Mendocino County Civil Grand Jury

The June 24, 2026 follow-up examines Board oversight of Planning and Building Services after the prior-year report and the Board’s August 2025 response. The jury criticizes policy completeness, document control, institutional-knowledge dependence, and implementation of PRC section 4290/Title 14 and Class K rules, while commending staff dedication. Fourteen findings and four recommendations seek department-wide draft policies by December 1, 2026 and final policies by March 1, 2027, plus fire-safe implementation drafts by October 15, 2026 and final procedures by January 1, 2027. Legal noncompliance, public-safety risk and opportunities for bias are jury conclusions, not independently established legal or factual determinations. A separately supplied September 1 Board agenda draft disputes several conclusions and describes policy work; final adoption, execution and filing are unverified, so it is supporting material, not a scored final response. The report names the Board as required respondent within 90 days and invites the CEO within 60 days. The unchanged 71-page original includes the main report on physical PDF pages 3–20 (printed 1–18), appendices, bibliography and eleven exhibits. County-index access failures leave additional-report and response gaps; no nonresponse is inferred.

The June 24, 2026 report reviews responses to four 2024–2025 reports concerning Family and Children’s Services, homelessness, Planning and Building Services, and the Willits workplace. Its tables explicitly paraphrase or abbreviate earlier recommendations and agency responses. The jury judges the responses generally compliant with response requirements except most Planning and Building responses, and describes improvements and continuing work in Family and Children’s Services. Those are the jury’s assessments, not independent findings of legal compliance, completed implementation or effectiveness. The narrative dates an FCS response July 8, 2026 despite the June 24 cover; that chronology discrepancy is retained rather than silently corrected or used to infer a deadline. No new formal findings or recommendations are enumerated. Historical table entries are not imported as current-cycle items or current response audits. This is the complete unchanged 11-page original: cover and physical PDF pages 2–11 (printed 1–10).