LAUSD payroll glitches rile assemblyman
Charging that the Los Angeles Unified School District is wasting taxpayer funds and dragging its feet in filing a lawsuit against the company responsible for rolling out a problem-plagued computerized payroll system, a state assemblyman said he will introduce a bill today to urge the district to recoup any lost money.
Los Angeles-area Assemblyman Kevin de Leon said he will introduce Assembly Bill 730, which would prevent any contractor found by a court liable for breach of an information-technology contract worth more than $1 million - and the judgment is greater than $250,000 - from bidding on any new business with the state or any local government for five years.
Later in Naush Boghossian's report, de Leon calls out system implementer Deloitte & Touche for running a "very sophisticated scam."