California, a massive 168 page report of the independent audit of California's usage of Federal Awards recently dropped.

I've pulled out some highlights grouped by department.

I had a difficult time trimming this down to not be 100 posts long... 🧵/1 California Department of Public Health (CDPH)

CDPH didn't always verify vendor eligibility for the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity Program in 10 of 10 sampled contracts.

Disbursements to these potentially ineligible vendors totaled over $7.5m of $11.8m total 🧵/2

TODAY is a start to healing California.

Prop 36 which passed by ~70% goes into effect, unwinding some of the decade long damage from Prop 47 & more!

AG Rob Bonta released a detailed memo about the changes to all law enforcement. Here's my thread so you know the changes. 🧵/1 Prop 36 creates a new Penal Code section 490.3 which permits aggregation of the value of property or merchandise stolen during multiple thefts to meet the $950 threshold for a felony.

A huge common sense change from the unlimited offenses of $950 per location per incident. 🧵/2

Now that California finally certified election results Friday after 5 weeks, I dove into the 67 page PDF and found some interesting stats between November 2020 and last month's election. Some were really eye popping... 🧵/1 The number of eligible (superset of registered) voters grew 7.2% which is really weird because... 🧵/2

The big LIE: California & Prop 47 is legally stricter on shoplifting than Texas.

I wanted to debunk some recent misinformation about the dishonest comparison between 2 numbers.

Texas: $2,500+ (felony)
California: $950+ (felony)

Want to know the truth👇🧵/1 of 9 In CA, a new shoplifting crime was created with Prop 47.
Assuming you have no prior violent felony convictions you will never be charged more than a misdemeanor.
Max 6 months in jail or $1,000 fine. Rarely does anyone get time or even make trial.

leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_di…