Since 2010, the law “On providing access to information on the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies” came into force , which all these bodies were charged with having their own website, and not a simple one, but an official one.
I can illustrate the degree of the officials' readiness to comply with the law with the following episode: in the summer of 2009 I had a chance to speak before a meeting of the main informatizations from all municipalities of one far from backward region, he casually mentioned the impending law, and the reaction of the audience was unanimous: what kind of law ?!
So, with the onset of 2010, we decided to check who, at least from the federal officials, is aware of the requirements of the law, which of the federal authorities has officialsites? It turned out that 88 out of 89 authorities simply have websites, while only 62 have official websites.
What is the difference? Here's what: the law requires that the domain name of the official website be administered by a government or local government agency. Not necessarily the same, whose site, even a village council of some kind, if only not a left office, and even more so a natural person, like a third of the surveyed.
Now readers may be tempted to reproach me for casuistry, but do not rush, let's consider this case: we have the right, without SMS, registration and altercations with the person on duty, to submit a statement to the police remotely through the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The application will be automatically registered, assigned to the KUSP, they will be obliged to start work on it ... But no, stop, they are not obliged: all regulatory legal acts on this matter operate with the concept of an "official website", and the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is notofficial . Where and to whom you submitted your appeal - I don't know where you got this KUSP - I don't know, stomp your feet in the nearest police station and write a statement there on paper, and then get it accepted and registered as it should be.
In general, they uncovered this whole unsightly picture, published a report , a wave arose in the media, some journalists, with some fright, declared that "The President's website is not official," although it just met the criteria of officiality, the departments caught up and began to officialize their sites, but not all ...
There was a long correspondence with the Prosecutor General's Office, which tried to dump its work on the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, which was rightly discarded ... Along the way, a number of departments voiced their interpretation of the requirements of the law, which boils down to: we are so comfortable and do not care. By the end of the year, 9 out of 26 draft deviators remained, and we, frankly, stopped monitoring the process. As it turned out, in vain ...
10 years have passed, we again checked the websites of government agencies for compliance with the criterion of formalityand - ta-dam! - Three of them have unofficial sites, and if Rosgvardia can still be understood: the department is new, the site is fresh, you cannot follow everything at once, then the Ministry of Internal Affairs is an honorary draft evader with ten years of experience. And the Presidential Property Management Department is a defector: 10 years ago they themselves administered the domain of their website, today for some reason they transferred this function to the subordinate Federal State Unitary Enterprise.
Again they wrote to the Prosecutor General's Office; I wonder who this time he will try to shove his work, directly designated in the law as the duty of the prosecutor's office ... But still, progress: 3 unofficial sites are no longer 26.