Theodore Okafor
Standards & Methodology Editor
Fiscal Health Score methodology, cross-source caveats, and editorial standards
Theodore Okafor oversees how CitySpend documents its methodology and editorial standards. The role sets how the Fiscal Health Score is derived and disclosed, how cross-state accounting and Census Finance coverage caveats are surfaced, and how corrections are handled, drawing on the Census survey alongside supporting public sources such as the Lincoln Institute FiSC data and the Public Plans Database. Methodology notes, glossary entries, and explainers are AI-assisted in research and drafting, then reviewed against the primary Census Finance releases before publication.
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How our content is produced
Content is produced by an AI-augmented editorial team: research and drafting are AI-assisted and reviewed by the named desk editor against primary public-data sources before publication.
See our Editorial Policy, Fact-Checking Policy, and Corrections Policy.