Rental Housing Commission FOIA Compliance

On March 27, 2023, the Office of Open Government (OOG) issued a Freedom of Information Act (D.C. FOIA) Advisory Opinion, #OOG-2022-011-M, regarding the Rental Housing Commission (RHC)'s compliance with D.C. FOIA.  OOG found that RHC is not fully compliant with the mandatory disclosure provisions of D.C. FOIA and must make all Final Orders created on or after November l, 2001, that are not subject to statutory exemptions publicly available on its website to be compliant with D.C. FOIA. RHC admits that it is not in full compliance with D.C. FOIA's requirement to make Final Orders available on the Internet. The full opinion is here and below.