by | Dec 14, 2022 | Newsletter
Since it was first piloted in September 2018, the Department of FISCal’s (FI$Cal) transparency website, Open FI$Cal, has continued to grow and provide more useful information on the state’s expenditures to the people of California. In November 2022, the website took...
by | Nov 3, 2021 | Newsletter
As part of our continuing effort to make the state’s expenditure data as accessible and usable as possible, the Department of FISCal has opened a new avenue for the public to access our data. As of mid-September, in addition to making data available on our...
by | Aug 31, 2021 | Newsletter
We have added a special dataset to our transparency site Open FI$Cal, containing details of the state’s COVID-19 related expenditures through June 2020. With this addition, California residents can now explore in more detail what the state spent money on early in the...
by | Dec 4, 2020 | Leadership, Newsletter
By Neeraj Chauhan, Chief Deputy Director, FI$Cal We all know this has been a long and difficult year, with the weight of a global pandemic affecting work everywhere, including at FI$Cal. Despite the move to telework and a department reorganization going on at the same...
by | Nov 2, 2020 | Newsletter
As FISCal continues to work to increase the system’s transparency and reporting capabilities, we are pleased to announce the creation of a COVID-19 Transaction Dashboard in Power BI. This dashboard, released in early October, allows departments to review all...