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Extracted from Consolidated Report

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Stanislaus County Grand Jury • 2020-2021

Summary of Responses to the 2018-2019 Report

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Findings 8 findings

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SCSD has an established X R1. SCSD staff should apply the X complaint procedure that complies citizen complaint policies and with California Penal Code §832.5. procedures consistently.
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Established complaint policies X R2. SCSD should improve public X and procedures are inconsistently access to citizen complaint forms followed at SCSD field offices. by making them readily available both online and in offices in English and Spanish.
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SCSD office in Hughson office X R3. Cities of Hughson, Patterson, n/a n/a n/a n/a staff impedes the citizen complaint Riverbank and Waterford should process by limiting the access to the update police department website paper form. homepages to include direct links to SCSD citizen complaint forms.
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Citizen Complaint forms were X R4. All SCSD offices should X available in English only at all purge all citizen complaint forms SCSD offices impeding not compliant with the 9th Circuit complainant access. Court of Appeals ruling in Chaker v. Crogan.
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Electronic access to SCSD X Citizen Complaint forms is not readily available on the websites of Hughson, Riverbank, Patterson and Waterford.
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SCSD Citizen Complaint forms X not compliant with the 9th Circuit Court ruling Chaker v. Crogan are still in use at the SCSD office in Patterson. _________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________Conclusion______________________________________________ The 2019-2020 SCCGJ is satisfied with the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s response. The response was received within the time frame stipulated by the California Penal Code §955(c). 2019-2020 Stanislaus County Civil Grand Jury – d r * e e d h Find ings A g r e e w/ Fi n di n g A g r e e P a rti all y D i s a g r e e W h oll y Recomme ndations I m pl e m e nt e d W ill I m pl e m e nt h e r A n al y si s N e e N ot I m pl e m e nt/ Ot F u rt Will City of Hughson
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The City of Modesto’s X R7. The Modesto City X purchasing division now enters Council should begin the and monitors contract information process of recruiting and within the Oracle Computer hiring a new City Auditor as System. required by the Modesto Municipal Code §902.1, no later than September 30, 2019. 2019-2020 Stanislaus County Civil Grand Jury – d r * e e d h Find ings A g r e e w/ Fi n di n g A P a g r r t e i a e l l y D i s a g r e e W h oll y Recomme ndations I m pl e m e nt e d W ill I m pl e m e nt h e r A n al y si s N e e N ot I m pl e m e nt/ Ot F u rt Will
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The position of City Auditor X remains vacant as of the date of this report.. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________Conclusion________________________________________________ The 2019-2020 SCCGJ is satisfied with the Modesto City Manager’s response. The response was received within the time frame stipulated by the California Penal Code §955(c). e d e r * d h Find ings A g r e e w/ Fi n di n g A g r e e P a rti all y D i s a g r e e W h oll y Recomme ndations I m pl e m e nt e d W ill I m pl e m e nt h e r A n al y si s N e e I m pl N e m ot e nt/ Ot F u rt Will Modesto City Council

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