California Fiscal Woes Take Toll; Nancy Matson Resigns From CPCA

Budgets are tight everywhere and the state with the tightest budget may be California, where the legislature has voted to eliminate the Attorney General’s Crime and Violence Prevention Center from the state budget. Although Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, Jr., had promising meetings with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger about the possible restoration of the Center’s funding before the budget was signed, ultimately the state’s severe fiscal crisis won out. Fortunately, the Center’s staff will be reassigned and no jobs will be lost.

However, Nancy Matson, the director of the Center and a member of the Crime Prevention Coalition of America’s Executive Committee, has had to resign from the CPCA Executive Committee as a result. Her passionate dedication to crime prevention and decades of service will be greatly missed. We all owe her a huge debt of gratitude for her service.