Showing posts with label misdemeanor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label misdemeanor. Show all posts

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Upcoming WATCH Webinar Training

Improving Your Court’s Response to Misdemeanor Domestic Violence Cases


Join WATCH on Tuesday, July 26th at 1pm CST (11am PST, 12pm MST, 2pm EST) for its webinar training on Improving Your Court’s Response to Misdemeanor Domestic Violence Cases.
This webinar will provide an overview on how to monitor misdemeanor domestic violence cases in suburban and rural settings including a review of WATCH’s most recent report, Promoting Victim Safety and Offender Accountability: Improving the Response to Misdemeanor Domestic Violence CasesThis webinar will help you create a framework for examining misdemeanor-level cases including creating a research or monitoring project designed to improve your courts.

Topics include:
  • partnering with criminal justice and community stakeholders
  • reporting case outcomes
  • incorporating best practices
  • implementing recommendations
COST$35 for current National Association of Court Monitoring Program members and $50 for non-members. You may pay with a credit card at www.watchmn.org or send a check to the address listed above.


* If paying by check, please include the name of the webinar you are registering for, as well as a phone number, mailing address, and e-mail contact.

QUESTIONS: Contact Anna Light at alight@watchmn.org or (612)341-2747 x7.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Janitor from El Modena High School charged for Sexually Assault of Special Education Student

Luis Antonio Mejia


Quick Facts:

  • Mejia(49)charged with sexually assaulting a special education student in his campus office
  • Faces charges of six felony counts of lewd and sex acts, one misdemeanor count of child annoyance.
  • Arraignment is scheduled for Today in the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana, California
  • Mejia has worked as a janitor at El Modena High School in Orange for 12 years.
  • He exchanged written notes with the victim, including "I love you" cards and over 100 calls and text messages
  • Several encounters at school in his office,relationship reported by girl's friend to principal
  • According to prosecutors, he groomed her with candy,cards,gifts and money. He also instructed another janitor to cover a video surveillance camera with tape
  • Orange Police Department, launched an investigation after being contacted by school
  • Luis Mejia posted $250,000 bail and is not in custody, case number is 09CF1331
for more info on this story

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/school-mejia-prosecutors-2438390-sexual-office

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-janitor-charged,0,192209.story