California Archives - Checks and Balances Project

C&BP Retains First Amendment Attorney Karl Olson to Get to Bottom of Decision to Approve Billionaire’s Vanity Basketball Arena

2019-12-16

Records About California Air Resources Board’s Approval of Inglewood Arena Are Slow Walked. City of Inglewood Ignores Basic Requests.

Despite CA Records Law Requirement of Prompt Action, Responses Vary Widely by 4 Government Bodies Enabling Controversial Ballmer Arena

2019-12-10

State records law requires government agencies to respond within 10 calendar days —by December 5th in our case — to acknowledge the records request and tell the requesters whether they have disclosable public records.

Enabled by Controversial Mayor and Powerful Lobbyist, Billionaire Clippers Owner Gets Big Win from California Air Resources Board

2019-12-5

CARB’s approval was a big step forward for Steve Ballmer, but potentially a big step backwards for the nation’s toughest carbon pollution reduction goals.

Will Microsoft Billionaire Gut California’s Carbon Pollution Standards for a Basketball Arena?

2019-12-3

Steve Ballmer — the 15th Richest Person in the World — Appears to Be Attempting to Crash Through the Nation’s Toughest Standards to Address Climate Change

Should Doctors Reveal Financial Conflicts When Speaking in the Media?

2019-07-18

We asked Denise Pines, president of the Medical Board of California, about three apparent conflicts Stanford’s John G. Brock-Utne, MD, failed to reveal.

Dr. Brock-Utne’s Board Membership at Son’s Medical Software Co. Sparks Questions

2019-06-26

Physicians Against Drug Shortages Co-Chair Brock-Utne fails to declare ties to Issio Solutions in article that calls hospital marketplace “corrupt.”

California Medical Board Sent Allegations Detailing Dr. Brock-Utne’s Non-Disclosure of Nearly $50,000 from Drug and Medical Device Firms

2019-03-7

Unanswered Ethics Questions of Physicians Against Drug Shortages Co-Chair Leads to Inquiry to Board’s Complaint Unit.

Will Stanford University Enforce Its Ethics Policy Regarding Professor Brock-Utne, M.D.?

2019-02-5

Brock-Utne’s article in a medical publication doesn’t disclose payments of $48,000+ from drug and medical device companies.

6 Physicians Against Drug Shortages Co-Chairs Received Payments from Companies

2019-01-17

The group claims to have no conflicts of interest, no vested financial interest in the issue of drug shortages and no outside funding. But the financial ties to drug and medical device companies of Stanford Professor Emeritus Dr. Brock-Utne and other co-chairs call these claims into question.

“Elected Officials in Bakersfield and Kern County are Becoming Poster Kids for Secrecy and Evading Simple Records Requests”

2018-05-11

If there is nothing in elected officials’ texts messages to be concerned about, wouldn’t it be simpler and more cost effective for members of the Bakersfield City Council and Kern County supervisors to allay concerns and release them? Why work so hard to keep them hidden? Perhaps soon citizens will find out.