Municipal Campaign Finance Disclosures Will Appear on State’s Website in January
Good news for transparency in elections and government. According to Rhonda Dauphin Johnson, Municipal Clerk for the City of Atlanta, the State of Georgia’s website beginning in January 2011 will begin accepting and making public campaign disclosure reports from municipal candidates and elected officials. Johnson said this was the result of legislation passed by the General Assembly earlier this year.
Previously, it was very difficult to find such disclosures, as they were not on the State’s website. Meanwhile, on the City’s website, they only had certain disclosures from the 2009 election cycle, and not even all of them for that matter.