Law Office of Denise Olrich

Our Fountaingrove Center office in Santa Rosa has been reopened. We are again accepting mail and deliveries at the Santa Rosa office, located at 3558 Round Barn Blvd., Suite 200, Santa Rosa, California, 95403. Although access to Fountaingrove Parkway is blocked beyond the turnoff to our offfice on Round Barn Blvd., our office is accessible from Fountaingrove Parkway.

Sonoma County and the City of Santa Rosa have started a new website to help those affected by the Sonoma County fires, which can be found at this link: https://www.sonomacountyrecovers.org/

Our deepest condolences go out to all affected by the wildfires in our community.

We thank all of our firefighters and first responders for their tremendous work in fighting the local fire outbreaks in Sonoma and Marin County!

Our Santa Rosa office is currently under evacuation due to fires in the area. The office is fine and we hope to be allowed back in very soon. For the time being, please send any deliveries to our Petaluma office located at: 755 Baywood Drive, 2nd Floor, Petaluma, CA 94954. You may also contact attorney Denise Olrich on her mobile phone line at (707) 338-4498 or by email at [email protected]. Thank you for your patience.

Post-Election Update California Propositions. California’s November, 2016 election ballot included 17 statewide voter referendums, known as Propositions. I will be analyzing and reporting on measures affecting California businesses that passed. PROPOSITION 54... First up Proposition 54. This measure passed and prohibits the state Legislature from passing any bill until it has published in print and on the Internet for 72 hours. It also requires the Legislature to record its legislative sessions and publish them on the Internet. This propositions also allows anyone to make an audio or visual record any public legislative sessions and use the recording for any legitimate purpose. I view Prop 54 as an excellent reform to the legislative process in California, which has long been plagued by the common practice called gut and amend by which legislators amend legislation previously introduced as one bill into a completely different bill, often about a completely different subject. These amendments have previously been allowed to occur at the last minute without notice to interested members of the public. This bill’s 72 hour requirement for prior publication on the Internet should be very helpful to anyone doing business in the state so that at least we are not burdened with the unexpected passage of new laws affecting business without prior notice and an opportunity to oppose such bills if desired. I would have preferred that the notice requirement was longer than 72 hours, but at least this is an improvement compared to the nightmare of the unchecked gut and amend process, which only led to increased power by special interests. Conclusion: This will lead to a much fairer and more open legislative process and is GOOD for California business.

We have moved our offices to the lovely Fountaingrove Center in Santa Rosa at 3558 Round Barn Blvd, Suite 200, Santa Rosa, 95403. However, we will continue to use our former Petaluma office at the Petaluma Marina (755 Baywood Drive, 2nd Floor, Petaluma, CA 94954) as well and are available for appointments iat either location.

Check out our new website! Thanks to Mark Mooney of Moonware Design for creating the new site, which also works great on your smartphone! http://olrichlaw.com/

Just completed my annual updates to my chapter on Internet Privacy for the 2014 edition of "Privacy Compliance and Litigation in California". There are more cases to write about every year! Kudos to our publisher, the Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) of the University of California for having the foresight to publish our first edition of this book in 2008, as the role of privacy law in our lives has continued to increase since that time.