DHS Open Government Dialogue 02-18-10

Yesterday evening I went back to the DHS Open Government Dialogue web site to see how things were progressing. As of 6:30 pm EST there were 51 Ideas posted to the site for discussion and evaluation and 99 Off-Topic ideas (some Ideas were obviously moved to Off Topic). The rate of posting new ideas has drastically dropped off. Of course this will still be open for about another month, so there is still time for everyone to get their two cents worth posted. No new security related (chemical or otherwise) posts but I did get an interesting response to my earlier posting to the DHS Open Government website about delays in the rule making process. It looks like we are going to get a discussion going. Feel free to join in.

DHS Dialogue Posting 02-17-10

I did finally make my first posting to the DHS Open Government Dialogue website today. My comment was placed under the Transparency Heading and it suggested that DHS establish a web page that listed the congressionally mandate regulations that DHS has, as of yet, failed to implement by the legislatively imposed deadlines. The posting would provide a description of the current status of those regulations. This is an issue of that I have addressed previously in this blog. It will be interesting to see how this is received by other participants in the dialogue.