California Dept of Justice caught hiding no-bid contracts

“The California Department of Justice concealed tens of millions of dollars worth of contracts with lobbyists, consultants, legal firms _ even couriers and parking garages _ in violation of its own confidentiality rules, an Associated Press investigation has found. An internal agency review.. found information on scores of contracts, many of them no-bid contracts, was erroneously labeled ‘confidential’ and omitted from computerized state records, shielding the agreements from public view”