HPAC President sends letter to director of Department of Developmental Services Re-cap of cordial meeting with DDS officials and acceptance of more cooperative effort A two-page, follow-up letter from HPAC President Lorenzo Indick to DDS Director Terry Delgadillo and her top aides after a June 16 meeting can be read below. Indick, HPAC Board member Joseph Fessenden, and CSLEA Legislative and Political Liaison Coby Pizzotti met with Delgadillo, Deputy Director Patricia Flannery, Chief Deputy Director Mark Hutchison, and DDS manager of human resources support services Jean Johnson in Sacramento. More...
CSLEA, HPAC, DDS to meet Wednesday on four important issues Closure of Lanterman a major topic of concern Officer morale, training, staffing, and the closure of Lanterman will be the four major topics discussed when representatives from CSLEA and HPAC sit down with Terri Delgadillo, director of the Department of Developmental Services, on Wednesday, June 16, in Sacramento. CSLEA Legislative and Political Liaison Coby Pizzotti, HPAC President Lorenzo Indick, and HPAC Board member Joseph Fessenden will apprise the director of members' concerns. More...
Hospital police grievance hearings the lead story in latest CSLEA Alert -- Arbitrator selected on health and safety issue The CSLEA legal team is asking hospital police at Department of Mental Health facilities to give them their most life-threatening stories. Five grievance hearings, two in Napa, three in Southern California, have been set, starting September 21. More information and the complete story can be found in the latest CSLEA Alert, attached below and being sent to officers with e-mail addresses. More...
CSLEA-backed gassing bill passes Assembly committee unanimously 7-to-0 vote sends felony measure to Appropriations Committee The CSLEA Government Affairs team successfully navigated Assembly Bill 2246 (Blakeslee) out of the Assembly Public Safety Committee on a 7-to-0 vote April 20. The measure, which would make it a felony for patients housed at state mental hospitals to "gas" (the throwing of bodily fluids or excrement on the skin or membranes of another) staff, now heads to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, where its unanimous, bipartisan support in Public Safety makes it a high priority. More...
Guest editorial on gassing of Atascadero Hospital police runs in SLO Tribune -- CSLEA president calls on local assemblyman to assist with legislation The San Luis Obispo Tribune ran a March 4 guest editorial from CSLEA President Alan Barcelona calling on legislators to give prosecutors the same legal tools to charge patients for their gassing attacks on hospital police as they have with other peace officers. More...
