Bill Lockyer tells seniors to hire their own attorney

April 16, 2002

By CS

Our Board released the names of many homeowners in a Meeting Agenda (our committee has a copy) along with the names, were account numbers and amounts. Isn't that a violation of the Privacy Act? We inquired if there were any homes in foreclosure, the response from the Board was: "at the advice of their attorneys' they could not divulge that information.

We think it is. To our knowledge not one of those homeowners filed a petition with the courts.

Our board president owns a business, performed work on the club facility, and charged the Association for that work (we have a copy of the bill). A compliant letter was sent to the Attorney General's office, Secretary of State & our Governor, the Secretary of State's reply was: "the Attorney General does not act on complaints and we are to hire our own attorney".

Our Board is a member of CAI, when questioned about this the boards reply "we need to be members, it will save us attorney costs by receiving advice from the CAI attorneys"! Our committee knows the Board continued to consult their attorneys anyway.

Our Board tried to imposed a hefty assessment, reason being: due to litigation fees (as posted in our newsletter) the Board did not acquire the members vote for the assessment. Though the assessment was reduced to a lesser fee, we believe this assessment was illegal.

Our Board eliminated the use of their check book for petty cash and chose to use a credit card, when questioned about how they would keep track of expenditures they said: "they would write on the receipt what the purchase was for".

We would like to know how the associations get away with double taxation? We pay property taxes and included in our dues we pay the association taxes.

We wonder if filing complaints on the Attorney General's Office, The Secretary of State and the Governor's office would get their attention.. or else.....How about suing each office?

Notes and Updates: Bill Lockyer (D) served ad California's Attorney General from 1999 - 2006. Homeowners voted his predecessor Dan Lundgren (Lundgren is now a U S Congressman) out of office based on his campaign promises but like one in office Locker continued the same practices as Lundgren refusing to investigate reports of fraud, racketeering and corruption in homeowner associations. Lockyer became the Attorney General after serving as a State Representative and Senator for 25 years during which he helped enact the predatory HOA laws. He was forced out of the legislature when Californians voted in term limits for public officials. In 2006 he was elected State Treasurer. Update December 2007