UPDATED STEVEN WOLKOFF NEWS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

Our 2nd Amended complaint concerning the desecration of the body of Steven Nathaniel Wolkoff has been filed by us with the Court on March 3, 2012. San Mateo County (SMC) has 30 days to reply and then there will be a ruling in the next few months by the judge in which he will allow our Case to go to Trial or he will deny our legal complaint which would result in a dismissal of our lawsuit with no trial ever held.  (SEE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE AT BOTTOM OF THIS POST OR CLICK HERE).

If you support us that what was done to Steven in death was a legal, moral, horrific violation of human dignity then you can help our family and help get Justice for Steven.

It is beyond conceivable that this type of conduct by Govt. officials in mutilating, disrespecting the sanctity of a dead body, my son Steven, and other human beings in the future, may be found legally acceptable. This barbaric behavior, cowardly hollow reasons given by those Officials who have committed these acts, must be stopped now, and our legal case can be the beginning of abolishing the inhumane, disgusting, behavior of the way innocent victims in death, their families, are NOT in control of their loved ones human remains.


Please keep the pressure on SMC officials by flooding them every week, every day, whatever you are comfortable with, in expressing your feelings until this case is over. 

Keep reminding them of their responsibilities to respect the dead, provide accountability, justice for Steven by not opposing our 2nd amended complaint filed with the San Mateo Superior Court and allowing it to go to a fair trial by their local SMC citizens who will determine how and if justice should be served for what was done to Steven. 

If SMC stops opposing our lawsuit by withdrawing its opposition to our 2nd amended legal complaint, the judge will not be involved in any decision, and the case can then go forward in the spirit of the true American process of due process that every citizen is entitled to and be judged on it's own merit by the people.

If you want, please continue to do the following using THE UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION LIST BELOW, as often as you can and let them know that they should immediately withdraw their legal opposition with the San Mateo Superior Court re-our 2nd amended complaint, and allow it to proceed to a fair trial by citizens of a Jury who will decide the merits of our legal case:


HELP  US GET JUSTICE FOR STEVEN NATHANIEL WOLKOFF!-

1A) E-mail the President of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Adrienne Tissier at: atissier@smcgov.org   
or call her office at (650) 363-4572. 

Postal Mail can be sent to her at:

Supervisor Adrienne Tissier at: 400 County Center Redwood City, CA 94063 (650) 363-4572 Staff: (650) 363-4042 lsimmons@smcgov.org Lorraine Simmon   (650) 363-4247 gmozingo@smcgov.org George Mozingo  (650) 363-4042 gburge@smcgov.org Greg Burge President . 2) E-mail the Vice President of the  San Mateo County Board  of Supervisors at:  DHorsley@smcgov.org. Hall of Justice 400 County Center Redwood City, CA 94063 Office: (650) 363-4569 Fax: (650) 363-1856 Staff: Chris Hunter CHunter@smcgov.org Phone: (650) 599-1024 Nicholas Calderon, NCalderon@smcgov.org Phone: (650) 599-1016 Sarah Rosendahl, SRosendahl@smcgov.org Phone: (650) 599-1013 3) E-mail -Supervisor Dave Pine at: dpine@smcgov.org Staff:burruto@smcgov.org David Burruto      drtorrijos@smcgov.org Randy Torrijos   Office: Hall of Justice 400 County Center Redwood City, CA 94063 (650) 363-4571     4)E-mail Carole Groom, Supervisor Phone: 650 363-4568 E-Mail at:  cgroom@smcgov.org STAFF: Juda Tolmasoff, Phone: 650 599-1005 email at: jtolmasoff@smcgov.org Eric Pawlowsky, Phone: 650 363-4314 email at:  epawlowsky@smcgov.org Gina Quiney, Phone: 650 363-4460 email at:   gquiney@smcgov.org 5) Supervisor Rose Jacobs Gibson Email at:  RoseJG@smcgov.org Phone: 650.363.4570 Fax: 650.366.6720 Staff Maya Perkins, Email at:  mperkins@smcgov.org Phone: 650.599.1009 Rebecca Irwin, Email at: rirwin@smcgov.org Phone: 650.363.4801 Charisse Lebron-Cannon, Email at:   clebron-cannon@smcgov.org Phone: 650.599.1021 Mailing Address: Supervisor Rose Jacobs Gibson Hall of Justice and Records 400 County Center Redwood City , CA 94063 6A) E-Mail Kristine Gamble-  Senior Deputy Coroner - E-Mail at: kgamble@co.sanmateo.ca.us 6B) E-Mail - ROGER  Fielding - Deputy Coroner of San Mateo County E-mail at  rfielding@co.sanmateo.ca.us 6C) E-Mail the San Mateo Coroner-  Robert J. Foucrault at: rfoucrault@co.sanmateo.ca.us    6D) Call Coroner Foucraults direct  telephone number (650) 312-5562.  6E) Write, call and/or fax the  SMC Coroners Office at: San Mateo County Coroner's Office 50 Tower Road San Mateo, CA 94402 Main Tel: (650) 312-5562 Fax: (650) 571-6258 3) Contact Nanette Asimov who is  a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail at: nasimov@sfchronicle.com  4)Contact Michelle Durand at the  San Mateo County Daily Journal  Email at: michelle@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 102. 5) Contact Joshua Melvin a reporter  for the San Mateo Times, Bay Area News  and also reports for all the various local  San Mateo area media. E-mail at:  jmelvin@bayareanewsgroup.com  or contact him at 650-348-4335. 6) Contact your local media with the  press release below and any of the  information in this post and ask them  to publish it. If you have an online Blog  or know of someone  who has one, or access to the media,  feel free to distribute all of the  information in this post. Thank  you.   SUIT OVER MISMANAGED BODY PARTS REFILED March 07, 2012, 05:00 AM  By Michelle Durand Daily Journal Staff The San Mateo County coroner violated his duty  and the law by giving pieces of a deceased man’s brain  to a private pathologist for evaluation in a wrongful death  suit without notifying his devoutly Jewish parents  they were not burying his entire body,  according to a civil suit filed on their behalf. The amended suit by Jerald and Sandra Wolkoff  filed March 1 is a response to a judge tentatively ruling  last month that Coroner Robert Foucrault did not have  a mandatory duty to notify them.  Judge Raymond V. Swope upheld the county’s request  to dismiss the suit but gave the Wolkoff's the chance to file a new complaint. The new suit still argues Foucrault had a duty but also makes new allegations about the facts  and alleged violations, including his alleged interference  with the Wolkoff's right to dispose of their son’s remains  under California law. Although a judge can again side with the county or ask  for more information, attorney J. Gary Gwilliam  said the Wolkoff's hope they can now have a trial  and “bring their suffering to resolution.” Steven Wolkoff died June 21, 2008 in a vehicle crash  on Highway 1 that also killed another 21-year-old man.  During the autopsy, pieces of his neck and brain stem  were retained as part of standard procedure.  The following June, the Wolkoffs sued several parties  in their son’s death including the county  and American Medical Response whose workers  they said failed to revive him.  In preparing its defense, AMR subpoenaed  the coroner records and tissue slides. The family learned during a May 2010 deposition that  their son’s brain was not buried with his body. “I was dumbfounded, frankly,” said attorney  Steven Brewer who was at the deposition. Brewer said the subpoena sought for AMR’s  private pathologist to look at records and examine  any tissue blocks but not remove them or create new slides.  Gwilliam said typical protocol calls for all parties to sign off on the request to ensure everybody  has accurate notice. Had the attorneys known of the plan, they could have  disputed the subpoena, Gwilliam said. “That’s what made the family so angry,” he said. The subpoena did not give the coroner the right  to release the tissue to create new evidence  without the notification or consent of the Wolkoffs,  the suit argues. The Wolkoffs’ faith also considers dissection for  reasons not urgent or medical “a matter of shame  and gross dishonor,” the suit states.   The couple, who live in New York, is seeking  general damages but also for travel, cemetery grave  opening, re-internment and religious services. Aside from any legal mandate, the suit contends  Foucrault violated the policies of his own office  which were established after another mother sued over  the retention of her deceased son’s heart.  That suit by Selina Picon sparked proposed  state legislation that failed to become law  but the courts ruled in the county’s favor. Foucrault has said the policy concerns organs  not tissue slides and that disclosure of the guidelines  are widely shared in the office and on its website. The suit also argues Foucrault breached his duty  as an independent coroner when he released  the tissue because the wrongful death suit  also named San Mateo County. Rather than treating the tissue with dignity, the county’s attorneys were allowed  to desecrate them and Foucrault’s conduct violates the  “common law duty to refrain from disturbing the body",  the suit contends. Michelle Durand can be reached by email: michelle@smdailyjournal.com  or by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 102. Suit over mismanaged body parts refiled Suit over mismanaged body parts refiled Suit over mismanaged body parts refiled March 07, 2012, 05:00 AM By Michelle Durand Daily Journal Staff