Gangs. Police Tactics, Prisons, Judges & ACLU

Los Angeles, CA. This Sunday and Monday on Cable TV the Full Disclosure Network® feature six Video News Blogs covering the latest hot button issues and top law enforcement officials as follows:

L.A. CABLE CHANNEL 36
Sunday, March 2nd 8:00 p.m Part 1
Sunday, March 2nd 8:30 p.m. Part 2
Monday, March 3rd 4:00 p.m. Part 1
Monday, March 3rd 4:30 p.m. Part 2
Click here for 45 other cable channel numbers & air times

WATCH THE VIDEO BLOGS HERE ONLINE NOW:
Click on the title/link to access the streaming video page.

PART 1
Video News Blog #40 “Massive Prison Release Intended” (8:15 min) Steve Ipsen, President of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys claims the agenda of anti-law enforcement politicians are setting the stage for a massive prision release. He describes who, why and how they have been undermining the “Three Strikes Law” for the past ten years.

Video News Blog #42 “Prison System Condemned in Concealed Report” (10:30 min) California’s Corrections Independent Review Panel, headed by former Gov. George Deukmejian, issued a little known 400 page report costing over $1 million. According to Executive Director Joe A. Gunn, they found the system was in “chaos, a disaster and total disarray” but the Governor Schwarzenegger has ignored the findings.

Video News Blog #41 “Police Solo Foot Pursuit Ban Debated” (8:30) Three top cops debate whether or not police should chase gang members or criminals on foot without back-up or partners. Features LASD Chief Bill McSweeney, former Det. Roy Burns and LAPD Capt.Ken Hillman (ret).

PART 2
Video News Blog #43 “Are Jails Intended To Be Punishment?” (8 min) A dynamic echange of views about whether jail time should be considered punishment for convicted criminals. Featuring LASD Sgt. Paul Jernigan, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Police Reformer Merrick Bobb.

Video News Blog #45 “Jails, Judges & The ACLU” (7:02 min) Featuring Sheriff Leroy Baca, Former U. S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, LASD Sgt. Paul Jernigan, LASD Captain Tim Cornell and Glendale Police Lt. Don Merideth. Revealing discussion who’s behind the early release program in L. A. County jails and why convicted criminals are being released without spending any or very little time in jail.

Video News Blog #44 “The Ultimate Gang Solution” (13:01 min) Should the Courts require juvenile gang members to wear GPS tracking devices to deter adult gang members from using them for unlawful and violent activities? Features Steve Ipsen, President of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, and Jeremy Thompson a retired LASD Deputy from gang detail.

The Full Disclosure Network® is a reality news show, known as “the news behind the news” since 1992 and is an independent, public affairs cable program produced by Host Leslie Dutton and Producer T. J. Johnston. In 2002 the FDN program was presented with a public affairs Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for their series entitled “L.A.’s War Against Terrorism”. Previews of the full programs are featured on the website at http://www.fulldisclosure.net/.

Tonight on Cable TV: L.A.'s Jails....Who's Watching The Jailers?

SHERIFF LEROY BACA & THE ACLU? MIKE GENNACO OR MERRICK BOBB ?

Los Angeles, CA, On CABLE TV TONIGHT & MONDAY, a two-partFull Disclosure Network® special series features representatives from Police Monitoring organizations describing current jail overcrowding and what they do and how they do it to keep the L. A. County Sheriff Leroy Baca and his Department on the straight and narrow.

WATCH THESE EXCLUSIVE SHOWS TONIGHT & MONDAY ON:
L.A. Cable Channel 36
Sunday, Sept, 30th 8-9 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 1st 4-5 p.m.

OTHER CABLE CHANNELS AND AIR TIMES ARE LISTED HERE

Not on Los Angeles Cable? To view video previews here, click on these links:
Part 1 and Part 2

Featured in this two-part series are:

• Sheriff Leroy Baca
• Mark Rosenbaum, ACLU’s Legal Director
• Mary Tiedeman ACLU Jail Project Director
• Captain Tim Cornell, LASD Inmate Reception Center
• Mike Gennaco, Chief Attorney LASD Office of Independent Review
• Merrick Bobb, Pres. Police Assessment Resource Center (PARC)

Highlights from the two programs are:

• Explicit details of the numerous problems encountered by both the ACLU monitors and the L.A. County Sheriffs Department are provided in depth.
• Inmate Riots On Video: jail disturbances on video are featured in the FDN preview and series, to demonstrate the circumstances that exist from time to time and explanations for the cause are provided.
• Three Civilian Monitors for the Sheriff: The Board of Supervisors already was contracting with Merrick Bobb of PARC, who describes his goal to make law enforcement “effective”.
• IG Mike Gennaco explains how and why the Sheriff formed the Office of Independent Review with funding from L. A. County Board of Supervisors
• Roy Burns, former head of ALADS comments on the impact of policies developed by the monitors.

Billed as "the news behind the news" the Full Disclosure Network® is an independent, educational, public affairs cable program sponsored by the Citizens Protection Alliance. Produced by host Leslie Dutton and T.J. Johnston the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented FDN with a 2001 Emmy Award for the public affairs series entitled "L.A.'s War Against Terrorism". Channels and airtimes. For the past fifteen years FDN has covered critical public policy issues, in-depth, that are often ignored by the mainstream media.

SHERIFF BACA & THE ACLU….PARTNERS IN JAIL REFORM? (Video Preview 4 min)

Los Angeles, CA: The unique court ordered partnership between the ACLU and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is revealed in a four minute Internet video preview from a special Full Disclosure Network® series of interviews addressing the Los Angeles County jail crisis. Sheriff Leroy Baca describes the cause of the current jail overcrowding, citing the 1975 ACLU lawsuit (Rutherford vs Block). Also featured are ACLU’s Legal Director Mark Rosenbaum, Jail Project Director Mary Tiedeman and LASD Captain Tim Cornell, of the Inmate Reception Center.

In the preview Baca tells FDN host Leslie Dutton that “The jail overcrowded problem, as you may know, stems from court decrees…. we were capped at about 18,000 prisoners, based on this Rutherford decision.” The preview is available FREE to Internet viewers and the entire series is soon to be featured on 43 cable TV systems. Eventually the full length interviews will be available 24/7, on demand, to those who subscribe to the Full Disclosure Network® website program service.

Some of the highlights featuring the ACLU and L.A. County Sheriff’s Department are:

• Captain Tim Cornell describes the LASD partnership with the ACLU, including some of the difficulties encountered when the ACLU monitors distribute complaint forms to inmates who in turn provide false information. He describes the ACLU’s temporary restraining order on jail overcrowding and how it impacted operations and the daily task of moving inmates from jails to courthouses for their hearings.
• Mary Tiedeman, jail project director is asked to describe how the inmates react to the monitoring and relates some of the most common problems associated with the complaints forms they file on behalf of the inmates. She also defines the “partnership” with Sheriff’s Department and her good working relationship with the Sheriffs Deputies who respond quickly to her requests to assist inmates in distress.
• Mark Rosenbaum, ACLU legal director describes the “partnership” with the Sheriffs Department and discusses how he wants to avoid any contempt proceedings against the LASD and that any back-up of operations that may have occurred, due to the ACLU temporary restraining order, should and could have been avoided and why.
• Inmate Riots, jail disturbances on video are featured in the FDN preview and series, to demonstrate the circumstances that exist from time to time and explanations for the cause are provided.
• Explicit details of the numerous problems encountered by both the ACLU monitors and the L.A. County Sheriffs Department are provided in depth.

Billed as "the news behind the news" the Full Disclosure Network® is an independent, educational, public affairs cable program. In 2002 host Leslie Dutton was presented with a local public affairs Emmy Award by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the series entitled "L.A.'s War Against Terrorism". Channels and airtimes. For the past fifteen years FDN has covered critical public policy issues, in-depth, that are often ignored by the mainstream media.