Lake County Grand Jury

2005-2006

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Findings & Recommendations 6 findings
F1: The jail is a holding facility where adults arrested are pre-booked and transported during the day to the County Jail in Lakeport. Juveniles arrested are transported immediately to Juvenile Hall in Lakeport. The facility meets all State and County requirements for a police department.
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F2: The Clearlake Police Station receives 21,000 calls annually and makes 5.69 arrests daily.
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F3: The site is made available to probation and parole officers for drug testing.
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F4: Most Clearlake Police Officers have been issued and are thoroughly trained in the proper use of Tasers.
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F5: The Clearlake Police Department has twenty-five Officers including detectives, patrolmen and the chief.
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F6: Clearlake has a Community Patrol which uses old Clearlake Police cars and is staffed by volunteers. The Police Chief praised their work. Summary:The site is checked for compliance every two years by the California State Board of Corrections. The Chief purchases used CHP cars at a cost of $ 5400.00 each as opposed to new Patrol cars at $ 30,000.00 each; this helps the Chief stay within his three million dollar annual budget. The site is very clean, areas are secure, occupied cells are checked and logged frequently, and a special holding cell is available for disabled persons arrested. http://www.co.lake.ca.us/generalinformation/grandjury/report0506/clearlakepolicedept.html (1 of 2)4/17/2007 3:02:56 PM County of Lake - 2005/2006 Grand Jury Report -Grand Jury Selection
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F1: Road budget was $6,200,000 for the year 2004-2005. This year’s budget is $9,800,000.
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F2: The Board of Supervisors allocated $1,000,000 of the General County Fund to the Road Division.
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F3: The public Works Department anticipates receiving $400,000 in “guaranteed” funding from the Federal Transportation Program, however, these federal funds ARE NOT eligible to be used for our road maintenance but targeted for only new construction.
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F4: Employees should be provided proper training on operating heavy equipment that they use in their work. Summary:County roads’ chip sealing costs $20,000 per mile. An insufficient maintenance fund for the last 30 years has resulted in a maintenance backlog that amounts to approximately 12 million dollars.
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F1: Thanks to a $450,000 grant from the Federal Department of Homeland Security, the County purchased a state-of-the-art mobile command trailer to be used in emergencies. Unfortunately, the Department has only one truck available in the County capable of moving this trailer. Within the trailer there are a number of highly sophisticated communication units which require considerable time and effort by Department personnel to learn. There is a volunteer group who is also learning how to use this equipment.
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F2: There are 3,100 people employed by the County, all of whom agreed, as a condition of employment, to be the “First Responders” in an emergency event. Fewer than 10% of the employees have participated in any training the County has offered. Summary:The OES is responsible for training, advance communication, public education and grant administration through Homeland Security. This is an enormous task to have been placed under the Sheriffs Department without providing the funding for the education of personnel needed to coordinate this service. There are a number of frequent emergencies (small fires, floods, vehicle accidents) that the county is prepared to handle; however, this is not the case for any sort of widespread, large scale event such as an avian flu outbreak, or catastrophic earthquake. Even in such catastrophic events, the Federal Government has stated that local agencies will need to be able to handle their own emergency services. There will be no State or Federal aid that can be relied upon.
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