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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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In a budget hearing on Tuesday, the Department of Motor Vehicles expressed opposition to a possible audit, calling the proposal a "strain" on resources that would take the department's focus away from reducing wait times.
An award-winning former CIO in state government has been named a Vice Chancellor in charge of IT for California Community Colleges. The appointment comes as the systems lay the groundwork for an online-only degree program.
A group of students at Stanford University has built a civic engagement platform aimed at fixing what many see as a big problem in American politics: the inability of constituents to feel meaningfully heard by their elected officials.
Some call it "free software," while others refer to it as "open source." While neither is wrong, the nomenclature of shareware has become more partisan than its use. And because it protects the rights of the user, by removing the ability to collect data without user permission, it should be used to protect the rights of the voter.
A May data breach at San Francisco’s Institute on Aging, a nonprofit that provides home care and other support services for seniors in the Bay Area, may have compromised the personal information of nearly 4,000 clients and employees.
Friday is the deadline to apply for the next session of the California Department of Technology’s Project Management Leadership Academy. The session runs from Oct. 4 to Dec. 20.
The Carr Fire, one of a spate of wildfires that have ravaged Northern California for more than a week, posed challenges but no direct threat to Shasta County’s IT operation.
Since the opening of Sacramento's Office of Innovation, Chief Innovation Officer Louis Stewart has thrown open the doors on making the city a regional powerhouse by welcoming companies to pilot new technologies and working with educational institutions to provide skilled workers. Stewart's goal is to make the city into a place where talented minds will choose to stay long-term.
Dr. Vinton Cerf, widely recognized as one of the fathers of the Internet, spoke at Sacramento City Hall last week about the Internet of Things, an outgrowth of that online brainchild.
California's intensifying wildfires, which have killed at least 50 people since October, have sparked forceful calls by state lawmakers to improve emergency alert systems that the public relies on to be notified of danger during disasters — and Gov. Jerry Brown says he'll consider legislation to do so.
A host of IT-related bills await California legislators as they enter the last few weeks of the current session. The bills deal with bots, consumer privacy, government IT modernization and diversity.
The mayors of San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland this week tackled the topics of communication with constituents and controversial yet “cool” electric scooters during Nextdoor’s Mayor Summit.
California's cannabis industry is changing, and for many cannabis handlers, July was a time of adjustment. Large firms, such as VIP, have become involved in the licensing efforts, while smaller companies have built their own technology stacks to respond to record and labeling requirements.
CGI has been awarded a $281 million contract with the state of California for maintenance and operation of the Case Management Information and Payrolling System, the central piece of technology supporting the In-Home Supportive Services program.
Incompatible software was one of the reasons that 118,000 people were left off Los Angeles County voter rosters on Election Day in June, according to an outside review that was made public Wednesday. The investigation by IBM Security found no evidence that a security breach caused the names to be left off the voter rolls, according to a summary of the report released by the county.
Open source technology has come onto the scene in a big way, with the California Department of Technology justifying its use in appropriate projects. Now, it has become a big part of the conversation around secure voting.
The city of Glendale has named longtime administrator and manager Jason Bradford as the city’s Chief Information Officer, a position he has held in interim status since October.
A veteran of IT in state government starts a new job today: Ken Okuhara is the new chief technology officer for the city of Stockton.
Daniel S. Konieczny, a 10-year veteran of Direct Technology, has been promoted to chief executive officer of the Roseville-based firm.
Latinas in Tech (LiT), which was founded in 2014, launched its Sacramento Chapter this spring. The group has grown to 3,000 women, with chapters in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, New York City and Mexico City. It has a "mission to connect, support, and empower Latina women working across the technology sector."
Los Angeles County government is holding a free workshop Thursday for small businesses that want to compete for local, state and federal government contracts.
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