Jocelyn Benson’s fake transparency network sued for  illegal ‘Ticketmaster-style junk fees’

Tyler Tech­nolo­gies — the com­pa­ny Sec­re­tary of State Joce­lyn Ben­son hired to build the botched trans­paren­cy web­site, has just been hit with anoth­er class action law­suit after set­tling its last.

This time, the law­suit alleges the com­pa­ny is charg­ing state tax­pay­ers for its own unlaw­ful prof­it.

Per The Mid­west­ern­er:

While Sec­re­tary of State Joce­lyn Benson’s con­trac­tor for her bun­gled $9.3 mil­lion trans­paren­cy web­site pre­pares to pay out in one class action law­suit, res­i­dents in Cal­i­for­nia are fil­ing anoth­er.

The lat­ter cen­ters on a Decem­ber 2023 con­tract between the Cal­i­for­nia Depart­ment of Parks and Recre­ation and Tyler Tech­nolo­gies, a Texas-based soft­ware and ser­vices provider behind the Sec­re­tary of State’s inop­er­a­ble trans­paren­cy web­site and scores of oth­er bun­gled pub­lic sec­tor tech­nol­o­gy projects across the coun­try.

Tyler Tech­nolo­gies inked the $398 mil­lion deal with Cal­i­for­nia to run its “Reserve­Cal­i­for­nia” book­ing web­site for camp­sites and lodg­ing across the state’s 280 parks.

But sev­er­al Cal­i­for­nia res­i­dents filed a fed­er­al class action law­suit last week alleg­ing the com­pa­ny is ille­gal­ly charg­ing park vis­i­tors reser­va­tion fees of $8.25 in vio­la­tion of the state’s 2024 Hon­est Pric­ing Law, The Sacra­men­to Bee reports.

Read the full sto­ry at The Mid­west­ern­er.