NORWICH – Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced the launch of “Project Sunlight” last week, a new Web site he says will help citizens more easily access their elected officials’ campaign finance, voting and spending records.

The site – www.sunlightny.org – also provides information on lobbyists, offers financial reports detailing the activities of charitable organizations and shows what private and public entities have contracts with the state and for how much.

“Project Sunlight is an effort by my office to promote your right to know and to monitor governmental decision-making,” says Cuomo in a statement on the site. “This Web site – the first of its kind in New York – allows you to easily access statewide government information that until now has been scattered and difficult to retrieve.”