Government Accountability in Spending Program

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The Government Accountability in Spending Program, or GASP, was first proposed by County Commissioner Pat DeWine in May 2008. The act requires the creation of a transparency database online detailing county finances. It passed in June 2008.

[edit] Information on website

The website will be “a single, easily accessible website that allows the public to search and aggregate information on the expenditure of all appropriated or non-appropriated funds by any County department or agency.”[1] The site is to include every expenditure, including checks, electronic funds transfers, grants, leaseholds, contracts, subcontracts, and vouchers.

For every disbursement, the following information is to be provided:[2]

  • The amount
  • The spending agency
  • The budget fund source
  • Payee name and location
  • Type of Transaction
  • Purpose of expenditure

DeWine summed up the act, stating, “It is a tool designed to give the citizens the ability to hold their government more accountable and make their government more transparent.”[3]

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  1. ↑ Buckeye Institute, Cheers to Hamilton County and Cincinnati, August 15, 2008
  2. ↑ Buckeye Institute, First GASP: Hamilton County to establish online checkbook, May 16, 2008
  3. ↑ Porkopolis, GASPing for Openness in Government, May 15, 2008
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