Public Citizen

By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe Denton Record-Chronicle Originally published March 15, 2014 Personal financial statements can offer clues to the financial interests of local officials and improve government transparency — that is, if more residents had a clue about how to find them. The little-known and rarely accessed statements contain potentially valuable disclosures from select public officials about their own property holdings, stocks and bonds, outside business interests or employment, even gifts granted to them during their public service. But an investigation by the Denton Record-Chronicle found that efforts to make the information public have fallen short, in part because the documents are [...]