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According to sources inside and outside of state government, departments are being asked to identify cuts of 10 percent or more. While the veil of secrecy raises alarm bells for some, the practice is nothing new during budget crunches.
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The California Department of Technology has announced two personnel changes in state government leadership.
PG&E announced Wednesday that it is restructuring its executive leadership, and the vice president of business technology, Kathy Kay, will be promoted to senior vice president and chief information officer.
The fiscal year ends on June 30 every year. Because of that, departments often file last-minute purchase orders.
California on Wednesday restored its push for the nation’s toughest net neutrality rules, advancing legislation that calls for a free and open Internet over the objections of the telecommunications and cable industries.
Residents in San Rafael have launched a pre-emptive effort to prevent telecoms from installing small cell antennas throughout the city.
Santa Clara County firefighters were dangerously hobbled by poor Internet service while they were helping battle the monstrous Mendocino Complex fire in July because Verizon drastically slowed down the speed of its wireless data during the fire fight, the county's fire chief contends in a federal court filing. Verizon has acknowledged the problem and vowed to fix it.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s office has certified the first open-source, publicly owned election technology for use in Los Angeles County — “a significant step in the future of elections in California and across the country.”
The Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office is recruiting for a Chief Information Officer.
The Nevada Policy Research Institute has sued CalPERS, accusing the pension system of violating state law by withholding information about the type of benefits retirees receive. Such data, the suit alleges, is necessary to safeguard pension systems from waste, fraud and abuse.
The state Department of Managed Health Care is recruiting for three open IT positions with "a newly energized and highly innovative team, eager to embrace new technologies to effect digital transformation (innovation and creativity)." The application deadline for all three positions is Friday.
A university town with a burgeoning parking problem is spending $80,000 on license plate scanners to automate detection of scofflaws and enhance enforcement.
The University of California at San Francisco has gathered teams across its departments to scrub health data of personally identifiable information at record speed, making entire records available for anonymized data analysis.
The number of chief innovation officers populating city halls, county government centers and state capitols continues to grow. Relatively unheard of just a handful of years ago, many leading jurisdictions have added the post to their payrolls, seeking to transform the culture of their organization and usher in a fresh perspective on how a modern government should operate.
Ryan Labbe, an IT veteran with experience in both the public and private sectors, has joined NIC and will oversee State Strategic Partnerships for the Western states.
The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) is ready to put up to $550 million into a long-vacant site on Capitol Mall, aiming to build what would become the tallest office tower in Sacramento. But that doesn’t mean a new crane is coming soon to the banks of the Sacramento River to get started on construction.
After 12 years with the state of California in various capacities, Ashleigh Jennings has joined QualApps as Client Engagement Manager.
e.Republic, the media and research company focused exclusively on state and local government and education, is looking for a quota-busting Director of Business Development to join the Folsom-based firm's sales team.
The California Public Utilities Commission has named an IT veteran to the CIO position, which was recently bumped up to a Career Executive Assignment appointment.
Ongoing problems with the state government's adoption of the Financial Information System for California could, if not addressed, result in "significant" financial risk to the state, warns a report issued Thursday by State Auditor Elaine M. Howle.
Technology is advancing at a record pace and local jurisdictions have begun to harness it to solve challenges for residents. And while initiatives make cities smarter, drawing from talent in multiple departments, they've become more focused on exploring new technologies and less on becoming connected.
An underlying cause of the DMV's misery this year is a familiar one in California state government: A creaky, decades-old computer system that the department agrees is "a 40-year-old dinosaur." The department also said it has had dozens of technology outages in the past 20 months that have disabled operations, sometimes for hours at a time.
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