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Oxnard committee reviews whistleblower hotline; majority of recent tips tied to housing authority

5444582 · July 23, 2025
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The Oxnard City Finance & Governance Committee received an update July 22 on the city's whistleblower hotline, which logged 11 contacts in the reporting period; staff said six involved the Housing Authority and one flagged in the report was not a whistleblower submission but a request for staff contact.

The Oxnard City Finance & Governance Committee on July 22 received an update on the city's whistleblower hotline, which staff said logged 11 contacts in the six-month reporting period and included multiple submissions about the Housing Authority.

The report, presented by Eric Sonstegard, Assistant Senior Manager in the City Manager's Department, noted a discrepancy between the written staff report and the table included with the packet: the narrative referenced 11 reports while the table listed 10. Sonstegard told the committee the missing item "was not really a submission. It was somebody using the portal to get a staff member to call them about…

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