Enhancing Government Accountability
Controller Malia M. Cohen’s work on improving government accountability and transparency includes audits and analysis of cash on hand.
Controller Malia M. Cohen’s work on improving government accountability and transparency includes:
- Independent audits and reviews of local and state government entities
- Monthly reports and analysis of the state’s cash on hand
- Comprehensive annual financial reports and budgetary-legal basis annual reports
- A database of pay and benefits for more than 2 million local and state government employees
- A database of revenues and expenditures by city, county, special district, and other types of government
- A database of revenues and expenditures related to Proposition 30 of 2012 and Proposition 55 of 2016 (for K-12 and community college education funding)
- A database of all unclaimed property being safeguarded by the Controller until the rightful owners can claim it
- Multi-Agency Charter School Audits Task Force Report