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February 8, 2018 6:12 PM

Trying to find the link to a story I was told about, mentioning a Virginia city that has started posting every check it writes on its website. (Locally, this would have been over Radio IQ.) I've not been able to find the link - help? Supposedly aired within this past week.
posted by mmiddle to Law & Government (5 answers total)

Are you sure it was Virginia and not Ohio?

http://ohiotreasurer.gov/Transparency/Ohios-Online-Checkbook
posted by Jacqueline at 6:19 PM on February 8, 2018

Response by poster: Wow, that's amazing! Good for Ohio. But I'm in Virginia, and my source was firm on these details. We'd be more likely to impress our officials to try something similar, if it were happening in-state.
posted by mmiddle at 6:34 PM on February 8, 2018

Maybe talk to the Virginia Coalition for Open Government. https://www.opengovva.org/transparency-news-13018

Or the Sunlight Foundation. https://sunlightfoundation.com
posted by postel's law at 3:51 AM on February 9, 2018

Best answer: https://wydaily.com/local-news/2018/02/01/its-the-peoples-money-james-city-county-aims-for-transparency-with-online-checkbook/
posted by mnumberger at 6:28 AM on February 9, 2018 [1 favorite]

NYC does this too, though the sheer quantity makes the data a little hard to manage.
posted by snaw at 9:14 AM on February 9, 2018