Committee advances bill to create public, anonymized database of special-education complaints
AB 18 61 would require the California Department of Education to maintain a publicly accessible, redacted database of special-education complaints to reveal patterns across districts; advocates said the change improves accountability while county offices warned about resource tradeoffs.
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Assemblymember Lackey presented AB 18 61 to the committee as a transparency and accountability measure for special education. He said under current practice the California Department of Education's complaint decisions are technically public but accessible mainly via public-records requests, making it difficult for families and advocates to analyze where problems recur.
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