Oversight of Orange County Law Enforcement Agencies - Resolving a Dichotomy!*

5.) RESPONSE TO FINDING NO. 7.4: The Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) consistently provides training for LEAs and the grand jury in a variety of areas and will provide training in other specific areas upon request. ➣ LEAs Training: Training is currently provided to LEAs in areas such as search and seizure law, narcotics, domestic violence, DNA, to name a few, in addition to regular updates on current case law. OCDA has also recently completed training videos on some of these topics to be distributed to LEAs to be shown during "roll call" at the police agencies. Any training directed toward review of resident complaints about LEAs is more appropriately handled by the various city attorney offices, as opposed to OCDA, given the potential impact on such areas as civil liability and police policy. Grand Jury Training: Each new grand jury is provided with \triangleright initial training by OCDA during orientation dealing with areas such as the criminal justice system, investigation requests, indictment hearings, as well as citizen complaints. Subsequent to that, additional training is provided covering topics of interest such as DNA, Gangs, and Identity Theft. Training is available in any particular area upon request by the grand jury, a practice which has been in place for some time. For the reasons indicated above, the Office of the District Attorney disagrees wholly with the findings that the District Attorney should recommend specific training to each LEA and citizen oversight committee, including grand juries, directed toward the review of resident complaints about LEAs.