. >> reporter: this past may, after a 19-month probe, fppc closed its investigation citing insufficient evidence of violation. >> the grand jury report and the results of their investigation are very disturbing. >> reporter: but in june the civil grand jury found staff failed to follow county policies with no consequences and the office lacked clear guidelines and enforcement. it's recommendation, better education and training. >> the grand jury report shows that for too long, this office has had a culture of complicity in misconduct. that's the culture we are determined to change. >> reporter: in a video posted to the da's website, price pointed to the report as confirmation for those changes. >> yes, we are cleaning house. >> reporter: despite multiple requests, price declined to sit down with me to discuss staffing changes and their impact on pending cases. >> whatever policy she was going to enact and instruct her prosecutors to follow, i would have followed. >> does it feel like retribution? >> oh, without question. i mean, it screams of retribution. >> reporter: mcmahon says the p

. >> reporter: this past may, after a 19-month probe, the fppc closed its investigation, citing insufficient evidence that there was a violation. >> the grand jury report and the results of their investigation are very disturbing. >> reporter: but in june, the civil grand jury found staff failed to follow county policies with no consequence, and that the office lacked clear guidelines and enforcement. its recommendation? better education and training. >> the grand jury report shows that for too long, this office has had a culture of complicity and misconduct. that's the culture we are determined to change. >> reporter: in a video posted to the d.a.'s website, price pointed to the report as confirmation for those changes. >> yes, we are cleaning house. >> reporter: despite multiple requests, price declined to sit down with me to discuss her staffing changes and their impacts on pending cases. >> whatever policy she was going to enact and instruct her prosecutors to follow, i would have followed. >> reporter: did it feel like retribution? >> oh, without question. i mean, it screams of retribut

i say it that way very bluntly because that comes from the fppc, see? right. and there's an abc hotline that i encourage you to take advantage of that you can speak to somebody generally, and i don't i don't know any i'm not a representative of the fppc, but it's my understanding that they'll get back to you within 24 hours. and, you know, if you are lucky enough to get a written opinion from them, that might be something you can rely on. so with conflicts of interest because as individual board members stand in responsible, civilly and criminally from that a i highly recommend that we look at the information that's available to us first and then think about it. of course, adopting things with ccpa and whatnot, not because no one size does not fit all. and that's why specific the law doesn't allow us to advise anybody individually because there are so many permutations about financial and financial interests are usually the first kind of situation, and then you have common law conflicts of interest issues. and so there's a lot there's a lot there. can i ask a

so as far as a standard way to conduct the audit, that and also what the fppc may have as guidelines to. right. and i guess each jurisdiction has different laws, so it'd be hard to have a like a statewide standard given their different disclosure requirements in every jurisdiction. great. well, thank you. that's it. thank you, ms. fall. thank you. now that we have a new budget with a little bit more security, what is your division? staffing looks like there's one manager, me and three auditors and that is considered 100% fully staffed. okay and at the last your last appearance, there was some question there was a recommendation is that even though you're required to do a minimum of one lobbying firm, i think there was some interest to see if we can scale up to do more than one. so with your 100% staffing, do you see that happening in the foreseeable future? yes yes. the code only requires one. but even in our first round of doing lobbyists lobbying audits, we conducted six. so we don't think conducting one lobbying audit is sufficient to get a representation of compliance with laws a

so as far as a standard way to conduct the audit, that and also what the fppc may have as guidelines to. right. and i guess each jurisdiction has different laws, so it'd be hard to have a like a statewide standard given their different disclosure requirements in every jurisdiction. great. well, thank you. that's it. thank you, ms. fall. thank you. now that we have a new budget with a little bit more security, what is your division? staffing looks like there's one manager, me and three auditors and that is considered 100% fully staffed. okay and at the last your last appearance, there was some question there was a recommendation is that even though you're required to do a minimum of one lobbying firm, i think there was some interest to see if we can scale up to do more than one. so with your 100% staffing, do you see that happening in the foreseeable future? yes yes. the code only requires one. but even in our first round of doing lobbyists lobbying audits, we conducted six. so we don't think conducting one lobbying audit is sufficient to get a representation of compliance with laws a