By Jim Miller in The Sacramento Bee

April 13, 2016

California finishes last in a new review of how states report spending on contracts and other items, with the report’s authors blaming “bureaucratic fragmentation” for the lack of a one-stop web site that would make it easier for average California residents to examine the payments.

Wednesday’s report by the California Public Interest Research Group Education Fund is the seventh by the group that examines the transparency of state governments’ checkbook-level spending. Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Oregon, and Connecticut are among the states with the best transparency websites, the report found.