Albuquerque website goes the distance
Sunshine Review has ranked over 5,000 government website since we launched, and only 52 of those websites have merited an “A” transparency grade.
Which is why I can’t express how stoked I was to see Albuquerque, New Mexico’s new website. This city website is out-performing most government websites in the US for proactive disclosure of information. In fact, very few local governments have made the effort to be that transparent, and in such detail.
You want it, this site has it. Credit card receipts, lobbying expenditures, campaign contributions, audits, contracts, employee salaries—everything. This website literally achieved not just every mark on Sunshine Review’s transparency checklist, but also nailed all our suggested data as well. Data is even downloadable in different formats.
I highly recommend poking around the revamped site, and demanding the same performance from your local governments.
Now if only they could make the city’s name easier to spell…
They could be archiving more of city council meetings online though (there’s only 2?)
Now that is really cool. Too bad the VA system is not that open. Have you ever tried to find help on that site? Good luck. No one of any importance is listed where you can get hold of them. You have to go through a system called IRIS.. And then you get some poor slob who does not know anything. I got no help at all until I went public with my husbands claim .. Then they called,, for a day or two.. then back to nothing.