AB 670 by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, will require the California Office of Information Security (OIS) to conduct no fewer than 35 security assessments of state agencies, departments and offices annually.
A Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is different than an advanced directive such as a “do not resuscitate” or “death with dignity” order. POLST contains information on the types and intensity of care a person wants in the final phase of life or during a serious illness.
A legislative package designed to regulate California’s medical marijuana industry would, according to The Los Angeles Times, “together establish a system to license, test and track medical marijuana from ‘seed to sale.’” As the newspaper noted, the Brown administration helped craft the trio of bills. One of the key components would be the creation of a Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation.
Final proposals are due Oct. 9 for the DMV’s Centralized Customer Flow Management and Appointment System (CCFMAS), the electronic system that organizes wait times and lines at local field offices.
According to the governor’s announcement Tuesday of Schmidt’s appointment, he was principal of statewide IT consolidation at the Department of Technology from 2009 to 2011 and a system software specialist at the California Franchise Tax Board from 1999 to 2009 and at the California Department of Technology from 1996 to 1999.
The California Department of Transportation has decided to use an off-the-shelf solution instead of building a customized system for its electronic system issuing encroachment permits.
AB 8 from Assemblymember Mike Gatto, D-Glendale, will allow law enforcement to use California’s network of digital signs to inform the public of serious hit-and-run incidents via a “Yellow Alert.”
Marcie Kahbody will start Oct. 1 as the new chief information officer of the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA), which is over Caltrans, the High-Speed Rail Authority and other entities.
Cahealthcarecompare.org was built in partnership with Consumer Reports and the University of California at San Francisco using a $3.9 million grant from the Affordable Care Act.
On Friday, Sept. 18, industry organizations CompTIA, IT Alliance for Public Sector (ITAPS) and TechNet sent a letter to Brown requesting the veto. The Governor’s Office said it does not generally comment on bills sent to the governor.
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation says the modernized system is needed because the process currently leans on paper-based, manual workflow to manage registration for 13,000 pesticide products, renewals and new applicants.
Under the leadership of Elaine Howle, during the past 12 months the State Auditor’s Office has released a series of jarring reports on cybersecurity compliance, IT project oversight and website accessibility.
Board of Equalization Executive Director Cynthia Bridges is scheduled to give a progress report on the $309 million Centralized Revenue Opportunity System (CROS), during the BOE’s regular meeting that begins today in Sacramento at 10 a.m.
The new strategy was prompted after listening to feedback from vendors and the state’s agency-level CIOs, and is aimed at giving companies the opportunity to compete for the state’s cloud business.
California has received 70 exemptions — the most in the U.S. — from the Federal Aviation Administration to operate unmanned aircraft systems commercially in the National Airspace System, according to a report released Thursday by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
Representatives from the First Responder Network Authority – FirstNet -- will be in Sacramento beginning today as a part of a three-day meeting to communicate the latest information on development of the U.S. public safety broadband network.
Four years ago, the university anticipated the UCPath system would cost $156 million and be done in 36 months. The project is now estimated to cost $375 million and will be deployed to all 10 campuses by the end of 2017.
The California Department of Technology is hosting a kickoff event for its new Project Approval Lifecycle on Friday, July 17, at the Department of Health Care Services at 1500 Capitol Mall in Sacramento.
A bill circulating in the state Senate would require the state to regularly update a software system used by energy rating services to test new homes and commercial properties for compliance with California building efficiency standards.
The mandate comes from 2014 state legislation sponsored by State Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, and supported by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon. The bill’s aim is to reduce the incentive to steal smartphones and use or resell them.
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) has hired Randy Doyle to serve as its Pension Administration Solution project manager. The appointment was announced at CalSTRS’ board meeting on Thursday.
The California Community Colleges announced on Monday that it has revamped its web-based catalog of online courses to make it easier to find classes that qualify for transfer to the California State University system.
Robert Schmidt, agency CIO of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, discussed some of the projects he and the department are working on, during a sit-down interview this week with Techwire at CDFA headquarters in Sacramento.
The average cost of a data breach has gone up 23 percent since two years ago, reaching $154 per compromised record and an average total cost of $3.8 million, according to the Ponemon Institute’s annual survey released Wednesday.
It was a homecoming on Thursday for P.K. Agarwal, the former chief technology officer of California who left state government in 2010 to become CEO of Silicon Valley nonprofit TiE Global.
Since being appointed OTech’s chief in January 2014, Ghods has been striving to make the office more customer-centric and service-oriented, and grow the number of tenants using CalCloud, the private cloud the state is hosting within its Tier 3 data center. Ghods is planning to retire in August, capping more than 25 years in the public sector and a busy year and a half leading OTech.
Chris Cruz was CIO at the Department of Health Care Services since 2011 and in March was named to Government Technology’s annual Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers list of change-makers in the public sector.
With California’s economy on the rebound, $6.7 billion more in General Fund revenue is expected to come into state coffers than the initial projection in January.
