U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG, a consumer advocacy group) has been reviewing online transparency initiatives since early 2010. Its fourth annual report finds that many States have made significant improvements in the area of online transparency. The report scrutinizes the extent to which states posted a range of expenditures and made information easily accessible, issuing grades to each state government. For the first time, this year, all 50 states maintain some form of a spending transparency website, all of which were searchable except for California and Vermont. When U.S. PIRG first began reviewing online transparency initiatives in early 2010, only 32 maintained such websites. See also comment by media platform GOVERNING.
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