Changelog
Recent platform work for caoversight.org: new sources brought online, OCR backfills, and crawl-coverage expansions. Listed newest-first.
July 13 – 19, 2026
- FTB Political Reform Audit Program — new source: 1,183 mandatory Political Reform Act audits of campaigns and lobbying since 2014, indexed from the Secretary of State's public archive
- OVSTA — new source: 313 voting-system testing, certification, and approval documents since 2004 from the Secretary of State's Office of Voting Systems Technology Assessment
- Home page — the Enforcement section is now Elections & political practices, grouping FPPC enforcement with the new FTB audit and OVSTA certification records
- In the press — new /press page: consolidated press coverage of California oversight, aggregating UnGovr's news tracking across state audits, corrections oversight, enforcement, sheriff oversight, surveillance technology, data centers, and civil grand juries
- Sheriff oversight — the 8 per-county civilian oversight body pages moved to sheriffoversight.org's California county pages, where the same reports now live; old links redirect to the matching county
- Home page — new section linking California on sibling UnGovr Oversight sites: sheriff oversight, surveillance technology, data centers
- Stats — report and body counts now cover only the sources listed on this site
May 18 – 24, 2026
- Home page — 8 oversight bodies that were built but absent from the home page restored; body count corrected
- Home page — fix stale smoke-test assertion on the hero copy so the daily rebuild stays green
May 11 – 17, 2026
- Launch caoversight.org — California state oversight reports site (moved from civilgrandjury.org/oversight)
- BSCC — extract real publication date from PDF instead of cycle-end Jan 1
- Nav — wordmark reads “CAoversight.ORG” (not “CALIFORNIA oversight”)
May 4 – 10, 2026
- California State Auditor (CSA) — backfill published_date for 833 archive reports (1993-2024)
- California State Auditor (CSA) — incremental crawl for new ~2/month reports
- State Controller's Office (SCO) — crawl audit reports
- Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) — crawl publications
- Office of the Inspector General (OIG) — crawl report archive
- Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) — crawl school district fiscal-health reports
- Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes (SOOO) — crawl reports
- Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (RIPA) — crawl law-enforcement profiling reports
- Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) — crawl enforcement decisions
- Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) — crawl facility inspection reports
- California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) — crawl reports
- Behavioral Health Services Oversight & Accountability Commission (BHSOAC) — crawl reports
- Little Hoover Commission (LHC) — refresh from live site, verify reports #272–289, add incremental crawl
- Little Hoover Commission (LHC) — OCR text extraction for 94 reports missing extracted text
- Local Agency Formation Commissions (LAFCO) — crawl Municipal Service Reviews across 58 counties
- County auditor/controller pilot — crawl report archives for 3 counties (Los Angeles, Alameda, San Luis Obispo)
This page covers infrastructure work for caoversight.org itself. For changes to individual report listings, see each source page.