Senior Deputy Probation Officer Theresa Hunnewell faced a no-win situation. Only several months into her promotion as a senior deputy, she found herself with the untenable assignment of trying to find a juvenile placement facility that would accept a minor named “James.” Sounds easy enough except that James had either […]
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Posted by Mike Rains As I stated in the first “Installment” of this story, space, limitations preclude me from getting into the sort of detail I would like to about what happened in the two trials of this case. I harbor enough anger, resentment, disappointment, and disgust about the criminal […]
Posted by William R. Rapoport On July 12, 2001, Officer Gilbert Granado of the San Carlos Police Department (PD) came into the department after a court appearance but before his evening shift began and noticed that one of the female records clerks (complainant) seemed to be despondent. He motioned for […]
Probation Corrections Officer and SEBA member Charles Ramirez, who was fired from his position in January 2004 based on allegations of assaulting two minors at the West Valley Detention Center, has been exonerated of all wrongdoing and returned to duty by the San Bernardino County Civil Service Commission. The commission’s […]
Posted by Bill Hadden, ESQ., Robert Wexler, ESQ. Having represented many peace officers in cases that have involved, in differing respects, fitness for duty evaluation, it is our experience that line officers, management and the medical community alike have little grasp of what rights and obligations attached to each of […]