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As founder of WikiLaw.org, I believe that the Government and its body of law should be transparent for the people it governs. As founder of VoterSearch.org, I believe that protecting your right to vote is essential to an accountable government. As former Co-Chair of Community Board 8's Communication Committee, I worked to open the community board by announcingcommunity board membership applications and ensuring they were widely available at meetings. I have continued my work with Community Board 8's Communication Committee and we have made its television show "Community Board 8 Speaks" available online.

As your City Council member I will continue the work of making City Hall transparent by making its business available online through the web, PDF, podcast, and YouTube like videos. I will openCity Hall by creating NYC.OpenLegislation.org, a local version of OpenCongress.org, where anyone will be able to share their views on all business, in support of the mission of theParticipatory Politics Foundation. City Hall will become accountable to you the people as NYC.OpenLegislation.org, will let you track business before City Hall and how your representative voted on issues of importance to you.

JP Updates DeBlasio to Make Big Changes to Homeless Team and Policies by Faith Elliott

http://jpupdates.com/2015/12/15/deblasio-to-make-big-changes-to-homeless-team-an...

“There are serious problems with a mayor’s Management Report that is setting goals that go against the direction we want our city to go,” said City Councilman Ben Kallos of Manhattan, who oversaw a hearing on the report. “We’re disappointed by their failure to address the broader issue over the past two years.”

 

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New York Times Greater Diversity Sought for New York City’s Community Boards by Corey Kilgannon

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/nyregion/greater-diversity-sought-for-new-york...

Councilman Ben Kallos, a Democrat who represents the Upper East Side of Manhattan and is one of the four other council members besides Mr. Torres who are sponsors of the bill, called it a step toward “transparency and reform at the boards.” New Yorkers, Mr. Kallos said, deserve to know “the demographics of who represents them at the community board level, their voice in city government.”

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