Continuity Report Requested and Invited Responses Received to Portions of the Civil Grand Jury Report of 2017-2018

for Finding number 1. Recommendations are delineated in the same manner, i.e., R1 for

Youth are monitored from a centrally operated control room with oversight over the entire facility.

Educational opportunities are excellent and well managed to insure juveniles are given every opportunity to improve themselves. Response (Siskiyou County Probation Department) We would like to thank the Grand Jury for their time and appreciate all of the feedback they provided. This is a time of transition for the CBYCC. We have fully transitioned from a detention facility to a Juvenile Day Reporting Center. There have been many challenges that we have worked through to establish the program. We are now at the point where we are working on the following: 1. Growing and expanding programs to meet the needs of the youth in our county. This requires constant program evaluation and willingness to change what isn’t working. We are also expanding opportunities to assist youth in finding employment and learning key life skills. 2. Beginning to identify and work towards relocating the program for the new jail project. It is imperative to the department that we maintain the program to continue to serve the youth of Siskiyou County and help them become successful adults. We are using detention at Tehama County as a last resort for youth, instead we are proactively using programs and partnerships with the schools to address youth before they are fully in the system as delinquent youth. 3. Meeting the needs of the youth detained in Tehama. Those that are detained pose additional staffing challenges such as transportation, officer safety (those detained have been high level and charged with violent felony crimes) and ensuring that they have no interaction with the program youth. Most recently transportation has become problematic due to multiple road closures with weather and the Delta fire. Overall, CBYCC staff has worked diligently and positively to overcome these challenges and are prepared to address more of the unexpected issues that may arise. DAY REPORTING CENTER Summary: To provide awareness to the citizens of Siskiyou County, of the functions, resources and services provided by the Day Reporting Center. The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office was requested to respond. The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors was invited to respond. *To date, no Response has been received from the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office.

USFS states that “evacuations remained in place from August 27 until 5:30 September 7, 2016. Some local residents claim they were not notified until the next night when the fire was burning into the community and the Sheriff’s department was dispatched to facilitate evacuations.

The intensity and rapid spread of this wildfire created a traffic jam on the Horse Creek Bar Road between responding fire crews and citizens evacuating.

There is significant Federal, State and County legislation designed to address the prevention and suppression of wildfires.

In spite of the legislation mentioned in F6, not enough is actually being done and two federal bills that should help prevent future wildfires, H.R.2613 and H.R.2862 have been sitting in committee for 9 months.

Most professional foresters agree that “Active forest management is the most important tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and lowering the threat and severity of wildfires…” (Stewart 2010).

There are 22 local Fire Safe Councils in Siskiyou County tasked with fire prevention (fire- safeing) on private property and, while most are very active, there is a lack of funding and coordination.