COOLEY NAMES TRANSITION TEAM.Byline: Beth Barrett Staff Writer Promising a quick restructuring of the District Attorney's Office to better attack public corruption and other abuses, the county's new top prosecutor Steve Cooley Stephen Lawrence ("Steve") Cooley (born May 1, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is a veteran prosecutor who was elected as Los Angeles County's 36th District Attorney on November 7, 2000. He was sworn in for his second term on December 6, 2004. on Monday chose former California Attorney General The California Attorney General is the State Attorney General of the government of the state of California in the USA. The officer's duty is to ensure that "the laws of the state are uniformly and adequately enforced" (California Constitution, Article V, Section 13. John Van de Kamp John Van de Kamp (born in 1936[1]) served as the District Attorney for the County of Los Angeles from 1976 until 1982, and then as 28th Attorney General of California from 1982 until 1991. to head his transition team. Van de Kamp, a former Los Angeles County district attorney who endorsed Cooley against incumbent Gil Garcetti, said the transition team will work until the Dec. 4 inaugural on a variety of staffing, budget and policy issues. Van de Kamp said that while a new ``three strikes, you're out'' policy, and a review of the Rampart police corruption and Belmont Learning Center This Belmont Learning Center contains information about a building currently under construction. It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically as construction progresses and new information becomes available. environmental scandals cannot be put off, he'll advise Cooley to resist tackling every task immediately. ``The biggest danger is perhaps moving too quickly,'' Van de Kamp said. ``You want to make sure you're comfortable doing what you're doing, because once you ring the bell, it's tough to unring it, especially when it comes to deciding about people.'' Cooley said he will unveil a new ``three strikes'' policy within the next few days and is busy selecting his executive staff, but that some of the more complex restructurings and reforms could take a year or more. ``As far as `three strikes' is concerned, I'm not going to let a minute more go by than has to before a more even-handed policy is put in place,'' Cooley said. Also named to the transition team were: --Clayton Anderson, former chief of the Bureau of Investigation for the District Attorney's Office. --Keith Bushey, a retired Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . commander and deputy chief of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. --Gary Cramer, the political action committee chairman for Service Employees International Union Local 660. --Sandi Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
--Albert H. MacKenzie, former president of the Association of Deputy District Attorneys DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYS. The Act of Congress of March 3, 1815, 2 Story L. U. S. 1530, authorizes and directs the district attorneys of the United States to appoint by warrant, an attorney as their substitute or deputy in all cases when necessary to sue or prosecute for the United . --Joseph Scott and John Shallman, who worked on Cooley's campaign. --Larry Trapp, a retired head deputy district attorney, who will serve as transition team coordinator. --Diane Vezzani, a head deputy district attorney. --Eloise ``Cookie'' Williams, a staff assistant for the District Attorney's Office. |
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