Recent News Coverage of SDC

There have been a couple of articles in the local Sonoma paper recently that relate to Sonoma Developmental Center. We've included the links below for anyone who has not had a chance to read them.

Where the Buck stops at SDC, by John Capone, Sonoma Index-Tribune, Feb. 7, 2013

He’s been there for as long as anyone can recall and, as far back as most can remember he’s gone almost every day to the same concrete bridge over Sonoma Creek at the Sonoma Developmental Center and tossed rocks into the water. He tosses slowly, methodically and with amazing accuracy. (read more...)

SDC's information blockade: Requests for information met with frustration, by John Capone, Sonoma Index-Tribune, Feb. 14, 2013

The campus of the Sonoma Developmental Center, all 1,000 acres of it, may appear open, but the doors are closed – as are the lines of communication. The Department of Developmental Services (DDS), which runs SDC, has a history of withholding information, or outright obfuscation, which some have noted has only become more heightened as SDC has come under greater press scrutiny over abuse incidents and greater pressure from federal regulators for not meeting compliance standards. (read more...)