My Blessings of 2011

It's been a tough year, but I do have alot of Blessings from 2011. Here's a short list:

- I wasn't sent back to prison/jail

-This was the longest I've not been a convict or fugitive since 1988

- No one harassed, humiliated, or degraded  me all year

- I turned 50

- Kept this Blog going all year

- I quit smoking

- Have not used alcohol or drugs

- My health is good

- I started medication for PTSD/Depression

- Had a roof over my head all year

- My van didn't break down

- Fought a good fight against The Sex Crime Witch Hunt

- Made some new friends in our fight

- and on and on

Yes, I have been blessed this year. I have to remember that when times get tough. I'm all pack up and ready to move into my new motel tomorrow. I can only stay a month, then I'll be forced to move again. Oh well, what can a guy do. I have 22 months left on parole here in CA. After I complete It I'm headed back to Alaska. HAVE A GREAT NEW YEARS EVE !!!

New Webpages/Blogs

Here's a couple new webpages/blogs I stumbled upon

Abolish Sex Offender Registry
http://abolishsexoffenderregistry.blogspot.com/

Women Against Registry
http://abolishsexoffenderregistry.blogspot.com/

The Angry Offender
http://angryoffender.com/

I'm Back !

     Yep, I'm back. Really went off the deep end for a few weeks. Came close a couple times to cutting this damn GPS Shackle off my leg and hitting the road again. Being a fugitive has long been second nature to me. Have rabbit in my blood. With the stress of complying with Jessica's Law and with the holidays I went nuts for awhile. My mother, father, grandmother, and sister all died within a span of a couple years. I miss them dearly and the holidays really bring out my heartache. I was a fugitive in 2008 and could not attend my sisters funeral. The Police/FBI would have been laying in wait. I will be moving from this Fleabag motel on New Years Day to another Fleabag motel down the street, but have been told I will only be allowed to live there for one month and will be forced to move again. My P.O. told me he doesn't care if I wind up living on the streets because I'm a sex offender. As always, I had to inform him I am not a sex offender. We got in a heated argument outside my current motel room that was heard by my neighbors. To make a long story short, I have gotten on medication to deal with this all. Jessica's Law was/is driving me crazy. How are we suppose to live under such conditions? It's pure insanity. Hopefully I can hang on until Oct. 23rd, 2013 and I can get the hell out of California. I have land in Alaska given to me by my tribe. I'm 1/2 Aleut (Alaskan Native). Was a commercial fisherman back in the day. Have you ever seen Deadliest Catch? I've done that. Worked out of a dozen ports in Alaska. I want to build myself a cabin and be left the hell alone. 22 months to go and I can tell California's Jessica's Law to shove it. Sorry about the flake out. 25 years of fighting this battle will drive anyone over the edge. The medication seems to be helping. I'm back on track. Thanks for being my friends. We need each other's support.

Mt. View, CA Teen Admits She Lied About "Rape"

http://cryrape.blogspot.com/

Unnamed 16yo Teenager

Teen recants Mtn. View sexual assault story
16-year-old girl had told police she was groped in Whisman Park

by Nick Veronin

Mountain View Voice Staff

Mountain View police said that a 16-year-old girl who told officers she had been sexually assaulted in Whisman Park in late September has recanted her story.

On Oct. 14, police spokeswoman Liz Wylie issued a press release reporting that the girl had been groped by two men in a bathroom in Whisman Park sometime between 6 and 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 26, 27 or 28.

Wylie said on Oct. 21 that the girl had "confirmed to us that no assault of any kind occurred."

"Due to her status as a juvenile, I will not be releasing any more information what-so-ever as to how we know it didn't happen, what she said to us, etc.," Wylie wrote in a press release, sent out at about 3:30 p.m. "In the same way that people sometimes legitimately delay reporting very real crimes for various personal reasons, sometimes people report crimes that did not at all happen for various personal reasons."

Wylie added, "The important thing is that there (are) not two men out there attacking women."

The Real Costs of Prisons Weblog Needs Our Help!

The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

December 30, 2011

YEARLY REQUEST FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Please read and donate!

“A world of thanks for your advocacy efforts on behalf of us who have scant access to the media and outside groups.”
---Dirceu, Massachusetts.
Dear Friend and Supporter of the Real Cost of Prisons Project,
Once a year we ask for your support for the Real Cost of Prisons Project. Our goal this year is to raise $20,000. We are a third of the way there. Your tax-deductible donation helps to support the RCPP and our commitment to broadening and deepening the organizing capacity of prison/justice activists, both in and out of prison, working to end mass incarceration.
Our work:
Advocacy and organizing with, and on behalf of prisoners challenging inhumane conditions of confinement such as solitary confinement; the daily degradation of prisoners by guards and those in authority; exposing the inadequate health care and food prisoners receive; working to end the barbaric shackling of women prisoners in labor and delivery; and contesting restrictions on reading material and mail. Additional organizing focuses include ending Life Without the Possibility of Parole, Juvenile Life Without the Possibility of Parole, Three Strikes, and stopping the expansion of other extremely punitive sentences.
(Your donation can be made through Community Futures Collective (link) http://www.realcostofprisons.org/donate.html. Or if you prefer, you can send a check to the CFC, 221 Idora Avenue, Vallejo, CA 94591. Please make your check payable to Community Futures Collective/RCPP.)

Creating and providing materials to strengthen the organizing capacity of activists:
*Sending more than 125,000 copies of our three free comic books (Prison Town - Paying the Price, Prisoners of the War on Drugs, and Prisoners of a Hard Life - Women and Their Children) to prisoners, literacy groups, schools, "books through bars" organizations, and organizations working against mass incarceration. We send comic books everyday: to prisoners; high schools in Boston, San Francisco, Oakland and East Palo Alto CA; Books Through Bars Projects in Fort Collins, CO and St. Louis; a peer education program in a Texas prison; Occupy in Phoenix; and an End the New Jim Crow Conference in NY, to name a few examples.

From a prisoner in New Mexico: “I read your name in a resource guide and would really love to receive your comic books that focus on drugs, prison and hard life. I too am very concerned with this paragon of bureaucratic dysfunction we call the prison system.”
*Providing information and materials to prisoner activists to strengthen their organizing. Recently we have provided materials about juvenile life without parole to a prisoner working on a Youth-At-Risk newsletter, assisting another prisoner doing research and writing about expanding education in prison and locating expert witnesses to testify in a case in Federal Court in a suit against a prison mailroom preventing a prisoner’s comix from leaving the prison.
“Thank you so much for your letter. I have to say, this is the most informational letter which I have received in quite some time. Thanks for that. All too often those outside of prison simply disregard those in prison and what they have to say.” Chris, Virginia
*Website sections, Writing from Prison” and “Comix from Inside” create a strong, unique platform for the ideas and analysis of prisoners through our ever-expanding group of authors and cartoonists.

*Networking prisoner activists with other activist/organizers inside and outside of prison to expand connections nationwide. A few examples include two RCPP prisoner writers in California who have found themselves in the same cellblock who are exchanging work and ideas; one prisoner in Pennsylvania recommending to another in California that the RCPP website would be a good way to get his work out and discovering the prisoner in California is a regular contributor to the RCPP website; an organizer of a NY art show and auction in support of the CA hunger strikers seeking and receiving artwork from RCPP cartoonists; and RCPP writers and cartoonist’s work being published, reprinted in newsletters, used in classes, and incorporated into other websites.

From James Anderson in Oregon: “Four years ago you posted 2 of my pieces of work on your website. I was recently contacted by a professor from San Jose Univ. about giving my permission to use my poetry as part of his class, which was awesome and definitely an honor for me.”
*The Real Cost of Prisons website and newsblog receives more than 2,000 unique visits daily. The website includes links to our daily news blog, new research, and links to organizations, books, and videos and writing and comix from prisoners.
*Providing more than 100 Real Cost of Prisons email listserv members with daily news and useful information.
*Working in coalition with Massachusetts-based organizations focused on expanding parole, stopping "three strikes" in Massachusetts, preventing fees to prisoners in jails, ending juvenile life without the possibility of parole, and banning the shackling of women prisoners during labor and child birth.
Your tax deductible donation makes it possible for us to continue and expand our work.
Please consider making a monthly donation of $10, $20, $50 or more. Or please make a onetime donation from $5 to $5,000. Every dollar we receive will be put to careful and effective use.
Your donation can be made through Community Futures Collective (link) http://www.realcostofprisons.org/donate.html. Or if you prefer, you can send a check to the CFC, 221 Idora Avenue, Vallejo, CA 94591. Please make your check payable to Community Futures Collective/RCPP.
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CA Prisons Shedding Inmates Fast

California prisons shedding inmates fast By John Gramlich, Stateline Staff Writer

TODAY'S TAKE California Governor Jerry Brown has had mixed results on a range of policy initiatives during his first year back in office, but one of his most successful efforts may be the rapid decline in the state's teeming prison population. On Tuesday (December 27), corrections officials detailed just how swift the inmate decline has been. California prisons have been shedding about 900 inmates a week and are nearly on pace to meet the aggressive target set by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year, when it ordered the state to reduce its prisoner population to 110,000 inmates by the spring of 2013, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "As of today," the paper reported, "the state’s prisons held 134,804 inmates," with the reduction in numbers just 1,800 less than an initial goal set by the high court in advance of the 2013 deadline. Earlier this year, the California inmate population exceeded 150,000, as Stateline noted in an April feature about overcrowded facilities. That huge population, and the state's long-running effort to reduce it, led the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in May, citing unconstitutionally bad prison conditions. The state's response to the high court was to pass a prison "realignment" plan, which went into effect in October and requires low-level offenders to serve their time in county jails rather than state facilities. While the plan has had the intended effect of easing the state prison population, many counties say they cannot handle the influx of new inmates. Some law enforcement officials have said that the policy is a dangerous one. From the state's perspective, however, low-level offenders should not be serving time in state prisons anyway, and the Brown administration is pressing forward as it tries to comply with the Supreme Court order. "The progress puts the state exactly where it said it would be in an August court filing," the Chronicle reports, noting that the next target is to reduce the prison population by another 10,000 inmates — to 124,000 — by June 27. "Today’s Take” provides a quick analysis of the day’s top news in state government. — Contact John Gramlich at jgramlich@stateline.org

Fuck It !

   I say goodbye my friends. Can not take this shit anymore. I would rather live underground or die. A man can only take so much. Would rather live on the the run. See you on the other side.  J.A.

Found a "Home"

    With my upcoming eviction due to Jessica's Law residential restrictions I found a temporary "home". Another hotel. One of the only hotels in this county that is in compliance to the Jessica's Law 2,000 foot "Predator Free Zones" that cover 75+% of this county. I've been living in the same hotel now for over a year, but the city is building a park down the street and I have been ordered to move by Jan. 1st, 2012. The hotel I'm currently staying in on a Hotel Row with 4 hotels that RSO's stay in because there's nowhere else to live. All 30+ guys have been ordered to move or be arrested. I'm one of them. Now get this. My room is about 1,990 feet away from this upcoming park. I'm being evicted for 10 feet? Absolutely insane. Well, the hotel next to me has 5 rooms that are o.k. and I have already reserved one and will be moving into it on New Years Day. What a relief. I sure wasn't looking forward to living in my van. Last time I lived on the streets was when Jessica's Law was passed by voters in 20006 , so I jumped parole and left the state. I lasted 2 years until my arrest when a neighbor ratted on me for growing marijuana (never said I was an angel) and I was extradited back to CA. It was the 3rd time I walked on a commercial plane in chains to be brought back. Never again. I plan to finish parole no matter what this time and never be in handcuffs again. Don't think I would of made it on the streets again. Too dawn old. The rabbit is run out of me. Plus, like I said before - the bastards always catch me anyway. Speaking of being old. I turn 50 on Friday. 50 years old. Holy Shit! This whole nightmare started when I was 24. Over a quarter century ago. Found a place to hold up for awhile until Oct. 23rd, 2013 and I finally get off parole. Hope time flys, so I can get out of this state. Keep up the good fight.

Lake Forest to Ban All RSO's From City Parks?

   I have about 2 years left on parole here in California and one of the things I most look forward to is going to a park, kick back in the sun, play baseball, have a picnic, ect.... If things keep going like they are I just may be banned forever from parks, the beach, and so on. Here in CA city after city are proposing to ban all RSO's forever from all outside recreational areas. It's crazy and just keeps getting more insane. So the city, county, and/or state are going to tell me because I was falsely accused 27 years ago and wrongly convicted that I am banned from all public places? Looks like that just may be the case. I just can't get over how far The Sex Crime Witch Hunt has gone. Well, you can believe this. When I'm off parole and have this GPS Shackle cut off my leg, that tracks my ever move, I will be going any damn place I want to !!! Here's a recent article on the Lake Forest ban http://lakeforest-ca.patch.com/articles/council-oks-stricter-sex-offender-ban .

Riverside Co. to Ban All RSO's From Halloween?

Should Sex Offenders be able to Decorate for Halloween?

By Sadie West, Hornet Reporter

Published: Thursday, December 1, 2011

Updated: Friday, December 2, 2011 13:12

Supervisor Jeff Stone of Riverside County introduced an ordinance that would ban sex offenders from putting up Halloween decorations and passing out candy to children.
This is unjust to many of the registered sex offenders, taking away more of their constitutional rights.
According to the article in the Los Angeles Times, "the measure would bar registered sex offenders from answering the door to trick-or-treating children or decorating their homes with Halloween decorations between 12 A.M. and 11:59 P.M. on October 31 each year.
Beyond that, they would be prohibited from leaving any external lights on between 5 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. on Halloween night."When the term sex offender is first heard, one usually thinks that the person must have molested a child or shown off their genitals to a child, but this is not necessarily true.
The dictionary definition of a sex offender is a person who has committed a crime involving a sexual act.
Nowhere does it say that the person committed a sex crime against a child, just a sex crime.
Sex offenses come in many different types.
In order for a person to be registered in the federal system as a sex offender, one must have committed rape or other forms of sexual assault and sexual abuse, obscenity, human trafficking, incest, inappropriate phone calls/sexting, sex with animals, and public order crimes (i.e. public urination, streaking, stealing underwear, etc.).
Of course, what was afore mentioned crimes all can be committed with or against children.
Like any other crime, there are serious and minor differentiations between the many committed.
It is unjust to punish and treat all registered sex offenders the same, when not all of their crimes are the same.
A more serious offense that deserves a more serious punishment is child molestation.
Streaking, or public urination, is a minor offense that does not need a serious course of action.
The registering of sex offenders provides a sense of security and protection for parents in all neighborhoods.
Parents can look up the locations and names of sex offenders in their neighborhoods, which help to prevent and avoid such houses.
Sex offenders should have the right to actively participate in the traditions of Halloween.
Parents should especially be cautious on such a night, taking extra precautions to make sure that nothing happens.
Just because sex offenders decorate their houses or purchase candy to pass out, doesn't mean that their houses will be visited.
Sex offenders are people too, people with sexual deviant behavior, but people nonetheless.
Crimes committed by the offenders are already taken care of and regulated by the government, as unjustly as it is.
It's unnecessary and cruel for more rules and regulations to be implemented.
Although sex offenders are definitely to blame for their actions, it's not right for even more rules to be added.
Halloween has been celebrated for many, many years.
The government has no place in regulating who gets to celebrate a famous and treasured holiday and who doesn't.
Everyone should be wary of sex offenders in their neighborhoods (and those nearby) and should take precautionary measure, but sex offenders don't need any more punishments added on either.
Halloween is a time of tricks, treats, and costumes, not a time of limitation and punishment.

From: http://www.fchornet.com/opinion/should-sex-offenders-be-able-to-decorate-for-halloween-1.2722434

The SAFAR Newsletter

   It's Saturday morning and here I am at the library again working on my blog, but I'm pooped out. I've been fighting this battle for over 20 years now. I started in 1989 at Oregon State Penitentiary, where I was serving a 10 year sentence, with The Society Against False Accusations of Rape (SAFAR) Newsletter with the help of Betty Duffey. A woman I did not even know until she read about my wrongful conviction in The Liberator. She helped me for years publishing my newsletter and even flew out to see me. The SAFAR Newsletter was sent out to hundreds of convicts throughout the U.S. and lasted 35 editions. I would cut out articles, paste them to paper, copy, and send them out. Very Old School. Postage was expensive, but I got all the copying for free. A fellow convict (not an "inmate") was a former copy machine repairman and would rig our Law Library's copy machine for me to give me all the copies I needed. It was great! Right under the Law Librarian's/guard's nose. I loved it! I still have copies of most of the editions. Seems like a lifetime ago. I would of never dreamed I'd still be in this fight 20+ years later. Oh well, what can I guy do? Give up? Screw that! Every 2 years in the late 80's and almost the entire 90's I have to go in front of a parole board to see if I was to be paroled. I'd always tell them to go fuck themselves. Here's an Open Letter to the board that was published in 1997 in The Backlash. I have less than a month until I will be forced to live in my van due to Jessica's Law residential restrictions. The nightmare never ends. Take care my friends.

An innocent man

Having served several years for a crime I never committed,
I refuse parole.
by J.A., convicted rapist
Copyright © 1997 by J.A.

On April 10th, 1997, I am going to go in front of you to be judged again for a crime I did not commit. I have decided that to accept parole would be in conflict of my many years of proclaiming my innocence. I committed no crime to have all these years stolen out of my life and will not beg for parole. Being an innocent man, I refuse your parole offerings, which is my right under laws in effect at the time of supposed crime (September 5th, 1985). I will serve this prison term until my Good-Time Release Date at which time I will be released. See Bollinger vs. Board of Parole.
I have absolutely no remorse for the crime I was wrongly convicted of, I have not a shred of sympathy for my so-called victim, and I owe no one an apology for my actions. How can I have remorse, empathy, or apologize for something I did not do?
I realize my innocence means nothing to you and the fact I have served over six years in an Oregon prison for a crime I did not commit equally means nothing to you. I have come to realize that prisons and prisoners means more money for you and your kind. I refuse parole because I want nothing more to do with the "Corrections" industry in Oregon.
The woman who falsely accused me of rape on September 5th, 1985, did so in order to file a million dollar lawsuit, and because she is mentally ill with a history of falsely accusing men of sex crimes. I was wrongly convicted because vital evidence about my accuser's past and her motives were not allowed in the courtroom due to unconstitutional Rape Shield Laws that hide important evidence from juries in rape trials. And because rape crisis counselors in Salem, Oregon, gave her acting lessons and coached her how to appear as a real rape victim on the witness stand. My accuser, Donna Jean Rowland, of Albany, Oregon, was awarded $24,000.00 for her fraud.

Editor's note: As demonstrated on 60 Minutes or 20/20 in 1996, during Airline crash civil trials, the personal history, including sexual history, of crash victims and their family are routinely introduced into evidence by Airline and Insurance company lawyers. Why is it okay in that case, but not in rape cases?

Because I am not what you call a "sex offender" I will also be filing a lawsuit so I will not be forced to register as a "sex offender" once I am released from prison. I believe over six years out of my life is enough for the state of Oregon and I will not give up my privacy and dignity by being forced to register as a "sex offender." I believe these sex offender community notification laws are unconstitutional and a form of double jeopardy. I will not take part in this further injustice.
I will also not take part in any "sex offender" treatment programs or any other behavior modification classes. As I have stated, I am not a sex offender and was wrongly convicted of Rape because my so-called fair trial was rigged to ensure a conviction. Why should I subject myself to "sex offender" treatment? So some sex offender counselor can justify his job? Would it not be a waste of time for not only myself but also for Oregon's sex offender treatment industry, for me to partake in a "treatment" I do not need or want?
In 1990, another Oregon Parole Board said I should serve four years in prison for my so-called crime and be released. They stated for the record that:

• The "victim" was not harmed in any way.
• No threats were made at the "victim."
• The "crime" contained no violence.
• And Vern Faatz, the head of the Parole Board in 1990, said that the "victim" aided in the "crime."

I was to be released from this charge in 1995, but as you recall you ruled that even though I presented you with two positive psych exams that I must have a mental disorder because I refuse to "confess," so I must be too dangerous to be released.
Now, another one of your bought-and-paid-for state psychologists who prostitutes themselves to Oregon's Parole Board interviewed me for half an hour and has come to the conclusion I am in "denial" of my crime, so I must be too dangerous for society. What a farce! His evaluation of my mental and emotional health is not worth the paper it is written on. The only reasons your State Psychologists label prisoners mentally ill is because you pay them, thus allowing you to take away parole dates, keep more prisoners to fill your prison beds, and expand Oregon's multi-million dollar Prison Industry.
The years that you and your kind have stolen out of my life is enough. I owe you nothing more. As a matter of fact, someone owes me and my family an apology. But I know that is beyond those who profit off the backs of innocence and that justice and truth are just empty words to those who line their pockets with money made off of prisons and prisoners. The Oregon Prison Industry has made enough money off my misery. I am not a commodity for your prison warehouses.
I want to be left alone and have my life back. I hope you understand I have too much pride, honor, and integrity to accept your gracious parole. Thank you for your time and effort.
Sincerely, J.A.                                 http://www.backlash.com/content/gender/1997/7-dec97/safar07.html

Global Conglomerate 3M and GPS Shackles

   This horrid GPS Shackle I have locked on my ankle was made by a company called Pro-Tech which has recently been purchased by the global conglomerate 3M which knows a money maker when It sees one. GPS Shackles for everyone! Gee, we sure will be safe then and just think of all the jobs GPS Shackles provide. So what that these barbaric devices do nothing to protect the public. Big deal that hundreds of million of taxpayer dollars are totally wasted on these GPS Balls and Chains every year. Doesn't matter that Law Enforcement time and energy is taken up by tracking GPS Shackles. 3M is racking in hundreds of millions !!! That's all that matters ! You can bet that 3M will be spending millions on lobbyists and propaganda to promote their new "product". An excellent article in Mother Jones Magazine (a magazine I subscribed to in prison) was recently published on how Hi-Tech Company's are making a killing on GPS for sex offenders. Here's a link to It:


 http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/11/jessicas-law-surveillance-corporations


   As with alot about The Sex Crime Witch Hunt, It all boils down to money. Follow the money and you'll see why GPS Shackles have become so popular. It needs to be exposed now!!!

Here's the link to 3M, their new product, and "About Us"

 http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/ElectronicMonitoring/?WT.mc_id=www.3m.com/electronicmonitoring

About Us

The specific needs and considerations of remote offender monitoring programs within the criminal justice industry have always been the focal point of 3M Electronic Monitoring’s operations. This position has enabled 3M Electronic Monitoring to accumulate a wealth of technical and industry expertise, covering the full spectrum of offender monitoring and tracking product solutions and technologies. The majority of 3M Electronic Monitoring’s financial and human resources are dedicated to customer support, design, engineering and development activities, ensuring delivery of the best available monitoring technology solutions for our customers. This flexible, customer-oriented approach to the design process and service delivery enables 3M Electronic Monitoring to provide high quality products and services.
With a presence in more than 25 countries, 3M Electronic Monitoring is a leading global provider of presence and location verification technologies for the criminal justice industry. We offer a complete suite of proprietary products and services. Our solutions can be customized, and are based upon a full-featured, integrated platform that is scalable and highly flexible to meet each organization’s unique needs now and in the future. As an industry innovator, 3M Electronic Monitoring offers technologies to support law enforcement, corrections, and security operations.

CA RSOL Needs Our Help

   Recieved an e-mail this morning from CA RSOL and they need our help. I'll be sending my $10 donation this morning. They're fighting for US, so let's give them a hand. You can find out about CA RSOL at: http://www.californiarsol.org/

Could you possibly post this on the 'Jessica's Law Nightmare' website? I realize you might not approve this or be comfortable with this, and it's sort of a bold request, but it's our D-Day (CA RSO's) coming up in January. it's VERY important for us, and might start moving the rest of the US in a certain direction, But, Janice needs all the donations she can get to facilitate this action. 

THE $10 CHALLENGE: LET'S END THE LIFETIME REGISTRY !

We have a unique opportunity to end the state's lifetime registry through passage of California Assembly Bill 625.  That bill, if passed, would create a tiered registry under which registrants could leave the registry in as little as 10 years.  The deadline to pass that bill is January 31, 2012. 

There is much we all can do as individuals and as an organization, including (1) write a letter to your State Assemblyperson, (2) join California RSOL in lobbying Sacramento on January 17 and January 18 as well as (3) donate $10 or a multiple thereof ($10 for each registrant you can support).  Please make your donation payable to California RSOL and send it to 8721 Santa Monica Blvd., Box 855, Los Angeles, CA 90069.  For more information, call Janice Bellucci at (805) 896-7854.