Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... instructions to a T, and I came up with a number like that, I would have said, 'Whoa,' " said Laura Chick, the state's inspector general for Recovery Act funds. "Then I would have been on the phone saying, 'These numbers don't look right.' " The CSU numbers represented about one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reportedly saved by federal stimulus funds in California. Chick...
Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Los Angeles Police Department has reduced the backlog of untested DNA evidence kits from rapes and sexual assaults by two-thirds since last fall, but City Controller Wendy Greuel cautioned Thursday that "we still have a long way to go to resolve this issue." With Police Chief-designate Charles L. Beck at her side, Greuel outlined the results of a new audit one year after former Controller Laura...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Los Angeles Police Department has reduced the backlog of untested DNA evidence kits from rapes and sexual assaults by two-thirds since last fall, but City Controller Wendy Greuel cautioned Thursday that "we still have a long way to go to resolve this issue." With Police Chief-designate Charles L. Beck at her side, Greuel outlined the results of a new audit one year after former Controller Laura...
Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... Economic Opportunity Council of San Francisco (EOCSF),” said California Inspector General Laura Chick who was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to oversee the spending of the state’s stimulus funds. The Economic Opportunity Council was due to receive $159,000 is stimulus dollars to perform weatherization projects in the community. “The CSD has deemed the...
Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... Economic Opportunity Council of San Francisco (EOCSF),” said California Inspector General Laura Chick who was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to oversee the spending of the state’s stimulus funds. The Economic Opportunity Council was due to receive $159,000 is stimulus dollars to perform weatherization projects in the community. “The CSD has deemed the...
SFist (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... impending transfer of stimulus dollars," said Arnold-appointed California Inspector General Laura Chick. "However, this issue now rests with the Federal Government to determine if the State is required to not only continue to fund this agency, but also to give it Recovery dollars. As we saw on Wall Street, there needs to be a line in the sand when it comes to inappropriately...
