From Bay Bridge reconstruction to California’s high-speed rail project, government spending in the Golden State often lacks any meaningful accountability or transparency, writes Steven Greenhut.
The state tries in various ways to oversee the officials who spend tens of billions of tax dollars each year, but it’s often a cumbersome process. Even when misbehavior is spotlighted by a news story or an inspector general report, it’s rare to see individual officials get punished.
Now, two assembly members are trying to revive a bill Gov. Jerry Brown (D) vetoed in 2013 that would require the heads of state agencies to certify the information their agencies were providing were true and institute fines of up to $20,000 for agency heads knowingly passing false information.
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