Shasta County lifts privilege on ROV investigations, then delays censure until after June election

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors on April 28 voted to lift attorney-client privilege on two investigations into Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis and then voted to delay any formal censure until after the June primary, saying the public should have access to the investigators' reports before the board takes final action.

Monica Fugate, director of support services and the principal investigator for the internal review, told the board the internal inquiry and an external review used the preponderance-of-evidence standard and found conduct that "did engage in abusive conduct and retaliation towards staff" and that those findings implicated Chapter 22 (personnel rules) and Chapter 40 (code of conduct). Fugate recommended that the board consider remedial action including public censure and, if behavior continues, measures such as separation from staff or even a workplace restraining order.

"Based…