City of Atascadero responds to grand jury criticism

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• Grand jury gives mostly positive report on officer complaints

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  Citizens who want to complain about law enforcement have a far easier road in San Luis Obispo County than they did seven years ago, but a warning that people could be sued for filing a false report might scare people away and should be removed from complaint forms, according to a civil grand jury report.

  Members of the San Luis Obispo County Civil Grand Jury also noted that privacy provided to law enforcement employees under California’s Peace Officers Bill of Rights makes it “often difficult to explain to a complainant why they cannot be privy to additional information” once an agency makes a decision about a complaint.

  Based on current state law, the grand jury wrote, “complainants are not entitled to be notified of any disciplinary action taken against an officer.”

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  “The grand jury encountered total rejection of the idea that cities and districts, which base sewage fees on water usage, should inform users of that practice,” the current grand jury wrote.

  “A recommendation that individual apartment water usage should also be metered was also rejected across the board,” it added in a chapter called “rate setting as a water conservation tool.”

• Doctors face dilemma over compensation from drug companies

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  Any given week at Giuseppe’s restaurant, local doctors can be found eating free food and drinking free wine. The meals, paid for in full by drug companies, are a way to entice doctors to listen to industry-sponsored speakers talk about new and current drugs. Nearly 30 of San Luis Obispo County’s roughly 700 doctors have benefited, a Tribune review found.