By Topic

Top 60 topics across all California civil grand jury reports

As of 2026-05-28. Across 58 counties, 12,355 reports, 77,753 findings, 60,870 recommendations.

What is this?

Topics are derived from a hybrid pipeline: bottom-up clustering of all findings and recommendations, a hand-curated taxonomy of 56 topics grouped under 10 parent themes, and an automated classifier that tags each finding and recommendation against the taxonomy. Counts below are derived from these classifications. This is a one-shot snapshot, regenerated manually.

1. Governance & transparency

Reports Findings Recs Juries
1. Policy & procedure manuals 2,135 2,338 2,322 726
2. Procurement & contracts 1,388 2,161 1,930 557
3. Ethics & conflict of interest 1,142 1,804 1,345 483
4. Strategic planning & implementation backlog 1,116 949 993 499
5. Brown Act compliance 1,066 1,216 1,222 470
6. Meeting minutes & agendas 1,012 926 995 438

2. Law enforcement & corrections

Reports Findings Recs Juries
7. Jail conditions & inmate medical care 1,756 5,170 3,674 637
8. City police departments 1,341 2,859 2,382 446
9. Sheriff deputy training & staffing 993 1,219 915 445
10. Juvenile detention & probation 865 2,384 1,375 420
11. Coroner / medical examiner 247 425 544 131
12. Parking enforcement & disabled placards 82 143 103 47
13. Vehicle towing & impound 29 55 75 16

3. Finance & accountability

Reports Findings Recs Juries
14. Audit & financial controls 2,580 4,740 4,571 774
15. Revenue, fees & taxes 954 1,228 931 436
16. Special-district budgeting & rate-setting 545 733 555 280
17. Pension & retiree-health (OPEB) funding 502 1,576 1,197 163
18. Cash handling & petty cash 270 324 213 151

4. Infrastructure & utilities

Reports Findings Recs Juries
19. Facility deferred maintenance 1,785 2,824 2,178 675
20. Water supply & drought 811 2,263 1,774 304
21. Wastewater & water quality 416 901 419 202
22. Public surveillance & camera systems 406 347 398 200
23. Solid waste, recycling & landfills 252 1,460 575 116
24. Roads & pavement maintenance 221 465 377 141
25. Airports 175 552 521 107
26. Public libraries 172 699 435 91
27. Traffic signals & intersection safety 164 307 287 86
28. Ports & harbors 79 293 169 41

5. Health & human services

Reports Findings Recs Juries
29. Mental & behavioral health services 1,364 2,681 2,541 448
30. Homelessness & encampments 725 2,128 1,741 259
31. Foster care & child welfare 498 1,566 1,193 250
32. Substance-use treatment 474 1,533 637 191
33. Animal services & shelters 375 1,378 1,005 184
34. Ambulance & emergency medical services 208 445 237 108
35. Public guardian & conservatorship 173 481 386 97
36. Restaurant & food-truck inspections 151 462 361 86

6. Workforce & personnel

Reports Findings Recs Juries
37. Hiring & recruitment 1,422 1,655 1,562 567
38. Salary, benefits & compensation 947 1,288 1,092 360
39. Workplace harassment & discrimination 648 849 684 299
40. Employee performance evaluations 380 418 397 216

7. Emergency services & information technology

Reports Findings Recs Juries
41. Emergency preparedness & evacuation 874 4,984 1,535 323
42. Fire protection & wildfire 848 2,450 1,742 370
43. IT modernization & legacy systems 763 1,057 872 362
44. 911 dispatch & radio communications 493 859 526 212
45. Cybersecurity 240 697 822 107

8. Education

Reports Findings Recs Juries
46. School-district governance & boards 762 1,303 1,292 310
47. School safety & threat assessment 759 2,189 1,818 242
48. School finance & charter oversight 352 565 438 165
49. Truancy & attendance 139 397 253 52
50. Special education 125 304 305 71
51. Asbestos & hazardous school conditions 74 256 368 42

9. Housing, land use & regulation

Reports Findings Recs Juries
52. Code enforcement 664 1,444 1,080 302
53. Affordable housing & RHNA 638 1,778 1,737 193
54. Cannabis regulation 111 372 241 64

10. Elections & civic participation

Reports Findings Recs Juries
55. Elections administration 357 1,248 745 185
56. Polling places & voter registration 176 342 194 104