Present
Charles Wright- Acting Inspector General; Megan Carlson- Assistant Deputy Inspector General; Saul Morse- Chairman; Angel Hearts-Glass- Board Member; JaeJin Pak- Board Member; Shirley Perez- Board Member; Greg Walkington- Board Member; Demetra Brown- Administrative Assistant
Missing- Angel Hearts-Glass
Called to Order - 11:00am
Quorum present to commence the meeting.
Approval of Meeting Minutes
- February 20, 2024, minutes were reviewed.
- Motion to approve the minutes - Angel Hearts-Glass
- Motion Seconded - Jae Jin Pak
- All in favor, No Opposed - February 20, 2024, minutes approved
Bi-Monthly Update on OIG Operations
- Currently OIG has 85 employees on staff
- 4 new investigators, 2 office associates for North Bureau, and a TA office administrator IV have been hired
- Ongoing challenge - staffing, training, and discussion has been had to potentially hire an investigative trainer to set OIG investigators up for success
- Administrative leave- complaints persist regarding employees placed on administrative leave; a meeting was held with the union president and other directors around the state to address the problem and find possible solutions
Administrative Matters
- Completion of the SOEI and SSEI compliance documents for board members
- Inquire whether state employees are mandated to complete training
- Adopt a calendar for fiscal or calendar year
- Gov't email issues- reminder email to board members to log into state email account at least once a month within a 30 day period
Other Business
- Prioritizing safety and the well-being of residents/individuals above the complaints of employees regarding administrative leave (Jae Jin)
- Rule 50- policy change- if employee is likely to be found not guilty, accused employee may be allowed to return to work pending the investigation
- In the quest to investigate facility cases the concern is to not leave CILA cases unattended (Greg)
- What is the hiring process for facilities? Length of time on administrative leave while getting paid for sometimes a very long time. What are the rights of employees? How long do the allegations last? Is there a point where an employee with numerous allegations is terminated? (Saul)
- What is the audit and review process for unsubstantiated claims of abuse? (Shirley)
- Suggestion made to step up monitoring for immediate result (Greg)
- Transition of in individuals from facilities to CILAs (Shirley)
- Greg shared the date of transitioning individuals
- Supervisors are not being proactive in their job duties (Angel)
- Stated that some workers are returned to the same houses with the same residents/individuals after returning from administrative leave (Demetra)
- Productivity of accused employees (Charles)
- Submission of cases
- Employees will be required to work in an administrative function until the investigation is concluded
- Minimal production- lack of production
- Database> extension of the OIG database (Charles)
Adjournment
* Meeting was adjourned at 12:05pm
Motion to adjourn- Angel Hearts-Glass
Motion seconded- Greg Walkington
