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California’s civil grand juries (“CGJs”) are one of the oldest institutions in the state’s civic architecture. Enshrined in the state constitution, the CGJs were conceived as a check on local government — a body of ordinary citizens empowered each year to scrutinize the operations of counties, cities, and special districts, and to report their findings to the public. The idea is a noble one: participatory democracy in its most direct form, the citizenry keeping watch over those who govern them.
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