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Tracking criminal justice spending in federal stimulus grants

Until his newspaper inquired, says the Statesman's Laylan Copelin, the Governor's Criminal Justice Division "ignored state law and his own executive order that require all state agencies and institutions of higher education to be 'accountable and transparent' by posting their stimulus spending reports on their Web sites."Basically the Criminal Justice Division wasn't publishing required reports about federal stimulus spending on their website. (Respectfully, I've seen more compelling news hooks.) They're there now, though, Copelin notes, though you'd need more information than is provided in the reports to divulge what the money was actually spent on. Writes Copelin:The governor's office has received about $92.2 million of the $110 million it requested from the federal government for law enforcement purposes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 14, 2010 (boomark / email).