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You are here: Home / Blog / California’s troubled judicial misconduct watchdog may miss key deadlines to improve

California’s troubled judicial misconduct watchdog may miss key deadlines to improve

July 15, 2019

Problems could undermine public trust in court system

This past April, the much-anticipated California State Audit reviewing the Commission on Judicial Performance (CJP) exposed a crisis in the state’s only judicial oversight agency, which allows for severe judicial misconduct to persist. In order to enact the changes set forth in the audit, the CJP should have requested funding from the State by the June deadline. However, they missed it, using, as executive director Kathleen Russell stated, a  “classic stalling tactic” to continue resisting efforts to change its practices. Read The Mercury News article in its entirety here.

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