Reports

A License To Kill: How Uber’s Rush To Close Courthouse Doors And Roll Out Robocars Threatens Public Safety

March 17, 2026 · Justin Kloczko

Uber is simultaneously trying to weaken legal accountability while expanding autonomous vehicle deployment, despite unresolved safety and transparency concerns. This report highlights how Uber’s attack...

Sea Change in Sacramento: How Electronic Ballot Signatures Empower Voters

September 25, 2020 · Carmen Balber

The report finds that high signature costs have put the initiative process out of reach for all but the wealthy. It concludes that electronic signatures...

LA Times Op-Ed Pages Don’t Reflect LA

July 1, 2020 · Carmen Balber

A Consumer Watchdog review of one year’s worth of the authors published on the op-ed pages of the Los Angeles Times found that it failed...

The Price of Pickel: The LADWP’s Ratepayer Watchdog Comes With A $7 Billion Price Tag

March 13, 2018 · Liza Tucker

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest, most powerful municipal utility in the country. For its first 110 years, the...

Amazon Slime: Amazon’s New Consumer Deception

June 12, 2017 · John M. Simpson

Two Consumer Watchdog reports show that Amazon is deceiving its customers by putting fake crossed-out prices next to its products. It’s a deceptive marketing ploy...

The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell: How to Win Grassroots Campaigns, Pass Ballot Box Laws, and Get the Change We Voted For

August 27, 2010 · Jamie Court

Change is no simple matter in American politics-a fact that Americans have recently learned well. Elections rarely produce the change they promise. After the vote,...

Uber Needs to Disclose To Shareholders Its Executive’s Conflict Of Interest On Contingency Fee Ballot Measure, Ties To Dana Williamson Scandal

Cal Matters Opinion- Uber’s ballot measure would protect rideshare companies, not riders, from safety lapses

Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist Michael Hiltzik: Uber is trying to snow voters with a supposedly pro-consumer ballot initiative. Don’t buy it