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DC Court Rules in Dispute Over Open Technology Fund Board

Jessica Jerreat

   The Superior Court in Washington, D.C., has ruled that actions taken by
   the U.S. Agency for Global Media's chief executive against the board of
   the Open Technology Fund are invalid.

   The court ruling came in response to a July lawsuit regarding who
   controls the OTF. The suit was filed by the office of the District of
   Columbia's attorney general under the district's Nonprofit Corporations
   Act.

   OTF, an independent, nonprofit grantee of USAGM, [1]uses federal grants
   to promote internet freedom technologies. More than 2 billion people
   globally use tools it supports, such as the encrypted messaging app
   Signal and the anonymous browsing software Tor.

   Congress granted the OTF nonprofit status last year.

References

   1. https://www.usagm.gov/networks/otf/

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