Katie HobbsVerified account

Is your office able to issue regulations for third party auditor qualifications? Requiring auditors to be certified and subject to a professional body’s code of ethics would go a long way here.

By their actions to set up an audit outside of the existing processes, the senate usurped state law. In it's place is the Statement of Work they signed. When the results wind up in court (as they surely will) the challenge will be to the senate's ability to override the law.