California's Unfinished Business | Helping lawmakers hold themselves accountable
Summary
A CBS California investigation found that state lawmakers did not enact about three-quarters of the recommendations from state audits, while agencies must publicly report when they fail to act on recommendations. CBS California created an interactive tracker covering a decade of legislative audit recommendations, related bills, and unresolved issues.Key Facts
- California's state auditor identifies fraud, waste, and abuse in state government and issues recommendations, including proposed changes to state law.
- State agencies must publicly report when they do not implement audit recommendations; lawmakers do not face the same reporting requirement.
- The investigation found that lawmakers failed to enact roughly three out of every four recommendations directed to the legislature.
- The report linked lawmakers' inaction to tens of billions of dollars lost, wasted, or mismanaged and to continuing public safety concerns.
- The state auditor stopped issuing annual summaries of outstanding legislative recommendations in 2022.
- CBS California compiled a decade of legislative audit recommendations into an interactive Audit Accountability Tracker.
- The tracker lets users search by audit topic, issue, agency, policy committee, or level of inaction and review related bills and their outcomes.
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