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Hot Projects

Topic	Description	Parents
Air Progressive	Streaming Radio Station
Audit Engine	Full-ballot image auditing service	Election Integrity
Election Data Harvesting For Nov 2018	Automated election data harvesting.	Election Integrity
Election Integrity	Comprises all election integrity issues
Election Team	Status and information about our election oversight team	Election Integrity
Helms Proposal	Proposal realistic plan for safer nuclear waste storage on the surface using extended-life over casks.	Helms Proposal, Nuclear Waste
Open Ballot Initiative	Describes a method of election canvass processing that uses high-speed electronic equipment but is not subject to hacking vulnerabilities	Election Integrity
Stop Nuke Dump	Move the San Onofre waste to a better location (& Pendleton Option)	Shut San Onofre

Active Projects

Topic	Description	Parents
Aliso Blowout	Shut down the Aliso Canyon gas blowout and find out how this was allowed to happen.
Budget And Taxation	How to fund our government and make sure it is run efficiently.
COPs Program	Parent project to all COPs projects.
COPs Resources	Compilation of resources and related information useful to COPs participants.	COPs Program
California Energy Commission	Oversight and coordination with this govt institution
California Legislature	Track bills and provide oversight
California Public Utilities Commission	Oversight of the CPUC, which regulates for-profit orgs that provide energy, transportation, communication in CA
Campaign Finance Reform	Limit those with money to buy elections.	Election Integrity
Church State Separation	Asserts the doctrine of the separation of church and state.	Constitutional Issues
City Of El Cajon	Oversight of City of El Cajon and El Cajon City Council
Climate Change	Investigation into the debate over anthropogenic climate change based on Greenhouse gasses.	Energy Policy
Constitutional Issues	Project to collect all issues of constitutional nature
Cops Chapter SDEC	Local Government Oversight	Cops Chapters
Cops Chapters	Local Government working groups
Cops Fundraising	Fundraising letters, pleas, etc.
Cops Wiki	Architecture description and Tutorials of the Cops Wiki.org collboration Platform	COPs Program
Court Operations Oversight	Track Judicial Operations, Judges, etc.
Earth Summit	Sustainable Living Conference
East County Transitional Living Center	Oversight of a proselytizing homeless living center
Easy Voting	Fight Voter Suppression	Election Integrity
Election Audits	Gathering information about statistical and deterministic auditing approaches.	Election Integrity
Election Equipment	This project gathers information about election equipment	Election Integrity
Energy Policy	Consideration of various approaches to solving fossil fuel addiction.
Freedom Of Speech	Various efforts to defend our First Amendment rights.	Constitutional Issues
Gmo Open Forum	Discuss and understand implications of GMO technology
Govt Info Map	Establish standards for reporting information about govt organizations to allow a comprehensive "map" to be developed.
Grossmont Healthcare Board	Board Oversight
Grossmont Union High School District	Oppose the sad story of a high school district taken over by religious radicals and left in disarray. Now, they've done it again.
Healthcare Policy	Track and understand the implications of various healthcare policy options
Helms Campaign	Targets local jurisdictions with intent of getting resolution in support of Moving the Waste per settlement action plan and support HELMS petition at NRC	Helms Proposal, Settlement To Move San Onofre Waste
Local Politics	East County Politics that is not covered by another project
March Against Monsanto	Planning for annual march in Balboa Park	Gmo Open Forum
Net Neutrality	Concerns keeping the Internet open and free to all ideas.
Nuclear Energy	Nuclear Energy	Energy Policy
Nuclear Waste	How to deal with ever-increasing deadly nuclear waste.	Nuclear Energy
One Gun Initiative	One Citizen, One Vote, One Gun	Constitutional Issues
Pension Reform	Considers how to bring public employee pensions under control	Budget And Taxation
Police Dept Oversight	General topic on Police Department Oversight
Private Mercenaries	Considers the rise of private mercenary firms and warfare training camps.	War Profiteering
Project Anatomy	A "project of projects" -- how we manage and organize COPs projects on this site.	COPs Program
San Diego LAFCO	Oversight of this governmental body
San Diego Reinvestment Task Force	This committee decides on how money that the city may have is reinvested. Bankers sit around the table. Oppty to get money moved from banks to local community banks.
San Onofre Canister Drop Incident	Review of the August 3, 2019 near-drop of 50-ton canister 18 ft.	Stop Nuke Dump
Settlement Oversight Panel	Advisory Panel to provide oversight over the San Onofre nuclear waste settlement	Stop Nuke Dump
Settlement To Move San Onofre Waste	Citizens Oversight sued the Coastal Commission regarding approval of the permit to allow the Nuclear Waste Storage on the Beach and a Settlement Resulted. This Project tracks and follows that settlement.	Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste, Stop Nuke Dump
Shut San Onofre	Objective is permanent decommissioning of SONGS	Nuclear Energy
Shutdown Diablo	Goal is permanent shut down of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant	Nuclear Energy
Snapshot Protocol	Uses a snapshot of the election and compares it with the one-percent manual tally.	Election Integrity
Vote By Mail	Review of all the concerns around VBM voting and processing	Election Integrity
Voter Registration	Information about how to increase voter registration	Election Integrity
Voting Privacy	Deals with anonymity of the ballot and allowing voters to vote privately	Election Integrity
War Profiteering	Explores the problem with war-for-profit
Water Fluoridation	Is Water Fluoridation safe and effective?

Inactive Projects

Topic	Description	Parents
Ballot Access Lawsuit	Lawsuit against the San Diego Registrar of Voters to Access Ballots as Public Records	Election Integrity
Border Security	This topic includes discussion of the border fence, and the larger issue of border security and immigration reform.
Coalition To Decommission San Onofre	Grassroots organizations joined as a party to the California PUC	Shut San Onofre
Compensation Reform	How to make sure govt workers are fairly compensated.	Budget And Taxation
Crowd Watch	Crowd-sourced data collection and review	Easy Voting, Election Audits, Election Integrity, Election Team, Snapshot Protocol, Snapshot Protocol
Current Events Theater	Screen progressive films to counteract conservative and corporate media.
Election Audit Lawsuit	Lawsuit against the San Diego Registrar of Voter regarding the incomplete audit in the June 2016 Primary Election	Election Integrity
Election Oversight June 2016	Review of the primary election in California	Election Integrity
Encroachment Law	Work related to SDMC54.0110, AKA Encroachment Law	Occupy San Diego
Israeli Palestinian Conflict	Oversight and discussion of perhaps the most divisive conflict on earth.
Knsj Radio	Technology and Content of KNSJ Radio	Air Progressive
La Mesa Spring Valley School Board	Oversight of board, and most recently, the banning of the President's address.
Lakeside Fire Board	Oversight of the Lakeside Fire Board
Nine Eleven	Inquiry into the truth surrounding the events of 9-11-2001
Padre Dam Municipal Water District	Oversight of this governmental body
Park Station At La Mesa Crossroads	Huge mixed-use project at El Cajon Blvd and Baltimore Dr.
Progressive T Vand Radio	Project to establish and support progressive TV and Radio stations	Air Progressive
Rock Church Ecpac Takeover	City of El Cajon entertaining a long-term lease with Rock Church for ECPAC	Save ECPAC
San Bruno Explosion	Documents and information related to the PG&E Gas Line Explosion in 2010
San Diego County Canvass Procedure	Detailed written procedures for the canvass in San Diego County	Election Integrity
San Onofre Settlement Federal Case	Complaint by Citizens Oversight et al vs. CPUC on San Onofre Settlement	Shut San Onofre, Stop The Unfair Settlement
Save ECPAC	Tracking of management of ECPAC
Seals At Childrens Pool	Seals vs. human use of Children's Pool area in La Jolla
Stop The Unfair Settlement	The utilities are pushing for a quick $3.3B settlement that is unfair to ratepayers	Shut San Onofre

Closed Projects

Topic	Description	Parents
A 29 San Onofre Protest And Rally	Three Mile Island! Chernobyl! Fukushima! San Onofre? Shut Down San Onofre	Shut San Onofre
Blackwater In Southwestern College	SWC approved using BW shooting range in trade for on-campus conference room use.	Blackwater Otay
Blackwater Los Coyotes	Blackwater-Xe mercenary training camp at the Los Coyotes Reservation, near Warner Springs.	Private Mercenaries
Blackwater Otay	Opposition to private mercenary training center in Otay Mesa, San Diego	Private Mercenaries
Blackwater Worldwide	Considers the entire family of companies related to Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater Lodge Training Center.	Private Mercenaries
Covert Canyon	A shooting range training area in East San Diego County, off Japatul Valley Rd and operated by Marc Halcon.	Private Mercenaries
Deepwater Horizon	Background and ideas for dealing with this disaster
Eagle Rock Training Center	Blackwater-like training facility on Los Coyotes reservation near Warner Springs	Private Mercenaries
M 11 San Onofre Protest And Rally	Rally/Protest on First Anniversary of Fukushima disaster at San Onofre Nuclear generating Station (SONGS)	Shut San Onofre
Manual Tally Issues	1% Manual Tally is required for certification of elections but are either not completed or are insufficient to report vote-substitution errors. SERIOUS PROBLEMS DETECTED IN SAN DIEGO! -- The result of this project was the creation of the Snapshot Protocol project	Election Integrity
Procinctu Group	Opposition to development of "The Ranch", a mercenary training center in Riverside County	Private Mercenaries
San Onofre License Amendment Intervention	Processing of Petition to Intervene and Request for Hearing regarding License Amendment Request for San Onofre	Shut San Onofre
Scanner Tape Review	Our attempt to audit the elections process in San DIego County regarding Diebold scanner tapes.	Election Integrity
Snap Dragon	Inappropriate change of stadium name in San Diego; Mayor Jerry Sanders committed felony embezzlement
Stieringer Employment Scam	Grossmont Healthcare Board member James Stieringer resigned to slip into a $60K/year position he helped create.	Grossmont Healthcare Board
Stop Alec Fest	Event near the ALEC national conference.
Sunrise Powerlink	Project to oppose the installation of the Sunrise Powerlink	Energy Policy
Unexpected Deaths At GH	After being cited by the California Medical review board, the community became aware that the District Board was unaware of these events, despite a clear expectation by the community that they stay perform hospital oversight.	Grossmont Healthcare Board
Wind Zero	Mercenary-style trainging camp just east of San Diego County in Ocotillo/Nomirage.	Private Mercenaries

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