The Strategic Evaluation Committee report released May 25 was a scathing indictment of the San Francisco-based Administrative Office of the Courts. The nearly 300-page report was the product of a yearlong review of the AOC by judges and justices selected for the task by the current chief justice, Tani Cantil-Sakauye.
It is worth noting that even the process of information gathering was not without resistance. As the administrative office for the judicial branch one would expect prompt, candid, complete and accurate dissemination of information. Unfortunately “some AOC employees who were interviewed or who responded to surveys were defensive or resisted providing information.” Also some information provided by the AOC was incomplete or inaccurate and the SEC “encountered numerous delays” in gathering some of the needed information. As for the AOC financial processes, the report concluded: “It is difficult to obtain clear, comprehensible budget information” and “[s]ome requests for budget information still have not been resolved satisfactorily.”
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