We Want an Audit
In California, the head of Oakland’s police union is demanding an audit of the city’s technology office, which he accuses of bungling a multimillion-dollar software upgrade and consequently threatening the police department’s bid to get out from under federal oversight.
In a Feb. 3 letter to City Auditor Brenda Roberts, Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers’ Association, accused the Department of Information Technology of costing taxpayers millions of dollars by mishandling a project to upgrade the city’s Oracle-made software suite that handles numerous functions including payroll and budgeting. The still uncompleted project, he wrote, has left Oakland with a system that “remains unchanged, unsupported and in danger of collapse.”
The state of Oakland’s Oracle Enterprise Business Suite is of special concern to the police union because the consulting firm that was handling that project also had been tapped to manage the rollout of a computer system to help police brass identify officers who could be at risk of disciplinary problems.
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