Many California local governments participate in the State of California’s Cal-Card procurement card program. The State contracted with U.S. Bank National Association to provide Visa credit cards to authorized State employees, and has opened the program for any local government in California that wants to participate.

Read on to learn more details about what the Cal-Card program's purpose is. 

Organizations that collect significant amounts of cash go to great lengths to keep their own employees from stealing from them. As an article on Fortune explains, US retailers are especially affected by losing cash through employee theft, and Forbes reports that “dishonest employees steal over six times the amount stolen by shoplifters.” It’s thus critical that businesses put in place internal cash handling controls. Internal controls over employees who collect cash are often visible in venues such as big box retail stores, movie theaters, parking lots, and golf courses. Governments can learn some lessons from these private sector organizations on how to help make their cash collections safer.