Californians can’t allow government officials to sweep bad fiscal news under the rug.
Providing important public data and key financial metrics for over 470 California cities, the dashboard was an essential tool for holding local governments accountable for their substantial financial problems. Now all evidence of the dashboard’s existence has been scrubbed from the State Auditor’s website.
So why did the auditor’s office feel the need to remove this data? While technological challenges in maintaining the website may have played a small role, political pressure from state and city officials who resisted public accountability frameworks from the state auditor’scould have contributed. Other possible factors include a desire to avoid negative publicity, and a perceived public apathy toward data transparency.
Prioritizing resources toward the state-mandated ACFR does have some logic, as the auditor’s office is extremely behind on publishing these reports. The truth is, the auditor’s office clearly has problems that shutting down the dashboard won’t solve. The California State Controller has been late on thethey have yet to produce the 2023 ACFR; and they only recently released the 2022 ACFR in March of this year.
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