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Los Angeles Adult Protective Services Refuses to Accept Reports of Conservator Abuse

Numerous complaints have been tendered to the FBI, from Florida to California.

(LOS ANGELES) - The elder abuse hotline runs round the clock in Los Angeles County. Twenty four hours a day, a social worker is available to take incoming complaints of abuse and neglect of elderly and dependent adults.

But not, apparently, if the abusing party is a conservator.

Aging Without Raging: It`s Perseverance Plus!

Human potential is ageless, whatever its source. Never minimize that maxim.

(SALEM) - All of us age by degrees. It is not an overnight process.

Nevertheless, we seem conditioned to ignore this life reality and indulge in a game called Manana-itis. We tend to be in denial.

California State Psychology Board Launches Psychiatric Probe of Activist Psychologist

Answers for those concerned about the increasing use of psychiatry as a tool of control by the State.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - The California State Psychology Board has launched an action against a Northern California psychologist and advocate for the disabled, and has ordered the practitioner into a psychiatric evaluation or face revocation of his license.

In an unprecedented deviation from the Board's mandate to investigate consumer complaints,

Report from the Front Lines in Riverside, California

“Toni Eggebraaten has embezzled thirty thousand dollars and I am therefore executing a citizen’s arrest. Bailiff, take Ms. Eggebraaten into custody”.

(RIVERSIDE, Ca.) - Today in Riverside Superior Court, Department 8, I attempted to execute a citizen’s arrest of an attorney.

Toni Eggebraaten, the attorney for the Family Trust for which I am a beneficiary, filed an accounting in which she attempted to obscure her embezzling thirty thousand dollars.

Guardian Crimes get `Cover` from Government Agencies

Someone goes to court and says you can't handle your affairs. There is no attempt made to prove this allegation and as a result, you lose all access to your money and cannot hire an attorney to get it back.

(PROGRESO, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico) - Government agencies pledged to provide oversight for those handling the affairs of the most vulnerable.

The degree of 'cover' provided those pledged to care for the elderly and infirm could be seen as providing absolute immunity for acts of criminal misconduct.

Bills Protecting Vulnerable Seniors from Abuse Approved by Senate

HB 4084 introduced by the Elder Abuse Work Group created in 2011.

(SALEM) - The Oregon Senate backed a bill this morning that will make major changes to Oregon law with respect to elder abuse, creating critical new protections for Oregon’s most vulnerable seniors.

House Bill 4084 integrates several recommendations from a work group on elder abuse created in 2011...

Announcing the Guardianship Convention Against Torture Project

Determine if your guardianship situation qualifies under the terms of the Convention.

(PROGRESO, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico) - While in Geneva, Switzerland recently I met with a number of disability rights oriented groups.

It was suggested to me at that time that the guardianship victims bundle together our complaints and submit under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. The U.S. has both signed and ratified this international treaty and thus is bound to its conditions.

Senate Committee Approves Foreclosure Help, Protection for Unemployed

Series of bills to help struggling Oregonians clear Legislative hurdle

(SALEM) - A Senate committee took action this morning on several priority bills that will help Oregonians who continue to struggle in these tough times.

Judicial Reform Activist Stalked by Judge

Janet Phelan recently returned from presenting at the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva.

(YUCATAN PENINSULA, Mexico) - A legal reform activist and journalist, who exposed a money laundering operation wherein home loans were being used to funnel pay offs to California judges, is now being stalked by…..you got it…a judge.

After nearly a decade of reporting on corruption in the legal system, journalist Janet Phelan moved to Mexico, where she has continued to write on issues pertaining to courts and justice.

Florida: The Silver Tour To Bring Awareness About Medical Cannabis

"We have a lot of seniors in our community and people with terminal illnesses that truly believe they derive relief from medical marijuana," - State Rep. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth

(BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) - Many proponents of the global cannabis movement believe legendary pitchman and author of The Black Tuna Diaries, Robert Platshorn, holds the key to cannabis legalization in the United States.

Platshorn has shown he can sway senior audiences to support medical cannabis.