Constitutional Law
Mar. 25, 2024
Transparency needed in homeless services payments, judge says
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter addressed what he termed the “presumption” that service providers who could not provide documentation for work completed regarding homelessness services had indeed done the work.
A federal judge endorsed Friday an agreement reached between a homelessness advocacy group and the City of Los Angeles on the scope of a forensic audit of the city’s homeless services expenditures, taking the opportunity to admonish what he described as the practice of assuming that service providers who don’t provide documentation have completed the work they were contracted to do.
The audit in question is to be conducted as part of a di...
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