June 19, 2020 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: Santa Ana officials move forward with police spending increases
Santa Ana City Council members late Thursday night approved a $9 million police spending increase for the next fiscal year along with the rest of the city budget in an initial vote, despite hundreds of public comments calling on them two days earlier to spend that money elsewhere.
Voice of OC: Fullerton extends OC’s first safe parking program into summer
Fullerton city council members have decided to continue Orange County’s only safe parking program for at least three more months to keep homeless residents from having to find new places to live during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Voice of OC: Celebrating Juneteenth in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement
Given Orange County’s traditionally strained relationship with Black residents and a long history of KKK chapters throughout the county, the BLM protests have special import here as they place a new generation of Black residents on center stage to focus on issues of police budgeting and use of force like never before.
Daily Pilot: Costa Mesa Councilman Manuel Chavez says the youth won’t accept injustices against the Black community
Manuel Chavez feels the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality has reached a boiling point, causing political leaders all over the country to finally reckon with longstanding injustices. Much is owed to the youth.
California
KTLA: Jobless rate hits 16.3% in May, slight drop from April
California’s unemployment rate in April was much higher than previously thought, state figures released Friday showed, representing a staggering job loss not seen since the Great Depression as businesses struggled under a stay-at-home order meant to slow the spread of coronavirus.
KTLA: State assembly approves measures to mail ballot to all registered voters, moves to Newsom
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday to require county officials to mail a ballot to every registered voter for the November election, cementing into law the governor’s earlier order to mail out ballots statewide in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Nation
CBS: Food scarcity is on the rise in America
The number of American families struggling to put food on the table has seen a "substantial" increase since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Reserve of St. Louis said in a new analysis of Census Bureau data.
Publication Date: June 19, 2020
