Transparency in the Rhode Island government

RI.gov
URL: http://www.ri.gov/

Description:
 * Rhode Island government web portal. Provides information about the Rhode Island's Governor, Legislature, and state services. Includes links to state calendars, Twitter, Facebook, flickr, YouTube, blogs for differnet departments/topics, eDemocracy (voting info), podcasts, and RSS feeds.

State of Rhode Island General Assembly
URL:http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/index.html

Description:
 * Web portal for Rhode Island General Assembly.
 * Provides bill tracking and legislative schedules.

Treasury Online Checkbook
URL:http://www.ri.gov/opengovernment/treasury/

Description:
 * Run by the Office of the General Treasurer, the site allows users to search fiscal data beginning with 2009.
 * Can only search by time period.

Lobbying disclosure information
URL: http://www2.sec.state.ri.us/lt_filing/public/

Description:
 * Rhode Island office of the Secretary of State website allows lobbyist search by session of the state legislature from 2005 to present.

Campaign finance disclosure
URL: http://www.elections.ri.gov/finance/

Description:
 * Site allows access to all filed campaign finance reports, recently filed reports, and campaign finance laws and publications.

More legislative information
For more on transparency legislation, see the Rhode Island transparency legislation webpage at Sunshine Review.