EDITORIAL BLOGGING CITY HALL.LOS Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. City Hall is a fortress of secrecy secrecy see confidentiality. , a place where the powerful cut deals in back rooms. It's long seemed impenetrable im·pen·e·tra·ble adj. 1. Impossible to penetrate or enter: an impenetrable fortress. 2. Impossible to understand; incomprehensible: impenetrable jargon. , but could the Internet change all that? A new Web log, ``4th Floor'' (www.fourthfloor.squarespace.com), written by City Hall insiders, promises to expose the secrets for all to see. And whether or not the blog lives up to its hype, perhaps it will inspire other city employees to start whistle-blowing whistle-blowing, exposure of fraud and abuse by an employee. The federal law that legitimated the concept of the whistle-blower, the False Claims Act (1863, revised 1986), was created to combat fraud by suppliers to the federal government during the Civil War. sites of their own. Stay tuned - this could get interesting. |
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