Orange County Grand Jury • 2022-2023 • Agency Response
Response to: Gimme Shelter and a Pound of Advice - The State of Animal Welfare Overseen by the County of Orange

Russian Roulette: Fentanyl in Orange County*

Published: August 16, 2023 3 pages
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Note: Missing finding numbers detected: F3, F4, F5, F6

Findings and Recommendations 5 findings

F2
Illicit fentanyl is a pervasive problem in The Fullerton Orange County. School District agrees with this finding.
No recommendations for this finding
F7
Orange County will benefit by establishing The Fullerton a chartered multi-agency Task Force to School District address the fentanyl crisis in Orange agrees with this County. finding.
No recommendations for this finding
F8
As long as there is a demand, producers The Fullerton will find ways to supply drugs. Orange School District County cannot law enforce its way out of agrees with this the fentanyl crisis. Education, prevention. finding. 4 . . Y and treatment are critical to reducing demand.
No recommendations for this finding
F9
There is a need to increase public The Fullerton awareness and acknowledgement of the School District risks of illicit fentanyl. agrees with this finding.
No recommendations for this finding
F10
Some educational institutions are not The respondent Partially Disagrees: While we cannot participating in available educational and disagrees speak to every educational preventive fentanyl/drug programs. partially with the institution, the Fullerton School finding. District has provided a number educational and preventative fentanyl/drug programs. All junior high school aged students were provided with a Fentanyl educational and prevention assembly at each junior high and K-8 schools. Presentations on Fentanyl were provided at District wide parent meetings including: PTA, Champions for Learning, English Learners Advisory Committee, Block Parties, Champions for Learning Parent Conference, among others. In addition the Fullerton School District will continue to provide these educational and preventative fentanyl/drug programs. As part of Red Ribbon week, we provide students with lessons on substance recognition and avoidance, including Fentanyl. Additionally, the Fullerton School District was the first elementary district in Orange County to supply Narcan in the school offices at all 20 of our schools in addition to our before and after school programs offices. This ensures that all schools have Narcan available and staff trained to administer it anytime students are on campus. Please see below for the responses to each required Recommendation as requested in the Orange County Grand Jury report and attached cover letter. R#
No recommendations for this finding

* 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.