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Governance Reform Task Force
The GRTF is a 13-member body of appointees who study how best to put the Measure G charter changes into effect. The panel makes its recommendations to the Board of Supervisors.
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Tell truer stories about L.A. County's past and present
The county has provided the Governance Reform Task Force with a false history, which threatens to produce unsound policy choices.
Supervisors move forward on ethics commission amid debate over role of sheriff, D.A.
There is some irony in the decision to let the assessor appoint a member to the Ethics Commission but not the district attorney. Former Assessor John Noguez is currently on trial for bribery. District Attorney Nathan Hochman is the former president of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission.
Supervisors to take up ethics proposal; task force frustrated in quest for independent counsel
It turns out that you can't create an independent Ethics Commission, or even talk about one, if you don't get to pick your own lawyer.
Ethics reform effort spotlights county dysfunction, shortens tempers
Measure G promised Los Angeles County voters an independent Ethics Commission. County culture, and the county Charter, got in the way.
LA County repealed its own justice reforms
Measure J makes L.A. County stand apart. Come to think of it, so does Measure G, which threatens to cancel out Measure J.