California seismic regulators destroyed records that might have shed light on its lax enforcement of earthquake safety standards

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http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/state-seismic-regulators-destroy-electronic-records-13731

State seismic regulators destroy electronic records
December 23, 2011
Corey G. Johnson

The office that regulates California school construction routinely destroyed key documents that might have shed light on its lax enforcement of earthquake safety standards ? despite a binding agreement it has with the State Archives to preserve public records.....

http://californiawatch.org/k-12/thousands-students-attending-schools-unresolved-safety-issues-14142

Thousands of students attending schools with unresolved safety issues
December 22, 2011
Kendall Taggart and Corey G. Johnson

Mark Avery/California WatchHelen Bernstein High School in Los Angeles is on the state?s list of school projects with serious safety problems.

Helen Bernstein was supposed to be a new kind of high school ? a project that would serve 2,100 students on a footprint of only 12.4 acres, with views of the Hollywood sign and the Griffith Observatory...