File #: 25-00809    Version: 1
Type: Departmental Agenda Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 9/9/2025 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 9/16/2025 Final action:
Title: 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 RECOMMENDATI...
Sponsors: COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - Board of Supervisors Response - Fatal Head Injury at the Northern Branch Jail, 3. Attachment B - Board of Supervisors Response - Another Suicide in the Santa Barbara County Jail, 4. Attachment C - Board of Supervisors Response - Preventable Death at the Northern Branch Jail, 5. Attachment D - 2024-25 GJ Report entitled - Fatal Head Injury at the Northern Branch Jail - A Custody-Related Death Investigation, 6. Attachment E - 2024-25 GJ Report entitled - Another Suicide in Santa Barbara County Jail - Inmate's Death Should Have Been Prevented, 7. Attachment F - 2024-25 GJ Report entitled Preventable Death at the Northern Branch Jail - A Death-in-Custody Investigation, 8. Attachment G - Sheriff's Office response - Fatal Head Injury at the Northern Branch Jail - A Custody-Related Death Investigation, 9. Attachment H - Sheriff's Office Response - Another Suicide in Satna Barbara County Jail - Inmate's Death Should Have Been Prevented, 10. Attachment I - Sheriff's Office Response - Preventable Death at the Northern Branch Jail - A Death-in-Custody Investigation, 11. Presentation
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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