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Task Force

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California Child Abduction Training Project

California Child Abduction Task Force Logo

Task Force Members

BRIDGET BILLETER, Chair
Supervising Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General

CARI TERAN, Vice-Chair
LMFT, CEO Healing To You

DEANNE CASTORENA
Deputy District Attorney, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office 

MEGAN ESCHLEMAN
California Clearinghouse Manager

MARLENE GLUSING
Merced County District Attorney's Office, Child Abduction Unit

MELISSA KITTELL
Captain, California Highway Patrol

STEPHEN LAGORIO
Deputy Chief, San Jose Police Department

EMILIO MENDOZA
Assistant Regional Administrator, Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services

MARTY PARKER
Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

KURT ROWLEY
Deputy District Attorney, San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office

ERIN RUNNION
Founding Director, The Joyful Child Foundation

BRADLEY SIDES
Investigator, Oakland Police Department 

JANNELL VIOLI
Coordinator, Orange County Department of Education

 

Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)
Victim Services Branch

Trainers

BRIAN SPEARS
Captain, San Jose Police Department 

JEFF TAKEDA
Detective, Simi Valley Police Department

MATTHEW WHITWORTH
California Highway Patrol, Protective Services Division

LUIS MARQUEZ
Special Agent Supervisor, California Dept of Justice, Foreign Prosecution and Law Enforcement Unit

CRISTINA MAGANA
Criminal Investigator II, Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office, Special Victims and Child Abduction Unit

Cal OES: Governor's Office of Emergency Services

Produced by the Child Abduction Training Project of the Center for Innovation and Resources, Inc. (CIR) in partnership with the California Child Abduction Task Force with funding from the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (CalOES), made possible through the United States Department of Justice, Victims of Crime Act.