Corrections: audits and investigations.

Existing law establishes the Office of the Inspector General for the purpose of conducting audits and investigations of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as specified. Under existing law, the Inspector General may require any employee of the department to be interviewed on a confidential basis. Existing law provides that it is not the purpose of these communications to address disciplinary action or grievance procedures that may routinely occur and that if it appears that the facts of the case could lead to punitive action, the Inspector General shall be subject to specified provisions governing interrogations and investigations of public safety officers. This bill would include among those provisions applicable to the Inspector General in interviewing employees of the department a provision that makes it unlawful for any public safety department to deny or refuse to any public safety officer the rights and protections guaranteed to him or her concerning interrogations and investigations, as specified.