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25 Apr 2017, 10:18 am by CJLF Staff
  More Bureaucratic Delay of CA Death Penalty:  The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has won approval from a state regulatory agency to further delay the implementation of the single-drug execution protocol it announced last November. [read post]
31 Mar 2017, 7:27 am
The amendment also added subdivision (c)(9), which authorizes a government entity to access electronic device information by means of physical interaction or electronic communication with the device `if the device is seized from an authorized possessor of the device who is serving a term of parole under the supervision of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or a term of postrelease community supervision under the supervision of county probation. [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 3:01 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
In response to the MHS settlement, health plans, their sponsors, fiduciaries and business associates should take documented action to audit and correct as needed both their written policies, procedures and notices as well as their operational compliance with HIPAA to mitigate theirexposure to similar enforcement action for HIPAA violations. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 6:04 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Children’s IT asset policies did not apply to devices that accessed or stored ePHI that were managed by the Biomedical Department. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 1:48 pm by Edward Smith
Governor Jerry Brown has declared most counties in California under a state of emergency in response to a series of serious storms that swept through the state earlier this month. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 6:30 am
In March 2015, the Los Angeles Sherriff’s Department settled a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Southern California, agreeing to provide mobility devices and physical therapy for prisoners with mobility disabilities after horrifying incidents of neglect and abuse. [read post]
26 Dec 2016, 4:30 am by Ben
A California not for profit organisation filed a class-action lawsuit against the Richmond Organization and Ludlow Music over the copyright to “We Shall Overcome,” a song the Library of Congress calls “the most powerful song of the 20th century, saying that  "the song was written well before anybody copyrighted anything”. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 2:00 pm by CJLF Staff
  Both Gordon and Cano could face the death penalty if convicted.Cellphones a Continuing Problem in CA Prisons:  The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has confiscated over 8,000 cellphones from inmates across the state so far this year, highlighting the ongoing problem facing corrections officials in keeping cellphones out of prisons. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 3:35 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Times:The ACLU of Northern California challenged a state law that gives the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation wide flexibility in establishing execution procedures.Delegating such policy decisions to a state agency, the suit says, violates separation of powers provisions of the California Constitution.Seriously? [read post]
By amending many of California’s complex existing laws, the legislature certainly placed HR departments and employment counsel in a difficult position to prepare for compliance by the looming January 2017 implementation date (for most of these laws). [read post]
16 Oct 2016, 10:23 am by Martin H. Orlick
If your reaction is to take it seriously, you would be correct. [read post]
29 Sep 2016, 12:39 pm by Gwenyth Gamble
The law now clarifies that those sentenced under the third category of Criminal Justice Realignment Act of 2011 [AB 109 and 117]—a term in county jail—are not stripped of their constitutional right to vote and confirms that only those serving a state-prison sentence or on parole and under California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [official website] supervision lose the right to... [read post]
19 Sep 2016, 11:55 am by Edward Smith
On Thursday, September 15, 2016, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) honored those who went above and beyond the call of duty both on the job and while away from their workplace. [read post]
4 Sep 2016, 7:00 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  The last thing we need in this state is to empower the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to award credits without statutory authorization, which is exactly what Gov. [read post]
26 Aug 2016, 10:30 am by Michael Rushford
In a news release yesterday the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced that the recidivism rate for offenders released from state prison has declined steadily over the past five years and is now down to 44.6%. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 11:29 am by Sasha Volokh
One obvious difference is that private prison firms have to pay all their own payroll, benefits, legal expenses, etc., while a lot of those costs in the public sector are borne by different agencies, not the Department of Corrections or Bureau of Prisons. [read post]
1 Aug 2016, 7:22 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Director/Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Prisoners – Religious Freedom) State Courts Bulletinhttp://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2016state.htmlIn re Abbigail A. [read post]
29 Jul 2016, 2:09 pm by Native American Rights Fund
Director/Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Prisoners - Religious Freedom) State Courts Bulletinhttp://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2016state.html In re Abbigail A. [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 1:53 pm by CJLF Staff
  But in February 2014, a federal court ordered the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to implement a new parole program that made state prisoners who are 60 or older and have served at least 25 years of their sentence eligible for parole hearings. [read post]