Wednesday, September 9, 2009

SFGate: Politics Blog : Schwarzenegger's government transparency Web site - Take 2!


SFGate: Politics Blog : Schwarzenegger's government transparency Web site - Take 2!:

"State Inspector General Laura Chick today asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to expand his government transparency Web site to include more internal audits of state and local agencies, and to overhaul the Web site to make it more user-friendly.

The governor responded quickly, announcing an executive order that requires state agencies and departments to post 'all program reviews, monitoring and accountability reports, evaluations, inspections, assessments and studies of audits' for public viewing on the transparency site.

Schwarzenegger initially ordered state agencies to post all external and internal audits, as well as government contracts totaling more than $5,000 to be posted on www.reportingtransparency.ca.gov ."