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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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Bloomington High School student Alexis Ascencio, 17, recently worked in the hospital’s
Marketing and Public Relations Department and learned how to write press releases, design
graphics and posters, and prepare spreadsheets and reports.
“Participating in the GenerationGo! program helped me realize that I wanted to go to college to
learn about marketing,” said Ascencio. “I enjoyed the work environment and learned about all
the di�erent jobs in the hospital.”
GenerationGo! students have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of careers in the
medical �eld and in the support o�ces, depending on their speci�c interest. For example,
Ascencio was originally interested in the medical imaging �eld, but after learning about hospital
marketing, she was drawn to the new career option.
For more information about GenerationGo! call 800-451-JOBS or visit
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Crestline, CA – A combined meeting of the Crest Forest & Lake Arrowhead Municipal Advisory
Councils will occur on Thursday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. at the San Moritz Lodge, located at 24641 San
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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
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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)
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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.
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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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California outmigration by moving van hits 13-year highCalifornia relocations with profession movers fell 11% overall last year
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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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The San Bernardino City Uni�ed School District Board of Education has begun looking for
Superintendent Dale Marsden’s successor, a process that will begin on Wednesday, Jan. 22,
with two community input meetings.
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The meetings are at 9:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22, in the Dr. Margaret Hill
Community Room at the Board of Education building, 777 N. F St., San Bernardino. Spanish
interpretation will be provided.
The community will be asked to share input about the desired characteristics for the next
leader of the San Bernardino City Uni�ed School District. Information shared during the
meetings will guide the Board of Education in the recruitment and selection process.
Trustees invite the public to respond to the following prompts:
• What are the greatest strengths of our District?
• What are the critical needs that face our District?
• What leadership qualities and characteristics do you wish to see in the new superintendent in
order to move the District forward?
Board President Gwendolyn Dowdy-Rodgers said the governing body will move forward
expeditiously and community input will play a signi�cant role during the selection.
“We will certainly include our community, our parents, and employee groups in this process,”
Dowdy-Rodgers said. “Like our last superintendent, the Board is looking for a leader who is
committed to children and committed to working for San Bernardino City Schools long term.”
Visit sbcusd.com/superintendentsearch for more information or to submit your input online
through a survey.
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SoCalGas grant will help conservancy plant a new oak grove
By SHERLI LEONARD For the Redlands Community NewsJan 10, 2020
At one time, oak groves shaded a good portion of Live Oak Canyon and the entire Yucaipa area,
according to a historic trails and bridle path map created by Redlands civil engineer Isaac Ford in
1941. Drought, development and pests have contributed to the almost complete loss of this once-
massive oak grove.
Hengt “Aki” Preserve has remnants of a large oak forest that once covered Live Oak Canyon and Yucaipa Valley.
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In Herngt “Aki” Preserve in Live Oak Canyon, a handful of mature oaks still survive, and Redlands
Conservancy, which manages the preserve, will soon begin a long, slow process to restore the
majestic beauty of the native oak tree habitat.
With a substantial grant from SoCalGas, the conservancy will be able to plant a new oak grove,
starting at Redlands Gateway Ranch on Live Oak Canyon Road. Titled “Oak Grove Restoration at
Redlands Gateway Ranch,” the project will purchase and plant oak seedlings in the west pasture at
the ranch and along Live Oak Canyon Road.
In addition to providing money to purchase the oak seedlings, the grant will fund all the
infrastructure required for the trees to successfully grow with support from irrigation and pest
abatement tactics.
According to Redlands Conservancy, the planning has begun for where and how to plant the grove,
which may include other native trees in addition to the oaks. Depending on the size of the tree
purchased for the planting project, the new grove could range from 25 to 100 trees.
Of�cials at SoCalGas contacted Redlands Conservancy in mid-December to start the grant process.
As expressed in a letter from Trisha Muse, director of community relations, SoCalGas believes that
supporting local organizations helps create a meaningful and important community partnership.
One requirement from SoCalGas is that the project include a planting day when SoCalGas
employees can participate. The “Oak Tree Spring Thing” is tentatively scheduled for late March and
will involve inviting any community member to join the event to plant an oak seedling, or tree,
depending on the size. Participants will receive a T-shirt and a delicious lunch at the ranch.
Crafton Hills Open Space Conservancy conducted a similar oak tree planting effort in 2017 with
funds provided by a sale of land to the Department of Public Works. Volunteers planted more than
80 trees along Oak Glen Road and south of Highway 38, working in teams to plant 15-gallon trees in
already-prepared holes with gopher baskets around each root ball. The long success rate for this
effort looks positive.
Redlands Conservancy member Kathy Havert, coordinator for the native plant restoration work at
Redlands Gateway Ranch, said that the new oak grove will help mitigate the impact of climate
change in the long run by providing habitat for native avian fauna and protection for under-story
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growth which supports native mammalian fauna.
Long-term plan
The SoCalGas grant funds a piece of the long-term plan for native plant restoration at Redlands
Gateway Ranch, a city-owned property leased and managed by Redlands Conservancy, and open to
the public for workshops and garden visits.
More information: Visit redlandsconservancy.org.
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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)
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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.
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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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near the intersection of Pipeline Avenue.
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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IEEP to honor top businesses, leaders
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.
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without special training.
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)
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“The Inland Empire will matter,” Jack Pitney, a professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College,said via email.
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“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
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primary.
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.”
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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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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
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attach to their footwear for added traction.
One of the men slipped and slid about 200 feet down an ice chute before hitting a tree. His hiking partner called for help, and Air
Rescue 306 soon arrived.
Crew Chief Deputy David Negron hoisted Fire Capt. Jay Hausman about 65 feet down to the injured hiker, and he placed the man in
a rescue harness. They took the man to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
The second hiker then realized he was in the same danger of slipping on the ice. He called again for help. The crew returned and
conducted another hoist rescue, taking the second man to a nearby sheriff’s station.
“The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department would like to remind the public about the dangers of hiking in hazardous
conditions such as steep, rugged, mountainous terrain covered with snow and ice,” Sgt. Daniel Futscher said in a news release.
“Without crampons (a specific type of traction device for ice climbing) and an ice ax, along with the proper training to use this
equipment, this type of activity can lead to serious injury or death.”
A few hours later, a crew headed to the Ice House Canyon area of Mt. Baldy to search for a lost 26-year-old Santa Ana man.
Using night vision goggles, the crew found the man a few miles from the trailhead at 8,000 feet elevation in steep, mountainous
terrain covered in snow and ice.
As the sun set, the temperature had plummeted to near freezing, and the man had traveled two hours in the snow at night before
stopping because of pain in his feet. He was taken to a hospital for hypothermia.
Deputy Doug Brimmer, a pilot on the rescue crew, said the man told rescuers that he had hiked the trail before but, like others that
they’ve rescued, didn’t seem to have considered how winter weather would intensify the difficulty of the trek.
“When we get the snow, they love to come up and get the beautiful views, but they don’t come prepared,” Brimmer said. “This guy
was hiking by himself in light clothing and tennis shoes with no food, no water and 50% battery life on his cellphone.”
The rescues come about a month after Sreenivas “Sree” Mokkapati, a 52-year-old Irvine resident, went missing after he got
separated from his group that was attempting to hike to the Mt. Baldy summit.
A few days into the search, authorities closed the Mt. Baldy trails because rescue crews kept getting diverted to help other hikers in
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The search for Mokkapati was shut down after Timothy Staples, a 32-year-old search and rescue volunteer, was found dead in the
ice and snow after he got separated from his search partner. Mokkapati remains missing.
County authorities have continued to stress that no one should attempt to climb Mt. Baldy in the winter months without proper
equipment, including crampons, snowshoes, trekking poles and ice axes.
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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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Authorities said the Sheriff’s Department was investigating the crash.
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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.
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“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
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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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In response to likely dramatic increases in state-mandated residential planning, Newport Beach has drawn up a plan that both
resists and cooperates with the state.
City leadership has indicated an interest in appealing the methodology used by the Southern California Assn. of Governments to
tentatively require Newport to plan for 4,832 new homes over the next decade as part of a broader effort to address regional
housing needs.
A formal challenge is still on the table and is on Tuesday’s City Council agenda for discussion. But other possibilities include
pausing the ongoing overall update to Newport’s general plan — a comprehensive long-term planning guide that includes a housing
component — to focus just on the housing and closely related land-use and circulation elements, forming a housing-focused
advisory committee and calling a public vote to accommodate the state mandate.
SCAG voted in November to shift more of the 1.3 million new homes the state says Southern California needs during the next 10
years toward the coast — increasing the number of homes Newport Beach would need to make room for to 4,832 from the previous
target of roughly 2,700 set in October. SCAG represents Orange, Los Angeles and four other counties.
Though the state doesn’t directly require cities to build the homes, they must at least accommodate the need on paper through
zoning for residential development.
The state Department of Housing and Community Development is reviewing the SCAG figures. Final allocations — including any
alterations based on appeals — are expected to be adopted by October. The deadline for certification of compliant city housing plans
is October 2021.
Newport Beach and neighboring cities were taken aback by the November calculations and have called them unattainable. Laguna
Beach, which would need to set aside enough land for 390 homes by 2029, and Costa Mesa, which may need to plan for 11,734,
adopted resolutions in the past week opposing SCAG’s methods.
One path to compliance strikes against Newport’s city charter, which requires a public vote to allow developments with more than
100 new housing units. One way to avoid consequences if voters were to reject major developments would be to amend the charter
to accommodate state-driven development, according to a city staff report. Such an amendment also would require a public vote,
which could happen as soon as November.
Davis writes for Times Community News.
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City of Industry Funds MentalCity of Industry Funds MentalEvaluation Team FacilityEvaluation Team Facility
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
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1/14/2020 City of Industry Funds Mental Evaluation Team Facility | PublicCEO
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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.
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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
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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
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca is probably headed to prison after the U.S. Supreme
Court denied a last-ditch, longshot request to review his case Monday.
The high court denied Baca’s writ of certiorari, filed July 18, which would have reopened his case
for review after a panel of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that his
conviction for helping orchestrate a scheme to interfere with an FBI investigation into abuses at the
county’s jails was fair and legally sound. The justices also denied his requests for another hearing
or a new hearing in front of the entire 9th Circuit.
Baca, 77, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, was sentenced in 2017 to three years
behind bars after a jury found he oversaw the plan to interfere with the jails investigation and later
lied to prosecutors about his role in the scheme.
“The Supreme Court missed an opportunity to right the significant legal wrongs that occurred in
Sheriff Baca’s case,” his attorney, Nathan Hochman, said in a statement.
In the filing, Baca’s attorneys had asked the justices to consider two issues. The first was whether
the trial court had properly instructed the jury about the obstruction of justice counts. The
instructions had stated that the government had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Baca
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acted with an intent to obstruct the federal grand jury investigation, but did not have to prove that
he acted with a consciousness of wrongdoing.
His attorneys argued that the corruption statute does require the government to prove that Baca
had a consciousness of wrongdoing, “similar to criminal willfulness.”
Baca’s attorneys also asked the high court to review the trial court’s use of an anonymous jury, in
which the jurors’ identities were unknown even to the defendant and attorneys. The 9th Circuit had
ruled that the district court’s decision to impanel an anonymous jury was reasonable because of the
highly publicized nature of the case and Baca’s position as a former high-ranking law enforcement
officer.
Baca’s attorneys asked the justices to clarify whether the lower court should have considered
alternatives, including sequestration or limited disclosure of the jurors’ identities to attorneys.
The Supreme Court declined to consider those queries. The justices agree to hear only a fraction of
the thousands of cases presented to them each year.
The decision marks the end of the road in terms of securing Baca’s freedom, Hochman confirmed.
“The Supreme Court is the final say on direct appeal,” he said.
Baca has remained free while his appeals were pending. The Supreme Court’s decision clears the
way for U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson, who sentenced Baca, to set a date when the former
lawman must begin serving his sentence.
The 9th Circuit must first issue a mandate sending notice to Anderson, who then can schedule a
surrender date once he assumes jurisdiction of the case. That process could take several days, said
Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Central District of California.
Baca was the last in a group of Sheriff’s Department deputies and commanders to be accused of
playing a role in the 2011 scandal, which involved hiding an inmate who was an FBI informant and
threatening to arrest the agent who was leading the investigation. All 10 of the people who faced
charges in the case have either pleaded guilty or were convicted. They included Baca’s second-in-
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command, former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, who in 2016 was sentenced to five years in prison
after a jury found that he had played a leading role in the scheme.
The obstruction plan played out over six weeks in August and September 2011, after sheriff’s
officials discovered FBI agents had used a corrupt deputy to smuggle a cellphone to a jail inmate
who was working as an informant.
The audacious move was part of an investigation opened the year before into the Men’s Central
Jail, the main facility in the county’s enormous detention system. For years, the Sheriff’s
Department had been dogged by reports of a place run amok, in which deputies routinely beat
inmates without provocation and covered up the abuse, often with the knowledge of supervisors.
Other corruption, including deputies who took bribes to sneak contraband to inmates, was said to
be rampant as well.
Prosecutors argued during trial that word of the smuggled phone and the FBI investigation
angered Baca and Tanaka, who viewed it as an unwarranted incursion into their territory by an
outside agency.
With Baca’s knowledge and, at times, his involvement, Tanaka oversaw a group of deputies and
mid-level commanders who worked to derail the FBI investigation. They moved the informant
under fake names to conceal his whereabouts from his handlers, pressured deputies and the
informant not to cooperate with federal authorities and brazenly tried to intimidate the lead FBI
agent on the case by threatening her with arrest.
Baca initially tried to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors, but Anderson rejected it as too lenient
and signaled he would impose a stiffer prison sentence than what was in the plea deal. Baca and his
attorneys chose instead to withdraw his plea and take his chances at trial.
Baca nearly won an acquittal when all but one member of a jury wanted to find him not guilty.
With the lone juror unwilling to budge, Anderson declared a mistrial. For the second trial,
however, prosecutors revamped their case, and Anderson issued a string of rulings that hamstrung
the defense.
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The sentence deepened the stain already imprinted on Baca’s legacy and the reputation he enjoyed
as one of the nation’s most visible and respected reformers in law enforcement. While quirky to the
point of being enigmatic, Baca was seen as a champion of progressive ideas, including the need for
police to build strong ties to minority communities. He stepped down in 2014 with the department
engulfed in the jail scandal.
Times staff writer Joel Rubin contributed to this report.
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Det. Amber Leist was waiting on a red light Sunday afternoon when she noticed an elderly woman
fall in the crosswalk in front of her car.
The off-duty detective with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department put her car in park and
hurried to help the pedestrian safely cross at the intersection of Whitsett Avenue and Riverside
Drive.
When Leist headed back to her personal vehicle, she was struck by a vehicle traveling east on
Riverside Drive.
Leist “was an outstanding detective who would lead by example, and she definitely led by example
through her act of kindness, and we consider this an on-duty death,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva said at
a news conference.
The driver stopped and tried to help Leist. She was taken to a hospital but died from her injuries.
She was 41.
The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the incident, which is at this time considered
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Leist started her career with the Sheriff’s Department at the North County Correctional Facility in
Castaic.
She then worked at the Lancaster station before spending five years at the West Hollywood station,
where she worked patrol and as a school resource officer before she was promoted. Flags were
flown at half-staff Monday throughout West Hollywood in memory of Leist.
“She was a treasured member of our Weho family and we are in mourning,” Councilman John
Duran said on his Facebook page.
Leist is survived by her parents and two sons, ages 20 and 17. Her older son is on active duty with
the U.S. Navy.
“What she did, it was heroic for her to go out that way,” Leist’s son Daniel Laney told KTLA-TV
Channel 5. “I love her for that. She’s always had a kind heart.”
Capt. Edward Ramirez of the West Hollywood station told KTLA that Leist took a majority of the
station’s domestic violence cases because she was empathetic and thoughtful.
She was remembered as someone who would buy food for people experiencing homelessness and
stop on the freeway to help drivers in need.
“Amber was never off duty, always looking to do a good deed, and unfortunately the good Lord
decided to take her doing one of those deeds,” Ramirez said.
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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)
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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.
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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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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.
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One Year In, Gov. Gavin Newsom Shows BoldAction, But California’s Homelessness CrisisDeepens Chris Nichols
Monday, January 13, 2020 | Sacramento, CA | Permalink
During his first year as governor, Gavin Newsom took major steps to tackle California’s
increasingly-visible homelessness crisis. He approved $1 billion in his first budget to help cities
build emergency shelters and signed 13 bills last fall, many to speed up shelter construction.
This week, the Democratic governor ordered state agencies to find government property to house
people living on the streets. He also proposed a new $750 million fund to pay for rent and build
housing for homeless people, along with another nearly $700 million to address health needs for
the state’s chronically homeless.
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“On the issue of homelessness, we are investing over a billion dollars yet again to address the
issue that defines our times,” Newsom said at a press conference in Sacramento on Friday
announcing his budget (http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2020-21/#/BudgetSummary) for the upcoming
fiscal year.
Advocates have praised Newsom’s leadership, saying he’s made historic investments and steady
progress on his promise to tackle this human emergency. PolitiFact California’s review of the
governor’s first year shows bold action, but also a growing state crisis that could become a political
liability for the governor.
In the year before Newsom took office, California’s homeless population jumped 16 percent to
151,278 people, according to a report released last week by the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development. During the same period, January 2018 to January 2019, the nation’s total
increased just 3 percent.
The report also found 70 percent of California’s homeless people are unsheltered, meaning they
live on the street, in a car or abandoned building. That’s a slight uptick in the share who are
unsheltered.
A challenge that will 'take decades' to solve
Chris Martin is a legislative advocate on homelessness at the nonprofit Housing California. He said
Newsom’s budget proposals show the crisis remains a top priority.
“These kind of commitments, we’ve never seen before in state government,” Martin said. “He
came in and really made an impact right away.
He said he was particularly pleased with Newsom’s plan to pay for rental assistance for homeless
people, calling such a move both a short-term and long-term fix.
Martin said it’s not realistic that Newsom will fully solve the problem.
“It’s a challenge that’s decades in the making and will take decades to get out of,” he added.
‘People want this resolved now’
Politically-speaking, Newsom doesn’t have that much time.
“People want this resolved now,” said Mike Madrid, a Sacramento-based Republican political
consultant.
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The state’s emergency is so visible and stark, Californians will judge the governor by what they see
on the streets, not just his actions at the Capitol, he added.
“There is going to have to be less tents under freeway overpasses,” Madrid said. “There’s going to
have to be less people sleeping in sleeping bags on cardboard mattresses on the sidewalks. And if
that doesn’t happen immediately, this could blossom into a full-fledged political problem for the
governor.”
Poll shows mounting concern
Californians are growing more concerned about the issue. A Public Policy Institute of California
survey in October found 15 percent cited homelessness as the state’s biggest problem, tied with
the economy for the top problems overall. It was the first time homelessness has ever been ranked
at the top in more than two decades of PPIC surveys.
The poll was taken in mid-September, about the same time President Donald Trump ramped up his
criticism of California’s homeless crisis and its state leaders, Newsom chief among them. The
president has continued to attack Newsom over the issue through his Twitter feed.
“California and New York must do something about their TREMENDOUS Homeless problems.
They are setting records!” Trump tweeted last month. “If their Governors can’t handle the
situation, which they should be able to do very easily, they must call and ‘politely’ ask for help.
Would be so easy with competence!”
Newsom was asked about Trump’s criticism during a press conference last week and responded:
“He’s tweeting, we’re doing something. We don’t need him to identify this problem.”
We found Newsom hasn’t moved forward on every campaign pledge on homelessness. Running
for governor, he promised to appoint a cabinet-level homelessness czar ‒ a promise we rated
‘Stalled’ last fall after a lack of action. Newsom offered his latest explanation at the news
conference last week: “You want to know who the homeless czar is? I’m the homeless czar in the
state of California.”
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, who co-chairs the governor’s statewide commission on
homelessness, said Newsom has accomplished quite a bit despite the criticism he’s faced.
“He is the first governor ever, at least in my memory, who is prioritizing homelessness and mental
health,” Steinberg told CapRadio in an interview this week. “And he deserves an enormous
amount of credit for it. He’s going to need a lot of help because he can’t do it alone.”
Steinberg said he does not think that Californians expect Newsom to solve the issue.
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“But they rightfully expect that we’re going to do everything at every level of government to
consolidate resources, to create a sense of urgency and to make the problem better. And that’s
what Gov. Newsom’s proposals begin to do,” the mayor added.
Here's specifically what Newsom pledged during his campaign and what we’re tracking:
"Expand social services, healthcare (including mental health), bridge housing, and permanent
supportive housing" for homeless people.
— Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018 website
Newsom’s budget and legislative actions represent progress on this stubborn, complex problem.
We continue to rate his promise 'In the Works.'
In the Works — This indicates the promise has been proposed or is being considered.
Track Gov. Gavin Newsom's progress, or lack thereof, on his campaign promises on our Newsom-Meter page.
Source List
Gov. Gavin Newsom, budget press conference, Jan. 10, 2020
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, interview with Capital Public Radio, Jan. 9,2020
Mike Madrid, political consultant, interview, Jan. 9, 2020
Anya Lawler, housing advocate, Western Center on Law and Poverty, interview, Jan.8, 2020
Chris Martin, legislative advocate on homelessness, Housing California, interview,
Jan. 8, 2020
PolitiFact California, Gavin Newsom promised to expand homeless services. How is
he doing?, Oct. 4, 2019
Capital Public Radio, ‘A Real Emergency’: Newsom Issues Executive Order To Use
State Land, Travel Trailers, Hospitals For California Homeless Crisis, Jan. 8, 2019
PolitiFact California, A promise stalled: Eight months in, Gov. Gavin Newsom has yet
to hire a homelessness czar, Sept. 2, 2019
Public Policy Institute of California, PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Their
Government, September 2019
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Chris NicholsPolitiFact California Reporter
PolitiFact California, What has California Gov. Gavin Newsom done so far for the
homeless?, Feb. 25, 2019
PolitiFact California, Dispelling myths about California's homeless, June 28, 2018
PolitiFact California, Has California's homeless population 'skyrocketed'? And how
does it rate nationwide?, March 27, 2018
PolitiFact California, Fact-checking claims on California's unsheltered homeless
population, July 25, 2019
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1/13/2020 Homeless task force proposes punishment for cities with people remaining on the street - Los Angeles Times
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Voters could decide if California cities will be punished for notreducing homelessness
A homeless encampment in Echo Park. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
By ANITA CHABRIA, BENJAMIN ORESKES
JAN. 13, 202012:42 PM
With public and political pressure mounting to get homeless people off the streets of California, a
task force appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom is recommending that local governments face tough
new legal sanctions for failing to make progress.
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In a report released Monday, the Council of Regional Homeless Advisors is calling for an
amendment to the California Constitution that would create a legally enforceable mandate to
reduce the homeless population. The Legislature would have to craft the plan, which would then
appear as a statewide ballot measure in November.
If approved by voters, the mandate would allow the state to sue cities and counties — or even itself
— if the number of people living in street encampments doesn’t decline.
The 13-member task force, led by Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and L.A. County Supervisor
Mark Ridley-Thomas, argues that the state needs to carry a big stick to convince local jurisdictions
that they will face consequences if they don’t get people off the streets — including the possible loss
of local control.
“We’ve tried moral persuasion. We’ve tried economic incentives,” Steinberg said. “But all of it’s
optional. Why should this be optional? It shouldn’t be. It mustn’t be. Thousands of people are
dying on the streets, and people are telling us this is a priority.”
The far-reaching proposal is certain to stir controversy — both at the Capitol in Sacramento and
with local governments across the state. But Steinberg says the mandate is necessary because there
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are overlapping and convoluted systems of care that sometimes have differing goals and
approaches.
Money and responsibility for homelessness programs are split between elected officials in cities
and counties and the administrators of “continuums of care” — the local and regional agencies
created to handle funding and organize the distribution of services for homeless people.
But cooperation and coordination don’t often happen, and some local governments aren’t as
aggressive at addressing homelessness as state officials would like.
“There is too much fragmentation,” Steinberg said.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, another member of the task force, said the proposed mandate
represented a way to build trust with residents and that the government was addressing what the
report described as a “mounting catastrophe.”
A recent report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found that
homelessness increased in California by more than 16% from 2018 to 2019, leaving over 151,000
Californians without permanent housing. Nearly 71% — about 108,000 people — are living
outdoors in encampments or in vehicles, the highest percentage of any state in in the nation.
Oakland has been hit especially hard. Homelessness climbed 47% from 2017 to 2019 in the Bay
Area city, according to last year’s point-in-time headcount. As mayor, Schaaf said she would
welcome a mandate because it would ensure that surrounding communities weren’t just adding to
her city’s problems.
“I need other cities to be doing their part because Oakland does not exist on an island,” Schaaf said.
“I believe Oakland would pass that accountability test.”
Newsom has not suggested a mandate. But while presenting his proposed state budget last week,
he pushed for more accountability and cooperation.
“It’s about forcing collaboration at the regional level,” Newsom said while unveiling his own plan,
which includes more than $1.4 billion to address shelters and healthcare for homeless people, with
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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.
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Others panned the idea because they believed it would lead to a proliferation of large shelters that
would indeed get people off the streets but not necessarily into permanent housing.
Ridley-Thomas called the blowback a “knee-jerk” reaction. The “right to shelter” plan had always
been a starting point.
“Why would we want to warehouse people?” he said. “That was what was really in advocates’ craw.
They were not appreciating that we don’t have to warehouse people.”
Schaaf said she opposed the “right to shelter” plan because it focused on the short-term goal of
getting people indoors and lacked the flexibility of a mandate in allocating resources, such as for
rental assistance programs and affordable housing.
Having a mandate, she said, “really starts with accountability, and I think that is really a more
successful place to start.”
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law and an advisor to the state task force,
said the mandate, if approved, would accomplish the same thing as the “right to shelter” plan but
without a requirement that homeless people accept services.
“This is about the duty of the government to ensure that shelter is available for everyone,” he said.
“We can do something without infringing civil liberties. Providing housing and forcing people to
use it are two different steps.”
The task force’s recommendation likely will be discussed by the Legislature in the coming weeks,
but it is far from certain that it will be adopted and put on the ballot for voters to consider.
Steinberg said the Legislature would have to come up with the final details of how the mandate
would be implemented. But the task force, according to its report, has envisioned letting local
governments take up to a year to come up with their own benchmarks and then be held to those
goals in subsequent years.
If cities or counties miss their benchmarks, the state would have the ability to ask a court to
intervene, possibly redirecting money and resources. The mandate, however, would not require
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that the state monitor or take legal action. Individuals would not have the right to sue.
Joanna Swan is among protesters at a demonstration Monday in Echo Park against a possible sweep of an encampment. (AlSeib / Los Angeles Times)
Although the mandate would give the state legal authority to crack down, the task force also said
the state needed to take the lead on creating a unified crisis response. “We lack clarity regarding
which levels of government are or should be responsible for funding and implementing various
aspects of a response to the crisis of homelessness,” the task force said.
Ridley-Thomas compared what the task force had proposed to the resources that state and local
governments devoted to making sure people were able to vote.
“We spend a lot of money making sure people are protected in terms of their rights — multilingual
ballots, technology, the whole nine yards,” he said. “It is that kind of apparatus that needs to be put
in place to protect people from being homeless.”
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Steinberg compared the proposed mandate to other sweeping public policy initiatives, such as the
state law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or the federal requirement to provide free and
appropriate education to children with special needs.
“This kind of public policy coupled with the resources gives the resources a much better chance to
actually bend the curve,” he said.
Many of the other recommendations in the task force’s report include items that Newsom laid out
in his budget last week, including a greater emphasis on preventing homelessness by assisting
those on the brink of it, and a focus on mental health and substance abuse services.
Both the governor and the task force also said that Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act,
which placed a tax on millionaires, should be reexamined to streamline how those dollars could be
spent.
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Anita Chabria covers California state politics and policy for the Los Angeles Times and is based in
Sacramento. Before joining The Times, she worked for the Sacramento Bee as a member of its
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1/14/2020 Cities Should Act on Homelessness or Face Lawsuits, Newsom Task Force Says | KQED News
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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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1/14/2020 If L.A. wants Trump's money for homelessness, strings will be attached - Los Angeles Times
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If L.A. wants the Trump administration’s money for homelessness, strings will beattached
Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, right, sitting next to Andy Bales, chief executive of Union Rescue Mission, speaks with themedia after touring a “sprung” shelter for homeless people in downtown Los Angeles. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
By DAKOTA SMITH, BENJAMIN ORESKES, NOAH BIERMAN
JAN. 13, 20206:16 PM
A sweeping proposal by the Trump administration to help Los Angeles’ growing homeless population may come with strings
attached, raising questions about whether a deal can be worked out between the city and the White House.
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson told Mayor Eric Garcetti in a letter last Thursday that Trump officials are
prepared to offer Los Angeles an array of resources, including emergency healthcare services and federal land. The Times obtained
the letter through a public records request.
The offer follows recent talks between senior Trump administration officials, Garcetti and Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn
Barger that have raised advocates’ hopes that federal aid is on its way.
However, Carson also suggested in his letter that the government expects changes from L.A. in how it manages homelessness. “To
address this humanitarian crisis in the long term,” he wrote, “the city and county of Los Angeles must partner with our efforts and
make necessary policy changes.”
Those changes include “empowering and utilizing local law enforcement” and “reducing housing regulations to expedite affordable
housing construction,” Carson wrote.
Carson’s letter is somewhat vague, making it hard to know how significant the aid would be and whether any of the Trump
administration’s conditions would be deal-breakers.
Though it’s true that federal funds earmarked for Los Angeles often come with stipulations, some fear that demands to alter
policing policies to clear more encampments, for instance, could run afoul of several legal settlements and federal court rulings. It
also could anger local leaders.
If L.A. loosens rules around the construction of affordable housing, neighborhood groups or unions also are likely to push back.
It’s far from clear what specific policies the federal government wants the city and county to change, and the Department of
Housing and Urban Development declined to comment Monday. “The talks are going well and are continuing,” a spokesperson
said, speaking broadly about the relationship.
Barger spokesman Tony Bell said that his office doesn’t know what county policies the federal government wants altered. “We’ve
had discussions and talked about potential areas that need work, but not specific concrete measures,” he said.
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Garcetti’s office declined to answer specific questions about Carson’s letter. “The mayor looks forward to continuing the discussions
with federal officials in the coming weeks,” said his spokesman, Alex Comisar.
For months, Carson and others in the Trump administration have promised federal action, including threats of a crackdown on L.A.
and San Francisco. In September, federal officials visited Los Angeles to study the homelessness crisis, in which nearly 59,000
people are living in street encampments, vehicles and shelters.
Justice Department officials met with the heads of the unions that represent rank-and-file Los Angeles police officers and county
sheriff’s deputies to discuss options to deal with court rulings and legal settlements that have limited the LAPD’s ability to carry out
sweeps at encampments.
In a recent Fox News interview, Carson suggested that harsh measures might be needed, saying officials needed to “uncuff law
enforcement so that people can be removed now and placed in transitional places.”
In his letter last week to Garcetti, Carson wrote that the federal government is prepared to offer emergency healthcare services,
supplemental emergency shelters and transitional housing, federal land, assistance for law enforcement and “voucher utilization
support.”
Carson wrote that the “city and county must partner with our efforts” and focus on “reallocating funding and [prioritizing] shelter
construction on federal and local land” and “expanding local mental health resources.” He also said the county and city must
provide shelters focused on “self-sufficiency programming.”
Diane Yentel, president and chief executiveof the National Low Income Housing Coalition, said such programming typically means
that shelters require homeless people to accept services, including drug rehabilitation, as a condition for getting an emergency bed.
Such requirements could run counter to the widely accepted “housing first” model of addressing homelessness, which focuses on
getting people indoors before addressing other issues, such as addiction or mental health.
Yentel also questioned whether the federal aid would include new housing vouchers, rather than focus on using existing vouchers.
“It sounds to me like there’s no money or assistance to help with housing extremely low-income people, which is the core of the
[homelessness] problem,” she said.
In an interview last week, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas praised Barger and Garcetti for trying to work with
the Trump administration, but called it “high-risk” because of actions that the government has recently taken, such as seeking to
change fair housing standards.
“I just have a hard time understanding, based on history and current practice, how you get something done with the Trump
administration,” Ridley-Thomas said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, during his budget presentation last week, said the state isn’t waiting for a response on requests for help that
have been sent to Trump.
“He’s tweeting. We’re doing something,” the governor said. “We have a real plan, real strategies. We’re building on what works. We
don’t need him to identify this problem.”
Times Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers contributed to this report.
1/14/2020 San Diego and nearby cities could reap millions from redevelopment lawsuit - Los Angeles Times
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San Diego and nearby cities could reap millions from redevelopment lawsuit
San Diego and six other cities claim that San Diego County used an incorrect formula to determine how much funding each was to receive. (John Gastaldo / SanDiego Union-Tribune)
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SAN DIEGO — San Diego officials say they hope to get a windfall of up to $40 million sometime this year from a lawsuit that
challenges how the county divides up property tax collected by the city’s former redevelopment agency.
The Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento is expected to rule this year in the 2014 case, which could set a precedent across
California for how counties dole out money still being collected by former redevelopment agencies.
The state Legislature in 2012 dissolved redevelopment agencies, which local governments had created since the 1940s to help
generate economic activity in blighted areas.
Once a local government created a redevelopment agency, it was allowed to keep any incremental growth in property tax revenue
instead of sending that money to the state.
Even though the redevelopment agencies were dissolved, most still continue on as “successor agencies” that collect property tax
revenue to pay off debts and other obligations incurred before the 2012 dissolution.
Once those debts and obligations are covered, any money left over is divided up by counties across the state using one of two
distinct formulas.
There are two formulas because counties didn’t interpret the legislation that dissolved redevelopment agencies in the same way.
One formula is more favorable to cities, and the other is less favorable.
San Diego County chose to use the formula that is less favorable to cities, prompting the city of San Diego and six other local cities
— Chula Vista, Vista, Escondido, El Cajon, San Marcos and Poway — to file suit in 2014 challenging that decision.
They contend in the lawsuit that the county misinterpreted and misapplied the state legislation that dissolved redevelopment
agencies. Lawyers for the county say the formula the county uses is correct.
While only those seven cities filed the lawsuit, a ruling in their favor would be expected to also affect most other cities and counties
in California.
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Counties using the formula more favorable to cities would be vindicated and would be allowed to continue with that practice.
Counties using the formula less favorable to cities would have to shift to the other approach.
They also would be required to make lump-sum payouts to each affected city. Those payouts would be equal to the difference
between the amount each city has been receiving and the amount the city is entitled to under the formula that’s more favorable to
cities.
In addition, those cities would get more property tax revenue in all subsequent years because counties would be required to start
using the formula that’s more favorable to cities.
A Superior Court judge in Sacramento ruled in favor of the seven local cities in 2015, ordering San Diego County to give them large
payouts to make up for years of using the wrong formula and to use the formula favorable to cities moving forward.
Later in 2015, the county appealed the ruling to the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento.
The city of San Diego’s Independent Budget Analyst and city finance officials say the appeals court is expected to schedule oral
arguments in the case sometime this year and then make a ruling. They said it’s not clear exactly when this year the appeals court
will move forward with the case.
If the appeals court upholds the lower court ruling, the independent budget analyst estimates the city’s lump-sum payment would
be $35 million to $40 million.
But, the budget analyst notes, even a favorable ruling this year won’t guarantee the payout comes immediately. The case could be
appealed to the state Supreme Court.
In addition, the two sides could settle the case and agree to a slower method of compensating the cities than a lump-sum payout.
Cities are allowed to use excess revenue from their former redevelopment agencies as unrestricted general fund money, meaning
they have wide discretion in how they spend it.
The other six cities involved in the case would receive smaller payouts than San Diego because their redevelopment agencies
generated smaller amounts of property tax increment.
The difference between the two formulas — the one more favorable to cities and the one less favorable — centers on whether the
county can “cap” the amount of property tax received by any particular agency.
San Diego County chose to use a formula that limits what a city can receive to the maximum amount they would have received if
their redevelopment agency had not been dissolved.
In contrast, the formula more favorable to cities calculates the property tax owed to each city by first providing them money they
owe for debts and obligations and then dividing whatever is left over among cities, school districts and other local agencies entitled
to a share of the money.
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In some cases, that allows cities with significant debts and obligations to receive more property tax revenue than they would have
received if their redevelopment agency hadn’t been dissolved.
Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny ruled in 2015 that the formula used by San Diego County “unfairly reduces” the shares
received by such cities. He said the state Legislature would have clearly stated if it wanted counties to use the formula less favorable
to cities.
The seven cities that filed the lawsuit are being represented in the case by Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley, a Los Angeles firm
specializing in redevelopment revenue cases. Holly Whatley, the lead lawyer in the case, didn’t respond to phone calls this week
seeking comment.
Whatley sent a letter last month urging the appellate court to take up the case as soon as possible. She said many cities need to
know the outcome of the case for long-term budgeting purposes.
Lawyers for the county declined to comment.
Garrick writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Under current California law, families using public assistance only receive the first $50 of child support payments. Newsom’s
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The changes, if implemented, would boost the amount familieson public assistance receive in monthly child supportpayments beginning in 2022.
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After vetoing a bill to reform the state’s child support payback system, Gov. Gavin Newsom has
revived efforts to give families on public assistance a greater share of their support payments in
his proposed 2020-21 budget.
The changes, which if implemented would go into effect January 2022, would provide funding to
boost the amount families on public assistance receive in monthly child support payments and
eliminate debt on support payments that the state determines cannot be collected.
Supporters say the additional funds would provide much-needed support to low-income families
who are disproportionately affected by the existing policies.
Under California law, families receiving public benefits get only the first $50 of their monthly child
support payments even if the noncustodial parent pays hundreds more every month. The
remainder is sent to the government as reimbursement for the cost of state-provided social
services.
Newsom’s proposed budget would increase the amount of child support payments families using
public assistance receive from $50 to $100 for those with one child and to $200 for those with
two or more children.
If implemented, the change would provide an estimated $34 million to approximately 160,000
families using public assistance, according to the budget summary,
Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, initially proposed the increase in SB337, but Newsom vetoed the
bill in October, saying it would cost millions annually and should instead be considered as part of
the budget process.
“I applaud Gov. Newsom’s decision to implement my legislation from last year through his budget
proposal in order to help low-income parents and caregivers,” Skinner said in a statement.
Erica Hellerstein is a journalist with the Mercury News. This article is part of The California Divide,
a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.
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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.
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The attacker, a 21-year-old Saudi air force officer, opened fire at the base in Pensacola, killing three U.S. sailors and injuring eight
other people. The attacker shot one of the phones, but the FBI was able to fix the device, Barr said. The second phone was also
damaged but has been fixed. The shooter died during the incident at the Pensacola base, and the handsets were locked with
passwords and encrypted, so the FBI can’t access information on the devices.
“It is very important to know with whom and about what the shooter was communicating before he died,” but the devices are
“engineered to make it virtually impossible to unlock them without the password,” Barr said. “We have asked Apple for their help in
unlocking the shooter’s iPhones. So far Apple has not given us any substantive assistance.”
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Tech companies and governments have clashed for years over balancing law enforcement access and user privacy. The latest
encryption technology used on iPhones and other smartphones has increased this tension because the devices have become a lot
harder for outside experts to hack into.
“This situation perfectly illustrates why it is critical that investigators be able to get access to digital evidence once they have
obtained a court order based on probable cause,” Barr said Monday. “We call on Apple and other technology companies to help us
find a solution so that we can better protect the lives of Americans and prevent future attacks.”
Apple addressed this last week in a statement. “We have the greatest respect for law enforcement and have always worked
cooperatively to help in their investigations,” an Apple spokesman said at the time. “When the FBI requested information from us
relating to this case a month ago, we gave them all of the data in our possession and we will continue to support them with the data
we have available.”
Apple regularly responds to warrants by giving investigators access to data that is stored on its servers, such as users’ iCloud
account information. However, the company has refused in the past to help authorities unlock iPhones to get on-device data. It has
also argued that iPhone security and encryption mean the company can’t access such information even if it wanted to.
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When Barr said Apple hasn’t provided substantive assistance, he was referring specifically to help accessing the data on the phones,
Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said. “They have yet to tell us whether they have the ability to get into the phones
themselves,” she added.
A similar battle played out four years ago, when the Justice Department demanded that Apple help the FBI unlock an iPhone used
by a gunman in the 2015 San Bernardino terror attack. Apple refused then too, and federal officials — with the help of an outside
group — eventually found another way into the phone.
Apple has used privacy as a key differentiator between it and its competitors, consistently pushing the message that its hardware
and services are more secure.
At the CES gadget show in Las Vegas last week, the company’s senior director of global privacy, Jane Horvath, described the ways
Apple minimizes data collection or gathers information that is not tied to specific users. She cited digital assistant Siri pulling up
weather data for a person’s city, not the person’s exact latitude and longitude.
Horvath also said Apple puts a privacy engineer and a lawyer on each team developing new devices.
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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.
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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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