Last Friday, Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 633, which was designed to alleviate and prevent violence against incarcerated Transgender people. According to a University of California Irvine study commissioned by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, 69 percent of transgender inmates report sexual victimization while incarcerated.
I once investigated a case for a Transgender client. She was only half-way through her surgical procedures when she was arrested and sent to a privatized jail facility for the County of San Diego run by Wackenhut. In spite of the fact that the County’s contract with Wackenhut specified that guards had to have at least one-year of experience, the officer who placed my client in a cell had only received his Bureau of Security & Investigative Services “guard card” the day before.
When he put her in the cell, he announced to the male prisoners (even though policy required her to be segregated from males), “hey look at this guy; he’s got tits as big as my momma’s.” She was subjected to gang rape while her head was held in the toilet.
Apparently Governor Schwarzenegger doesn’t think that this kind of violence needs legislation to prevent.
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The Detectives Diary is an innovative tool combining Private Investigation and Journalism. In 1984, Steve Harvey's Los Angeles Times "Around the Southland" Column entitled Jan Tucker's program of providing low-cost "Opposition Research" services to indigent and working class candidates for public office, "Take Cover: Hired Mudslinger Rides into Town." A 1996 Los Angeles Times article by Henry Chu carried a sub-headline identifying Tucker as a "P.R. Guru." In November 2012, Tucker became Criminal Justice Columnist for Counter Punch Magazine and a commentator for Black Talk Radio.
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State Director--California League of Latinos And Chicanos, Former seven term Chairman of the Board of the California Association of Licensed Investigators, Co-President San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles Chapter-National Organization for Women, former National Commissioner for Civil Rights-League of United Latin American Citizens, former Second Vice President-Inglewood-South Bay Branch-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, former founding Vice President-Armenian American Action Committee, former First Vice President, Newspaper Guild Local 69 (AFL-CIO, CLC, CWA), Board member, Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition, Community Advisory Board member--USC-Keck School of Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Research Project
