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Missouri legislators discuss public 'government efficiency' portal, agree on basic data fields and public access rules
Summary
A joint House-Senate working session reviewed a proposed government-efficiency portal for Missourians to report waste, duplication or abuse. Members debated which data to require, public-records implications and how submissions would be routed and handled.
Senator Mary Elizabeth Coleman and lawmakers at a joint House-Senate working session outlined a plan to create a public-facing government-efficiency portal where Missourians can report perceived waste, fraud, abuse or duplication in state government.
Coleman described two related proposals: "There is, a government efficiency portal, which is a proposal for an IT solution for the government, for the citizens to be able to reach out to its government to share information about where they see waste, fraud, abuse or duplication of efforts," and a parallel proposal for legislative oversight authority to follow up on incoming reports.
The committee focused first on fields the intake form should collect and how the information would be handled. Members agreed by straw poll to remove age as a required field; to collect full street address as a mandatory item; and to make phone number…
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