The audit included all 105 races that will appear on Kern County ballots.. Kern County Auditor-Controller-County Clerk, Aimee Espinoza explained the process. “They select ballots. they select ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — As Kern County currently handles a $3.5 billion budget, the auditor-controller has a huge responsibility but tracking funds isn't all they do.

Kern County Auditor-Controller Ann Barnett, known for both beefing up the auditing of county departments and controversially ending civil marriages at her office, is retiring at the end of the year.

is Tuesday, Nov. 5 and in addition to the U.S. presidential race, Kern County voters will cast their votes for a range of elected officials and ballot propositions. Depending on where they're ...

The Kern County Fair Board said they have been as transparent as they can be when it comes to a state audit, linked to the fair, that alleged hundreds of thousands of dollars were mismanaged from ...

County Supervisor Chairman Sellers called it "grift disguised as an audit," while Supervisor Clint Hickman said he knows audits from helping run his family business, and this "is not the way to do ...

A former state lawmaker who was at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection is no longer being allowed to count and inspect ballots at the Arizona election audit. Anthony Kern spent a few ...

There were jokes and laughter, and there was even a moment of silence for a Kern County Sheriff’s deputy that recently passed away, but there was little mention of a ...

Audits Find Desert Counseling Clinic Overbilled Kern, San Bernardino Counties. Desert Counseling Clinic, which has a $5 million annual contract with Kern County to provide mental health and substance ...

On Friday, Arizona Republic reporter Ryan Randazzo took and posted a photo of Kern counting ballots inside the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix for the Maricopa County election audit. Kern ...

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office and the California Department of Justice have resolved a four-year investigation of potential civil rights abuses with a settlement that implements modest ...