The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation's new chief data officer tracker provides a basis for comparing the increasingly popular role across states.

Josh Martin, who joined the Indiana state government in 2012, announced he'll resign when the new governor takes office.

Maryland's top privacy, information security and data officials now report both to the statewide CIO and directly to the governor.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Jason Lally, San Francisco's former chief data officer, as the new statewide CDO.

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee signed an executive order creating several new initiatives designed to improve the state's use of AI.

Christie Burris, former executive director of North Carolina's health exchange, is the state's new chief data officer.

North Dakota named Kimberly Weis, who most recently served as the state technology division's director of data and analytics, as the new statewide chief data officer.

Ken Pfeil, Virginia’s chief data officer, said he's afraid of what may happen if governments train their AI models on sloppy data.

Hawaii Chief Data Officer Rebecca Cai said data governance goes "hand in hand" with generative AI, a technology the state's planning to use.

California Chief Data Officer Joy Bonaguro, who'd held the job since early 2020, announced her resignation from state government.