A disgraced councilman awaiting sentencing on corruption charges and at least two federal probes into top city officials didn’t hamper the District’s website from being a transparent source of information, an open government advocacy group says.
Sunshine Review awarded the city’s website — www.dc.gov — an A-minus in its rating of the site’s openness. The website earned coveted green checkmarks in nine of 10 categories. The exception? Lobbying.
“No information is available on lobbyists or taxpayer-funded lobbying,” the group wrote in the section of its report simply titled, “The bad.”
The District got credit, though, for posting budgets, audits and its checkbook register.
What’d the city get for its effort? One of 214 “Sunny Awards.”
“The winners of the Sunny Award know that information empowers every citizen to hold government officials accountable,” said Michael Barnhart, the president of Sunshine Review.
