Labor & Employment Law

More access to government information on the Internet

State Comptroller DiNapoli has provided a number of searchable databases of state government spending including more than 60,000 State contracts and spending for more than 100 state agencies. According to the New York State Department of Audit and Control, the contracts database on the Internet at http://wwe1.osc.state.ny.us/transparency/contracts/contractsearch.cfm is updated nightly and can be searched by agency, company, timeframe, dollar amount and more.

Spending by state agencies includes information for several spending categories, such as contractual services, travel, equipment, grants, salaries and wages, employee benefits, and supplies and materials. State agency spending is updated quarterly and is posted on the Internet at: http://wwe1.osc.state.ny.us/transparency/AcctOps/AcctOpsMain.cfm

In addition, the State Comptroller is posting financial information for cities, towns, villages, school districts and other political subdivisions of the State on the Internet at http://wwe1.osc.state.ny.us/transparency/LocalGov/localgovsearch.cfm This file is also updated quarterly.

The State Attorney General is providing a searchable database on the Internet called Project Sunlight at http://www.sunlightny.com/

This database provides information related to campaign finance, legislation, lobbying activity and recipients of state government contracts, including legislative "member items."

See Through NY on the Internet at http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001iZxnGja64koQrEoL1OM2YYCyveq_XFy59MVr33OYXCSwfMchaHfVe8rULuWiwf2lTqwWl0vSC4R0kruJ77azLZpC-6N9HKXQG7aRvkObc80QdALVT1KDyw== is maintained by The Empire Center for New York State Policy.

Designed to be a statewide network to analyze and compare data from counties, cities, towns, villages, school districts and public authorities throughout New York, it also lists payroll information employees worker in the three branches of State government and public authorities.
In addition, the site lists legislative expenditure reports and community projects spending state legislative member-items.Teacher union and superintendents' contracts for nearly all of the state's 733 school districts and BOCES districts are also posted by See Through New York as is the names and school districts of school district and BOCES retirees retiring after June 2004.

Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on October 14, 2008 (boomark / email).