The FCC’s controversial revamped Web page was cited as an...
The FCC’s controversial revamped Web page was cited as an example of agency Web pages that don’t work as intended, in a report in the January issue of the American Bar Association’s magazine, ABA Journal. “In an irony perhaps only…
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lawyers can appreciate, the Federal Communications Commission’s newly revamped, state-of-the-art website has ... a major communications flaw: Information on the agency’s rule-making is as buried as a pirate’s treasure,” the article said (http://xrl.us/bmm5ui). The journal cited a report by University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Cary Coglianese (http://xrl.us/bmm5vs). “From the standpoint of making rulemaking information accessible to ordinary citizens, it is striking the website is not as clear and accessible as the agency’s former site,” Coglianese wrote. “The new site does not list ‘rulemaking’ or ‘regulation’ prominently on the home page. Instead, the new site includes a tab for ‘rulemaking’ as one pull-down option under the heading ‘Business and Licensing.’ ... If a citizen seeking to find out about FCC’s policy work goes to the FCC website, she might be forgiven for not looking for a tab labeled ‘Business and Licensing.'"