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It ranked particularly low in public access to information and judicial transparency. [21] In 2005, Pew Research Center's Government Performance Project gave California a grade C−, tied for last with Alabama. [22] By 2008, when the last report was issued, California had a C, which placed it near the bottom of the states. [23]
The Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) of California is a five-member independent nonpartisan commission that has primary responsibility for the impartial and effective administration of the Political Reform Act of 1974. The commission's objectives are to ensure that public officials act in a fair and unbiased manner in the governmental ...
California: Mayor 1979–86 Konstantine Anthony [118] Burbank California: Mayor 2022–23 Benjamin Nichols [119] Ithaca New York: Mayor 1989–95 David Dinkins [120] New York City New York: Mayor: 1990–93 Ron Dellums [121] Oakland California: Mayor: 2007–11 Ethan Strimling (joined after serving as mayor) [122] Portland Maine: Mayor 2015 ...
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), established in 1975, is a "nonpartisan public officials' association composed of sitting state legislators" from the states, territories and commonwealths of the United States. [1]
The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) is an association of local San Diego County governments. The San Diego Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) is subdivision of the State and regulates and plans local agency boundaries and service areas. LAFCO comprises 13 appointed elected officials including three members of the Board of ...
The basic political subdivision of California are the 58 counties. The county government provides countywide services such as law enforcement, jails, elections and voter registration, vital records, property assessment and records, tax collection, public health, health care, social services, libraries, flood control, fire protection, animal ...
The United States has a history of citizen, nonprofit, and other non-partisan groups advocating good government that reaches back to the late-19th-century municipal-level Progressive Movement (see Progressivism in the United States Municipal Administration) and the development of governmental professional associations in the early part of the 20th century, such as the American Public Human ...
The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature, the upper house being the California State Senate. The Assembly convenes, along with the State Senate, at the California State Capitol in Sacramento .