A number of California lawmakers Tuesday officially asked for an audit to be conducted of the state's efforts to collect LGBTQ demographic health data.
The request had been expected as the COVID pandemic has brought to the forefront myriad issues in gathering sexual orientation and gender identity information.
As the Bay Area Reporter first reported in December, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) had decided to seek a legislative audit via the Joint Legislative Audit Committee in order to examine how the state health department is meeting a legal requirement to collect the SOGI data.
Since 2018, a number of California departments and agencies focused on health care and social services were to be collecting SOGI data after