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Probe of prison guards union boss ends
By Andy Furillo - afurillo@sacbee.com
Published 12:47 pm PDT Thursday, July 3, 2008
The state prison oversight agency's investigation into the correctional officers union president for hiring a parolee to an internship is "over," the labor leader's lawyer said today.
Mike Rains, attorney for Mike Jimenez, president of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, said that Barbara Sheldon, the chief counsel for the Office of the Inspector General, informed him earlier this week that the probe is over and that no action will be taken against Jimenez.
"She said, 'We are done. It's not going any further. It's over,' " Rains said.
Sheldon could not be reached today.
Inspector General David Shaw said, "We haven't concluded our investigation yet, but I can tell you we have no current plans to interview Mike Jimenez or any of the other leadership at CCPOA."
Jimenez came under fire mostly from his own union membership over the hiring of the parolee, Raul Gomez, to a Sacramento internship with a CCPOA-affiliated organization, Minorities in Law Enforcement.
A fledgling internal affairs probe by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation was handed over to the OIG on June 20. The investigation focused on the union's transport of Gomez outside the county of his residence and whether the relationship between the CCPOA officials and Gomez violated regulations covering "over-familiarity" between prison officials and offenders.
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