Consulting

Separation statement. The Corrections Pest Reference is maintained independently of the consulting practice described on this page. Engagement with the practice is not required to use the reference, and the reference does not change based on who is or is not a client.

The author of this reference, Trenton S. Frazer, Board Certified Entomologist (BCE #B3413), maintains a professional consulting practice, Frazer Applied Entomology. Through that practice he can be retained by counties, sheriffs' offices, departments of corrections, detention operators, and their counsel for the work described below. The practice is national in scope. Engagements are fee-based.

The BCE credential is held by Mr. Frazer personally and is issued by the Entomological Society of America Certification Corporation. It can be verified on the ESACC roster.

Facility Pest Compliance Review

A fixed-fee engagement that answers two questions for one facility: which pest control authorities reach it, and whether its records show each requirement was met. It starts with the facility's jurisdiction, operator, and agreements (ICE, U.S. Marshals Service, state inmate housing), continues with an escorted walk of the kitchen, receiving, storage, housing, intake, and perimeter, and ends with a written review organized by authority: requirement, record found, gap, and who owns the correction. It is a review of what the records and conditions show on the day, not a certification of compliance.

Facilities usually call at one of these points:

• Before an ACA, ICE, U.S. Marshals Service, Department of Corrections, or health department inspection
• After an inspection finding, a pest-related grievance, or an outbreak of bed bugs, lice, or rodents
• When a pest control contract is up for renewal or rebid
• When a new administrator or food service contractor takes over
• When a claim or lawsuit names pest conditions (engaged through counsel)

The Compliance Map is the free, self-serve version. For a facility-specific applicability review, send the facility's profile:

A note on records: a public facility's contracts, its contractors' service records, and the results of inspections against its standards are often public records under state law. In Utah they normally are, under Utah Code 63G-2-301; Florida's jail standards make FMJS inspection reports and responses public records subject to review under Chapter 119, Florida Statutes. Facilities that want a review conducted at the direction of counsel should say so at the outset.

Vermin Grievance File Review

A fixed-scope review of how one facility's pest grievances were handled, built on the eight questions. It takes the facility's pest-related grievances, kites, and sick-call complaints from a set period, usually the last twelve months, traces each one through the grievance-to-work-order loop to the records that answer each question, and talks with the staff who run that loop. The deliverable is a written review: for each grievance, which of the eight questions the file answers and which it does not, where in the loop the record went missing, and who owns each correction. It is a review of records, not a legal opinion or a certification, and it can be engaged by the facility directly or through its counsel.

It is usually requested at one of these points:

• After a pest-related grievance, claim, or notice of claim
• Before a jail standards, accreditation, ICE, or U.S. Marshals Service inspection
• When a new administrator or a new pest control provider takes over
• When counsel is evaluating or defending a conditions-of-confinement claim

What a Board Certified Entomologist Can Be Retained to Do

Facility pest program assessment

An entomological assessment of a facility's kitchens, housing units, intake, commissary, warehouse, and perimeter, and of its current pest program, against the authorities that apply to it.

Contract and scope review

Independent review of an existing pest control agreement or solicitation: scope, service frequency, records, term, renewal, and cancellation, ahead of the facility's next decision point.

Solicitation drafting

A pest management scope of work written for the facility's authorities and security procedures, built from the free model scope of work.

Staff training and member webinars

Training for jail staff, and webinars for sheriffs' associations and county risk pools, walking through the authorities that reach their facilities and the free tools on this reference. See For Risk Pools.

Entomologist of Record engagement

An ongoing arrangement under which a named Board Certified Entomologist is responsible for the entomological basis of the facility's pest program and available to its facility, food service, and health services leadership.

Expert witness work

Case review, opinion, and testimony in matters involving pest conditions in correctional and detention facilities, for counsel on either side. See expert witness services at Frazer Applied Entomology.

Contact

All inquiries about the practice, and all questions and corrections about the reference, use the contact route below. Fees are discussed on inquiry; no schedule is published here.