Merge pull request #577 from CityOfNewYork/johnyu95-about-page-update

About Page Update

app/templates/main/about.html

@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
     <div class="row row-centered" role="main">
         <div class="col-sm-9 col-centered">
             <h1 id="about" class="text-center">
-                About OpenRECORDS
+                About OpenRecords
             </h1>
             <br>
             <p class="lead">
-                OpenRECORDS is a quick, simple way for you to submit a
+                OpenRecords is a quick, simple way for you to submit a
                 public records request to a New York City Agency.
             </p>
             <p>
@@ -24,18 +24,18 @@ <h1 id="about" class="text-center">
             </p>
             <hr>
             <h2 class="about-heading" id="what">
-                What is OpenRECORDS?
+                What is OpenRecords?
             </h2>
             <p>
-                OpenRECORDS is a quick, simple way for individuals to submit Freedom of
+                OpenRecords is a quick, simple way for individuals to submit Freedom of
                 Information Law (FOIL) requests to a NYC agency. The web application also
                 allows government employees to manage, respond to, and fulfill incoming requests.
                 By providing more information about records requests, members of the public may
                 find what they need without having to create a new public record request.
             </p>
             <hr>
             <h2 class="about-heading" id="documents">
-                Why aren't all documents uploaded on OpenRECORDS?
+                Why aren't all documents uploaded on OpenRecords?
             </h2>
             <p>
                 City agencies will not publicly release records or information that violates your right to privacy.
@@ -49,23 +49,16 @@ <h2 class="about-heading" id="documents">
             </p>
             <hr>
             <h2 class="about-heading" id="why">
-                History of OpenRECORDS (Previously RecordTrac)
+                History of OpenRecords
             </h2>
             <p>
-                The 2013 Code for America fellows created RecordTrac for the City of Oakland in response to public
-                complaints that people did not know what happened after submitting FOIL requests and that the response
-                time was too long. By making the process transparent, requesters could know when their requests were
-                fulfilled.
                 In 2014, the Department of Records and Information Services and the Department of Information Technology
-                and Telecommunications began working with the open source code from the Oakland application to create
-                additional features and functionality required to meet the FOIL needs of New York City agencies. The
-                resulting FOIL portal is part of Mayor de Blasio's overall initiative for transparency in government.
-                The
-                initial beta version of OpenRecords was released in March 2015 for use with eight pilot agencies. The
-                current version 2.1 was released in August 2017 and is used by 38 agencies, with more to be added on a
-                regular basis. The DORIS development team rewrote all of the code to increase the stability and
-                robustness of the application.
-
+                and Telecommunications began working with open source code developed by Code for America to build a
+                portal for Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests. The resulting FOIL portal allows members of the
+                public to easily submit a request for government records to City agencies and offices. Agency users can
+                use automated scripts to respond and to provide information about the timeframe to fulfill requests and
+                to post the responsive record on the portal unless it contains personal privacy information. As of March
+                2024, there are 55 New York City agencies and offices using the OpenRecords portal.
             </p>
             <hr>
             <h2 class="about-heading">Harvard Ash Center Bright Ideas Award 2017</h2>