From the Register's Peggy Lowe:

I cornered Anderson after the meeting this morning and asked him why he wanted to hire Gennaco. He said that along with other changes he’s making, he wants Gennaco to do a review of policies and procedures and make a report back to the Board of Supervisors.

“If you don’t have that, the residents and even the board are going to wonder if we’re being as transparent as we can,” Anderson said.

I also asked Anderson if he wants Gennaco to look at anything specifically, since Anderson has been briefed by both the grand jury and DA Tony Rack on what the panel’s investigation found. Anderson said he can’t coment on specifics, as he’s bound by the grand jury’s secrecy rules, and that he hasn’t seen the entire 8,000-page report.

“I kind of had the high flyover, where you see the peaks and the snow caps,” he said of what he was told of the probe. “But I certainly don’t know what’s in the valleys and the foothills.”

On acting on some of what he knows, Anderson admitted, “It’s a weird dance I have to dance right now.”

But clearly, he’s dancing up a storm, firing two top aides, restructing his command staff, announcing changes in jail procedures, and hiring a favorite of Supe John Moorlach to do an independent review.

Anderson said he hopes Gennaco can start next week and anticipates that his report might take a few months to complete.

Here's a post from yesterday by our resident blogger, John, on the Office of Independent Review:

An Office of Independent Review similar to the one being set up for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department has been in operation since 2001 in Los Angeles under the direction of former federal civil rights prosecutor Michael Gennaco.

In that time the office has reviewed about 1,500 cases involving the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and, virtually every case that has been investigated by the LASD’s Internal Affairs Bureau. Gennaco’s team has now entered its third three-year contract cycle providing oversight for LASD cases.

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