Odd things have been going on in this county. It is a heavily Republican county, starting east of Sacramento and ending at South Lake Tahoe. About half the county is federal forest lands.
The county has been very nervous about Agenda 21, because it sees itself a prime target to have its infrastructure destroyed by the federal government, with the idea of muscling the people who live there out. The Forest Service has been at the forefront of this.
Equally odd, a state mandated civil grand jury was tasked to investigate local government in the county, but after a heated dispute, 14 of the 19 members of the grand jury resigned as a group. Therefore a judge dissolved the grand jury.
While they cannot say what happened or why they quit, I suspect that they were being used to pressure county and local officials, and they refused to do it.
I think El Dorado I a lot like my county. The Grand Jury probably tried to subpoena state agents for violation of local rights. Their County Counsel likely told them they couldn’t. They likely tried to establish their own independent court and were told they didn’t have that power either.