Taft complies, two more suits filed
After years of refusing to provide an accounting of city workers’ names and salaries, Taft fully complied with our…
Fresno Council of Governments sued for violating state’s public records law
Update: On September 29, 2017 the Fresno Council of Governments complied with our request and agreed to pay our attorney’s fees….
California labor union influence kills public records bill
Well, my earlier op-ed arguing that California needs to put some heat in its sunshine law went spectacularly unheeded, with the…
California needs to put some heat in its sunshine law
In an exclusive op-ed for The Modesto Bee I discuss the importance of adding penalties to California’s Public Records Act….
Enforcing California’s Public Records Law
Bakersfieldnow.com investigative reporter Kyle Harvey did a truly outstanding piece last night on our regrettable, but necessary, decision to…
Public records lawsuit filed against the City of Taft
Today, the Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) filed a lawsuit in Kern County Superior Court against the City of…
The impact of transparency
More great examples this week of the importance of transparency in government, all made possible as a result of…
CalPERS paid out over $20 billion in benefits last year as ‘100K club’ grows to nearly 23,000, new data shows
Update: Membership in the “$100k club” now stands at 62,474, click here for more. Today, TransparentCalifornia.com — the state’s…
LADWP: The information we told you was correct is “extremely misleading and incomplete.”
In response to our earlier press release on the publication of the LADWP’s pension data, the LADWP issued the…
DWP trio cleared over $1 million in pension pay, new data shows
Today, TransparentCalifornia.com released 2016 pension payout data from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) — the…