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CARII president takes issue with newspaper column -- Letter to the editor scorns "ridiculous comparison" In a recent guest column in the Orange County Register(End recurring budget deficits), Adrian Moore, vice president of research at the Reason Foundation, wrote, “The Board of Barbering and Cosmetology is not as important as the Highway Patrol. The cosmetology board should be eliminated, not cut by 10 percent. More...       Arbitrator Reinstates Program Representative's Alternative Work Schedule Discontinuance of Alternative Schedule Ruled Arbitrary and Capricious On January 28, 2008 Arbitrator Sara Adler issued a decision granting the grievance of George Sleight, a Department of Consumer Affairs Bureau of Automotive Repair Program Representative I, from the Valencia BAR office. In October 2006, Sleight filed a grievance claiming his Alternative Work Schedule (“AWS”) had been arbitrarily and capriciously revoked by his supervisor. More...           Bureau of Automotive Repair employees dying to get home "By the time he arrived at an emergency room he had no blood pressure" From Bruce Hotchkiss, president of the California Association of Investigators and Inspectors We all know how difficult it is to transfer from one Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) office to another. Unless you happen to be a "fortunate son," your chances of getting a voluntary geographic transfer are slim to none. More...       State again calls on CSLEA members to lead disaster response With fires barely contained in Southern California, big oil spill hits Northern California Once again, the state has called on CSLEA members to lead a disaster response, tugging one more time on the central thread of California’s public safety net. With the fires barely contained in Southern California, a huge oil spill last week blackened Bay Area waters in Northern California when the freighter Cosco Busan brushed against one of the anchorages of the Bay Bridge, opening a 90-foot gash from which 58,000 gallons poured. More...           New state repositories of confidential information to include rusty tool sheds, garages, guest bedrooms Thousands of confidential records -- including Social Security numbers -- that some California businesses must file with the state will soon be put in shoe boxes and shoved under guest beds, stuffed in shopping bags and piled next to lawn tools in rusty sheds, or thrown in nooks within home garages. More...