Complaint filed with CA Attorney General against City of Ukiah Police Department

 After estimating that the Ukiah Police Department has decided to violate the CA Penal Code by failing to establish a citizen complaint program, which requires implementation/use, I am filing a 181-page State complaint against the Ukiah Police today.

CA Penal Codes require the city to have an implemented process to deal with citizen complaints. The city has one. It requires DISPOSITIONS be provided to the complainant. Rather than provide the dispositions, the UPD has decided to go incommunicado on the matter.

Incommunicado to avoid following their own established process... well, that shows that the process is not actually implemented, as required by law. Their own process is either implemented, followed, and meets requirements of the State, or, it doesn't meet the State requirements. A program not truly followed is not truly implemented.

Why violate the law, Chief Next-in-Line?

By the way, several months ago after the August Todd Grove Park festivities, I received a call from a senior officer at the UPD, fishing for information. He began the conversation by telling me how the City is now going to put up leash signs at the park. This would have been in around September. I have the call log. To date, those signs have not appeared, nor are they likely to. The call was a ruse, to find out information about the complaints which I had yet to file. I told him there would be 3-4 on the way, refusing to identify the officers by name. I told him it isn't hard to figure out, since there were few officers involved.

So, if'n you can't handle your own dirty laundry... Chief-Next-in-Line, I have provided relief, by taking the matter over your head, to the State level. They can scrutinize your patterns and practices. Someone needs to.