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Case3:01-cv-01351-TEH Document2433 Filed05/07/12 Page1 of 47 FUTTERMAN DUPREE DODD CROLEY HANSON BRIDGETT LLP 1 MAIER LLP JERROLD C. SCHAEFER (39374) MARTIN H. DODD (104363) PAUL B. MELLO (179755) 2 180 Sansome Street, 17th Floor WALTER R. SCHNEIDER (173113) San Francisco, California 94104 SAMANTHA D. WOLFF (240280) 3 Telephone: (415) 399-3840 RENJU P. JACOB (242388) Facsimile: (415) 399-3838 425 Market Street, 26th Floor 4 [email protected] San Francisco, California 94105 Attorneys for Receiver J. Clark Kelso Telephone: (415) 777-3200 5 Fax: (415) 541-9366 PRISON LAW OFFICE [email protected] 6 DONALD SPECTOR (83925) Attorneys for Defendants STEVEN FAMA (99641) 7 ALISON HARDY (135966) KAMALA D. HARRIS 1917 Fifth Street Attorney General of the State of California 8 Berkeley, California 94710 JONATHAN L. WOLFF Telephone: (510) 280-2621 Senior Assistant Attorney General 9 Fax: (510) 380-2704 JAY C. RUSSELL (122626) [email protected] Supervising Deputy Attorney General 10 Attorneys for Plaintiffs KYLE A. LEWIS (201041) PATRICK R. MCKINNEY (215228) 11 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000 San Francisco, California 94102 12 Telephone: (415) 703-3035 Fax: (415) 703-5843 13 [email protected] Attorneys for Defendants 14 15 16 17 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 18 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 19 SAN FRANCISCO 20 21 MARCIANO PLATA, et al., Case No. C01-1351 TEH 22 Plaintiffs, 23 v. RECEIVER’S AND PARTIES’ JOINT REPORT AND RESPONSES TO 24 EDMUND G. BROWN JR., et al., COURT’S JANUARY 17, 2012 ORDER TO MEET AND CONFER RE: POST- 25 Defendants. RECEIVERSHIP PLANNING 26 27 28 FUTTERMAN DUPREE DODD CROLEY JOINT REPORT RE POST-RECEIVERSHIP PLANNING MAIER LLP CASE NO. C01-1351 TEH Case3:01-cv-01351-TEH Document2433 Filed05/07/12 Page2 of 47 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Page 3 RECEIVER’S SUMMARY OF RELEVANT PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND ........................1 4 Filing of this Action and pre-Receivership remedial efforts. ..............................................1 5 Appointment of the Receiver. ..............................................................................................2 6 Remedial efforts by initial Receiver. ...................................................................................2 7 Appointment of current Receiver and Receiver’s Turnaround Plan of Action. ..................3 8 Court order for Post-Receivership Planning and the Meet and Confer Process. .................4 9 PARTIES’ INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS ............................................................................5 10 Plaintiffs’ Introduction .........................................................................................................5 11 A. Defendants’ Lack of Will .........................................................................................5 12 B. Defendants’ Lack of Capacity .................................................................................6 13 C. Defendants’ Lack of Leadership ..............................................................................9 14 Defendants’ Introduction ...................................................................................................10 15 A. Most of the Goals of the Receiver’s Turnaround Plan of Action Have Been Accomplished. .......................................................................................................12 16 1. The Receiver’s First Goal—Ensure Timely Access to Health Care 17 Services—Is Substantially Complete. ....................................................... 12 18 2. The Receiver’s Second Goal—Establish a Prison Medical Program Addressing the Full Continuum of Health Care Services—Is 19 Substantially Complete. ............................................................................ 13 20 3. The Receiver’s Third Goal—Recruit, Train, and Retain a Well- Qualified Medical Care Workforce—Is Complete. .................................. 14 21 4. The Receiver Has Established a Robust Quality Improvement 22 Program Sufficient to Accomplish his Fourth Goal. ................................ 14 23 5. The Receiver Has Completed Many of the Objectives Necessary to Complete His Fifth Goal: Establish Medical Support Infrastructure. ....... 16 24 6. The Receiver Has Delegated Authority to Defendants to Complete 25 the Receiver’s Sixth Goal: Provide Needed Clinical, Administrative, and Housing Facilities..................................................... 17 26 B. Public Safety Realignment. ....................................................................................18 27 28 i FUTTERMAN DUPREE DODD CROLEY JOINT REPORT RE POST-RECEIVERSHIP PLANNING MAIER LLP CASE NO. C01-1351 TEH Case3:01-cv-01351-TEH Document2433 Filed05/07/12 Page3 of 47 C. On April 23, 2012, The State Released Its Integrated Plan to Effectively 1 And Efficiently Manage CDCR Post Realignment. ..............................................19 2 RECEIVER’S AND PARTIES’ RESPONSES TO PLANNING ORDER ISSUES ....................20 3 1. How substantial compliance should be measured, including how the OIG scores should be used and whether the court experts 4 should be involved. ................................................................................... 20 5 Receiver’s Response ............................................................................................. 20 6 Plaintiffs’ Response .............................................................................................. 21 7 Defendants’ Response ........................................................................................... 24 8 2. Criteria for determining when it is appropriate to move from the Receivership to a less intrusive system of oversight, including 9 factors the court should consider when evaluating Defendants’ will, capacity and leadership to maintain a system of providing 10 constitutionally adequate medical care services to class members. .......... 26 11 Receiver’s Response ............................................................................................. 26 12 Plaintiffs’ Response .............................................................................................. 28 13 Defendants’ Response ........................................................................................... 31 14 3. Whether the parties agree that the current Receiver can act as a monitor or special master once the Receivership ends and, if not, 15 how the parties propose selecting a monitor or special master. ................ 35 16 Receiver’s Response ............................................................................................. 35 17 Plaintiffs’ Response .............................................................................................. 35 18 Defendants’ Response ........................................................................................... 36 19 4. Criteria for ending court oversight and concluding this case, including initial length of the post-Receivership monitoring period 20 and whether the OIG inspection program or other independent process for inspections must be institutionalized before the Court 21 ends its supervision. .................................................................................. 37 22 Receiver’s Response ............................................................................................. 37 23 Plaintiffs’ Response .............................................................................................. 37 24 Defendants’ Response ........................................................................................... 39 25 5. The parties’ view on what the Receiver should include in the Plan for Post-Receivership Governance he must submit to the court. .............. 39 26 Receiver’s Response ............................................................................................. 39 27 Plaintiffs’ Response .............................................................................................. 40 28 ii FUTTERMAN DUPREE DODD CROLEY JOINT REPORT RE POST-RECEIVERSHIP PLANNING MAIER LLP CASE NO. C01-1351 TEH Case3:01-cv-01351-TEH Document2433 Filed05/07/12 Page4 of 47 Defendants’ Response ........................................................................................... 40 1 6. How, if at all, the Court should consider the status of Defendants 2 progress in satisfying the orders of the related three-judge court when determining when to end the Receivership and this case. ............... 41 3 Receiver’s Response ............................................................................................. 41 4 Plaintiffs’ Response .............................................................................................. 41 5 Defendants’ Response ........................................................................................... 41 6 7. Any other issues the parties or the receiver deem relevant. ...................... 42 7 Receiver’s Response ............................................................................................. 42 8 Defendants’ Response ........................................................................................... 42 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 iii FUTTERMAN DUPREE DODD CROLEY JOINT REPORT RE POST-RECEIVERSHIP PLANNING MAIER LLP CASE NO. C01-1351 TEH Case3:01-cv-01351-TEH Document2433 Filed05/07/12 Page5 of 47 1 The parties and Receiver J. Clark Kelso (“Receiver”), by and through their respective 2 counsel, submit this joint response to the Court’s January 17, 2012 Order to Meet and Confer