As a very short description of an event that deserves contextualization, I offer this:
The Attorney General's Office hired NYPIRG's former director, Blair Horner as an organizer and implementor of Project Sunlight. Mr. Horner, previous to the acceptance of his new post, advocated for greater public scrutiny and openess in our state government.
As we have seen through testing of the site, many of the functions are incomplete, and the legislative information is abominable. Legislative information is provided by the Assembly website. The Assembly website gets information from the Legislative Bill Drafting Commission (LBDC). The LBDC's information is at least a day behind the actual movement or introduction of bills, yet the information is made available in electronic format... You simply need to pay the Legislature a couple grand in order to find out what your elected official introduced today.
The crucial component of the legislative data-base missing from the original proposal for Project Sunlight is The Legislative Retrieval System.
That said, I'm curious to know what Mr. Horner thinks of Project Sunlight - not an opinion written in a statement, but the info given across a few beers. I'm buying, Blair, but I can't offer State pension, or Law Department salary.
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