Public Record Timeline

Following the Paper Trail

Accountability requires more than asking questions. It requires doing the work to find the answers.

Over time, I have submitted public records requests to better understand decisions, development commitments, public spending, affordable housing, public safety, and projects affecting Moreno Valley.

But submitting the request is only the beginning.

COUNTLESS HOURS IN THE RECORDS

I have spent countless hours inside the City of Moreno Valley’s Laserfiche public records repository—searching records, opening documents, following links, comparing staff reports, reviewing development agreements, tracing project numbers, and connecting records that do not always appear together in one place.

That research has taken me beyond the documents initially provided in response to my requests.

During that work, I have searched and tracked records connected to:

PEN23-0119 — Development Agreement
PEN23-0109 — Specific Plan Amendment
Tentative Tract Map No. 38850
Specific Plan 218
Ordinance 1018
Community Benefit Fund
Aquabella / Aquabella 2
Highland Fairview
Senior Center records

My Laserfiche research has also included following individual case and record :

Housing & Annual Progress Reports

Annual Progress Reports (APR)
Housing production and completion data
Affordable and very-low-income housing reporting
Supporting records behind reported housing numbers

City Finances & Public Funds

City budgets and expenditures
Payment registers and financial records
Community Benefit Fund
Developer-related payments, fees, and financial obligations

Development & Accountability

PEN23-0119 — Development Agreement
PEN23-0109 — Specific Plan Amendment
Tentative Tract Map No. 38850
Specific Plan 218
Ordinance 1018
Aquabella and related agreements
Highland Fairview
Senior Center records
Development obligations, timelines, compliance, and enforcement

Public Safety & Surveillance

City camera and surveillance records
Flock and automated license plate reader records
Camera inventory, policies, contracts, and expenditures

Code Enforcement & Property Records

CCR22-0933
CCR22-1231
CCR22-2723
15170 Perris Boulevard and associated case records.

THE REQUEST IS NOT THE END

Sometimes a public records request produces the documents I am looking for. Sometimes I receive links to additional records. Sometimes I am directed back to a public repository. And sometimes the City’s response states that no responsive documents were located.

I don’t consider any of those responses the end of the work.

I follow the links. I search the repository. I identify the project numbers. I read the staff reports. I compare the records. And when one document leads to another question, I keep researching.

My purpose is not simply to collect documents.

It is to understand what was promised, what was approved, what was funded, what was required, and what ultimately happened.

FOLLOW THE MONEY.

FOLLOW THE COMMITMENTS.

FOLLOW THE TIMELINES.

FOLLOW THE RECORDS.

FOLLOW THE RESULTS.

Approvals are only the beginning.

MY PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS

Below are examples of public records requests I have submitted as part of my ongoing research and due diligence on behalf of the community.