https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhPE2EM4SV4 Carmen Balber speaks to how if there's a penalty for treating consumers badly, companies often shape up their actions.

By City News Service, EPOCH TIMES https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-unseals-warrants-in-case-of-botched-ladwp-billing-5631503 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A Los Angeles federal judge issued a final order today on an application to unseal...

By Dakota Smith, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-12/documents-unsealed-city-attorney-dwp-corruption More than 1,000 pages of confidential documents from a federal criminal investigation into the Los Angeles city attorney's office...

By Jeremia Kimelman, CALMATTERS https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/04/california-legislature-gifts-travel/#:~:text=Free%20travel%20for%20legislators&text=Special%20interest%20groups%20and%20nonprofits,%24950%2C000%20in%20travel%20in%202022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLsyrzTHydc Consumer Watchdog says, what you can do if you've been caught up in this is you can freeze your credit with the big three...

By Chloe Veltman, NPR https://www.npr.org/2024/03/30/1241863710/att-data-breach-dark-web AT&T announced on Saturday it is investigating a data breach involving the personal information of more than 70 million current and...

By Staff Reporters, KQED-FM – San Francisco, CA  Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

By Wendy Lee, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-03-21/apple-doj-lawsuit-consumers Cheaper app subscriptions. Additional payment options. Greater freedom for app developers on the App Store. More consumer choice. Those are...

By Jeff McDonald, THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2024-03-14/gomez-withdraws-his-lawsuit-against-san-diego-attorneys-group-he-once-led SAN DIEGO — John Gomez, the firebrand San Diego litigator known locally through several high-profile lawsuits and frequent television...

By Cameron Kiszla, YAHOO! NEWS https://news.yahoo.com/more-could-become-public-years-152841449.html As Election Day grows ever closer, one candidate for Congress is facing the possibility of new revelations related to a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWaNL99S0CM Consumer Watchdog asked a federal court to allow the public to see hundreds of pages of sealed FBI records on its investigation of the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KUDvQG8pt4 Consumer Watchdog and the LA Times filed a request to unseal the documents to see if former city attorney Mike Feuer might be culpable...

By Staff Reporters, KNX-AM – Los Angeles, CA  Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

By Dakota Smith, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-22/l-a-times-and-consumer-group-ask-judge-to-unseal-records-in-dwp-scandal#:~:text=The%20Los%20Angeles%20Times%20and,Department%20of%20Water%20and%20Power. The Los Angeles Times and Consumer Watchdog asked a federal court Wednesday to unseal evidence related to the criminal...

By Staff Reporters, KFBK-AM – Sacramento, CA  Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

By Jeff McDonald, SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2024-02-04/in-chula-vista-not-much-is-public-when-it-comes-to-public-records In Chula Vista, even when public records have been retrieved, reviewed, redacted and released, they almost never remain...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTQ_NemK5Lw CW litigation director, Jerry Flanagan, says unless there is the threat of public scrutiny, you have no way of knowing that the investigation was...

By Alec Regimbal, SFGATE https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/top-shasta-official-may-have-broken-state-laws-18563995.php Three months ago, I emailed Shasta County Board Chair Patrick Jones a list of straightforward questions about a board resolution he’d sponsored, which...

By CAMILLE VON KAENEL and BLANCA BEGERT, POLITICO https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate/2023/10/19/jamie-courts-tactics-are-finally-working-00122633 DAY IN COURT: Jamie Court is on the ascent. The president of advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, long dismissed as a Sacramento gadfly, has...

By Dakota Smith, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-20/los-angeles-dwp-billing-investigation-ending-questions-remain It was a shocking sight on a July morning in 2019: An FBI van parked outside Los Angeles City...

By Jason Henry, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS https://www.dailynews.com/2023/08/28/el-monte-officials-used-disappearing-message-app-to-coach-cannabis-applicant/ El Monte’s city manager and then-mayor used an application that automatically deleted text messages, potentially in violation of...

By Kellie Hwang, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/grocery-stores-overcharging-18303789.php# Grocery stores and other retailers across the Bay Area have recently been caught overcharging customers, according to county inspectors...

By Staff Reporters, KQED – San Francisco, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

Requiring a more transparent Legislature and making agencies keep public records longer are good ideas. But will officials actually change their ways? By The San Diego...

By Staff Reporters, KPCC – Los Angeles, CA Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.