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A San Ramon attorney and an Alameda County deputy face criminal charges for illegally obtaining information to be used by a client in a custody battle involving a Pleasanton man.
The man, Brian Lancaster said police are also conducting an investigation involving a Pleasanton police officer.
Lancaster has filed a claim with Pleasanton, asking for in excess of $1 million. He said the actions of the three led to him losing his job and custody of his kids. Three misdemeanor charges have already been filed against Deputy Ryan Silcocks and Lesley Regina, a San Ramon family law attorney.
Silcocks “was charged and is on administrative leave,” said Alameda County Sheriff’s Spokesman J.D. Nelson. He said the charges involve “inappropriate accessing information off a computer and providing that information.”
The deputy allegedly entered a court building after hours on two occasions, accessed documents, and forwarded them to Regina, whom he was dating. Regina, who represents Lancaster’s ex-wife, Lisa Secord, a Washington state resident, has been charged with one count of knowingly receiving records that she was not authorized to possess.
Lancaster said the Pleasanton police are conducting an investigation into the actions of Officer Tim Martens.
“I allege the same thing was done between Tim marten and my ex-wife,” Lancaster said. He said Martens, who was in communication with Secord, later arrested him on a drug possession charge, then forwarded confidential information to be used in the custody case.
“It says right on the stuff, ‘This is confidential information, do not share with anybody,'” Lancaster said.
Pleasanton City Attorney Jonathan Lowell confirms a claim has been filed.
“We are investigating it,” Lowell said. He said he couldn’t comment further on an active case.
No charges have been filed against Martens; Silcocks and Regina are set to be arraigned July 9 on the misdemeanor charges.
Lancaster said he’d worked as operations manager for a construction company for 14 years before losing his job as a result of the actions of the three involved.
Well, what’s a dedicated ‘family’ lawyer to do when the Dirty DUI squad is on hiatus? Nasty business, that — requires an remarkable degree of, shall we say, moral flexibility.
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap.
Crazy hope thew cops do jail time. Cops and officers of the court should be held to a higher standard.
HOPE THE MOM AND DAD CAN FIND SOME COMMON GROUND. HOPE THE MOM KNOWS SHE MAY HAVE JUST RUINED TWO CAREERS AND THAT SHE IS ONLY HURTING HER CHILDREN. I WONDER IF THE WIFE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE DRUG CHARGE. I BET IT WAS A SETUP LIKE THE DUI SETUPS THAT HAPPENED IN OUR COUNTY A FEW MONTHS BACK?
NONE THE LESS WE SHOULD PRAY FOR A QUICK RESOLUTION FOR ALL PARTIES.
Did you read/hear the part about two officers conspiring together with the family law attorney, ex wife and her husband? Yes that is a crime, yes it is conspiracy to commit a crime….and YES conspiracy is a felony!
Filthy business. This sort of thing is so deeply damaging to law enforcement integrity that these clowns need to be given the stiffest possible criminal sentence, and the civil piece needs to go to Juryland so they lose everything that they have.
Nobody – and ESPECIALLY law enforcement – has the right to do this sort of thing.
Incidentally, this is probably filed federally as a “Section 1983” suit, which is what you do pursue as a violation under the color of authority. It is a direct hit against the Constitution to deprive a person of their fundamental rights to due process as well as privacy, and these guys deserve to be de-nuded of their assets – I just wish the U.S. Attorney would also take a look at it for federal criminal violations as well.
There’s a rose garden in Lompoc that always needs attention, and a couple of years of gardening at 72 cents per hour would be a good sentence for these crimes.
Certainly this young women has egg on her face and the world will be better off with one less Attourney after she has been disbarred!