Del Norte County

Credit to Nick Wing at Huff Post/Politics In most states, to reclaim seized property, owners must prove it is not connected to criminal activity, effectively inverting the American legal principle…

NOTE BY EDITOR, Donna Westfall: This goes hand-in-glove with my article, Grand Jury System Broken? published March 23, 2013. Dated Friday, December 5, 2014 TO: Judge William Follett Subject: The…

Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – June 5, 2015 Why aren’t the bad guys in jail? Where we left off on Parts 1 through 4 of this story: On August…

By Donna Westfall On May 10th, we published an article, “Do Court Documents ‘Disappear’ From Court Files?” What if the “missing” documents weren’t missing at all, but were intentionally pulled…

By Donna Westfall On Thursday, May 7th, Judge Leslie Nichols, from Santa Clara County, 400 miles away, dismissed most of Dave Egan’s civil action against the Del Norte County Sheriff’s…

OPINION PIECE BY ED HANSON “God’s Not Here Today” For those were the words touted and declared in a demonic tone emanating from one of the Del Norte Sheriff’s deputies…

By Donna Westfall At 11:30 am, Wednesday, February 19th, Fred Hansen was awoken from sleep by two Sheriff’s Deputies. They asked him if he could accompany them to the Sheriff’s…

BY DONNA WESTFALL Where we left off on Part 1, 2 and 3 of this story: County resident, Dave Egan, had his door bashed in by a SWAT type operation…