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Government Agencies & Elected Officials at State Agency Databases Project
This week’s State Agency Databases Project subject highlight is Government Agencies & Elected Officials, featuring 42 states that project volunteers know to have publicly searchable databases in this subject area. Three examples from this compilation are:
Local Alabama Government Search – Search for local officials by zip code or place name.
Louisiana Boards and Commissions Database – This database is searchable by the name of the commission, board or by name of an individual member. It includes names of all the members on the board or commission, a contact address and phone number, appointed date (if available), and expiration date of term (if available).
Tennessee State phone directory – Search for state employees or state offices.
For more, see http://godort.libguides.com/govdirdbs. If you know of state agency produced databases in this area, either comment here or use the “Email me” link on the guide to report a database, which will be forwarded to the appropriate project volunteer.
State Agency Databases Activity Report: 12/21/2014
With the quarterly link check ongoing, we continue to see changes to the following pages at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases . (links are to revisions page, click on “page” tab to see regular page):
- Alabama – Paula Webb
- California – Joel Rane
- Delaware – John Stevenson
- Louisiana – Rita Franks
- Minnesota – Paul J McDonough
- Nevada – Kathy Edwards
- New Hampshire – Linda Johnson
- South Carolina – Ed Sperr
You can always view ALL changes made in the past seven days by visiting http://tinyurl.com/statedbs.
As a reminder, all of the links and text in the State Agency Databases Project is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. We strongly encourage the use of our links and annotations in projects of your own.
Other Transparency Measures
Yesterday, I posted an entry about Maryland’s new accountability website. There are other states and non-profits that have taken similar efforts. The ones that I came across are:
On 01/05/09, Georgia launched the Open Georgia: Transparency in Government – Not only does it provide information, but also solicits feedback from the public.
On 01/01/09, Kentucky started the Open Door: Kentucky’s Portal to eTransparency. There are plans to provide a new Budget Builder Game and also educational materials.
Websites launched in 2007 & 2008
Missouri – Missouri Accountability Portal (MAP)
Nebraska – Nebraska.Spending.com
Oklahoma – Open Books: Oklahoma’s Finances Online
Texas – Window on State Government
Alaska – Checkbook Online
Kansas – KanView
Louisiana – Louisiana Transparency and Accountability (LaTrac)
Maine – MaineOpenGov.org
New York – SeeThroughNY
South Carolina – South Carolina Spending Transprency
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