CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 25, 1996
Gov. Pete Wilson's recent decision to close Camarillo State Hospital saddened me. I hope the Legislature will seriously look at the options for use developed by Sen. Cathie Wright and Assemblyman Nao Takasugi in deciding what is best for Ventura County. The proposal to convert the site to a university housing a few developmentally disabled, made recently by Sen. Jack O'Connell and Assemblyman George Firestone, is short-sighted and not feasible. It is naive to think that a university can open immediately if the mentally ill leave the facility.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 21, 2009 | Patrick McGreevy
The state auditor Tuesday identified more than 100 nurses and psychiatric workers on the state payroll who have at least doubled their salaries with overtime, working as many as 90 hours a week. One nurse at Napa State Hospital made $733,000 in overtime in the last five years -- 66% of his total earnings -- by logging 51 extra hours each week during that period, according to the report by State Auditor Elaine Howle. She called for caps on overtime and other changes to prevent abuses and problems.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 5, 1990 | TINA DAUNT, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A team of investigators from the state auditor general's office is combing through records and talking to patients this week at Camarillo State Hospital to determine if mentally retarded children there have abused each other, as they reportedly did at a state hospital in Sonoma. Hospital officials say the probe is part of a statewide investigation and are confident that Camarillo has no similar problems.
NEWS
July 29, 1986 | HARRIET STIX
Myra Taylor touches the plastic box fastened to her wheelchair. "How are you?" she asks. "I feel happy today." In the wheelchair next to her, Michael Darlack leans over his box and announces, "I hate to wait." The messages are different, but the electronically synthesized voice that says them is not. It is, in fact, produced by the SonomaVoice, a portable box that talks in sentences at the touch of a button.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 5, 1993 | MACK REED, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Reacting to concerns that Gov. Pete Wilson could close Camarillo State Hospital, state officials said Thursday they are looking for ways to save money, but have no plans to close any state psychiatric hospital. Hospital officials and members of the Ventura County Alliance for the Mentally Ill said this week they fear that Camarillo State Hospital might close, forcing the dismissal or transfer of its 1,800 workers.
NEWS
April 16, 1994 | MARK GLADSTONE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Four years after voters approved bonds to strengthen government buildings, the Wilson Administration on Friday identified the 20 most seismically unsafe state buildings in California, including three in Downtown Los Angeles that it singled out for demolition.