ACCOUNTABILITY
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 price. 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
Victims of childhood sexual assault are 2-3x more likely to attempt suicide.
“Californians have spoken: they want the scalpel. Government is reaching for the sledgehammer.”
Our Fight
Government leaders want to stop unethical attorneys who would abuse the system of accountability for their own financial gain. We want the same thing – but we won’t allow them to silence victims and survivors in the process.
The “fixes” politicians and bureaucrats are proposing will only cause more harm: giving them the power to decide in advance how much a person’s suffering is worth, shut out working people entirely, and blame someone else for their failures.
By a margin of nearly three to one – the solution Californians want is targeted: identify misconduct, penalize bad actors, and invest in systems to stop someone from getting hurt before it’s too late: fix broken roads, fire abusive teachers, maintain public parks and dangerous public buildings.