SETTING IT STRAIGHT
Published: Sunday,
August 22, 1993
Section: LOCAL
Page#: B02
The Press-Enterprise
Amplification: The last two paragraphs of a story about the
county's methadone treatment program were inadvertently deleted in
yesterday's newspaper, leaving the wrong impression. The story said,
in part, that an internal investigation conducted by the county's
Mental Health Department, headed by John Ryan,
had found no evidence of racial discrimination or widespread abuse
of drug addicts as alleged by former clinic workers and patients in
a recent Press-Enterprise article.
The drug program manager is Carol Addiss.
Here are the last three paragraphs of the story:
Ryan's summary said that a former employee whom he did not
name and who was quoted
in The Press-Enterprise story criticizing Addiss had written a
letter to the paper "stating that the article did not represent
what she said to the reporter and further corroborates what our
investigation found, i.e., there were no racial slurs by staff to
clients."
Ryan apparently was referring to a letter from Wanda Gomez
who wrote to the paper saying that "overall the article is
true," but added that a client was not present when Addiss
allegedly screamed at her, but a counselor was. Her letter also
repeated allegations of mistreatment of clients and racial slurs
made in a staff meeting.
"Minority workloads are higher," she wrote, an
allegation that Ryan denied.
Zone: RIVERSIDE; TEMECULA-MURRIETA; SOUTHWEST; CORONA-NORCO
Notes: The complete story was re-run in the
Temecula, Southwest and Corona zones on 8/22; the amplification only
ran in Riverside zone.
