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CSLEA Legal Counsel Ryan Navarre

 

"One of the most difficult tasks I encounter as a CSLEA Attorney is when a member calls who has just been diagnosed with a serious disability or disease such as cancer or has been involved in a serious non-work related accident or has just given birth to a child and they want to know what their options are for disability leave, and I have to tell them that if they do not have a supplemental disability insurance program or they aren't enrolled in annual leave, they can only count on $135 a week for up to 26 weeks."

 

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Non-Industrial Disability Leave Benefits Featuring CSLEA Legal Counsel Ryan Navarre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CSLEA Know Your Rights Videos 

 

A CSLEA Presentation: Social Media featuring CSLEA Legal Counsel JIm Vitko

 

Alternate Work Schedules Featuring CSLEA Legal Counsel Andrea Perez

 

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 President's Message

 

 

 

Alan Barcelona, CSLEA President 

   

 

Each and every one of you have a vital role in protecting the citizens and/or the resources of California.  The jobs you perform each day help to keep the public safe.  This week hundreds of our dispatchers and communications operators are being recognized during National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, April 13-19, 2014.

 

Dispatchers and communications operators put the 'first' in first responder.  They are the first to be alerted to an emergency, a non-emergency, a disaster, a need for help.  I look at some of the major calls for help over the past year and know the professionalism that was displayed under extreme stress.  There have been calls of an airliner down at San Francisco International, a limousine fire with people trapped on the San Mateo Bridge, a bus crash and fire in Glenn County, wildfires throughout the state.  Some calls made headlines, others did not.  Children calling, parents calling, officers calling, we turn to 911 call-takers  to start the emergency response rolling.  We thank you for your calm, clear questions and instructions that guide us through the times in which we cannot help ourselves.   We thank you for the long hours and time spent away from your families in order to keep other families safe from harm.

 

Also spending time away from their families to help keep Californians safe are members on the CSLEA Consumer Protection and Public Safety Foundation.  Over the past two months, Foundation members have made presentations at seminars put on by state lawmakers for their constituents.  The seminars focus on the scams that target Californians, especially our senior citizens.  They help to make citizens aware of the very scams our CSLEA members work to put a stop to.  We are committed to protecting Californians where they live, work and play.

 

I thank you for your service.

 

Fraternally, 

 

Alan Barcelona

 

 

 

 

Spring break is here and for many families that means a little rejuvenation. If you're vacationing  this week, have fun and travel safely.   

   

"They're looked at by scammers as cash cows.  Our seniors are the nicest group of people and sometimes we have to teach them, when it's in their best interest to say no, to not open the door, to hang up the phone." - CSLEA Unit A Vice President Kenny Ehrman  

                                                             

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Town Hall Meetings With State Lawmakers

On Saturday, March 22, 2014, the CSLEA Consumer Fraud and Public Safety Foundation partnered with the Office of the State Bar and the California Bureau of Real Estate to hold the first in a series of town hall meetings throughout California.  The event was held in Los Angeles at the request of Senator Kevin De Leon.   

 

Measures That Matter To Members

There are thousands of bills currently being considered by legislators  at the State Capitol and some of them have a direct impact on members of the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA).

 

Sets His Sights On 2016 

Despite a setback in his goal to place a pension-change initiative on a statewide  ballot in 2014, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed plans to rally and return in 2016.  Reed told attendees at a Sacramento Press Club luncheon April 3, he will press forward with another round

 

Congratulations to our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members on the Department of Justice (DOJ) Rapid DNA Service Team (RADS) in Richmond who received a national award for their work to improve the DNA analysis of rape kits by law enforcement agencies. 

 

"I have received a tremendous amount of support.  The calls, texts, emails, cards and home visits have all been of great benefit to me and my family." - CSLEA Member & DOJ Special Agent Matthew Pavlich 

 

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"They committed themselves to the challenge, trained for it and in the spirit of healthy competition among law enforcement officers, they performed in outstanding fashion.   We applaud our CSLEA members in State Parks, the Department of Justice, Alcoholic Beverage Control, Department of Motor Vehicles and Department of Insurance who competed  in the Baker to Vegas race." - CSLEA President Alan Barcelona

 

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A Sacramento man, heavily armed and heavily involved in a large meth-trafficking ring,  was sentenced to prison as a result of a case investigated, in part, by California Department of Justice (Cal-MMET).  On April 8, 2014, a judge sentenced  Jose Mario Medrano, 36, to nearly 22  years for his involvement in trafficking large amounts of methamphetamine in at least three states, including California. 

 

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On March 27, 2014, agents of the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) posted a notice of suspension at Zen Lounge, located at 251 Castro Street in Mountain View. The bar, will not be allowed to sell alcohol for 15 days. The penalty is the result  of  an ABC "Target Responsibility for Alcohol-Connected Emergencies" (TRACE) investigation. 

 

"In a sense, they are more at risk than some other law enforcement officers, they're out late at night in regions where most people have guns and often they are out there alone." - Lake County Chief Deputy District Attorney Richard Hinchcliff 

 

"Thanks to the superior work of California Department of Insurance investigators and aggressive prosecution by the District Attorney's office, the Woodward's property and other assets were seized and sold so we could provide at least partial restitution to the seniors and families ripped off by the Woodwards." - Dave Jones, California Insurance Commissioner 

LOS ANGELES - On April 10, 2014,  a Los Angeles-area doctor, indicted on federal drug trafficking charges for allegedly illegally distributing drugs, including powerful and addictive painkillers, surrendered to authorities.