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Quan, who leads a transparency-focused good-government advocacy group, said he believed proper recordkeeping from January was all the more important given the historic importance of the fires.

The same week that the fires began, government agencies in the U.S. and around the world confirmed that 2024 was the planet’s hottest year since recordkeeping began in 1880.

The report documents deficiencies in medical recordkeeping, suicide prevention strategies and use of force against detainees with mental health conditions.

The report found that recordkeeping and the maintenance of medical records at all six facilities were deficient, noting that the poor recordkeeping was “especially concerning given the critical nature of the records and the high degree of confidentiality these records require.”

Its creation in 2009 was heralded as a breakthrough for important innovations like unhackable elections and recordkeeping, but it also established a system that could essentially work to undergird the basis of an online monetary system, aka cryptocurrency.