AG: new Web site promotes government accountability

NORWICH – Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced the launch of “Project Sunlight” last week, a new Web site he says will help citizens more easily access their elected officials’ campaign finance, voting and spending records.

The site – www.sunlightny.org – also provides information on lobbyists, offers financial reports detailing the activities of charitable organizations and shows what private and public entities have contracts with the state and for how much.



“Project Sunlight is an effort by my office to promote your right to know and to monitor governmental decision-making,” says Cuomo in a statement on the site. “This Web site – the first of its kind in New York – allows you to easily access statewide government information that until now has been scattered and difficult to retrieve.”

Site browsers can search databases trailing the activities of their elected officials to view who they’ve received money from, what bills they have sponsored and how they’ve spent state money on projects in their district.

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