Oregon Government Ethics Commission Electronic Filing System improves
efficiency and increases transparency
Company Website:
http://www.oregon.gov
SALEM, Ore. -- (Business Wire)
The 2016 winners of the StateScoop 50 Awards, which highlight the best
and brightest in the state IT community, announced their selection of
the Oregon Government Ethics Commission Electronic
Filing System for the Innovation of the Year Award. The Oregon
Ethics’ system transformed an entirely manual, paper-based process into
an efficient, real-time, online system facilitating simple online filing
of registrations, statements, and reports required of lobbyists, public
officials and lobbyist clients. The system makes all this information
accessible to the public in real-time.
“By taking the time to test the system with the legislators and
lobbyists who will actually use it, and by starting with a pilot group
of users to work out any remaining kinks, we launched a proven,
intuitive, usable online solution,” explains Executive Director Ron
Bersin. “Since launching, the system has accepted over 7,500 fillings.
Before this system was in place, this would have represented
approximately 4,000 hours of staff time to process all the paper
involved.”
The Oregon Government Ethics Commission is tasked with ensuring
accountability of public officials, candidates, lobbyists, lobbyists’
clients, and legal expense trust funds to the public through Oregon’s
government ethics and disclosure laws. These laws prohibit public
officials from using office for financial gain, and require public
disclosure of economic conflict of interest. The laws also require
lobbyists and the entities they represent to register and report their
expenditures.
By moving an entirely paper-based process online, public officials,
lobbyists, and lobbyist clients are now able to submit their
registrations and reporting requirements more efficiently and
completely. The service also provides real-time access to this data for
members of the public. The Oregon Government Ethics Commission
Electronic Filling System has risen to the Governor’s task of increasing
transparency of ethics laws compliance.
The application was developed through Oregon’s E-Government Program in
partnership with NICUSA, OR Division, who is under contract to provide
digital services.
About the Oregon E-Government Program
The Office of the State Chief Information Officer’s E-Government Program
was established through the Governor’s Office Executive Order in 2001
and is administered by the Department of Administrative Services. The
Oregon Legislature further supported the Program by enacting legislation
in 2011 that established an Electronic Portal Advisory Board to advance
the effectiveness and delivery of new online services to the public. The
Program works with Oregon government organizations to enable them to
conduct state business online and improve public access to government
information. http://www.oregon.gov/epab
About NIC
Founded in 1992, NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation's leading provider of
innovative digital government solutions and secure payment processing,
which help make government more accessible to everyone through
technology. The family of NIC companies provides digital government
solutions for more than 4,500 federal, state, and local agencies in the
United States. Forbes has named NIC as one of the “100 Best Small
Companies in America” six times and the company has been included four
times on the Barron’s 400 Index. Additional information is available at http://www.egov.com
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Contacts:
Oregon Government Ethics Commission
Ron Bersin, 503-378-5105
ron.a.bersin@oregon.gov
Source: Oregon Government Ethics Commission
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