This is an archive of dccode.org, which now redirects to the official copy of the code: https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code.

dccode.org

A team of volunteers working to distribute, process, and analyze Washington, DC's laws.

want to help?

Email V. David Zvenyach with inquiries, or come to the next meeting of Code for DC, or participate in our github repository.

press

March 24, 2014. The Kojo Nnamdi Show: D.C. Decoded: Open Data, Open Government?
March 20, 2014. Government Technology: D.C. Takes an Open Data Approach to Muni Cod
March 19, 2014. Washington Post Blogs: DCdecoded.org offers better public access to D.C. laws
April 9, 2013. Huff Post Local: D.C. Code Hackathon: Help Figure Out What To Do With D.C.'s Laws Now That They're Digitally Available
April 1, 2013. Freedom to Tinker: The District of Columbia Claims Copyright on the Law
March 28, 2013. DCist: Breaking the Law to Publish the Law: Open Government Advocate Digitizes Entirety of D.C. Code
March 27, 2013. BoingBoing: Municipal codes of DC, free for all -- liberated without permission
March 19, 2013. Greater Greater Washington: DC's laws aren't yours

Code of the District of Columbia

The DC Government's amazing new (beta) site for the open law.

DCDecoded.org

An open source, searchable, linkable platform for the DC Code by the Open Gov Foundation.

/home-rule-act

An open-source, simple reader for the District of Columbia Home Rule Act

archive

Our /browser was a prototype, fast, open-source browser for the 2012 unofficial DC Code. The repository /dc-decoded holds experimental parsers for the unofficial released code into content for /browser and State Decoded