June 17, 2020 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: Santa Ana pushes discussion on police oversight to Thursday as pressure mounts to redirect police funding
As protests continue across the U.S. and locally against police violence, so have public criticisms of Santa Ana law enforcement’s hefty diet of hundreds of millions of public tax dollars every year — getting much more money from the city compared to things like youth services, parks and libraries.
Voice of OC: Costa Mesa police officers to wear body cams amid calls for police reform
The City Council voted unanimously late Tuesday night to authorize a $1 million purchase of body-worn and in-car cameras for the city’s police department from Texas-based WatchGuard Video, Inc.
Voice of OC: San Clemente interim city manager let go in wake of public controversy
The action comes after over a month of angst from the public and two members of the City Council, repeatedly criticizing Bob Dunek’s handling of issues during the COVID-19 pandemic
Voice of OC: Orange County Coronavirus mask debate heats up
Various Orange County union representatives and the OC Labor Federation tried to hold a Tuesday press conference calling on County officials to reinstate the mask order during the coronavirus pandemic, but an anti-mask crowd shot down their efforts.
OC Register: Increase in OC mosquitoes draws concern, with West Nile found in nearby counties
While West Nile virus hasn’t yet been detected in Orange County this year, the three surrounding counties – Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Diego – have found the virus in mosquito samples.
OC Register: Concerns over possible KKK ties drive renaming of Fullerton’s Plummer Auditorium
Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton will get a new name after a unanimous vote from Fullerton Joint Union High School District board members, who said they didn’t want the building to be named after someone with ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
Labor
Capital and Main: Will we put a broken economy back together differently this time?
As the pieces of our economy fall apart, you have two choices. Pick them up, reassemble them and go right back to the economy that we had — an economy that was so fragile that a virus was able to take 40 million jobs and [is projected to take] health care from 30 million people.
Nation
LA Times: Federal prosecutors are considering criminal charges against John Bolton
Federal prosecutors are weighing whether to criminally charge John Bolton with disclosing classified information in his upcoming White House memoir, and the Justice Department is expected in coming days to ramp up its legal campaign to block publication of a book that is being billed as a scathing rebuke of the President.
Publication Date: June 17, 2020
