California Attorney General
Alleged Facts
The AG is the controlling force for operations of the Sheriffs' departments and the district attorneys in California.
The County Boards of Supervisors have no control over these departments except for the budget. If wielded properly, the budget is a strong persuader, but the Boards of Supervisors normally wuss out on any attempt to pressure the Sheriff/DA.
If you bring a lawsuit against the Sheriff/DA, they will engage in the most unbelievable runaround you could ever imagine about who they report to and who they are responsible to, but hang in there.
Experiences
Our experience is that the California Attorney General, Bill Lockyer is a rather useless individual, that he, like his compatriot Governor Grey Davis is too busy counting the $ in his political war chest to have any interest in the citizen.
The California Attorney General has no care or concern regarding criminal misconduct on the part of Sheriffs or DAs, his priorities are to protect these groups from accountability.
Check out his home page, California Attorney General, to see some interesting stuff indicating his priorities such as the tobacco lawsuits ($) and the Microsoft antitrust activities ($). You will see a link to a civil rights section, but go ahead and try to get action. Give us feedback.
A case described on this site where San Diego Sheriff's deputies attacked a citizen then engaged in framing that citizen for crimes simply to head off a lawsuit. That citizen reported to the Sheriff and Attorney General a series of over 50 criminal activities engaged in by the San Diego County Sheriffs Department and the San Diego DA's office:
California Penal Code Numbers
118 perjury
118.1 perjury by peace officer
123 perjury, materiality of statements
125 not known to be true equals false statement
127 subornation of perjury
129 perjury if report made without oath taken
148.5 false report
149 under color of authority
153 conceal a crime for compensation
182 conspiracy
242 battery
244 assault with caustic chemical
245 assault likely to produce great bodily injury
832.5 Citizen's complaints
840 misdemeanor warrant after 10 PM prohibited
The Sheriff refused to investigate as is documented in the Sheriff section of this site. The California Attorney General refused to respond to the complaint ... they do not wish to deal with mere citizens.
Intervention by former State Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian resulted in the AG's office responding (Page 1... Page 2... ) one time via mail with a list of items that the AG's office said must be done prior to their involvement.
Complainant Mitchell provided an approximately 50 page document in response to the letter showing clearly that he had already gone through all the steps that the AG stated they required. This response by Mitchell is probably the most concise description of the series of events and is known in several pieces of correspondence and documentation as the "Blue book". Most of the enclosures in this document are seen in other places on this site and generally have the enclosure number at the top of the page.
In Mitchell's header letter (Page 1 ... Page 2 ... Page 3 ... Page 4 ... Page 5) from the Blue book he responds to each paragraph of the Attorney General's letter. The Attorney General's office has refused to even respond to the complaint. In the earlier days of innocence and trust, Mitchell sent the Blue book to the AG once via standard mail, then once via registered mail and received a receipt. Mitchell sent, as an additional part of the complaint, his citizen's complaint served on the San Diego District Attorney, this also via registered mail with a signed receipt. Still no response from the Attorney General.
Most of the pieces of the Blue book will probably appear here, but if you wish to have a copy of the 50 page document sent to the California Attorney General multiple times, send email with your address.
CA Attorney Bill Lockyer considers it ok for a Modesto SWAT team member to murder an 11 year old boy via a shotgun blast to his back while the boy was laying face-down on the floor. Here is an LA Times archives index of the stories.
