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Editorial: On board with SOGI audit

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We are fully on board with a letter several state lawmakers sent to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee this week requesting an audit of the California Department of Public Health to examine its procedures to collect, report and utilize data relating to the sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) of California residents.

The letter, signed by straight and out legislators, includes requests not only to look at SOGI data related to COVID-19, but other SOGI information that the state health department should be collecting.

This goes back to Assemblyman David Chiu's 2015 legislation, which was delayed by several years at the request of CDPH. The pandemic, of course, has only shown why this information is so important.

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