by | Mar 13, 2024 | Newsletter
March 10 through 16 marks Sunshine Week, a time which recognizes the importance of transparency in government. At the Department of FISCal (FI$Cal), transparency is one of the core values in our strategic plan, and is a priority for the department. FI$Cal works to...
by | Aug 15, 2023 | Newsletter
In 2018, the Department of FISCal (FI$Cal) established the Open FI$Cal transparency portal to provide public access to state departments’ expenditure data. Government code section 11862 requires FI$Cal to, “include a state transparency component that allows the public...
by | Dec 14, 2022 | Newsletter
Since it was first piloted in September 2018, the Department of FISCal’s (FI$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...
