DIGITALLY RECORDED SWORN STATEMENT OF OIG CASE #: 2019-010614 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL AUGUST 5, 2021 RESOLUTE DOCUMENTATION SERVICES 28632 Roadside Drive, Suite 285 Agoura Hills, CA 91301 Phone: (818) 431-5800 EFTA00117078 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE OTHER APPEARANCES: NONE EFTA00117079 EFTA00117080 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117081 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 5 Basis. “You are being asked to provide information as part of an investigation being conducted by the Office of the Inspector General. This investigation is being conducted pursuant to the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended. This investigation pertains to job performance failure and security failure. This is a voluntary interview. Accordingly, you do not have to answer questions. No disciplinary action will be taken against you if you choose not to answer questions. Any statements you furnish may be used as evidence in any future criminal proceedings, or agency disciplinary proceedings, or both.” And there’s a waiver section. It says, "I understand the Warnings and Assurances stated above and I am willing to make a statement and answer questions. No promises or threats have been made to me, and no pressure or coercion of any kind has been used against me." You want to take a look? Again, it’s the same form from before, but if you agree, there’s an employee signature, and an employee’s name, where you print. : Mm-hmm. Okay. : Thank you very much for EFTA00117082 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117083 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 7 : Great. All right. So, this is just a supplemental interview. When we spoke last, you talked about some different documentation that we could potentially obtain in order to clear up some of the things we were looking at. Specifically, we were looking into Efrain Reyes. And when he was released, and what would have been put on the court list. The court transfer. So, when we last spoke, we talked about this daily log. This, I'm going to show you. It’s from 8/9/2019. And on the third page, where I’ve highlighted, it says Reyes was pre-removed at 0838, when you had mentioned, during our interview, that you can't EFTA00117084 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 8 EFTA00117085 EFTA00117086 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117087 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117088 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117089 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117090 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117091 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117092 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117093 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 17 EFTA00117094 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117095 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 19 At that time, the number two. They normally they didn't have an internal number two, but that person is the person that was in there with me because, at that time, when they would put the internal number two on the roster, they would be the person that would assist the control center officer, in the control. And they would do the counts, and assignments, and do the - yeah - the counts. The call outs. If somebody was on suicide watch, and they had a companion swap out to come out to a work detail, they would take that companion off, put that new companion on, while food service came and they would key in the food service workers that would be off the housing unit, but at that time, we only have -. If we had anybody, it would be him. Okay. Yes. Yes. EFTA00117096 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117097 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117098 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 22 EFTA00117099 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 23 EFTA00117100 EFTA00117101 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 25 EFTA00117102 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 26 EFTA00117103 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 27 EFTA00117104 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 28 EFTA00117105 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 29 EFTA00117106 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 30 EFTA00117107 EFTA00117108 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 32 EFTA00117109 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 33 EFTA00117110 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 34 EFTA00117111 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 35 EFTA00117112 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 36 EFTA00117113 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117114 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 38 EFTA00117115 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117116 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117117 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE So, most of the times, if you have officers on the unit, it’s feasible to take the key count when you’re doing your body alarm testing of the unit officers, and verifying that officers on duty asking who’s on shift, so you can write their name for that post. So, it’s always easy to do it at that time. So, normally, for the officers, this would take place during, when their body alarm is being tested. And that’s normally at the start of your shift, that you test your body alarm, when you come in the institution. EFTA00117118 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 42 EFTA00117119 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 43 EFTA00117120 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 44 EFTA00117121 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 45 EFTA00117122 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE EFTA00117123 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 47 ## CERTIFICATE I hereby certify that the foregoing pages represent an accurate transcript of the electronic sound recording of the proceedings before the Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General in the matter of: Interview of Brianna Rose Burton, Transcriber EFTA00117124