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F5.5: The City EMD and County OEM do not have a fully functional Alternate Emergency Operations Center, resulting in a lack of operational effectiveness and redundancy should the primary EOC be unusable.

What should residents consider about Finding F5.5: F5.5: The City EMD and County OEM do not have a fully functional Alternate Emergency Operations Center, resulting in a lack of operational effectiveness and redundancy should the primary EOC be unusable., and the County’s response?

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (consolidated County departmental response)Response dated 2026-09-01Audit assessment: Addressed
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Audit context

What the response says and how it was assessed

Response says

County disagrees for County operations, stating Public Works' EOC can serve during an emergency. A new EOC location is being evaluated; using the current EOC as alternate is conditional on developing a new one.

Audit analysis

Explicit disagreement identifies an existing claimed backup and distinguishes conditional future arrangements, directly engaging redundancy. No readiness assessment or operational record is cited for the asserted backup capability. Report physical PDF page(s) 232; County response physical PDF page(s) 45. Claims remain attributed; adoption date is not a filing or receipt date.

Finding-response score

Document completeness and usefulness—not factual verification or a legal conclusion.

9/10

4/4

Statutory elements

Stated position
2/2
Applicable disagreement elements
2/2

5/6

Public usefulness

Coverage
2/2
Reason specificity
2/2
Support traceability
1/2

Explicit disagreement identifies an existing claimed backup and distinguishes conditional future arrangements, directly engaging redundancy. No readiness assessment or operational record is cited for the asserted backup capability.

Scoring confidence: high

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