Sponsored by the Randall W. Lewis Family Foundation
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The SoCal Transformation Database is a centralized digital repository for the Southern California region to easily access a diverse variety of expert intelligence on areas of pertinence to the long term reinvention of our region post pandemic times. Creative ideas and best practices from both the public and private sectors will be available for free to best prepare our communities to save lives and jobs when the next crisis occurs.
Community groups, businesses, public agencies, schools, economists, and philanthropic organizations may take advantage of the relevant research available on programs, initiatives, articles, white papers, webinars, websites, forums and videos. These resources will make it easier to research, store, display, share and deliver information to civic, academic and economic leaders.
To submit a URL or upload a document for submission to the database, contact Christopher at christopher.im@bizfed.org.
California School Chief: Officers Needed on Some Campuses
California’s top schools official said Wednesday his office is working to re-imagine the role of police officers at the state’s 10,000 public schools but said some schools would still need officers on campus to protect students’ safety.
California school districts should spend less on police, more on counselors, state leaders say
The move, part of the state budget agreement between the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom, comes amid a nationwide movement to overhaul police systems in the wake of a Minneapolis police officer’s murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man.
Achieving Integrated Government-to-Business Service Delivery
Governments worldwide are designing and implementing new institutional and technology approaches for providing integrated government-to-business (G2B) services, recognizing the many benefits that can be realized both by government regulators and businesses.
Will California change policing?
State lawmakers will decide the fate of 15 reform bills during a pandemic-shortened session marked by civil unrest and an economic crisis. Not all of them will make it.
Manteca appointing millennial committee
Manteca’s elected leaders — in a bid to build a community that’s appealing to young professionals expected to shape the bulk of economic growth in the next 20 years — are asking millennials for advice.
Props to you, Californians: A preview of what’s on your November ballot
After a bit of last-minute legislative maneuvering, the list of propositions that California voters will be asked to weigh in on has been — more or less — finalized.
Alameda police chief announces retirement amid criticism over police handling of Black man ‘dancing in the street,’ sources say
Alameda Police Chief Paul Rolleri announced his retirement in a letter sent to the city manager Wednesday, according to multiple sources close to ABC7. Per the letter, the Alameda native will retire by the end of August.
Legislature Returns To Sacramento For Five-Week Lawmaking Sprint
California lawmakers are returning to work Monday for a furious five-week sprint that will include contentious debates about police brutality, unemployment benefits, hospital mergers and a moratorium on evictions during the coronavirus pandemic.
Legislature Returns To Sacramento For Five-Week Lawmaking Sprint
California lawmakers are returning to work Monday for a furious five-week sprint that will include contentious debates about police brutality, unemployment benefits, hospital mergers and a moratorium on evictions during the coronavirus pandemic.
Seizing the Opportunity to Advance City Contracting Equity
Los Angeles spends billions of dollars yearly on contracts for commodities, professional services and construction. The City’s purchasing power presents a tremendous opportunity to invest in local small businesses, and businesses owned by women and people of color, but Los Angeles is not as effective as it could be in connecting small businesses and businesses owned by historically disadvantaged groups to contracting opportunities.
Should the state investigate local police shootings? California rethinks its resistance
If this state is the nation’s laboratory for progressive laws, why has it been unable to keep the police from policing themselves?
Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19
Early in 2020, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission was curbed in many countries by imposing combinations of nonpharmaceutical interventions. Sufficient data on transmission have now accumulated to discern the effectiveness of individual interventions.
Stimulus Package Means Billions for State and Local Tech
The massive federal stimulus package signed last week by President Biden will bring billions of dollars to state and local governments. Here's what that will mean for technology modernization efforts.
5 weeks left to find pandemic solutions
State lawmakers have just five weeks to come up with solutions to massive pandemic-related problems and prevent Californians of all stripes — tenants, landlords, small-business owners, essential workers — from falling off the edge of a cliff.
THE GOVERNMENT REFORM ON HEALTHCARE FACILITIES FROM THE STANDPOINT OF SERVICE QUALITY PERFORMANCE
The Indonesian government reforms in healthcare shift the management philosophy of healthcare from sellers’ market to consumers’ demand that providing high-quality service and achieving a patient’s satisfaction become critical issues.
A Transnational Network for Public Sector Innovation: The Impact of a Global Digital Government Reform Network on Public Administration at the Domestic Level
This study investigates the impact of a global E-government reform network on an individual country's E-government performance.
Broad support for Black Lives Matter shows a new generation of race consciousness has arrived
The outpouring of cross-racial support for Black Lives Matter demonstrations has surprised some who feel there is a new awakening in American society.
Students push UC to abolish police departments
Recent nationwide protests have re-ignited scrutiny of how the University of California polices its students.
Blind Spot: Lobbying behind California coronavirus contracts can stay secret
Lobbyists are not required to disclose their work on government contracts, leaving the public in the dark about who’s influencing state spending on the pandemic.
A common thread runs through at least four of the companies Gov. Gavin Newsom has tapped to help respond to the coronavirus pandemic: a Sacramento lobbyist named Mark Weideman.
Deray McKesson on the 8 Reforms that Could Dramatically Reduce Police Violence
Civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson is relieved that, after the murder of George Floyd and a new wave of protests against police brutality, there’s renewed momentum behind the idea of reducing funding for police departments. But Mckesson says that goal, as laudable as it is, can’t be the only focus of police reform.
Defund the police? Here’s what that really means.
Since George Floyd’s death, a long-simmering movement for police abolition has become part of the national conversation, recast slightly as a call to “defund the police.” For activists, this conversation is long overdue. But for casual observers, this new direction may seem a bit disorienting — or even alarming.
Movement to defund the police gains unprecedented support across the US
Activists say the way to stop police brutality and killings is to cut law enforcement budgets and reinvest in services. Some lawmakers now agree.
Are Police Obsolete? Breaking Cycles of Violence through Abolition Democracy
On February 5, 2018, Baltimore activists organized a successful “cease-fire weekend,” during which no one was killed—and the cops were not to thank. Indeed, as community anti-violence organizers worked to cool hot feuds in order to prove that endless violence was not their destiny, the Baltimore Police Department was sinking ever-deeper into perhaps the most shocking police corruption scandal of the twenty-first century.