Free Declaration in Support - District Court of California - California

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1 EDMUND G. BROWN JR. .Attorney General of the State of California 2 DAVID S. CHANEY Chief Assistant Attorney General 3 ROCHELLE C. EAST Acting Senior Assistant Attorney General 4 JONATHAN L. WOLFF Supervising Deputy Attorney General 5 JOSE A. ZELIDON-ZEPEDA, State Bar No. 227108 Deputy Attorney General 6 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 11000 San Francisco, CA 94102-7004 7 Telephone: (415) 703-5781 Fax: (415) 703-5843 8 Email: [email protected] 9 Attorneys for Defendants J. Rodriguez, M. Kircher, J. Parra, D. Vega, and E. Camarena 10 11 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 12 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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OAKLAND DIVISION 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 I, E. Medina, declare as follows: 1. I am an employee of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation THOMAS RAY WOODSON, Plaintiff, C 07-4925 CW DECLARATION E. MEDINA IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS -, Judge: Defendants. The Honorable Claudia Wilken

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(CDCR), working as an Appeals Coordinator at Salinas Valley State Prison, California (SVSP). I am familiar with the institutional policies and practices at SVSP for processing inmate appeals. I am competent to testify to the matters set forth in this declaration, and if called upon to do so, would and could so testify. I submit this declaration in support of Defendants' Motionto Dismiss. ///
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I am familiar with the sections of title 15 of the California Code of Regulations that

2 govern an inmate appeal. Section 3084.5 describes the levels of review that are available for an 3 inmate grievance. These levels include the Informal Level; the First Formal Level (Level I); the 4 Second Formal Level (Level II); and the Third Formal Level (Level III, or Director's Level).

5 Informal Level, Level I, and Level II review take place at the institutional level. 6 3. SVSP maintains an electronic record of each inmate appeal that has been processed

7 through Level II. 8 4. The inmate appeal records are made at or near the time that the inmate grievances are

9 investigated and decided, and they are made by a person with knowledge of the matters 10 addressed, or according to information provided by a person with knowledge of those matters. 11 These appeal records are made and kept in the course of regularly conducted activity, as a regular 12 practice.

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Attached as Exhibit A is a true and correct copy of a computer printout of the

14 Inmate/Parolee Appeals Tracking System, Level I & II, for Plaintiff Thomas Ray Woodson, P-

IS 76095 (Appeal Listing). This print-out lists each inmate appeal submitted by Plaintiff that was
16 processed through Level II or screened out, while he was housed at SVSP, through July3, 2008. 17 6. For each inmate appeal that is properly submitted, the Appeal Listing provides the

18 inmate's CDCR number, the inmate's name, the area of origin, the issue involved, and the 19 institutional log number. Below this information, the Appeal Listing sets out the levels of review 20 for each inmate appeal, according to how far along the process the inmate pursued his grievance,

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