Gran Jurado del Condado de Monterey
2013-2014
From the annual report
The consolidated year-end volume. The individual investigations it contains are listed separately below.
📑 Year-End Report
The full consolidated volume; individual reports are listed below.
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Hallazgos & Recomendaciones
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MPUSD made changes to the transcripts of 93 students.
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MCOE carried out an investigation of these transcript changes and directed that they be corrected.
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MCOE also determined that policy and administrative requirements used by MPUSD pertaining to student grade, course, and graduation issues contained serious inconsistencies and were partly to blame for the transcript problems.
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The current Interim Superintendent is aware of the issues and has a firm grasp on the importance and timeliness of carrying out all of the recommendations of the Report. 9934
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The Board is focused on the issues raised by the Report, intent on making the grade, curricular and policy changes recommended, and is fully supportive of the efforts of the Interim Superintendent in that regard.
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The Board should fully implement all of the MCOE recommendations.
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The Interim Superintendent should be commended for his focused attention to the issues raised in the Report.
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The Board should assure that the Interim Superintendent is charged with the responsibility for implementing the MCOE recommendations though their completion.
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County IT Department. These hosting costs are borne by the County IT Department. With central direction and input as to the content desired from the County Public Information Officer (PIO), the IT department creates and maintains the home page and initial basic access and design features.
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Some of the County departments appear to create and maintain their own sections of the website, and some even host those sections elsewhere than on the Monterey County IT servers, at third party sites. The IT department staff of technicians, web developers and graphic artists is available for technical assistance to the County departments upon request, for a fee chargeable to the requesting agency.
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In our review process of the Monterey County website, we felt it valuable to compare our user experience with that website to our experiences with three other California counties, representing a cross section of size, population and economies. We were also interested in how the website activities were funded. We arbitrarily selected the Kern County, Marin County and Placer County websites as examples. Kern is twice the population of Monterey County but has similar sized businesses and agricultural activities, cities, and large unincorporated areas under county jurisdiction. Marin has half the population of Monterey County and fewer agricultural areas, but has similar major governmental concerns. Placer County was selected since it has nearly the same population, business and agricultural activities as Monterey County and has an excellent, well presented website that we felt Monterey County could learn from by example. Monterey County Website Issues
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From this review we also learned that Placer County has created, and apparently maintained, an Administrative Services Department, within which IT exists as a General Fund Division with responsibility for maintaining and operating the Placer County website. While we do not suggest that the IT department should be part of another larger department, we do think it useful to quote and consider the clear purposes stated in the 2013-14 Placer Proposed Budget. It says: "In order to maintain the level of service the County provides to its citizens, future investment in technology replacement will be an important consideration for ensuring the County's continuity of operation. For example, progress on the County's website redesign and functionality from a Department-centric site to a Public-centric site continues. Last year alone the website had over 2.4 million visits, resulting in more than 7.7 million pages being viewed. The website will focus on helping people accomplish their primary tasks quickly and easily. Content will be consolidated, organized, and user intuitive. Menus and navigation tools will be organized in a way that simplifies the use of the County's website." . In our judgment, this budgeting approach, as opposed to Monterey's Zero-based budgeting, creates an environment that is more conducive of cooperation and consistency of the website because of cost sharing, while this budget method also places on each department content responsibility and determining for itself what the citizens need from it. It allows the website to serve not only the public but also its county employees, in sections of the website created solely for them and not available to the public. On the other hand the Monterey County method of funding costs, quoted on its County website, discourages this cooperative environment.
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The Monterey County Budget 2013-14 document describes the current method of funding the Information Technology Department ("ITD") as follows: "ITD is a zero General Fund Contribution department where its budget is solely based on the revenue generated through the services rendered to its clients."
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We also feel that the Marin and Kern county websites are more representative of what the CGJ believes the Monterey County website should look like and how it should function, once some standard principles of development and operation, and rules for responsibility for information accuracy, are adopted and applied. We acknowledge that this will take considerable time and patience on the part of the many people and departments involved.
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This CGJ is not an advocate of complex sets of rules and procedures imposed on each of the County departments and agencies, since this creates time consuming and expensive Monterey County Website Issues requirements that makes government less responsive to its citizens. However, in this situation there needs, at least, to be: (a) a commonly agreed upon set of written principles governing the creation and design, information presentation and templates to be used; (b) a provision for review by some designated party, such as the IT website head, for compliance before posting of new sections; and (c) a requirement that each department regularly review, and correct errors, in those materials that have been posted for accuracy and currency of the information. These principles need to be worked out by a representative committee consisting of managers of IT functions in each department, and the CAO or one of his deputies, and chaired by the IT department representative who is most likely to have the technical expertise necessary. The guiding principle should make clear that it is up to each department to decide what
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public information about its operations is relevant and useful for posting. This then places the responsibility on departmental management for their portion of the County website. There is, however, certain minimum information that should always be there -- such as listing department functions and services available to the public, contact information in the form of telephone numbers and at least one central email address to reach the department, physical addresses of facilities, and perhaps a location map. Most departments should also list the names and functions of its personnel so the public can ascertain whom to contact within a given group.
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In order to create and operate a departmental section of the website, these rules need to provide permission for each department to contract out the development and/or operation of their section of the County site where necessary or more cost effective, but that any such development/operation entity contractually be required to conform with the template and technical specifications adopted by the website study committee. The contracts entered into with third party developers must also obligate them to follow the County general website rules and procedures, including Privacy and Data Breach laws as previously established by County Counsel and the IT department for protection of the County and its citizens. These rules should specify that the IT department, on behalf of the County, has the right
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to examine all developed materials and changes, other than merely updated data, prior to posting or use, and to certify or reject the proposed materials and changes for failure to comply with the common standards. New materials or sections that do not comply may need to be modified. In order not to delay important changes, time limits for review and compliance need to be established. In all instances of development and operation of the various departmental website
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sections, including the initial entry page to the website, careful consideration needs to be given to compliance with the multitude of Federal and State Privacy and Data Breach laws. The cost of non-compliance in the form of penalties, fines and class action litigation that might be incurred can be significant, to the point that in worst case situations, a major data breach of the County website and/or the IT department could bankrupt the County. We therefore suggest that a standing procedure for regular consultation with County Counsel be established, so that Counsel is aware of what legal notices are posted, what third party development and operation contracts exist or are contemplated, and that the departments are promptly apprised of the continual changes in these complex Privacy laws.
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Finally, we believe that the Board of Supervisors and the CAO should consider changing the current Zero Basis Budgeting of the IT department, for its duties involving website presentation and development, by adopting the so-called Enterprise Funding method. Under this method, each department would be required to pay at least a portion of the cost of development and of changes to the ITD for each budget year (based on head count). This would ensure a stronger financial incentive for the County Departments to work with the IT department rather than with outside developers. In addition, in most cases it makes no sense for the various departments to electronically host their own sections of the website or to contract out such duties to third party vendors. It is also far more cost effective to have the IT department serve as the central contact point for the website and to have the obligation of maintaining the initial, opening pages, which pages likely have general comments on how the County is organized, much of which information will likely be provided by the CAO and the County PIO. (See, the example above of how the Placer County website handles this.)
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Hallazgos & Recomendaciones
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F1:
During the past eight or more years the Monterey County government has not devoted adequate attention to compliance with the California and Federal Privacy laws, and must now immediately change this attitude to strict attention and compliance, if it is to avoid serious financial consequences for potential violations.
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The Monterey County Board of Supervisors and their staff should carefully study this Report on Privacy problems, in conjunction with its CAO, the County Counsel and his Privacy Deputy, and the Director of County Information Technology and her Security Chief and other IT personnel. These are key people since they directly work in the field of privacy, prevention of data breaches, and in coordinating the design and operation of the County website. The study of these issues has a dual purpose of understanding the significant penalties and financial risks to the County government due to the complexity of the laws, and realizing that there are some expensive and complex technical issues in this aspect of County business operations.
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The present old and defective Privacy and Data Breach Notification Policies are to be replaced immediately and the newly developed 2014 versions disseminated promptly to all Department heads now that they have been approved by the Board of Supervisors. This must be quickly followed-up by education of all County employees as to these new rules, and the appropriate conduct required when using or operating County IT and communication systems.
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The Board of Supervisors should consider the immediate need for additional funding to be provided both to County Counsel and the IT Department in order to improve existing and continuing compliance with California and Federal Privacy laws, rules and regulations. The CGJ believes funding at least one additional full time legal position for the County Counsel's office is imperative at this point, to help protect the County and its citizens. The IT Department also needs more funds to acquire and use various protective software packages that warn of impending attempts at data intrusion and stop them; and perhaps for one additional key person to head and direct the development and continuing maintenance of the County website on behalf of its many departments and agencies. Privacy & Security of County On-Line Data and Information Systems
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County Counsel's office has not been adequately aware of these Privacy issues in the past, in part because of inadequate staffing and education of its lawyers, but it is now actively trying to change this situation within its budget limitations. However, it clearly needs additional funding to address these issues and to assist the IT Department and other County departments with this complex area of the law.
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County Counsel's office should promptly take all steps necessary to formally designate one of its lawyers as "County Privacy Law Counsel" and to provide for that person's continuing legal education in this extremely complex area of the law. This should include education to the point of certification of his or her knowledge in this field by the IAPP, the standard of this industry. We have been told portions of such proposed actions are currently underway.
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The County IT Department needs to continue its active pursuit of software and hardware means of preventing intrusions, and to keep the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and his staff fully aware of the extent of this problem and the costs involved in complying. This activity may require that the CAO recommend changing some aspects of the Zero- based budgeting methods currently used to allocate funds to the IT Department to pay for necessary personnel and software. This possible change in budgeting methods is something that should not be postponed beyond the current fiscal year.
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The duties of such Privacy Counsel should encompass working closely on a continuous basis with the IT Privacy Directors and County Department managers on existing and future Privacy Policies, and on all proposed contracts where vendors may have access to County records, and on all software licenses with third-party vendors. Privacy Counsel also needs to monitor closely these ever-changing laws to be certain that when changes in such laws occur these modified legal obligations and requirements are promptly communicated to responsible County personnel; so that they can be reflected quickly in then existing Policies; and so that follow-up educational meetings can be made for County personnel who must comply with these new laws.
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Everyone involved must realize that this area of the law is in a constant state of change, both at the state and federal level, and that there may even be some aspects of international Privacy laws that come into play at times, even for locally stored data.
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The County Information Technology Department Director and the Chief Security & Privacy Officer, working with the Security and Privacy Officers in other Departments, should be commended for the recent massive revision of Monterey County Privacy and Security Policies. This critical project has been on-going for more than for six years, in order to replace the existing, obsolete 2002-2004 versions. Unfortunately, these old Policies, as of May 2014, were still posted on the IT Department website, as well as a 2008 version which apparently still exists but is accessible only internally. In an effort to reduce County exposure for failure to comply with existing California and Federal Laws, and in fairness to Monterey County residents, prompt completion and dissemination of these revised Privacy and Security Policies should be a priority, especially since large amounts of Personally Identifiable Information ("PII") could otherwise be at risk of illegal disclosure.
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Of particular concern should be those Privacy laws relating to health records used or maintained by County agencies like Natividad Medical Center and the County Health Department since the provisions of the Federal HIPAA law are particularly burdensome and the penalties very expensive if violated.
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Finally, the CGJ strongly recommends that the subject of education about compliance by all County employees and their departments with California and Federal Privacy and Security laws be taken more seriously. We understand that existing County Policies call for such education efforts in the form of providing and requiring attendance at biennial educational programs. Several CGJ members actually attended the current educational program, which was well presented and current. However, employees from the highest to the lowest level of County government must be made to realize that, while these Policies, rules and laws may seem burdensome and inconvenient, failure to comply may not only result in loss of their jobs, but also in massive and punitive penalties and legal fees Privacy & Security of County On-Line Data and Information Systems incurred by the County if any such violations were to be litigated. This educational process is not an easy, nor inexpensive, task, but it must not be minimized.
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County departments and those agencies and personnel involved in acquisition of communications, software and almost every other type of goods and services, must insist both contractually and in practice that all vendors at every level comply with required Privacy and Breach Notice laws when dealing with County owned or controlled personal Privacy & Security of County On-Line Data and Information Systems data and information. Unfortunately, many commercial vendors and businesses are not currently in compliance, worldwide, as can be seen from the numerous data breaches recently reported in the U.S. news media.
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Finally, Monterey County is not unique in dealing with these critical Privacy problems, according to a story in the IAPP newsletter in late May 2014. This publication reported that the Los Angeles (LA) County Board of Supervisors recently voted to direct its county staff to promptly develop a plan to require third-party contractors hired by the County to "encrypt sensitive information on their computers as a condition of their contracts." This followed the February 2014 breach of data on eight computers holding 342,000 patients' medical records taken from the offices of contractor Sutherland Healthcare Solutions. LA County already mandates that county laptops be encrypted. These new rules now also require that all county department's computer workstations' hard drives are to be encrypted.
Hallazgos & Recomendaciones
3 hallazgos
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At the order of the Alisal Unified School District Board of Directors, new procedures for credit card usage have been developed and implemented.
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These procedures are being followed.
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The CGJ noted that acceptable expenditure levels were not provided to credit card users.
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Additional procedures should be developed to control credit card expenditures, such as having a list of acceptable expenditures with limits, depending on the cost and nature of the expenditures.
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More than one credit card should be made available as needed for staff travel, using the same established controls. RESPONSES Pursuant to Penal Code Section 933.05, the Grand Jury requests a response as indicated below from the following governing bodies:
• Alisal Unified School District Board: All Findings and Recommendations
Hallazgos & Recomendaciones
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Mosquitoes in Monterey County carry diseases that can infect humans and animals, including but not limited to West Nile virus and equine encephalitis.
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The requirements for construction of holding ponds, continuing and growing irrigation of vineyards and other agricultural crops in the County create mosquito breeding locations. Additionally, with a growing population, global trade, and tourism, new mosquito species traveling into new regions, present an increasing potential for humans and animals to contact mosquito borne disease throughout Monterey County. Coordination and communication between the District staff and the Monterey County
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Health Department staff has been infrequent, somewhat limited to instances of disease out-breaks. A large working group of stakeholders was established during the West Nile outbreak in 2004 but it no longer meets on a regular basis. The District has a competent and hardworking staff but unfortunately the public does
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not seem to be aware that the District exists, what they do or why it is important that mosquito abatement activities continue. Preventing disease simply does not attract public notice, active support or media attention, although it is the most cost effective measure for preventing disease, human misery and death. Should the proliferation of mosquitoes and mosquito borne disease increase, it will not
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only have an impact on the health of residents but will also negatively impact tourism thus affecting the whole economy of Monterey County.
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Department should work together to develop a coordinated plan for mosquito control, including a budget for countywide mosquito management, whether the parcel tax passes or does not pass. The District and the Monterey County Health Department should establish regular and
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routine communication regarding mosquito abatement and control issues. They should work to find ways to maximize resources of both groups to broaden the reach of mosquito control throughout the County when possible. The Northern Salinas Valley Mosquito Abatement District Board should allocate
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resources to public information and outreach, including but not limited to; managing the website, social media and written materials explaining the role of mosquitoes in human and animal disease and the resources available to members of the public trying to control mosquitoes on their own property. The District and Monterey County Health Department staff should mutually and quickly
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explore and report on a path to extend the mosquito abatement activities throughout the County and report their findings to the Board of Supervisors.
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Virtually all of the personnel in the Agencies and Departments we interviewed either concurred in principle or fully agreed with our Grand Jury Recommendation that an Arraignment Courtroom facility should be provided either as part of the expanded Natividad Jail facilities, or immediately adjacent to it, so that all the Arraignment Public Safety and Cost Reduction Considerations In the Monterey County Superior Court Criminal Arraignment Process hearings for incarcerated prisoners can be conducted on the grounds of the Natividad site of the Jail.
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The recent establishment of Department 11 Arraignment Court by the Monterey Superior Court has made these Recommendations a near perfect solution for both the County and the Sheriff, as well as for the County taxpayers, and for the State which funds much of this security process. There are also potential financial and operational benefits to the Superior Court, itself, which benefits can be enhanced by careful joint planning of this proposed new facility, and its future operation, by all concerned.
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The Sheriffs' Department is in a unique position to benefit from incorporating an arraignment courtroom co-located at the Jail. Once the new Jail addition is built and occupied, there may eventually be more prisoners held in the Jail which increase will undoubtedly result in a larger number of required arraignment hearings. Additional prisoners at the Jail will otherwise create an immediate need for more prisoner transports and increased security concerns, if there is no Arraignment Courtroom on site.
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The Superior Court and its Department 11 would also benefit by having a more flexible scheduling agenda for Arraignment hearings, which can even be shared with its Traffic and Misdemeanor Court facilities, as a logical way to avoid transporting incarcerated prisoners for cases involving relatively minor infractions and misdemeanors.
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The consolidation of all these outstanding in-custody inmate cases to the one onsite courtroom would reduce the distance and risks of the present process of transporting felons, where appropriate and agreeable to the parties. Alternatively, an interim installation and lease of CCTV facilities at the Jail and the Marina Traffic Court could also save costs and risks. Accordingly, these alternatives for the Traffic Court could be considered, if an arraignment facility at the Jail were planned to be used only by the Superior Court.
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Reducing the transportation of prisoners to and from the Natividad Jail to the Salinas Courthouse each year for brief Arraignment hearings is of obvious benefit to public safety. Such changes would mean that there is far less chance of an escape, or efforts to escape, and may reduce violence or injuries from altercations between inmates during transport. While such events are not common, reducing even the possibility is very important to the Public and the County.
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Any effort to quantify the specific financial savings to the County and the Courts by adopting the Recommendations is a more difficult process. Nonetheless, there are several aspects of this proposed change that show the likelihood of major financial savings even if not a specific amount. With all the pressures on cutting budgets at all levels of Public Safety and Cost Reduction Considerations In the Monterey County Superior Court Criminal Arraignment Process government this could help reduce costs over the next many years without the necessity of laying off badly needed Sheriff's Department law enforcement personnel.
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However, we do recognize that even if all arraignment proceedings were moved to the proposed Court Arraignment facility at the expanded County Jail, the Sheriff's Office will still have to transport a number of prisoners daily to the Salinas Courthouse for the actual Court criminal trials, as well as for all the attendant pre-trial and other case related hearings and appearances. There appears to be no other alternative to this.
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If we assume, for example, a reduction of two full-time deputies because of the proposed change in transporting prisoners, this could reduce salary and benefit costs by more than $200,000 per year, plus eliminating significant vehicular operational costs for fuel and wear and tear and the carbon emissions associated. Each trip avoided saves a 4+ mile roundtrip to and from the Salinas Courthouse. Some of the current contingent of personnel and vehicles will, of course, still need to be used for transport and backup of other Sheriff's Office activities, and deputies are still going to have to escort prisoners from their cells to the Arraignment courtroom. Yet, based on data provided to the Grand Jury by the Executive Offices of the Superior Court, it is clear that the actual number of prisoners would be reduced from the large number presently being transported.
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The Superior Court Executive Offices have advised the Grand Jury that the actual total number of Arraignment Hearings in Department 11 during the last three calendar months of 2013 was 2,885 cases - with 1,043 such hearings during October, 929 in November and 913 in December. Such statistics for a longer period would also give more conclusive evidence of the reduction involved, but were unavailable to us at this time. It should be understood that these figures include some out-of-custody defendants who do not normally have to be transported, and that these numbers reflect only the number of cases, and not the number of defendants appearing for a particular case. Some defendants may have multiple cases against them, each of which is treated as a separate arraignment matter. Misdemeanor cases seldom involve transport of the defendants because most are released after citation, while felony cases almost always involve arrest and incarceration. Nonetheless, on a projected annualized basis, this data projects out to a total of 11,540 required Arraignment hearings per year.
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Examination of those Superior Court statistics against further Court data indicates that during the period of October 2013 through the end of December 2013, there were a total of only 18 actual criminal trials at the Salinas Courthouse – 10 of which were felony trials while 8 were misdemeanor cases. These trials and all the pre-trial hearings before the trials almost always mean daily transports back and forth, day after day, for many days during the actual trial. Public Safety and Cost Reduction Considerations In the Monterey County Superior Court Criminal Arraignment Process
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Assuming that these statistics were to be typical year to year, and although they undoubtedly would vary month to month, this means that the number of transports which would be needed, if there were a Sheriff's Natividad Jail Arraignment courtroom, is far smaller than at present by a significant reduction of prisoner transport trips. This is a ratio of 72 annual criminal trials to 11,540 annual Arraignment hearings. Thus, the potential reduction of the number and costs of such Sheriff transports for arraignments is significant when viewed in this light. As noted above, there are still going to be some cases of need for transporting prisoners in case of appearances and hearings occurring after the initial arraignment has taken place.
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County and/or State/Superior Court capital funds would likely be involved in the cost of planning and the actual construction of the proposed Arraignment Courtroom, but it would seem that amortization of any such courtroom construction costs over a twenty five year life, and the location of the new Arraignment courtroom, as an example, would still show a significant savings to the State, the Sheriff's office, the County and its taxpayers. There are also other long term financial implications to both the County and the Superior Court because of the normal operating costs of Department 11 at the Natividad Jail; however, similar operating costs already exist for the present Department 11 courtroom. Any added operating costs to the Superior Courts are also offset, by the Court being able to make available the use of the existing Department 11 courtroom at the Salinas Courthouse for other types of hearings and trials by the Courts. According to the Executive Offices of the Court, there is presently a serious shortage of courtrooms there, which would become even greater were all the present authorized vacancies of judges to be appointed by the Governor. If the Grand Jury correctly understands the existing practices of the State of
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California (which effectively provides the funding for construction of all Courthouses), the State requires that the State own the land and the building for each of its courthouses. Therefore, the County and the Sheriff will need to verify the feasibility of this aspect and find a mutually acceptable approach to this factor, since the County currently owns the land around and under the proposed Jail courtroom. It is also possible that with special legislation introduced in the Legislature, the State might fully fund the construction of this special courtroom, as it already does for regular courthouses in other counties. This aspect of funding should be explored further with the Monterey County State Legislative delegation. Public Safety and Cost Reduction Considerations In the Monterey County Superior Court Criminal Arraignment Process
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A new Natividad Jail site plan should be developed that incorporates a fully equipped Department 11 Arraignment Courtroom on site and adjacent to the Jail, with appropriate and mutually agreed upon support amenities for staff offices and counsel conference facilities.
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The Superior Court, the Board of Supervisors and the County agencies and their department heads (most notably the Sheriff and DA) involved in the arraignment process should promptly have their representatives meet with the Monterey County CAO to determine the desirability, feasibility and means of accomplishing these Recommendations, including identifying possible funding sources to co-locate a courtroom at the Jail. Furthermore the Board of Supervisors and Superior Court should take into consideration the various other factors discussed in this Report, in order to reach a prompt and conclusive decision to move forward.
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Once the Board of Supervisors and the Court have preliminarily agreed on sources of funding and the need for the creation of the necessary facilities to operate Superior Court Department 11 at the Natividad Jail, the County Administrator, in conjunction with the Public Defender, District Attorney, the Sheriff and the Superior Court Executive Offices, should commence the detailed planning process, including aggressively pursuing the most likely and successful source of the construction funding.
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For the present time. these same parties might consider, as part of this same planning activity, providing for a temporary inexpensive closed circuit television (CCTV) system connecting the Traffic Court and the existing County Jail for the purpose of misdemeanor arraignments and traffic hearings; at least until the new Natividad Jail arraignment courtroom is made available for operation which likely would not be operational for several years. We do not, however, recommend the CCTV approach except as a necessary alternative because it is not consistent with the concept of encouraging early resolution of cases, in that it is difficult with CCTV to have counsel for the prisoners at the same location so they can discuss the possible pleas or settlement proposals to be made, if counsel and the prisoner are not both at the Jail.
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In the meantime, we recommend that the Court and the DA should encourage the voluntary transfer of all the Marina Traffic Court arraignments involving incarcerated prisoners to the Salinas Misdemeanor Court, with consent of their legal counsel, so a major portion of the transport costs and security issues of those prisoners currently required to be transported to the Marina Traffic Court can be eliminated. Public Safety and Cost Reduction Considerations In the Monterey County Superior Court Criminal Arraignment Process
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The Marina Traffic and Salinas Misdemeanor Courts could eventually use the proposed Arraignment Courthouse at the new Jail for all incarcerated prisoners within their jurisdictions. In the interim, Recommendations R4 and R5 would reduce transport costs and public safety. However, this particular additional use of the Jail facility should be worked out so that it does not interfere with the Department 11 misdemeanor and felony inmate case arraignments, which are the primary and most important purpose of these Recommendations.
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If the participants in this planning and implementation process feel that use of the Jail site courtroom by the Traffic Courts is inconsistent with the primary use by the planned Department 11 arraignment operations, prompt action should be taken to encourage use of one of the two other alternatives, discussed above, concerning the Marina Traffic and the Salinas Misdemeanor Courts.
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Finally, the CAO, the Superior Court Administrative office, and the Sheriff's Department should promptly investigate how to apply to the State for a further grant for the costs of planning and constructing the proposed on-site Arraignment Courtroom facility and adjoining conference and office facilities. If special legislation appears necessary, the parties should then promptly seek the assistance of Monterey County area State legislators since without funding this proposal, however valid, will go nowhere.
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00-02 01-03 02-04 03-05 04-06 05-07 06-08 07-09 08-10 17 years and less 13.4 13.0 13.1 12.5 12.5 12.3 13.0 13.5 13.1 12.5 18 to 24 years 125.7 126.7 128.2 128.2 129.3 130.3 129.7 127.2 120.7 111.6 25 to 34 years 119.7 116.7 119.9 122.3 125.7 127.1 129.5 130.3 129.3 125.6 35+ years 21.1 21.9 22.3 22.6 23.6 24.0 24.6 24.4 24.6 24.7 Source: California Department of Public Health, Health Information and Research Section, Birth Statistical Master File 1999-2010; statistical analyses performed by Monterey County Health Department, Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit.
▪ In the last three time periods measured (2006-2010 inclusively), rates of births to women in the 25 to 34 year age group surpassed rates for the 18 to 24 year age group.
▪ Rates of births to women age 17 and less remained relatively unchanged from 1999 through 2010. Monterey County 2013 Community Health Assessment 50
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years 29.7 25.1 Never 65+ years 20.6 19.6 Source: California Health Interview Survey, 2013.
▪ In 2009, 25% of adult residents under age 64 and nearly 20% of residents 65 and older reported never having had a sigmoidoscopy. Exhibit 263. Never had a sigmoidoscopy for colorectal cancer by gender Percent 2007 2009 Male 33.4 22.2 Never Female 20.1 23.6 Source: California Health Interview Survey, 2013.
▪ In 2009, 22% of males and 24% of females reported never having had a sigmoidoscopy. Monterey County 2013 Community Health Assessment 183
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years 5.8 4.5 4.3 2.8 2.3
R12-17:
Years 33.7 15.6 Monterey County 45.7 33.5 Source: California Health Interview Survey, 2013.
▪ Reported bike helmet use for both children and teens decreased from 2001 to 2003; bike helmet use decreased by half for teens.
▪ In 2003, children ages 6 to 11 were more than three times more likely than teens ages 12 to 17 to use a bike helmet. Exhibit 197. Children and teens who report they always wear a bike helmet, by race/ethnicity Percent 2001 2003 Asian/Pacific Islander (nH) 61.4* 56.8* Black (nH) 73.1* 100.0* Hispanic/Latino, any race 38.7 27.7 Multiple/Other races (nH) 26.5* 63.0* Native American/ Native − − Alaskan(nH) White (nH) 60.5 33.8 (nH)=non-Hispanic * Statistically unstable; interpret with caution. - (hyphen) = Estimate is less than 500 people Source: California Health Interview Survey, 2013.
▪ Bike helmet use by White, non-Hispanic and Hispanic/Latino children and teens were lower in 2003 compared to 2001; data for other race/ethnic groups were statistically unstable. Exhibit 198. Persons killed and injured in alcohol-related collisions Number 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Injured 312 301 272 241 237 Killed 16 15 29 8 15 Source: Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System, 2013.
▪ The number of persons injured in alcohol-related collisions gradually decreased from 2006 to 2010.
▪ The number of persons killed in alcohol-related collisions was very high in 2008. Monterey County 2013 Community Health Assessment 140
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years 4.0 3.2 2.1 1.9 1.6 Monterey County 6.2 4.8 3.9 3.6 3.1 Source: UC Berkeley: Child Welfare Dynamic Reporting System; Retrieved February 2013 from http://cssr.berkeley.edu/ucb_childwelfare/
▪ Substantiated reports of child maltreatment were consistently higher for those under one year of age compared to other age groups.
▪ Rates of substantiated child maltreatment were far less in 2011 compared to 2007; rates for 16 to 17 year olds decreased by more than half. Monterey County 2013 Community Health Assessment 137
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years 95,005 83,080 94,558 97,501 24 21 23 23
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years 61,978 53,654 54,820 54,964 15 14 13 13
R45-64:
years 77,691 85,411 96,472 98,701 19 22 23 23 65+ years 40,299 39,419 44,422 47,693 10 10 11 11 TOTAL 401,762 389,004 415,057 426,762 100 100 100 100 Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2012
▪ Children ages 0-19 were the largest proportion of the county in 2000 to 2012 (30 to 33% of the total population), followed by young adults ages 20-34 (21 to 24%), and adults ages 45-64 (19 to 23%).
▪ The population of older adults ages 45 to 65+, however, increased while the population of children ages 0- 19 and adults ages 35-44 has decreased. Exhibit 4. Population by race/ethnicity Number Percent 2000 2005 2010 2012 2000 2005 2010 2012 Asian/Pacific Islander 24,245 26,852 27,329 29,674 6 7 7 7 (nH) Black (nH) 15,050 9,691 12,785 12,120 4 2 3 3 Hispanic/Latino, any 187,969 201,127 230,003 240,870 47 52 55 56 race Multi-Race/Other 8,251 6,669 3,041 5,578 2 2 1 1 Native American/ 4,202 1,801 5,464 2,304 1 0 1 1 Native Alaskan (nH) White (nH) 162,045 142,864 136,435 136,216 40 37 33 32 TOTAL 401,762 389,004 415,057 426,762 100 100 100 100 (nH) = non-Hispanic Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2012
▪ The largest race/ethnic group in the county from 2000 to 2012 was Hispanic (increasing from 47 to 57%), followed by White non-Hispanic (decreasing from 40% to 32%).
▪ The Hispanic population increased (from 47% to 55 % of the total population), while the White non- Hispanic population decreased (from 40% to 33%). The population of Asian/PI, Black, Native American/Alaskan, and multi-ethnic groups fluctuated by a few percentage points over the last 12 years. Monterey County 2013 Community Health Assessment 19
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00 - 02 01 -03 02 -04 03 -05 04 -06 05 -07 06 -08 07 -09 08-10 Hispanic/Latino, any race Black, non-Hispanic Multi Race/Other White, non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic Monterey County Source: California Department of Public Health, Health Information and Research Section, Death Statistical Master File 1999- 2010; statistical analyses performed by Monterey County Health Department, Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit. Exhibit G. Age-adjusted heart disease mortality rates per 100,000 by race/ethnicity 300 250 200 150 100 50 0
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00-02 01-03 02-04 03-05 04-06 05-07 06-08 07-09 08-10 <1 year 569.1 611.9 597.2 561.5 534.8 501.0 514.1 493.9 514.6 489.2 1 to 14 years 18.6 19.7 20.7 21.0 20.7 17.6 14.5 15.0 15.9 17.2 15 to 24 years 70.4 68.2 70.0 74.9 72.2 72.3 60.2 66.6 71.4 78.4 25 to 44 years 99.4 106.3 111.8 109.3 110.8 112.6 107.0 97.6 96.1 90.5 45 to 64 years 490.9 480.7 484.8 485.5 469.4 469.4 457.2 463.0 454.1 456.2 65+ years 4,517.4 4,414.9 4,373.9 4,246.5 4,199.4 4,176.1 4,110.1 3,959.7 3,757.7 3,710.7 Monterey 743.9 727.0 717.7 693.8 677.1 667.0 646.7 622.8 594.9 586.7 County Sources: California Department of Public Health, Health Information and Research Section, Death Statistical Master File 1999-2010, Birth Statistical Master File 1999-2010; statistical analyses performed by Monterey County Health Department, Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit.
▪ Mortality rates for the county overall decreased over the last decade for all age groups except for 15-24 year old residents, although this trend was not statistically significant. Exhibit 209. Age-adjusted mortality rates per 100,000 by race/ethnicity 1200 *Note: Statistically unstable data are noted in the table below. 1000 800 600 400 200 0 99 - 01 00 - 02 01 - 03 02 - 04 03 - 05 04 - 06 05 - 07 06 - 08 07 - 09 08 - 10 Hispanic/Latino, any race Black, non-Hispanic Multi Race/Other White, non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic Monterey County Age-adjusted rate per 100,000
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01 - 03 02 -04 03 -05 04 -06 05 -07 06 -08 07 -09 08 -10 Hispanic/Latino, any race Black, non-Hispanic *Note: Statistically unstable data are Multi Race/Other White, non-Hispanic noted in the table below. Asian/Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic Monterey County Rate per 100,000
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07-09 08-10 09-11 <5 years 6.5* 4.7* 6.6* 5.7* 5 to 19 years 3.1* 2.4* 2.0* 0.7* 20 to 49 years 5.6* 4.9* 3.9* 5.4* 50+ years 8.6 6.9 7.9 7.7 Monterey County 5.9 4.8 4.7 4.8 *Statistically unstable; interpret with caution. Source: Monterey County Health Department, Tuberculosis Control Unit; data are current as of June 15, 2012
▪ Between 2006-2008 and 2009-2011, tuberculosis infection rates were significantly lower for residents aged 5 to 19 years compared to the referent group (20-49 years).
▪ Tuberculosis infection rates appeared to decrease slightly from 2006-2008 to 2009-2011 for all age groups. Exhibit 104. Tuberculosis infection rates per 100,000 by race/ethnicity 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0
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00 - 02 01 -03 02 -04 03 -05 04 -06 05 -07 06 -08 07 -09 08-10 Hispanic/Latino, any race Black, non-Hispanic *Note: Statistically u nstable data are Multi Race/Other White, non-Hispanic noted in the table b elow. Asian/Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic Monterey County Age-adjusted rate per 100,000
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01-03 02-04 03-05 04-06 05-07 06-08 07-09 08-10 09-11 0 to 14 years 0.3* 0.3* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.0* 0.3* 0.7* 1.0* 0.7* 15 to 24 years 27.0 30.4 34.7 26.3 30.8 31.8 38.4 42.9 44.8 48.7 25 to 44 years 204.4 198.8 167.7 135.2 174.8 218.6 315.8 350.2 385.5 343.0 45 to 64 years 271.2 256.0 210.7 191.9 250.1 317.2 456.9 546.7 613.6 582.3 65+ years 49.4 44.5 29.7 29.2 43.3 60.9 73.2 76.8 83.6 80.1 Monterey County 126.0 121.1 102.1 87.9 114.4 144.3 206.2 238.1 264.6 245.2 *Statistically unstable; interpret with caution. Source: Monterey County Health Department, Communicable Disease Unit; June 15, 2012; statistical analyses performed by Monterey County Health Department, Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit.
▪ Persons ages 25 to 64 had the highest rates of chronic hepatitis C infection between 2000-2002 and 2009-2011 than other age groups.
▪ The rate of chronic hepatitis C significantly increased across all age groups, except 0-14 year olds, from 2000- 2002 and 2009-2011. Exhibit 81. Newly diagnosed chronic hepatitis C cases per 100,000 by race/ethnicity 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0
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00-02 01-03 02-04 03-05 04-06 05-07 06-08 07-09 08-10 Asian/Pacific Islander (nH) 82.8 84.2 86.2 88.8 88.4 87.5 84.7 83.1 81.9 80.3 Black (nH) 83.5 83.2 82.9 80.7 78.3 79.9 80.4 78.9 75.4 74.1 Hispanic/Latino, any race 76.2 79.9 81.3 80.7 78.0 77.0 75.4 74.0 72.9 71.5 Multiple/Other races (nH) 80.0 82.6 83.7 84.9 84.7 86.9 83.4 81.4 82.1 82.5 White (nH) 90.4 91.5 91.6 92.0 91.0 90.5 88.6 87.0 86.2 86.0 Monterey County 80.0 82.7 83.8 83.7 81.4 80.4 78.4 76.9 75.8 74.6 (nH) = non-Hispanic Source: California Department of Public Health, Health Information and Research Section, Birth Statistical Master File 1999-2010; statistical analyses performed by Monterey County Health Department, Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit.
▪ White, non-Hispanic women were the most likely to enter into prenatal care in the first trimester (86% in 2008- 2010) from 1999 through 2010; Hispanic women of all races were the least likely (71% in 2008-2010) and significantly lower.
▪ The rate of entry into first trimester care for all race/ethnic groups combined dropped slightly between the early 2000s and 2010, although not statistically significant. Exhibit 69. Entry into prenatal care during the first trimester disparity and trend analysis Population Groups Disparity, 2008-2010 Time Trend, 1999-2010 17 years and less Significantly lower Not statistically significant 18 to 24 years Significantly lower Not statistically significant Monterey County 2013 Community Health Assessment 60
Hallazgos & Recomendaciones
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F1:
At the order of the Alisal Union School District Board of Directors, new procedures for credit card usage have been developed and implemented.
F2:
These procedures are being followed.
F3:
The CGJ noted that acceptable expenditure levels were not provided to credit card users.
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Additional procedures should be developed to control credit card expenditures, such as having a list of acceptable expenditures with limits, depending on the cost and nature of the expenditures.
R2:
More than one credit card should be made available as needed for staff travel, using the same established controls. RESPONSES Pursuant to Penal Code Section 933.05, the Grand Jury requests a response as indicated below from the following governing bodies:
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F1:
MPUSD made changes to the transcripts of 93 students.
F2:
MCOE carried out an investigation of these transcript changes and directed that they be corrected.
F3:
MCOE also determined that policy and administrative requirements used by MPUSD pertaining to student grade, course, and graduation issues contained serious inconsistencies and were partly to blame for the transcript problems.
F4:
The current Interim Superintendent is aware of the issues and has a firm grasp on the importance and timeliness of carrying out all of the recommendations of the Report. 9934
F5:
The Board is focused on the issues raised by the Report, intent on making the grade, curricular and policy changes recommended, and is fully supportive of the efforts of the Interim Superintendent in that regard.
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The Board should fully implement all of the MCOE recommendations.
R2:
The Interim Superintendent should be commended for his focused attention to the issues raised in the Report.
R3:
The Board should assure that the Interim Superintendent is charged with the responsibility for implementing the MCOE recommendations though their completion.
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