New Mexico's online system for tracking lobbyists' spending on legislators is not as transparent as it used to be.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that a recent change in the website operated by the Secretary of State's Office no longer makes it easy to scan reports in which lobbyists must report expenditures larger than $500 within 48 hours.
The 48-hour reports can still be found but only by looking up the individual names of the hundreds of registered individual lobbyists and companies that employ lobbyists.
Secretary of State's Office Chief of Staff Ken Ortiz says he doesn't know what caused the change.
He says an administrator has been working with the site's vendor to fix that problem and others but that he doesn't know when it'll be fixed.
Information from: Santa Fe New Mexican.
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