Knox County source material

Posted By katie allison granju

Dwight Van de Vate notes over at KnoxViews that the county’s p-card records are now available for perusal online, at the county’s website. Vehicle records are also now available online, including county employee take-home cars.

This is an excellent idea, and along with the new County Commissioners’ online forum, a great example of how the Web can be used to foster more openness and citizen engagement. Unfortunately, the commissioners themselves don’t yet appear to be all that engaged in their forum; there is essentially nothing going on in there at this point. That’s disappointing.

It’s also interesting that a county official is using an outlet like KnoxViews to get info out rather than just taking the old-fashioned route of sending a press release to the newspapers, radio and TV stations. As I’ve said before, I think you will see more of this way of using new media by public officials.

Jul 23rd, 2008

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