Senator Richard Pan Calls for State Civil Service Reforms
Legislation will Address Growing Demand for Physician Care
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today,
the largest union representing licensed physicians and dentists, the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD), announced the introduction of Senate Bill 422.
Senator Richard Pan introduces California Senate Bill 422 that will address growing demand for physician care. Legislation sponsored by the Union of American Physicians and Dentists.
This legislation, authored by Senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) and sponsored by UAPD, amends the State Civil Services Act so that the State can expand healthcare services at state prisons and hospitals. Modeled after a successful Los Angeles County partnership with UAPD, the state would establish an employment registry for state physicians and other professionals who wish to remain at their place of employment but seek additi
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A 65-year-old man has filed suit against at least three unknown and long-ago employees of Napa State Hospital, alleging sexual abuse and forced sterilization when he was a juvenile patient at the mental hospital more than half a century ago.
The lawsuit, filed Jan. 29 in Napa County Superior Court by an accuser identified only as John Doe, targets a female therapist who sexually abused him at her home while he was committed to Napa State starting in the late 1960s. A second woman, a shift supervisor at the mental hospital, also forced the boy to put on girlâs clothing while also abusing him, the complaint states.
But NBC 7 found at least two San Diego County cases where people had been held for decades on offenses that were not legally qualifying for the program.
According to the District Attorney’s office, Rance E. Winters, 62, was committed to the MDO program back in 1999 after pleading guilty to starting a grass fire with paint thinner two years earlier and having his parole revoked. The California Board of Parole Hearings approved Winters’ commitment to the MDO program.
Winters’ offense unlawfully starting a fire or penal code 452(c) is not a legally qualifying offense for confinement past an offender’s release date under the MDO law. And now, the DA’s office said it has “notified Mr. Winters attorney in the Public Defender s Office so steps can be taken to end Mr. Winters participation in the MDO program.”
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When Mark first glimpsed his brother, Alan Alter, being escorted by Sheriff’s deputies out the back door of the San Diego County Jail, he let out a laugh of stunned relief. It was Jan. 7, 2021, and the first time he had seen or even talked to his brother in decades.