Report 2009-103 Recommendation 23 Responses

Report 2009-103: Departments of Health Care Services and Public Health: Their Actions Reveal Flaws in the State's Oversight of the California Constitution's Implied Civil Service Mandate and in the Departments' Contracting for Information Technology Services (Release Date: September 2009)

Recommendation #23 To: Public Health, Department of

Public Health should ensure that its conflict-of-interest code is consistent with the requirements of the Political Reform Act.

1-Year Agency Response

Effective November 3, 2009, Public Health issued a policy that requires each staff member who participates in the procurement process to file a conflict-of-interest and confidentiality statement it created. To its procurement checklists, Public Health added a reminder that each member of the evaluation team must complete conflict-of-interest and confidentiality statements. (2011-406, p. 91).

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2009-103

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.