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California Cuts Budget Transparency Website From Budget
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- ricardobeat 15y agoDoes anyone have info on the costs for running that website? Governments have a taste for millionary contracts to maintain very simple platforms.
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoSo, who's volunteering to submit a FOIA request and get the information anyway? Big downside is California loses transparency points to the public, and they don't choose the format.
- alapshah 15y agoSomeone absolutely should do this... there is definitely a business opportunity in publishing information gathered from foias
- taylorbuley 15y agoI see it more as a civic opportunity.
- Pooter 15y agoIt's not entirely clear to me (from looking at the splash page in the link) that you'd even need to file FOIA requests for the information. There are several sites linked which supposedly already provide the data. I think the more unfortunate part is not having it in a single place, tied together in a coherent way. Which is not to say that this website did so effectively, just that there's some value in doing that.
- zbruhnke 15y agogotta love the irony in this at least :)