The proposal would also move the management of the county’s fraud hotline from the internal audit office to the County Counsel’s office.
Category: News Briefs
Orange County news briefs were the short items that did not need a full story of their own: a vote taken, a filing made, a number released. The newsroom stopped filing here in 2025 and the archive stays, newest first.
Posted inGarden Grove, News Briefs
Garden Grove Council Considers First Raise in 40 Years
The last time council members got a raise was 1976, and they are paid well below their counterparts in many other Orange County cities.
Posted inNews Briefs
Report: Orange County Will See Job Gains, But Growing Inequality
While the county will see many jobs created over the next decade, wages won’t grow fast enough to keep up with the cost of housing and rising income inequality, according to the report by UC Irvine and the community-organizing group OCCORD.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, News Briefs, Top Stories
OC Register: Feds Monitoring Jailhouse Informant Scandal
Orange County’s jailhouse informant scandal is drawing the eyes of civil rights attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice, the Orange County Register reported Thursday.
Posted inGovernment, News Briefs, Top Stories
Experts to Testify as Supervisors Begin Overhaul of Oversight Agency
The hearing comes as supervisors decide what to replace their existing civilian oversight agency with.
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, News Briefs, Top Stories
Supervisors Start Preparing for Possibility That Ethics Commission Passes in 2016
The measure will likely pass if it makes it onto the ballot, according to supervisors’ Chairman Todd Spitzer.
Posted inGarden Grove, Inside the Newsroom, News Briefs
Voice of OC Podcast: District Elections
This week, Voice of OC journalists talk about California Voting Rights Act lawsuits, district elections and some of the challenges to achieving equal representation in local government.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, News Briefs, Top Stories
New Top County Attorney Promises to Get Moving on Disclosure Review
Incoming County Counsel Leon Page said this week that his office will be moving forward with the “comprehensive review” of employees’ financial disclosure requirements that was ordered four months ago but hasn’t yet begun.
Posted inGovernment, News Briefs, Top Stories
Gadfly’s Seinfeld Sex Joke Not Funny to Supervisors
Saying he was offended by a commenter who referenced an off-color scene from one of the TV show’s episodes, Supervisor Andrew Do asked his colleagues to enact a policy to further restrict speakers.
Posted inIrvine, News Briefs
Irvine Council Adopts ‘In God We Trust’ for Council Chambers
Councilmembers also voted to have the phrase e pluribus unum – Latin for “out of many, one” — emblazoned in the meeting chambers. The gesture is a reminder of an ongoing effort by the council’s Republican majority to cast the city in a more conservative light.
