County OKs $70,000 for Security Study
Ventura County supervisors on Tuesday approved spending nearly $70,000 for a study on how to make county employees more secure in their workplaces.
County officials requested the report after a deadly rampage that began at the Oxnard unemployment office in December left five people dead, including gunman Alan Winterbourne and Oxnard Police Detective James O’Brien.
“We had requests from every major department to increase security at their work,” said Peter Pedroff, director of the General Services Agency.
The contract will be awarded to Tomasi-Dubois & Associates, a Northern California firm that will conduct a three-month study of the county’s facilities.
Supervisor John K. Flynn, who cast the lone dissenting vote, said increased security measures are unnecessary.
“I think we’re overreacting to this,” said Flynn, who represents the district where the Dec. 2 shooting began. “I do not want an armed camp here.”
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