Tbilisi. OGP Forum Member Organizations adresse to the Chairman of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Currently Georgia is in the process of elaborating the OGP Action Plan, within the frames of which, number of state institutions take commitments to ensure broader transparency and accountability of their work. Supreme Court of Georgia, among other institutions, is part of this process. "During the process of elaborating the action plan, civil society organizations prepared the recommendation package – the activities that will ensure more transparency and accountability of the state institutions. Among recommendations, organizations included the obligation of the Supreme Court of Georgia to proactively disclose the statistical data about the government surveillance. ...We believe that publicity of this data depends on the will of the Supreme Court of Georgia which can easily process the statistical data about surveillance and proactively release once in three months. It must be noted that disclosing such statistical data does not publicize the information about operative-investigative activities, thus releasing this data does not contain the risk of publicizing the secret information. In addition, releasing this data will contribute to improving the civic monitoring mechanism, transparency and introducing the high standards of open governance".

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