Report 2010-103R Recommendation 6 Responses

Report 2010-103R: Department of Public Health: It Faces Significant Fiscal Challenges and Lacks Transparency in Its Administration of the Every Woman Counts Program (Release Date: July 2010)

Recommendation #6 To: Public Health, Department of

To ensure better public transparency and accountability for how the EWC program is administered, Public Health should provide the Legislature and the public with a time frame indicating when Public Health will issue its annual report on the effectiveness of the EWC program. Further, Public Health should inform the Legislature and the public of the steps it is taking to continue to comply with the annual reporting requirement in the future.

1-Year Agency Response

Although Public Health acknowledged in its one-year response that it had not submitted its annual report to the Legislature regarding the effectiveness of the EWC program, we noted that it released its report on June 21, 2011. The report is available on Public Health’s Web site under the EWC program’s web page. According to the annual report, Public Health anticipates releasing its next report on the EWC program’s effectiveness in February 2012. (2012-406, p. 85).

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2010-103R

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.