Los Angeles Watchdog Group Tracks Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars in City Contracts

was small, cramped, and smelled of warm toner and chemical solvents.

I paid twenty dollars to the young technician behind the counter for high-resolution scans of the signature page. He set the paper on a large flatbed scanner that hummed as a bright blue light moved slowly from top to bottom.

“Can you zoom in on the municipal seal?continue reading …