eTransparency Survey

2016 findings BEFORE sending copies of the report to each government body.

Today there is an expectation that information will be readily available on the internet. When this is true of the information related to our government, it facilitates citizen involvement, and can provide confidence that our elected and appointed officials are making decisions in the public interest.

In 2016 the LWVGP reviewed the information available related to the governance of 40 of our local elected and appointed public bodies. This review was structured to identify those providing the best information needed for the public to understand and participate in the democratic process. The review was not intended to be comprehensive or evaluate how well websites meet the day‐to‐day needs of that government’s constituents.

The League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria sent each of the surveyed government bodies a copy of this report, an explanation of the evaluation process, and their score card. Our hope is that this information can be used in a constructive way to see where they are perceived to be doing well, and where opportunities for improvement exist.

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2016 eTransparency Survey Results

April 2016: During the past few months the League of Woman Voters of Greater Peoria have developed and performed a review of information available on the Internet related to the governance of many of our local elected and appointed public bodies.

Please take a few moments to review this project that grades which government bodies are doing a good job, those that are not doing a good job, and a few that almost don't exist as far as the Internet knows.

This review was based on our principle that a democratic government depends upon informed and active participation of its citizens and requires that governmental bodies protect the citizen's right to know by giving adequate notice of proposed actions, holding open meetings, and making public records accessible. For citizens to contact their locally elected officials requires that their name, phone and/or email be available in this case, on the website.

We are providing a summary of this project, our goals and process used, plus a more detailed explanation of the survey, and finally the score cards with results for each of the government bodies surveyed.

These score cards and the summary documents have been sent to representatives of each of the surveyed government bodies. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you might have.
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Rick Fox eTransparency Project Chair (309) 369-5330 rick@rickdfox.com

Cheryl Budzinski President LWV of Greater Peoria (309) 253-9594 president@lwvgp.org
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e Transparency Summary (7 page PDF)

eTransparency definitions and weighting factors (2 page PDF)

Detailed score cards for all 40 government bodies included in the 2016 survey. (80 page PDF)