The Los Angeles Community College District established on Wednesday an inspector general’s office and a whistle-blower program for its $5.7-billion construction-bond program, one of the nation’s largest college expansion projects.
Even as college construction has slowed, the 140,000-student district has been able to build new facilities at a breakneck pace, supported by a series of voter-approved bond measures. But a letter from a law firm retained by the district indicated concerns that some of the bond money could have been spent too broadly under state law.
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