OCEA Media Brief
OCEA monitors local, state-wide and national news outlets to keep members up to date on the issues that impact working people. Media briefs are compiled and sent to members in a daily email blast. To receive OCEA media briefs, please register for an account.
February 25, 2021
Today: County quietly shuts down last walk-in homeless shelter without announcement; Moorlach’s campaign for supervisor continues as he tests positive for COVID-19, and Westminster lifts business eviction protection a month early, allows repayment.
February 24, 2021
Today: OC plans to open multiple vaccination sites for school employees; Newport Beach joins other cities in battle with the state for greater land-use control, and Irvine residents get a public airing of concerns about the air in their neighborhoods.
February 23, 2021
Today: Top OC prosecutor calls for treatment instead of jail for drug use, mental illness; Anaheim Convention Center opens today with outbreak concerns, and Los Alamitos High may offer new ethnic studies, will Yorba Linda follow?
February 22, 2021
Today: Partial herd immunity’ emerging, but some challenge the value of that status; OCEA members are on the frontlines of the public health crisis, and Social Services Agency expands Public Assistance office hours beginning today.
February 19, 2021
Today: OC could see rolled back COVID restrictions on youth and adult sports; Capistrano Unified teachers want COVID-19 safety changes, and a new permanent bridge shelter in Costa Mesa, furnished by IKEA, will open to clients in March.
February 18, 2021
Today: Supply delays to temporarily close Disneyland mass vaccination site; FBI probe into Capitol riot activity lands in O.C. again, and Lake Forest City Council bails on new regional renewable energy agency.
February 17, 2021
Today: Santa Ana College vaccination site opens Wednesday; vaccination inequities persist; OCs coronavirus metrics improve again, and Anaheim supports Assembly bill to speed Disney reopening.
February 16, 2021
Today: County to make push to vaccinate those with less access; Huntington Beach officials crackdown on homeless activity, and on Presidents Day, elected officials across OC should reflect on George Washington’s farewell.
February 11, 2021
Today: Officials say Coronavirus vaccines at Soka University supersite not affected by storage issues; could Santa Ana join the community choice energy movement, and a lawsuit challenging Prop 22 is refiled in Alameda County.
February 10, 2021
Today: What are OC’s actual Coronavirus vaccine demographics; OC won’t be vaccinating teachers, food workers for at least two weeks, and Placentia –Yorba Linda Unified School District is not video broadcasting so parents are.
