San Joaquin County District Atty

Sidney Stone

They just let #RapistLyleBurgess off with 90 days house arrest and no sex registration for molesting a 5 year old. Wow...complete incompetence or corruption.

Ray Adams

You guys let a man who raped a 5yr old girl get 90 days house arrest. How much did #LyleBurgess pay to get that. I wanna buy my way out of a few lesser violent crimes like robbery or speeding...

Bill Brewer

Do you want to know why crime is so high in San Joaquin and Stockton City? Look at the District Attorney and how he runs the office and of course he will say staffing issues, money etc. I hope that in the next election someone gets elected that will do something about the crime problem. Do nothing and not prosecuting criminals is not crime fighting and it encourages them. Why doesn't the City councils demand that the District Attorney start prosecuting misdemeanors. Why they are part of the problem also playing to the voters in their districts. California is being ran by criminals for Criminals. Honest people are only wanted for their tax payer dollars. And Please do not defend your life or property or the District Attorney will prosecute you. But refuses to prosecute the real criminals.

Louise Ross-Martinez

I wouldn’t be writing this review if there were not about 39,000 seniors in San Joaquin County who need to know what I found out. I thought seniors had special protection under Elder Abuse Laws, and from what I read, they would be treated with dignity and would get assistance to make the process of reporting the abuse and the trial process as easy on them as possible. That was not my experience. In fact, the process of contacting the Elder Abuse Hotline and getting any help was just as painful as the abuse, and I still have not been able to file a complaint. When I called the hotline, I told the woman my name and the apartment complex I lived in. She said I would need to file a police report first before they could help me. Nowhere did I see that requirement. Not on the Stockton DA’s website or anywhere. She said I could file online, and I went to the website she gave me, spent time writing everything and submitted it. It was rejected because where I live is in the San Joaquin Count Sherriff’s jurisdiction. I told her where I lived. Shouldn’t she have known? The Sherriff’s department website allowed you to file a police report for only 4 crimes. Mine was not an option, and I was supposed to call the Sherriff’s department and talk to who knows. I haven’t even told my sister and I am supposed to tell whomever answered the phone there? It probably would have been a male cop. Now that I am over 65, it seems I am just an old woman whose problems are trivialized. I don’t know about any of you but I resent the question Do you live alone and since I turned 65 everyone thinks it is relevant, especially doctors. Does a 50 year old get asked that question or did I just become incompetent in a single day. I want to respond with Do you? It is none of their business and it doesn’t have any significance. Even if I am reporting an abuse case, the point is to stop the abuser and not delve into my business. The hotline person went way beyond that and insinuated if I didn’t want the help of a caregiver, a cleaning person, a family member or nurse to take care of me I was saying I didn’t want help. My downstairs neighbors have been torturing me, and I have to let people take control of my life to report it? I thought that was the abuser’s role. My choices and my decisions as far as remaining in control of my own life and not allowing anyone to take that away from me obviously makes me unworthy of help with what they are supposed to be there for. That I found invasive and offensive as was the laughter in the background and cheeriness in her voice when she was leaving a voicemail message. If someone is being abused and is trying to get help from an abuse hotline, should laughter and a cheerful voicemail make them feel better about the abuse? I don’t think it is appropriate. Then I was told the DA would call me in a couple of hours and talk to me and can you guess what happened? I just think you should all know that the protection we think we have and the people who are there to help us are not what we were expecting and I, for one, think the help I thought I would get and the help I got were on different planets. I hope this does not get rejected because seniors need to be informed and not by going to websites that promise they will live with dignity and integrity. That ends at 64.