Supervisor seeks to uncover county's liabilities

RIVERSIDE- Riverside County Supervisor Kevin Jeffries next week will be asking his colleagues to support lifting the veil on the county's liability fund so that taxpaying residents have a better understanding of what's being paid out to settle lawsuits and which agencies are the sources of civil actions.

''It's a transparency issue because these kinds of losses ought to at least be attributed to the budgets of the agencies that incur them,'' Jeffries' chief of staff, Jeff Greene, told City News Service. ''We're not looking to punish a particular agency or have them lay people off because of a...