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ARMC gives students opportunities to participate in widevariety of careers in medical �eldJan 11, 2020
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) recently hosted several high school students in the Marketing, NutritionServices and Medical Imaging departments.
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) recently hosted several high school students in the
Marketing, Nutrition Services and Medical Imaging departments.
In 2018, ARMC was the pilot location for the GenerationGo! Career Pathways Program, which
was established by the San Bernardino County Workforce Development Department in
collaboration with other county agencies, K12, community colleges, and private businesses.
GenerationGo! is a career pathway program providing on-the-job training for high school
students.
“GenerationGo! is a rewarding program for us because we get to train the best and the
brightest and help retain talent in the Inland Empire,” said Hospital Director William Gilbert.
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9% pay raises for San Bernardino police chief,assistant chief back for council considerationA majority of city leaders rejected salary increases for top policeadministrators in November
By BRIAN WHITEHEAD | [email protected] | San Bernardino SunPUBLISHED: January 13, 2020 at 1:38 pm | UPDATED: January 13, 2020 at 1:39 pm
Two months after declining to give 9% pay raises to the police chief and assistant police chief, SanBernardino leaders will reconsider the hikes Wednesday, Jan. 15.
According to a staff report prepared for this week’s City Council meeting, policymakers last monthasked staffers in closed session to bring an item back proposing only a bump to the assistant chief’ssalary.
While cheaper than the original proposal, staffers don’t recommend increasing only the assistantchief’s pay. In their report, staffers say excluding the chief position from the plan would require somebargaining between city officials and representatives with the Police Management Association.
San Bernardino assistant police chief Eric McBride speaks to San Bernardino City Council members during their first meeting in BingWong Auditorium at Feldheym Library in San Bernardino on Wednesday, Aug 7, 2019. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
In August, the council approved 3.5% raises for all police personnel as required by the agreementsentered into in 2016 with the city’s police officers and police management associations.
A few months later, San Bernardino officials proposed 9% salary increases for the chief and assistantchief to meet the average compensation of police leaders from Lancaster, Torrance, Santa Rosa,Thousand Oaks, Glendale, Jurupa Valley, Temecula, Moreno Valley, Ventura and Vallejo.
San Bernardino ranks a distant last among the group in per capita and average household income.
A 9% increase in pay for both the chief and assistant chief would cost about $37,000 more than thecity budgeted for their salaries this fiscal year, which ends June 30.
While the chief position is not included in the PMA agreement, past councils increased the top cop’ssalary to prevent compaction between the chief and assistant chief.
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On Nov. 6, council members Sandra Ibarra, Juan Figueroa, Fred Shorett and Jim Mulvihill votedagainst handing out the 9% raises.
Councilwoman Bessine Richard was absent from the meeting.
Since then, city officials and PMA representatives havediscussed raising only the assistant chief’s salary.Removing the chief from the proposal, however, wouldresult in a higher salary increase for the assistant chief,PMA representatives argue, and leave less than a half-a-percent difference between the two positions when thenormal difference is 10%.
San Bernardino officials have not agreed to the change inmethodology, staffers say.
Despite their interim titles, acting Chief Eric McBride andacting assistant chief David Green would receive the salarybumps.
Wednesday, city leaders could approve the 9% raises orask the city manager to renegotiate with PMArepresentatives.
The City Council meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday at FeldheymLibrary, 555 W. Sixth St., San Bernardino.
By JONATHAN LANSNER | [email protected] | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: January 13, 2020 at 11:25 am | UPDATED: January 13, 2020 at 11:25 am
The gap between who’s left California by major van lines, and who’s arrived, is now at its widest in 13years.
Every January three major van lines put out data on their state-to-state moving business. Suchinterstate moves by van lines are a shrinking migration niche for folks with deep pockets. Corporationshave shied from paying the pricey tab for professional relocation services. Not to mention thatAmericans overall aren’t relocating like they once did.
Still, the trends are worth watching as a hint at migration patterns for wealthier/executive types. SoI’ve collected in my trusty spreadsheet reports from Allied, Atlas and United van lines dating to 2004.By combining these tallies of California moves, we get to see what’s up and/or down. Roughlyspeaking, van lines handle roughly 1-in-10 California household relocations when you comparemoving van activity to Census data on interstate moves.
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Here’s what I’ve learned about van line moves and howthey move in parallel, or not, with trends in Censusmigration patterns …
Total interstate moves: Relocations with these van lines continued a downward pace with 42,791moves in or out of California last year vs. 48,110 in the previous year. That’s an 11% drop. Note thatlast year’s moves are 32% below the average since 2004. Overall, moving to another state is alsodropping: Census data shows 2018 interstate relocations were 7% below their average since ’05.
Inbound moves: The state’s real problem. Americans may visit the Golden State, but don’t want tolive here. So just 19,196 inbound van moves last year vs. 22,492 in the previous year — down 15%.Last year is 37% below the 16-year average. Census data for 2018 showed the total number ofCalifornians arriving from other states was the lowest in five years.
Outbound moves: Departures, a focus of the grand California “exodus” discussions, are falling, too.Last year’s 23,595 outbound van moves were down 8% in a year to 25,618. Last year is 27% belowthe historical average. Census figures for 2018 show Californian’s total departures rising for theseventh consecutive year.
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The “net” result: Last year California suffered 4,399 more outs to other states vs. arrivals, the largestsince 2006, and up from 3,126 in the previous year. Since 2004, California has averaged a net van-line outflow of 1,731 a year. By Census math, California’s total “net outmigration” was at its widest gapsince 2009.
Inbound share: Another way to look at this migration gap is pondering the inbound moves as apercentage of all moves. Last year, 45% of van-line moves involving California were arrivals. That’sthe lowest since 2006 and down from 47% in the previous year and well-below the 49.4% historicalnorm. Census data showed 42% of California’s total relocations were inbound in 2018 vs. a 44%average since 2005.
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By JACK KATZANEK | [email protected] |PUBLISHED: January 13, 2020 at 8:00 am | UPDATED: January 13, 2020 at 8:10 am
The value of homes is expected to grow at a faster rate across much of America’s Sun Belt in 2020,but Southern California can expect a lot more shade, one recent survey found.
According to Zillow.com, using data researched by Pulseconomics, the average U.S. home isexpected to appreciate 2.8% this year. Six metropolitan areas, all in Southern and Southwesternstates, are expected to outpace that number.
According to Zillow.com, using data researched by Pulseconomics, the average U.S. home is expected to appreciate 2.8% this year.Six metropolitan areas, all in Southern and Southwestern states, are expected to outpace that number. (Photo by JustinSullivan/Getty Images)
But a survey of 1,110 real estate experts and economists showed only 20% of them in Los Angelesand Orange County expect values there to outpace that national prediction, with 55%expecting slower growth and 25% seeing about the same growth as the national average.
For the Inland Empire market, the expectations from real estate pros look only marginally better.About 21% see better than 2.8% appreciation, with 47% expecting less growth and 32% expectingparity with U.S. appreciation.
Looking back, housing appreciation in the Inland Empire rose 3.7% in the year ending in November,compared with year-over-year gains of 2.9% in Los Angeles County and 1.7% in Orange County,according to the CoreLogic Home Price Index on Jan. 7.
The top markets for appreciation, based on net scores computed by Pulseconomics, are Austin (76),Charlotte, N.C., (69), Atlanta (51), Nashville (49) and, in a tie, Phoenix and Dallas (34)
The lowest net scores were San Francisco (-40), San Jose (-38), Los Angeles (-35), Cincinnati (-33)and Sacramento (-31). The Inland Empire’s net score was -26.
Chino Spectrum location opens
Charter Communications has opened a new Spectrum retail location at 4036-J Grand Ave. in Chino,
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The store offers walk-in consumers a chance to learn about Charter’s offerings, including video,Internet, voice and mobile phone services.They can purchase the latest hardware and have itactivated on site. More information is available at 1-855 70-SPECTRUM.
Stater Bros. promotes retail executive
Stater Bros. has promoted Keith Thomas to the position of executive vice president for retailoperations, the grocery company has announced. Thomas has worked for Stater Bros. for 39 years,starting as a courtesy clerk at the store on Magnolia Avenue in Riverside.
Thomas was promoted over the years, serving as a store manager, retail grocery supervisor anddistrict manager. He was promoted to regional vice president for retail operations in 2009 and seniorvice president in 2018.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Redlands and also graduated fromUSC’s Food Industry Management Program.
Venerable Redlands firm heading for Idaho
Covington Engineering, a small manufacturing company that opened its doors in Redlands manyyears before Redlands became an incorporated city, is moving its operations to Idaho.
The company, which makes lathes and other machinery and has about nine employees, will leave forMeridian, Idaho, at the end of January.
In a published report, the company cited high utility costs in California as one of the reasons.
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The Inland Empire Economic Partnership will recognize some of the region’s leading businesses,organizations and leaders at its annual awards dinner Thursday, Jan. 16.
The event will be at the DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton Ontario Airport.
The winners for 2020 are:
For more information and to reserve space at a table, go to IEEP.com/events.
Office expansion completed
A major project that including adding a second floor to a Rancho Cucamonga building has beencompleted and is entering the region’s office market, Newmark Knight Frank reported.
The building, constructed in 2004, is at 9494 Haven Ave.
The expansion brought the size up to 61,000 square feet, more than doubling its space, in one of theInland Empire’s key markets. The project included modernizing the building’s exterior.
Advocates get $1.29M Gates grant
Growing Inland Achievement, a nonprofit aimed at improving educational achievement among InlandEmpire residents, has received a $1.29 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The money will be used to support programs that help students move from secondary to highereducation. The goal is to make it easier for low-income and minority students to be ready for college
Nonprofit of the Year: Southern California Partnership for Jobs.Business of the Year: Ontario International Airport.Educators of the Year: Julie Pekhonen, chair of the Inland Empire Desert Regional Consortium,and Dr. Ron Carter, provost of Loma Linda University.Chairman’s Award: John Mura, general manager and CEO of the East Valley Water District.President’s Award: Dr. Raymond Wolfe, executive director of the San Bernardino CountyTransportation Authority.Public Partner of the Year: City of Moreno ValleyLarry Sharp Inland Empire Leader of the Year: Carole Beswick, CEO of Inland Action.
Growing Inland Achievement was established in 2015 with the goal of making more local youth readyfor college. According to the group’s research, the region will need 121,000 additional collegegraduates by 2030 to fill jobs for the region’s modern-era economy, which is almost twice as many asit has now.
Real estate brokerage expands
Side, a real estate brokerage that partners with high-performing agents, teams and independentprofessionals, is expanding its footprint to Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties, according to astatement.
Side, which began operating in Los Angeles County in October and is in 36 other counties in the state,has added Tyson Robinson of Trillion Real Estate, which operates in the Murrieta and Temecula area.
The firm has also brought on Matt Luke, a former Dodger and Angel baseball player who now runsMajor League Properties, a Placentia-based agency.
SVN adds top real estate adviser
Real estate veteran Robert H.S. Kirkpatrick has joined the Murrieta office SVN Insight CommercialReal Estate Advisors.
He will serve as a director of business development and as a senior adviser.
Kirkpatrick has close to 50 years of experience in real estate. He was president and CEO of CatalystHomes, co-founder and president of Benchmark Escrow and was the first sales manager for theInland Empire office of Grubb & Ellis. He also served on boards for two regional banks.
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By JEFF HORSEMAN | [email protected] | The Press-EnterprisePUBLISHED: January 13, 2020 at 12:58 pm | UPDATED: January 13, 2020 at 12:58 pm
It’s in a deep-blue state with a million more people than Iowa and eight more delegates than NewHampshire.
That said, California’s Inland Empire remains overshadowed in the race for the Democraticpresidential nomination by Iowa’s early caucuses and New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary. ButCalifornia’s March 3 primary figures to elevate the region and state’s importance to Democratic WhiteHouse hopefuls who previously viewed the Golden State as a place to raise money, not win votes.
At least two candidates are looking Inland for some of the Democratic National Convention delegatesneeded to win the nomination.
Tiffany Tran, Inland Empire political director for Mike Bloomberg’s 2020 presidential campaign, is seen at the Bloomberg campaignoffice in Riverside on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
“It’s no exaggeration to say that (the Inland Empire and Central Valley) could determine the winner ofthe California primaries,” Karthick Ramakrishnan, a UC Riverside political science and public policyprofessor, wrote in a commentary posted on CNN.com.
Billionaire and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg visited Riverside on Sunday, Jan. 5, toopen his first campaign field office in California. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who visited MorenoValley in December, also has a Riverside field office.
“The Inland Empire has historically been ignored,” said Chris Masami Myers, Bloomberg’s Californiastate director. “Mike said we’re going to reach every part of the state.”
Anna Bahr, Sanders’ California press secretary said: “The Inland Empire is essential for us.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden visited Irvine on Thursday night, Jan. 9, but has yet to stop in theInland Empire this election cycle. Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg visitedClaremont last February.
Sanders is no stranger to the region, having campaigned there in 2016. Eventual Democraticpresidential nominee Hillary Clinton also visited the Inland Empire in what was largely a symboliccampaign for both candidates, since Clinton had wrapped up the nomination by the June California
1 of 18Undecided voter Virginia Zepeda, left, is approached by Bernie Sanders campaign volunteers Joshua Deeze, center, and Candy Doss, as they godoor to door outside her home in Riverside on Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
This year, California’s 495 delegates are the main prize on March 3 or “Super Tuesday,” whenCalifornia and 13 other states hold primaries. Two hundred seventy-two delegates divvied up bycongressional district will be awarded to candidates, who must get at least 15% of the vote in a districtin order to receive its delegates.
Forty-one delegates will come from districts representing Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Bycomparison, New Hampshire has 33 delegates.
Factoring in no-party-preference voters who can take part in Democratic presidential primaries, 62%of voters in Riverside County and 64% in San Bernardino County – about 1.32 million voters in bothcounties – are eligible to cast a ballot for a Democratic presidential candidate.
Both counties used to be solidly Republican.
George W. Bush won them in 2000 and 2004, despite losing California. Barack Obama won Riversideand San Bernardino counties in 2008 and 2012. Today both counties, which went to Clinton in the2016 primary and general elections, have pluralities of registered Democratic voters.
Despite that, Republicans tend to do better in the Inland Empire than in other parts of California. Forexample, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom lost Riverside County to GOP gubernatorial candidateJohn Cox in 2018.
An October 2019 survey by UCR’s Center for Social Innovation, which Ramakrishnan directs, inpartnership with the Southern California News Group found Sanders leading his Democratic rivals at42% in Riverside County, followed by Biden at 16% and Elizabeth Warren at 14%. Thirty percent ofSan Bernardino County respondents favored Sanders, with Biden and Warren at 16% and 14%,respectively.
The center’s report on Inland Empire civic engagement released late last year showed an 84%increase in Inland voting between 2014 and 2018, including a 260% surge in voting by 18- to 24-year-olds, a 214% surge among 25- to 34-year-old voters and a 159% surge in voting by Latinos in thoseage groups.
Bloomberg’s Riverside office is part of what his campaign is calling the largest presidential primaryoperation in California’s history.
Tiffany Tran, the Bloomberg campaign’s Inland Empire political director, said the campaign plans tobe “very visible” in the region.
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“We’re planning a lot of outreach to let voters know there’s a reason” Riverside is the campaign’s firstCalifornia field office, she said.
The Sanders campaign has offices in Riverside, Coachella, Victorville and Fontana, said RafaelNavar, Sanders’ California state director.
“For us, (the Inland Empire is) a place where we think there’s a lot of delegates on the table and we’regoing after them,” he said.
By visiting places like the Inland Empire and Central Valley that traditionally are ignored by big-namecandidates, Pitney said Bloomberg is borrowing from U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s strategy – “hit’em where they ain’t.”
“He understands that the nomination fight comes down to delegate arithmetic,” Pitney said. “If he canget a good share of the vote in places such as the Inland Empire, he can become a top-tiercandidate.”
The Sanders campaign “may feel that there is a strong enough base of supporters to do well in theInland Empire,” Marcia Godwin, a professor of public administration at the University of La Verne, saidvia email.
“However, the rank-and-file voters are much more moderate,” she said. “(Clinton’s 2016) margin ineach (congressional) district was solid, but not overwhelming” with the exception of the districtencompassing the Pass, Hemet, San Jacinto and the Coachella Valley, which Clinton won with 62%of the primary vote.
“The bottom line is that Sanders ought to do well enough topick up delegates from the Inland Empire districts andcould outperform expectations if the moderate vote is split.”
Godwin said Bloomberg might see the potential for successin Riverside County given Cox’s 2018 success there, but“it’s a real stretch to think that there are enoughindependent Cox voters to cross over the vote in theDemocratic primary, let alone to vote for Bloomberg.”
To win Inland votes in a region where the dominant industry– logistics – often doesn’t pay a living wage to workers,presidential campaigns would do well to talk about their
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plans to provide better-quality, higher-paying jobs,Ramakrishnan said. Candidates also could discuss how toimprove the region’s poor air quality and lack of affordablehousing, he said.
Whatever their message, it’s vital that candidates visit the area, Ramakrishnan said. “I cannotemphasize how important it is for them to show up.”
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Several hikers needed rescuing in the Mt. Baldy area last week. Rescuers say hikers should not attempt to climb Mt. Baldy in the winter without proper equipment.(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
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JAN. 13, 20209:25 PM
Aviation crews with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department made two rescues last week in the Mt. Baldy area for hikers
unprepared for the elements.
At 2:30 p.m. Friday, two L.A. residents in their late 20s were hiking the Devil’s Backbone trail, east of the Mt. Baldy summit, in
extremely icy conditions, according to the Sheriff’s Department. Neither was wearing crampons — metal spikes that hikers can
By ROBERT GUNDRAN | [email protected] |PUBLISHED: January 13, 2020 at 8:45 pm | UPDATED: January 13, 2020 at 10:13 pm
A two-car crash in Rancho Cucamonga on Sunday evening left an 86-year-old woman dead, and sentan 18-year-old man to the hospital.
The crash happened at approximately 5:15 p.m. near Wilson Avenue and San Sevaine Road. TheSan Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said it happened when a white 2018 Nissan Sentra wastraveling west on Wilson Avenue and a 2011 Nissan 300ZX was heading east on the same road.
Authorities said the Sentra driver started to make a left turn onto San Sevaine Road and the vehicletraveled in front of the 300ZX when the cars crashed.
The Sentra was hit on the passenger’s side and rolled. Officials said the driver was pronounced deadat the scene of the crash.
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The driver of the Sentra was identified as Barbara Knass, according to the Sheriff’s Department. Shewas a Rancho Cucamonga resident, coroner’s officials reported. The man who was driving the 300ZXwas transported to a local hospital and was stable.
Authorities said the Sheriff’s Department was investigating the crash.
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By ROXANA KOPETMAN | [email protected] | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: January 13, 2020 at 5:45 pm | UPDATED: January 13, 2020 at 6:35 pm
One driver was stopped by Tustin police and told his windows were tinted too dark. Another man wasdetained by Huntington Park police for alleged public intoxication.
Neither was charged in connection to their original police stops. Instead, they both ended up inimmigrant detention.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has filed administrative complaints againstthe cities of Tustin and Huntington Park, as well as Orange County. The ACLU alleges authoritiesunlawfully interrogated the men about their immigration status and illegally detained them for ICE, theU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Such complaints usually are filed as a precursorto a lawsuit.
File photo of a detainee in a holding cell at the Adelanto Detention Facility on August 17, 2017 in Adelanto, Ca. (Micah Escamilla,Press Enterprise/SCNG)
“When police and sheriffs detain local residents for ICE, it has devastating effects for their families andtheir communities. It is also illegal,” ACLU senior staff attorney Jessica Karp Bansal wrote in astatement released Monday.
The California Values Act law prohibits local law enforcement from asking people about theirimmigration status and it limits cooperation between local police and sheriff’s deputies with federalimmigration agents.
Officials from Orange County, Tustin and Huntington Park said their departments comply withCalifornia’s so-called sanctuary law and all said they are looking into the ACLU claims.
According to the ACLU, Garden Grove resident Kelvin Hernandez Román, 32, was pulled over July13, 2019 by two Tustin police officers and told that “they stopped him because of his car’s tinted
windows.” The officers asked him to step out of his car and then peppered him with questions abouthis immigration status, according to the claim filed Friday, Jan. 10. Hernandez Román, the ACLU said,told them the truth: he does not have legal status.
The next day, Hernandez Román was transferred to the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange and shortly afterto the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County. The ACLU claims that Tustin policeand the Orange County Sheriff’s Department violated the California Values Act. Sheriff’s deputiesviolated other laws, the claim alleges, in what the ACLU said constituted false imprisonment.Hernandez Román remains in ICE detention.
That same week, Baldwin Park resident Jose Maldonado Aguilar was arrested by Huntington Parkpolice for allegedly being intoxicated in public. He was detained longer than normal, according to theACLU, to give ICE agents enough time to come pick him up as he was being released from policecustody.
Huntington Park police violated several laws, including the California Values Act, the ACLU wrote inits complaint filed last week. The department “engaged in extreme and outrageous conduct thatexceeded the bounds of what is generally tolerated in a civilized society.” Maldonado Aguilar is out ofimmigrant detention after securing bail.
An Orange County Sheriff’s spokeswoman said the department complies with state law and is lookinginto the complaint.
“OCSD strongly agrees with those who argue that local law enforcement should not be enforcingimmigration law,” spokeswoman Carrie Braun wrote in an email Monday. “We have never, do not, andwill not arrest individuals on the street for violation of immigration law. It is not our charge and doingso could hinder the relationships we have worked hard to develop with the immigrant communities weserve.”
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Tustin officials would not comment on the claim, other than to say it’s under investigation. “It’s not ourpractice or policy to ask about immigration status during a car stop or any other contact we have witha member of the community,” said Tustin police Lt. Andrew Birozy.
Huntington Park officials said in a statement Monday that its police department “is looking into itsinternal controls to ensure complete adherence to the California Values Act.” Officials said the policedepartment, which the ACLU accused of cooperating with ICE on other occasions, “is fullycooperating with the ACLU” and could not provide further comment.
Maldonado Aguilar’s case was not an isolated incident, according to the ACLU, which said thatbetween January 2018 and August 2019, Huntington Park police released 29 people to ICE.
In both cases, the ACLU said that the agencies caused the men emotional distress and is seeking$100,000 in damages for each, as well as a U visa certification – which is granted to victims of crimes– saying that the men were victims of false imprisonment. The ACLU’s claim against Tustin seeksanother $5,000. All three claims also seek internal investigations, compliance with state law andadditional training on California’s immigrant-related laws.
In Orange County, the Sheriff’s Department stopped accepting detainees held solely for immigrantdetention as of Aug. 1.
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Newport Beach is on the hook to plan for more than 4,800 new homes over the next decade, according to a calculation by the Southern California Assn. ofGovernments. (File Photo)
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The City of IndustryThe City of Industry City Council has voted to advance construction of a Mental Health Regional Crises City Council has voted to advance construction of a Mental Health Regional Crises
Response & Training Center in the City of Industry. Response & Training Center in the City of Industry. On a vote of 5-0On a vote of 5-0, the Council allocated over $1.8M, the Council allocated over $1.8M
toward site improvements, including seven modular office trailers, a new parking lot, landscaping andtoward site improvements, including seven modular office trailers, a new parking lot, landscaping and
the necessary electrical and plumbing services.the necessary electrical and plumbing services.
Construction is expected to begin next month, weather permitting. The contract was awarded toConstruction is expected to begin next month, weather permitting. The contract was awarded to
Moreno Valley-based contractor Moreno Valley-based contractor MVC EnterprisesMVC Enterprises at the latest City Council meeting on Thursday, at the latest City Council meeting on Thursday,
January 9. MVC Enterprises won the award after a competitive bidding process that began NovemberJanuary 9. MVC Enterprises won the award after a competitive bidding process that began November
19, 2019. The facility is expected to open by summer.19, 2019. The facility is expected to open by summer.
The facility, at 150 S. Hudson Ave., will provide a number of training offerings, including dispatcher andThe facility, at 150 S. Hudson Ave., will provide a number of training offerings, including dispatcher and
desk personnel training, “Mental Health First Aid” training courses, “LA Found” search anddesk personnel training, “Mental Health First Aid” training courses, “LA Found” search and
rescue/helicopter search training, and will serve as the primary site for Field Operations Crisisrescue/helicopter search training, and will serve as the primary site for Field Operations Crisis
Intervention Skills (FOCIS) training for every deputy newly assigned to patrol. Adjacent to the currentIntervention Skills (FOCIS) training for every deputy newly assigned to patrol. Adjacent to the current
Industry Sheriff’s Station, the future development will house the County’s growing Sheriff’s DepartmentIndustry Sheriff’s Station, the future development will house the County’s growing Sheriff’s Department
Mental Evaluation Team (MET) and Psychological Services Bureau (PSB).Mental Evaluation Team (MET) and Psychological Services Bureau (PSB).
“Mental health is a huge issue across various populations that our Sheriff Deputies encounter in their“Mental health is a huge issue across various populations that our Sheriff Deputies encounter in their
routine patrols. With proper training, Deputies will be better equipped to de-escalate situationsroutine patrols. With proper training, Deputies will be better equipped to de-escalate situations
involving people affected by mental disabilities. I am proud that the City of Industry is stepping up withinvolving people affected by mental disabilities. I am proud that the City of Industry is stepping up with
land and financial support to create a facility that can benefit all of Los Angeles County. Theseland and financial support to create a facility that can benefit all of Los Angeles County. These
invaluable and necessary services will allow the Sheriff’s Department to truly protect and serveinvaluable and necessary services will allow the Sheriff’s Department to truly protect and serve
countless residents in a more thorough and effective way,” said countless residents in a more thorough and effective way,” said City of Industry Mayor Cory MossCity of Industry Mayor Cory Moss. “The. “The
facility will be a first-of-its- kind regional mental health and developmental disabilities training site forfacility will be a first-of-its- kind regional mental health and developmental disabilities training site for
the entire County, and we are excited to start the first steps to create this facility on this extensivethe entire County, and we are excited to start the first steps to create this facility on this extensive
project.”project.”
The unique and over-arching initiative will be the only facility in the LA Sheriff’s Department jurisdictionThe unique and over-arching initiative will be the only facility in the LA Sheriff’s Department jurisdiction
that provides deputies with enhanced and interactive instruction to better assist people who sufferthat provides deputies with enhanced and interactive instruction to better assist people who suffer
from mental disabilities or health issues. The training center will become the base office for four METfrom mental disabilities or health issues. The training center will become the base office for four MET
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units, two MET supervisors, two psychologists and four FOCIS training instructors. With various sizedunits, two MET supervisors, two psychologists and four FOCIS training instructors. With various sized
all-purpose training rooms, the Center will host the entirety of mental health training courses for theall-purpose training rooms, the Center will host the entirety of mental health training courses for the
greater Los Angeles area, including the San Gabriel Valley.greater Los Angeles area, including the San Gabriel Valley.
Utilizing Multiple Interaction Learning Objective simulators in scenario rooms, the Los Angeles Sheriff’sUtilizing Multiple Interaction Learning Objective simulators in scenario rooms, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s
Department, Fire Department, EMS ambulance personnel and the California Highway Patrol willDepartment, Fire Department, EMS ambulance personnel and the California Highway Patrol will
participate in specialized mental health vocational training that focuses on de-escalating crises, ratherparticipate in specialized mental health vocational training that focuses on de-escalating crises, rather
than resorting to using force.than resorting to using force.
“The Los Angeles Sheriff Department continues to evolve our services to serve all members of the“The Los Angeles Sheriff Department continues to evolve our services to serve all members of the
public and to reduce conflict and use of force. This facility will provide the foundation for us to train thepublic and to reduce conflict and use of force. This facility will provide the foundation for us to train the
Deputies with critical skills to better serve the public,” said Sgt. Vince Plair from the LA County Sheriff’sDeputies with critical skills to better serve the public,” said Sgt. Vince Plair from the LA County Sheriff’s
Department. “The City of Industry committed early to this project and have been a key partner in ourDepartment. “The City of Industry committed early to this project and have been a key partner in our
pursuit of this program and facility that will benefit all of LA County.”pursuit of this program and facility that will benefit all of LA County.”
Off-duty first responders, City staff and their respective family members will also be able to receiveOff-duty first responders, City staff and their respective family members will also be able to receive
treatment from the on-site psychologists, which will increase the accessibility of care for staff in thetreatment from the on-site psychologists, which will increase the accessibility of care for staff in the
San Gabriel and Inland Empire.San Gabriel and Inland Empire.
For information about the MET, click For information about the MET, click here.here.
About the City of IndustryAbout the City of Industry
The City of Industry is a 12-square-mile, largely industrial community in the center of SouthernThe City of Industry is a 12-square-mile, largely industrial community in the center of Southern
California. Surrounded by both mountains and nearby deserts, the City offers its community easyCalifornia. Surrounded by both mountains and nearby deserts, the City offers its community easy
access to numerous recreational areas as well as downtown Los Angeles, the Ontario Internationalaccess to numerous recreational areas as well as downtown Los Angeles, the Ontario International
Airport, Union Station, the Hollywood Burbank Airport and Orange County. With more than 3,000Airport, Union Station, the Hollywood Burbank Airport and Orange County. With more than 3,000
businesses in the City who employ more than 67,000 people, the City is known for being a majorbusinesses in the City who employ more than 67,000 people, the City is known for being a major
contributor to Southern California’s labor market in areas such as retail trade, wholesale trade andcontributor to Southern California’s labor market in areas such as retail trade, wholesale trade and
manufacturing. For more information, visit .manufacturing. For more information, visit .
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By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | [email protected] |PUBLISHED: January 13, 2020 at 5:17 pm | UPDATED: January 13, 2020 at 7:20 pm
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed new budget is as big and unruly as the nearly three-hour pressconference he held last week to unveil it. Like many things the new governor proposes, his budget isfilled with grandiose promises and backed by lofty rhetoric.
But, ultimately, it epitomizes little more than Sacramento’s typical approach of throwing money atproblems and raising taxes even when there’s no obvious need to do so. The record-setting $222billion budget increases spending by 2.3 percent and counts on an additional $107 billion in revenuesfrom the federal government.
We’ll start with the good news. His budget boosts the rainy-day fund to $21 billion, to guard against
California Gov. Gavin Newsom gestures toward a chart showing funds he has allocated to climate change as he discusses hisproposed 2020-2021 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Jan. 10, 2020.. (AP Photo/RichPedroncelli)
coming economic doldrums. It makes an extra $3 billion payment to California’s beleaguered pensionfunds. Newsom warned against lawmakers’ spending impulses given the state’s surplus is projectedat $5.6 billion – far less than the current budget’s $21.1 billion surplus. This reflects anacknowledgement that the economy is growing at a much-slower rate.
On the bad side, it’s basically a wish-list of liberal spending ideas. The proposal would spend anadditional $900 million to address the state’s teacher shortages, another $700 million to fund theMedi-Cal program, and yet another $750 million to deal with the homeless crisis. Newsom proposes$250 million in loan programs to help small businesses combat climate change and $20 million for anew state park at an undisclosed location.
He wants to build new bureaucracies: a new agency to oversee the state’s cannabis regulation as wella new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The budget is filled with pork-barrel projects thatDemocratic lawmakers threw into the mix at the last minute.
As usual, the governor was fixated on the Trump administration. “We are worried about the nextgeneration,” he said, whereas federal officials “seemingly are not.” We don’t mind the poke at soaringand inexcusable federal deficits. But if the governor’s alternative plan is a model of fiscalresponsibility, then the nation is in more trouble than we thought.
The budget should have taken a firmer approach to the state’s growing level of unfunded pensionliabilities, especially given growing concerns about a coming recession. A downturn – and, as formerGov. Jerry Brown would note, there’s always going to be a downturn – will make it tough forgovernments to meet their obligations to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System
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(CalPERS).
The budget does not even try to reform the way ourspendthrift state government operates. For instance, thestate spends 80 percent more than it did a decadeago, notes Govern for California President David Crane, yetwho would say that we’ve made progress in addressingCalifornia’s core problems? We spend far more now onschools than before, yet student progress is limited. Moremoney is not always the answer.
Newsom also wants to fund enforcement of Assembly Bill5, the new law that bans many companies from hiringcontractors, and which is leading to layoffs. Instead of fixingthe problems caused by a poorly conceived law, he wantsto double down on fines and enforcement.
The budget spends more, taxes more and avoids addressing systemic reforms or fixing newly createdproblems. The proposal definitely could be worse, but Californians would be wrong to think it will makeanything better.
more than half of that going directly to local services. “I can’t perpetuate the status quo any
longer.”
The task force report comes as the state prepares to douse local governments with unprecedented
levels of funding to address homelessness. In addition to the money that Newsom proposed in his
budget, $640 million in one-time spending approved last year will begin to hit cities and counties
in the coming weeks.
A state agency has called for a mandate that would allow California to sue cities and counties if the number of people inencampments, such as this one in Echo Park, doesn’t decline. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
The mandate idea marks a step away from — or at least around — the controversy Steinberg
sparked with his “right to shelter” idea last year.
That plan would have required a bed to be provided to every homeless person in the state and for
homeless people to accept the help. Advocates fear the latter will lead to more law enforcement
sweeps of encampments and infringe on people’s civil rights.
Cities Should Act on Homelessness or Face Lawsuits,Newsom Task Force SaysBy Matt Levin and Jackie BottsCalMatters Jan 13
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes increased funding to address homelessness during his 2020-21 state budget presentation at the state Capitol inSacramento on Jan. 10, 2020. (Anne Wernikoff/CalMatters)
Declaring that moral persuasion and economic incentives aren’t working to bring people infrom the sidewalks, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s task force on homelessness called Monday for a“legally enforceable mandate” that would force municipalities and the state to house thegrowing number of homeless Californians.
The proposal, which came as Newsom kicked off a weeklong tour of the state aimed at drawingattention to the homelessness crisis, urged the Legislature to put a measure on the Novemberballot that would force California cities and counties to take steps to provide housing forthe more than 150,000 homeless people in the state, or face legal action.
Such a measure would require a two-thirds vote of both legislative houses to be brought tovoters. California law does not currently penalize the state or local governments for failing toreduce homeless populations, or to make housing sufficiently available.
'Housing is health. And to recognize that health dollars shouldappropriately be used to support housing is a very important part of ourrecommendations.'—Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf
But Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sacramento Mayor DarrellSteinberg, who co-chair the governor’s 13-member Council of Regional Homeless Advisors,have been advocating some sort of enforceable “right” to sleep indoors since the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the 9th Circuit struck down laws against homeless camping. That ruling, whichthe U.S. Supreme Court let stand just last month, dramatically limited cities’ enforcementoptions, finding it to be cruel and unusual punishment to prosecute people for sleeping on thestreet if sufficient shelter isn’t available.
“California mandates free public education for all of its children and subsidized healthinsurance for its low-income residents. It requires its subdivisions to provide services topeople with developmental disabilities and foster children,” the council wrote in a letter signedby both elected officials.
“Yet everything that state, county and city governments do to alleviate this crisis is voluntary.There is no mandate to ensure people can live indoors, no legal accountability for failing to doso, no enforceable housing production standard and no requirement to consolidate andcoordinate funding streams across jurisdictions. The results speak for themselves.”
The council’s recommendation stops short of Steinberg’s and Ridley-Thomas’ initial call for a“right to shelter,” which would not only have required cities to provide immediate beds, butalso obligated people experiencing homelessness to come inside. But it adds momentum to thestrategy of elevating litigation as a tool to accomplish what compassion and money haven’tbeen able to do.
Newsom, visiting a homelessness program in Nevada County, said Monday he “would lean inthe direction” of speedily deploying a legal “obligation” to supply sufficient services andhousing, adding that “a number of cities and counties” have volunteered to do demonstrationprojects over the next several months, “not the next few years.” (Ridley-Thomas later said hewould propose such a pilot in L.A. County this week.)
“I broadly have been encouraging this debate about obligations,” the governor said, addingthat “there’s a distinction between rights and obligations.”
Without elaborating on that distinction, he seconded the task force’s point that many of thestate’s responsibilities stem from legal mandates: “We do it in almost every other respect,”Newsom said. “On this issue we don’t, and I think that’s missing. The question is how do youdo it ... . This is not black and white. This is tough stuff.”
Municipalities made it clear they would need more clarification.
“A legally enforceable mandate can only work with clarity of who’s obligated to do what andwhat new sustainable resources will fund it; that’s the ticket for clear expectations andaccountability,” said Graham Knaus, executive director of the California State Association ofCounties, in a statement.
Steinberg, meanwhile, called Monday’s proposal an improvement on the original “right toshelter” concept, saying a mandate by any name would still have the force of law. The point,the mayor said, is to give the courts a legal “last resort” to address pleas to supersede politicalgridlock, just as federal laws have in the past armed judges to combat other social crises. “It’sanalogous to desegregation,” Steinberg said.
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The task force’s proposal would let a “designated public official” sue the government for notdoing enough to offer emergency and permanent housing to the homeless. A judge could thenintervene to force a city to approve an emergency shelter, for example, or redirect budgetfunds to homelessness services.
The proposal, however, so far lacks specifics on how taxpayers would pay for such a mandate.The letter released by the task force, which includes local elected officials from large and smallcities, states that “more state resources will undoubtedly be required” but includes noestimate.
State and local governments in recent years have poured billions into combatinghomelessness, only to watch the problem worsen as ever-rising rents drive Californians to thestreets faster than they can be re-housed. On Friday, for the second straight year,Newsom proposed more than $1 billion in new state funds to fight homelessness, calling it“the issue that defines our times” in California. But the state’s “point-in-time” homeless countjumped 17% between 2018 and last year.
San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher, a task force member, said leverage is needed.
“We do the things we are required to do first ... then for everything else we try very hard,”Fletcher said. “Absent a legally enforceable obligation, I believe people will continue to tryvery hard.”
But a legal mandate would arm jurisdictions to tackle “the underlying problem which ispoverty,” rather than appease communities with shelter beds, he said.
Steinberg and Ridley-Thomas floated the idea of a statewide “right to shelter” law last year.Spurred by decades-old litigation, New York state has a “right to shelter” policy that makes itsstate and local governments legally liable for having emergency shelter beds available forevery unhoused person.
While many credit “right to shelter” for New York’s success in reducing the number of peoplesleeping on the streets, Newsom and advocates for the homeless have balked at the idea. Someadvocates fear it would divert finite funding from permanent supportive housing, whichexperts say is a more long-term, albeit expensive solution; others worry about cost andpotential civil liberties violations that might arise from requiring a homeless person to acceptshelter if it’s available.
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“The reason why right to shelter is a mistake is because it diverts resources from the solution,which is housing, not shelter,” said Sharon Rapport, California policy director for theCorporation for Supportive Housing and a member of the task force.
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Under the policy proposed by the task force, a local government would be required to developa plan to house the vast majority of its homeless people within “an aggressive but reasonableperiod of time.” “Reasonable” is not defined in the letter.
However Steinberg said that, in the case of Sacramento, “aggressive but reasonable” mightmean a 1,500-person annual reduction in the city’s 5,500-plus homeless population, andhousing the “the vast majority” within five years.
Advocates on the homelessness issue said more specifics are needed, but applauded the taskforce’s recommendations as a philosophical pushback, at least, against efforts to criminalizeliving on the streets.
“Any kind of policies that are promoting locking up people or warehousing people orpunishing people for being homeless, the council is saying those policies have been veryineffective in the past,” Rapport said.
The city of Bakersfield recently proposed ramping up enforcement of low-level drug offensesto get people off the streets there, and advocates have expressed concern that the Trumpadministration’s threats to do something about homelessness in California may involveheavier use of law enforcement.
Homelessness Czar
The task force also called for a single point-person on homelessness, a Newsom campaignpromise that devolved in his first year into confusion over who, at any given point, was his“homelessness czar.”
Various administration members, including Steinberg and Ridley-Thomas, Secretary ofHealth and Human Services Mark Ghaly and adviser Jason Elliott, have filled the role — somany that last week, Newsom headed off press questions by declaring tartly, “You want toknow who’s the homeless czar? I’m the homeless czar in the state of California.”
But the issue of who is actually overseeing the state’s disparate homelessness initiatives —across multiple bureaucracies from prisons to health care — is still pressing, at least accordingto the homelessness task force. One of their key recommendations would “create a single pointof authority of homelessness in state government,” suggesting a high-level official that reportsdirectly to Newsom. Another calls for a comprehensive accounting of existing funding forhomelessness, housing, mental health and substance abuse treatment.
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Still other recommendations have already been incorporated into Newsom’s proposedhomelessness budget, including a “flexible fund” that service providers can tap for uses fromemergency rental assistance to building shelters. The task force also proposed revamping thestate’s health insurance program to draw down more federal dollars for homelessness-relatedservices, a key pillar of the strategy Newsom unveiled last week. Doing so would require awaiver from the federal government.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, a member of the task force, said that Medi-Cal reform proposalis key to the their blueprint.
“Housing is health,” she said. “And to recognize that health dollars should appropriately beused to support housing is a very important part of our recommendations.”
More controversial proposals included an executive order expanding the state’s new rent-gouging law to cover more households and legislation exempting from environmental reviewany new housing project for people at risk of homelessness.
California has strict laws that make it difficult to detain mentally ill people against their willfor a prolonged period of time. Families of homeless loved ones struggling with schizophreniaor other disorders often blame the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, a late 1960s law intended tocurb the overuse of asylums, for precluding necessary care. New York’s commitment laws areless stringent.
While Newsom talked vaguely of reforming the law last week, such reforms are conspicuouslyabsent from the task force’s report.
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Barr blasts Apple for not helping unlock Pensacola shooter’s iPhones
U.S. Atty. Gen. William Barr, center, speaks in Washington on Monday about the Dec. 6 shootings at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida. (J. Scott Applewhite/ Associated Press)
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U.S. Atty. Gen. William Barr criticized Apple Inc. on Monday for not helping investigators unlock iPhones belonging to the alleged
mastermind of a Dec. 6 terrorist attack at a Navy base in Florida.
The shooter had two iPhones, and the FBI quickly got court approval on probable cause to search the devices, Barr said in prepared
remarks discussing the government’s investigation.
Barr Asks Apple to Unlock iPhones ofPensacola GunmanThe request set up a collision between law enforcement and big technology firms in the latest battle over privacy and security.
By Katie Benner
Jan. 13, 2020, 2:19 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr declared on Monday that a deadly shooting last month at a naval air station inPensacola, Fla., was an act of terrorism, and he asked Apple in an unusually high-profile request to provide access to two phones used bythe gunman.
Mr. Barr’s appeal was an escalation of an ongoing fight between the Justice Department and Apple pitting personal privacy against publicsafety.
“This situation perfectly illustrates why it is critical that the public be able to get access to digital evidence,” Mr. Barr said, calling on Appleand other technology companies to find a solution and complaining that Apple has provided no “substantive assistance.”
Apple has given investigators materials from the iCloud account of the gunman, Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a member ofthe Saudi air force training with the American military, who killed three sailors and wounded eight others on Dec. 6. But the company hasrefused to help the F.B.I. open the phones themselves, which would undermine its claims that its phones are secure.
Justice Department officials said that they need access to Mr. Alshamrani’s phones to see messages from encrypted apps like Signal orWhatsApp to determine whether he had discussed his plans with others at the base and whether he was acting alone or with help.
“The evidence shows that the shooter was motivated by jihadist ideology,” Mr. Barr said, citing a message that Mr. Alshamrani posted onlast year’s anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks warning that “the countdown has begun.” He also visited the 9/11 memorial in New Yorkover the Thanksgiving holiday.
Mr. Alshamrani also posted anti-American, anti-Israeli and jihadist messages on social media, including just two hours before he attackedthe base, Mr. Barr said.
Mr. Barr turned up the pressure on Apple a week after the F.B.I.’s top lawyer, Dana Boente, asked the company for help searching Mr.Alshamrani’s iPhones. Apple said that it would turn over only the data it had, implying that it would not work to unlock the phones andhand over the private data on them.
Apple’s stance set the company on a collision course with a Justice Department that has grown increasingly critical of encryption thatmakes it impossible for law enforcement to search devices or wiretap phone calls.
The confrontation echoed the legal standoff over an iPhone used by a gunman who killed 14 people in a terrorism attack in SanBernardino, Calif., in late 2015. Apple defied a court order to assist the F.B.I. in its efforts to search his device, setting off a fight overwhether privacy that was enabled by impossible-to-crack encryption harmed public safety.
As in the investigation into the Pensacola shooting, the San Bernardino gunman, Syed Rizwan Farook, was also dead and no longer had aright to privacy. In both cases, law enforcement officials worked to piece together a clear motive and any ties to extremist groups.
The San Bernardino dispute was resolved when the F.B.I. found a private company to bypass the iPhone’s encryption. Tensions betweenthe two sides, however, remained; and Apple worked to ensure that neither the government nor private contractors could open its phones.
Mr. Alshamrani’s phone are also of interest because he tried to destroy them at some point before he began firing, according to a JusticeDepartment official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Justice Department officials have long pushed for a legislative solution to the problem of “going dark,” law enforcement’s term for howincreasingly secure phones have made it harder to solve crimes, and the Pensacola investigation gives them a prominent chance to maketheir case.
But the F.B.I. has been bruised by Mr. Trump’s unsubstantiated complaints that former officials plotted to undercut his presidency and bya major inspector general’s report last month that revealed serious errors with aspects of the Russia investigation. A broad bipartisanconsensus among lawmakers allowing the bureau to broaden its surveillance authorities is most likely elusive.
But much has also changed for Apple in the years since Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, excoriated the Obama administrationpublicly and privately in 2014 for attacking strong encryption. Obama officials who were upset by Apple’s stance on privacy, along with itsdecision to shelter billions of dollars in offshore accounts and make its products almost exclusively in China, aired those grievancesquietly.
Now Apple is fighting the Trump administration, and President Trump has shown far more willingness to publicly criticize companies andpublic figures. When he recently claimed falsely that Apple had opened a manufacturing plant in Texas at his behest, the company stayedremained silent rather than correct him.
At the same time, Apple has financially benefited more under Mr. Trump than under President Barack Obama. It reaped a windfall fromthe Trump administration’s tax cuts, and Mr. Trump said he might shield Apple from the country’s tariff war with China.
Even so, people close to the company say that Apple will not back down from its unequivocal support of encryption that is impossible tocrack.
Mr. Barr indicated on Monday that he is ready for a sharp fight.
He had said last month that finding a way for law enforcement to gain access to encrypted technology was one of the Justice Department’s“highest priorities.”
Mr. Alshamrani, who was killed at the scene of the attack, came to the United States in 2017 and soon started strike-fighter training inFlorida. Investigators believe he may have been influenced by extremists as early as 2015.
The investigation into the shooting also found that some Saudi students training with the American military in Pensacola had ties toextremist movements while others possessed pornography, which is forbidden in Saudi Arabia. About a dozen trainees will be sent back toSaudi Arabia as a result.
Investigators have not found evidence to suggest that any of those students knew about Mr. Alshamrani’s contact with extremist groupsor his mass shooting plan.
Katie Benner covers the Justice Department. She was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for public service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues. @ktbenner
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