Tireless sentinels working for complete government transparency
Today is day one for this site. Our goal for transparency allows for Burbankers to become informed and remain that way. “The government’s power to control one’s life derives from its power to tax. We believe that power should be minimized.” – Americans for Tax Reform Providing Burbankers with meaningful information and documents allows for … Read more
Even if a City of Burbank worker commits fraud, or sexual misconduct, or is convicted of a crime, the taxpayers will still have to pay nine months of severance pay to the worker. See this as one example, the contract for the Burbank City Attorney, approved by the City Council. It is unconscionable to allow … Read more
Burbank School Board member Emily Weisberg admitted in this email that she routinely destroys public records. Burbank resident Joel Schlossman filed a complaint relating to this conduct with the California Department of Education and California Attorney General, requesting an investigation into this practice as illegal, according to Mr. Schlossman. Click here to read Mr. Schlossman’s … Read more
We are many times told that there is little we can do about public drunkards, especially if they are homeless. Burbank’s most infamous public drunkard is probably Carey Dwain Mitchell who has been arrested for meth use as well as multiple arrests for walking in the middle of traffic completely intoxicated. The drunkards typically congregate … Read more
A request was made under the California Public Records Act to the City of Burbank for documents showing contracts and payments made to The Miller Hull Partnership, a firm the City hired to develop plans for a very expensive $106.6 million central library concept. Burbank already has a very big and expensive central library. Most … Read more
[Re-Published] Each year, Transparent California is proud to take part in a national celebration of government transparency known as Sunshine Week. Founded in 2005 by the American Society of News Editors, Sunshine Week is a yearly reminder of the right of every American to access government records.The story began in 1966, when the federal government enacted the Freedom of … Read more
The email chains canceling Santa’s appearance can be found and read by clicking this link.
In this spam sent out by the California DMV (with the subject line “REAL ID: a must-have for travel in the US!”) in an obvious attempt to generate more revenue, you are misled into believing a REAL ID is mandatory for travel. It is not. According to the TSA, REAL ID is not required. Check … Read more
From this post by Bradley Dunkin Let me tell you a story. This story happened this weekend while we were all out camping. This is us (me on the left): Notice the number of small children that are with us. In total there were 8 adults and 8 children including 1 infant, 3 toddlers and … Read more
(Fact-checking responses included below) The methods used to count the homeless are very flawed by design and probably on purpose. Homeless counts are handled mostly by volunteers and that is the first flaw. These are often people with big hearts who want more “homeless” funding. The other huge flaw is that homeless counts occur during … Read more
