I know that the legislature gathers conflict of interest information from House and Senate members and while that information in accessible to the public, it is not placed online. Minnesota is also a laggard in providing public access to campaign finance information.
Does the city collect similar information designed to promote ethics and the like? Is that information online somewhere? What about council office and overall city spending details (not just proposed budgets)? The UK parliament has a register of interests that might be : http://www.parliament.uk/about_commons/register_of_members__interests. cfm Anyway, assuming there is public information collected by the city, if it is online, awesome. If not, will those running for city council and Mayor let me know if they support putting such information online for public access. Perhaps Minneapolis should lead the state through information access action, since we've lost our statewide small "d" democratic shine and haven't cared much about that decline. See our "F": http://www.publicintegrity.org/oi/iys.aspx?st=MN&sub=report Thanks, Steven Clift Ericsson ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - - - W: http://publicus.net Minneapolis - - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - Skype/MSN/Y!/AIM: netclift Join Democracies Online: http://dowire.org Start an Issues Forum: http://e-democracy.org/if REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
