The ethics forms for state legislators have been put online—but not by the state.
The Civitas Institute has scanned and posted the financial disclosure forms filed by members of the state House and the state Senate on its Citizen Legislature Web site.
The forms are posted in TIF format, which means they are essentially images, but they can be easily read or printed out. It would still be difficult to reverse-search the forms to see which legislators own stock in a particular company, for example.
Chris Hayes with Civitas says the group has posted all 2006 forms from sitting legislators and plans to post the 2007 forms soon. (Click here for an example.)
Still, that leaves out the forms filed by local judges, district attorneys and appointees, which was the focus of Mark Binker's earlier complaint.
And it begs the question of why the N.C. Ethics Commission doesn't post these itself.
Previously: The principles of online sunshine.
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