public policy

Fifty-eight percent of adults in California were opposed to providing healthcare for undocumented immigrants, according to a poll released in June from the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.

The repeated allegations that the company is violating regulations — including the bespoke regulatory arrangement agreed to by the company — indicates that officials aren’t keeping the public safe, said Ben Leffel, an assistant public policy professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Southers had a long career in law enforcement before switching to academia and earning his doctorate in public policy.

Faculty and public policy experts, even those who agree with the reform principles underlying the compact, have criticized the approach as government overreach that would undermine university independence and leave schools at the whim of government volatility.

“I’d estimate that Vought has implemented maybe 10% or 15% of his program,” said Donald F. Kettl, former dean of the public policy school at the University of Maryland.