About

What this site is

caoversight.org is a public index of reports published by California state oversight bodies. It covers statewide audits, inspector general investigations, policy studies, enforcement actions, and a set of local pilots: 22,442 reports from 16 oversight bodies, spanning 1962 to present.

The site organizes those reports by the body that produced them, makes them searchable by full text, and links each one back to the originating body’s official source. It does not editorialize their findings.

What gets indexed

Reports come from 16 California oversight bodies grouped into five functional categories:

• Audit: the California State Auditor (CSA), the Little Hoover Commission (LHC), the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO), and the State Controller’s Office (SCO), among others.
• Policy: the Bureau of State Audits, Cal ICH, FCMAT, and similar bodies that investigate systemic policy questions.
• Inspector General: the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and department-level IGs.
• Enforcement: the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC), RIPA, and related enforcement agencies.
• Local pilots: a sample of county-level bodies including LAFCO and county auditors, with coverage expanding over time.

How the bodies are grouped

The home page organizes all 16 bodies into those five functional categories. Each body has its own page listing its reports in reverse chronological order, with extracted text where available.

Who runs it

caoversight.org is published by UnGovr, a government transparency project. Related sites:

• civilgrandjury.org: reports from all 58 California civil grand juries, with recommendation tracking and response status.
• sheriffoversight.org/ca: civilian oversight of California's 58 county sheriffs: oversight bodies, jails, and staffing, county by county.
• watchwatch.org/us/ca: the surveillance technology California's governments operate, mapped by county and technology.
• computecompute.org/us/ca: the public record of data centers in California, with a citation behind every entry.
• law.ungovr.org/oversight/us/ca: the underlying California oversight statutes.

Tone

This site is a neutral reference. It indexes what California’s oversight bodies publish; it does not advocate for or against any particular body, policy, or finding. Where a normative claim appears, it is sourced and attributed.

Contact

To report a missing report, a broken link, or a body we are missing: ungovr.org/support/new.