Stand Up for California! is a statewide organization with a focus on gambling issues including tribal gaming, card clubs, horse racing, charitable gaming and the state lottery.

The law of their lands
5/26/2008, San Diego Union Tribune
NORTH COUNTY - Tribal law enforcement officer Darryl Mendoza rolls down the window on his Chevy pickup as his cousin stops her car next to his on the Rincon Indian Reservation. His white truck has become a presence around the reservation north of Valley Center, a sign that the tribe, like others around the county, is using gambling profits to bring some order to far-flung reservations.
 Aftermath of Reservation Shootings:
 
 
Show respect for casino deaths5/26/2008, The Press Enterprise - Opinion
I'm considered an elder of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians, and I am writing in response to the letters under the headline, "Make tribe pay" (Your Views, May 17), which included comments by Nan Beckmen and Terri Larmer. Beckmen's comment to "spare us the pictures of the crying Indians" was hateful and expressed no sympathy for the relatives of the two young people who were killed during the confrontation with the Riverside County deputies. Beckmen also discounted the grief and pain of the relatives of the people who were killed. 

 Nameless cops?
5/24/2008, The Press Enterprise - Opinion
A new opinion by California's attorney general offers sensible guidance to California law enforcement agencies: A police officer's name is not confidential information. And the opinion provides a sound basis for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department to discard its current disclosure policy. Attorney General Jerry Brown released the opinion last week. His review of the legal issues found that under state law, police agencies must disclose the names of officers involved in critical incidents. The only exception would be if releasing the name worked against the public interest -- if an officer was operating undercover, for example.
Deputies involved in Soboba shootings back on job; inquiries continue
5/22/2008, The Press Enterprise
Representatives from the Soboba tribe and Riverside County Sheriff's Department met Thursday for the second time in what participants called a working session as the two sides attempt to ease tensions following the shooting deaths of three people on the reservation. Meanwhile, the 14 deputies who fired their weapons during the two incidents have returned to duty, said department spokesman Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez. He emphasized that the two parallel investigations into the fatal shootings -- a criminal review by the district attorney's office and a separate internal probe to determine whether department policy was followed -- have not been completed.

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Upcoming Hearings

Comments Due: Off Reservation  228.04 acre trust acquisition and construction of casino project to be located within the City of Plymouth in Amador County, California.Mail comments to Amy Dutschke, acting Regional Director, Pacific Regional Office, BIA, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA. 92825. Written comments will be accepted through July 2, 2008,
 

Upcoming Conference

North American Regulators Association June 10-13, 2008  Register on Line:  www.nagra.org

 
NCLGS - National Council of Legislators from Gaming States
Summer Meeting - June 13 -15, 2008 Napa Valley Marriott Hotel and Spa Napa, California. www.nclgs.org  sign up online.
Presentations will include: bingo and charitable gaming, lottery, off reservation gaming 
 

22nd National Conference on Problem Gambling.   June 26-28, 2008, Long Beach, California.  Register online:www.ncpgambling.org/conference

 
INDIAN COUNTRY'S WINNING HAND, October 16-17, 2008, Radisson Fort McDowell Resort & Casino Scottsdale/Fountian Hills, Arizona. Register online: www.law.asu.edu/ilp
 
 

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State Legislation to Watch

AJR 39 -  Assembly Member Huffman

Reaffirmation of the Winneman Wintu.  

AB 1924 - Assembly Member Jeffries Changes the amount of charitable BINGO  funds that may be used for overhead and other operational expenses. Bill has been pulled.

AB 2026 - Assembly Member  Levine -

The California Gambling Control in conjunction with the Department of Justice, shall perform a study and report its findings to the legislature by June 30, 2009, regarding authorizing interstate Internet Poker.

SB 62 - Sen. Florez - Permits the transfer of funds from the General Fund to the Revenue Sharing Trust Fund for eligible recipient tribes should there be insufficient funds in the Special Distribution Fund.

SB 331 -Sen.  Romero - Imposes a state mandated local program to address tresspassers on tribal lands

SB 996 Sen. Florez - This bill would require each tribal state gaming compact entered into between the State of California and a federally recognized Indian Tribe to be ratified by the Legislature in Separate Statute. 

 SB 1201 - Sen. Battin Increases the aggregate limit of gaming devices licenses available for issuance under the 1999 compacts to 122,000 slot machines without tribal state compact renegotiations. Veto Bait.
SB 1328 - Sen.  Cedillo - deletes the $250 limitation on bingo game payouts, thereby allows for an award of any denomination. BILL HAS BEEN PULLED
SB - 1570 - Sen. Vincent - Requires the Governor to use best efforts to ensure that satellite wagering on horese racing is one of the forms of gaming offered at any gambling facility authorized under a compact.
SB 1626 - Sen. Steinberg -Game of Bingo to be played by machine with electronic cards.  Slot machines?    BILL HAS BEEN PULLED                                                                                             SB 1679 - Sen. Florez - Lottery Reform Bill:  requiresthat not less than 87% of revenues be used for prizes and to benefit education, 13% for lottery expenses. Total revenue to education will be decided by the Commission but not less than 1,200,000,000. Requires 1 million to be committed to the Office of Problem and Pathological gambling. Defines, expands and loosens restrictions of lottery game themes.
SB 1695 - Sen. Florez - Prohibits the Governor from negotiating or concluding a gaming compact with a tribe that does not have land held in trust on which the gaming is to occur and that is not federally recognized. Bill passes the Senate.
SCA 20 -Sen.  Vincent - Constitutional Amendment authorizes Roulette and Craps on California Indian lands for compact tribes.

 

Federal Legislation to Watch 

H. R. 2963 - Congressman Issa Transfers without regulatory environmental process 1,178 ac. in Riverside and San Diego Counties to the Pechanga Band.  Why?
H.R. 3490 - Congressman Radanovich
Declares that specificed federal lands are to be held in trust by the US for the benefit of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuik Indians  for non gaming purposes.
H.R. 5608 Congressman Rahall - mandates that adminstration directly consults with tribes on policies that directly affect their lives.
H. R. 5680 Congressman Grijalva - A bill to extend leases for Morongo and transfer money to CRIT.
S. 2676 - Senator Vitter - Common Sense Indian Gambling Reform Act of 2008. To make technical corrections to IGRA. Consultation with local government.
 

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