Ousted BOP Director Appointed Receiver for CDCR Mental Health Care
by Chuck Sharman
Making good on a 30-year-old threat, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California placed the mental health care system for state prisoners in receivership on August 27, 2025. The Court-appointed Receiver is former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Collette Peters, who resigned under pressure from incoming Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) on his first day in office in January 2025, as PLN reported. [See: PLN, Apr. 2025, p.51.]
As PLN also reported, the Court imposed nearly $112 million in fines in June 2025 which had been accruing for over two years against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for its failure to fully staff mental health units and implement suicide prevention measures. At the time, just 59% of psychologist positions were filled and 68% of medical assistants, as well as 85% of psychiatrists. “Some compliance with some requirements,” the Court explained, “was not actual compliance.” [See: PLN, Aug. 2025, p.12.]
In its most recent order, the Court could not hide its weariness with the CDCR’s foot-dragging. Waiting three decades for officials “to fully and durably implement the court-ordered remedies necessary to deliver constitutionally adequate mental health care” to a class of mentally ill prisoners that had grown to 35,000 members, the Court said that it “ha[d] exercised substantial deference to defendants, and has been exceedingly patient, if not too patient.”
Despite appointing a Special Master who “provided guidance and conducted monitoring of defendants’ levels of compliance,” the Court said it had seen only “some progress,” while prison officials “also have resisted much of the way, reflexively appealing eighteen times in the last eight years alone, achieving delays but no material change in the remedy.”
“All of the court’s experience with the case,” wrote Judge Kimberly J. Mueller, “demonstrates that defendants are not able to or are not going to fully and finally correct the constitutional violations underlying the court-ordered remedies without more than the kind of close supervision the court has provided for so long.”
A Long History of Shortstaffing
The case dates back more than 30 years to a complaint filed on behalf of “all inmates with serious mental disorders who are now or who will be in the future confined within the California Department of Corrections,” as the CDCR was then known. That class was certified in 1991; four years later, the Court agreed with class members that mental health care in the state prison system suffered “gross inadequacies” and issued a sweeping remedial order. [See: PLN, May 1996, p.20.]
Nearly 250 remedial orders later, however, the Court still found that prisoners were receiving unconstitutionally inadequate mental health care, in a July 2024 order that noted “persistent staffing shortfalls in the prisons’ mental health care programs.”
By subsequent stipulation in April 2025, the parties agreed that the CDCR could substitute a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) or a Professional Clinical Counselor (PCC) as the primary clinician for prisoners in three of the CDCR’s four levels of mental health care. That has “provided a boost to the previous staffing deficits,” the Court allowed, “but full and durable compliance still remains a goal rather than a reality.” To move the ball farther along, the Court decided to make temporary bonus payments permanent. But it said that a Receiver was needed because noncompliance with “court-ordered staffing ratios persists with no solution identified to effect the remedy sooner rather than later.”
In the CDCR’s fourth and highest level of mental health care, the Psychiatric Inpatient Program (PIP), unresolved questions about the CDCR’s proposal to deactivate a number of beds remained unanswered. Were the beds not needed, or were prisoners not being properly referred to PIP? How quickly could the beds be reactivated if necessary? Removing them would of course raise the ratio of staff to beds, but that would not alleviate all the CDCR’s short-staffing problem in PIPs. So the Court referred those questions to the Receiver.
Suicide Prevention and Other Concerns
In addition to short-staffing, both in PIPs and the other three levels of mental health care, the Court cited suicide prevention as a critical area of concern that the CDCR has never fully addressed. Yet defendants “know that they house prison inmates at risk for suicide, [and that] they are required to take all reasonable steps to prevent the harm of suicide,” the Court said, quoting an earlier order issued on April 5, 2013. See: Coleman v. Brown, 938 F. Supp. 2d 955 (E.D. Cal. 2013).
In 2015, based on recommendations from the Special Master, the Court adopted 32 suicide prevention measures, later reduced to 29 measures in 2018. Yet from the original audit through six re-audits over the intervening years, the CDCR has never been in full compliance with all the measures, the Court said. “Defendants have not met any of the court’s deadlines” set in three remedial orders between 2020 and 2023, despite repeated threats of contempt, fines and receivership. That last option the Court said was now its best.
The same was true regarding the CDCR’s demonstrated deficiencies in data collection and storage—which it had attempted to cover up. “[C]ompletion of data remediation required by defendants’ knowing presentation of misleading evidence to the court and the Special Master,” the Court said, had been “unduly delayed without reasonable justification.” That included two quality control processes—one for quality assurance and another for quality improvement which the CDCR labeled its Continuous Quality Improvement Tool (CQIT). Neither was yet fully functional, the Court noted, but both were essential to the self-monitoring that the CDCR will need if it is ever to move out from under court oversight.
Seven-Prong Test for Receivership
A receivership is used “to remedy otherwise … uncorrectable violations of the Constitution or laws,” the Court said, quoting the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Plata v. Schwarzenegger, 603 F.3d 1088 (9th Cir. 2010). In an earlier ruling in that same case, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California set out a seven-prong test for appointing a receiver. Predictably, Defendant prison officials said that all seven had not been met. But the Court disagreed.
First, regarding a “grave and immediate threat or actuality of harm to Plaintiffs,” the Court noted that the record was “replete with evidence of both threatened and actual harm to members of the plaintiff class as a result of the defendants’ ongoing non-compliance.” Second, “whether the use of less extreme measures of remediation have been exhausted or prove futile,” the Court pointed to three successive Special Monitors, who together had produced 30 monitoring reports used to craft over 225 remedial orders.
“Notwithstanding the court’s substantial effort,” Judge Mueller wrote, “the work is unfinished, the progress too slow and [there is] no end in sight if the current … framework remains in place.”
Though the most weight is given to these first two prongs, the others are important. Would “continued insistence [on] compliance with the Court’s orders … lead only to confrontation and delay”? The Court said that if it “must continue to rely on contempt proceedings to obtain compliance with its orders, there is no indication defendants’ reflexive practice of appealing the court’s orders will cease.”
What about leadership, or the lack thereof, “to turn the tide within a reasonable period of time”? For the answer to that question, the Court turned to Peters, its receiver nominee, whose report “identie[d] multiple failures of leadership as a root cause of defendants’ failure to achieve compliance.”
“Was there bad faith?” the fifth prong of the test asked. An affirmative answer is not required, the Court noted. But the record “over the past twelve years supports a finding of bad faith by at least some defendants and some counsel at various junctures.”
The sixth prong asked “[w]hether resources are being wasted.” In reply, the Court looked at the amount that Peters requested in salary for herself—$812,740—plus another $700,552 each for two deputy receivers, former BOP Deputy Director William Lothrop and former Assistant Deputy Director Kathleen Toomey. The three salaries totaled less than the $2.5 million that the CDCR paid its lawyers in Fiscal Year 2022-23 to engage in litigation that “has not effected any material change in the court-ordered remedy but rather only served to delay implementation and the end of federal court oversight.”
Finally, “whether a receiver is likely to provide a relatively quick and efficient remedy,” the Court said that even Peters’ estimated timeline of five to seven years would be a huge improvement in a case that has now dragged on for three decades.
Accordingly, the Court appointed Peters to take receivership of mental health care for the CDCR on September 1, 2025, and stayed all further contempt proceedings. The Court also took $155,177,434 in accumulated fines collected from the CDCR and reserved $59,485,863.50 that represented “doubled” fines—which the Court intended as incentive for the CDCR to achieve compliance without a Receiver. That left $95,691,570.50 in the Special Deposit Fund, which was transferred to Peters’ control to implement the Staffing Expenditure Plan. Future fines would continue to accrue there at the “non-doubled” rate, unless Defendants chose to appeal.
Class counsel continues to be provided by attorneys with Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP in San Francisco, as well as the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund and the Prison Law Office, both in Berkeley. See: Coleman v. Newsom, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 166993 (E.D. Cal.).
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Coleman v. Newsom
| Year | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cite | 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 166993 (E.D. Cal.) |
| Level | District Court |
| Conclusion | Bench Verdict |
Coleman v. Brown
| Year | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Cite | 922 F.Supp.2d 1004 (E.D.Cal. 2013) |
| District Court Edition | F.Supp. |
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
RALPH COLEMAN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. EDMUND G. BROWN JR., et al., Defendants. MARCIANO PLATA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. EDMUND G. BROWN JR., et al., Defendants.
NO. 2:90-cv-0520 LKK JFM P,NO. C01-1351 TEH
922 F. Supp. 2d 1004; 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55026
April 11, 2013, Decided
April 11, 2013, Filed
SUBSEQUENT HISTORY: Later proceeding at Coleman v. Brown, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88406 (E.D. Cal., June 20, 2013)
PRIOR HISTORY: Coleman v. Brown, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 50900 (E.D. Cal., Apr. 5, 2013)
COUNSEL: [**1] For Matthew A Lopes, Jr, Special Master: Matthew A, Lopes, Jr, Pannone Lopes & Devereaux LLC, Providence, RI.
For Ralph Coleman, Plaintiff: Edward P. Sangster, Raymond E. Loughrey, LEAD ATTORNEYS, K& LGates, LLP (San Francisco), San Francisco, CA; Fred D. Heather, LEAD ATTORNEY, Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard, Avchen & Shapiro LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Gay Crosthwait Grunfeld, Lisa Adrienne Ells, LEAD ATTORNEYS, Laura Barbara Boysen-Aragon, Michael Louis Freedman, Rosen Bien Galvan and Grunfeld LLP, San Francisco, CA; Aaron Joseph Fischer, Ernest Galvan, Michael Bien, Thomas Bengt Nolan, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP, San Francisco, CA; Amy Whelan, National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, CA; Blake Thompson, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP., San Francisco, CA; Claudia B Center, Legal Aid Society, San Francisco, CA; Donald Specter, Rebekah B. Evenson, Prison Law Office, Berkeley, CA; Jane E. Kahn, Kenneth M. Walczak, Rosen Bien & Galvan, LLP, San Francisco, CA; Jeffrey L. Bornstein, K & L Gates, LLP, San Francisco, CA; Kimberly Hall Barlow, Jones & Mayer, Fullerton, CA; Lori Rifkin, Rosen, Bien, Galvan & Grunfeld, San Francisco, CA.
For Winifred Williams, David J Heroux, David [**2] McKay, Roy Joseph, Plaintiffs: Amy Whelan, National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, CA; Claudia B Center, Legal Aid Society, San Francisco, CA; Donald Specter, Prison Law Office, Berkeley, CA; Ernest Galvan, Michael Bien, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP, San Francisco, CA.
For Robert Hecker, Intervenor Plaintiff: Ernest Galvan, Michael Bien, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP, San Francisco, CA.
For John S. Zil, Defendant: Danielle Felice O'Bannon, LEAD ATTORNEY, Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA; Paul B Mello, Hanson Bridgett LLP, Walnut Creek, CA; Rochelle C. East, Attorney General's Office for the State of California, San Francisco, CA.
For Nadim Khoury, MD, Joseph Sandoval, Secretary of Youth and Corrections, Defendants: Danielle Felice O'Bannon, LEAD ATTORNEY, Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA; Paul B Mello, Hanson Bridgett LLP, Walnut Creek, CA; Rochelle C. East, Attorney General's Office for the State of California, San Francisco, CA.
For Arnold Schwarzenegger, Defendant: Debbie Jean Vorous, LEAD ATTORNEY, Attorney General's Office for the State of California, Sacramento, CA; Kyle Anthony Lewis, LEAD ATTORNEY, Office of the Attorney General for the State of [**3] California, San Francisco, CA; Danielle Felice O'Bannon, Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA; Paul B Mello, Hanson Bridgett LLP, Walnut Creek, CA; Rochelle C. East, Attorney General's Office for the State of California, San Francisco, CA; David Eugene Brice, Office of the Attorney General, Sacramento, CA.
For Stephen W. Mayberg, Ph.D., Director of the Department of Mental Health, Michael Genest, Director of CA Dept of Finance, Defendants: Debbie Jean Vorous, LEAD ATTORNEY, Attorney General's Office for the State of California, Sacramento, CA; Kyle Anthony Lewis, LEAD ATTORNEY, Office of the Attorney General for the State of California, San Francisco, CA; Danielle Felice O'Bannon, Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA; Paul B Mello, Hanson Bridgett LLP, Walnut Creek, CA; Rochelle C. East, Attorney General's Office for the State of California, San Francisco, CA.
For William B. Kolender, Michael S. Carona, Orange County Sheriff-Coroner, Edward N. Bonner, Lee Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff, Curtis Hill, San Benito County Sheriff, Adam Christianson, Stanislaus County Sheriff, Clay Parker, Tehama County Sheriff, Ed Prieto, Santa Barbara Sheriff's, Department, Donny Youngblood, Kern [**4] County Sheriff, Yuba County Sheriff Steve Durfor, Yuba County Sheriff, Warren Rupf, Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko, Shasta County Sheriff, Defendants: Danielle Felice O'Bannon, LEAD ATTORNEY, Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA; Michael R. Capizzi, Law Office of Michael R. Capizzi, Santa Ana, CA.
For Perry L. Reniff, Dennis Downum, Laurie Smith, Santa Clara County Sheriff, Tom Allman, Mendocino County Sheriff, Steve Warren, Lassen County Sheriff, Greg Munks, San Mateo County Sheriff, Defendants: Michael R. Capizzi, Law Office of Michael R. Capizzi, Santa Ana, CA.
For San Diego County Sheriff William B. Kolender, San Diego County Sheriff, Joel Neves, Jim Hudson, Defendants: Danielle Felice O'Bannon, LEAD ATTORNEY, Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA.
For James E. Tilton, Defendant: Paul B Mello, LEAD ATTORNEY, Hanson Bridgett LLP, Walnut Creek, CA; Rochelle C. East, LEAD ATTORNEY, Attorney General's Office for the State of California, San Francisco, CA; Danielle Felice O'Bannon, LEAD ATTORNEY, Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA.
For San Diego County Sheriff William B. Kolender, San Diego County Sheriff, Edward N. Bonner, Ventura County Chief Probation Officer Karen Staples, [**5] Ventura County Chief Probation Officer, Solano County Chief Probation Officer Isabelle Voit, Solano County Chief Probation Officer, Dave Singer, Joel Neves, Jim Hudson, San Diego County Sheriff William B. Kolender, San Diego County Sheriff, Perry L. Reniff, Edward N. Bonner, Stanislaus County Chief Probation Officer Jerry Powers, Stanislaus County Chief Probation Officer, Ventura County Chief Probation Officer Karen Staples, Ventura County Chief Probation Officer, Solano County Chief Probation Officer Isabelle Voit, Solano County Chief Probation Officer, Dave Singer, Barney Melekian, Defendants: Kimberly Hall Barlow, Jones & Mayer, Fullerton, CA.
For Perry L. Reniff, Stanislaus County Chief Probation Officer Jerry Powers, Stanislaus County Chief Probation Officer, Barney Melekian, Defendants: Danielle Felice O'Bannon, LEAD ATTORNEY, Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA; Kimberly Hall Barlow, Jones & Mayer, Fullerton, CA.
For Matthew Cate, Secretary of the California Dpt of Corrections, Defendant: Danielle Felice O'Bannon, LEAD ATTORNEY, Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA; Kyle Anthony Lewis, LEAD ATTORNEY, Office of the Attorney General for the State of California, San Francisco, [**6] CA; Paul B Mello, LEAD ATTORNEY, Hanson Bridgett LLP, Walnut Creek, CA; Rochelle C. East, Attorney General's Office for the State of California, San Francisco, CA.
For John Craig, Defendant: Kyle Anthony Lewis, LEAD ATTORNEY, Office of the Attorney General for the State of California, San Francisco, CA.
For Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Defendant: David Eugene Brice, LEAD ATTORNEY, Office of the Attorney General, Sacramento, CA; Debbie Jean Vorous, William H. Downer, LEAD ATTORNEYS, Attorney General's Office for the State of California, Sacramento, CA; Patrick R. McKinney, LEAD ATTORNEY, Kyle Anthony Lewis, Neah Huynh, Attorney General's Office for the State of California, San Francisco, CA; Jay Craig Russell, Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, CA; Maneesh Sharma, CA Dept of Justice, San Francisco, CA; Paul B Mello, Hanson Bridgett LLP, Walnut Creek, CA; Samantha Derin Wolff, Hanson Bridgett, LLP, San Francisco, CA; Thomas Stuart Patterson, Office of the California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA.
For Elwood Lui, Settlement Referee, Unknown: Brian Matthew Hoffstadt, Elwood Lui, Jones Day, Los Angeles, CA; Peter E. Davids, Jones Day (San Francisco), San Francisco, CA.
For Consultant [**7] Peter - Siggins, Unknown: Elwood Lui, Jones Day, Los Angeles, CA; Peter E. Davids, Jones Day (San Francisco), San Francisco, CA.
For State of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Unknown: Steven Paul Saxton, Downey Brand LLP, Sacramento, CA.
For Robert Sillen, J. Clark Kelso, Receivers: Martin H. Dodd, LEAD ATTORNEY, Futterman Dupree Dodd Croley Maier LLP, San Francisco, CA.
For Anthony Adams, Intervenor Defendant: Chad A. Stegeman, LEAD ATTORNEY, Carroll, Burdick & Mcdonough LLP, San Francisco, CA.
For Joel Anderson, Tom Berryhill, Sam Blakeslee, Paul Cook, Chuck DeVore, Michael D. Duvall, Bill Emmerson, Jean Fuller, Ted Gaines, Martin Garrick, Shirley Horton, Guy Houston, Bob Huff, Kevin Jeffries, Rick Keene, Doug La Malfa, Bill Maze, Roger Niello, Sharon Runner, Jim Silva, Cameron Smyth, Todd Spitzer, Audra Stickland, Van Tran, Michael N. Villines, Mimi Walters, Intervenor Defendants: Steven Shea Kaufhold, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, San Francisco, CA.
For District Attorney Rod Pacheco, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, District Attorney Jan Scully, District Attorney Christie Stanley, District Attorney Michael Ramos, Robert J. [**8] Kochly, District Attorney, District Attorney David W. Paulson, Gregg Cohen, District Attorney, District Attorney Todd Riebe, District Attorney Bradford R. Fenocchio, District Attorney John R. Poyer, Michael Ramsey, District Attorney Gerald T. Shea, Edward R. Jagels, Intervenor Defendants: William E. Mitchell, Riverside County District Attorney's Office, Riverside, CA.
For William B. Kolender, San Diego County Sheriff, Intervenor Defendant: Michael R. Capizzi, Law Office of Michael R. Capizzi, Santa Ana, CA.
For Michael S. Carona, Orange County Sheriff-Coroner, Edward N. Bonner, Dennis Downum, Calaveras County Sheriff, Lee Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff, Curtis Hill, San Benito County Sheriff, Adam Christianson, Stanislaus County Sheriff, Clay Parker, Tehama County Sheriff, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown, Santa Barbara County Sheriff, Donny Youngblood, Kern County Sheriff, Warren Rupf, Contra Costa County Sheriff, Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko, Shasta County Sheriff, Stanislaus County Chief Probation Officer Jerry Powers, Stanislaus County Chief Probation Officer, Bob G. Doyle, Sheriff-Riverside County, Gary R. Stanton, Sheriff-Solano County, Riverside County Sheriff, Stanley [**9] Sniff Jr., Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks, Ventura County Sheriff, Gary R. Stanton, Pat Hedges, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff, Sutter County Sheriff Jim Denney, Sutter County Sheriff, Lake County Sheriff Rod Mitchell, Lake County Sheriff, Larry Jones, Tuolumne County Sheriff Jim Mele, Tuolumne County Sheriff, Fresno County Sheriff, Monterey County Sheriff Mike Kanalakis, Monterey County Sheriff, Mono County Sheriff Richard Scholl, Mono County Sheriff, Gary Philp, Humboldt County Sheriff, Jeff Neves, El Dorado County Sheriff, Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin, Merced County Sheriff, Dean Wilson, Del Norte County Sheriff, San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore, San Joaquin County Sheriff, Martin Ryan, Amador County Sheriff, Inyo County Sheriff William Lutz, Inyo County Sheriff, Ventura County Chief Probation Officer Karen Staples, Ventura County Chief Probation Officer, Solano County Chief Probation Officer Isabelle Voit, Solano County Chief Probation Officer, Patricia Stewart, Santa Barbara County Chief Probation Officer, John Wardell, Butte County Chief Probation Officer, Kim Barrett, San Luis Obispo County Chief Probation Officer, Lionel Chatman, Contra Costa County Chief Probation [**10] Officer, Inyo County Chief Probation Officer Jim Moffett, Inyo County Chief Probation Officer, Shasta County Chief Probation Officer Brian Richart, Shasta County Chief Probation Officer, Yolo County Chief Probation Officer, Linda Penner, Fresno County Chief Probation Officer, Dave Singer, City of Whittier Police Chief, Joel Neves, City of Roseville Police Chief, Barney Melekian, City of Pasadena Police Chief, Jim Hudson, City of Alhambra Police Chief, Craig Steckler, City of Fremont Police Chief, Jim Copsey, Steve Lodge, City of Santa Clara Police, Rich Word, City of Vacaville Police Chief, Cary Sullivan, Mace McIntosh, City of Sonora Police Chief, Lisa Solomon, City of Paso Robles Police Chief, Michael Billdt, City of San Bernardino Police Chief, Richard Hawthorne, City of Atwater Police Chief, National City Police Chief Adolfo Gonzales, National City Police Chief, Mark DeRosia, City of Delano Police Chief, Roy Wasden, City of Modesto Police Chief, Jerry Dyer, City of Fresno Police Chief, George Galaza, City of Delano Chief of Corrections, San Diego County Sheriff William B. Kolender, San Diego County Sheriff, Edward N. Bonner, Michael S. Carona, Orange County Sheriff-Coroner, Dennis [**11] Downum, Lee Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff, Curtis Hill, San Benito County Sheriff, Adam Christianson, Stanislaus County Sheriff, Clay Parker, Tehama County Sheriff, Donny Youngblood, Warren Rupf, Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko, Shasta County Sheriff, Gary Philp, Inyo County Sheriff William Lutze, Inyo County Sheriff, Linda Penner, Mariposa County Chief Probation Officer Gail Neal, Mariposa County Chief Probation Officer, Dave Singer, Barney Melekian, Craig Steckler, Carey Sullivan, City of Woodland Police Chief, Lisa Solomon, Michael Billdt, Mark DeRosia, George Galaza, Michael S. Carona, Orange County Sheriff-Coroner, San Diego County Sheriff William B. Kolender, San Diego County Sheriff, Edward N. Bonner, Dennis Downum, Lee Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff, Adam Christianson, Stanislaus County Sheriff, Clay Parker, Tehama County Sheriff, Donny Youngblood, Warren Rupf, Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko, Shasta County Sheriff, Margaret Mims, Fresno County Sheriff, Gary Philp, Inyo County Sheriff William Lutze, Inyo County Sheriff, Yolo County Chief Probation Officer Don Meyer, Yolo County Chief Probation Officer, Linda Penner, Mariposa County Chief Probation Officer Gail Neal, [**12] Mariposa County Chief Probation Officer, Dave Singer, Barney Melekian, Craig Steckler, Lisa Solomon, Michael Billdt, Mark DeRosia, George Galaza, Intervenor Defendants: Kimberly Hall Barlow, Jones & Mayer, Fullerton, CA; Michael R. Capizzi, Law Office of Michael R. Capizzi, Santa Ana, CA.
For Perry L. Reniff, Butte County Sheriff-Coroner, Laurie Smith, Santa Clara County Sheriff, Tom Allman, Mendocino County Sheriff, Steve Warren, Lassen County Sheriff, Tom Allman, Mendocino County Sheriff, Steve Warren, Lassen County Sheriff, Greg Munks, San Mateo County Sheriff, Perry L. Reniff, Laurie Smith, Santa Clara County Sheriff, Tom Allman, Mendocino County Sheriff, Steve Warren, Lassen County Sheriff, Greg Munks, San Mateo County Sheriff, Yuba County Sheriff Steve Durfor, Yuba County Sheriff, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown, Santa Barbara County Sheriff, Riverside County Sheriff, Stanley Sniff Jr., Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks, Ventura County Sheriff, Gary R. Stanton, Pat Hedges, Sutter County Sheriff Jim Denney, Sutter County Sheriff, Lake County Sheriff Rod Mitchell, Lake County Sheriff, Tuolumne County Sheriff Jim Mele, Tuolumne County Sheriff, Mono County Sheriff Richard [**13] Scholl, Mono County Sheriff, Jeff Neves, Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin, Merced County Sheriff, Dean Wilson, San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore, San Joaquin County Sheriff, John Wardell, Kim Barrett, Lionel Chatman, Inyo County Chief Probation Officer Jim Moffett, Inyo County Chief Probation Officer, Shasta County Chief Probation Officer Brian Richart, Shasta County Chief Probation Officer, Joel Neves, Jim Hudson, Jim Copsey, Steve Lodge, Rich Word, Richard Hawthorne, National City Police Chief Adolfo Gonzales, National City Police Chief, Roy Wasden, Jerry Dyer, Intervenor Defendants: Kimberly Hall Barlow, Jones & Mayer, Fullerton, CA.
For Yuba County Sheriff Steve Durfor, Yuba County Sheriff, Bob Brooks, Ventura County Sheriff, Stanislaus County Chief Probation Officer Jerry Powers, Stanislaus County Chief Probation Officer, Mariposa County Chief Probation Officer Gail Neil, Mariposa County Chief Probation Officer, Ed Prieto, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown, Santa Barbara County Sheriff, Riverside County Sheriff, Stanley Sniff Jr., Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks, Ventura County Sheriff, Gary R. Stant