Report 2021-047 Recommendations
When an audit is completed and a report is issued, auditees must provide the State Auditor with information regarding their progress in implementing recommendations from our reports at three intervals from the release of the report: 60 days, six months, and one year. Additionally, Senate Bill 1452 (Chapter 452, Statutes of 2006), requires auditees who have not implemented recommendations after one year, to report to us and to the Legislature why they have not implemented them or to state when they intend to implement them. Below, is a listing of each recommendation the State Auditor made in the report referenced and a link to the most recent response from the auditee addressing their progress in implementing the recommendation and the State Auditor's assessment of auditee's response based on our review of the supporting documentation.
Recommendations in Report 2021-047: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Despite Some Recent Improvements, the University of California Has Not Yet Taken Adequate Action to Ensure Its Timely Return of Native American Remains and Cultural Items (Release Date: November 2022)
| Recommendations to Legislature | ||
|---|---|---|
| Number | Recommendation | Status |
| 1 | To ensure that the university continues its recent progress in returning remains and cultural items to tribes, the Legislature should amend state law to require the university to periodically report its campuses' progress towards completing repatriation. |
Legislation Introduced |
| 2 | To ensure that campuses have adequate funding to fully repatriate their collections in a timely manner, the Legislature should amend state law to require the Office of the President to provide sufficient funding to support campuses' repatriation efforts. |
Legislation Introduced |
| 3 | To ensure that the systemwide and campus NAGPRA committees have members with diverse backgrounds, the Legislature should revise CalNAGPRA to allow individuals with more types of educational backgrounds to qualify for committee membership. |
Legislation Introduced |
| Recommendations to University of California | ||
|---|---|---|
| Number | Recommendation | Status |
| 4 | To ensure that Santa Barbara has identified all the items in its NAGPRA collection, the Office of the President should monitor Santa Barbara's efforts to review its collection and ensure that the campus completes this process by July 2023. |
Fully Implemented |
| 5 | To ensure that campuses appropriately respond to any remains or cultural items they find in the future, the Office of the President should issue guidance by February 2023 about how campuses should proactively work with partner institutions to facilitate repatriation of those items. |
Fully Implemented |
| 6 | To ensure that its campuses comply with CalNAGPRA and appropriately consult with California tribes, the Office of the President should immediately establish a uniform process that campuses must follow when consulting with tribes about the campuses' inventories. |
Fully Implemented |
| 7 | To ensure that campuses provide appropriate resources and oversight to the administration of NAGPRA and CalNAGPRA, the Office of the President should require campuses with more than 100 sets of remains or cultural items to have full-time repatriation coordinators by July 2023. |
Fully Implemented |
| 8 | To ensure that campuses fully repatriate their collections in a timely and consistent manner, the Office of the President should require the campuses to complete and submit detailed repatriation plans by February 2023 for review and approval by the campus NAGPRA committees and review by the systemwide NAGPRA committee. The repatriation plans should include a detailed budget. |
Fully Implemented |
| 9 | Until such time that the Legislature requires the Office of the President to provide funding to support campus repatriation efforts, the Office of the President should ensure that campuses identify adequate funding sources in their detailed budgets. |
Fully Implemented |