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A San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy violated the FourthAmendment rights of a group of Etiwanda Intermediate students when hearrested them because he thought they were uncooperative in a bullying

The Etiwanda School District office in Rancho Cucamonga, CA., Wednesday, October 11,2017. (Staff photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

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investigation, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, Sept. 10.

“The summary arrest, handcuffing, and police transport to the station ofthe middle school girls was a disproportionate response to the school’sneed, which was dissipation of what the school officials characterized asan ‘ongoing feud’ and ‘continuous argument’ between the students,”Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen wrote in the opinion for the 9th U.S. CircuitCourt of Appeals’ three-judge panel.

“No reasonable officer could have reasonably believed that the lawauthorizes the arrest of a group of middle schoolers in order to teachthem a lesson or to prove a point,” the opinion said.

The case goes back to Oct. 8, 2013, when a group of seventh-gradegirls, ages 12 and 13, were handcuffed, arrested and driven from theschool to the police station.

Balbina Kendall, then the school’s assistant principal, had asked theschool resource officer, San Bernardino County sheriff’s Deputy LuisOrtiz for help with a group of girls who had been involved in bullying andfighting at school.

The seven girls were put in a classroom together. According to Nguyen’sopinion, Ortiz intended to verify what he had been told about theincidents by school administrators, but found the girls “unresponsive anddisrespectful.”

According to the court, an audio tape has some whispering and quietgiggling from some of the girls. The two girls who appear to have beenthe aggressors in the bullying, told Ortiz that they would not stop theirbehavior. But the other girls didn’t say anything until after Ortiz hadstarted making arrests and asked if they needed to be handcuffed.

Ortiz told the girls he was arresting them because he was not “playingaround” and was taking them to jail to “prove a point” and “make (them)mature a lot faster,” according to the opinion.

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He did not care who was at fault, he told the girls, because it was the“same ticket, same pair of handcuffs.” According to the mother of one ofthe girls, Kendall said it was school policy to suspend any studentinvolved in a fight, regardless of who was at fault.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department did not respond to arequest for comment Monday.

Ultimately, the school did not discipline any of the seven girls, and nocriminal charges were filed.

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the public from“unreasonable search or seizure” or arrest without probable cause.

“The district follows its discipline policies and the California EducationCode with respect to student discipline,” Etiwanda School DistrictSuperintendent Shawn Judson wrote in a statement Monday. “Wepartner with local law enforcement agencies to keep our schools safe.This approach has not changed significantly in the last five years;however, we continually review our policies and practices to ensure theyeffectively serve our students and school community.”

The families of three of the girls sued the arresting deputies and theCounty of San Bernardino for unlawful arrest in violation of state lawsand the Fourth Amendment. (The suit against one of the deputies waslater dropped.)

The district court denied the defendants qualified immunity and grantedsummary judgment in favor of the students.

“This is a published opinion. It’s not just an appeal. It’s going to have areally big impact on schools anywhere west of Utah,” said NewportBeach attorney Jerry Steering, who represented the families. “Thepeople they have as school resource officers are not well-trained. Thisguy was a bad egg.”

A year after he arrested the girls at Etiwanda Intermediate, Ortiz madeheadlines in 2014 when he accused a bullying victim of being an

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aggressor in a report. The student was suspended until video lateremerged showing that the Etiwanda High victim had not fought back.

Now that the 9th Circuit Court has weighed in, the case will likely returnto U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips to determine damages,either through settlement or a special jury. In his original 2014 lawsuit,Steering had asked for $10 million in punitive damages and $10 millionin compensatory damages.

Staff writers Ryan Hagen and Joe Nelson contributed to this story.

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The Wildwood Creek Basin in the city of Yucaipa, used to capture storm waterrunoff and also replenish the groundwater aquifer, Wednesday, January 10,2018. (Photo by John Valenzuela/Redlands Daily Facts)

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There’s a new wave of collaboration spilling into the sharedmanagement of water in the San Bernardino Valley.

In a state where fighting over water rights is as old as thestate itself, a dozen agencies in the region have formed a newentity — the San Bernardino Basin Groundwater Council — towork toward the greater purpose of storing water for ourfuture.

San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District, SanBernardino Valley Water Conservation District, SanBernardino Municipal Water Department, East Valley WaterDistrict, Bear Valley Mutual Water Company, Yucaipa ValleyWater District, Loma Linda University and the cities of LomaLinda, Rialto and Colton, with Redlands also expected to join,are committed to making the Groundwater Council asuccessful model for what arid regions like ours can do toensure that there is enough water for everyone.

Fundamentally, its purpose is to ensure there are fundsavailable to purchase water in wet years, and facilities in placeto store that water underground for use during dry years.

Each member of the council contributes water and/or fundingto purchase and recharge groundwater using calculations thatensure that there is always ample water storage for theregion. The allocation and cost is determined according touse, historic rights, conservation, water recycling and otherfactors developed over a year of open exchanges of concernsand information.

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Those that need more water, pay more. It’s a method thatensures capacity for each entity, but does not penalize thosewho conserve.

Some might say it’sbest for waterdistricts to protectand serve only theirown customers’interests. Why workwith others whenthey might betaking the veryresources you hopeto claim foryourself?

Because thegroundwater basinis a shared

resource, the responsibility for managing it in a practical waymust be shared, too. Collaboration gives any cause morepower, and with so many local agencies contributing their fairshare to the basin, the amount of imported water beingrecharged each year is now at record highs.

The San Bernardino Valley Groundwater Council is a modelfor what water agencies large and small can do to helpresolve California’s water challenges.

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It’s the kind of spirit that makes the most of a situation —drawing from the various strengths of each district tocontribute jointly to ensure the availability of water long intothe future.

All in all, this is a remarkable feat for a region that has foughtover water for so long.

Douglas Headrick is general manager of the San BernardinoValley Municipal Water District. Daniel Cozad is generalmanager of the San Bernardino Valley Water ConservationDistrict.

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San Bernardino Animal Shelter Manager Oscar Perez has been placedon paid administrative leave as the city investigates shelter operations,city officials said Monday, Sept. 10.

Specifics concerning what kind of shelter operations were under reviewwere not provided due to the ongoing investigation.

Police Lt. Frank Macomber has been serving as interim animal controlmanager in Perez’s absence, officials said.

Perez, who did not return a message seeking comment, was hired asshelter manager in February 2015 and is said to have been a key figurein the shelter’s turnaround. In the years preceding Perez’s hiring, SanBernardino received waves of complaints about the treatment of itsanimals.

Under Perez’s watch, collaboration between shelter staff and area

recently placed on paid administrative leave, according to the Police Department, which runsthe shelter. (Photo by Rachel Luna/The Sun, SCNG)

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rescuers improved, as the new manager worked with volunteers andanimal rescue groups to get cats and dogs out of the shelter to safety. InPerez’s first year, adoption rates increased and euthanasia ratesdropped.

In June, rescuers said the shelter, which is run by the Police Department,had a live-save rate of about 90 percent.

City officials thissummer voted to keep theChandler Place shelter openfor a year while volunteers,rescuers and animaladvocates pursue privatefunds for needed repairs.Police Capt. David Green,who oversees shelteroperations, has called thecurrent condition of the 50-year-old buildingunacceptable.

Necessary upgrades includekennel design, climate control,ventilation and drainingsystems, and quarantine and animal care facilities.

According to volunteers, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians was todecide late last month whether to assist the shelter financially. The tribe’sdecision has not yet been revealed.

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In the interim, a volunteer group has been formed to tend to shelteranimals when only one or two kennel staffers are on-duty. ActressKatherine Heigl, a noted animal advocate, even tweeted out a plea forvolunteers to assist the short-staffed shelter.

Two new city employees – an animal shelter attendant and an animalcontrol officer – started Monday, officials said. San Bernardino isrecruiting for three additional shelter positions: attendant, seniorcustomer service representative/dispatcher and part-time licensechecker.

The San Bernardino Animal Shelter is at 333 Chandler Place.

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Brian WhiteheadBrian Whitehead covers San Bernardino for The Sun. Bred in Grand Terrace, he graduated fromRiverside Notre Dame High and Cal State Fullerton. For seven years, he covered high school andcollege sports for The Orange County Register. Before landing at The Sun, he was the city beat

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A firefighter on scene during the Oasis of Mara fire March 26. (Steve Raines/Courtesy NationalPark Service)

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A 26-year-old arson parolee was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles tofive years behind bars and ordered to pay $21,000 in restitution forsetting fire to historic trees and brush in the Oasis of Mara area ofJoshua Tree National Park, which straddles the Colorado Desert and theMojave Desert and offers sweeping views, including of the CoachellaValley and the high peaks of San Jacinto and San Gorgonio.

George William Graham of Twentynine Palms started the March 26 fireby igniting a palm frond with a cigarette lighter, according to the U.S.Attorney’s Office. Graham was observed watching the blaze andadmitted to law enforcement officers that he started the fire, whichconsumed a number of historic trees and other National Park Servicelands and natural resources.

U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real sentenced Graham to the maximumterm on the federal charge of unlawfully setting timber afire.

National Park Service Law Enforcement Rangers arrested Graham at thescene of the fire. He was known both to the San Bernardino CountySheriff’s Department and the National Park Service as a California arsonparolee, with prior law-enforcement contacts with both state and federalauthorities, according to court records.

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Angela Viramontes, Graham’s federal public defender, told the judge inJune that her client has “significant” mental issues.

The fire, near the park’s Oasis Visitor’s Center, charred numerous trees,but no structures were damaged.

Called the “cornerstone” of the national park, the Oasis of Mara was firstsettled centuries ago by the Serrano people who named it Mara,meaning “the place of little springs and much grass.” According tolegend, the Serrano planted 29 palms, one for each boy that was born inthe oasis during the first year of their residence.

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In a decision that could play a role in a closely watched Orange County case, afederal court ruled this week that it is unconstitutional to prosecute homelesspeople for sleeping on public property when they don’t have access to shelter.

Though the ruling concerned a case in Boise, Idaho — where homeless people hadchallenged local ordinances prohibiting them from staying on public propertyovernight — it also affects California and other Western states.

As a result, it could come into play in a federal lawsuit filed in January againstOrange County and the cities of Costa Mesa, Anaheim and Orange on behalf ofhomeless people cleared from a former encampment along the Santa Ana River.

That action seeks to prevent the cities from citing or arresting those who violatemunicipal rules that prohibit camping in public areas.

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that “as long as there is nooption of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homelesspeople for sleeping outdoors on public property on the false premise they had a

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choice in the matter.”

“The 8th Amendment prohibits the imposition of criminal penalties for sitting,sleeping or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannotobtain shelter,” Judge Marsha Berzon wrote for the court.

Brooke Weitzman — an attorney with the Santa Ana-based Elder Law andDisability Rights Center who is representing the plaintiffs in the Orange Countycase — said the 9th Circuit ruling should send a message, the Los Angeles Timesreported.

“You cannot criminalize the homeless for eating, sleeping or sitting outside simplybecause they have no other shelter,” she told The Times.

Costa Mesa spokesman Tony Dodero said Wednesday that “city officials are awareof the ruling and [are] determining its effect on the anti-camping ordinances.”

Bob Solomon, a clinical professor of law at UC Irvine, called the 9th Circuit decision“an incredibly dramatic opinion” that “extends to the homeless population thenotion that there is an obligation to provide an alternative to camping, and if thereis no alternative — and I’m going to assume that’s a reasonable alternative — thatyou cannot be punished for doing that.”

U.S. District Judge David Carter, who is overseeing the Orange County case, hasconsistently pushed county officials to find ways to house the homeless and hasthreatened an order preventing cities from enforcing their anti-camping ordinancesor citing the homeless for sleeping or setting up in public.

This week’s ruling, Solomon said, would seemingly give Carter additionalammunition for such action.

“I think that this is going to say to Judge Carter, ‘I have a tool that I have hintedthat I’m willing to use, and the 9th Circuit has just made sure it’s in my toolbox,’ ”Solomon said.

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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday,Sept. 4, to adopt an ordinance to control the cost of rent at mobilehome parks. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles DailyNews/SCNG)

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Rent hikes greater than 3 percent will be bannedtemporarily at mobile home parks inunincorporated Los Angeles County starting inearly October, the Los Angeles County Board ofSupervisors decided.

The county board voted 3-1 on Tuesday, Sept. 4,to approve on a second reading a six-monthmoratorium on rent hikes for mobile home spaces,a move designed to protect those residents frompreemptive rent hikes while permanent rent controlfor such housing is under consideration. Themeasure becomes effective in 30 days.

The new ordinance affects an estimated 8,500mobile home tenants, who typically own theirhome but lease the space on which it sits.

The measure will apply only to mobile hometenants with leases of 12 months or less. Parkowners could petition for bigger rent hikes if theybelieve a 3 percent cap prevents them fromearning a reasonable return.

If the board opts to make such limits permanent,L.A. County will join about 100 local Californiajurisdictions with rent control for mobile homes,including the city of Los Angeles about 30 othercities in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and SanBernardino counties, according to the GoldenState Manufactured-home Owners League.

L.A. County adopted rent control for mobile homesin 1988, but allowed the ordinance to expire inJanuary 1995.

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Voting for the ordinance were board chair SheilaKuehl and supervisors Janice Hahn and HildaSolis. Kathryn Barger voted against it, and MarkRidley-Thomas abstained. Ridley-Thomas saidafter the earlier vote on Aug. 14 that he wants towait until a citizen’s panel provides itsrecommendations to the board after studying rentcontrol and other possible tenant protections.

A mobile home industry representative spoke inopposition to the ordinance, saying most parkowners are mom and pop family businesses thatwill be hurt by rent-hike limits.

“Park owners are compassionate, and when theyraise rents, they do so in a reasonable fashion,”said Jarryd Gonzales, the central and SouthernCalifornia representative of the WesternManufactured Housing Communities Association.“And if residents fall on hard times, park ownerswork with them until they get back on their feet.”

The supervisors also are considering a separatemeasure to impose temporary rent control forapartments in unincorporated areas.

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By JEFF COLLINS | JeffCollins@scng.com | Orange County RegisterPUBLISHED: September 10, 2018 at 10:07 am | UPDATED: September 10, 2018 at10:13 am

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plans to vote Tuesday,Sept. 11, on whether to impose a temporary rent cap on olderapartments in unincorporated areas, limiting increases to 3 percent ayear for six months.

The ordinance, first proposed in July, is seen as a stop-gap measure tofreeze current rents at September levels while the county considersrecommendations from a citizen’s working group reviewing permanentrent control.

Board Chairwoman Sheila Kuehl, a rent-control supporter, saidimmediate action is needed to protect tenants – particularly the elderlyand poor – from the rising specter of homelessness.

Kuehl noted in a Sept. 7 phone interview that the 2018 homeless countshowed more people than ever have lost their homes because of

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economic issues, with many saying their rent was too high.

That, said Kuehl, “was stunning to me.”

The homeless count also showed there was a 22 percent increase in thenumber of homeless people over age 62. That coincided with a recentUCLA report showing 80 percent of older adults said they’re rentburdened, with 58 percent reporting they’re severely rent burdened.

Next Tuesday’s vote comes one week after supervisors adopted anordinance capping rent hikes for mobile home spaces at 3 percent for sixmonths, affecting an estimated 8,500 mobile home households inunincorporated L.A. County.

The temporary rent caps for both apartments and mobile homes can beextended for an additional six months if necessary.

A Tenant Protections Working Group has recommended the countyadopt rent control and “just cause eviction” rules, which limit whenlandlords can order tenants to move out of their rentals.

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Long-term action on rent control could take six months to a year.

“Meanwhile, every day, somebody’s becoming homeless,” Kuehl said.

Kuehl vehemently disputed assertions by landlord groups and academicsthat rent control — while helpful to those tenants who get it — is harmfulto renters as a whole because it depresses the number of rentals. Shecalled such reasoning “mythology,” citing forthcoming research by ateam of University of Southern California professors disputing claims thatrent control is harmful. The report is expected to conclude that rentregulations are one of several tools dealing with rent increases.

The county’s proposed rent cap comes as Californians are poised to voteNov. 6 on a ballot measure expanding rent control.

Proposition 10 would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Act, which currentlylimits rent control to apartments built before February 1995. The law alsoallows landlords to raise rents as much as they want for a vacantapartment.

If the ballot measure passes, local jurisdictions with rent control will havethe option of expanding it to houses, condos, new apartments as well asto vacant units.

L.A. County data show there are nearly 51,600 apartments inunincorporated parts of the county, but it’s unclear how many of thoseunits qualify for rent control under the Costa-Hawkins Act.

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By KEVIN SMITH | kvsmith@scng.com | San Gabriel Valley TribunePUBLISHED: September 10, 2018 at 2:51 pm | UPDATED: September 10, 2018 at 7:22pm

In the face of scores of lawsuits alleging Southern California Edison‘simproper operation of aging equipment may have caused orcontributed to the devastating Thomas fire, the utility has created a $582million Grid Safety and Resiliency Program that’s designed to protectcustomers and communities from the growing risk of wildfires.

The Rosemead-based company proposed the measures Monday in afiling with the California Public Utilities Commission. It’s aligned withwildfire mitigation plans required by Senate Bill 901, a wildfire bill passedby the legislature last month that’s awaiting the governor’s signature.

The legislation would allow the state’s investor-owned utilities to issuecost-recovery bonds that would be repaid by charges on customers’electric bills, with approval of the PUC. SCE says the grid safety programwould boost an average ratepayer’s monthly electric bill by about $1.20.Lower income-qualified customers would see an increase of about 81

The Thomas fire burns through Los Padres National Forest near Ojai on Friday, Dec. 8, 2017.(AP file photo/Noah Berger)

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cents per month.

Bill Chiu, SCE’s director of grid resiliency and public safety, stressed thatthe program was not created as a direct result of the 2017 Thomas fire— a blaze that charred 282,000 acres in Ventura and Santa Barbaracounties and destroyed more than 1,000 structures.

“This is very much an independent effort,” Chiu said. “We were lookingfor ways to address the ‘new normal’ in light of climate change and theelevated risk of wildfires,” he said. “We used to speak of the fire season… but this is no longer the case. It’s now a year-round threat.”

The plan moving forward

Under the proposal, SCE would replace nearly 600 miles of overheadpower lines in high fire risk areas with insulated wire by the end of 2020.Insulated wiring would greatly reduce the potential for fires resulting fromcontact with metallic balloons, tree limbs, palm fronds and other objects.

This shows some of the devastation after last year’s Thomas fire raged through homes inthe foothills of Ventura. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)

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SCE also is installing 15,700 current-limiting fuses designed to interruptcurrent more quickly, lessening the chance of a fire being started by anover-heated fuse. They also would boost reliability by segmenting circuitsin order to isolate problems, SCE said, thereby reducing the number ofcustomers affected by outages.

The utility plans to install 98 additional remote-controlled automaticreclosers (RARs). They’re used during red flag conditions to stopaffected circuits from automatically re-energizing so SCE crews caninspect the lines before they are re-activated. Edison already has 930RARs in operation.

Edison additionally plans to install up to 160 high-definition cameras thatwould help pinpoint blazes and allow fire crews to respond more quicklyto emerging and spreading wildfires.

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Other planned upgrades include:

A holistic approach

The program, Chiu said, is designed to address all of the elements that,when combined start a fire.

“Fundamentally, we are looking at this from a science perspective,” hesaid. “For a fire to start you need a heat source, some type of fuel, whichin this case is vegetation, and a catalyst, which is wind gusts. We want toaddress all three of those elements to bolster our situational awareness.”

Many of the lawsuits allege SCE’s facilities ignited the 2017 Thomas fireand later contributed to the January mudslides in Montecito in which 21people died, 100 homes were destroyed and two people went missing.

Damage to structures and watershed

The Carpenteria-Summerland Fire Protection District, which takes in

Installation of up to 850 weather stations that could be used to forecastweather conditions within a third of a mileAn emergency outage notification system that would send utility userscustomized messages before, during and after a power shutoffPortable trailers where customers could charge their mobile phones,laptops and other personal electronic devices so they could remain incontact with friends and family and receive updated informationregarding local outages and fire conditionsSCE would inspect all trees within 200 feet of its electric facilities andremove or prune trees that could strike the equipmentSCE would pursue regulatory approval to use drones beyond thecurrent line-of-sight limitation so damaged power lines could besurveyed more quickly and restored to power fasterExpanded infrared inspections of overhead distribution lines to helpidentify equipment at risk of failure

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some 40 square miles along the coast, is one of several entities thathave joined with others to file a lawsuit against SCE.

Officials with SCE have declined to comment on the lawsuits as they stillin litigation.

The official cause of the Thomas fire has yet to be determined, Fire ChiefRay Navarro said, but the agency lost 14 structures in the blaze and it’slooking to recoup whatever damages it can.

“We also suffered damage to the watershed area above us,” he said.“We had a drone fly up there to measure the debris depth, and some ofthat debris is the size of boulders. They tell me we could have at leastthree more years of debris flows.”

Southern California Edison serves a population of about 15 millionpeople via 5 million customer accounts in a 50,000-square-mile servicearea within Central, Coastal and Southern California.

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