Some folks might suspect that NCTransparency.com exists just to give the John Locke Foundation another tool for bashing government.
On the contrary, the site will recognize state and local agencies for taking steps that make more public information accessible to people online.
Wake County’s new Wake Accountability Tax Check (WATCH) site is an example of the type of program that would boost the letter grades county, city, and state government agencies earn from NCTransparency.com. (Wake’s B grade already placed it among the state’s highest-rated county governments.)
Still, it’s not surprising that some people just don’t get it.
Commissioner Stan Norwalk, who was elected to the board in November,
cast the lone vote at a meeting Monday against activating the new site.
He said county employees are likely to be bombarded with so many
requests for information from groups such as the fiscally conservative
Wake Taxpayers Association that they will spend too much time dealing
with frivolous inquiries.
I wonder what Terry has to say about this latest pronouncement from the commissar … er, commissioner.
