Added Note: I am a long-term area resident, putting all of these links concerning Placer County corruption together in one place for other residents. (After people I know kept talking generally about these articles, and how little impact they seem to have made.) I have also placed this info on my old somewhat static Auburn links page.
Enjoy!
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Bloggers/Groups
- Placer County Scam group on Facebook (a civil rights group devoted to uncovering the corruption going on in Placer County California)- mostly focuses on the local court system
- One blogger's take on development issues
- CA-04 It was Friday. Doolittle Donators in Big Local Trouble (by American River Canyon- blogger at Daily Kos, 6-9-07)
- Corruption In Placer County Government (Auburn Buzz, 2007?)*
Various media articles:
- The financial state of the county, (Auburn Journal, 5-7-10)
- Union clashes with Placer County over plan for more furlough days (Auburn Journal, 4-27-10)
- Looking behind the Scenes: Raking the old muck around our supervisors (Auburn Journal, 4-25-10)- a good synopsis of past abuses
- Looking behind the scenes: Attorney general hunting for Placer corruption? (Auburn Journal, 4-4-10)
- Our View: Placer not exempt from keeping to the Brown Act (Auburn Journal, 3-7-10)
- Rockholm responds to criticism over executive raises (Auburn Journal, 2-18-10)
- Supervisors-- Stop the Insanity (Ken Campbell, Red County, 2-17-10)
- All the Corruption Your Tax $ Can Buy (Ken Campbell, Red County, 9-18-09)
- Solar Facility will be Taxed, Assessor's Office agrees with whistleblower (Ken Campbell, Red County, 8-21-09)
- County execs enjoy $1,600 meal on taxpayers’ dime (Auburn Journal, 7-1-09)
- Court Administrator Increases His own Pay by $470,000 (Auburn Journal, 6-17-09)
- Ollar-Burris case soon to be dismissed?? (Ken Campbell, Red County,4-24-09)
- Supervisors don't pay taxes??? the story continues... ( Ken Campbell, Red County, 03/27/09)
- County: $4 million unpaid in lot-splitting, Former Planning Commission member denies scheme (Auburn Journal, 8-9-08)
- Investigative Report: Official's land deals questioned, Series of lot splits by Placer commissioner, using two names, are called legally iffy (Sacramento Bee, 5-27-07) and related maps (in pdf format)
Andy Lukkonen Auburn Journal political cartoons:
- Humpty Dumpty (7-24-09)
- Andy Lukkonen: nepotism (7-31-09)
- Placer Services (7-31-09)
- Placer County budget (7-16-09)
- Placer lot-splitting lawsuit (4-26-09)
- Andy Lukkonen: Family tree (4-1-09)
- Merry Christmas from Placer County (12-14-08)
- Andy Lukkonen: Curtain call (11-7-08)