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California – Lake County – Securing citizen safety while managing more offenders

Lake County Record-Bee – By Mandy Feder — Managing Editor – Updated: 09/27/2011 09:10:42 PM PDT LAKE COUNTY — Steve Buchholz returned to a familiar position. He came out of retirement to serve as Interim Chief Probation Officer for Lake County. He worked for the Lake County Probation Department for more than 30 years and served as Chief...

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California – Lake County – Securing citizen safety while managing more offenders

Lake County Record-Bee – By Mandy Feder — Managing Editor – Updated: 09/27/2011 09:10:42 PM PDT LAKE COUNTY — Steve Buchholz returned to a familiar position. He came out of retirement to serve as Interim Chief Probation Officer for Lake County. He worked for the Lake County Probation Department for more than 30 years and served as Chief...

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    Sep

Employers Want to Fire Over Facebook, But Can’t

No employer wants to log onto the Internet and find a "loyal" employee criticizing the workplace on Facebook. That's why many employers have instituted Facebook policies. But many employers are surprised to find that in certain situations they cannot fire employees over their Facebook rants. Why? Federal law protects "concerted activity" by employees. "Concerted activity" is an employee...

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    Sep

Judicial Council of California – Criminal Justice Realignment Act of 2011 Resource Center

Criminal justice realignment, enacted via the Budget Act of 2011 and various budget trailer bills, is intended to make changes to California’s correctional system… “to stop the costly, ineffective and unsafe ‘revolving door’ of lower-level offenders and parole violators through our state prisons,” according to Governor Jerry Brown. This site contains materials for the courts, justice partners, and...

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    Sep

Judicial Council of California – Criminal Justice Realignment Act of 2011 Resource Center

Criminal justice realignment, enacted via the Budget Act of 2011 and various budget trailer bills, is intended to make changes to California’s correctional system… “to stop the costly, ineffective and unsafe ‘revolving door’ of lower-level offenders and parole violators through our state prisons,” according to Governor Jerry Brown. This site contains materials for the courts, justice partners, and...

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    Sep

California – Shasta County: Realignment To Have Big Impact On County Jails

When Governor Brown’s budget passed in June, it had a provision that greatly changed the way county jails operate in California. It’s called Assembly Bill 109 or The Prison Re-alignment bill which is set to take effect October 1st. Counties will see many of the people they sent to prison, return to local jails. There will be quite...

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    Sep

San Diego County Supervisors Approve Plan To Jail, Supervise Criminals

Public Safety Realignment Act To Take Effect Saturday SAN DIEGO — San Diego County officials have a plan to accommodate some 4,000 criminals whose incarceration or supervision is about to become the county’s responsibility, according to a report presented Tuesday to the Board of Supervisors…[For full story: http://www.10news.com/news/29318950/detail.html ] Here is the original post: San Diego County Supervisors...

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    Sep

California – Los Angeles Times Editorial – L.A. supervisors’ inconvenient public

In ignoring the state’s open meeting law on AB 109 realignment, the L.A. County supervisors locked the public out of a key policy discussion for their own ease and convenience. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors sat down Monday with Gov. Jerry Brown to discuss AB 109 realignment, under which counties, beginning Saturday, take responsibility for a...

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    Sep

Santa Barbara County braces for more inmates serving time in local jails

KSBY TV Channel 6 News – Posted: Sep 27, 2011 4:01 PM by Caroline Lowe Counties throughout California are bracing for an influx of low-level felons who will serve their time in local jails instead of state prisons. The shift,which starts Saturday,is part of the state’s public safety realignment policy and the result of a federal court order...

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    Sep

NRA Form Frees Landowners from Liability

NRA Form Frees Landowners from Liability Read the original: NRA Form Frees Landowners from Liability

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