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August 19, 2010

Schwarzenegger hires second law firm to fight for furloughs

The Department of Personnel Administration has retained a second law firm to handle furlough litigation.

Hanson Bridgett has a contract capped at $500,000. That's in addition to the $1.75 million contract the administration has with Sacramento-based Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard ofSacramento.

DPA tells us that Hanson Bridgett, which has offices in San Francisco, was brought in due to the proliferation of furlough litigation in Bay Area courts.

We've asked DPA for a copy of the Hanson contract. The funds to pay Kronick and Hanson come out ofthe general fund, so the governor's outside furlough lawsuit representation won't be paid for services rendered after June 30 until a 2010-11 budget is in place,

Thanks for calling CCPOA's 5150 hotline. Today is Monday, August 16, 2010 and here is the latest information from Sacramento:

FURLOUGH NEWS
CCPOA’s Executive Vice President Chuck Alexander issued a memo late last week regarding the governor’s most recent furlough order.

CCPOA was in Alameda Superior Court last week for our TRO hearing regarding the new round of furloughs. As we were assigned to be heard in Judge Roesch's Court, the State exercised an objection and our case was assigned to another judge. At 2pm we had our case heard. During the hearing the State represented to the Court that the memo suspending tomorrow’s furlough DOES apply to Unit 6. As such, the court remanded our TRO request to Judge Brick to be heard along with the other cases already in front of him. We will be back in court Wednesday August 18 in front of Judge Brick.

To read the entire memo from CCPOA Executive Vice President Chuck Alexander, as well as review the relevant documents for this matter, please go to the CCPOA website.

SUPERVISORY UPDATE
The following was sent in to us by CCPOA Supervisory Vice President Kevin Raymond:

The date for the first CCPOA supervisor information forum has been set for Friday September 17, 2010 at CCPOA headquarters in West Sacramento. This date was chosen to allow a time frame for members to request time off, agree to a swap etc. An RSVP is requested from those planning on attending to ensure we have enough room in the large conference room at CCPOA and do not need to move to another location.

Please see the CCPOA website for the complete text of Mr. Raymond’s update and additional information concerning the information forum.

CCPOA NEWS
CCPOA is pleased to announce the latest in a series of informative videos. Titled, “Working Together,” the video lays out a number of cost-saving measures and policy changes which could help the state of California reduce expenditures while implementing needed correctional reforms.

The video can be viewed on the CCPOA website.

By way of reminder, please submit your forms for the FLSA lawsuit if you have not done so already. Copies of the forms are available in pdf. Format on the CCPOA website. If you would like CCPOA to be able to represent you in this case, you need to fill out the forms and submit them to CCPOA HQ as soon as possible. For more information on this lawsuit, please see the front page of the CCPOA website under the heading, FLSA Action.

Also, we have posted the new Summer 2010 Legislative Update under the “Capitol Watch” section of the website. Please take a few moments to read this informative update provided by CCPOA’s legislative department.

CDCR NEWS
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to notify the public whenever a sex offender on parole removes his or her Global Positioning System tracking device and tries to escape supervision. The governor’s action came after a 17 News investigation, which revealed the CDCR never notified the public when a paroled sex offender removed the device and went off the radar, because there was no law requiring them to do so.

The state Office of the Inspector General has found that some state prisons are refusing to implement weapons training recommendations - leading to safety concerns. Prison officials at Salinas Valley and CIM, according to the IG’s office, "allow custody officers who have not fulfilled quarterly weapons proficiency requirements to work in armed posts," including regular employees, guards providing vacation or sick relief, or those swapping assignments. Corrections Secretary Matthew Cate responded in a letter that budget shortages have made such training infeasible.

COST SAVINGS
An officer at High Desert wrote, asking why “tax payers have to be responsible for 100 % of the outrageous medical bills of inmates! We as law abiding citizens have to pay a percentage of our hard earned money toward our medical bills. Why can't they be held accountable for a percentage of their medical care through some kind of restitution? “

An officer at Folsom tells us that “. . . every morning there is a coach to show a couple of her hand selected inmates how to toss around a ball. You have got to be kidding me!!! I have to pay $250 for my son to play each sport in high school and the state is paying for a coach to show grown men how to play catch, this is crazy. Something is really wrong here.”

Another officer said:
“CDCR contracts out to a private company to provide the packages that inmates receive. But the taxpayers must still pay the institutional staffing costs associated with receiving and distributing those inmate packages. I believe those costs should be picked up by those who choose to invoke or participate in the privilege, not the taxpayers. The contracted vender should have a 'Handling Charge' associated with every inmate package processed. The "Handling Charge' should go back to the State to off-set the costs associated with the staffing required to carry out the privilege. Inmate packages are not a right, they are a privilege. So why should taxpayers be forced to fully fund this privilege?


Thanks for the suggestions and as always, if you have any cost savings ideas, please send your comments to ryan.sherman@ccpoa.org

Also, if you have any staff assaults at your prison, please forward your information to nichol.gomez@ccpoa.org

For current information on private prison news and the latest on parolee problems throughout the state as well as on-going updates on the minimum wage issue and other current topics, please visit the CCPOA website, there’s a lot of new information posted there.

Thanks for calling the CCPOA 5150 hotline and have a safe shift.

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RALPH C. DILLS ACT
(STATE EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS)
AS OF JANUARY 1, 2005

* CCPOA Legal Defense*
Toll Free-(800) 882-9906
Fax- (916) 372-9805

* CCPOA Benefit Trust*
(800) IN UNIT 6
Fax- (916) 372-2224

* Employee Assistance Program*
(866) 327-4762

* Correctional Peace Officers Foundation*
(800) 800- CPOF

*California State Auditor's* Whistleblower's Hotline:
(800) 952-5665

CDC's Worker's Compensation Fraud Hotline
(866) 426-6412
or
(916) 327-3490

DPA Web Site

SPB Web Site

Calif. Public Employment Relations Board

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.