St. Louis County Open Government Initiative

About the Program

Category: Civic Education and Public Information (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

St. Louis County Open Government is an initiative of the County Executive to provide an unprecedented level of transparency in St. Louis County operations to allow the public to hold their government accountable, provide information that could benefit the public, and expand access to information that is not protected by privacy law. The initiative includes the creation of a single web portal for data, a directive to open all appropriate data sets and associated metadata, and annual progress reports. Outcomes to date include the deployment of an Open Finance tool (revenues, appropriation status, payroll, and vendor payment information), development of numerous operational and financial dashboards (i.e., ARPA expenditures, budget detail, overtime expenditures, sales tax revenue, employee turnover, position vacancy), and performance dashboards to guide department operations.