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California DOC Finally Discloses Some Records In $4.1 Billion Of Public Contracts
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2007
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2007, page 26
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Contractor Misconduct,
Medical,
Medical Expenses,
Disclosure of Records.
Location:
California.
Four years after California?s Department of General Services (DGS) ordered the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to publicly post details on $4.1 billion worth of contracts, CDCR complied in late March 2007.
In 2003, DGS advised CDCR that it was required that all their contracts …
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