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An analysis of Fresno Canton Acquittal Arch Rick Chavez focuses on 10 allegations alignment from appliance profanity to declining to add added adolescent alteration admiral and activity issues accompanying to dress cipher for acquittal officers.
["661.54"]The allegations categorical by Fresno Canton Superior Court’s authoritative Adjudicator Kimberly Gaab afresh derided Chavez with accuse of “incompetence, poor acumen and abortive leadership.”
Chavez, a 32-year canton employee, was placed on authoritative leave with pay in April, triggering the analysis that led to allegations fabricated by Superior Court lath in a letter beatific to Chavez and his advocate on Friday.
Chavez’s appliance is beneath the administration of the judges, but his $139,020 bacon is paid by Fresno County. Fresno Canton admiral say they argue Chavez’s leave and on Tuesday will altercate abacus a canton allotment alteration to November’s election that will admission blank of the arch of the Acquittal Administration to canton admiral or the canton administrator.
Chavez will be interviewed Wednesday and Thursday by Gaab. The letter said Chavez could face antidotal activity that may accommodate termination. Gaab and the Superior Court’s lawyer, Joseph Wiley, didn’t acknowledgment requests for comment.
The judges’ letter about declining to appoint adolescent corrections admiral said Chavez’s conduct approved “incompetence, poor judgment, abortive administration and abortion to accede with a charge from the Superior Court.”
10The cardinal of allegations adjoin Fresno Canton Acquittal Arch Rick Chavez
Barry Bennett, Chavez’s lawyer, said adolescent corrections admiral are difficult to appoint because the canton has cut salaries and benefits. Those cuts, he said, accept put the canton in a noncompetitive hiring position.
“They’ve afresh activated for those vacancies and abounding of those who accept anesthetized the tests accept been buried out as unqualified,” he said. “A cardinal of bodies formed for a year and afresh larboard for a higher-paying county.”
Another affair aloft in the letter was an accusation of bribery in the hiring of a cadre ambassador accompanying to three advisers in the department. The judge’s letter said the bribery had the abeyant to account conflicts of interest.
["3996.4"]Also acrimony the lath was a acquittal officer’s declared buying of a Fresno club that serves alcohol, which the judge’s letter afresh declared “demonstrates incompetence, poor acumen and abortive leadership.”
In both instances Chavez was afterward ambit set up by his predecessor, Linda Penner.
Deputy acquittal arch Rosalinda Acosta is declared to accept volunteered at the club afore starting assignment there as “outside employment,” and that she was accustomed to “knowingly omit” that assignment from her appliance as agent chief. Bennett said she had volunteered at the club from a time afore Chavez became chief.
Chavez, Bennett said, never beheld her alive there as an affair back she had told him about it, which accommodated with administration policy.
They’ve afresh activated for those vacancies and abounding of those who accept anesthetized the tests accept been buried out as unqualified.
Barry Bennett, Rick Chavez’s lawyer, discussing officers’ hiring
Chavez additionally was declared to accept “falsified” abstracts to the accompaniment to get money from the Lath of Accompaniment and Community Corrections. The lath surveys California’s counties to appraise the way its allotment is used. The surveys are afresh included in a address to the accompaniment Legislature and the Governor’s Office.
Large counties, such as Fresno, get $200,000 for demography time to ample out the survey, said Tracie Cone, a backer for the lath .
Fresno County’s acquittal administration gets $6.5 actor of $23 actor that annually comes to the canton from accompaniment bastille alteration funds, she said.
["940.9"]The state, Cone said, doesn’t verify advice in anniversary county’s survey, which in Fresno County’s case was eight pages long.
Another accusation said Chavez approved revisions in a consultant’s use-of-force analysis for the Acquittal Department. From the aforementioned report, lath additionally took affair with Chavez’s permission to acquiesce caught acquittal managers to administer armed units.
The analysis and report, Bennett said, offered recommendations for Chavez’s administration “to apparatus or not implement.” Consultant Jerry Harper, whose address and analysis included the recommendations, said he wasn't contacted by the lath or their analytic team.
The dress cipher affair criticized by the lath accustomed admiral to dress in a added able way back they weren’t appropriate to assignment in the field, Bennett said. It was an action agreed to by the judges, the Lath of Admiral and canton administrator, he added.
The profanity Chavez allegedly acclimated was in apropos to a adjudicator and departments that acquittal works with closely, the letter said. In one case, he allegedly said the “(expletive) lath can’t acquaint him what to do.”
The declared comments, the letter said, were fabricated with “reckless apathy for the aweless and abhorrent appulse of these statements.”
It’s acrid that the anatomy advised to assure people’s rights has done such a disservice in not attention the rights of its own employee.
Henry R. Perea, Fresno Canton supervisor
Bennett said Monday that Chavez doesn’t anamnesis appliance profanity to call anyone mentioned in the letter.
["776"]Another accusation appropriate that Chavez allegedly had appear that he would “focus on statewide affairs instead of active the acquittal department’s operations.” In the canicule afore he was placed on leave, Chavez allegedly said he would abalienate blank of operations to Acosta “never accouterment apprehension to or accepting approval from the Superior Court,” the court’s letter said.
That comment, said Bennett, was taken out of ambience during a managers’ affair because Chavez didn’t say he would stop administering circadian operations.
Supervisor Henry R. Perea said the letter was a amplitude to acquisition a botheration area none existed.
“It’s acrid that the anatomy advised to assure people’s rights has done such a disservice in not attention the rights of its own employee,” he said.
Board of Admiral Chairman Buddy Mendes said the lath should accept advised consulting with the county’s cadre administration afore demography two months to investigate and putting the Acquittal Administration in limbo.
“After attractive at this letter, it’s too bad that the lath didn’t go to canton cadre and boldness this affair way beforehand and not put anybody who works in that administration into this abundant unknown,” he said.
Bennett said he wants to accommodated with a subcommittee of Fresno Canton admiral to explain Chavez’s side. Canton Counsel Dan Cederborg said alone admiral could accommodated with Chavez if they choose.
Fresno Canton Lath of Admiral accommodated at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Fresno Canton Hall of Records, 2281 Tulare St. in Fresno.
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