SACRAMENTO, June 15, 2016— As the California Legislature voted to approve the state’s budget for the next fiscal year, Kathay Feng, Executive Director of California Common Cause, made the following statement:

We applaud the Legislature for including funding to begin modernizing the Secretary of State’s Cal-Access database, which provides public access to information about campaign finance and lobbying.

The current Cal-Access is woefully outdated, prone to crashing, and overdue for an upgrade. The funding included in this budget is an initial investment toward making Cal-Access more reliable and user-friendly.

We are proud to have broad bipartisan support for fixing Cal-Access, which will bring greater transparency and accountability to California politics. We hope that Governor Brown will support this project to provide voters with easy and meaningful access to information about our democracy.

Note to editors: The budget passed today includes $1.8 million for the Cal-Access modernization project. The total estimated costs for the project are around $14 million, with the remainder to be appropriated from the general fund in future budgets.

Additional information about the Cal-Access modernization effort is available at the California Common Cause website.

코먼 코즈(Common Cause)는 미국의 민주주의의 핵심 가치를 회복하고, 대중의 이익을 위해 일하는 개방적이고 정직하며 책임감 있는 정부를 재창조하고, 일반인이 자신의 의견을 표명할 수 있는 힘을 실어주는 데 전념하는 비당파적 대중 조직입니다.