Crisan v. State Dept. of State Hospitals CA3
Prior to the dissolution of the State Department of Mental Health, Marcella Crisan worked as the sole financial officer in charge of the Forensic Conditional Release Program (CONREP) for that department. State audits conducted between 2008 and 2010 revealed that the State Department of Mental Health routinely ran multimillion dollar budget deficits. In 2011, Governor Brown signed legislation dismantling the State Department of Mental Health and transferring some services to counties, some to other state departments, and the remainder to a new State Department of State Hospitals (Department). Crisan’s program was transferred to the newly created Department. The Department’s deputy director, Cynthia Rodriguez, determined that the most effective way to transition the assumed services to a new budget methodology was to require all fiscal employees to work in person at its headquarters in Sacramento so that they could interact with each other and vendors during the transition period.
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