Enhancing Government Accountability

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