Publications

During December 2023, the OIG’s Centralized Screening Monitoring Team randomly selected 556 grievances for monitoring. This document presents 12 notable cases monitored and closed by the OIG during December 2023.

From December 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team monitored and closed five cases. This document presents all monitored and closed cases during this period.

During the December 2023 review period, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team retrospectively reviewed 18 random local inquiry cases that were closed by the department from June through September 2023, in order to assess the department’s performance on local inquiry cases that our office did not contemporaneously monitor.

In this special review, we shed light on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s decision to address a backlog of incarcerated persons’ allegations of staff misconduct by converting them into routine grievances and sending them to local prison staff for handling instead of performing an investigation or inquiry. The decision violated both the department’s regulations and its policy for screening and investigating grievances received from incarcerated people who alleged staff misconduct. Our review found that the department’s decision to redirect these grievances to its prisons circumvented control measures that were put in place to prevent prison authorities from making potentially biased decisions when responding to allegations of staff misconduct.

During the October 2023 through November 2023 review period, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team retrospectively reviewed six random local inquiry cases that were closed by the department in July 2023, in order to assess the department’s performance on local inquiry cases that our office did not contemporaneously monitor.

From November 1, 2023, through November 30, 2023, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team monitored and closed nine cases. This document presents all monitored and closed cases during this period.

During November 2023, the OIG’s Centralized Screening Monitoring Team randomly selected 677 grievances for monitoring. This document presents nine notable cases monitored and closed by the OIG during November 2023.

During October 2023, the OIG’s Centralized Screening Monitoring Team randomly selected and opened 520 grievances for monitoring. This document presents five notable cases monitored and closed by the OIG during October 2023.

From October 1, 2023, through October 31, 2023, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team monitored and closed seven cases. This document presents all monitored and closed cases during this period.

From January 1, 2023, through September 30, 2023, the OIG’s Local Inquiry Team monitored and closed 68 cases. This document presents all monitored and closed cases during this period.