Cochise County has announced the completion of its fiscal year 2025 data upload to the Arizona OpenBooks portal, reaffirming its focus on government transparency. The county encourages residents to use the OpenGov.com platform, which supports many public-facing transparency tools used by governments across the United States, to review how tax dollars are allocated and spent.
The Finance team in Cochise County confirmed that data for April, May, and June 2025 has been uploaded, finalizing the fiscal year 2025 records. Work is underway to prepare first-quarter data for fiscal year 2026, covering July through September 2025, with an expected posting date by the end of November 2025.
OpenGov.com provides cloud-based tools for state and local governments, offering features such as reporting, visualization, budgeting, and open-data access. These capabilities allow agencies to publish charts, tables, and interactive budget books for public review.
“Publishing timely, comprehensible budget and spending data gives our community a real-time window into County operations. Interactive reports and open-data pages help people filter, download, and explore information themselves, supporting informed public input and improving accountability,” the press release stated.
According to the county, OpenGov.com aims “to power more effective and accountable government,” with its platform supporting financial management, budgeting and planning, reporting, procurement, and citizen engagement for agencies nationwide.
In related educational outcomes, recent state data shows that in Cochise County, 70% of students in grades 3 through 8 did not pass the mathematics section of the 2022-23 AASA assessment (https://www.azed.gov/), while 76% of high school students did not pass the mathematics section of the ACT during the same year (https://www.azed.gov/). For English proficiency, 62.4% of students in grades 3 through 8 failed the English section of the AASA (https://www.azed.gov/), and 65% of high schoolers did not pass the English section of the ACT (https://www.azed.gov/). More recently, Cochise County saw improvements with 27% of high schoolers passing the mathematics section of the 2023-24 ACT (https://www.azed.gov/) and 28.5% of students in grades 3 through 8 passing the mathematics section of the 2023-24 AASA (https://www.azed.gov/).
The public can access Cochise County’s financial data through the OpenGov portal at https://cochisecountyaz.opengov.com/.
