Welcome and thank you for visiting CLEARS Superior Chapter website.  Superior chapter encompasses the 18 counties north of Sacramento to the Oregon border.

I would like to extend an invitation to you to become a member of CLEARS.  Membership provides you with valuable information that you will be able to use in your everyday law enforcement records activities.  We strive to schedule the current and updated training to meet the needs of our members, i.e., UCR, criminal records, corrections, and communications.  CLEARS provides a forum for research and the exchange of ideas and knowledge with hundreds of other law enforcement and criminal justice members throughout the state.  We also inform our members of the latest laws affecting the release of records.  We are active in promoting and influencing legislation that affects our operations.

I am so pleased to see new, returning, and prospective members at our meetings.  We have had an increased in our membership due to the hard work of our membership chairperson Cheri Resetar.  The Superior Chapter’s members are dedicated and committed to obtaining our goal of increasing our membership

As a member of CLEARS you are provided with the ability to build your own network with other law enforcement and criminal justice members throughout the seven state chapters.  I encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity.

With your membership you are entitled to the CLEARS quarterly publication of the California Police Recorder “CPR”.

Our monthly meetings are held on the 4th Thursday of every odd month.  For information on our upcoming meetings and future training, please click here.  Please review our training calendar and contact the Superior Chapter Training Chairperson, Lois Montgomery, Auburn Police Department at:  lmontgomery@auburn.ca.gov   if you have any ideas or suggestions for future training meetings.

If you are a member and would like to post something on the website, please contact the Superior Chapter Website Chair, Kelly Stenmark, Mt. Shasta Police Department at STENMARK@CI.MT-SHASTA.CA.US   Please visit our website for regular updates and news.

if you ever have any questions, comments, concerns or ideas please feel free to contact me at my office Monday – Friday 0800-1600 at (530) 458-0233 or email: bortega@colusasheriff.com, or by mail to:  Colusa County Sheriff’s Department, 929 Bridge Street, Colusa, CA  95932,

I hope that your membership to this organization is as beneficial to you as it has been for me. 

 Sincerely,

Bertha Belmontes Ortega,
2009 Superior Chapter President