IT'S OUR RIGHT
CA demands accountability
When a city neglects a road and someone is injured, your city should answer for that. When a school ignores abuse and a child is harmed, your school district should answer for that. When a public agency fails the people it exists to serve, Californians have the right to demand accountability.
RIGGING THE SYSTEM
What's Happening in Sacramento
Right now – behind closed doors – your local government leaders are pushing Sacramento lawmakers to rewrite the laws in their favor. They’re working behind the scenes. And they’re hoping you won’t notice.
Powerful government interests are quietly rigging the system to keep victims and survivors quiet, sweeping the consequences of their recklessness under the rug with dangerous proposed laws that threaten to roll back our right to call out those who have hurt us and hold them accountable.
We think that’s wrong, and so do the victims and survivors who have to live with the consequences of government recklessness every day.
THEY'RE RIGGING THE SYSTEM • THEY'RE RIGGING THE SYSTEM • THEY'RE RIGGING THE SYSTEM • THEY'RE RIGGING THE SYSTEM • THEY'RE RIGGING THE SYSTEM • THEY'RE RIGGING THE SYSTEM • THEY'RE RIGGING THE SYSTEM •
GET THE FACTS
government has a basic obligation to the people it serves
We believe government has a basic obligation to the people it serves: maintain safe roads, protect children in public schools, and address known problems before someone gets hurt. Californians pay for that promise every time they pay their taxes. When government hurts someone by failing to do its job – and then works behind the scenes to avoid accountability for that failure – real people pay the cost. Twice.
Their Failure:
When someone gets hurt because of government carelessness, the damage doesn’t stop at the injury.
A worker hurt because a public agency ignored a known hazard may spend months unable to work – watching medical bills pile up with nowhere to turn. Survivors of childhood sexual abuse in public schools can carry those wounds with them for decades. This is what government failure actually looks like:
Injured workers lose
Permanently disabled California workers replace less than 60 cents of every dollar they lost – and that gap has widened over the past ten years.
Families Pushed Over the Edge
1 in 3 California households can’t afford to cover basic needs — even with a working adult in the home. When government fails and that person is the one who gets hurt, entire families pay the price.
People take their own lives
Suicide rates for adolescent survivors of childhood sexual abuse are up to 13x higher than their peers.
Californians have spoken:
"They want the scalpel. Government is reaching for the sledgehammer."
Check back soon for stories and testimonials as well as how you can take action and hold your representatives accountable!