Humboldt County Grand Jury
• 2009-2010
• Agency Response
Response to:
Grand Jury Support
Findings and Recommendations*
⚠️ Aviso de traducción: Este contenido ha sido traducido automáticamente. El texto original en inglés es la versión oficial. La traducción puede contener errores.
⚠️ Este contenido ha sido traducido automáticamente. El texto original en inglés es la versión oficial. La traducción puede contener errores.
Findings and Recommendations 1 findings
F1
The inefficiency and/or lack of cooperation from the District Attorney's office. Response to Grand Jury Finding 1: The respondent disagrees wholly or partially with the finding. The current Grand Jury consults with and uses both the District Attorney's Office and County Counsel's Office on the same matters and interchangeably. This creates inefficiencies, waste, confusion and a distortion of clear lines of responsibility and accountability and results in increased consumption of time which, in turn, causes delays. This results in perceived inefficiencies in and a lack of cooperation from the District Attorney's Office that do not exist. Requests for assistance are also communicated to staff within the District Attorney's Office instead of the District Attorney. This causes a further distortion in lines of responsibility and accountability which results in increased delays. The District Attorney responds that requests for assistance that are directly communicated to the District Attorney can and will result in both responsible and prompt responses from the District Attorney and his staff. . CRIMINAL DIVISION VICTIM WITNESS ASSISTANCE 825 5TH Street 712 4th Street Eureka CA 95501 Eureka Ca 95501 (707) 445-7411 (707) 445-7417 (707) 445-7490 Fax (707) 445-7416 Fax Office of the District Attorney, County of Humboldt Grand Jury of Humboldt County 2009-10 - Hess - 3 July 2, 2010
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
That the District Attorney's office, when presented a request by the Grand Jury, act responsibly and promptly on the matter. Response to Grand Jury Recommendation 1: The recommendation has been implemented. Requests for assistance from the District Attorney's Office, that are communicated to the District Attorney, and which require assistance, that is not also being simultaneously sought from the County Counsel's office, will result in prompt assistance. Respectfully, westfully, MA Paul Grandos Paul V. Gallegos District Attorney Sue Hemmann, Foreperson, Grand Jury, County of Humboldt cc: Phillip Smith-Haines, CAO, Humboldt County OFFICE OF THE WES KEAT DISTRICT ATTORNEY Assistant District Attorney COUNTY OF HUMBOLDT JEANNIE Y, DUNCAN Legal Business Manager MICHAEL R. HISLOP PAUL V. GALLEGOS Chief Investigator District Attorney MEMORANDUM TO: Phil Hanes-Smith FROM: Paul V. Gallegos DATE: September 29, 2010 RE: The Grand Jury of Humboldt County 2009-2010 Final Report Grand Jury Report # 2010-Hess-03 Delayed Action on the Part of the District Attorney's Office Response to the Finding: The respondent, District Attorney, disagrees with the finding. The current Grand Jury consults with and uses both the District Attorney and County Counsel Offices on the same matters interchangeably. This creates inefficiencies, waste, confusion and a distortion of clear lines of responsibility and accountability, resulting in increased time consumption, which in turn, causes delays, creating a perception of inefficiencies and lack of cooperation from the District Attorney's Office. Requests for assistance are also communicated to staff within the District Attorney's Office instead of the District Attorney. This causes a further distortion in lines of responsibility, and accountability, which again, results in increased delays. The District Attorney responds, that requests for assistance directly communicated to him, can and will result in both responsible and prompt responses from him and his staff. Response to the Recommendation: The recommendation has been implemented. Requests for assistance from the District Attorney's Office that are: (1) communicated to the District Attorney and, (2) not also simultaneously sought from the County Counsel's Office, will result in prompt assistance. CRIMINAL DIVISION VICTIM WITNESS ASSISTANCE 825 5th Street 712 4th Street Eureka, CA 95501 Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 445-7411 (707) 445-7417 (707) 445-7416 Fax (707) 445-7490 Fax
* This report's PDF did not contain easily extractable text and required Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for analysis. There may be minor errors in the extracted findings and recommendations due to OCR limitations with scanned documents.