found on 23 March 2020 that the City does not comply with its own order — no Open Data Compliance Report since 2014, an Open Data Advisory Group that had not met since 2014 and then covered only 18 of 29 city agencies, and a Chief Data Officer post vacant for 18 months
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src-cb08e624d8eb7fbfThe order itself, signed 10 December 2012 by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Blocks automated fetching (403); text verified through the Sunlight Foundation's transcription below and cited consistently by the OIG advisory.
src-f7ac83ad635e115aIndependent transcription and analysis of the order. Sentence-level source for the duties: each agency shall make available online all appropriate data sets; the Mayor appoints a Chief Data Officer to coordinate implementation, compliance and expansion; each agency head designates an Open Data Coordinator; the CDO files compliance reports by July 15 each year. Also the source for the licence point — the order mandates Terms of Use developed by the technology department rather than granting an open licence.
src-dd29972adf5ca33dThe independent audit and the entry's spine: 'An OIG inquiry has determined that the City does not comply with the requirements of Executive Order No. 2012-2.' The Mayor's Office agreed and committed to steps toward revitalising the Open Data Program.
src-c3b96230a05ec04cSentence-level source for every figure in the impact field: 'The City also had not published an Open Data Compliance Report since 2014'; 'the Chief Data Officer position remained vacant for 18 months'; 'The City's Open Data Advisory Group had not met since 2014 and, at that time, only included representatives from 18 of 29 City agencies.'
src-46fa29bf179caad5Primary currency check, read 26 July 2026: dataUpdatedAt 2026-07-26T11:15:11+0000. Also the licence evidence, at field level: licenseId 'SEE_TERMS_OF_USE', licenseName 'See Terms of Use'. There is no open licence deed on the portal's assets.
src-78c9a16b87836065Scale figure, read 26 July 2026: 911 datasets. The unfiltered catalogue returns 2,009 assets, but that count includes charts, maps, files and filtered views derived from the datasets; only the dataset count is used in the entry.
src-379240d4489a17dfWhat the order's mandated Terms of Use actually impose. Warranties disclaimed on an 'as is' basis, and an affirmative notice condition on reusers: applications using the data must carry the disclaimer 'This site provides applications using data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.cityofchicago.org, the official website of the City of Chicago.' Blocks automated fetching (403); text verified through indexed search.
src-c69d9fa6b03f0fc3Kept as context, deliberately not merged into this entry. OpenGrid, the public map built by DoIT from the internal WindyGrid, launched 19 January 2016 under Apache 2.0 and still loads at opengrid.chicago.gov/opengrid/. Its landing page copyright is frozen at 2015 and the repository's newest commit is a documentation edit of 15 April 2024. No municipality outside Chicago was found to have adopted it.