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Traffic Division 2016
In 2016 we said goodbye to Commissioner Peter Fagan and hello to Commissioner Terrye Davis. Commissioner Fagan accepted a new position as a commissioner with the San Diego Superior Court. I’m sure all of us who have had the opportunity to get to know him over the last year will see this as a loss...
Read ArticleAmnesty Program – One Year Later
On June 24, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a one-time Amnesty Program for unpaid traffic and non-traffic infractions. The program began on October 1, 2015 and ends on March 21, 2017. This is the second traffic amnesty program our state has implemented in the past four years. This time the program offers more...
Read ArticleFocus on Accessibility: Expanding the Court’s Interpreter Program
Data from the 2010 census indicates that about one third of Contra Costa’s population over the age of 5 speaks a language other than English at home. This translates to a large percentage of court users who need assistance in another language. Fortunately, the Judicial Council’s Language Access Plan Implementation Task Force has been hard...
Read ArticleGetting to Know Hon. David E. Goldstein
Hon. David E. Goldstein was appointed to the bench in November 2015 by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Judge Goldstein is currently located at the George D. Carroll Courthouse in Richmond, California. As a California native, Judge Goldstein was raised in San Carlos and has been a resident in the Golden State to this present...
Read ArticleTemporary Judges: An Invaluable Service to the Court and Public
Temporary judges have played an integral role in California courts for over a century. Article 6, Section 21 of the California Constitution, which governs the current iteration of the Temporary Judge Program, provides: “[o]n stipulation of the parties…the court may order a cause to be tried by a temporary judge who is a member of...
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