The Department of Technology of the state of

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, formerly named the California Technology Agency (CTA) is a Department in the Government Operations Agency with statutory authority over

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(IT) strategic vision and planning, enterprise architecture, policy, and project approval and oversight. The current director of the department, also known as the chief information officer of the state, is Liana Bailey-Crimmins. They operate Calinfo, a

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website for the state's IT employees. It was created by the State of California's IT Manager's Academy, part of the CTA.

History

The Department of Technology Services (DTS) was a department within the

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established by the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2 effective 9 July 2005. The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) was authorized b
S.B. 834
in 2006 (Chapter 533, Statutes of 2006). The

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reorganized the office with th
Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1
of 2009, which was approved by the

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and the Legislature, and took effect 10 May 2009. In the reorganization, the office subsumed the Office of Information Security within the Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection, the Department of Technology Services, and the Department of General Services' Telecommunications Division. The office was similarly reorganized as the California Technology Agency and the Secretary of California Technology b
A.B. 2408
(Chapter 404, Statutes of 2010) which took effect 1 January 2011. Under Governor

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's government reorganization of 2013, the CTA became the state Department of Technology, and was moved into the Government Operations Agency.

Organization

By law, there is within the department the following offices and officers: * Office of Technology Services, managed by a Director * Office of Information Security, managed by a Director * Public Safety Communications Division,California Government Code § 15277 managed by a Director As well as several others including: * Assistant Secretary for Geospatial Information Systems (GIO) * Assistant Secretary for

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References

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* {{Authority control Government agencies established in 2006

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