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Legislators who take the time to study cybersecurity issues and ask tough questions of CIOs and CISOs are still the exception rather than the rule. But that may be changing.

In March 2016, just a few weeks after a contentious legislative oversight hearing, Michele Robinson, California’s chief information security officer (CISO), stepped down. The Feb. 24 hearing’s focus was a 2015 audit that questioned the state government’s cybersecurity preparedness.

A year after a scathing report described California’s information security as weak and vulnerable, Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed legislation intended to beef up state agency response standards.

California's drought is prompting all kinds of approaches to conserving water on the Central and South Coasts.

Ventura County legislators had this to say about the state's plan to increase the minimum wage starting next year in increments that will bring it to $15 by 2022:

Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks

"Income inequality is a defining issue in California and across our country. California has the highest poverty rate in the United States. Raising the minimum wage will help lift many working families out of poverty and put money back into their local economies.

Four years have passed since the completion of Oxnard’s Advance Wastewater Purification Facility, and now it’s finally being put to use.

Last year, KPCC recently conducted an in-depth investigation into officer-involved shootings in Los Angeles County.

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:

Ellen Tauscher, 64, of San Francisco, has been appointed chair of the Governor's Military Council, where she has served as chair since 2013. Tauscher served as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 2009 to 2012 and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 to 2009. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no compensation. Tauscher is a Democrat.

In an effort to protect open space, the City of Moorpark wants more of the town’s areas to be included in the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy’s Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor expansion study.