New law? Push the update.
Pull old law easy peasy. diff/grep on newer versions or the county's over.
Vote on what makes it to prod, sub-teams for smaller areas like parking tickets, etc.
Yeah, it's simple at the end, but digitizing it all, linking it to the underlying databases, root privileges, etc. would make it all run much smoother. Be nice to see people get involved more too.
Pretty sure it’s one of Audrey Tang’s projects [2]. She’s a member of the cabinet who is also an all-around hacker.
[1] https://congress.crowd.law/case-vtaiwan.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang
"How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request Washington DC has made GitHub the authoritative digital source for DC laws."
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