Tag Archives: section 225

The City Council voted unanimously Monday to put an amendment before voters on a vaguely worded and long-ignored transparency law requiring anyone doing business with the city to disclose their identities. Read More »

After a series of inewsource investigative reports, San Diego has fixed a vaguely worded financial disclosure law called Section 225 of the city charter. Read More »

After more than a year of inewsource stories on the topic, the San Diego Rules Committee on Wednesday firmed up a vague law called Section 225 that mandates everyone doing business with the city disclose the financial interests behind the deal. Read More »

The San Diego City Council and Mayor’s Office are fixing a law meant to make business between local government and private companies more transparent. Read More »

San Diego's most-ignored law has a fix in site. In the meantime, the city is working on an ordinance to jumpstart the process. Read More »

The San Diego County Grand Jury issued a report on the long-ignored transparency law, called Section 225, that's been the subject of inewsource scrutiny. Read More »

Despite overwhelming voter approval in 1992, three separate city attorney recommendations and an inewsource investigation, the city of San Diego is still not following a law mandating government transparency. Read More »

After our investigation found San Diego’s transparency lacking, the City Attorney has recommended a new law to ensure all business is done in the open. Read More »

City Attorney Jan Goldsmith told inewsource his office will basically reiterate its predecessors. This will be the fourth time the office has weighed in on Section 225 since its inception. Read More »

San Diego is a city known for a culture of secrecy and backroom deals. A law that’s been on the books since 1992 can help reveal the people behind the companies doing billions of dollars in business with the city each year — if someone would only enforce the thing. Read More »