Getting nailed for wrongdoing as a county employee doesn't happen lightly in Santa Clara County. The Sheriff's Office will tell you that, and so will the San Jose Police Department. Any judge in the county will tell you that, too, as will any private civil or criminal defense lawyer, including Santa Clara County's own lawyers, namely, the Office of the County Counsel. When you have a valid complaint against a county employee, no trick or tactic to enforce the distinction between said county employee and you, a non-county employee, is beneath them or any other such employee. No trick or tactic to evade responsibility or consequence goes unused; nothing is deemed too obvious or too wrong or too dangerous to employ. Apparently, no slight is too small to make an issue, either. For example, in April 2013, when I called a county employee at the P.A.C.E. Clinic (VMC) to correct a scheduling error that resulted in a three-month delay in medical care (a mistake that they couldn...
My inevitable demise, daily.