Kasperzak: Local governments face a surge in financial public records requests
Michael Kasperzak · a16z Podcast | Government Transparency Powered by Software · Jan 2, 2019 · at 8:45
Michael Kasperzak, former mayor of Mountain View, discusses the growing workload municipal governments face when responding to public information requests manually.
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“We're having an explosion of public records requests, and a lot of those are financially based”
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