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Volume 28, Issue 4
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Debt-ridden Stockton a battleground for police union, City Hall
The first eyebrow-raising salvo in the fight between the cops and this city was the billboards.
"Welcome to the 2nd most dangerous city in California: Stop laying off cops!" read one at the city's entrance. Other billboards posted by the Stockton Police Officers' Assn. depicted splattered blood, gave a running tally of the city's record number of homicides — and the city manager's phone number.
Since then, the fight moved closer to home: The police union bought the house next to City Manager Bob Deis...
LINK - LATimes.com
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CDCR defends realignment against critics
In Friday's editorial, "Realignment fails early test," a connection was made between the shooting death of a former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) inmate during the commission of a home invasion and the 2011 public safety realignment.
Before realignment, offenders who had served their full sentence were released by CDCR with more than 95 percent returning to the county of their last legal residence while being supervised by state parole. Under realignment all offenders continue to serve their full sentence, but if their current commitment was for a nonserious, nonviolent, nonsexual offense, the offender now reports to the county's probation department for post-release community supervision...
LINK - OrovilleMR.com
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Op-Ed: Four ways to relieve overcrowded prisons
Necessity can spur novelty. Even political novelty. As the need for fiscal austerity grows, an unlikely alliance has emerged between policymakers and public advocates who have long sought criminal justice reform. These policymakers are realizing what advocates have reiterated for years: The nation’s addiction to incarceration as a curb on crime must end. The evidence is staggering.
In California, 54 prisoners may share a single toilet and 200 prisoners may live in a gymnasium supervised by two or three officers. Suicidal inmates may be held for protracted periods in cages without toilets and the wait times for mental health care sometimes reach 12 months...
LINK - CSMonitor.com
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More California women inmates serving time at home
California’s prison population has dropped by more than 8,000 inmates since October, when the state began shifting low-level criminals from state prisons to county jails. The state's prisons are under a federal court order to cut the inmate population by another 25,000 inmates by mid-2013. One way to do it is to assign more female inmates to do their time outside of prison.
Jessica Carrillo says she hopes to get out a month early from Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla. The 19-year-old from Merced County got sent to state prison for 10 months after she violated parole on a juvenile offense of grand theft auto. Carrillo is confident that she meets the criteria for alternative custody. Her crime wasn’t a serious, violent or sexual offense and she’s the breadwinner for her family - or will be. Carrillo is eight months pregnant...
LINK - SCPR.org
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Parolee arrested in 2007 Lompoc homicide
Lompoc police have arrested Charles Alonzo Owens, 25, a parolee who is in custody in the Santa Barbara County Jail, in connection with the 2007 shooting death of Lompoc resident Michael Jason Spradling, the department announced today.
Spradling, then 25, was shot in the late evening of June 11, 2007, and was found by officers lying in the 400 block of the N. L and M street alley after they received a 911 call from a citizen who reported hearing gunshots....
LINK - LompocRecord.com
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One-dollar robber nabbed in Desert Hot Springs, police say
A gas-pump robbery Wednesday evening netted a Desert Hot Springs parolee one dollar — and a trip to jail, according to police.
Baltazar Juarez Sanchez, 51, demanded money about 6 p.m. from someone pumping gas at Arco/ampm, 12-775 Palm Drive, according to police.
He got one dollar...
LINK - MyDesert.com
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Parolee nabbed by Lyons police for string of burglaries
A 31-year-old California man on parole for attempted murder was charged with one count of felony burglary and one count of felony criminal damage to property for the Lyons burglary of the Cuts for Less hair salon, 7840 Ogden Ave., on Dec. 18.
Lyons police attempted to stop a vehicle early Dec. 21 about 12:45 a.m. for suspicion of burglary. The vehicle, a 1989 Cadillac Deville with Nevada license plates, fled the Lyons officer from the 4300 block of South Harlem Avenue and continued onto the Interstate 55 Stevenson Expressway...
LINK - MySuburbanLife.com
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Juvenile offender fire camp closing
A Camarillo camp where juvenile offenders have been trained to fight fires will close Friday, leaving only one similar camp open in California, authorities said Wednesday.
Youths who have been trained at the camp will be reassigned to a camp known as Pine Grove in Amador County in Northern California.
At its peak, the Camarillo camp, known as the S. Carraway Public Service and Fire Center, housed five fire crews, said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire...
LINK - VCStar.com
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Meet and Confer Notices: December 30, 2011
Meet and Confer Notices for the Week of December 30, 2011 including:
- AB 109 Institution Conversion - CIW Supervisory
- AB 109 Institution Conversion - CCI
- AB 109 Institution Conversion - CCI Supervisory
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Fortuna police arrest Loleta high-speed chase suspect
The Fortuna Police Department arrested a parolee -- wanted for leading authorities on a high-speed chase and weapons-related charges -- Thursday afternoon after receiving a tip from the Rio Dell Police Department. A second person was arrested on a felony warrant.
Rio Dell police received a tip that Christopher Glen Mell, 30, was at a residence within the Basayo Village housing complex in Fortuna. Mell was on active parole for weapons-related charges and for failure to check in with his parole agent. Mell was also wanted by the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office for a high-speed chase that occurred in Loleta earlier this week, and on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm....
LINK - Times-Standard.com
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Man surrenders to police after holding out in apartment
A wanted man surrendered to police Thursday night after refusing to come out of an apartment.
Bakersfield police were called to the 500 block of H Street at about 4:23 p.m. for a report of a wanted parolee-at-large inside an apartment, according to a Bakersfield Police Department news release.
Inside the apartment was Joshua Pearce, 29, of Bakersfield, who police said had an outstanding arrest warrant for parole violation...
LINK - Bakersfield.com
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December 30, 2011
This is CCPOA's 5150 information hotline for Friday, December 30, 2011.
CCPOA NEWS
Meet & Confer Notices – CCPOA has responded with requests for Meet & Confer discussions regarding four new notices sent out by CDCR. One notice for rank and file will address the conversion of 85 reception center beds at CIW into 68 SHU beds and another notice to discuss the impact on correctional supervisors. The two other notices address the conversion of 950 reception center beds to 750 SNY beds at Tehachapi for rank and file and the last notice addresses the same changes at Tehachapi but focuses on the impact to correctional supervisors. We have posted the notices from CDCR and the requests for meet and confer from CCPOA on our website if you would like more information.
PeaceKeeper Online – We have also posted and electronic copy of the PeaceKeeper magazine for viewing on the website as well. If you have any article suggestions or topics you would like to see covered in the PeaceKeeper, please email your ideas to Nichol Gomez at nichol.gomez@ccpoa.org.
CDCR NEWS
CDCR Nearly Makes Court-Ordered Reductions – The first deadline has arrived for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to begin reducing the inmate population at all of its thirty-three adult prisons in the state. In May of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its prison population by 33,000 inmates. The prison realignment will be handled in six month intervals. As of December 27, the CDCR was expected to reduce populations to 167 percent of design capacity, or 133,000 inmates. The CDCR has until January tenth to submit its population report, but as of December 21, state prisons still needed to release another 15,000 inmates to meet that goal. The next deadline is June 27, 2012. Prison populations must be at 155 percent design capacity. On December 27, 2012, populations must be at 147 percent design capacity. The last prison realignment deadline is June 27, 2013. At that time, state prison populations must be at 137.5 percent design capacity. We posted some of the news stories on this topic on the website.
DJJ Camarillo fire Camp to Close – A Camarillo camp where juvenile offenders have been trained to fight fires is closing this week, leaving only one similar camp open in California. Youths who have been trained at the camp will be reassigned to the Pine Grove camp in Amador County. At its peak, the S. Carraway Public Service and Fire Center, housed five fire crews. For more on the camp closure, please see the news item on the front page of the website.
CAPITOL NEWS
LAO Releases analysis of Pension Reform Initiatives – Two ballot proposals aimed at cutting government pension costs could wind up increasing them, are fraught with legal and fiscal uncertainty and would put pressure on governments to increase public employee pay, according to new analyses of the measures. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) released its takes on two public pension reform plans filed by Dan Pellissier, president of California Pension Reform. The group hopes to put one of the proposals to a statewide vote next November. The full news story and the LAO analysis is on the CCPOA website.
Legislature to Return – The state Legislature will return to Sacramento next week to begin their work for the year. The state budget and implementation of realignment will continue to be major topics for the new year. The governor will give his “State of the State” address and then release his annual state budget by January 10th. Also, as it is an election year, CCPOA will continue interviewing candidates and seek to support those that understand and appreciate the challenges correctional peace officers face. A number of proposed ballot measures including the pension reductions mentioned earlier, a prohibition on union political activity, retirement increases, state employee tax increases and the elimination of collective bargaining for state workers have either qualified or are seeking to qualify for the November ballot. We’ll keep you posted.
NOTICES
CCPOA Annual Conference and Convention – CCPOA has announced the dates for the annual convention and training conference. It will be held at the Peppermill Resort in Reno on Wednesday and Thursday, August 29th & 30th, with a state board meeting on Tuesday the 28th.
State Board Meeting – The January Board of Directors meeting will cover two days and has been set for January 20 & 21 at the Capitol Plaza Holiday Inn.
Chapter Presidents Training – New Chapter President training will be held the day before, on Thursday, January 19th at CCPOA Headquarters.
When staff assaults occur, please send a completed staff assault alert form to Nichol Gomez at nichol.gomez@ccpoa.org.
For the latest information on pension reform, prison realignment, private prisons and parolee problems, please go to the CCPOA website where we post the
information as it comes in.
Thanks for calling the 5150 hotline, have a safe shift, and a Happy New Year!
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New warden at San Quentin State Prison
A Folsom Prison official has been named as the new warden at San Quentin State Prison.
Kevin Chappelle, the chief deputy warden at Folsom State Prison, will step into the top post at the Marin County prison on Jan. 3, state prison officials announced Thursday.
"He's a great leader, well-respected by his staff and by the inmates," said Folsom spokesman Lt. Paul Baker. "San Quentin is lucky to get him."
Chappelle will succeed acting Warden Mike Martel. Martel, who began his career 30 years ago as a correctional officer at San Quentin, was appointed to that position on Feb. 22...
LINK - MercuryNews.com
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Adelanto seeks 6,100-bed prisons from CDCR
Negotiating with the state to build a new prison, attracting industrial development and promoting recreation options at the city's first high school are among Adelanto's top priorities for 2012.
The city is now working up the drawings for a new prison that would be operated by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and could pour up to $5 million annually into city coffers.
The proposal is for the city to use bond or private financing to build two side-by-side facilities that house up to 6,100 inmates and staff roughly 2,000 employees. The proposed 226-acre site is in industrial area west of Highway 395 off Cassia Road, near the current San Bernardino County Adelanto Detention Center...
LINK - VVDailyPress.com
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Pension reform debate is about to heat up
The next few weeks will draw the lines more sharply in the 2012 debate over public employee pensions. A road map:
On Monday, the attorney general's office expects to issue the titles and descriptive summaries for two potential November ballot initiatives that aim to cut government pension costs.
One of the measures backed by California Pension Reform would put newly hired state and local government workers into "defined contribution" plans similar to a 401(k) account...
LINK - SacBee.com
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Editorial: Prison progress, at last
A decade after the state of California agreed to improve inmate health care in the state prison system, it is finally on track to fulfill that agreement.
This week, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced that it has met the first target set by federal courts to reduce the overall number of inmates.
At the end of 2011, the number of inmates in the state's 33 prisons -- including the two in Vacaville, the California Medical Facility and California State Prison, Solano -- was slightly under the 133,000 goal set by the court...
LINK - TheReporter.com
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CCPOA Member Alert: Parole Agent Update
The agent that was shot on January 4 in Lake View Terrace was transported to a nearby hospital where he underwent surgery later that evening. Prior to surgery, he was sitting up in the hospital bed, in very good spirits, conversing with family and friends. We are told that the surgery went well...
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Illinois pension reform signed into law
Public employees can no longer rely on some loopholes to inflate their state benefits, including one that allowed two union officials to qualify for teachers’ retirement perks after a single day in the classroom, under a law signed Thursday.
The law, which takes effect immediately, also aims to end the practice of double dipping. In some cases —notably in the Chicago area — employees took leaves of absence from city jobs, took full-time union jobs, then collected pensions from both.
The legislation also says current union leaders can’t base public pensions on union pay checks; now their pay will be based on their salaries when they leave their government jobs...
LINK - SJ-R.com
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Jerry Brown budget would slash 3,000 state jobs, merge departments
Gov. Jerry Brown's 2012-13 budget proposal would cut state government by a few thousand jobs and consolidate nearly 50 state organizations, while avoiding furloughs.
Brown's plan would reduce the state's workforce by some 3,000 positions, mostly from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The savings would fill just a tiny fraction of the $9.2 billion budget hole projected through June 2013....
LINK - SacBee.com
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