When Sonoma County Correctional Officer, Jeff DiCello, wrote a letter of dissatisfaction to Sonoma County Independent newspaper, he didn’t even intend for his letter to be published. DiCello only wanted to voice his disgust with a series of articles about the jail which implied that a number of inmate deaths […]
July 19—22, 2000 Trustee Andy Schlenker and the legal administrator Larry Friedman recently attended the Montana Police Protective Association (MPPA) Convention in Missoula, Montana. Trustee Schlenker addressed the delegates. He discussed the progress of the Legal Defense Fund over the last year, as well as recounting our successes in a […]
Posted by Ken Yuwiler As our diligent readers will recall, in an earlier issue we chronicled the saga of Santa Monica Police Officer John Biel, who was successful in having a hearing officer overturn a 40-hour suspension. In that matter, Biel was suspended when he sought overtime after receiving approval […]
Imagine for a moment that you somehow make it to the million dollar question, and Regis Philbin asks you: “Who, without warning, took over an entire prison, commandeered the warden to its bidding, and held correctional officers incommunicado while threatening them with arrest and incarceration if they refused to answer […]
Posted by Mike Rains It was an honor and a challenge to be requested by the trustees of the PORAC Legal Defense Fund to appear as Amicus Curiae for PORAC and the Legal Defense Fund in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case entitled Sherol DiRuzza v. County […]