California’s High-Risk audit findings expose a deep governance failure: billions are spent through systems the State cannot or won't fully measure, audit, or enforce. Improper payments, eligibility errors, weak IT controls, delayed financial reporting, rising energy costs, untracked homelessness spending, stalled infrastructure, and undocumented immigration costs all point to the same problem. For communities like Compton, this translates into higher living costs, and less se

Compton risks losing over $5 million a year in essential General Fund revenue from Crystal Casino due to a combination of AB 341’s long-term cardroom moratorium, aggressive 2025 Attorney General regulations, weak fiscal safeguards, and the resignation of the City Attorney. What’s framed as regulatory enforcement functions as revenue erosion, disproportionately harming a working-class city and exposing gaps in leadership, legal defense, and state accountability.