Recommendation R3
The Riverside County Civil Grand Jury recommends that HR and the Executive Office should conduct a comprehensive audit to verify public safety agencies’ compliance with Policy C-25. The audit should examine compliance with reporting, updating historical records, the dispositions of discipline and any “off-the-books Administrative Reviews” within three months from receipt of this report. Based on Finding: F-3, F-4, F-5 Financial Impact: Minimal
Jury report: Policy vs Practice: An Investigation into Riverside County’s Workplace Discrimination Procedures · PDF page 16
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Riverside County Board of Supervisors, Executive Office and Human Resources
Agency plans to implementWill perform modified prospective and historical reviews on longer periods.
Read official response · PDF page 11The County describes an initial review within six months and historical reconciliation within twelve months of receipt, not the jury’s three-month comprehensive audit or individual case reinvestigation. The first six-month period has no equally explicit receipt anchor.
- Conduct the described initial prospective compliance review. Owner: Riverside County Board of Supervisors, Executive Office and Human Resources. Timing: Within six months; the response does not explicitly repeat a receipt anchor for this initial period..
- Reconcile historical Policy C-25 compliance records within the described scope. Owner: Riverside County Board of Supervisors, Executive Office and Human Resources. Timing: Within twelve months of receipt of the report..
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.
Riverside County District Attorney’s Office
Agency declines implementationWill not implement the audit as requested; promises a historical compliance report with HR instead.
Read official response · PDF page 3Pages 3–4 distinguish authority and the requested audit from an alternative report on C-25 complaints, investigations and outcomes. No completion date for that alternative is stated.
- Work with the assigned HR Business Partner on a historical C-25 compliance report. Owner: Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. Timing: Not specified.
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.
Riverside County Sheriff’s Office
Agency declines implementationWill not implement the requested audit; will cooperate if the Executive Office requests work.
Read official response · PDF page 4Pages 4–5 explain the refusal and conditional cooperation. No audit completion date, adopted jury deadline or independently verified review is supplied.
- Cooperate with a County compliance review if requested by the Executive Office. Owner: Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Timing: If requested by the Executive Office; no completion date stated..
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.