IT – California Globe

When We Have to Wait on IT for New Statutes to Take Effect

April 20, 2024 3:00 pmApril 20, 2024 3:01 pm

We know that sometimes a statute will not take effect unless some other statute or action occurs first. This type of statute contains a “contingent enactment” clause, meaning that its enactment is contingent on that other specified action. In other...

How to Fix California’s Unemployment Agency

May 17, 2021 8:16 amAugust 18, 2023 12:51 pm

California’s unemployment insurance agency, the Employment Development Department, has had a rough year. True, the wounds were self-inflicted; it’s as if EDD went to a gun range and fired at everything except the target, so much so that the “collateral...

Why Can’t Government Do IT?

April 12, 2021 7:05 amApril 12, 2021 7:05 am

With the rather significant failures of various government technology systems – specifically those involved in implementing proper, fraud-free unemployment benefit disbursement – the question of ‘why can’t government do big tech?’ has lurched back into public view. If you think government lags...