Report 2020-111 Recommendation 17 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 #17 To: Los Angeles Community College District
To ensure that it treats applicants consistently when considering whether to debar them in the case of false statements or deception, the Commission should establish rules to require that examiners provide applicants with an opportunity to address the inconsistencies.
Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2022
Debarements have a 3 step appeals process to the examiner, then the Director and then the Commissioners.
- Completion Date: April 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: No Action Taken
The Commission's appeal process does not address the deficiency we identified. Discrepancies in applications may be a cause for suspicion and may warrant further follow-up, but, absent evidence of actual dishonesty, should not be grounds for debarment. Eliminating a candidate from an examination and requiring him or her to use the appeal process for defense places an undue burden on the applicant. Thus, we stand by our recommendation that the Commission should establish a rule that requires examiners to provide applicants with the opportunity to address inconsistencies in their applications before disbarring them.
- Auditee did not address all aspects of the recommendation
1-Year Agency Response
We contacted the Commission's personnel director who declined to submit a response.
- Estimated Completion Date: None
- Response Date: May 2022
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.
- Estimated Completion Date: Unknown
- Response Date: December 2021
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.
- Estimated Completion Date: Unknown
- Response Date: August 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: No Action Taken
All Recommendations in 2020-111
Agency responses received are posted verbatim.