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Orange County Grand Jury
• 2014-2015
• Agency Response
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Published: June 30, 2015
13 pages
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Agency Responses 12
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City of Orange 6/29/15
June 29, 2015
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1 pages
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Score: 0
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R4
Strategies Effective?" Detention Facilities" "Annual Inquiry on Current Probation Jails and Juvenile GJ Report before the end of calendar year 2016. Phase II is still planned to take Probation has taken steps to implement the recommendation in the the surveillance equipment and archiving capacity for Juvenile Hall Part A: Juvenile Hall and Youth Leadership Academy Part A: OC Public Works is currently leading a project to upgrade place during the beginning on FY 2016-17. The overall project is co...
Response: Requires Analysis
Score: 0
The recommendation requires further analysis to determine the benefits of a countywide animal shelter/animal control or smaller animal shelters and animal control enforcement on a more localized level. Thank you for your service and efforts on behalf of the City of Orange. We hope this response will be helpful. Sincerely, 1 Teresa E. Smith Mayor, City of Orange
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City of Orange 9/24/15
September 24, 2015
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County Executive Officer 03/22/16
March 22, 2016
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3 pages
• 2 responses
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Score: -1
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2 responses to findings and recommendations
R3
"Orange County Sheriff R.3. Estate: Do They Know "Orange County Real What They Have?" Medical Insurance: Medical Insurance: County Failures in County Failures in Documentation. Documentation. Oversight, and Oversight, and Transparency" Transparency" Negotiation, Negotiation, GJ Report review and analyze from AOCDS regarding continued enrollment of being used to pay for AOCDS employee's premiums and requesting their employees in the AOCDS Trust plans. The County is currently on 12/31/2015 request...
Response: Unknown
Score: 0
is not reasonable. Debt issued by the OCPFA and SOCPFA (excluding CFDs) is already included in the County of Orange CAFR, prepared by the Auditor- Controller, filed with the State Controller and is posted to the County's web site. Other required reports as described in F.5. above, are filed annually with the State Controller, CDIAC, and Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) on EMMA.
R4
Strategies Effective?" Detention Facilities" "Annual Inquiry on Current Probation Jails and Juvenile GJ Report before the end of calendar year 2016. Phase II is still planned to take Probation has taken steps to implement the recommendation in the the surveillance equipment and archiving capacity for Juvenile Hall Part A: Juvenile Hall and Youth Leadership Academy Part A: OC Public Works is currently leading a project to upgrade place during the beginning on FY 2016-17. The overall project is co...
Response: Will Not Implement
Score: -1
Vertical Joint Powers Authorities with a single controlling entity, such as a city council, have the potential to use this organizational structure as a shell company to avoid other legal constraints on the controlling entity and to obfuscate taxpayer visibility. Response: Disagrees wholly with the finding. The Orange County Public Financing Authority (OCPFA) and the South Orange County Public Financing Authority (SOCPFA) were established to provide for the financing of public capital improvements. The OCPFA and SOCPFA operate in accordance with the California Government Code, commencing with ...
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County Executive Officer 8/25/15
August 25, 2015
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3 pages
• 2 responses
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Score: -1
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2 responses to findings and recommendations
R3
"Orange County Sheriff R.3. Estate: Do They Know "Orange County Real What They Have?" Medical Insurance: Medical Insurance: County Failures in County Failures in Documentation. Documentation. Oversight, and Oversight, and Transparency" Transparency" Negotiation, Negotiation, GJ Report review and analyze from AOCDS regarding continued enrollment of being used to pay for AOCDS employee's premiums and requesting their employees in the AOCDS Trust plans. The County is currently on 12/31/2015 request...
Response: Will Not Implement
Score: -1
reasonable. Dedicating an analyst whose sole duties are to assist Orange County LAFCO is not necessary, reasonable, practical, or a good use of scarce County resources.
R4.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors should assist OC LAFCO in facilitating and expediting the annexation effort by offering greater incentives to both the annexing cities and the islands to be annexed, such as infrastructure improvements, fiscal subsidies, MOUs, and cost-sharing agreements. In addition, the County should consider imposing a special assessment on the island property to help defray the County's costs of ...
R4
Strategies Effective?" Detention Facilities" "Annual Inquiry on Current Probation Jails and Juvenile GJ Report before the end of calendar year 2016. Phase II is still planned to take Probation has taken steps to implement the recommendation in the the surveillance equipment and archiving capacity for Juvenile Hall Part A: Juvenile Hall and Youth Leadership Academy Part A: OC Public Works is currently leading a project to upgrade place during the beginning on FY 2016-17. The overall project is co...
Response: Unknown
Score: 0
reasonable. The County receives a share of property tax dollars to provide municipal services to the County islands and does not recommend a special assessment to help defray the County's costs of providing municipal services to those areas. The County of Orange continues to work with cities on unincorporated areas within their spheres of influence and negotiating appropriate agreements to facilitate annexation of any of the remaining County islands.
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County Executive Officer 9/1/15
September 01, 2015
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7 pages
• 4 responses
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Score: +3
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4 responses to findings and recommendations
R1
"If Animals Could Talk R.4. "Child Abuse Hotline: Unanswered Cries for About the Orange GJ Report Help" analysis. The evaluation will look at the effectiveness of controlling outcome data on or after 2020 to allow enough data for meaningful http://ocgov.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?blobid=49731 the community cat population, impound rates and euthanasia rates. OCAC plans to conduct an evaluation of the Feral Free Program The recommendation was implemented by December 29, 2015. The report i...
Response: Will Implement
Score: +1
Orange County Probation Department's Policies and Procedures Manual is consistent with professional standards for use of risk assessment tools and determination of classification levels for each AB109 offender. Response: Agrees with the finding.
F.2.
Orange County Probation Department's Policies and Procedures Manual is not consistent with professional standards for development of supervision plans for AB109 offenders, including frequency and types of contacts. Response: Disagrees partially with the finding. There is a lack of universal professional standards for probation supervision. While...
R3
"Orange County Sheriff R.3. Estate: Do They Know "Orange County Real What They Have?" Medical Insurance: Medical Insurance: County Failures in County Failures in Documentation. Documentation. Oversight, and Oversight, and Transparency" Transparency" Negotiation, Negotiation, GJ Report review and analyze from AOCDS regarding continued enrollment of being used to pay for AOCDS employee's premiums and requesting their employees in the AOCDS Trust plans. The County is currently on 12/31/2015 request...
Response: Will Implement
Score: +1
Orange County Probation Department's Policies and Procedures Manual does not identify the maximum caseload size for Probation Officers supervision of AB109 offenders. Agrees with finding. Response: Orange County Probation Department's Policies and Procedures Manual
F.4.
does not provide adequate requirements for drug-testing classifications or frequency guidelines. Disagrees partially with the finding. Response: The Probation Procedures Manual does not provide requirements for drug-testing classifications or frequency guidelines, however, this is in recognition that drugtesting is only one t...
R4
Strategies Effective?" Detention Facilities" "Annual Inquiry on Current Probation Jails and Juvenile GJ Report before the end of calendar year 2016. Phase II is still planned to take Probation has taken steps to implement the recommendation in the the surveillance equipment and archiving capacity for Juvenile Hall Part A: Juvenile Hall and Youth Leadership Academy Part A: OC Public Works is currently leading a project to upgrade place during the beginning on FY 2016-17. The overall project is co...
Response: Implemented
Due: End of 2016
Scheduled: fiscal year 2014-15
Score: 0
A refractometer is not the most current technology for detecting diluted urine samples. The vendor uses modern laboratory analysis to determine the creatinine levels in order to determine dilution or over-hydrated samples. This process is completed by a fully licensed and accredited laboratory which routinely surpasses
judicial challenges. Further, many drug tests are conducted using an oral swab which collects saliva for testing, and precludes a dilute specimen.
R5.
The Health Care Agency and the Probation Department should assess current funding priorities and options to seek additional r...
R7
Detention Facilities" "Annual Inquiry on Jails and Juvenile GJ Report eligible for service and are under the authority of another legal entity; and those in which the concern reported occurred in another County eliminated and replaced with a CWS/CMS generated attached report 2) Three areas of possible sources of Information Only reports were The workgroup was convened and the following changes have been 1) The Fact Sheet Document is no longer required on these reports. 3) Those Information Only ...
Response: Will Implement
Score: +1
The Orange County Probation Department and Health Care Agency have lost an opportunity to reduce recidivism by not increasing residential drug treatment options for AB109 probationers over outpatient treatment or incarceration. Response: Disagrees wholly with the finding. The Orange County Probation Department and the Health Care Agency have not lost an opportunity to reduce recidivism by not increasing residential drug treatment options for AB109 probationers over outpatient treatment or incarceration. Residential drug treatment is only one modality of treatment. Offender assessments, with th...
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County Executive Officer (Extension) 8/5/15
August 05, 2015
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County Executive Officer - Follow-up Response 06/29/16
June 29, 2016
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County Executive Officer – Response Follow-up 05/21/18
May 21, 2018
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County Executive Officer – Response Follow-up 06/06/18
June 06, 2018
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County Executive Officer - Update 3/12/18
March 12, 2018
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County Executive Officer - Update 5/03/18
May 03, 2018
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Orange Police Department 03/14/16
March 14, 2016
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