Council on Mentally
Ill Offenders
COMIO - Members
Composition of the Council:
- Chairperson: Matthew L. Cate, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
- Vice-Chairperson: Cliff Allenby, Ph.D., Acting Director, California Department of Mental Health (DMH).
- Joe DeMorales, Acting Deputy Director, Hospital Operations, California Department of Mental Health (DMH)
- David Lehman, Chief Probation Officer, Humboldt County, and member of the Board of Corrections (retired)
- Stephen Manley, Judge, Santa Clara County Superior Court
- David Meyer, J.D., Professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Law and Behavioral Science, Keck School of Medicine, USC
- James W. Sweeney, J.D., Legislative Advocate, James W. Sweeney and Associates
- Charles L. Walters, Ph.D., Assistant Sheriff, Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department (Retired)
Support Staff:
- Legal Counsel: Thomas Gilevich, Assistant Chief Counsel
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