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ORANGE COUNTY GRAND JURY <br />700 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE WEST • SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA 92701 • 714/834-3320 <br />June 2, 2023 www.ocgrandjury.org • FAX 714/834-5555 <br />Valerie Amezcua, Mayor VA <br />City of Santa Ana 4 <br />20 Civic Center Plaza T <br />a a <br />Santa Ana, CA 92702 C 0 <br />N <br />Dear Mayor Amezcua: <br />Enclosed is a copy of the 2022-2023 Orange County Grand Jury report, Gimme Shelter and a Pound of Advice, "The State <br />of Animal Welfare Overseen by the County of Orange". Pursuant to Penal Code 933.05(f), a copy of the report is being <br />provided to you at least two working days prior to its public release. Please note that under that subsection, "No officer, <br />agency, department, or governing body of a public agency shall disclose any contents of the report prior to the public release <br />of the final report." (Emphasis added.) It is requested that you provide a response to each of the findings and <br />recommendations of this report directed to your office in compliance with Penal Code 933.05(a) and (b), copy is enclosed. <br />Please distribute this report to your governing body. <br />For each Grand Jury recommendation accepted and not implemented, provide a schedule for future implementation. In <br />addition, by the end of March of each subsequent year, please report on the progress being made on each recommendation <br />accepted but not completed. These annual reports should continue until all recommendations are implemented. <br />Please mail the response to the recommendations to Maria Hernandez, Presiding Judge of the Superior Court, 700 Civic <br />Center Drive West, Santa Ana, CA 92701, with a separate copy mailed to the Orange County Grand Jury, 700 Civic Center <br />Drive West, Santa Ana, CA 92701, no later than 90 days after the public release date, June 7, 2023, in compliance with Penal <br />Code 933, copy enclosed. The due date then is September 1, 2023. <br />Should additional time for responding to this report be necessary for further analysis, Penal Code 933.05(b)(3) permits an <br />extension of time up to six months -from-the public release date. Such extensions should be advised in writing, with the <br />information required in Penal Code 933.05(b)(3), to the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court, with a separate copy of the <br />request to the Grand Jury. <br />We tentatively plan to issue the public release on June 7, 2023. Upon public release, the report will be available on the Grand <br />Jury website at www.oc rg andjuU.orF,. <br />agst, r oreperson <br />ORANGE COUNTY GRAND JURY <br />JVS.jm <br />Enclosures: Grand Jury Report <br />Penal Code 933, 933.05 <br />Cc: Kristine Ridge, City Manager <br />