Our CSLEA members with CAL FIRE are reminding all of us to be fire safe this winter as we warm up our homes. Firefighters see a big spike in home heating fires in December, January and February and most can be prevented. “Our CSLEA members who are deputy fire marshals, fire service training specialists, even […]
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ABC Agents Assist With Food Stamp Fraud Case
What do our CSLEA members who are Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Agents have to do with food stamps? “Our ABC agents work closely with federal investigators all the time,” said Shelley Bishop, president of the California Association of State Investigators (CASI), an affiliate of CSLEA. “We go into locations attempting to find out if alcohol […]
Carbon Monoxide Awareness Month
With temperatures dropping and many of us are reaching for the thermostat or the fireplace to keep us warm, our CSLEA members who are emergency responders are reminding us, November is California Carbon Monoxide Awareness month and we should all have detectors in our homes. Carbon monoxide detectors are not only a good and life-saving […]
Our CSLEA Members Looking Out For Hollywood: Safety On The Set
It is the stuff Hollywood stunts are made of and our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are with the California State Fire Marshal’s office are a part of it, not as actors but as safety experts and teachers. The State Fire Marshal’s office recently held a three-day class in Burbank to educate […]
Operation Safe Medicine: Our CSLEA Members At Work
Phony doctors, bad medical procedures, risky treatments. Nobody wants that kind of experience but it happens right here in the state of California. Need proof? Just ask our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are investigators with the state medical board’s Operation Safe Medicine unit. Operation Safe Medicine investigators handed prosecutors 61 cases […]
State Workers Don’t Tolerate Pension Abuse – Busted, Booked & Convicted
File a false disability retirement claim and you had better watch your back. Quite literally. Our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are investigators with CalPERS not only have badges, they have surveillance cameras. People may lie, but video rarely does and our investigators won their case in court. A Sacramento jury convicted […]
Where There’s A Superstorm There Are CSLEA Superheroes
It is hard to call yourself a superhero just for stepping up to the plate and doing your job when so many people impacted by Hurricane Sandy are suffering, but for those back east who are receiving help from as far away as California, the response is heroic. Hurricane Sandy wiped out power to more […]
Museum Security Officers Watchful As Thousands Visit The Endeavour Exhibit Now Open To The Public
There is no shortage of excitement, or people, at the California Science Center as the space shuttle Endeavour display is now open to the public. The grand opening attracted thousands, Tuesday, October 30th, including Governor Jerry Brown. Our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are museum security officers at the California Science Center […]
Investigators Shut Down Sacramento Funeral Home
It’s not often our California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) members who are field representatives with the California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau are in the spotlight, but this month their investigative work has been in the headlines up and down the state. “It’s heartbreaking to hear what some of these families have been through,” said […]
CSLEA Member To The Rescue DDS Officer First To Respond To Violent Freeway Crash
When Lanterman Developmental Center Police Officer Roberto Perez saw a car flip twice in the air and hit a freeway center divider head-on, he knew he had to respond. It was just after 2:00 a.m. October 27th as he was patrolling the grounds at Lanterman Developmental Center in Pomona. “I looked to the 57 freeway, […]
