Open Checkbook BR: City-Parish Departmental Spending Data

Department-level spending data for the City-Parish of Baton Rouge, used to support the Open Checkbook BR web portal. Some expenditures are excluded as they are not tied to a specific department. The data is published by the City of Baton Rouge and was last updated on March 22, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze departmental spending patterns based on the described expenditure data.
• Track public fund allocation across city-parish departments based on the dataset's stated scope.
• Support transparency and accountability initiatives based on the data's origin from an open checkbook portal.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats: CSV, JSON, RDF, and XML.
• Data is updated regularly, with a last update timestamp of 2026-03-22 03:06:33.802687.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description notes that some expenditures are excluded, indicating incomplete coverage.

Provenance

Source

City of Baton Rouge

Collection Method

Likely sourced from official government financial systems to support the Open Checkbook BR portal.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 03:06:33.802687; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Baton Rouge City-Parish, Louisiana, USA