25-00809
HEARING – Consider recommendations regarding a Response to the 2024-2025 Grand Jury Reports on Deaths in Custody, as follows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR.) a) Consider and adopt the Board of Supervisors’ responses to the 2024-2025 Grand Jury reports entitled “Fatal Head Injury at the Northern Branch Jail: A Custody-Related Death Investigation,” “Another Suicide in Santa Barbara County Jail: Inmate’s Death Should Have Been Prevented,” and “Preventable Death at the Northern Branch Jail: A Death-in-Custody Investigation”; b) Authorize the Chair to sign the letters and forward the letters and responses to the Presiding Judge of Santa Barbara County Superior Court; and c) Determine pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review, because they are government administrative activities that do not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment. COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE
- Committee
- BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
- Introduced
- September 9, 2025
- On agenda
- September 16, 2025
- Passed
- September 16, 2025
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