Children’s Rights Initiative for Sharing Parents Equally

This is a request from Dr. Shirley Moore requesting our help for as many people to mail and fax this letter demanding judicial accountability in California courts to Chief Justice George and other stakeholders.

This is the bill asking for tribunals. send this also to Chief George and Obama; Being that Los Angeles County has the largest trial court in the Nation costing the state of California $1 Billion per year for Los Angeles County courts.  Once we get it here, Disclosure Watch will go into every state asking for tribunals.. Send this also to President Obama and others list below or to your elected officials!

If you have any questions please contact her at:  DrshirleyM@aol.com

Please forward this to your friends and family and urge them to send this letter.

This is the word doc for you to print and educate why we need this NOW
http://crispe.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/lettertogeorge.doc

THIS IS THE LETTER:

Chief Justice Ronald M. George
Judicial Council of California – Administrative Office of the Courts
455 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102-3688
415-865-4200, Fax 415-865-4205

Dear Chief Justice George:

You have stated that you are committed to providing “meaningful access to justice ” through the Judicial Council which you chair. We are writing to you in order to request your immediate attention to a very serious problem in California.

You are undoubtedly aware that parents throughout California and the nation have been devastated by powerful economic forces in the last few years. We have been ripped apart from or children in record breaking numbers nationwide..

The first concerns the court system in Los Angeles County. The attached article, entitled “LA County Payments to LA Superior Court Judges Cost Taxpayers Almost 1 Billion Dollars, and Denied Constitutional Rights to the People of LA County” this situation has destroyed families via the Children Protective Services (CPS) not only in California but throughout the Country.  We are finding similar schemes nationwide.

The opposition to this violation of the California Constitution has reached a new crescendo with the ruling in Sturgeon v County of Los Angeles. Even though these payments have been declared to be unconstitutional, the judges in Los Angeles County continue to accept them. Parents are continuing to lost their children via CPS at recording breaking numbers we are shocked that those who swear to uphold the constitution are so blithely violating it when it comes to their own pocketbooks.

Parents are further informed that these judges – and those of other states as well – are not reporting the payments received by them from these counties on their Form 700 Statement of Economic Interest, and are not disclosing these payments to litigants in cases against these counties. Justice cannot be trusted if it cannot be seen, and it is not being seen in these counties.

In order to remedy possible bias and conflicts of interest in prior cases, we suggest that a special administrative tribunal be established where any person who is of the opinion that a judge who should have been disqualified did not disclose information relevant to the judge’s disqualification, will have the opportunity to present their claim, and a decision may be made to reopen the case before a different judge. We believe that such a mechanism would relieve pressure on the “courts of record” to hear these claims.

To avoid similar situations in the future, and to ensure disclosure, we request that the California Supreme Court and the Judicial Council support the attached Judicial Disclosure Bill which would require all judicial officers to provide written disclosure of relationships which could affect their decisions. This would allow litigants to be aware of conflicts of interest held by a judicial officer.

As a corollary to these matters and to ensure that lawyers are not punished for advocating for the enforcement of our constitutional rights, we request that the Supreme Court dismiss the State Bar case number 04-O-14366 RAH against Richard I. Fine. We also suggest that you institute the necessary rules to prohibit any State Bar cases to be brought against any attorney who exercises his First Amendment rights, particularly, the right to show that members of the judiciary were receiving unconstitutional payments and not disclosing such, thereby denying litigants their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

Second, citizens have repeatedly reported to us that when they have to go into court regarding various issues, judges in counties such as Orange County, Riverside County and nationwide almost invariably rule against them. Once again, because there is a considerable lack of transparency, homeowners cannot investigate whether particular judges have conflicts of interests. Hence, your support of the Judicial Disclosure Bill is even more important.

Families nationwide have formally requested the U.S. Department of Justice to institute grand jury investigations in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego Counties and other states with a request to prosecute any and all criminal wrongdoing.

In addition we formally request that the Judicial Council and the California Supreme Court take all measures to institute any and all actions, investigations, administrative and other proceedings to ensure “access to justice” is guaranteed in all courts of the State of California, the State Bar Court and any other agency under the jurisdiction of the California Supreme Court.

The citizens of California cannot have faith in their judges unless there is complete transparency. If there is nothing to hide, then transparency cannot hurt. If there are things to hide, then transparency is imperative. The citizens of California must have verified assurances that their system of justice is not corrupt.

We would appreciate a response as soon as possible in the midst of your busy schedule. These problems have festered too long.

Also, this has hindered many types of cases included and not limited to civil, probate, family courts and criminal courts etc.

Yours Truly,

Sign Your Name Here

CC: President of the United States, Barrack Obama

CC: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

CC: Congressman Bob Filner

CC: Senator Diane Feinstein

POINTS OF CONTACTS TO SEND LETTER TO:

President Barrack Obama

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Comments: 202-456-1111

Switchboard: 202-456-1414

FAX: 202-456-2461

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

State Capitol Building

Sacramento, CA 95814

Phone: 916-445-2841

Fax: 916-558-3160

http://gov.ca.gov/interact#contact

Congressman Bob Filner

2428 Rayburn House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515

Phone: (202) 225-8045

Fax: (202) 225-9073

http://www.house.gov/filner/contact.htm

Senator Diane Feinstein

331 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING

WASHINGTON DC 20510

(202) 224-3841

Web Form: http://feinstein.senate.gov/

If you want to put other elected official click this link to find them.

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

Posted on January 21st, 2009 by Semper Fi
Filed under: CRISPE Trips, Elections, Family Court, Legislation, Title IV-D, children