CD 6 L.A. Council Candidate DAVID BARRON on Transparency & Bell Type Scandal Prevention - (9/25/07 Candidate Forum):

JOHN SCHWADA QUESTION REGARDING BELL SCANDAL: Do you think abuses like those that occurred in Bell could happen in the city of Los Angeles. Do you think the conditions are right, for that?

DAVID BARRON: They are already present. What we should do, one way to address it, is just make available to the public, all costs related to elected officials; require the lobbyists to wear distinguishable ID badge when visiting city hall; make public, those documents of meetings with city officials; display all committees to the public, that is....make all committees available to the public WITH ORGANIZATIONAL CHARTS of all the members of boards and commissions.

What this does is prevent one individual from wearing many hats. For example, it prevents the treasurer from taking off his "treasure's" hat -- and walking over to another room to become the auditor. So that would prevent this by having the organizational chart available to the public.

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