Watchdogs are only as good as the public's attention span.
Every accountability failure on the record across four layers of Washington government, in one place.
Because the news cycle forgets, and the receipts shouldn't.
The cases drawing the most heat right now.
Ranked monthly across legal posture, evidence tier, dollars at issue, primary sourcing, recency, and cross-references. See Methodology for the full ranking criteria.
Sound Transit ST3 program
OSPI school funding apportionment system
DCHS contract oversight failure
$500M+ in state agency tort payouts over 2 years
Every case links to primary-source documents: audits, court filings, ethics opinions, and named-byline reporting. Each case is connected to the specific structural reform that would have prevented or surfaced it. The registry is intentionally narrow. Other Washington cities are out of scope for now and may be added in later phases. We do not publish anonymous tips, partisan commentary, or rumor.
A reference, not a publication.
The registry is maintained as a public-record reference, not a news outlet. See Methodology for how cases enter, get updated, or get retracted, and About for editorial policy and disclosures.
One case is a story. Sixty-eight is a pattern.
Washington produces a steady stream of audits, indictments, and ethics rulings. They scroll past in the news and disappear. The registry keeps the receipts in one place, connected to the reforms that would have stopped them.