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SOLANO POST IS A LICENSED NEWS MEDIA BUSINESS IN SUISUN CITY, CALIFORNIA.
THE OWNER/OPERATOR OF SOLANO POST IS WILLIAM "BILL" HAMPTON, A RETIRED PEACE OFFICER WITH 31 YEARS OF HONORABLE SERVICE IN THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FROM MAY 1966 TO JUNE 1997. AS A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER (SIX YEARS), CORRECTIONAL SARGENT (EIGHT YEARS), CORRECTIONAL LIEUTENANT (THREE YEARS) WITH A LATERAL TRANSFER TO CORRECTIONAL COUNSELOR (FOURTEEN YEARS) TO FINISH HIS PROFESSIONAL CORRECTIONAL CAREER. BILL BECAME AN ACCOMPLISHED NOTEKEEPER FOR THE CALIFORNIA CORRECTIONAL PEACE OFFICER ASSOCIATION (CCPOA). BILL HAD THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING THE SECRETARY/TREASURER OF THE CORRECTIONAL TRAINING FACILITY CCPOA CHAPTER AT SOLEDAD, CALIFORNIA AND THE CALIFORNIA MEDICAL FACILITY CCPOA CHAPTER AT VACAVILLE, CALIFORNIA. WITH BILL'S EXPERIENCE AND ABILITIES HE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE CCPOA MAIN TABLE NEGOTIATING TEAMS OF 1988 AND 1989. AS CCPOA NOTEKEEPER FOR THE 1989 MAIN TABLE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, BILL'S EXCELLANCE WITH NOTEKEEPING DEFENDED CCPOA'S ARBITRATION OF SALARIES WITH THE STATE AND SAVED AN ESTIMATED 40 MILLION DOLLARS FOR CCPOA UNION MEMBERS. HE COMPLETED HIS POLICE SCIENCE ASSOCIATES DEGREE IN JUNE 1972 AT THE COLLEGE OF MARIN, LARKSPUR, CALIFORNIA. BILL SERVED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE FROM AUGUST 1961 TO AUGUST 1965 WITH AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE. FROM ABOUT AGE 16 IN 1957 THROUGH 1960 BILL WAS A RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL PAINTING APPRENTICE TO HIS FATHER, A RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL PAINTING CONTRACTOR IN BISHOP, CALIFORNIA. HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION DIPLOMA WAS FROM BISHOP UNION HIGH SCHOOL IN BISHOP, CALIFORNIA.
THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO BILL HAMPTON WAS MEETING HIS WIFE, JACKIE PARKER, ON MAY 14, 1969. TO THE AMAZEMENT OF THEIR FAMILIES, THEY ANNOUNCED THEIR ENGAGEMENT TO BE MARRIED ON JULY 4, 1969 AND MARRIED ON NOVEMBER 5, 1969. 0N NOVEMBER 5, 2019, THEY CELEBRATED THEIR 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. BILL AND JACKIE HAVE FOUR CHILDREN, CAROL (ELDEST) CATHY, RON AND CINDY. THERE ARE EIGHT GRAND CHILDREN AND SEVEN GREAT GRAND CHILDREN.
BELOW IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF BILL AND JACKIES ORANGE FROM ONE OF THEIR TWO CITRUS TREES IN THEIR BACK YARD IN SUISUN CITY.
Each city and community area consists of sincere citizens hoping to make a meaningful life for themselves. Governments at all levels have made a practice of making laws, rules and regulations to difficult to allow personal expansion and freedom without excessive regulation and horrific costs. The days of democratic government have been cast aside by those governing the citizens and replaced with too brief "public notices for comment" for laws, rules and regulations already adopted. In public comments or objections, citizens are required to prove the law, rule or regulation is unconstitutional before any changes will be made. Let us make that change. Work with government to run government.