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Editorial: Deleting Government Emails Leaves The Public In The Dark
EDITORIAL by The SANTA ROSA PRESS-DEMOCRAT Editorial Board
March 29, 2022
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/opinion/pd-editorial-deleting-government-emails-leaves-the-public-in-the-dark/
A recent whistleblower’s complaint about deletion of emails at the California Department of Insurance provides a vivid illustration of why...
Editorial: Government Emails Are Public Records. Deleting Them Too Quickly Is Not OK
EDITORIAL by the LOS ANGELES TIMES Editorial Board
March 28, 2022
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-03-28/editorial-california-public-records-delete-emails
A fundamental principle of a free and open society is that citizens have a right to know what’s going on...
Department of Insurance Changes Course on Email Deletion Policy that Threatened Records of Pay-to-Play Scandal Days After Consumer Watchdog Threatened to Go to Court
The Department of Insurance pulled back a policy to delete agency email databases days after Consumer Watchdog warned it would go to court to stop it. Emails that are...
Facing Public Records Suit, CA Insurance Chief Drops Plans To Auto Delete Emails
By Jeff McDonald, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
January 30, 2022
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2022-01-30/facing-lawsuit-for-withholding-records-state-insurance-chief-adopts-plan-to-auto-delete-department-tyment-emails
Last year, while California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara promoted his commitment to government transparency and defended a lawsuit accusing him of withholding...
Consumer Group Alleges California DOI Hid Open Records Evidence
By Timothy Darragh, BESTWIRE
January 19, 2022
https://news.ambest.com/newscontent.aspx?altsrc=108&refnum=239255
A consumer group is charging new evidence shows the California Department of Insurance has improperly withheld communications with representatives of a company linked to...
New Evidence Reveals That Commissioner Lara and Top Staff Hid Communications About Meetings With Workers’ Compensation Insurer At Heart of Pay-to-Play Scandal
Los Angeles, CA – Despite attempting to conceal it, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and top lieutenant Bryant Henley communicated with two former lawmakers representing a workers’ compensation insurer at the...
Lobbyists Told State Insurance Chief They Represented Company At Center Of Campaign Scandal, New Filing Says
By Jeff McDonald, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
January 17, 2022
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2022-01-16/lobbyists-told-state-insurance-chief-they-represented-company-at-center-of-campaign-scandal-new-filing-says
Two former state lawmakers now working as lobbyists spoke personally with California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and his senior deputy, contrary to what...
After Donation Scandal, Insurance Commissioner Resumes Campaign, Raises $300K
By Jeff McDonald, THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
August 11, 2021
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2021-08-11/after-breaking-pledge-and-halting-donations-state-insurance-commissioner-jump-starts-campaign
Two years after suspending all campaign fundraising amid a political scandal in which he accepted donations from people with business before the...
Lara Defies Transparency: Refuses To Confirm Or Deny Whether He Or Department Met With Nunez, Serna and Other Known Applied Underwriters Lobbyists In PRA...
Los Angeles, CA -- In responses to requests for admissions in pending litigation, Insurance Commissioner Lara’s Department has refused to answer straightforward questions about meetings and communications between the...
Public Records Act Lawsuit Tests Ricardo Lara’s Pledge Of Transparency
Los Angeles, CA -- Despite his pledge for “transparency” in the wake of a scandal involving a workers’ compensation insurer, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has refused to release or even...
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