Here’s What Happened When Open the Books Tried to Get Details on Wyoming State Spending

Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of OpenTheBooks, has written a interesting article at Forbes detailing what happened when the non-profit government transparency organization tried to get details about Wyoming state spending.
Here's what we learned from the piece, Wyoming State Auditor Charged Us $8,000 And We'll Finally Receive The State Checkbook By 2048:

On February 18, 2018, State Auditor Cynthia Cloud made us refile our open records request for the Wyoming state checkbook and then charged us $8,000 in fees. But production has been slow – and at this pace, we’ll receive all the records by 2048.
Why would it take 30 years to produce just five years of state spending?
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