Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel and Ohio Auditor Dave Yost recently announced a partnership between Mandel’s award-winning Ohio Checkbook and the Auditor’s Uniform Accounting Network (UAN). This meaningful collaboration will strengthen Ohio's march into a 21st century of transparency.

While offering a good description of UAN, this news article also explains how its linkage with Checkbook will facilitate the display of expenses online for literally hundreds of local governments:

Created by the Auditor’s office, the Uniform Accounting Network (UAN) is a user-friendly financial management package designed to assist local governments in meeting the required accounting standards. Over 1,900 of Ohio’s townships, villages, libraries and special districts use UAN for their daily accounting operations. Over 330 of these local governments are currently committed to posting their spending on OhioCheckbook.com.

Already, Treasurer Mandel’s online Checkbook has moved Ohio from the back of the transparency pack, nationally, to the front.

Both Treasurer Mandel and Auditor Yost deserve a round of applause for increasing the ability for Ohio taxpayers to hold their officials accountable. Soon, residents in communities across the state will be able to use this website as grassroots investigators dedicated to good government.

To access The Buckeye Institute's own transparency database on public employees' salaries, click here.