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June 30, 2005
Launch of online database of NYC lobbyists
Posted by Dominic Basulto
Government Technology points out that Mayor Bloomberg and Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) Commissioner Gino Menchini have launched a new online database of registered City lobbyists and their clients.
According to Mayor Bloomberg, the new database ("NYC Lobbyist Search") is good news for concerned citizens:
"This is a big victory for open government. The lobbying industry has nearly tripled in the last five years, but access to its public records has been severely limited... We have created a user-friendly database that will put information about the activities of lobbyists, previously available only in paper form, at the fingertips of anyone with access to the Internet... This is a major step forward in our work to make government more transparent..."
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