Indiana Legislators push for Transparency Website
Accountability, Fiscal Policy, Policy — By Online Editor on June 28, 2010 at 10:15 AMSTATEHOUSE (June 24, 2010) – Senate Republican leaders today proposed the Daniels administration unilaterally move forward without a legislative mandate on a new “transparency website” showing budgets and spending by Indiana state government.
The key GOP senators said the site should later be expanded to offer finance plans and records of Indiana school districts and local units of government.
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