The California Public Utilities Commission corruption scandal has resulted in hundreds of thousands of documents being put into the public domain through the Public Records Act.
This website, published by nonprofit Consumer Watchdog’s Capitol Watchdog project, allows you to search through these documents to expose new webs of corruption between state energy regulators and the energy industry they regulate.
Good hunting, and please let us know what you find.
The California Public Utilities Commission corruption scandal resulted in hundreds of thousands of PDF, excel and various other documents being put into the public domain through the Public Records Act. This website and database for The PUC Paperswas built in April of 2016 on a Apache SOLR Lucerne backend with Open Search Server performing OCR and indexing over 150,000 files input into a MySQL database with a custom WordPress template was used as a search front end. Super fast, and even more secure. The PUC Papers scandal was covered in both state and national news with this website being a incredibly large source for information.
News and Media References:
The Los Angeles Times – PUC emails appear to show former chief Michael Peevey overstepping his role – By Marc Lifsher
San Francisco Chronicle – A scandal-plagued state agency gets a shake up at last.
Sacramento Bee – California PUC’s big scandal over San Onofre closure heats up – By Dan Walters
San Jose Mercery News – PUC judge orders PG&E to produce more emails in widening scandal – By George Avalos
The PUC Papers was created by Evan Thomas King – Follow Evan on Twitter