NEW: 2024 ANNUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS REPORT

Our Office released its 2024 Annual Accomplishments Report on April 9, 2025, pursuant to the City Charter, which mandates the publication of this report annually.

The Annual Report outlines the audits and other reports published in 2024, reiterates our mission, vision, and values, and provides updates on our planned audits and those currently in progress. It also highlights all our Office engagements with the community and City employees throughout 2024, and reintroduces our current team members.

Key accomplishments in 2024 include:

• Publishing five performance audits
• Releasing two Semiannual Audit Recommendation Follow-up Reports
• Conducting three financial analyses of ballot measures
• Publishing our Annual Whistleblower Report
• Publishing our Annual Work Plan for the fiscal year 2024-25
• Publishing ten newsletters (sent to residents and City employees)
• Presenting seven reports to the City Council
• Attending twenty community presentations/events
• WINNING a Knighton Award for our Citywide Pay Equity Audit!

Although we are a small team of eight, we are proud of the work we do and its impact on the City of Oakland—we hope you are, too!

Read the full report here.

NEW: AUDIT RECOMMENDATION FOLLOW-UP REPORT AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2024

On March 28, 2025, our Office released its third semiannual Audit Recommendation Follow-Up report, which provides the statuses of open audit recommendations as of December 31, 2024.

With this semiannual report format, we aim to keep the City Administration, residents, elected officials, and other interested parties informed about the statuses of all audit recommendations.

While our Office independently reviews the performance of the City in providing services to residents, we rely on the City Administration to make the operational changes necessary to meet our common goals toward equitable, effective, and efficient City services to Oakland residents, business owners, and visitors. This report summarizes 288 unique audit recommendations stemming from 45 performance audits issued since 2014. We detail the statuses of 160 recommendations that were either open or newly issued as of the last semiannual audit recommendation cycle. In all, as of December 31, 2024, the City Administration has implemented 143, or 50 percent, of all audit recommendations. Of the 126 recommendations that remain open, 73 have been partially implemented.

Read the report and check out the appendices to see detailed updates on each report and open recommendations.

Read the full report here.