A watchdog group has filed a lawsuit seeking to block construction of a large housing and commercial project in southeastern San Diego because of ethics violations by a member of the Civic San Diego board. San Diegans for Open Government, a group led by attorney Cory Briggs, contends the City Council’s June approval of the […]
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San Diego Pushes for Further Transparency with New Open Records Portal
The city of San Diego used to have a performance measure for its handling of public records requests.The Human Resources Department, which processes such inquiries, listed “percent of public records act requests completed within mandated timeline” as a key performance indicator in city budgets. In 2013, about 75 percent were completed in the required 10 days. The measure increased to 84 percent in 2014 and 85 percent in 2015.
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More transparency coming for San Diego referendums
Groups sponsoring or fighting against referendum campaigns in San Diego, where such efforts have become increasingly common and divisive in recent years, must disclose their funding sources more quickly and completely under new city rules approved Tuesday.
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San Diego's top attorney continues his mission to discredit the authenticity of advocacy group San Diegans for Open Government. Last week, the city attorney's office issued a handful of subpoenas to several group members, ostensibly to poke holes in the nonprofit and thus gain an advantage in their lawsuit that challenges Business Improvement Districts.
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San Diego County’s System For Tracking Campaign Donations Called Outdated
Imagine this. You’re running for sheriff of San Diego County, a place that includes more than 3 million people. You collect money from donors and you spend money on yard signs, polls and campaign consultants.
How you collect and spend your money must be publicly accounted for. So, you take your stacks of paper records — perhaps more than a hundred pages in a single report — to the Registrar of Voters Office and hand them over.
What year is this? 2014.
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San Diegans have a right to transparency in government
As stated in the preamble to the Brown Act, our state’s open government law: “The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.”
In the last few weeks, the city of San Diego has experienced two major failures in providing the public with open and transparent government.
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Local Watchdog Group Suing City Attorney
A San Diego watchdog group is suing the city attorney, saying he is using his personal email account to do the city's business.
San Diegans for Open Government is accusing Jan Goldsmith of hiding behind his private email account so he will not have to turn over certain emails. Attorney Cory Briggs is suing Goldsmith on behalf of SDOG, or San Diegans for Open Government.
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San Diego mayor grants millions in contracts without promised oversight
From Investigative Newsource:
With a unanimous vote on March 20, 2012, the City Council bulked up San Diego’s strong mayor form of government in a major way.
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Supervisors sued by San Diegans for Open Government
City of San Diego Council: No New Public Records Fees
From Voice of San Diego:
The City Council approved a plan Monday afternoon that will make copies of some government records more costly, but rejected Mayor Jerry Sanders' push to go even further.
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