Report 2016-137 Recommendation 7 Responses
Report 2016-137: Commission on Judicial Performance: Weaknesses in Its Oversight Have Created Opportunities for Judicial Misconduct to Persist (Release Date: April 2019)
Recommendation #7 To: Commission on Judicial Performance
To ensure that it leverages all available information to uncover misconduct, CJP should establish procedures by April 2020 for more regularly exercising its oversight authority to open investigations into patterns of potential misconduct. At a minimum, these procedures should require that intake attorneys assess complaints to identify when patterns of complaints merit recommending an investigation.
1-Year Agency Response
CJP established policies to have intake attorneys and investigating attorneys assess the possibility that an investigation into a pattern of misconduct was warranted. When there is a determination that a pattern investigation was warranted, CJP attorneys recommend that a pattern investigation take place as a part of CJP's oversight authority.
- Completion Date: September 2019
- Response Date: April 2020
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Fully Implemented
We are rating this recommendation as fully implemented based on our on-site review of CJP's new procedures. We found sufficient evidence that CJP implemented its new procedures requiring intake attorneys to assess complaints to identify when patterns of complaints merit recommending an investigation.
6-Month Agency Response
The efforts to implement this recommendation are ongoing.
- Estimated Completion Date: April 2020
- Response Date: October 2019
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Pending
60-Day Agency Response
The efforts to implement this recommendation are ongoing.
- Estimated Completion Date: April 2020
- Response Date: June 2019
California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending
All Recommendations in 2016-137
Agency responses received are posted verbatim.