St. Charles Parish gets the memo

What is that? The sweet smell of better government? A few months ago, Sunshine Review sent out its evaluation of Louisiana parish websites, and, as a direct consequence, St. Charles Parish is updating updated its website to include its budget and how to obtain public records. From the Times-Picayune:

The new site also contains more information than the old site, partly in response to a review of the parish’s old Web site by the Sunshine Review, a Chicago nonprofit that lobbies for more transparency in government. Simpson said the parish added the parish’s budget, audit and other financial information to the site in response to an August 2008 review of the Web sites of Louisiana parishes by the Sunshine Review, which recruits citizens to grade public Web sites on the amount of information they contain.

Thank you, St. Charles Parish, for being responsive and accountable to the taxpayers in your parish. Now who’s next???