A California Supreme Court order for a lawsuit demanding the state controller disseminate spending receipts is expected to arrive soon. The legal challenge was filed in 2020 by the nonprofit organization OpenTheBooks after being rejected access to the state’s checkbook to analyze spending records in 2018. Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of OpenTheBooks, sent State Controller Betty Yee a Freedom of Information Act request in 2018 seeking documentation of a line-by-line transaction for every vendor who received a check from the state government. “It’s the only way that you can hold an elected official accountable for tax and spending decisions,” Andrzejewski told The Epoch Times. However, Yee’s office denied Andrzejewski the documentation he sought. “They said they couldn’t locate any of the 50 million bills that they admit that they paid last year,” Andrzejewski said. Yee wrote in a commentary on CalMatters in 2020 that her staff did not reject …