Sorry State of Disclosure

How Too Many State Judiciaries Are Failing at Financial Disclosure

Judiciary watchdog Fix the Court will release a new report the morning of March 14 analyzing the state of financial disclosure in each of the 50 state supreme courts. That afternoon, FTC will host a call for interested members of the press and transparency groups to talk about the challenges of obtaining the reports, what they tell us about our states’ top jurists conflicts of interest and how the disclosure process can be improved — both in terms of accessing them (too many states don’t post reports online) and expanding on the often scant content (so scant, they made the federal judiciary’s reports look good).