Report 2020-111 Recommendation 3 Responses

Report 2020-111: Los Angeles Community College District Personnel Commission: Its Inconsistent Practices and Inadequate Policies Adversely Affect District Employees and Job Candidates, Leading to Concerns About the Fairness of Its Decisions (Release Date: May 2021)

Recommendation #3 To: Los Angeles Community College District

To ensure that its examination process is fair and evaluates all candidates consistently, the Commission should establish a rule by October 2021 to require examiners to provide disqualification notices that describe their reasons for disqualifying an applicant.

Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2022

Excerpt from PC Rule 600. Implemented during an Open session of the Personnel Commission having been properly placed on a publicly noticed agenda per the procedural rules of the Brown Act.

Rule 600, Pg 4 Section F: "An applicant or candidate who is rejected ... shall be given one opportunity to provide supplementary information, documentation, or evidence necessary to meet the entrance qualifications. Such supplementary material must be submitted in writing to the examination unit within five calendar days after the rejection notice was sent. If it is determined by the examiner of record that such supplementary material does not satisfy the entrance qualifications, the applicant or candidate shall be notified in writing."

California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Fully Implemented

Although the Commission's response cites a section of its rules that does not implement our recommendation, another section of those rules, Rule 600 Section I, states that: applicants, candidates, and eligibles who are rejected for any of the reasons identified in Paragraph E of this rule shall be notified in writing and the notification must include a reason for their rejection. Thus, the Commission has implemented our recommendation.

1-Year Agency Response

We contacted the Commission's personnel director who declined to submit a response.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: No Action Taken

To date the Commission has declined to provide a response. Thus, we cannot determine whether it has taken any action to implement this recommendation.

6-Month Agency Response

Although we contacted the Commission repeatedly to ask it to submit a 6-Month response, it did not do so.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: No Action Taken

60-Day Agency Response

Although we contacted the Commission repeatedly to ask it to submit a 60-Day response, it did not do so.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: No Action Taken

All Recommendations in 2020-111

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.