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We have a page which lists every SCC (Santa Clara County) government officer in 2007 whose job title included "CORR". This list seems to include almost all correctional officers of 2007.
The C.O.s must accept responsibility for their misconduct.
There are people who philosophically accept the immense injustice (including crimes, lies, and torts) done by powerful people to others but are beside themselves with indignation upon hearing false gossip that a powerful person was mistreated.
The account below, which is written from memory, may not be perfectly accurate.
The IRB (Infraction Review Board) decides whether prisoners are guilty of infractions. There was a lawyer who represented of the County Bar Association on the IRB. There was a deputy sheriff (a sergeant, perhaps) who represented the Office of Sheriff, also called the Sheriff's Department, at the IRB. He scheduled cases, for example. He did not belong to the IRB. He did not vote. He tried to help the Office of the Sheriff win cases against prisoners. He prosecuted. He told the lawyer that he, the prosecutor, would arrange to have tickets (not serious crimes) taken care of. He said that he would fix tickets although he did not use the word "fix". The lawyer did not understand this as a bribe but rather as a favor for a fellow insider. In writing, the lawyer reported the prosecutor's offer to internal affairs.
Many officers who manage the jail's activities don't do so lawfully enoughy to be entrusted with operating the jail. Illegality, even criminality, is a pervasive problem in the jail's management.
In the Elmwood jail (which is on Abel), witness1 watched and heard a C.O. supervisor order a C.O., against the C.O.'s spoken resistance (but not explicit refusal), to give a prisoner, who had been prescribed a medical meal, an ordinary meal and to do so as if it were the physician-prescribed meal. The prescribed meal hadn't arrived (from the distant place at which it had been prepared) or couldn't be found and the supervisor realized that his lie was the easiest way to handle the problem. In a subsequent conversation unrelated to that incident, witness1 was told that there is no rule at the jail prohibiting a C.O. from lying to a prisoner. It is common for C.O.s and other staff in DoC jails to lie to prisoners.
As this incident illustrates, lying actually is required by DoC management, not merely permitted, regardless of what management may pretend.
The word "Resolved" (possibly "resolved") appeared on a DoC form which C.O.s and other officers completed in response to a prisoner's grievance. When a C.O. or other person entered information into the form, he was supposed to check that box if, but only if, the prisoner's grievance had been resolved. There was a C.O. who knew English poorly who always, immediately checked the Resolved box, well before interviewing the prisoner or doing other investigation. This was a kind of lying.
It was common to literally destroy and discard prisoners' grievance forms, particularly if they would damage an officer's career or cause much work to process. In one case, a prisoner was brought to the jail from the prison in which he normally lived. He briefly lived in the jail while testifying for the prosecution in a nearby courthouse. While he lived in the jail, he did crimes, and violations of jail rules, against prisoners and at least one C.O. For the crime he did to the C.O., any other prisoner would have been prosecuted and then incarcerated in a jail-type facility. Every grievance form against that prisoner was destroyed. He was not prosecuted.
The county government occasionally claims that it did not previously know of a problem. The truth often is that the county knew because it had been told in a prisoner grievance form which subsequently was destroyed.
A prisoner sometimes can be barred from suing a jail if he, before suing, failed to file a prisoner grievance about the claim in his court case. As a result of this legal rule, some jails pretend to have a grievance system.
It would be useful, if DoC's grievance system is not simply abolished, to have mandatory, sequential numbering of all grievances with independent monitoring to verify that the grievances were processed (other than by destroying the grievance forms). In any well-run organization, complaints are a valuable source of information for management.
A witness occasionally heard C.O.s and other jail staff chatting with each other. That witness once heard a C.O., who seemed knowledgeable about the jail, telling other C.O.s that DoC management was "devious" in its treatment of C.O.s. It's difficult to imagine DoC management's devious treatment of C.O.s not including lies or statements which closely resemble lies.
In the late 1980s, the DoC was suddenly created and many new C.O.s were quickly hired. In an ordinary jail, a new C.O. works with experienced colleagues who can fill him in about how to do his job. In the DoC of the late 1980s and early 1990s, there often were new C.O.s working together, none of whom knew the right way to do his job. The blind led the blind. When a C.O. got in trouble, it was common to lie his way out of the problem.
Impartial people, none of whom are in the DoC chain of command, should inspect food delivered to prisoners who are on medically prescribed diets, to find out how often the prisoners are given wrong meals. An officer's lying to a prisoner should be a misdemeanor (not fully legal as it supposedly is now). The inside of a jail should and could be a safe, lawful, ethical, polite place, not the dangerous, unlawful, unethical, rude place Santa Clara County's jails are. First, a much higher proportion of the staff should be lawful, ethical, and polite.
Many prisoners in DoC jail agree to plea bargains to escape torts and crimes, including torts and crimes by C.O.s and other staff. Furthermore, the county government has a duty to prevent prisoners from experiencing torts and crimes regardless of who does the torts and crimes. If the prisoners were treated legally by the county government, far fewer of them would agree to the plea bargains which they are offered. A county government officer (the district attorney) offers plea bargains. Courts should not accept plea bargains by prisoners who live in jails which are dangerous or unreasonably degrading to their prisoners because that danger and degradation is a kind of coercion. What the coerced prisoner asks himself is: "What do I have to say to get out of this jail as soon as possible?". A defense lawyer either may not know that his client's motive (for accepting a plea bargain) is to escape crime and tort, or the lawyer may (to help the client) conceal the motive. The court is forbidden to approve a plea bargain if the court is not persuaded that it is voluntary. Most Santa Clara County jail prisoners' plea bargains are not voluntary.
It would be interesting to scientifically study whether plea bargains made in SCC (Santa Clara County) by SCC jail prisoners are harsher for them than plea bargains made by comparable SCC defendants (with comparable cases) who are not prisoners. If the answer were "Yes", that would indicate coercion of prisoners. Such a study should also be done for prisoners elsewhere, not just SCC prisoners.
We are under the impression that, in America, prisoners are not permitted to volunteer to be subjects in scientific research which might harm them. We agree with that policy. Similarly, we think that prisoners should not be allowed to make a plea bargain.
In the late 1980s, there was much talk and publicity that the county's jail system had a high escape rate (especially from the Elmwood Facility in Milpitas) and suicide rate. We are under the impression that the escape rate was high at least for the Elmwood Facility. Escape is a serious matter because the punishment for escape can be worse than for the underlying crime. A prisoner's suicide can be a kind of escape particularly if he didn't try suicide elsewhere. Prisoners do not lightly escape. In our opinion, torts and crimes, including by C.O.s and other staff, cause some DoC prisoners' escapes and suicides particularly when the prisoners had not engaged in similar behavior elsewhere. In our opinion, it's unfair for DoC staff first to persistently treat a prisoner in a seriously illegal manner (or even to fail to protect him from such treatment by his fellow prisoners), then later for the government to punish him for escaping from that mistreatment. That kind of mistreatment (in other words, seriously illegal treatment which causes some escapes) is common in DoC jails.
We oppose plea bargains and pleas. A layman is not qualified to offer an opinion about whether he is guilty of the crime of which he is accused. Furthermore, there often is coercion of prisoner-defendants (as discussed above regarding Santa Clara County jail) and occasionally there is coercion of other defendants. The fairest system is that every case go to trial. If a case goes to trial, there is no need of a plea.
C.O.s have vast political power. Prisoners, even those who have not been convicted or even tried, get much contempt. Most of what we write is futile. Nevertheless, we think that someone who knows the truth should tell it. That we do here.
Late one night but before midnight, a Santa Clara County C.O. woke a sleeping prisoner by saying "Good morning!". The just wakened prisoner answered, "It's not morning." The C.O. said something like: "Not only that, I don't hope it'll be good for you." Then, the C.O. walked away and the prisoner went back to sleep.
If one wanted to investigate serious violations of prisoners' rights, one might do so by a variety of criteria; for example: when violations are most likely to occur, which prisoners are most likely to experience serious violations, which members of the staff are most likely to do serious violations, during which activities serious violations are most likely to occur, and where serious violations are most likely to occur. When one analyzes by time (in other words, when violations are most likely to occur): in poorly managed jails, there are disproportionately many violations in a prisoner's first hundred minutes there and in his last two hundred minutes there.
As a possible example, of a serious violation of a prisoner's rights early in his incarceration (although perhaps not literally in his first, one hundred minutes), consider the beating given to Titus Ricker by SCC C.O.s, for which SCC eventually paid him $185,000. Rucker's lawyer was John Burris. We don't know if it's relevant (to a legal analysis of what the C.O.s did in jail) that Rucker supposedly was disabled, over seventy, and in civil custody, not criminal custody. Would the treatment he got have been suitable for a man who was able, twenty, and in criminal custody? We guess, based on some anonymous comments on the Web, that he may have displeased the staff while being fingerprinted and the staff then responded wrongly.
Being fingerprinted involves two people, prisoner P and fingerprinter F. P sometimes is told to let his hand be limp. F holds and moves P's hand and fingers. When the process is over, that hand has been fingerprinted. For most prisoners, being fingerprinted is not a big deal. However, some Ps reflexively (automatically, unthinkingly) resist having their hand held and moved by F. F normally handles this by quietly talking to P. In the Santa Clara County DOC prisoner intake area (in Main Jail or Main Jail North in San Jose), many C.O.s tend to use violence too often, to suppress or at least punish lack of cooperation. Our discussion of fingerprinting is based on our guess that fingerprinting is somehow relevant to the beating done to Rucker.
How new prisoners behave during intake often is influnced by what happened to them a little earlier. We do not know how Rucker was treated earlier (during arrest, transport to jail, and in jail starting when he arrived). The SCC prisoner intake staff (consisting of sworn officers and civilians) often imposes much discomfort, rudeness, and illegality on new prisoners.
The SCC jail system (for example, its prisoner intake process) has terrible QA (quality assurance, also called quality control). For example, there is no systematic attempt to get feedback from the new prisoners. The resulting ignorance of the staff perpetuates serious problems.
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This discussion is based on memory and therefore may be imperfect.
Litigation can be part of a QA program. If a prisoner suffers as the result of illegal treatment by the jail staff, he may, in theory, sue. If he wins, and sometimes even if he loses, the suit may cause improvements which reduce the frequency and severity of the kind of illegality which evoked the suit. There was a prisoner, Prisoner1, who sued SCC (Santa Clara County) government while he was still a prisoner. He was living in jail while he sued. He submitted court papers to the court by mail.
There are many kinds of law suit. In one kind, a prisoner sues for illegal condcut and the governmetn denies the conduct. The essence of the case is not whether conduct is legal (for example, whether prisoners in a specific jail have a right to halal cuisine) but whether the conduct occurred. This is a conduct suit (Did the defendant do the conduct to the plaintiff). A conduct suit can damage a C.O.'s career if he did the conduct or even if he should have prevented or reported it. Prisoner1's suit awas a conduct suit.
Many C.O.s (including deputies sheriff working as C.O.s) viciously, persistently persecuted him for that suit. Prisoner1 heard his written court papers read aloud by one C.O. to another. We don't know if that reading was a proper, on-the-job activity of C.O.s within earshot of Prisoner1. Although Prisoner1 had plenty of time to litigate, he abandoned the suit solely because of the sustained, vicious persecution he received.
Undercover officers posing as prisoners should sue the jail while incarcerated, then arrest C.O.s who mistreat them as a result. Many C.O.s would be arrested. Many C.O.s intentionally mistreat a prisoner out of a sense of solidarity with other C.O.s who did the illegal conduct described in the court papers.
Eventually Prisoner1 was no longer living in a jail or prison. One day, he went into a mall to shop. In the mall's parking lot, a man saw him who knew him and remembered the suit. That viewer made a bitter remark about the suit. Prisoner1 said nothing. Prisoner1 guessed that the viewe was a C.O. who was in the mall shopping lot by coincidence.
It would be fruitful to survey prisoners and former prisoners who have sued jails (for example, SCC jail) to find out about those institutions (for example, to find out about illegality by the staff). It is foreseeable that prisoners rights will be violated in a jail the staff of which illegally suppresses prisoners' law suits about mistreatment by the staff.
Our discussion above pertaisn to an SCC trait: the ways that many of the free people who work there (many of whom are C.O.s) feel about and treat each other. This trait is depicted well in a group of videos made about other, carceral institutions, which videos are linked to from "NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN: Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons". Part of that trait is that many C.O.s viciously retaliate for being ratted on (informed on) but don't complain if a colleague lies to get them out of a jam. Many C.O. oppose being ratted on, not being lied about if the lie is helpful. In any event: those videos, and the page which contains links to them, do not necessarily describe anyone named on this page or elsewhere in this site.
The county jail system used to have an IRB (infraction review board). Only the board could find a prisoner guilty of an infraction. One of the members of the IRB was a lawyer designated by the county bar association. The board met in the Elmwood jail. Usually prisoners lost those hearings but occasionally deputies did.
The lawyer arrived there. Near a door to a building he customarily entered, there was an empty rack with no sign indicating who could use it. The rack's structure and location indicated that it was intended for motorcycles, mopeds, and bicycles. He either attached his moped to the rack or began to do so. Without any discussion or explanation, a deputy sheriff forbad him to use the rack. The lawyer had to find another thing to which to lock his moped. He couldn't find any. Eventually, he locked the moped, not attached to anything else, in a space which normally would have been occupied by a car. He entered a jail building (the one the empty rack was adjacent to), went to the hearing room, apologized to everyone therefor for being late, sat down with the other board members (who were already seated, waiting for him). Then the hearing began. Later, in response to polite curiosity from someone about why the lawyer had been late, the lawyer answered. Thus, at least three people knew about the incident: the lawyer, the deputy, and the curious person.
Time passed.
The lawyer drove to the jail, parked his car in the jail parking lot, participated in a hearing there, returned to his car in the parking lot, drove to his office, and got out of the car. He discovered a book that someone had put in his car, seemingly while the car had been parked in the jail's parking lot: a paperback book of criminal law. Specifically, the book had the California Penal Code plus criminal law sections from the Vehicle Code and other codes. The book was in excellent condition. It did not seem to have been used much. A crime seems to have have been done by someone to get into the car. About two days later, a deputy sheriff called, said that it was his book, asked to come to the lawyer to get it, came, then left with his book.
These are general remarks. These remarks (and other remarks in this Web site) do not necessarily apply to anyone named in this Web site.
He has been a C.O. and a president of the SCC CPOA (Santa Clara County Correctional Peace Officers Association) union. He was president before Everett Fitzgerald. As a C.O., he was suspended without pay for ten days in response to complaints from three C.O.s claiming that he had sexually harassed them. Abbate is from Hawaii. He was born about 1959.
RICHARD T ABBATE Born 1959, 4718 FORD ST, BRENTWOOD, Contra Costa county, CA 94513.
He has been a C.O. and a SCC CPOA union vice president. Calabrese may be an Italian surname. William CALABRESE 2007apr13
WILLIAM J CALABRESE Born Nov 1963, 522 RAILWAY AVE, 10/15/2003, CAMPBELL, CA 95008
WILLIAM J CALABRESE Born Nov 1963, 2955 BUCKBOARD RD, PLACERVILLE, CA 95667.
GARY G CLINTON Born May 1951, 380 LONE TREE RD HOLLISTER, CA 95023
In 2006, he was a Department of Corrections spokesman.
MARK A CURSI Born Oct 1959, 3395 PINEWOOD TER, 03/12/2002, FREMONT, Alameda county, CA 94536
MARK A CURSI Born 1960, 7230 ORCHARD DR, 04/01/2006, GILROY, Santa Clara county, CA 95020 (408) 848-8284.
Birth MARK CURSI 1959-10-30, has lived in Gilroy (garlic capital of the world) CA 95020.
Born CURSI MARK A 10/30/1959 MALE, mother MATTE, county SANTA CLARA.
He has been a C.O.
ROBERT S DURR, 268 FRANCISCAN DR, 05/21/2003, DANVILLE, Contra Costa county, CA 94526
ROBERT M DURR Born Oct 1963, 268 FRANCISCAN DR, 07/21/2004, DANVILLE, CA 94526
ROBERT DURR, 4126 QUAIL RUN DR, DANVILLE, CA 94506
Birth ROBERT M DURR 1963-10-15, may have lived in San Jose CA 95129.
He's recently been a SCC POA (Santa Clara County Correctional Peace Officers Association) union president. He may have been president after Richard Abbate. Fitzgerald may possibly have been a DoC C.O. Fitzgerald's Fitz prefix is Irish.
EVERETT L FITZGERALD Born 1965, 998 LIPPERT AVE, 02/26/2003, FREMONT, CA 94539.
Recent neighbors of Fitzgerald may include:
He was involved, not necessarily wrongly, in a prisoner's death in a DoC jail. The county government, not necessarily rightly, punished him (as far as we know, for how he supervised, for supposedly excessive force, and other, supposed misconduct). This punishment lead to a legal dispute. The eventual result of the dispute was, as far as we know, Gong's victory: he was not punished. We do not know the facts or merits of the dispute; for example, we do not know if he did wrong. The county government paid between one and two million dollars to the dead prisoner's family.
The prisoner was being processed as a new prisoner at the main jail. To crudely oversimplify the county's theory of what happened as well as we understand that theory: the prisoner behaved wrongly, Gong responded wrongly. One of the questions this theory raises is why new prisoners behave badly during intake at main jail.
Speaking to a handcuffed prisoner in the intake unit, a civilian interrogator says in essence that he works for the government, that he's there to try to help the prisoner, and that the prisoner should answer questions. However, the interrogator should first give his business card to the prisoner. This requires showing the card to the prisoner so that he can be read it, then putting the card into the handcuffed prisoner's pocket if the prisoner permits. After the conversation ends (a day or week later, for example), the prisoner should know the interrogator's name and be able to tell it to a lawyer. The business card has the name and related information. After the prisoner has a the interrogator's business card, the interrogator should explicitly request the prisoner's informed consent to question him, and should immediately leave if informed consent is not given or is withdrawn. An interrogator should be assigned different work after questioning a prisoner who refuses to answer. The handcuffed prisoner is unable to leave and is unable to force the interrogator to leave.
The prisoner should be able to take notes of the interrogation. One way is to unhandcuff the prisoner and give him pen and paper. He could still be restrained. For example, his feet could be shackled to a table or to the floor. Another possibility is to have the interrogator give the prisoner a copy of the interrogator's notes if those notes are not confidential. Those two possibilities (prisoner takes notes, prisoner gets copy of interrogator's notes) are independent of each other.
The prisoner's informed consent means, among other things, that the prisoner, before consenting, was informed who would have access to information provided by the prisoner to the interrogator (for example: a prosecutor, a judge, a litigant against the prisoner in a civil court case, everyone including court employees who are in the courtroom at an arraignment or bail hearing, police, the interrogator's boss and colleagues). Interrogations are not done in a private room. They are done with sworn officers and other prisoners in the room. Interrogations should be forbidden except in a private room. Prisoners are not necessarily sober, fully awake, or well rested during the interrogation. Interrogators often begin interrogations in the middle of the night with blithe disregard for whether a prisoner consents to be interrogated then.
Government personnel, regardless of whether they are DoC employees, should be appropriately punished for their mistreatment of, perhaps especially for their crimes against, DoC prisoners. DoC has a duty to protect its prisoners, including from employees of other, government agencies. Some sworn officers and civilian employees persistently mistreat DoC prisoners. Not nearly enough officers are fired for mistreatment of prisoners, given tickets for misdemeanors against prisoners, or arrested for felonies against prisoners. DoC's IA (internal affairs) does not work dynamically enough. To use law enforcement jargon, IA is not proactive enough. For example, as far as we know, IA never tries to entrap staff (whether civilian or sworn) into crimes against prisoners. DoC mistreats its prisoners.
Our generalizations about the DoC, treatment of new prisoners, and the main jail's intake unit do not necessarily reflect current conditions even when worded in the present tense. Also, those generalizations do not necessarily apply to Sergeant Gong or anyone else named in this website.
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STEVEN K. GONG, 30 EUCLID AVE., 10/05/2004, LOS GATOS, Santa Clara County, CA 95030 (408) 354-7833.
STEVEN K. GONG Born Apr 1952, 443 CORINTHIA DR., MILPITAS, Santa Clara County, CA 95035. Milpitas has a county jail. Therefore, Milpitas might be a convenient town for a county C.O. to live in. The Gong at this address was born GONG STEVEN K 04/08/1952 MALE, mother WONG, county SAN JOAQUIN. Gong is a Chinese surname.
In Main Jail, C.O. Marcin Gruszecki has worked in a direct supervision module. Supposedly, There's always room for Jillo.
On 2 March 2007, the www.manta.com website says that Lt. John Jillo works for the City (not County) of Santa Clara. We don't know who told manta this. As far as we know, Jillo works for the Department of Correction of the County, not City, of Santa Clara.
"There's always room for Jillo.", above on this page, parodies advertising for Jello-O brand of gelatin food, which is made by Kraft Foods.
We are not certain that he works for the county's DoC.
MIKE LOMBARDO, 1043 LOVOI WAY, 08/14/2002, SAN JOSE, CA 95125.
Some recent neighbors of Lombardo may include:
STANLEY H KENDRICK Born 1957, 541 MEMORY LN, 10/05/2004, BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006.
STANLEY H KENDRICK Born Aug 1957, 757 MEMORY LN, 01/25/2002, BOULDER CREEK, CA 95006 (831) 338-2010.
STANLEY H KENDRICK, (510) 534-9349
STANLEY H KENDRICK Born 1957, 2560 ORCHARD PKWY, 01/25/2002, SAN JOSE, CA 95131.
born KENDRICK STANLEY J, 07/23/1955, MALE, mother PALMER, ALAMEDA county.
RICHARD G KITSON Born 1958, 1629 BLACKHAWK DR, 08/08/2003 SUNNYVALE, CA 94087.
RICK KITSON 1629 BLACKHAWK DR 10/05/2004 SUNNYVALE, CA 94087 (408) 830-0607
name, birth date, possible residence RICHARD G KITSON 1958-06-09 San Jose CA 95129 RICHARD KITSON 1958-06-09 Santa Cruz CA 95062 RICHARD G KITSON 1958-06-09 Monterey CA 93940
Born KITSON RICHARD G 06/09/1958 MALE, mother CARROLL, county SANTA CLARA.
Recent neighbors may include: 575 E HOMESTEAD RD, 94087, MarkC. St. John, Teacher, Fremont Union High School Dist.
He has been a C.O. and an SCC CPOA union treasurer. Meyers supposedly took a vacation to Mexico while on union-funded release time. According to our understanding (which could be wrong) of release time, union officials are granted time off with pay by the county from their regular C.O. jobs to do union business.
LONG V NGUYEN Born Apr 1943, 4597 PACIFIC RIM WAY 03/12/2002 SAN JOSE, CA 95121.
People with similar names have lived in southern California. People with similar names, born in April 1943, may have lived in Texas.
Recent neighbors may include:
4235 Partridge Dr, 95121, Ronald Brooks, Assistant Chief / Police Officer, Calif. Dept. Of Justice Bureau O, 2004 RNC $250.
Bryan Peretti has been a spokesman of the DoC. He may also have been a training officer or worked in a training unit of the DoC.
BRYAN B PERETTI, 1100 CULLIGAN BLVD, SAN JOSE, CA 95120
BRYAN A PERETTI, 1100 CULLIGAN BLVD, 04/01/2005, SAN JOSE, CA 95120
BRYAN B PERETTI, 1130 EL PRADO CT, 07/25/2003, SAN JOSE, CA 95120
BRYAN A PERETTI Born Jul 1963, 1130 EL PRADO CT, 05/21/2003, SAN JOSE, CA 95120
BRYAN PERETTI, 1133 COOPER RIVER DR, 03/12/2002, SAN JOSE, CA 95126
name, birth, possible residence BRYAN A PERETTI 1962-10-05 San Jose CA 95126 BRYAN A PERETTI 1962-10-05 Northridge CA 91325
MARY E. SHEFFIELD Born Dec 1953, 411 PARK AVE, 03/12/2002, SAN JOSE, CA 95110. Sheffield may be an English surname.
Recent neighbors may include:
Gail Walker born about 1948. Walker may be an English surname.
name, birth, possible residence GAIL K WALKER 1948-04-25 Los Altos CA 94024 GAIL L WALKER 1950-12-09 Palo Alto CA 94306
2004 December 23, ARRIOLA CHRISTOPHER; employer SANTA CLARA DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Christopher J. Arriola born in southern California, worked for the Los Angeles County District AttorneyÕs Office, then for the Santa Clara County District AttorneyÕs Office.
CHRISTOPHER J ARRIOLA, age 34, has lived on (South 4TH ST, SAN JOSE CA 95112) and (CRISTINA AVE, SAN JOSE CA 95125).
She ran for Santa Clara County Judge in 2000 and seems to have been a judge for the six years 2001-2006. Dolores Ann Carr, lawyer #94406, now is SCC District Attorney.
DELORES CARR Born Aug 1955, 306 PARK VICTORIA D, 11/17/1999, MILPITAS, CA 95035
DELORES CARR, 1065 LINCOLN AVE, 03/12/2002, SAN JOSE, CA 95125.
18 December 2003, SANTA CLARA County, California, former District Attorney George Kennedy, who was in the District Attorney's Office for 31 years, may be:
George W. Kennedy, age 58, 320 Johnson Avenue, Los Gatos CA 95030-6220.
(former?) Deputy District Attorney Karyn (born Karen) Sinunu 2007apr6
KARYN K SINUNU Born 1947, may recently have lived at 1555 EMORY ST, SAN JOSE, CA 95126.
APN: 274-08-027
Billing Address:
1555 EMORY ST, SAN JOSE, CA, 95126-2018
Document No. 19282997, Transfer Date 01 / 30 / 2007
Document Type GRANT DEED
Tax Default Date n/a
Tax Rate Area: 17-108
Net Assessed Value
Land
$ 236,310
Fixtures
$ 0
Homeowner
$ 7,000
Improvements
$ 248,747
Structure
$ 0
Other
$ 0
Total
$ 485,057
Personal Prop.
$ 0
$ 7,000
$ 0
$ 478,057
Karyn Kruttschni (possibly a truncated middle name) Sinunu, California lawyer #121068. She attended Mills College, Oakland CA.
When she ran for district attorney in 2006, she voluntarily provided information to the public. She wanted the public to know certain information when deciding for whom to vote in 2006. She lost the election. We have the right to investigate and report if a politician's statements are true. The statements follow.
According to our information about Karyn's birth record, Karyn was born KRUTTSCHNITT KAREN L 06/23/1947 FEMALE, mother MACLERIE, county SAN FRANCISCO. Karyn was born Karen.
She may possibly have been related to court officer James Najeeb Sinunu, California lawyer #62802; for example, as his wife. He may work in San Francisco and have lived at JAMES N SINUNU Born 1946, 1555 EMORY ST, 01/25/2002, SAN JOSE, CA 95126. Najeeb is an Arabic, male name. He may have been born SINUNU JAMES N 10/28/1946 MALE, mother GILLILAND, county LOS ANGELES.
KATHY DUQUE Born 1955, 5165 SUNNY CREEK PL, SAN JOSE, CA 95135.
Born DUQUE KATHY J 02/14/1955 FEMALE, mother LEMASTER, county LOS ANGELES.
BERNIE V ROCHA Born Feb 1972, 10521 MCDOUGALL ST, 08/14/2002, CASTROVILLE, CA 95012 (831) 633-9229
BERNIE V ROCHA Born Feb 1972, 13342 BRISA DE MAR, 03/12/2002, CASTROVILLE, CA 95012
BERNIE V ROCHA Born Feb 1972, 1660 IRIS ST, 04/06/2004, HOLLISTER, CA 95023
sheriff Robert Winters and the creation of the county's DoC (Department of Correction)
2006dec11
The account below is written from memory and describes and interprets events of about two decades ago. The account is not necessarily perfect.
Sants Clara county sheriff Robert Winters was sheriff when a pro-prisoner court case flourished in the local Superior Court. The plaintiff claimed that prisoners were treated illegally by the county government. The case had merit. Winters testified truthfully and fullly cooperated with the court. The result was that the county Board of Supervisors (the county government equivalent of a city council) was shown to be persistently treating prisoners illegally. This showing caused much trouble for the Board; for example, the court found the supervisors in contempt of court (although the supervisors won the contempt matter on appeal). The supervisors were infuriated by the sheriff's brazen truthfulness and concerned that he might cause more trouble for them by continuing to fully cooperate with the court; for example, by continuing to truthfully testify about prisoner life in the county jail system. The sheriff was elected by the voters, so the Board couldn't fire him. However, the Board had no duty to let the sheriff run the jail. The Board created California's first, county DoC (department of correction), appointed a yes-man to run it (who knew he could be fired by the Board), and had the DoC run the jail. The DoC hired many people, almost all without correctional experience, to work as C.O.s. The sheriff (more properly, OotS) no longer ran the jail. The DoC's director seems to have avoided doing anything that might antagonize the Board or cause court problems for county government employees.
By the way, state law sets minimum requirements to be a peace officer. The DoC's C.O.s did not meet those requirements. As a result, they were C.O.s but not peace officers. As a result, they were not allowed to carry guns, as far as we know.
Some C.O.s did crime in the jail; for example, some of the C.O.s criminally took drugs (especially steroids) and some distributed drugs to other C.O.s. The D.A. found out about, and decided to do something about, the drug crimes. The D.A. did not have confidence in the DoC's I.A. (internal affairs) personnel, the people who are supposed to investigate crime by DoC officers. Instead of relying on the DoC's I.A., the D.A. had his own staff investigate the steroid use. The staff used a C.O. as a C.I. (confidential informant), secretly reporting to a D.A. investigator. The D.A. confided to the DoC director about the secret investigation of his C.O.s then in progress. The director promptly blabbed, all the C.O.s found out, the investigation was destroyed. This angered the D.A. The C.O.s somehow learned (maybe they figured out) who the C.I. was. That C.O. got paid leave. He was paid but did not go to work. He was allowed to stay home for fear that, if he were in the jail, some of his fellow C.O.s would physically injure him. The concern was not that he might not be invited to go drinking with his colleagues or might not be invited to parties. Management's concern, which was realistic, was that he would be violently attacked by his fellow C.O.s. Management was concerned that Santa Clara County C.O.s might do violent crime against someone who had helped investigate their drug crimes.
The sheriff lost much power (control of the jail was taken from his office) because he ratted on the Board. The C.I., who was supposed to rat on C.O.s doing drug crimes, got in trouble because the director blabbed.
He may have retired in 2007 after 28 years with the Office of Sheriff.
Maybe GARY J BRADY born in 1956-01-11 was in San Jose CA 95148.
Jacques Drive
GARY J BRADY Born 1958 -- 08/2003, 5990 JACQUES DR SAN JOSE, CA 95123GARY J BRADY Born 1957, 10/2004, 5990 JACQUES DR SAN JOSE, CA 95123 (408) 225-5506
GARY J BRADY Born 1977, 10/2004, 5990 JACQUES DR SAN JOSE, CA 95123 (408) 225-5506. Someone with a similar name may possibly have been born BRADY GARY J 02/06/1977 MALE, mother BRACE, county SANTA CLARA.
GARY J BRADY 609 ADELINE AVE SAN JOSE, CA 95136
GARY J BRADY 2546 CLYMER LN FREMONT, CA 94538
JOHN G BRUNO Born Oct 1964, 07/2003, 2111 JEFFERSON WAY ANTIOCH, Contra Costa County, CA 94509 (925) 754-7725, (925) 757-1530. JOHN G BRUNO born 1964-10-06 was in Antioch CA 94509. BRUNO JOHN G was born 10/06/1964 MALE, mother WALTHER, county CONTRA COSTA.
JOHN G BRUNO 11/2003, 5160 DOMENGINE WAY ANTIOCH, CA 94531 (925) 757-1530
JOHN G BRUNO 597 LA SATA DR BRENTWOOD, Contra Costa County, CA 94513 (925) 240-5572
JOHN G BRUNO 08/2003, 4875 STARFLOWER DR MARTINEZ, Contra Costa County, CA 94553
JOHN G BRUNO Born Feb 1965, 09/2003, 456 BUNKER LN PLEASANTON, Alameda County, CA 94566.
GARY A COOPER 1537 KOCH LN SAN JOSE, CA 95125 (408) 723-1589
GARY A COOPER Born Sep 1958, 06/2000, 2593 BRIARWOOD DR, SAN JOSE, CA 95125
GARY A COOPER Born 1955, 01/2004, 143 PALOMA AVE PACIFICA, San Mateo County, CA 94044 (650) 359-3311.
Detective Carlos Dona 2006nov14
CARLOS B DONA, 1542 CHABOT WAY, 05/01/2006, SAN JOSE, CA 95122 Santa Clara County (408) 926-2359
born DONA CARLOS B 10/08/1953 MALE, mother MORENO, county LOS ANGELES
Possible addresses follow.
GARY W FETTIG Born 1958, 03/2002, 945 GRANDE VIIA, MORGAN HILL, CA 95037. We cannot find this on a map.
GARY W FETTIG Born 1958, 945 VIA GRANDE, MORGAN HILL, CA 95037-4024, which may be at the end of the road.
GARY FETTIG 01/2001, 3466 BON AIR CT, SAN JOSE, CA 95117.
GARY W FETTIG born 1957-10-15 was in San Jose CA 95117.
GARY W FETTIG born 1957-10-15 was in San Jose CA 95123
Someone with that name may be a deacon at West Hills Community Church, 16695 DeWitt Ave., Morgan Hill CA 95037.
He was hired by the Sheriff's Department in 1983. He has normally worked and asked to work in the south of Santa Clara County, where he lives.
K W KLAVER Born 1943, 11930 COLUMBET AVE, 04/01/2005, GILROY, CA 95020. (408) 779-8059. Gilroy is in the south of the county.
GARY G. MARICHALAR Born Aug 1962, 05/2003, 209 CLAREVIEW AVE, SAN JOSE, CA 95127-2456. East of Alum Rock Avenue, south of Fleming Avenue, in or near Alum Rock neighborhood.
Born MARICHALAR GARY G 08/09/1962 MALE, mother TAMEZ, county SANTA CLARA.
Maybe in 2005: Gary Marichalar. Department of Correction. Sheriff's Correctional Officer. Elmwood jail.
He's been a spokesman for the Office of the Sheriff. In 1998, he drove a BMW: Serg Palanov; BMW 530i; home town Los Gatos.
(sponsors in an auto driving tournament?) Hella, Autoscene, swow.com.
Sergey "SERG" PALANOV Born 1971, 405 PINEHURST AVE, 03/05/2002 SERG PALANOV, LOS GATOS, CA 95032 (408) 371-6742
SERG PALANOV Born 1971, 1066 WELCH AVE, 03/12/2002, SAN JOSE, CA 95117.
SERGEY "Serg" PALANOV Born 1971, 541 LUNETA DR, 01/25/2002, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93405. This is not close to San Jose.
Laurie R. Smith may possibly live at:
518 Everett Avenue
Palo Alto 94301-1561
phone (650) 323-6586
and at:
2160 Monterey Drive
South Lake Tahoe
96150-6728.
GARY R ZIMMERMAN Born 1965, 03/2006, 306 BRIAN CT SAN JOSE, CA 95123, (408) 226-4373.
GARY R ZIMMERMAN born 1965-04-20 was in San Jose CA 95123.
GARY ZIMMERMAN Born Sep 1951, 10/2004, 245 RAILROAD AVE SAN MATEO, San Mateo County, CA 94401.
GARY A ZIMMERMAN born 1951-10-19 was in Burlingame, San Mateo County, CA 94010.
He made 51 DUI arrests last year while working the Midnight Shift in Cupertino.
born OBERLANDER CHAD M 07/13/1971 MALE, mother LUNDY, county SANTA CLARA
Deputy Janet Shannon (partner of Eileen Phares, described above) white woman, brown hair and eyes, bangs, earrings. Freckles? works in Cupertino. 40 Hours a week. gardening and bike riding with her kids. likes music. Soccer. Likes little crafts things.
Los Altos Hills is in the west valley division.
He has badge #1689, white man, clean-shaven, (brown?) hair. Hired 03-22-99. works in Los Altos Hills. born and raised in San Jose, married in 1994, has 2 kids, lives in the Cambrian [Park?] neighborhood of San Jose city (near zip code 95124). He works the midnight shift in Los Altos Hills, working Sunday through Wednesday.
born MEDINA RUBIN 09/17/1972 MALE, mother VALLES, county LOS ANGELES
The sheriff's department has a West Valley Division: Santa Clara County Sheriff's West Valley Division.
Captain in charge of the West Valley Division
is Captain Dennis Bacon, who may possibly be Dennis W. Bacon, and who may possibly live at:
144 Sprucemont Place
San Jose 95139-1353.
Birth DENNIS W BACON 1953-02-13, possibly lived in San Jose CA 95139.
The second in command is Lieutenant Ernie Smedlund, who may posibly be:
Ernest H. Smedllund
15450 Calle Enrique
Morgan Hill 95037-5616.
born HIROKAWA JOHN K 06/27/1956 MALE, mother KATO, county SAN FRANCISCO
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