SACRAMENTO — California’s state auditor issued a damning audit of the judiciary on Wednesday, concluding in a 90-page report that branch leaders failed to adequately oversee an administration that spent lavishly on staff salaries, benefits and consultants while local courts’ budgets were slashed.
“Questionable compensation and business practices” by the judicial arm formerly known as the Administrative Office of the Court—agency workers are simply referred to as Judicial Council staff now—may have wasted tens of millions of dollars that could have been directed to beleaguered trial courts, Auditor Elaine Howle wrote in a letter presenting the audit to the governor and legislative leaders.
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