February 2024 Local Inquiry Team Case Blocks
From February 1, 2024, through February 29, 2024, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team monitored and closed six cases. This document presents all monitored and closed cases during this period.
From February 1, 2024, through February 29, 2024, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team monitored and closed six cases. This document presents all monitored and closed cases during this period.
During the February 2024 review period, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team retrospectively reviewed 16 random local inquiry cases that were closed by the department from August 2023 through February 2024 in order to assess the department’s performance on local inquiry cases that our office did not contemporaneously monitor.
This report summarizes the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s performance in conducting internal investigations and handling employee discipline cases we monitored and closed from July 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023. Of the 197 cases we monitored and closed in this time period, we rated 49 cases sufficient, 89 sufficient with recommendations, and 59 cases insufficient.
During February 2024, the OIG’s Centralized Screening Monitoring Team randomly selected 548 grievances for monitoring. This document presents 11 notable cases monitored and closed by the OIG during February 2024.
As part of the Office of the Inspector General’s statutory authority, we monitor the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s performance and compliance with the use of force at its 33 prisons, parole operations, and Office of Correctional Safety. This document presents three notable use-of-force incidents that the Field Investigations Monitoring Unit closed from January 1, 2024, through February 5, 2024.
During January 2024, the OIG’s Centralized Screening Monitoring Team randomly selected 645 grievances for monitoring. This document presents 10 notable cases monitored and closed by the OIG during January 2024.
As part of our statute, the Office of the Inspector General (the OIG) maintains an Intake Processing Unit, which receives complaints from the incarcerated population and the public, in communication with our office. Intake staff respond to these communications, which can exceed 650 complaints each month. Complaints arrive to us through regular mail, by phone calls (toll-free hotline), and as web inquiries received via our website. This file includes 10 complaints for which our Intake staff conducted a review or inquiry and have closed as of February 2024. These cases highlight a variety of matters in which the actions of OIG staff had an impact on the complainant and may result in further OIG monitoring of inquiries or investigations conducted by departmental staff.
This annual report summarizes the work the Office of the Inspector General completed during 2023, including the 16 public reports we issued. The report also details the work the OIG performed that was not highlighted in other reports issued during the year.
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