Sens. Lankford and McCaskill introduced " the bipartisan Federal Agency Customer Experience Act
(S.1088), a bill to roll back a federal requirement that makes it
difficult for agencies to get feedback from the public concerning their
satisfaction with agencies’ customer service."
That's from the press release but it seems to me the bill does something more and different. I think I've seen agency websites use a standard web feedback form (from Foresight, or some such company) and I doubt they've cleared such collection of data through OMB. No doubt the clearance requirements for public data collections are an obstacle, but the more important thing they require is annual publication of the data collected. Way back in the early days of this blog I think I recommended a similar process, though I was suggesting a running total, like the data Google Analytics gave to bloggers.
The missing piece though in the Act is something explicitly tying the data back to Congressional oversight--it's fine to collect data but if the bosses (i.e. Congress) don't use it, it's simply an exercise.
Hattip: FCW.
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