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Bakersfield by the Numbers: What We Know and Don’t Know About the City Council’s Secret Meetings to Kill Homeowners’ Access to PACE
2018-04-30
The City of Bakersfield continues to refuse to fulfill our lawful records requests, keeping the public in the dark about council members’ backroom dealings with powerful Realtor lobbyists to kill Property Assessed Clean Energy.
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City Attorney: Bakersfield Spent Over $12,000 Fighting Public Records Request on Vote to Kill PACE
2018-04-9
Bakersfield City Council members could have saved taxpayers thousands of dollars in lawyers and staff costs if they had just agreed to “cure and correct” their alleged Brown Act violation and hold a full public revote on the PACE program last year.
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Kern County
Kern County’s Claims That Behind-the-Scenes Meetings to Kill PACE Didn’t Happen Undercut by Lobbyist’s Subpoenaed Records
2018-03-17
Jimmy Yee’s records detail extensive contact with Kern County officials and point strongly in the direction of a public records act violation and state-prohibited “serial” meetings.
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Kern County District Attorney Lisa Green
Kern County District Attorney’s Look Into “All Allegations” Should Include Brown Act Violations
2018-02-22
As the District Attorney starts her probe, we encourage her to ensure that any money from the now-infamous “political cover” grant application by the Bakersfield Association of Realtors (BAR) was used properly.
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Records Suggest Bakersfield City Council Members Had Illegal “Serial Meetings” to Kill Homeowner Access to Popular PACE Financing
2018-02-15
What are Bakersfield council members still hiding about their coordination with realtor lobbyists?
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California Association of Realtors
California Association of Realtors Ducks Subpoena Questions About Vote to Kill PACE
2018-02-1
Despite Being a Signatory to Kim Schaefer’s “Political Cover” Grant Application, State Realtor Lobby Refuses to Give Up a Single Record of Its Lobbyist’s Communications on Issue
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Realtor Lobbyists Subpoenaed for Records on Vote to Kill Homeowner Access to PACE
2018-01-17
The City and County have failed to meet some of our lawful records requests, forcing us to turn to subpoenas to enforce public access to understand how public policy decisions were reached.
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Zack Scrivner
Mortgage Broker Boasted of Access to Kern County Board Chair Before He Voted to Kill PACE
2017-12-6
If Kern County CA responded to our records request accurately, then the only record of Zack Scrivner actively seeking information about PACE was from Tammy Engel.
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Checks and Balances Project Seeks State Probe of Ridgecrest CA Mayor’s Potential Financial Conflicts
2017-11-20
Our complaint to Calif. Fair Political Practices Commission Asks for Investigation of Mayor Peggy Breeden After City Attorney Ignores Questions
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E-procurement
Ridgecrest City Attorney Claims Mayor Breeden Isn’t Conflicted, But Won’t Give Reasons Why
2017-11-9
Possible Financial Conflict of Interest in PACE Vote Raises Questions In the eight years we’ve been asking questions about the ethical conduct of dozens of government officials and the influence of lobbyists and corporate managers, we’ve never come across a response quite like the one we received on October 30, 2017, from City of Ridgecrest’s… Read more »
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