LADWP's first inspector general is hired amid ongoing investigation of billing system's botched rollout
LOS ANGELES -- Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday announced the first-ever inspector general for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in an effort to bolster accountability and transparency.
The announcement comes more than two years after Garcetti first said the city would create the position and less than a week after a former senior lawyer in the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office pleaded guilty to a federal charge connected to the city's handling of litigation and a settlement over the botched rollout of a DWP billing system.
The mayor first announced that the city would create an Office of the Inspector General for the DWP in September 2019, about two months after FBI agents raided the DWP's downtown headquarters and City Hall East. "I have spearheaded accountability and transparency efforts effectively throughout my career in government by working to identify and correct individual instances of fraud, waste, and abuse to get at their root, systemic causes -- all with an eye on collaboration and problem-solving,'' Perez said in a statement.
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