#Goverment oversight Patch#
#Goverment oversight license#
#Goverment oversight windows#

As I reported for The American Spectator, the California Attorney General is threatening to prosecute reporters who legally obtained information about 12,000 California police, police applicants, and former police who have been convicted of crimes, including serious felonies. Like all bureaucracies, they operate for the benefit of the people who work there.Īnd I do mean all government agencies, including the ones that conservative critics of government seem to give a pass. The AAA motor club offers a pleasant alternative for a few DMV services, but more outsourcing is unlikely given the power of the unions that represent agency workers. There are no customers that must be satisfied because we have no other choice. We must deal with the agency if we want to drive. The audit suggested changes, but the agency reacted in normal fashion and requested more money.ĭMV offices, which I’ve described as a cross between bus stations and Soviet bread lines, have been like this since time immemorial (although they’re better in some states) and will always be this way.

#Goverment oversight windows#

The 67-page audit of DMV found a “reactive culture that has adversely impacted the field office customer experience,” outdated management structures, a third of customer-service windows closed even as people waited in lines that went around the DMV field offices - and pretty much everything else that anyone who has visited a California DMV office would know. The feds have required states to check out additional identification and issue new licenses to improve security when people use them to board airplanes.

#Goverment oversight license#

The state Department of Finance recently completed a far-more extensive look at the California Department of Motor Vehicles, which has been under scrutiny for hours-long wait times as people try to conform to the REAL ID license law. Then there are follow-up reports that document a lack of progress in implementing the previous report’s reforms - and then more findings. In other reports of mismanaged government agencies - and are there any other kind? - the offending bureaucrats have 30 days to respond to the auditors and then nothing ever changes and people rarely are punished. Government “oversight” is more about legitimizing a decrepit system than it is about overseeing anything.

#Goverment oversight Patch#

It’s always good to audit government employees and to respond to state whistleblower complaints, but such routine reports are the equivalent of looking at a burning house and concluding that it has chipping paint and a brown patch on the lawn. My favorite is this finding: “The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) and the former State Board of Equalization failed to ensure that 25 managers and supervisors, who worked non standard work schedules and who were exempt from requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, accurately charged their leave time.” As I reported last week, CDTFA is harassing out-of-state mom-and-pop businesses for eight years of back sales taxes, yet the agency is less scrupulous about its own behavior. One hundred and fifty grand in a state that spends more than $200 billion a year? Frankly, we’d be fortunate if more state employees slept on the job and headed home before the end of the working day.