SofaMan resurfaces in Dayton, Ohio
Did you happen to notice that when most former AOC baddies leave the AOC they also leave the state? Such is the case of our ‘beloved’ Sofaman – Mr. Kenneth Couch.
Thanks to our own darling Wendy Darling we have this tidbit that someone managed to dig up somewhere.
City Appoints New Human Resource Director
Release Date: Monday, November 17, 2014
City Manager Tim Riordan today announced the appointment of Kenneth Couch to
Director of Human Resources, effective December 1.
Mr. Couch will manage a team of eleven and provide assistance to nearly 2000
employees across 14 city departments. Couch, an accomplished Human Resources
executive, brings 20 years of HR experience working on both the management and
labor side of human resources. As Director of Human Resources, Mr. Couch will be
responsible for overseeing the City’s health care budget, workers compensation
expenses, labor management relations and all other aspects of human resources.
“Ken brings hands-on experience to head our human resources department,” said
Tim Riordan, City Manager. “His well-rounded background makes him an
excellent choice for our executive team.”
Prior to accepting this position, Couch was the Director of Human Resources for the
Judicial Council of California. His responsibilities included leading and directing
labor and employee relations and coordinating human resource services for 58
County Superior Courts, 6 Appellate Courts, Supreme Court and the Judicial
Council staff.
Couch holds a Bachelor’s degree in Labor Studies from The McGregor School of
Antioch University, Silver Springs, Maryland and Master’s degree in Conflict
Resolution from Antioch University, Yellow Springs Ohio.
Anonymous referenced Mr. Couch’s stellar reputation in Human resources as well. Before Mr. Couch worked for the AOC he spearheaded attempting to gut retirement benefits for Sonoma County retired employees, leaving a huge legal mess in his wake when he then went to work for the AOC. In the process of doing so he inadvertently created something akin to his own fan site. Feel free to avail yourselves of their legal page.
http://www.sonomacountyretirees.com/
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The AOC Gets Another Shot Jacobs Facilities Unlicensed Contractor Disgorgement
Yesterday, Official managed to dig up this interesting tidbit from California’s First District Court of Appeals:
So the First District Court of Appeals, who came perilously close to being a victim of this unlicensed entity with a generator project destined to power their own server room reversed and remanded this case back to the Superior Court. Now, there are about 121 court entities out there that were in fact indirect victims of this unlicensed activity, including San Francisco Superior Court.
Do yourselves a favor: Send copies of that material to all parties. None of it meets the requisite requirements of a licensed contractor. All contractors are supposed to put their physical address and contractors license numbers on all materials. You will find none of this information on their business cards and proposals.
Eighteen Over 22 million dollars that should go directly back into our courts is at stake as most of those 121 courts from the Bay Area to San Diego, including San Francisco Superior Court have business cards and proposals from Team Jacobs.
Judicial Council Watcher 
unionman575
August 21, 2015
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sharonkramer
August 27, 2015
More from Kamala: “Friends, When I was young, the first question asked around the dinner table was ‘What did you learn in school today?’ And since first grade, I always had an answer ready.” Well that explains alot!
Maxrebo5
September 4, 2015
I wonder when the Judicial Council will put out the 2015 Court Statistics Report with the workload data for last year in CA Courts? I’d like to see if court filings are down again as they have been declining since 2009 while the Chief keeps pushing for more money more money. We know the crime stats are down in California so the case filings are likely to be down too. Why the delay in publishing that report?
Also, I watched the Distinguished Service Awards on YouTube and thought it was interesting that the Chief is returning to a 1993 format (Pre-Ron George?). Finally a good idea!
I noticed in the video for David Yamasaki that there was not one mention of Bill Vickrey the man the award is named after. I always remind folks the award is named after Vickrey thanks to the Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye who renaming the Kleps award after Vickrey after the legislature demaned he be fiired for mismanaging CCMS to the tune of $500 million. It was her defiant act to say she was not reforming the AOC and they had done nothing wrong.
My view is that she now downplays the men who appointed her to the job (Ron and Bill) just to pretend she is changing the branch’s corrupt culture when in fact she is not doing anything of the sort. The JC is still 100% appointed by the Chief. The votes are all still unanimous. She also controls all of the sub-committees. The open meetings rule is a joke too not a success as they have declared.
The Chief has a new timeline of reform as well and I noticed she does not show a slide on it that she created the Bill Vickrey award after that letter from the legislature was received or that she named the JC conference center after Bill Vickrey. Seems like she is forgetting some big facts on that timeline. Doesn’t it send a chilling message of defying reform to do those two things?
Here is a link to the “Distinguished Services Awards” on youtube
Here is a link to her very skewed and biased timeline of reform:
http://www.courts.ca.gov/judicialcounciltimeline.htm
The truth is she is not reforming. She is paying lip service to it and then has a second message, never expressed openly but shown through her actions, that she runs the branch from the top down and don’t try to change it. It is her insiders running the CA Courts and they have not changed one bit.
David Yamasaki did not leave his family out of a desire to serve CA Courts or the public more. He left them for money and the huge salary he got by being the CEO of Santa Clara.
He could have stayed as the deputy CEO in San Diego and been with his family but he was greedy. No need to cry about it now or give him an award. David gave up time with your kids for more money he did not really need. Bad choice.
It was not like David was living off food stamps as the Deputy CEO in San Diego. Sad but true. So those tears may be real but why not say the truth to your wife and kids about your choices. I am sorry I was not a better father who put you first. That I chose to get more money instead of be there with you. That I wanted to be the boss and not the number two man. I let my ego get the best of me. All the folks at the top have one thing in common and that is a willingness to sell out family and friends for more money and their own need for personal prestige.
The WAFM is a good change but that was forced on the branch by the Governor and DOF.
sharonkramer
September 9, 2015
Wonder if this fine example of systemic fraud upon the OC courts is moving to Dayton, Ohior?
Embattled Orange County Prosecutor Linked To Jailhouse Snitch Scandal Is Resigning And Leaving California
“The allegations of misconduct culminated earlier this year when Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals ejected the entire OCDA office — all 250 prosecutors — from a high-profile mass murder case. Goethals said at the time that the government had committed “significant” violations of due process and called certain aspects of the office’s behavior a “comedy of errors.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/orange-county-erik-petersen-jailhouse-informants_55ef6388e4b03784e277096d