In your own words, describe how you would define fairness in property assessments and taxes. Type your answer here, replacing this text. The CCAO and Transparency Additionally, in their approach to fair property valuations, the CCAO has also pushed for transparency initiatives in the property tax assessment system. After a lawsuit was filed against the CCAO for producing \"racially discriminatory assessments and taxes; the Office decided that these inequities would be best addressed by making the assessment process more transparent to Cook County constituents. These transparency initiatives include publishing all of the CCAO's work on GitLab. By allowing the public to access any updates to the system in real-time, the Office argues that they increase accessibility to a process that had previously been blackboxed - obscured and hidden from the public. Ultimately, the hope is that, by exposing the inner workings of the CCAO's property valuation process, the CCAO's assessment results could be publicly verified as accurate and therefore trusted to be fair