Data request · Citizen request

Digitize the Tax Roll Bools

The tax roll books are already available for public viewing at City Hall Laurier however they are not accessible in any modern sense of the word. The public cannot access these electronically, take picture, or photocopies and are limited to taking hand notes. The level of protection for public information is inconsistent with the principles of the Ontario Open Data Directive "When government data can be made available to the public, it will be released over the internet in an open format, at no charge to the user, and will be released under the Open Government Licence – Ontario (see Appendix A) and/or a similar open licence where appropriate." Where 'open format' means "a set of specifications used to store and transmit digital data that is platform independent, machine-readable, vendor-neutral, standardized where possible, and made available to the public without restrictions that would impede the re-use of that data." Emphasis on 'machine readable'. Thank you for your consideration