After a day's delay due to Monday's snowstorm, the city will celebrate the New England Patriots' latest Super Bowl win with a victory parade on Wednesday.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh initially announced that the parade would be held on Tuesday at 11 a.m. But after being forced to cancel school on Tuesday due to the snowstorm, the mayor changed course.

The parade is now being held on Wednesday at 11 a.m. The parade will start at the Prudential Tower and end at City Hall.

At a Tuesday morning press conference, Walsh said there will be no rally at City Hall Plaza - just a duck boat parade.

The weather will be slightly above freezing, but the mayor urged people to dress appropriately. He also asked people not to go on snowbanks, and said police will be enforcing this rule.

"It's very dangerous," Walsh said. "We don't want any situations as it gets warmer."

Asked if he considered holding the parade on Saturday instead of on a weekday, Walsh said he really had no choice due to player availability.

"We won't have a team here on Saturday to have a parade," Walsh said. "It seems like a great idea. The problem is we wouldn't be having players we want to cheer on. Their vacation starts as well. Their season's over."

The mayor said he didn't give any serious thought to cancelling the parade due to the weather.

"We always have had a parade," Walsh said. "This has been a tradition here in the City of Boston. If we felt it was going to be a public safety issue we would cancel it. But right now I think we're gonna be fine for tomorrow."

He urged those planning to attend the parade to leave early, and take public transportation, because there really isn't any parking right now.

A 26-year-old woman with the nickname Star who says she is going to marry 80-year-old mass murderer Charles Manson will have to wait a while longer.

Afton Elaine Burton and Manson got a marriage license last year to stage a wedding inside a visiting room at California State Prison, Corcoran.

However, it expires Thursday, meaning they missed their chance to tie the knot over the weekend, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Jeffrey Callison said Monday.

Wedding are not held through the week at the prison.

If the wedding is ever going to happen, the couple must register for a new Kings County marriage license.

Burton, who says she loves Manson, left her home In Illinois and has spent the last nine years living near the Central California prison.

Manson was convicted of killing seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, the wife of director Roman Polanski.

Burton, who maintains websites espousing Manson's innocence, has not responded to recent requests seeking comment on the relationship. Shortly after obtaining the license, she told The Associated Press the nuptials were imminent: "Y'all can know that it's true," she said in November. "It's going to happen."

The expiring license indicates that Burton intends to take Manson's last name, if they are married.

James McGrath, a New York City photo agency editor, said he maintains contact with Burton and she intends to obtain another 90-day license and go ahead with the marriage.

Manson became notorious in 1969 as the leader of a "family" of young killers.

Manson follower Susan Atkins died of cancer behind bars, but Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel remain imprisoned. So do Charles "Tex" Watson, Bruce Davis and Robert Beausoleil, who is expected to have a parole hearing Feb. 19. Manson is eligible for parole next in 2027.

A San Diego man was found guilty Monday of 27 felony counts for creating a so-called revenge porn website, where he posted more than 10,000 sexually explicit photos of women online to extort them for hundreds of dollars each.

It took a court clerk 20 minutes to read the list of convictions against 28-year-old Kevin Bollaert, guilty of 21 identity theft and 6 extortion counts. A mistrial was declared on one conspiracy count and one identity theft count.

In the debate over whether Bollaert should walk free until his sentencing, Deputy Attorney General Tawnya Austin told the judge he should go back to jail, not because he is a flight risk, but because of the harm he could do to the 26 victims involved in the case.

"He is a vindictive individual who takes pleasure out of harming people," she said. "That's what the evidence has sussed out. And his tool of destruction happens to be the one thing that we cannot easily monitor. That is his area of expertise."

Bollaert's defense attorney Emily Rose-Weber argued it would be good to see how he lives his life between now and his sentencing, living with his parents and perhaps holding down a good job. She asked that the court only put restrictions on his release.

The judge ordered Bollaert be remanded in custody and held on a $450,000 bail.

The case — the first of its kind, filed by the California attorney general — centered on a now defunct website called YouGotPosted.com, created by Bollaert so ex-husbands and ex-boyfriends could submit embarrassing photos of victims for revenge. The photos also linked to victims’ social media accounts.

Prosecutors say those who wanted to get the pictures taken down were redirected to another one of Bollaert's sites, ChangeMyReputation.com. There, the victims were charged $300 to $350 to have their photos removed.

Bollaert also instructed victims to submit another picture of themselves holding a sign with their birth date on it.

Austin called the scheme a “blood sport” that left victims distraught and desperate.

While she did not dispute that her client created the websites, Rose-Weber said the business was not illegal — though it may be “immoral” or “sleazy.” She described Bollaert as an aspiring web developer who hopes to start a business in the technology industry.

Now, Bollaert faces up to 20 years in prison at his sentencing.

The revenge porn case has been called a landmark one, for California is the first state to prosecute someone for posting humiliating pictures of others online.

In 2013, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law that prohibits anyone from putting identifiable nude photos online after a breakup, punishable with $1,000 or six months in jail.

A Cub Scout pack’s hike along the San Diego coastline led the children to a nude beach, scout officials confirmed Monday.

The scouts, ages 9 and 10, were out for a planned hike on January 24 in the area of Torrey Pines State Beach just north of La Jolla.

A few hiking trails in this section of the coastline led down to the beach below the cliffs. One beach in particular, Black's Beach, is known for its nude sunbathers.

So on this Saturday hike, the young scouts saw a little more than parents were expecting.

Scout officials say the pack “encountered some individuals who were inappropriately dressed.”

A Facebook user told NBC 7 that parents were “panicked” and protested the hike route to the cub master.

According to the official statement from the San Diego-Imperial Council, parents and adult volunteers “quickly rerouted” the group “to protect the youth.”

NBC 7 tracked down the pack leader who told us he was not punished for the field trip.

Council officials say they met with parents and discussed whether there needed to be any other action taken.

“Together we concluded that proper protocol had been observed and appropriate steps were taken in this matter," the official statement said.

Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve has a number of hiking trails with varying degrees of difficulty.

One ranger told NBC 7 that it’s very common to see youth groups hiking in the area, especially scouts who are working toward earning an outdoor badge.
 

The state's monthly water-use report card due Tuesday will provide a look at how more than 400 local water agencies are doing when it comes to water conservation efforts across drought-stricken California.

The state is entering a fourth year of drought with no signs of improvement during what is typically the state's wettest season. Storms and heavy rainfall in December brought hopes for relief from the drought, but they were dashed by an unseasonably dry January and plummeting snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

The monthly water-use report will provide a look at residential per capita water use in December compared with the year before.

The State Water Resources Control Board began collecting and publicizing the water-use numbers as part of its ongoing conservation campaign. The board imposed restrictions on watering lawns and washing cars last summer after Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency for the state in January 2014.

Brown asked residents to reduce water use by 20 percent, a goal that has been difficult to achieve. The closest Californians came to reaching that goal was in August, when water use dropped 11.6 percent compared with the previous year, according to the monthly surveys of water suppliers.

Dry conditions are still looming. Downtown San Francisco had no measurable rain in January for the first time in recorded history. A snow survey last week found the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which supply about a third of California's water, contained 12 percent of the normal water expected.

Springtime water runoff from melting snow in the Sierra range provides water for an estimated 25 million Californians.

The water board's mandatory water restrictions are set to expire in April. The board is also considering extending and expanding those rules later this month.

Officials are investigating an alleged incident where a sailor on a U.S. aircraft carrier tried to use a cell phone to capture images from a woman’s restroom.

The investigation comes as the Navy investigates a similar incident on the Georgia-based USS Wyoming, where female sailors were allegedly recorded while showering on a submarine.

The USS John C. Stennis was on a training exercise when a junior officer was caught standing outside the women’s bathroom holding a handheld electronic device, according to a document obtained by the Navy Times.

The officer, dressed in PT gear, had been allegedly holding the device so it could see through a ventilation grate, "positioned to view the interior of the female head.”

The Navy said the investigation was reported right away and the electronic devices confiscated.

One of the reasons the incident may have been reported so quickly is that the Navy has been emphasizing sexual harassment training.

Maria Luster is a Navy veteran who worked in one of the Navy's legal departments. She said that for a number of reasons, women are not as afraid as they once were about reporting incidents.

In response to the investigation, Commanding Officer Capt. Mike Wettlaufer said he was pleased with the swift action taken.

"However, I am pleased a shipmate stepped up to stop unacceptable behavior and reported it,” Wettlaufer said. “An NCIS investigation commenced immediately because our shipmate took action."

A large fire broke out inside a vacant home in Golden Hill early Tuesday.

Flames and heavy smoke could be seen shooting out of the single family residence at 1:10 a.m.

Twenty firefighters arrived to the scene to put out the blaze before it spread to surrounding buildings. Several powerlines connected to the old property also caught on fire. San Diego Gas and Electric arrived to repair those lines.

Although no one was inside the home at the time, San Diego Fire-Rescue said they always treat any fire as if someone could be inside.

"They're still going to assume that there could be somebody in there," Batallion Chief David Picone said. "So they're going through the same steps of doing the search and rescue, confirming first that no one is in there."

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Efforts were still being made Monday to save a two-year-old boy who fell down a black water drain in Tijuana Sunday afternoon.

According to Tijuana Fire Department Director Carlos Gopar Uribe, a call came in just after 1 p.m. Sunday that a child had fallen into the drain and needed emergency help.

The boy's mother said he was playing near the drain when he fell in, Uribe said. She apparently tried to save him, but was unsuccessful.

Using video cameras and fire crews, they attempted to go into the drain to save the boy. Uribe said the crews worked overnight and into Monday, but still had not found the toddler.

In a last ditch effort, they were going to try to destroy the tube for better access, he said.

This is a developing story. Check back here for updates.

A South Jersey woman on a discounted Caribbean cruise for having contracted norovirus last year had "lightning strike twice" when her second trip was cut short over illness, her daughter said.

Barbara Ferguson of Sea Isle, New Jersey, was a passenger on Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas last February. During the cruise, Ferguson was one of the 630 passengers sickened due to a new Sydney strain of norovirus. It was one of the largest norovirus outbreaks on a cruise ship in the last 20 years.

While the Sydney strain is not considered unusually dangerous, it has become a common cause of cases of vomiting and diarrhea that last a few days.

As compensation, Royal Caribbean offered Ferguson a discounted price on a future trip of her choosing, according to her daughter, Kristie Ferguson. Barbara decided to go on the Royal Caribbean Grandeur of the Seas with a group of friends. The cruise left Baltimore for the Bahamas on January 24 and was set to return Tuesday.

“Figuring that lightning couldn’t strike twice, they booked the cruise on the Grandeur,” Kristie Ferguson said. “Never say never.”

Barbara’s cruise was cut short when hundreds of passengers once again became sickened with norovirus, forcing the cruise to return to Baltimore a day early.

“During the current sailing, Grandeur of the Seas has experienced a number of guests with a gastrointestinal illness,” said a spokesperson for Royal Caribbean. “Over the course of the sailing, 193 guests (9.91 percent) and nine crew members (1.15 percent) experienced the illness, thought to be norovirus. Those affected by the short-lived illness are responding well to over-the-counter medication administered onboard the ship.”

The Centers for Disease Control also investigated and reported the incident.
 

The afterglow of seeing a memorable Super Bowl here on NBC last night might have inspired many local viewers to daydream about San Diego hosting another one – and maybe more -- someday.

But such thoughts may well be pipedreams because a new stadium for the Chargers is an NFL prerequisite.

Early indications are there's no real consensus about getting a stadium built with public money, property or tax incentives – and there may be more of a sense that there's no urgency to it.

Is that asking for bluffs to be called? Can Mayor Faulconer’s nine-member Citizens Stadium Advisory Group flip the dynamic of that script?

"I'm fairly optimistic because this time, they seem to have put together a panel of knowledgeable people -- across the board knowledgeable,” said Rancho Santa Fe resident Lindy Bowman. “It seems like a group that could work together."

But skeptics said it's too NFL-centric, too "business establishment" and too politically conservative.

And they object to it not being required to meet in public, according to a legal analysis by City Attorney Jan Goldsmith.

Others are accusing the mayor of walking back his promise of openness and transparency.

On Monday, Councilmembers David Alvarez and Todd Gloria called on Faulconer to have his advisers allow public participation and regular accountability in the process of their meetings, research and deliberations on the framework for a potential 2016 ballot measure.

"This is the kind of deal that really needs to be vetted, especially since economists agree generally that there's no way the city will make any money off of this,” said Liam Dillon, who covers local government and civic issues for The Voice of San Diego. “So this is a money-losing proposition that's being cooked up in a back room. That's not really a good way to try to pass a ballot measure."

It’s widely believed that such a measure probably would have a much better chance of passing with a simple majority if the project doesn't involve taxpayer subsidies that would raise the voter approval bar to 66.7 percent, and if it’s located on the current Mission Valley site of Qualcomm Stadium, which the NFL and many other interests see as a dinosaur on the edge of structural extinction.

"We may be out of the recession, but there's a lot of people hurting,” downtown resident Frank Noble told NBC 7 in an interview Monday. “And I don't think anybody wants to pay additional taxes for a stadium that's used 16 to 20 times a year."

The Chargers argue that their proposed hybrid stadium-convention facility in East Village would be filled with events as big as NCAA Final Four basketball championships, national political conventions and you-name-it.

But the team's competing for financial leverage with a convention center expansion push across Harbor Drive.

There’s no shortage of mixed feelings about the project.

Said Encinitas resident Reed Wirick: "Given that the games get blacked out a decent amount, it's hard to make a case of broad public support of that kind of expenditure. That being said, the baseball stadium's obviously done a good deal to revitalize the downtown."

There’s little doubt that the Chargers' envisioned stadium-convention complex would provide more "synergism" throughout East Village, the Gaslamp Quarter and downtown as a whole.

Beyond that are considerations such as civic pride, being a “major league city” and the spectator draw of athletic entertainment to 'monetize' on various levels.

Those elements count for something with a lot of folks.

“I’ve seen some numbers that said people aren't in favor of bringing the stadium downtown as opposed to leaving it in Mission Valley,” said Imperial Beach resident Sherry Thompson-Taylor. “I saw the NFL say it's one of the oldest stadiums in the country. So I'd like to see us have a premier place for the players to play."

Still, the team’s large contingent of transplants and loyalists to other NFL franchises among its fan base is a vexing problem in and of itself.

When the Bolts are winning, the bandwagon's crowded.

When they're not, fans can be fickle and fair-weather -- especially taxpayers and voters in the city of San Diego, where roads are crumbling and water mains are bursting.

The mayor's stadium group will hold its first meeting late Friday afternoon, and informed observers expect that an executive with the Sycuan tribe and ties to the state university system will wind up chairing it.

Dillon thinks its lack of organized labor representation figures to be a drawback in the long run: “You’d think you’d want to get them on board as early as you can, and right now they’re in the dark – just like the public and the city council and everybody else except for the folks who are in that smoke-filled room.”

A fourth pedestrian death along San Diego City streets this year has one local organization calling out to the city administration for help.

The latest accident happened Saturday evening when a man was killed crossing University Avenue at 47th Street.

Circulate San Diego advocates for safer streets and transportation. The group considers the intersection where Saturday's incident took place the most dangerous section of road in the city.

Those who live around here would most certainly agree.

“When they have children they don't even stop. They just keep going. They don't even care if a kid gets run over or not,” resident Anna Martinez said.

Police say Saturday night a man pulling a cart was killed trying to cross there.

There is no stoplight, nor obvious crosswalk.

Residents of the area say traffic is heavy and often moving faster than the posted speed limit.

This fourth fatality in as many weeks doubles last year's per month average.

Circulate for San Diego says this one corridor accounts for 10 percent of all pedestrian injuries in San Diego.

One year ago this Thursday will be the anniversary of Kurtis Vorrhes' death .

Vorrhes was killed by a hit-and-run driver crossing University Avenue at Vermont street.

His partner Rudy Delgado returns to the corner monthly with a sign, hoping to bring the driver to justice and draw attention to the dangers along this road.

“I can't wait to actually move on from this place because you know what - when you have 16 years of your best friend and the person you worked with and you wake up and you just don't talk to them anymore and you don't see them,” Delgado said with tears in his eyes.

Circulate San Diego has come up with a strategy called "Vision Zero" with the goal of eliminating traffic deaths in San Diego by 2025.

The plan calls for safety improvements along five key corridors including University Avenue.
 

As Covered California works to process more than a million health care applications and renewals, a San Diego man said it is falling behind in another area: paychecks.

Dewan Gibson is a front line soldier in the huge state health care exchange, which hopes to enroll 1.7 million Californians. If anyone has trouble navigating the revamped Covered California website, Gibson and other contractors like him come to the rescue.

“We’re the people when you click that link and you call, we come to you and help you enroll in Covered California,” Gibson told NBC 7.

He’s one of the state’s nearly 6,400 certified public enrollment counselors, and for every person he helps to enroll, the state is supposed to pay him a flat fee.

“So we’re well over $2,000 that I haven’t been paid,” he said.

Gibson estimates he has enrolled about 40 people since last summer, and all he has received is one check for $58.

Trying to find out why, Gibson turned to his only pay check. He said the help number printed on it has been crossed out with a marker, and the new number written in pen above it just goes to the general Covered California line.

“Well, it’s really frustrating. The only thing worse than not being paid is not knowing why you’re not being paid,” the counselor said.

When he called the general line, he was told they do not handle paychecks. A call to his trainer got him another number, but he has received no answers.

NBC 7 reached out to other groups in San Diego that do the kind of work Gibson does. While they did not want to do an interview, more than one said they have also seen delays in checks coming from the state.

A Covered California spokesperson responded to NBC 7 on Monday, saying the organization mailed Gibson a check late last week.

As for its communication issues, the spokesperson’s statement says, “We communicate regularly with our partners and keep them updated on the scheduling of payments."

Gibson said he received one email that informed him payments from September would be issued in February.

“No reason given,” he said. “You just receive this mass email and you can’t respond to it, can’t get anyone on the phone.”

Going forward, this stay-at-home father of three said he has far more valuable ways to spend his time, so he will not be taking on new clients.
 

The driver of an SUV collided with a hydrant on an El Cajon street corner and caused a geyser that flooded the intersection.

El Cajon Police and Heartland Fire responded to the corner of Oakdale Avenue and Grape Street around noon Tuesday.

The SUV, driven by a teenager, suffered some tire damage.

Crews worked to turn off the water and begin cleanup.

There were five people in the vehicle at the time of the crash.

No injuries were reported.

An employee of Ramona High School died in his office, the principal's secretary said Tuesday afternoon.

The employee, who was a computer technician, did not interact directly with the students, said Cynthia Salow, the principal's secretary.

A school librarian discovered the employee's body shortly after 7 a.m., according to reports in the Ramona Sentinel.

The employee's cause of death wasn't immediately released; the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and medical examiner conducted an investigation Tuesday morning, according to the Ramona Sentinel.

The newspaper reported that school attendance was lighter than usual because only sophomores were on campus to take the California high school exit exam.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

More than 1.5 million pounds of dirt will cross through San Diego Tuesday and Wednesday.

The dirt will be headed for San Diego’s Petco Park, where officials are preparing the Monster Energy Supercross Race Track. The inaugural race will take place Saturday night.

Five hundred truckloads of dirt will become a man-made dirt battleground for the Supercross race.

It will be the 32nd time the race has visited San Diego and the sixth race of the 2015 season, but it will be the first time the race visits Petco Park.

Parts of the Cleveland National Forest will be restricted to visitors to protect sensitive animal nesting areas.

Golden Eagles and other species and their offspring will be nesting in the coming months, park officials said.

During this time, eagles respond to human presence by leaving their nest for longer periods of time or avoiding the nest altogether, leaving their offspring to fend for themselves.

A closure order for the Glencliff area of the forest started on Dec. 15 and is expected to go until July 1.

Advisories are in effect for the Corte Madera and Eagle Peak areas of the forest, where Peregrine Falcons and Prairie Falcons nest, to inform visitors when they are in sensitive nesting area so those they can be cautious of their impact on the environment. Those advisories will be in effect from March 1 to July 31.

Federal prosecutors announced the arrest of a high-ranking Defense Department civilian in the international Navy bribery scandal involving the military contractor known as “Fat Leonard.”

Paul Simpkins, a 60-year-old former senior contracting officer for the U.S. Navy, was arrested and charged Tuesday in Virginia on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery.

A criminal complaint alleges Simpkins accepted several hundred thousand dollars in cash and wire transfers, travel, hotel rooms, entertainment expenses and prostitutes from Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), the Singapore-based company led by Leonard Glenn Francis, known in military circles as Fat Leonard.

Francis pleaded guilty last month to giving military officials prostitutes, travel and cash in exchange for classified information that allowed his company to overbill the U.S. government by more than $20 million.

Simpkins worked as a supervisory contract special for the Navy in Singapore in 2005 and became a manager at the Department of Defense’s Office of Small Business Programs in 2007.

The complaint says in early 2006, Simpkins and Francis met in a Singapore hotel, where Francis hand-delivered $150,000 in case and wired money to Simpkin’s wife’s bank account. Simpkins allegedly used the email account of his mistress to give Francis his wife’s banking information.

In return, Simpkins is accused of helping steer Navy contracts in Francis’ direction. The complaint says he interceded on GDMA’s behalf in contract disputes, even overruling his subordinate’s recommendation that the company’s contract not be renewed due to “many exceedingly high cost” items.

According to the court document, Simpkins also told Navy officials in Hong Kong to stop using meters to measure how much liquid waste GDMA removed from Navy ships under its contract. If the meters had been used, they would have calculated the actual amount of waste to ensure the company was not overbilling the government, prosecutors say.

After Francis complained some Navy personnel were asking questions about his billing, Simpkins is suspected of telling a Navy official not to review GDMA invoices from a Hong Kong port visit.

“As we've mentioned previously, the GDMA investigation is far from over,” said Director Andrew L. Traver of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). “NCIS will follow the evidence wherever it leads, to bring to justice those who were involved in perpetrating this massive fraud on the Department of the Navy and the American taxpayer. Active leads remain and NCIS will stay on the case until our work is done.”

U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy says the government wants Simpkins to be transferred to San Diego to face charges in the Southern District of California, so he will appear at a detention hearing in Virginia Wednesday. Simpkins faces five years in prison if he is found guilty.

The NCIS and Defense Department Investigative Service are continuing the investigation and hinted more arrests were to come after Francis turned in his guilty plea. He and six others, including high-ranking Navy officers and Francis’ own cousin, have admitted to their part in the scheme. 

Video cameras capture reality and from police officer body cams to nanny cams, they are being used more and more as a way to help provide accountability.

In California, families and a local San Diego nursing home want to protect loved ones by installing cameras in patient bedrooms, but they are facing a roadblock from the state.

At 85 years old, Lynn Murphy's health was failing, her memory fading fast. So, in October 2013, her daughter Kathe Murphy put her mother into the Oakmont of Roseville retirement community, near Sacramento.

"It was close to my house and she could have her cat which was of utmost importance to her,” Kathe said.

While Lynn was in Oakmont's memory care unit, Kathe said the staff wasn't doing their job. She took photos of her mother's dirty clothes, room and bathroom. She said the staff was supposed to be doing Lynn’s laundry and cleaning her living quarters. Kathe said her mother wasn't being properly taken care of.

These were issues that Kathe said she knows about first-hand since she worked as a paralegal for 20 years for the Department of Social Services' licensing division -- the same state agency responsible for regulating and licensing elder care facilities in California.

"I said this is elder abuse. Nobody's done anything,” Kathe said.

She took her mom out of the facility in April 2014 after she said her mom was put in bed and not checked on for almost 24 hours. Her mother died 3 weeks later.

“So she was laying there with a dirty diaper with sores on her back for almost 12 hours, and I would come in and find her like that,” Kathe said.

Kathe reported the case as elder neglect to police who are investigating it, as is DSS's licensing division.

A DSS inspection report found used gloves on Lynn's nightstand and medication left unsecured in her room. The report also found numerous time lapses in care. Lynn was supposed to be repositioned every two hours, but employee logs show on one overnight shift, almost 12 hours went by without Lynn receiving any care.

NBC 7 Investigates contacted Oakmont of Roseville for a response to Kathe's allegations and the findings from the state. Their public relations company sent us a statement that said, “We are aware of the family’s complaint. We are sorry this family feels their loved one was not given the experience they expected… We are currently cooperating with the state of California to resolve this matter and are unable to comment further because of the ongoing nature of the complaint investigation process.” Look below to read the complete statement.

Click here to look up a state licensed elder care facility through the California Department of Social Services.

Joe Balbas is the co-owner of Vista Gardens, a residential facility for Alzheimer's disease and dementia patients. He said elderly patients in nursing facilities should have the option of having security cameras in their room. He said in Lynn's case, cameras would have been invaluable.

“The private rooms to me are an area we cannot see, we cannot be there at all times,” said Balbas.

Under California law, cameras can be used to monitor residents in common areas such as hallways or dining facilities which Vista Gardens uses. The facility also has surveillance cameras in resident rooms, but they sit unused because the state won't give the green light.

“I believe our roadblock is DSS,” Balbas said. “Although they are supposedly going to be working with us, it's been promises that eventually we will get to it. I know they are busy. We are all busy. This is a very important issue.”

The Department of Social Services Deputy Director of Public Affairs Michael Weston said the client's right to privacy is a concern for the department.

“We view these as people’s homes, and we want people to have rights in their own home and balancing that between a business and a residence,” Weston said. “We want to be careful about.”

Weston said the department has developed proposed guidelines which would allow video cameras in private rooms under specific conditions. He said those guidelines are still being reviewed and expects to release them this spring.

Kathe, who retired from the DSS in 2014, said cameras shouldn't be mandatory, but an option for concerned families.

“Cameras don't lie. They really don't. I think if you don't violate the patient's privacy, I would have loved a camera in there. It just gives you security that people are doing their job.”

Click here to look up a state licensed elder care facility through the California Department of Social Services.

To file a complaint against a state licensed elder care or child care facility call: 1-844-LET-US-NO.

Oakmont of Roseville full statement:
“We are aware of the family’s complaint. We are sorry this family feels their loved one was not given the experience they expected. Our award-winning communities throughout the western United States, including Oakmont of Roseville, have helped us to become one of the most recognized, respected names in senior living. Oakmont of Roseville has been recognized as a leading assisted living provider. We are committed to the seniors who reside in our communities and providing high quality assisted living services. We are currently cooperating with the state of California to resolve this matter and are unable to comment further because of the ongoing nature of the complaint investigation process.”