Report 2020-111 Recommendation 8 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 #8 To: Los Angeles Community College District

To promote transparency in its application process and to minimize the perception that it arbitrarily disqualifies applicants, the Commission should revise its rules by October 2021 to implement an appeal process for applicants who it has determined do not meet minimum qualifications for a position.

Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2022

PC now provides an applicant who is rejected for not meeting the minimum entrance qualifications one opportunity to provide supplementary information/documentation/evidence necessary to meet the entrance qualifications. An amendment to Rule 600 reflecting this new process was amended on June 23, 2021. Process applies to exams that opened after June 23, 2021.

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.

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

The Los Angeles Community College District Personnel Commission revised its rules to allow applicants it has rejected to appeal that rejection. Its rules specifically allow for appeals of rejections due to a failure to meet the minimum job qualifications specified, and they allow the applicant one opportunity to submit supplemental documentation, information, or evidence.

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.