Sonoma County Grand Jury
• 2023-2024
• Agency Response
Response to:
Taxes and Spending in Sonoma County
Read and Considered Date. Board of Supervisors Grand Jury Report Responses Response to Grand Jury Report Title: Report
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Findings and Recommendations 7 findings
F2
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ROV executes prescribed election procedures with proper management controls in place to ensure full compliance with all applicable requirements.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
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By June 30,2025, the Board of Supervisors develop and approve a long-term plan to provide ROV with a facility that better accommodates space and physical secu rity requirements.
F3
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ROV ensures that the technology systems and services, including information security and cybersecurity measures, used in an election are properly installed, maintained, and validated for accuracy before all elections.
Related Recommendations (3)
R3a
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By August 3'J.,2024, the Board of Supervisors and ROV develop and implement a plan for enhancing existing ROV security measures and developing new security measures based on recurring threat assessments and recommendations by qualified authorities.
R3b
Page 2
By July 3L, 2024, ROV create and maintain a record of all incidents of abusive or threatening behavior to support future risk and threat assessment analysis.
R3c
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By July 31, 2024, ROV evaluate all recommendations that resulted from its meeting with the Emergency Management Department and establish an implementation schedule for the recommendations it adopts.
F4
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ROV employees and Vote Center pollworkers have been subjected to abusive behavior and to direct and implied threats of physical violence in the past and may be exposed to similar threats in the future. ROV's threat mitigation profile would be enhanced (and operational efficiency would be streamlined) if ROV was moved to a larger and more defensible space.
Related Recommendations (1)
R4
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By Decemb er 3'1,,2024, the Board of Supervisors allocate resources for a project to create a publicly accessible Sonoma County elections database to enable ready access to, and analysis of, past election results. a Recommendation number R2 has not yet been implemented. See attached a Recommendation number R3a is in the process of implementation. See attached. a Recommendation R4 is in process and will continue to be implemented as funding is available. See attached. q,.2ct Date: 2 cr2L4 signed Number of pages attached: L Response to 2023-24 G,and Jury Report: Election lntegrity in Sonoma County Following is the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors required responses to recommendations
F5
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The citizen poll workers who contribute many hours of service during an election are an indispensable ROV resource whose continued support is essential.
No recommendations for this finding
F6
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The current state of election integrity found in Sonoma County did not occur by accident, but rather by the continued interest and active engagement of a majority of Sonoma County citizens who register and vote.
No recommendations for this finding
F7
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ROV promotes transparency through community outreach and communication with the public leading up to and after an election.
No recommendations for this finding
F8
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While ROV carefully preserves the results of all elections, it has neither historical data collection nor reporting capability that would enable comprehensive analysis of past election results. I (we) agree with the findings numbered: F7, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8 I (we) disagree wholly or partially with the findings numbered: N/A
No recommendations for this finding