LA County Board

4. Consent Decrees: Achieving Compliance\nRecommendation as submitted by Supervisor Barger: Instruct the Interim\nCounty Counsel, in collaboration with the Sheriff, Director of Health Services,\nthrough the Director of Correctional Health Services, the Chief Probation\nOfficer, Director of Children and Family Services, and other County\nDepartments operating under a Consent Decree, to report back to the Board in\nwriting in 120 days with an overview of their existing Consent Decrees,\nincluding a list of the Consent Decrees, a high-level overview of their terms,\ncompliance provisions, and challenges, an assessment of their current\ncompliance status, and an itemization of the costs associated with the Consent\nDecree(s), including legal costs (outside/in-house counsel), monitoring costs,\nexpert fees, and the like, and exit strategies to enable the County to achieve\ncompliance and resolve the lawsuit; and instruct the Interim County Counsel to\nestablish and institutionalize a “lessons learned” protocol from existing Consent\nDecrees that ensures internal expertise to inform the County’s future litigation\nand negotiation process and report back to the Board in writing in 60 days.\n(23-0878)\nAttachments: Motion by Supervisor Barger\nPublic Comment/Correspondence