Sacramento News & Review, 13 Jun 2013 – Lee Seale made one rookie mistake during his first budget hearing Monday as Sacramento County’s new chief probation officer-he forgot to ask for more money. Seale, 41, appointed in April after a career in state corrections, found himself dumped in the deep fiscal end his first week on the job. He acquitted himself well, laying out what he’d like to do with limited resources to affect change in a high-risk, drug-abuser population currently receiving limited supervision by his undermanned department.

Sacramento News & Review, 23 May 2013 – Eastern District Head Benjamin Wagner Explains That Colorado, Washington Faces Less Fed Intervention Because Laws Are Better Weed ‘Free-For-All’ Sacramento-based U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner drives a minivan.