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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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Stip. & Order Amending Date for Defs. to File CDCR’s Psychiatrist Vacancy Report (2:90-cv-00520 KJM-DB 

(PC))

XAVIER BECERRA

Attorney General of California 

MONICA N. ANDERSON

Senior Assistant Attorney General 

JAY C. RUSSELL

DAMON G. MCCLAIN

Supervising Deputy Attorneys General 

ELISE OWENS THORN, State Bar No. 145931 

ANDREW M. GIBSON, State Bar No. 244330 

TYLER V. HEATH, State Bar No. 271478 

Deputy Attorney General 

1300 I Street, Suite 125 

P.O. Box 944255 

Sacramento, CA 94244-2550 

Telephone: (916) 210-7325 

Fax: (916) 324-5205 

E-mail: Tyler.Heath@doj.ca.gov 

Attorneys for Defendants 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SACRAMENTO DIVISION 

RALPH COLEMAN, et al., 

Plaintiffs,

v. 

EDMUND G. BROWN JR., et al., 

Defendants.

2:90-cv-00520 KJM-DB (PC) 

STIPULATION AND ORDER 

AMENDING THE DATE FOR 

DEFENDANTS TO FILE CDCR’S 

PSYCHIATRIST VACANCY REPORT 

 

Judge: The Hon. Kimberly J. Mueller 

The parties, through their counsel of record, stipulate to the following: 

1. On February 14, 2018, the Court ordered Defendants to file on the 15th of every 

month, beginning on March 15, 2018, “reports identifying the psychiatrist vacancy rates at each 

CDCR institution and in the aggregate systemwide” (“Report”). (ECF No. 5786 at 4.) The 

Reports must include the “data for psychiatrist vacancies contained in the report titled 

Correctional Health Care Services Mental Health Institution Vacancies: Summary by Institution 

by Classification.” (Id.) Each Report must contain the “data for the preceding month.” (Id.) 

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2. At the time of the Court’s order, Defendants informed the Special Master and 

Plaintiffs that they would be unable to provide a Report with all of the information required by 

the Court by the 15th of the month. Specifically, because psychiatry positions are filled by both 

civil service and registry psychiatrists, verified registry data is not available to CDCR until a few 

weeks after the close of the month, and therefore not reportable by the 15th of each month.1

3. Defendants met with the Special Master and Plaintiffs twice to discuss a potential 

stipulation to amend the filing date for the Report. Defendants initially requested a stipulation to 

move the filing deadline to the last court day of the month to allow them to file the Report based 

on verified registry data. Defendants also informed the Special Master and Plaintiffs that to meet 

the Court’s 15th filing deadline, CDCR would have to collect and rely on non-validated registry 

data. 

4. On March 14, 2018, the parties filed a stipulation to move the date for the February 

2018 Report to the last court day of March 2018. The stipulation also informed the Court that 

future Reports would be filed by the 15th to meet the Court’s Order, but, by necessity, the 

Reports would rely on non-validated registry data. (ECF No. 5803 at 2.) 

5. On June 15, 2018, Defendants filed an amended Report for April 2018 because “the 

verified data for April, which only became available after May 15, showed that the number of 

positions filled by registry in April 2018 was different from the number shown by . . . report filed 

on May 15, 2018.” (ECF No. 5839 at 2, Ex. A.) On July 16, 2018, Defendants also filed an 

amended Report for May 2018 because “the verified data for May, which only became available 

after June 15, showed that the number of positions filled by registry in May 2018 was different 

from the number shown by . . . report filed on June 15, 2018.” (ECF No. 5856, Ex. A.) 

Defendants anticipate that future Reports will need to be amended. 

6. Defendants can file future Reports, including the August Report that includes the data 

from July, based on verified registry data by the last court day of each month. Moving the filing 

 1 Defendants historically provided to the Special Master and Plaintiffs comprehensive staffing 

data, including registry data, two months after the month reported in the Correctional Health Care Services 

Mental Health Institution Vacancies: Summary by Institution by Classification report currently provided 

with Defendants’ monthly reports package (i.e., the July report provides data from May).

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date for the Report to the last court day of each month will prevent unnecessary amendments and 

confusion. 

7. Therefore, the parties request the deadline to file the Reports be amended to allow 

CDCR to file it on the last court day of each month. 

8. The Special Master has reviewed this stipulation and has no objection to Defendants 

filing the psychiatry vacancy report on the last court day of each month. 

 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 

Dated: August 14, 2018 /s/ Tyler Heath 

TYLER HEATH 

Deputy Attorney General 

Attorneys for Defendants 

/s/ Cara E. Trapani_ CARA E. TRAPANI 

Attorney for Plaintiffs 

ORDER 

Based on the parties’ stipulation, the Court’s February 14, 2018 order (ECF No. 5786), and 

March 15, 2018 stipulation and order (ECF No. 5803) are amended to allow Defendants to file 

CDCR’s psychiatry staffing vacancy report identifying the psychiatrist vacancy rates at each 

CDCR institution and in the aggregate systemwide by the last court day of each month. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: August 21, 2018. 

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