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Uploaded: Thursday, February 7, 2013, 6:46 AM
Updated: Sunday, February 10, 2013, 7:23 AM
Police dispatcher pleads not guilty to drug charges
Also pleads innocent to accessing police databases
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by Glenn Wohltmann
Pleasanton Weekly Staff
A former Pleasanton police dispatcher pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony drug possession charges and misdemeanor charges, including conducting unauthorized searches of police databases and making more than 700 annoying telephone calls.
Heidi Feathers -- who was also listed last year as the Police Department's shop steward for Local 955 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees -- was arrested in September following reports of employee misconduct.
According to records at Superior Court in Pleasanton, Feathers accessed two police databases and conducted unauthorized searches on April 8, April 15, May 16 and June 11.
"There was information to believe a dispatcher with the Pleasanton Police Department was conducting confidential law enforcement records searches," Pleasanton police Sgt. Kurt Schlehuber said in documents filed with the court.
Those searches included accessing the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System and the Criminal Offender Record Information system.
Feathers was dating someone involved in a Alameda County Sheriff's Office case, court records show.
A search of Feathers' home in September in connection with the investigation yielded four pills in bindles -- small packages used to hold drugs -- for which Feathers did not have a prescription. Those included one Oxycontin tablet and one morphine pill, leading to the drug charges.
Superior Court Judge Hugh Walker said Wednesday that Feathers made 728 annoying phone calls between March and September of last year, calling her bond "woefully inadequate."
Walker ordered Feathers not to have any further contact with the four victims.
"If there is any contact in any way, either by yourself or by someone on your behalf, you're going to find yourself in custody without bail," the judge said.
Feathers' trial is set for March 6.
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Posted by oldtimer, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood, on Feb 7, 2013 at 9:04 am I would have thought the headline should have started with "FORMER Dispatcher" rather than inferring that a present employee was involved.
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Posted by Lee, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood, on Feb 7, 2013 at 9:39 am The article states that she had "one" Oxycodone and "one" morphine pill at her home without a prescription for them. Come on! Many of us have the same situation with old prescriptions that we are no longer taking. The unauthorized search of databases seems to be more of an issue than the small amount of pills. I would question that searching of databases very seriously.
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Posted by liberalism is a disease, a resident of the Birdland neighborhood, on Feb 7, 2013 at 9:44 am
liberalism is a disease is a member (registered user) of PleasantonWeekly.com Lee, please don't provide excuses for this illegal behavior. There's a big difference between having left over pills from one of your legal, past prescriptions, versus this case, where the person had drugs in their possession that they never had a prescription for.
No, many of us do not have that same situation........at least not law abiding citizens.
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Posted by Cholo, a resident of Livermore, on Feb 7, 2013 at 12:43 pm Lee is trying to make invisible what has happened so far. Let the investigation proceed. If there is a guilty party, then there will be a price to pay.
stuff happens...i rest my case.
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Posted by Trey, a resident of the Danbury Park neighborhood, on Feb 8, 2013 at 9:59 pm (Post removed by Pleasanton Weekly Online staff for containing unverified or personal information.)
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Posted by Bandit, a resident of the Downtown neighborhood, on Feb 9, 2013 at 4:22 am (Post removed by Pleasanton Weekly Online staff for containing unverified or personal information.)
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