Colorado’s online checkbook is missing thousands of lines of vital data, raising transparency concerns

KUNC: There’s a problem with Colorado’s online checkbook.

The transparency website is supposed to let Colorado residents log on and track how the state government is spending their money in real time, down to every last paperclip and GPS collar used to track wolves on the West Slope, for instance.

In some cases, it’s working. One entry shows a $32,000 payment to Vectronic Aerospace Inc. last year for those wolf tracking collars.

But KUNC News has discovered more than 16,000 checkbook entries in the last year that are missing the names of the people or businesses who got the taxpayer money listed there. Instead, there are generic codes entered in the spaces where those vendors’ names are supposed to be.

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