Whiteside County, Illinois


Budget	N
Meetings	Y
Elected Officials	Y
Administrative Officials	Y
Permits, zoning	Y
Audits	N
Contracts	N
Lobbying	N
Public records	Y
Local taxes	Y
Transparency grading process

1 Website evaluation
- 1.1 The good
- 1.2 The bad
2 Lobbying
- 2.1 FOIA response
3 External links
4 References

Whiteside County is one of 102 counties in Illinois.

[edit] Website evaluation

Main Article: Evaluation of Illinois county websites

[edit] The good

Meeting dates and times are posted on the calendar.^[1] Meeting minutes and agenda are available.^[2]
County board members are listed with contact information.^[3]
Building and zoning documents are online.^[4]
Local tax information is posted.^[5]
Form to make a public records request is available, also where to direct any requests.^[6]

[edit] The bad

Budget is not published.
County audits and contracts are not online.
Does not disclose if belongs to taxpayer-funded lobbying associations.

[edit] Lobbying

Main article: Illinois taxpayer-funded lobbying

Whiteside County does not have contracts with lobbyists. It has paid 46 taxpayer-funded lobbying associations a total of $57,505.11 spent on memberships to lobbying groups since 2005. ^[7] ^[8]

[edit] FOIA response

Sunshine Review sent Freedom of Information Act requests to all of the counties in Illinois. Notably, Whiteside is the only county to have sent data in a workable format (XLS) as I requested. All other counties sent PDFs or Outlook files. The county also a summary of expenditures as well as the actual invoices, another element of FOIA response unique to the county. ^[9]

[edit] External links

Whiteside County

[edit] References

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