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Each year thousands of Californians fall prey to human trafficking, including hundreds who are exploited for the value of their labor, and California must do more to help these survivors and to bring traffickers to justice, says the state’s independent...

California must improve and expand efforts to identify labor trafficking, the state’s independent government watchdog recommends in a new report. In Labor...

California must better coordinate efforts to identify victims and help survivors of labor trafficking, California’s independent government watchdog urges in a new report. “Human...

Organizations providing shelter and other services to survivors of intimate partner violence should receive their state funding in an up-front payment at the start of their grant, rather than having to wait months to have the money reimbursed later,...

California should strengthen its use of geographic information systems, or GIS, by creating a GIS Advisory Council and designating a full-time Geographic Information Officer, according to a report today by the Little Hoover Commission, the state’s...

The Little Hoover Commission sent a letter to the Governor and Legislature, available here, on Monday, March 4, 2019, calling upon lawmakers...

On Thursday, February 7, 2019, the Little Hoover Commission released the 2017-2018 edition of its biennial Economy and Efficiency Report. Inside the report you will find a synopsis of our oversight work and accomplishments during the past two...

Today, the Little Hoover Commission issued Artificial...

Serious implementation errors have put the New Motor Voter Program in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, despite adding thousands of Californians to the voter rolls. Government failures with the program may serve to shake, if not seriously undermine,...

Since the Commission’s first review in 2016, lawmakers have poured money into California’s Medicaid dental program, Denti-Cal, in order to attract dentists and improve access to dental care for millions of low-income children and adults. Yet, data...