World Exclusive! Three Contra Costa Men Arrested in Dixon After High Speed Chase On Interstate-80 and new leads on the source of a mysterious malady that has everybody confused
CHP Freedom Of Information Act NEWS CRIME And PUBLIC SAFETY
World Exclusive! Three Contra Costa Men Arrested in Dixon After High Speed Chase On Interstate-80 and new leads on the source of a mysterious malady that has everybody confused
By Ben Edokpayi, Special Report on a cause of the Russia-Ukraine Crisis
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Fairfield, Calif — The fate of three men arrested and booked into Solano County jail after a high-speed chase that started from Contra Costa is yet to be determined. The driver Rodney Smith Jr., 19, of Fairfield; and two passengers, Rashad White Jr., 20, of Sacramento, and Isaiah Feliz, 21, of Fairfield sparked a high speed chase that climaxed at 140 mph early Saturday.
The pursuit ended with their interception in a Dixon neighborhood.
Jason Tyhurst, the public information officer for CHP-Solano in Fairfield, said Monday that CHP officers in Contra Costa spotted a gray Infiniti G37 sedan at speeds of up to 140 mph and launched a pursuit after the driver failed to yield.
After the Officers lost sight of the errant vehicle a CHP Helicopter joined in the pursuit and helped CHP Patrol Car Officers locate the Infiniti at Brians Court in Dixon, where the vehicle stopped shortly after 1 a.m.
The transfixed driver identified as Rodney Smith, 19, of Fairfield, remained in the driver’s seat where he was arrested. The passengers fled on foot and were later spotted “hiding in a yard.” They are Rashad White Jr., 20, of Sacramento, and Isaiah Feliz, 21, of Fairfield.
One of the suspects Feliz was seen carrying a backpack and discarded it as he scampered away on foot.
Officers recovered the backpack and found a loaded firearm inside.
Read more on the scourge of gun violence and other important matters from this meet and greet with Congressman Mike Thompson. Click Here. https://twitter.com/BenjaminEdokpa1/status/1516687801021960193?s=20&t=R6Zc5I962vwGdn7oHsNZcw
Questions from this freelance reporter to Fran Clader, CHP Director of Communications, Community Outreach and Media Relations, were redirected to the Solano CHP Office in Fairfield as well as the Contra Costa CHP where a dispatcher told the Dixon Tribune that no further information was available on the three suspects. Fran Claderr was among CHP Officials who organized a Risk Certification for CalSioC Officers in 2007 at a CHP location in the Capitol. https://calsioc.com/ This reporter was one of several State Information Officers at the One day Course. The Risk Certification Class at the CHP Academy was in 2007 while I was at The Vacaville Reporter (soon after the ex’s return from New York, supposedly to pray for an Aunty, a 9/11 victim who passed away from Sepsis Shock) . The risk certification was a process toward work for the State and obviously a lead that my comatose Aunty was illegally probed and photographed, blueprint that seems to have been used for a remanufactured female part in a Mannequin. In Aviara, Delta? Real Crazy Scheme Out Of Langley!
https://www.theafricantimes.com/an-ode-to-the-nigerian-american-family/
The Dispatcher from the Dublin CHP Office advised that a Freedom of Information (FOI) request be filed to get a status on the felons Rodney Smith, Rashad White and Isaiah Feliz who were all booked into Solano County Jail and reportedly released on Monday.
Captain Sue Ward Is the former CHP Captain for Solano.
#FairfieldSafetyProjectRecall https://www.gov.ca.gov/
Here is the Rio Vista video. It was recorded by a good samaritan in attendance. The quality is not professional.
https://www.facebook.com/ben.edokpayi.9/videos/2328034357457434
In collaboration with the CHP, my former boss at Caltrans Phyllis Moore-Lewise and Jayne Bauer at STA I coordinated public outreach for this road rehabilitation project to save lives on Highway 12 aka Death Alley because it was one of the most dangerous roads in America https://www.reifflawfirm.com/dangerous-roads-america/ as well as the Rehab of Interstate 80 between Vallejo and Dixon. The public event was at the D.H. White Elementary School. My late brother Doctor Herbert Essien was killed in ’97 about eight miles from this Rio Vista location on State Route 12. He was on his way to work at Bio-Rad Lab in Hercules. So this was a special project. He drowned near Terminous Island after he lost control of his Mazda after he was hit by a hit and run professional stunt driver from Lodi. A few days after this event which attracted Federal, State and Local Officials who all applauded how well this event was coordinated, I received a call from an elderley Caucasian Man to complain that he did not understand me. From a crowd of about 180 people he seemed to be the only one who had a grievance. Everyone else was impressed at how well I coordinated this event, the video is proof. He was angry that a black man with an accent was in charge of such an important project. Publicity for the retirement of The Real McCoy 1, the oldest vehicle owned by the State, was also one of my accomplishments under Caltrans Fairfield Director Gerry Santiago.
http://solanocountybusinessnews.blogspot.com/2009/07/smoothing-it-over.html #HerbertsMidSectionWasLanced #WhatDidTheySmoothItOverWith? Crystal Which would make this the worst holocaust evidence ever, especially with new information that human remains that became coalesced with glass were burnt in Africa inviolation of many health, land use and international laws, especially the UN Basel Convention serially violated from America! http://www.basel.int/TheConvention/Overview/tabid/1271/Default.aspx
Unusual Source To Exposure To Pathological Waste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqeb0IAfHzY
Some of these Transportation officials know what happened to Herbert who was murdered after he and his research scientists team, which included a Russian-American filed for a patent on a cure for cancer in children with the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, Geneva Switzerland.
Here is an article on how the Public and Journalists Should Use The Freedom of Information Act for Accountability.
Original Title! Is The Freedom of Information Act A Sham In Nigeria And America?
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NB: This article was first published In Tell in 2015
A conversation I had recently with the editor of a leading national daily based in Lagos (Ikeddy Isiguzo, Vanguard Newspapers) got me thinking seriously about the evolution and faulty implementation of Nigeria’s Freedom of Information Act, also known as FOIA.
The shocking revelation from this veteran journalist was that he is not aware of any reporter in his newsroom that has taken advantage of filing a FOIA request with any government or public entity in the quest for factual and evidence-based reporting.
Another editor for a Lagos-based news journal informed me that two recent FOIA requests filed for an investigative report involving two Lagos State parastatals were rejected because the organizations said they were not subject to this federal law, and the authorities in Lagos do have a strong argument going for them based on a October 31, 2014 Federal High Court decision in Lagos, which interpreted the Freedom of Information Act as only binding on the Federal Government and its agencies.
According to a report in the Daily Independent newspaper, the “ruling was delivered in suit filed by the Legal Defence and Assistance Project against some states of the Federation, namely Lagos, Imo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Delta for declining its request for information on the amount raised and received by the respective states from the Nigerian Capital Market through public offers or private placements between 2007 and 2011.”
Which is more reason why the Federal Government has its work cut out if it intends to make all states embrace this law.
Passed in 2011, and modeled after a similar law in the United States, the FOIA is a law intended to make “public records and information more freely available, provide for public access to public records and information, protect public records and information to the extent consistent with the public interest and the protection of personal privacy, protect serving public officers from adverse consequences of disclosing certain kinds of official information without authorization and establish procedures for the achievement of those purposes and; for related matters.”
From further discussion with the editor of the daily newspaper in Lagos, I now understand some of the intricacies that prevent journalists and Nigerian citizens from effectively using the FOIA. According to Ikeddy, former Vanguard Sports editor, the nation’s database management system where most information is not digitally stored is the biggest hurdle, and then when you add the fact that you may be referred to Sokoto (State) for a request filed in Lagos, then you imagine the angst journalists face when working on deadline for a story.
“As it is presently constituted the system is just too cumbersome,” emphasized the Lagos-based editor of the national daily.
Which is very sad when framed against this quote by Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist who once said that “The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.”
I am sure the Federal Government was well-intentioned when this act was passed into law five years ago. However Abuja should follow this up by making all states compliant with this law; make the Act available in as many Nigerian languages as possible; make the centralization of data systems a priority; make the establishment of public records offices a requirement for all federal agencies, parastatals and ministries; and embark on sensitization programs like the annual “Sunshine Week” in the United States, which is set aside every year to help the public understand the importance of unfettered access to information.
Working as a public servant with the state of California, enabled me to better understand why it is important to give the public access to unclassified records of organizations that were created from their taxes to serve them.
At the department of transportation (Caltrans District 4, Oakland) where I was a Public Information Officer (PIO) for two Counties — Solano and Santa Cruz, we had a public records office maintained by the agency where records (digitized and otherwise) are available for inspection during the regular business hours of the department. The Department is also entitled to a reasonable amount of time to locate the records if not readily accessible and to determine whether they must first be reviewed, and possibly redacted, in order to protect confidential or other exempt material from improper disclosure.
In addition to this, as PIO’s we were required to promptly respond to the request of the public either by email, phone or in person.
I recall one occasion during a construction project on State Route 12 in 2008 that severely impacted a family in the construction area. I implemented several palliative measures to ease the inconvenience the construction project posed for this family, yet they still reported me and my agency to the office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Because we had done everything humanly possible to meet their demands and provided information to them upon every request, the situation was amicably resolved.
At the other state agency where I worked as their media relations officer, the public records request ranged from the mundane, to the unusual and to the exasperating. As a public servant you were obliged and required by law to yield to the demands of the public, no matter what your personal opinion is.
On one occasion, a trade journal requested for things as ordinary as receipts for golf tournaments, feeding and gas receipts that were incurred in the course of promoting a new product by the company. This resulted in several hours of meetings and investigation by a committee that I chaired. In the long run, we were able to satisfactorily meet all the demands of this critical journal, which prevented them from running a story that could have been damaging to the image of the organization, if they had received the information they were looking for from secondary sources.
FOIA challenges are not peculiar only to the Nigerian government because even the United States government, which is the beacon of democracy, is facing its own challenges, especially under the administration of President Barack Obama, which has been adjudged to be one of the most secretive governments in recent history.
It is a known fact that Obama assumed office pledging an open government, but the fact is he has fallen short of his promise, and has sometimes turned vindictive against reporters seeking the truth.
According to David E. Sanger, veteran chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times “This is the most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered.”
But it doesn’t have to be so, because in the words of the President John F. Kennedy “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
#CommitteetoProtectJournalists https://cpj.org/
http://www.solano.courts.ca.gov/
Endless Spins after The Holocaust on my brother’s body is why there is a Russia-Ukraine Crisis.
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#TheWholeWorldMarkedBySerialMayhemByOneCrazyWoman https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/world/europe/belarus-poland-border-russia.html #NewCluesInTheQuestForGlobalPeace
Utah Jazz assistant coach Keyon Dooling, an ex-NBPA VP, arrested in a fraud case that will entangle criminals in Solano and abroad, and with these new revelations is WWIII Inevitable?
Dwight Howard thank God. But what really happened with the bad key exchange by the other Dwight in Son’s Room. A planted device, separate from the one in the Attic? I have never lost a tooth, All my teeth are in place. https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2022/04/27/ransomware-criminals-strike-american-dental-association/amp/ But what really happened on that bloody day in May 2016 when Paramedics arrived after somebody injured herself from wood over-exertion? I was not there. Did the victim have an implant and What images of son were obtained from his room doing what and were Essien and injured Deborah images shared with here and abroad? https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/biden-impeachment-ukraine-bannon-invasion/ Absolute lynching that will now haunt the Democrats in the Mid-term elections Sara Jessica Parkerr (Sources say a teen Nanny aka Sarah was probed, imported wood Putin on Camera in Aviara, Delta State to replicate what the ex did to son while we prayed. She had two Nannies; I think one was raped and she probed the other, and they were both under 15. And she obviously committed a crime ( It seems Precious aka Sarah was probed with wood that included my hair from local barber shop and imported blood and liquefied travel meds sent to a quack local lab for what? and complicit in a relatives incestous rape of the other Nanny known as Elohor near the Well, Sources say. I think he is their gardner) https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3469324-sarah-jessica-parker-on-supporting-2024-biden-run-well-see/ ) Ben is not in any of the inappropriate images wiretapped at 2018 Pine Bluff!
https://clutchpoints.com/jazz-news-utah-assistant-coach-arrested-over-5-million-fraud-charges/amp/ Much ado about nothing! https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-director-compares-ransomware-challenge-to-9-11-11622799003
Sound Check: Son’s Friends and Keith Zucca and his wife (She is a Vet) who mentored him and taught him how to ride horses as therapy to help with his disabilities. Keith was Essien’s confidante. And he probably told him what Mom did to him while he prayed with Dad in September 2013. It was not Dad.
