Alameda County Transportation Commission Data Collection Success!
Transparent California’s mission is to get data covering every public employee in our state –…
Honesty in Public Employee Compensation Analysis
The Economic Policy Institute recently released its annual study of public teacher compensation and, to…
San Bernardino Voters Pay the Price for Official’s Neglect of Open Records Law
San Bernardino taxpayers must now foot a $75,000 bill following a ruling in a recent…
A New Initiative to Transform California Open Records
Since its signing in 1968, California’s open records law has been the gold standard for…
Los Angeles FD Payroll is Raging Out of Control
There is no doubt that firemen provide an essential service, and we owe it to…
Don’t be Fooled by Teachers Unions’ Antics
Los Angeles Unified School District employees are again in an uproar and on strike. But…
Court ruling in CalPERS lawsuit threatens to gut California’s public records law
This commentary was first published by the San Diego Union-Tribune It is going to be much easier for California governments…
FBI special agent still collecting CalPERS disability pension
In an op-ed for today’s San Diego Union-Tribune, I describe how the recent court ruling in our CalPERS lawsuit will be used…
California’s 100k club grows as tax hikes mount
Our recent report on California’s exploding $100K club has generated quite a bit of coverage, perhaps none better than the recent Orange…
Court ruling threatens to gut California’s public records law
It is going to be much easier for governments to hide their affairs from the public, if the legal standard…
Nearly 80,000 California retirees are receiving $100,000 or more in pension pay, new data show
Update 12/23/19: The statewide total is now 80,540 after accounting for new data from the University of California, which saw…
Over 2 million public pay records are now online!
Transparent California now has more than 2 million pay records covering the 2018 year for California’s state and local government workers. We…
Central San gives up its crown
In 2015, we wrote about the unfairness of a proposed rate hike by Central San, while the district was simultaneously…
Wildly inflated health costs are costing California taxpayers $3.3 billion annually
Spending 52 percent more than the market average for public employees’ medical insurance is costing California taxpayers at least $3.3…
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