More than 200 in the DA’s office will have to file financial interest disclosures as part of the fallout from revelations that DA Chief of Staff Susan Kang Schroeder had not been filing them.
Yearly Archives: 2015
Posted inGovernment, Top Stories
Pension Board Slams Actuary Firm for $12 Million Payment Hike
Segal Consulting took months to reveal key changes that are slated to trigger at least $12 million per year in extra payments from cities and other public agencies.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
OC Republican Delegation to Sacramento: Don’t Audit Irvine’s Great Park Audit
Orange County’s Republican delegation to Sacramento on Monday called on Assemblyman Mike Gibson, who chairs the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, to reject requests to audit the City of Irvine’s current Great Park audit efforts.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, News Briefs, Top Stories
DA’s Chief of Staff Hustles to Fix More Errors in Conflict of Interest Forms
Susan Kang Schroeder, chief of staff to District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, late Friday filed 14 pages of amendments to her five years worth of overdue conflict of interest reports.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Lawsuit: Santa Ana Mayor Has Financial Ties to Pot Shops
A federal lawsuit claims that since the passage last fall of Measure BB, which instituted a new regulatory regime over medical marijuana dispensaries in the city, Pulido and other officials with financial ties to certain shops have directed police to shut down their competitors
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Norberto Santana Jr.
Santana: What’s Next After Demise of Independent Police Review in OC?
Santana argues the defunding of the county Sheriff’s Office of Independent Review has been a long time coming. Question is what comes next?
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
AOCDS: OC Pension System Should Fire its Actuary
Kimberly Edds of AOCDS argues that Orange County’s pension board should fire it’s actuary over omissions and phase in new pension cost increases impacting public safety across many South County contract cities.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide, Transportation
Huff: Sacramento Legislators Should Get 72-Hour Window on Budget
Senate Republican Minority Leader Bob Huff argues that legislators in Sacramento should get a 72-hour waiting period to analyze bills before voting can take place.
Posted inAnaheim, Community Opinion, Health & Wellness, Housing & Homelessness
Collins: An Invite to the Dalai Lama to Visit Homeless at Anaheim’s Parks
R. Joshua Collins takes the City of Anaheim to task for its homeless policies at local parks and invites the Dalai Lama to stay with the homeless during his upcoming visit to Anaheim in July.
Posted inGarden Grove, Health & Wellness
State Ordered to Pay Residents Displaced by Garden Grove Waterpark Hotel
More than two dozen poor households displaced by the construction of the Great Wolf Lodge Waterpark Hotel in Garden Grove will finally receive relocation assistance, ending a six-year battle in county and state courts.
