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Orange County officials have failed to replace a seriously flawed case management system for severely disabled people that crashes on a weekly basis and creates errors in financial accounting, according to grand jurors and county auditors.
The fireworks between District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and Supervisor Todd Spitzer illustrate the need for a local ethics commission, OC grand jurors raise troubling questions about other DA actions, and Auditor Controller Eric Woolery steps up oversight.
Measure to make the public administrator an appointed position failed, but a limit on county supervisors’ pensions won easily.
The top vote getters seem easy to predict, but thanks to the new open primary system there are some interesting battles for second place.
Lucille Lyon’s appointment comes after the controversial reign
of Public Guardian/Administrator John Williams.
County Supervisors, CEO are in final stages of negotiations for
the resignation of Williams after years of controversy and
scandal.
Supervisors strip John Williams of his public guardian
responsibilities as pressure mounts for the embattled official to
also resign as public administrator.
District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and his former protege, Todd
Spitzer, lash out at each other in dueling news conferences in what
could be the beginning of a drawn-out political battle.