August 27, 2020

Orange County

Voice of OC: Barfield: Fair-weather Fullerton city manager throws essential workers under the bus

City Manager Ken Domer has taken advantage of his authority to impose his own crash program and is pushing cuts that harm workers and the community. Instead of collaborating with his dedicated workers, Mr. Domer’s default solution is mandatory pay cuts or layoffs, leaving employees with an impossible choice.

 

Daily Pilot: Unintentional discharge of deputy’s gun hits employee in arm at John Wayne Airport

The Orange County district attorney’s office will investigate the shooting, while the Orange County Sheriff’s Department will also conduct its own policy-focused investigation concerning the unintentional discharge.

 

OC Register: In the wake of George Floyd, a question looms: Who should be an officer?

So, if the hiring standards aim to identify bigots, why do numerous recent studies, from the National Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M, among others, show rampant racial bias in police forces around the country?

 

Voice of OC: OC Parents, teachers and students weigh in on school re-openings during pandemic

In a couple weeks, some students and teachers may be returning to their classrooms after months away now that the County is off the state’s coronavirus watchlist.

 

Voice of OC: Child immunization rates drop due to pandemic, raising concern as schools start

As the school year begins – though still mostly virtual at this point – state and local public health officials are standing firmly behind immunization requirements, concerned because many Orange County youngsters have fallen behind on their shots during the pandemic.

Labor

KTLA: Dodgers, Giants and other MLB games postponed in boycott over Jacob Blake shooting

Three Major League Baseball games were postponed Wednesday as players across the sports landscape drove the decisions in the wake of the weekend shooting by police of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Wisconsin.

 

California

KTLA: California poised to adopt biggest pollution cutting regulation in years, targeting trucks

California air quality officials are poised to adopt their biggest pollution-cutting regulations in more than a decade, targeting diesel trucks and cargo ships that spew much of the state’s cancer-causing and smog-forming emissions.

 

Nation

Associated Press: Somber protests in Kenosha after night of protests

Groups that had taken to Kenosha’s streets with long guns were nowhere to be seen early Thursday following somber protests and no widespread unrest for the first night since the weekend police shooting of Jacob Blake.

 

Publication Date: August 27, 2020