| Jan B. Tucker Resume' |
| Professional Full time investigator since 1979, Licensed since 1983 Elected Chair of the BOD of CALI, (California Association of Licensed Investigators), August 9, 2003, and Re-elected unanimously, August 2004, August 2005, July 2006, August 25, 2007, July 27, 2008 and July 20, 2009 (Longest serving Chair of the BOD in CALI history). Serves as Board of Directors Parliamentarian/Annual Business Meeting Elections Officer of CALI; Unanimously Elected San Fernando Valley District Director - California Association of Licensed Investigators, May 2001, Re-elected May 2002; Elected Director at Large, June 2003 by 66.6% of the vote; Re-elected May 2005 with 75.4% of the vote. Re-elected May 2007 unanimously. Re-elected with 57% of the vote May 2009. |
| Education 1977 B.A. Cum Laude California State University at Northridge Double Major: Political Science & Chicano (Mexican American) Studies 1978 completed 22 units towards M.A. Special Major with 4.0 Grade Point Average, CSUN • L.A. Unified School District - Law Enforcement Occupational Training taught by LAPD, 180 hour course, 1972 • Red-Cross Basic First Aid, 1977 • California Security Training School, 40 hour course, 1978-79 • CPR Hospital Training and LAFD Fire Training for Hospital Employees, 1981 California Association of Licensed Investigators, Continuing Education Certificates: April 1999, February 2000, June 2000, October 2000, March 19, 2001, March 26, 2001, April 8, 2002, June 2002, October 2002, January 2003, April 2003, June 2003, October 17, 2003, February 6, 2004; April 26, 2004, October 2004, February 2005, April 2005; June 2005, February 2006, June 21-23, 2006, October 2006 February 2, 2007, February 7, 2007 (SFV District), May 2007, February 7, 2008, April 3, 2008, April 21, 2008, May 29, 2008, June 29, 2008, May 2009, November 6, 2009, March 22, 2010, September 23-25, 2010, June 24-26, 2011 Southern California Employers Round Table continuing education seminars March 2003, February 2004, September 2004, February 2005, September 2007 Suffolk University Law School, Center for Advanced Legal Studies, CLE Seminar on “Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism,” September 2004. Peace Officers Association of Los Angeles County (POALAC): Real Estate Fraud Seminar 8/25/11; Internal Affairs 8/30/11 Riverside County Public Defenders Office, Computer Forensics training seminar taught by Neil Broom National Council of Jewish Women, panel discussion by Judge Donna Q. Groman, Judge Jan Levine, Attorney Carissa L. Phelps, Fadwa Assad (Program Analyst, Children of the Night), Debbie Deem (FBI Victim Specialist), on sexual exploitation of children and human trafficking Taught CALI Seminars: June 2002: Ethics, Epistemology, and Formal Logic for the Private Investigator; June 2003: Information and Privacy Acts at the State and Federal Level; June 2005, with Dr. Robert W. Shomer, Eyewitness Identification Procedures; October 2006, Eyewitness Identification Procedures. Taught Seminar on Eyewitness Identification Procedures and Police Misconduct at 2005 California State Conference, NAACP, with Dr. Robert W. Shomer. |
| Professional Activities Director at Large, Formerly 7 term Chairman of the Board, Former Ethics Committee Member, and Legislative Committee Member, P.R. Chair, California Association of Licensed Investigators; Los Angeles County Criminal Defense Investigators Association; Chairperson and Chief Investigator, California League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Civil Rights Commission; National Commissioner for Civil Rights, LULAC. Community Action Member, Community Advisory Board, California Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, USC Keck School of Medicine; Co-President, SFV Chapter, National Organization for Women; formerly President, Save the Animals Fund; former Second Vice President, Inglewood South Bay Branch NAACP; Board of Directors & Board Parliamentarian, Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition Legislative Action Principal drafter of AB 1617 on investigations of workplace harassment/discrimination (Cindy Montanez, D-39th AD, 2003-2004 Legislative sessions); one of three key proponents of AB 1926 (Scott Wildman, D-41st AD, 1998 Legislative session) on admissibility of rape evidence. Testified before Assembly/Senate Judiciary, Business & Professions Committees on various legislative issues concerning investigation. First non-incumbent legislator to receive CALI Legislative Excellence Award. Expert Witness Testified in People v Jose Carmen Murillo-Garcia, L.A. Superior Court East District, Case No. A521156 (33 year old murder case) as defense expert on methods of locating & prosecuting in Mexico or de facto extradition methods, Mexican- American culture, history & immigration issues, construction of surnames, and interpretation documentation to demonstrate that defendant was not “hiding” from authorities. Jury hung for acquittal, 9-3, 2009. Deposition taken as expert witness in sexual harassment investigation and remediation |
| Publications CALI JOURNAL: California Public Records Act, Volume 37, Winter 2003/04; Freedom of Information Act; Volume 38, Winter 2004/05; Eyewitness Identification Procedures & the Search of Truth (co-authored with Dr. Robert W. Shomer), Volume 38, Spring 2005. “Undercover Investigations can Uncover Much More,” Claims People, August 1999, Volume 9, No. 8. Also published in the Civil Rights Chronicle and PI Magazine. |
| Tucker in Print From "The Secret Wars of Judi Bari," by Kate Coleman (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005, p. 220) "Sutley was telling the truth, Gehrman at last concluded....His views were bolstered by the results of a voluntary 1994 polygraph test administered to Sutley in Los Angeles by former Secret Service agent Joseph Paolella, a licensed polygraph examiner. The polygraph test arranged at the behest of private eye Jan Tucker, a longtime friend of Sutley's whom he knew when both were stalwarts of the Peace and Freedom Party. The examiner asked four questions...." From "Never Guilty, Never Free," by Ginny Foat with Laura Foreman (New York: Random House, 1985, p. x [acknowledgements]) "To Gary Eldredge, the supersleuth, and Jan Tucker, the California connection." Ginny Foat's personal autograph of Jan Tucker's copy: "To Jan, Always my love, respect & gratitude for being the 'California Connection'" For a copy of Jan Tucker's "Games Lawyers Play," send $5.50 to P.O. Box 433, Torrance CA 90508-0433, made payable to Jan Tucker. Excerpts from Games Lawyers Play: "MALPIZZANCE: that combined form of Malpractice and Malfeasance in which an attorney solicits his innocent clients to commit crimes in order to pay his or her legal bills." "Everybody told me that I was crazy to actually try to get the law applied the way it says it is supposed to be applied, since the prosecutor is only theoretically no more above the law than the accused." "When the governor left office, he rewarded his bag-man, a close associate of a Hungarian mafia crime family, with licenses to operate lucrative 'traffic schools' and 'DUI schools.'" |
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