RE: The role of "the court" in failing to meaningfully respond to undeniable violations of state law, as applicable to the right of all Arizona citizens to be granted equal protection and due process as per the letter of said law and policy.

The applicable time lines associated with the following communique', as per The Arizona Administrative Code (law, "AAC"), had long since passed before I took action in terms of asking the assigned court to address the issue. My report to that court (The Arizona Office of Administrative Hearings) was as much a demand for immediate redress in the context of holding ADHS/BHS officials who were 100% responsible for violating the dictate of AAC in the context of time line requirements, as it was a mindful request to that effect. Ergo, the following correspondence's significance in terms of identifying the gross disconnect between highly entrusted officers of the court and the rights of the public.

FROM: Office of Administrative Hearings  Webmaster OAH.Webmaster@azoah.com
Mr. P------,

I have confirmed with DBHS/Office of Grievance and Appeals at the Department of Health Services that the three cases that you are referencing are still pending matters and they have not yet been sent to our office, The Office of Administrative Hearings, to be scheduled for a hearing date and time. Once the requests are made to our office by the Department of Health Services then they will be promptly scheduled in the normal course of business. Again, these matters are still pending at the Department of Health Services and have not yet been filed with the Office of Administrative Hearings.

Thank you

-Webmaster

Point in fact: "Still pending matters...", is as vague a reference to what was going on at this time as anyone might ever encounter. Why did the officers at OAH flatly ignore the directly applicable AAC standards, in spite of my having clarified my concerns as they stood, as per my awareness of said standards?  What actual "matters" were being pended, and on what basis? As per the edict of state law (see: AAC-9-21, HEALTH SERVICES. ARTICLE 4. APPEALS, GRIEVANCES, AND REQUESTS FOR INVESTIGATION FOR PERSONS WITH SERIOUS MENTAL  ILLNESS.) this aspect of my experiences 100% confirm the grossly unlawful- and quite frankly, inhumane- patterns of patent discrimination against the patient community at ASH, which do extend into the offices of Arizona's puppet court, aka The Office of Administrative Hearings. As per the letter of AAC law and associated policy, please the following: 

      1) Did the staff of the ADHS/BHS Office of Grievances and Appeals formally request an extension of the required  timelines?

No. 

     2) Did the respective state officials (e.g., "Deputy Director", or "Director", et al.) grant permission for the involved state department of health employees to "pend" or otherwise delay the legal process specific to these issues? 

No. 

And all of my accrued records specific to this one particular episode prove the allegations well beyond doubt; I and have always been fully willing to share my records with anyone who asked to review them, always freely, and with no demands. I keep good records, and I went well out of my way as a person deserving reasonable mental health care from the staff at Arizona's sole long term public mental health facility, only to see that my experiences at ASH were documented, as per all applicable laws, on behalf the patient community, including patients' family, etc. As I have painstakingly sought to point out, there is no justification whatsoever for the grievance submittals that I filed while hospitalized at to be delayed outside of a period of 120 days. But the fact remains, as per the record, all three of the above mentioned "cases" were filed via the formal ADHS/BHS grievance process at least 8-12 months prior to this point in time. And as per my overall experiences, I have every reason to believe that I not taken action to direct the court's attention to this issue, these cases would never even have been scheduled. This detail is representative of highly illicit wrongdoing that I know has and is continuing to gravely harm/affect ASH patients, patients' families, and the greater public, as may apply. And as I have reported in past articles, well over a dozen other like grievance reports about staff misconduct and the associated substandard conditions at The Arizona State Hospital, which I had reported as per protocol, literally vanished in the months following my discharge from ASH. I contend that this pattern of abject negligence occurs as a matter of standard practice at ASH, and that the vast majority of patient expressed concerns at ASH go unnoticed as a direct consequence of this particular issue, no matter how serious the allegations might happen to be. There is really no telling how many grossly unlawful events have occurred at ASH over the years (and occur today, even as I write), with little to no oversight or accountability. But I do believe that a rigorous audit in the context can establish some modicum of understanding. It would not be the first time that a state mental hospital has been exposed as engaging in these forms of criminal misconduct, and I doubt will be the last.

Clearly, and as importantly, various state employed officials in the ADHS Office of Grievances and Appeals are complicit in allowing this to occur, no matter how critical the related evidence is, or the degree of alleged criminality at stake. All involved parties (at ASH, and in ADHS/BHS, etc.) are employed by the state of Arizona via the public trust, which further signifies the fact that this wrongdoing is  occurring at the expense of Arizona taxpayers, to the direct detriment of ASH's seriously mentally ill and disabled patients. This plain fact has been indicated in recent months not only by my work (in this blog, etc.), but also by the Hospital's Human Rights Committee, which was only established after I had similarly asked/demanded that ADHS Director Will Humble order ASH's administration to assemble this committee, as per the law. Likewise, the various investigative reports conducted by David Biscobing and the staff at Phoenix area ABC Ch. 15, which have been published over the past 12 months, also support the factual legitimacy of my work over the last 24-30 months (which did begin well before I discharged from ASH in late February, 2012). I encourage any interested person to take a look at that channel's on-line data to this effect.

Bottom line. It is that bad, and it is ongoing. Substandard medical-mental health care practices- and they the Rat Bastards (you each know exactly who you are) are getting away with it.

paoloreed@gmail.com