Strategic Data Management Action Plan

The draft Strategic Data Management Action Plan outlines the directives, goals, and framework for achieving optimal data quality, management, and accessibility.

Assembly Bill 1755 Water Board Directive D.O.T. Directive Strategic Goals

Assembly Bill 1755

Assembly Bill 1755, The Open and Transparent Water Data Act. The bill requires the Department of Water Resources, in consultation with the California Water Quality Monitoring Council, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to create, operate, and maintain a statewide integrated water data platform, and to develop protocols for data sharing, documentation, quality control, public access, and promotion of open-source platforms and decision support tools related to water data.

Water Board Directive

The State Water Resources Control Board adopted an Open Data Resolution that outlined five core principles for open data:

Diagram illustrating the relationship between the Open and Transparent Water Data Act and the Water Board’s Open Data Resolution. The four goals of AB1755 map to five goals of the Open Data Resolution. Specifically, 'Data Are Accessible' maps to 'Make Data Accessible'; 'Data Are Sufficient' maps to 'Data Quality and integrity'; ' Data Are Used' maps to 'Improve Data Literacy' and 'Use Data to Govern'; and 'Data Are Useful' maps to 'Govern Data.'

Public Violation Summary Report

Figure 1. The four goals of AB1755. The Open and Transparent Data Act, mapped to the five guiding principles of the Water Boards Open Data Resolution.

D.O.T. Directive

The California Department of Technology on April 10, 2019, issued a statewide Open Data Policy, detailing the requirements of each Agency/state entity.