WOODLAND — Another plea agreement is in the works for the disgraced former director of Yolo County Court Appointed Special Advocates.

Yolo County prosecutors and Claudean Medlock’s defense attorney declined to go into detail this week about the settlement but confirmed they are seeking a court hearing to resolve the felony embezzlement case.

“I think it’s a fair resolution. It could be better, but it also could be worse,” Supervising Deputy Public Defender Monica Brushia said Thursday. “It gets the case resolved, which is the primary concern my client has.”

Brushia said attorneys had hoped to schedule a hearing on April 29, but Yolo Superior Court Judge Timothy Fall, who is assigned the case, rejected their request due to an already full calendar that day.

Medlock, 54, is accused of stealing more than $46,000 from CASA during the year she was employed as its executive director. She is charged with misappropriation of public funds, embezzlement, unauthorized use of an access card, two counts each of grand theft and second-degree burglary, and 10 counts of forgery.

The nonprofit agency recruits and trains volunteers to advocate for abused and at-risk youths in court.

An earlier plea agreement that granted Medlock felony probation instead of prison time was overturned after prosecutors learned Medlock was already on felony probation for embezzling about $13,000 from the California Musical Theatre Company in Sacramento while employed as its director of development.

CASA officials said they were unaware of Medlock’s history because she was not charged until after CASA hired her, and because Medlock left the CMTC job off her résumé.

Court documents indicate Medlock carried out the embezzlement by forging checks and creating false invoices listing nonexistent expenses for which she was reimbursed. She also allegedly used work-issued credit cards to obtain cash advances that were used at area gambling casinos.

Brushia has said her client’s offenses stemmed from a longtime gambling addiction brought on by depression and anxiety over her parents’ deaths.

If no resolution is reached in the current case, it is scheduled to go to trial May 16.

— Reach Lauren Keene at [email protected] or (530) 747-8048. Follow her at www.twitter.com/laurenkeene

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