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I had the right to remain silent….. But I did not have the ability…….

-Comedian Ron White

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Welcome to Judicial Council Watcher!

Who we are – political commentary reporters with backgrounds in technology, government intelligence and construction attacking an institution that is bleeding corruption at the highest levels. Note: We also publish ghostwriters, named journalists and others who write articles for us.

Why don’t you use your real names? – We don’t wish our next speeding ticket to transform into a capital offense because we halfheartedly believe the people in charge of this corrupt system have that much juice.

What is your objective? – To dismantle the apparatus encouraging corruption and to ensure reforms to make such an endeavor difficult to launch in the future. Our secondary objective is to expose the corruption and to ensure that the corruption leads to prosecution. We initially set out to put a spotlight on what we believed to be about 8 billion dollars of spending by an agency clearly frought with fraud, waste, abuse and public corruption and accountable to no one.

Since our inception we’re re-defined ourselves to be “California’s 10 6.5 billion dollar reality check” because CCMS costs continue to explode in magnitude and the AOC’s office of court construction and management still pays $409.00 for clock batteries. We look at it as ten 6.5 billion dollars of wasteful spending without transparency or accountability. Accordingly, all 10 billion must be removed from their hands and a regime change must take place that replaces most all directors and most, if not all of the management in at least two programs: Construction and Information Services.

We are not against the programs themselves, just the gross mismanagement of them.

Firing whistleblowers in programs such as these is like mixing in a tactical nuclear weapon into a fireworks display on the 4th of July. It is something that just isn’t right, it’s something that you pay attention to and it’s something that just might have attracted the attention of others who might have a stake in reforms, like the rest of the judicial branch and the people of the State of California. All of these terminations attracted our attention and there are dozens more we haven’t listed or made much reference to.

WARNING read carefully – Protecting your privacy and anonymity is important to us.

We hope you enjoy your stay but we think there’s a few things you should know about this blog. To start off with, if you blog anywhere else on wordpress.com and have a registered account, it is possible that your personal information might be displayed if you have not edited your personal profile. Additionally, your icon here at wordpress is triggered by your email address, regardless of the alias you post under. Please keep this in mind if you are switching from your regular name to what you might believe is an anonymous posting.

1. We do not disclose who any poster is, their email address or any personal information about them. We believe that everyone should be able to join a forum for discussion in a productive, respectful manner. Due to the sensitive nature of the judiciary, we wish to promote and assure confidentiality for those who come forward and post.

2. And now the bad news. It only takes legal process to determine whom a poster is. Given this is a U.S. based site, the site host is obligated to provide that information when part of a legal process.  We’re working on that part but in the meantime, please be aware that what you post could come back and haunt you if a legal process is launched to determine whom you – or any other poster might be. It’s for these reasons that we recommend that you do not use your real email address or even your real name.

3. My email address is judicialcouncilwatcher@hushmail.com and for reasons of security and to protect my anonymity, I respond only with secure, encrypted email. Due to the nature of secure, encrypted email it is possible that my replies can get caught up in spam filters. Someone typically responds to messages within 24 hours. 1 hour.

4. We have recently integrated SOCIAL MEDIA LOGINS from facebook and twitter. Note that if you utilize SOCIAL MEDIA LOGINS our privacy policy is governed by that social networks privacy policy. In plain english, using a social media login can and will expose your social media information to readers here at JCW. If you desire to protect your privacy, log in as a guest and do not use social media logins from twitter or facebook.

This blog seeks to present to the reader serious issues regarding the public’s trust in the judiciary and California’s judicial branch of government. The people whom are ultimately responsible for California’s judicial branch are the members of the Judicial Council of California and their administrative arm known as the AOC or the Administrative Office of the Courts. Although some may view this blog as a threat to the independence of the judiciary, I view this blog as a punchlist of items that the Judicial Council needs to address and the AOC needs to take care of in a legitimate fashion.

Threats to the judiciary come from outside intervention on the judicial branch’s own failure to act, not from dissention in the ranks.

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“The germ of destruction of our nation is in the power of the judiciary, an irresponsible body — working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the field of jurisdication, until all shall render powerless the checks of one branch over the other and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.”

–Thomas Jefferson (1821)

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Judicial Council Watcher is not the place to launch attacks against judicial officers for their work from the bench, nor is it a place to discuss your legal case if it is not directly tied to the judicial council or the AOC. This site does not represent a free-for-all against our court system as we believe an effective justice system for all is essential. We reserve the right to edit and/or delete posts that attack judicial officers for their work from the bench or for discussing your case when it is not specifically related to the judicial council or the AOC. We do however welcome you to avail yourself of using a signature line to point to your own website when posting here.

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