Cal. WIC § 2200.5
This is the official text of Cal. WIC § 2200.5, part of California’s Welfare and Institutions Code — governs public social services, juvenile justice, and mental health/developmental disability services.
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Official statutory text
(a) The ombudsperson shall publish and provide regular reports to the Legislature about all data collected over the course of the year, including, but not limited to, contacts to the office, reports on chronic absenteeism, complaints received, including the type and source of those complaints, investigations performed by the ombudsperson, the time to investigate and resolve complaints, the number and types of complaints referred to other agencies, the trends and issues that arose in the course of investigating complaints, pending complaints, and subsequent findings and actions taken, and a summary of the data received by the ombudsperson. Data shall be disaggregated by gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity of the complainants to the extent this information is available.
(b) The ombudsperson shall include recommendations consistent with this data for improving the juvenile justice system.
(c) The compiled data and recommendations shall be posted so that it is available to the public on the office’s existing internet website.
(d) The report shall comply with all confidentiality laws.
(e) Nothing shall preclude the ombudsperson from issuing data, findings, or reports other than the annual compilation of data described in this section or Section 2200.
(b) The ombudsperson shall include recommendations consistent with this data for improving the juvenile justice system.
(c) The compiled data and recommendations shall be posted so that it is available to the public on the office’s existing internet website.
(d) The report shall comply with all confidentiality laws.
(e) Nothing shall preclude the ombudsperson from issuing data, findings, or reports other than the annual compilation of data described in this section or Section 2200.
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