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Open Data KC: A Publishing Duty Written Into Law, and No Licence

Revision 2026-08-19-baseline · effective 2026-08-19

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 7 claims and 4 source dossiers.

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7: of 7 claims mapped
4: source dossiers
1: publication dates recorded
0: archives linked
0: exact locators
0: content captures hashed

Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-26ce7631d09b9993 quantitative

KCStat began putting departmental performance on the record in 2011, the portal opened in January 2013

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The city's DataKC pages date KCStat to 2011 as a departmental performance measurement effort and the open data portal to January 2013. The city site blocks automated retrieval (Akamai 403), so no locator string could be lifted from the page directly.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

City of Kansas City — DataKC

Claim 2 clm-ec7efa5df15fd6f0 quantitative

Ordinance No. 140443 enacted an Open Data Policy into the Code of Ordinances, requiring a portal at data.kcmo.org, an Open Data Officer, departmental liaisons

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The ordinance record gives the number and date (No. 140443, 19 June 2014), states that it was enacted into the Code of Ordinances as Article XVI, and lists the portal, the Open Data Officer and the departmental open data liaisons among its requirements.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Open Data Policy Hub — Kansas City, MO Open Data Ordinance No. 140443 (19 June 2014)

Claim 3 clm-0e615a8b06fe9d6b descriptive

public data shall be published online and made freely available to all in a machine-readable open format, in both its raw and processed form

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: This is quoted from the ordinance text itself.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Open Data Policy Hub — Kansas City, MO Open Data Ordinance No. 140443 (19 June 2014)

Claim 4 clm-8e0624e84d20e044 descriptive

The ordinance contains no licensing or public-domain language at all

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The ordinance record states explicitly that it contains no explicit public domain dedication or licensing language; it defines open format but grants no reuse right.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Open Data Policy Hub — Kansas City, MO Open Data Ordinance No. 140443 (19 June 2014)

Claim 5 clm-18693e768a303618 quantitative

202 datasets in the catalogue on 19 August 2026, counted through the Socrata discovery API: 142 of them, 70%, carry no licence field

Published field: impact · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: Counted directly against the Socrata discovery API for the domain data.kcmo.org on 19 August 2026, paging the full catalogue and tallying the metadata licence field: 202 datasets, 142 with no licence value.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Open Data KC — portal

Claim 6 clm-ffda0661fcdf455e quantitative

Of the 60 that do, 49 say Public Domain, five point at the terms of use, three carry the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence, one CC0, one Public Domain U.S. Government and one the Open Database Licence

Published field: impact · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: Same count: the licence values present in the catalogue metadata on 19 August 2026 were Public Domain (49), See Terms of Use (5), Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (3), Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (1), Public Domain U.S. Government (1) and Open Data Commons Open Database License (1).
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Open Data KC — portal

Claim 7 clm-96e7b1334e3aeced descriptive

the city reserves the right to claim or seek to protect any patent, copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights in the material, and asks anyone building on it to carry a disclaimer

Published field: impact · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The portal's terms of use reserve those rights in exactly those words and require applications built on the data to display a disclaimer naming the data as modified from its original source.
Caveat: No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

Open Data KC — Terms of Use

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

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Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

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7: of 7 claims mapped
4: source dossiers
1: publication dates recorded
0: archives linked
0: exact locators
0: content captures hashed

Governance facts carried by the record

Operator: City of Kansas City, Missouri — DataKC, City Manager's Office
Actor types: city-government
Funding model: public
Funding description: City budget
Cost: Not recorded
Ownership: Not recorded
Decision rights: Not recorded
Exit conditions: Not recorded

4 source dossiers

Open Data Policy Hub — Kansas City, MO Open Data Ordinance No. 140443 (19 June 2014) opendatapolicyhub.sunlightfoundation.com · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-8c19b8113d9a263c
Publisher: Name not classified · opendatapolicyhub.sunlightfoundation.com
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: 2014-06-19
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-19
Dossier created: 2026-08-19
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-ec7efa5df15fd6f0
clm-0e615a8b06fe9d6b
clm-8e0624e84d20e044

Open Data KC — portal data.kcmo.org · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-edf00adb9afe5d33
Publisher: Name not classified · data.kcmo.org
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-19
Dossier created: 2026-08-19
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Dataset and licence counts taken from the Socrata discovery API for the domain on 19 August 2026.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-18693e768a303618
clm-ffda0661fcdf455e

Open Data KC — Terms of Use data.kcmo.org · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-4742913032d62d43
Publisher: Name not classified · data.kcmo.org
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-19
Dossier created: 2026-08-19
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: No locator recordedDescriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-96e7b1334e3aeced

City of Kansas City — DataKC kcmo.gov · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-222155870742903a
Publisher: Name not classified · kcmo.gov
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-19
Dossier created: 2026-08-19
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
The city's own site blocks automated retrieval (Akamai 403).
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-26ce7631d09b9993

Known limits of this passport

Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.