One of Georgia’s top cities can’t (or won’t) produce basic data

(The Center Square) – Augusta-Richmond County’s consolidated government apparently doesn’t track supplemental pay to employees in any modern, easily-accessible data-keeping format.

Several requests from The Center Square under the Georgia Open Records Act have been met with high cost estimates, indicating intensive labor needed to locate the records, or in some cases total silence. After seven weeks of haggling, the city finally backed off its high prices and said it will release the data before Christmas.