#OpenGov, #OpenData and meaningful government reform finally hits Los Angeles via Control Panel L.A., a powerful website that opens city finances to quick, easy online public scrutiny, with extensive detail on how City Hall collects and spends billions of tax dollars; Plus, there's an expanded version of CompStat to track neighborhood problems online; Dear Santa... I want THAT!
L.A. controller unveils website to make city finances more transparent http://t.co/yXWOvzbIne
— Paul Pringle LATimes (@PringleLATimes) October 24, 2013
Los Angeles financial data is now searchable online at http://t.co/gEAmMMduDR #opendata
— LA Mayor's Office (@LAMayorsOffice) October 23, 2013
Congratulations City of LA for going #OpenGov! https://t.co/eCp4YYbDrN @RonGalperin @ericgarcetti #gov20 #gov20la
— Alan W. Silberberg (@IdeaGov) October 23, 2013
Fun fact from #ControlPanelLA: 622 City of Los Angeles employees make more than @ericgarcetti's annual salary of $200,568.58 as Mayor.
— Highland Park (@HLP90042) October 23, 2013
"This isn't just about transparency, it's about revolutionizing the way our city does it's financial reporting." - @RonGalperin @atvn
— Tara Campbell (@tarapcampbell) October 23, 2013
Los Angeles Times
L.A. controller unveils website to make city finances more transparent
The website gives the public access to a huge volume of data on taxpayer expenditures for police, sanitation, street repairs and other services.
By Michael Finnegan and Ben Welsh
October 24, 2013
Los Angeles' new controller moved Wednesday to open city finances to quick and easy public scrutiny online, unveiling a website with extensive detail on how City Hall collects and spends billions of dollars.
The website, Control Panel L.A., gives users access to a huge volume of data on taxpayer expenditures for police, sanitation, street repairs and other services — information that previously would have taken weeks or months to get through formal requests for records.Read the rest of the article at
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-1024-city-opens-books-20131024,0,3215790.story#axzz2ifPH4BOe
While Los Angeles slowly marches forward towards the digital future via their Control Panel L.A., https://controllerdata.lacity.org/ we in South Florida can only look longingly at this sort of practical and common sense tool from a great distance and sigh wistfully...
And here's another transparency effort, building upon the successful use of CompStat by LAPD that will be the first major initiative of Mayor Eric Garcetti, who took office in June, which will track progress on goals from neighborhood concerns like pot hole to streetlight repair, on a computer system that residents can check online.
Mayor Garcetti Unveils First Major Initiative: Online Accountability Plan September 26, 2013 10:41 PM
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/09/26/mayor-garcetti-unveils-first-major-initiative-online-accountability-plan/
More on the effort to gets the facts and figures into the hands of taxpayers..
caforward YouTube Channel video: L.A. City Controller's plans for a more efficient, accessible city hall
"Los Angeles is one of the oldest cities in California. The City is rich with history. A lot of that history lays within City hall, with the data and information to tell a story. The City of Angels is also the most populous city in the state, with more than 3.7 million people. You'd think a city this large and this old would be at the forefront of technology. Well it's just the opposite. California Forward had the opportunity to sit down with the newly elected L.A. City Controller, Ron Galperin. He took office on July 1, 2013, as the 20th Controller. With less than two months under his belt, the Contoller explains his big plans to transform city hall."
One on One with Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin
Uploaded September 3, 2013. http://youtu.be/I1idK1OuwTI
See also the videos at http://gov20la.silberberginnovations.com/
