Nice Try County, but still a FAIL – New Policy Clause
This is part of an ongoing series about Los Angeles County gov't waste. Relatively recently one Department’s policy manual added a clause that at first glance looks like it’s addressing the waste reporting policy issue I mentioned earlier. It’s possible precursors of this site persuaded them to finally address waste reporting, or at least LOOK like they are addressing it. (I’ve given similar grievances before this site was created.) The problem is a comparison with my suggested policy text (see link below) shows it’s missing most of the steps needed to be useful. Here is a paraphrasing of the clause added by a given Department of the County: Office managers shall report any and all wasteful practices to [a given office]. There are multiple problems with this. The biggest one is that the receiving office is not required to do anything with the information. It could sit silently in a dusty folder forever (real or virtual). Remember the ending scene in the first Indiana Jones where t...