The Department of Technology of the state of
California
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, formerly named the California Technology Agency (CTA) is a Department in the
Government Operations Agency with statutory authority over
information technology
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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
peer-to-peer
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e-Government
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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
California State and Consumer Services Agency
The California State and Consumer Services Agency (SCSA) was a state cabinet-level agency of the executive branch of California. It was replaced by the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency (BCSH) effective July 1, 2013. A ...
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. 834in 2006 (Chapter 533, Statutes of 2006). The
Governor
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reorganized the office with th
Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1of 2009, which was approved by the
Little Hoover Commission 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
Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected Secretary of S ...
'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 ยง 15277] managed by a Director
As well as several others including:
* Assistant Secretary for
Geospatial Information Systems (GIO)
* Assistant Secretary for
Health Information Systems
References
External links
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Government agencies established in 2006
Technology
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