Furtado v. State Personnel Board

*733Opinion

AARON, J.

I

INTRODUCTION

Brace Furtado appeals from a judgment denying his petition for a writ of mandate directing California’s State Personnel Board (SPB) to set aside its order sustaining the decision of California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the Department) to medically demote Furtado to a non-peace-officer position, and not to place Furtado in a newly created administrative correctional lieutenant peace officer position. The trial court concluded that the law and evidence supported the SPB’s decision that the Department had reasonably determined that Furtado was…