@HowTheWestWS Thanks for forwarding that to me. While it is needed in Fresno, so are scaled down measures, like buying people a cup of coffee/providing it and something to eat in early morning. -Michaela cc: @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland 2/ If @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA continue to use the same non-improved support organizations, this won't work either. -Michaela cc: @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @fresnoland
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA 3/ If mobile team refers people to the MAPS housing trailer @PoverelloHouse people will refuse to go! Threatened with rape, murder, trafficking, violence, vile names on walk to get there. Security is no where to be found, and are people from jail serving sentences 🤨.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 4/ The MAPS trailer has a high turn-over rate of employees and a lack of proper follow-through. I'd have been FIRED from Bay Area law firms for that level of disorganization. They've not gotten me or anyone I know an apt/housing. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 5/ Fresno's homeless system has horrid shelters, with abusive mgmt and staff and NO yearly mental health training, and NO medical best practices. Their models have worsened peoples' mental health issues, and other problems. The belligerent staff and screaming. Wow 😡!-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 6/ Fresno, like many cities, has chosen to put vulnerable people with brain disorders (mental illnesses) in with in with violent gang members & criminals @PoverelloHouse , Rescue Msn. It's OUTRAGEOUS, & further stresses & traumatizes people who are barely hanging on 😡. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 7/ A senior citizen schizophrenic woman, a beautiful seamstress in the Sewing Room at Holy Cross for Women @PoverelloHouse told me in a more lucid moment that Naomi House (shelter) had never helped her! She's not even getting Social Security disability 😡. On sts yrs! -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 8/ I saw a Black woman mngr of Naomi House kick out a Black middle-aged woman for napping in her car, "violating the rules", and not waking up in time for the daily NH opening. The woman had knee surgery, one of the most painful recoveries, just gotten our of hospital! -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 9/ What an evil, abusive Naomi House manager. Here's how you handle someone recovering from an operation: "We're opening up soon for roll call, and I need you to wake up." Gently keep calling the person's name. This isn't rocket science folks but basic human decency.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 10/ Instead the Naomi House mgr kicked out the Black middle-aged woman with knee surgery, leaving her to sleep in her car! Mgmt & staff constantly threatened us with sts for violating non-existent rules, because they've a toxic bully culture. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 11/ Naomi House staff threatened women clients with the sts for accepting fast food hamburgers and cold sodas from a church group outside the Poverello gates. If Naomi House can "rain on a parade" , they do. Not a word of gratitude to the church. Just trash, per usual.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 12/ Next up the Naomi House staff kicked out a middle aged Black woman, a former educator with a Master's degree, felled by that terrible brain disorder schizophrenia. She proudly had me read her Master's on my laptop. Wonderful job! -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse Clarification: Naomi House was NOT officially open in the afternoon when we accepted hamburgers and cold sodas from the church group. Public st. Public side walk. Our free time. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 13/ The Black woman former educator with a Master's degree, who lost her career, home, and everything else due to the onset of schizophrenia, a brain disorder, was kicked out of NH because a laundry sack I sewed for her at Holy Cross bumped an item on a lower shelf.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 13/ The Black woman former educator with a Master's degree was so vulnerable due to her brain disorder schizophrenia. If I could have wrapped her in my arms, made her life better, healed her brain, I would have. Beautiful soul. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 14/ The laundry sack I sewed for T. at Holy Cross for Women bumped an item on the storage shelf beneath the laundry sack. Nothing broke. Staff screamed and raged at her. Kicked out. Accident. T. & I were last 2 people in line of 36 women in AM check out How DARE they?!* -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse 15/ When @MayorJerryDyer was police chief of @CityofFresno @FresnoPolice there was a somber news conference that he held. Black middle aged former woman educator with Master's, lost her life as she knew it, was brutally raped and beaten by Micah Collins. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice 16/ In the People of the State of CA v. Micah Collins (Fresno County Superior Court) was the victim my friend T? How many Black women educators with Master's degrees, are homeless due to mental illness, in Fresno, CA? -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice 17/ Micah Collins should have NEVER been able to get his hands on that vulnerable woman with a broken brain! The fact that he did is a testament to our system's failures and NOT being pro-active. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice 18/ So we didn't have money as a city to proactively help this woman, but we could blow the wad on: hospitalization of victim for nearly 1 month, police investigation, criminal trial, and state prison for Micah Collins who was convicted by jury and got 36 yrs to life?-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice 17/ So we could as a community spend tens of millions of dollars on defendant Micah Collins, but none on housing & helping victim first?!* What is wrong with THIS picture? What garbage! -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice 19/ The Naomi House mgmt and staff were so upset by my presence as a college educated paralegal, law ofc experience (no drugs, alcohol or crimes, but there after sick/hospital, application for benefits), 50's, watching their unlawful behavior and screwups. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice 20/ Naomi House managers and staff did not like me watching their abusive, unlawful, actionable (could result in lawsuits in court), that they kicked me out of Naomi House on a trumped up charge: prescription drug theft of a homeless elderly woman's medication 😡.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice 21/ Naomi House mgmt accused me of an extremely serious felony crime in CA. Again, I've epilepsy since age 6, don't smoke, drink, use drugs, or have a criminal history. I've never gotten a speeding ticket in 40+ yrs driving! -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice 22/ I also don't steal. Obviously the Naomi House mgmt and staff didn't have any confidence in their false accusation about me, because they never called @FresnoPolice to examine the security cameras' footage. There's one the size of a bowling ball right there on st.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice 23/ I'm an epileptic and have been for 53 yrs, since age 6. My life and health are dependent on twice daily anti-seizure medications. I've been treated at @Stanford_Neuro since age 6. Perish the thought that I'd take anyone's medication and put their life in danger! -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 24/ The mgmt and staff at Naomi House were vile, abusive, toxic, unethical trash when I was there a few yrs ago. The majority of them should be fired. Why do they get rewarded for this totally unprofessional behavior? Harmful to our city and vulnerable people. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 25/ Over the decades, when I've had medical lab work or even hospital emergencies (including seizures), my blood is squeaky clean. Only my anti-seizure medication is in my blood. No other drugs, legal or illegal, and no alcohol. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 25/ I spent my days at Holy Cross for Women, run by Sisters Mary and Frances, from St. Agnes Hospital. I sewed laundry sacks as gifts for homeless women in their favorite colors, which I kept track of in my journal. I was helped by Textile Guild volunteers.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 26/ Holy Cross also has security camera footage. But of course, we're dealing with the losers at Naomi House, and their outrageous free-wheeling fabricated accusations. They landed in federal court in Fresno for forcing women clients to shower with a biological man.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 27/ Naomi House mgmt and staff threatened women clients with the sts for daring to complain about being nude in the group showers with a bio man, who sex harassed them and posted YouTube videos. Class-action lawsuit in Fresno federal court. Entirely predictable. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 28/ When many of you see Fresno, & our homeless spread throughout the city and along highway embankments (jurisdiction of CA Highway Patrol) you're outraged. Here's what I think: Thank goodness you found a little patch of peace & tranquility in a system that failed you!-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 29/ 2.5 yrs later, I'm still sleeping in my car. The system failed to house me too. As long as Fresno doesn't make safe transitional housing with ethical, caring, professional, trained mgmt & staff, away from gang members, you will not succeed. It needs overhaul. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 30/ Did I mention that I changed CA law in the legislature for high-risk stalking, domestic violence, & sex crimes victims? I got Safe at Home Program passed into law, testified. Inspired by WA law & ltr to columnist "Dear Abby". 4 yrs work! 🎉💃-Michaela
sos.ca.gov/registries/saf…
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 31/ I'll also mention that I was Queen of Mock Trials, coming in first place in a class taught by a funny, hardworking, petite, smart, former Santa Clara County (San Jose, CA) prosecutor who was a Stanford graduate. She was a terrific instructor!
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 32/ The majority of homeless women have anxiety disorders and depression, which are chemical imbalances in the brain. Fresno's transitional housing is designed to cause the maximum amount of instability and stress. 12 lines a day at Naomi House, new bed every night. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 33/ No medical best practices were followed by ANY of the Fresno transitional shelters that I stayed at: Fresno Rescue Mission, Rescue the Children (part of FRM on Highway 99), Naomi House, Evangel Home, & Dakota Eco Village. All failed to help medically sick women. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 34/ Fresno Rescue Mission. Fresno requires that homeless women stay there to get a "letter of homelessness" for Naomi House. FRM put me in a creepy dilapidated shared room upstairs, creepy disgusting, filthy bathroom. This thoughtlessness further compounded women's stress levels.
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 34 (a). Fresno Rescue Mission. My motto is that if you wouldn't host your grandmother in a room, you shouldn't put anyone else in there either! There was NO excuse for a lack of fresh paint on the walls, simple, clean decor, a clean bathroom with hygeine products. None!-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 34 (b). A pregnant homeless teenager arrived in that disgusting bedroom the night that I was there. She took one look at the deplorable conditions, burst into tears, and fled. So much for FRM "respecting life". I wondered if the teen had an abortion after NO support 😡. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 34 (c). Fresno Rescue Mission. FRM required that people eating in the dining room down the st go thru a security check point, like at an airport. Women with depression and anxiety, other illnesses, don't need this level of aggravation to eat! I'd rather starve 😡.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 34 (d). Fresno Rescue Mission. Homeless women, the majority of whom were severally mentally ill and NOT stabilized by meds, were put in a FRM minivan and driven out to Rescue the Children on Highway 99, a FRM organization. I followed in my car. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 34 (e). Fresno Rescue Mission. Homeless women were given cots and bedding to sleep on in the living room/reception area. Rescue the Children is a closed facility to outsiders, with women residents there being treated for substance use. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 34 (f). Fresno Rescue Mission. In the morning, homeless women were taken to a room by staff, off the main dining room for residents, served breakfast, and then ordered to leave the campus! They were NOT put in the minivan and taken back to Poverello/Holy Cross for Women.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 34 (g). Fresno Rescue Mission. I checked Google Maps. Those homeless women, poorly clothed with no decent footwear, were left high & dry at Rescue the Children, in an industrial area, by Highway 99. It is SIX miles from Poverello/Holy Cross for Women!!! -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 34 (h). Fresno Rescue Mission. The homeless women, with severe cognitive impairments, were NOT given bottled water, snacks, or bus passes. Why do we give that HORRIBLE organization money, referrals? That's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Just appalling! 😡. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 34 (i). Fresno Rescue Mission. This is not rocket science. It's like caring for children. If you pick them up on a school bus to take them to school, then you take them home. And I'll say it again: Why hasn't Fresno city/county ordered professional yearly audits of orgs?-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 34 (j). Fresno Rescue Mission. FRM's Rescue the Children by Highway 99 also had a respite room for sick, homeless women. Two disabled seniors, one Black and one white, were in that room. Their presence did not trigger an automatic notification to Fresno County/case mgmt.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 34 (k). Fresno Rescue Mission. Both elderly women/medically disabled were kicked out of FRM's Rescue the Children by Highway 99, no notice. They were both rendered homeless again on the sts. I spoke with both of them at Poverello. No housing. Wasted time/opportunities.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 35 (a). Naomi House. I forgot to mention to tell you that I and other women, many older with serious medical problems, were subjected to daily searches of our bodies, bras, waists, shoes, etc to enter Naomi House. It was so bizarre! I've medical problems, epilepsy.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 35 (b). The demeaning pat downs at Naomi House were deeply offensive to women like me, older and rendered homeless by medical problems, long application process for benefits, disability. Naomi House and Fresno's homeless system carried on damaging, untrue stereotypes.-Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 35 (c). Naomi House. In keeping with their Dark Ages' stereotypes of homelessness, we new homeless women clients were given "welcome gifts" by Naomi House staff. Brown lunch sacks crammed with condoms! I was OFFENDED 🤨! Other senior women rolled their eyes. In trash. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 35 (d). Naomi House. We women clients weren't given a list of helpful items to choose from as our welcome "gifts" such as: sunscreen, lip balm, athletes' cream, hair products, mosquito repellent, notebook and pens, other basics. We had condoms foisted on us. Grade: F. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 36 (a). I will be tweeting you about all of these disastrous experiences and transitional housing failures. I'm also filing a written complaint with the Fresno County Civil Grand Jury. They need to know just how off track this entire system is. -Michaela
@HowTheWestWS @MayorJerryDyer @BalderramaPaco @LuisCha70215912 @MiguelArias_D3 @fresnoland @CityofFresno @FresnoCountyCA @PoverelloHouse @FresnoPolice @Stanford_Neuro 36 (b). I will say it again. Where are Fresno's professional yearly audits of this entire system? These kinds of failings should result in "findings" by auditors. Auditors coming should put the fear of God into these organizations to improve. -Michaela

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@FresnoCountyCA @FresnoBee @CAPublicHealth @ClovisPolice_CA @SenatorBorgeas @JimPatterson559 Hi, A retired Fresno, CA man has been going to a Clovis, CA bar (on a corner) several times a WK with neighbors. Dancing. No masks. Etc. Patrons go out in community. Covid vector.
2/ @FresnoCountyCA @FresnoBee @CAPublicHealth @ClovisPolice_CA @SenatorBorgeas @JimPatterson559 @GavinNewsom @AlexPadilla4CA I turn 59 next WK. I've epilepsy, age 6. On new anti-seizure med Nov, reduces immune system. I'm angry they put me at risk! -Michaela cc: @JerryDyerFresno
3/ @FresnoCountyCA @FresnoBee @CAPublicHealth @ClovisPolice_CA @SenatorBorgeas @JimPatterson559 @GavinNewsom @AlexPadilla4CA @SenatorBorgeas @JimPatterson559 @JerryDyerFresno I've NOT received a Covid vax and it is NOT my turn yet in Fresno, CA. Steamed by Clovis bar! -Michaela
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