Under the Governor's Reorganization Plan Number One of 2011, CalHR assumed responsibility for this program from Cooperative Personnel Services (CPS) HR Consulting, beginning in 2018, to audit and provide services to the California counties and Child Support Services Agencies.
The State of California adopted Local Agency Personnel Standards (LAPS) to implement Government Code Sections 19800 -19811. Of the 58 California counties, most are authorized to administer their own personnel systems for program employees based on CalHR's review and approval of their personnel management system. These counties are often referred to as Approved Local Merit Systems (ALMS) counties. These ALMS counties are periodically audited to ensure that they continue to be in compliance with LAPS.
The remaining counties comprise the Interagency Merit Systems (IMS) counties. Merit System Services provides technical human resources support and services to these counties to ensure they adhere to the LAPS standards.
