Councilwoman Kris Murray’s Transparency Measures for Boards and Commissions Approved
This came over the transom from Anaheim Councilwoman Kris Murray: In a big win for residents and...
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Category: Transparency
The Chief Simulates Trust and Transparency
[Using StingRays, the Anaheim Police Department] can locate, interfere with, and even intercept...
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StingRay: Government’s Violation of Privacy Continues
An article in yesterday’s New York Times further reveals the increasing ubiquitous use of...
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Re-Elect Tom Tait Mayor: Why?
This week, the Orange County Register (OCR, 2014) endorsed the re-election of Tom Tait as...
Read MorePolice Body Cameras Trump Privacy
The loss of individual privacy worldwide is a residue of technology. Almost nothing can be kept secret anymore—even information never intended for others to see or read. Because we leave digital footprints each time we...
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Cops With Kodaks Will Not Increase Governmental Transparency
During the meeting of the Anaheim City Council last week, Mayor Tait commented on its approval to...
Read MoreDark Money and San Francisco Bay Area Dollars Sole Financial Support for By-District Elections Campaign
Take a gander at the campaign finance report filed by the campaign to carve Anaheim into single-member council districts. Two things jump out beside the $101,100 in contributions: 93% of that total is the “dark...
Read MoreOn The Public Record Act Request Front…
Public record act requests are a necessary and valuable means for citizens to obtain information from their government that isn’t ordinarily available. They are also a valuable tool for reporters, bloggers and opposition...
Read MoreVoice of OC Misses OCEA’s Hidden Hand
Anaheim Insider here. Did you see the Orange County Register article about how the Orange County Employees Association shuffled political funding through various PACs in order to disguise who was paying the campaign mailers?...
Read MoreTotal Union Spending For John Leos’ 2012 Council Candidacy: $531,055!
The year-end Form 460s — those are campaign finance disclosure forms — were due yesterday, but a number of them were filed over the course of January. I opened up the Form 460 for the OCEA-sponsored “Committee...
Read MoreThe Jason Young Public Record Act Request Blitz
Since the beginning of August of this year, local gadfly Jason Young has been plastering the Anaheim City Clerk’s office with public record act requests. As of December 13, 2012, Young had submitted 22 requests between...
Read MoreAnaheim City Government Needs Some COIN
Anaheim council candidate John Leos touts his “transparency ordinance” as a cure for much of what he thinks ails Anaheim city government. Now, it’s not a transparency ordinance so much as an anti-outsourcing ordinance, and it’s...
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