Mendocino County Grand Jury
• 2009-2010
• Agency Response
Response to:
BRING BACK THE DOG!
Response Form Grand Jury Report Title: Bring Back the Dog! a Report on the Mendocino County Sheriff's Fort Bragg*
⚠️ Translation Notice: This content has been automatically translated. The original English text is the official version. Translation may contain errors.
⚠️ Este contenido ha sido traducido automáticamente. El texto original en inglés es la versión oficial. La traducción puede contener errores.
Findings and Recommendations 9 findings
F1
The staff includes one Lieutenant, three Sergeants, one Evidence Technician/Office Assistant, nine Deputies, one Animal Control Officer, and one Detective.
No recommendations for this finding
F2
The Coast has two unfilled Deputy positions; one is the South Coast Resident Deputy and the other would be assigned to the Substation in Fort Bragg.
No recommendations for this finding
F3
The Evidence Technician/Office Assistant position has been reduced to 32 hours per week.
No recommendations for this finding
F4
The MCSO/FB Substation no longer has a K-9 unit for officer protection or drug recognition.
No recommendations for this finding
F5
There is no security camera to monitor the south entrance of the building, including the fenced area securing the parking lot.
No recommendations for this finding
F6
The communication system has been improved. The system has three main channels: North County, Coast, and Ukiah.
No recommendations for this finding
F7
The Mendocino County District Attorney has not adopted the Mendocino County District Attorney's Office Disposition-Evidence Release Memo.
No recommendations for this finding
F8
Evidence should be released by the Mendocino County District Attorney's Office, (MCDAO), when a case is dismissed or adjudicated. Certain evidence, such as weapons, drugs, and evidence obtained with a search warrant, requires a court order for release.
No recommendations for this finding
F9
The MCDAO does not notify the evidence room when a case has reached final This results in an accumulation of evidence that is no longer disposition. needed.
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.