{"id":3315,"date":"2010-03-19T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2010-03-19T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T14:29:09","slug":"anderson-countys-trx-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/anderson-countys-trx-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson County’s trx awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two S.C. Web sites Lauded for Transparency<\/h1>\n
\"\"<\/span>Kevin Dietrich\u00a0The Nerve<\/a> <\/span>READ BIOGRAPHY<\/a><\/div>\n
Monday, March 15, 2010<\/div>\n
A pair of South Carolina county Web sites have been recognized as being among the best in the nation in terms of transparency.<\/div>\n
Web sites for\u00a0Anderson County<\/a> and\u00a0Aiken County<\/a> were each awarded a “Sunny Award<\/a>” from\u00a0Sunshine Review<\/a> Thursday.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nAnderson County\u2019s site received an A+ while Aiken County\u2019s site earned an A. Of more than 5,000 government Web sites nationwide, only 39 earned an A or A+.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nGrades are based on Sunshine Review\u2019s\u00a0“Transparency Checklist<\/a>,” which analyzes Web sites for information about budgets, meetings, elected and administrative officials, permits and zoning, audits, contracts, lobbying, public records and taxes.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Anderson County had all 10 areas on its site, while Aiken County had everything but its contracts online.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

\nThe “Checklist” measures what content is available on government websites against what should be provided.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Sunny Award winners deserve recognition for making information available to citizens and for setting a transparency standard that all governments can, and should, meet,” said Mike Barnhart, president of Sunshine Review.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

\n“Access to information empowers every citizen to hold government officials accountable for the conduct of the publics\u2019 business and the spending of taxpayers\u2019 money,” he added. “Official accountability is the cornerstone of self government and liberty.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
At the other end of the spectrum, Web sites for Allendale, Bamberg, Cherokee, Laurens, McCormick, Saluda, Union and Williamsburg counties all received failing grades. In addition, Calhoun County, Dillon County, Lee County and Marion County don\u2019t have Web sites.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

\nSince its inception in 2008, Sunshine Review has analyzed the websites of all 50 states, more than 3,140 counties, 805 cities, and 1,560 school districts.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

\nReach Dietrich at (803) 779-5022, ext. 110
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Two S.C. Web sites Lauded for Transparency Kevin Dietrich\u00a0The Nerve READ BIOGRAPHY Monday, March 15, 2010 A pair of South Carolina county Web sites have been recognized as being among the best in the nation in terms of transparency. Web sites for\u00a0Anderson County and\u00a0Aiken County were each awarded a “Sunny Award” from\u00a0Sunshine Review Thursday. Anderson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-Rt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}