May 5, 2021 Media Brief
Orange County
Voice of OC: Santa Ana could now go its own route to remove El Centro homeless encampment
A partnership between Santa Ana officials and a Mexican cultural center to voluntarily clear a homeless encampment outside the center’s building appears to have fallen apart, and the city may forcibly clear the encampment by itself.
Voice of OC: County halts plan to destroy meeting records, considers digital archiving
Orange County officials are putting the brakes on plans to destroy public meeting records after just two years, and instead are now looking at creating a policy to preserve the records digitally in response to questions from Voice of OC.
OC Register: Controversial toxic dump cleanup to resume in Huntington Beach
Nearly two years after outraged neighbors forced cleanup efforts to stop at a long-closed Ascon toxic dump in Huntington Beach, regulators are preparing to resume work and will face those residents again at an online meeting Thursday, May 6, to explain the upgraded plan.
OC Register: County school board perpetuates false idea about mandatory vaccines for students
A month ago, as many as 200 parents came to a meeting of the Orange County Board of Education to express outrage over what they heard was a mandate to vaccinate their children in schools without their approval.
Daily Pilot: George Takei captivates virtual Huntington Beach Reads crowd
The actor, best known as Sulu on the original television series “Star Trek,” has turned into a social justice activist as he’s grown older. Now 84, he released “They Called Us Enemy,” a graphic autobiographical novel, in 2019.
California
KTLA: COVID 19 hospitalizations are lowest since pandemic started
In another dramatic sign of how rapidly California is recovering from COVID-19, the state recorded its lowest hospitalization rate since the first few weeks of the pandemic, according to data reviewed by The Times.
ABC7: LA County eligible to advance to least restrictive yellow COVID tier
Los Angeles County is now eligible to advance to the yellow COVID-19 tier in California's reopening framework, according to state data released Tuesday.
Nation
CBS: Facebook oversight board upholds Trump suspension but orders review of the process
Facebook's Oversight Board has issued a decision upholding the company's suspension of former President Donald Trump following the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Publication Date: May 5, 2021
