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OPINION ‘Developers gone wild’ in Colonies corruption case? Letters

AP Photo/David Goldman ‘Developers gone wild’ in Colonies corruption case? Letters https://www.sbsun.com/2018/03/25/developers-gone-wild-in-colonies-corruption-case-letters/ 1/4 3/26/2018 ‘Developers gone wild’ in Colonies corruption case? Letters – San Bernardino Sun

By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | | March 25, 2018 at 6:05 pm

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The op-ed “Prosecutors gone wild” (Opinion, March 22) claims the prosecution of the Colonies corruption case was motivated by San Bernardino District Attorney Mike Ramos’ political ambitions.

Strange, I thought the prosecution was motivated by the fact that a drug-addicted chairman of the Board of Supervisors went against the objections of both county and private attorneys to give over $100 million of the taxpayers’ money to a private developer, who then rewarded the county ofcials who supported the giveaway with $100,000 each.

It’s ironic that if Ramos had chosen not to prosecute the case, his opponents would probably be using a “Developers gone wild” op-ed against him.

— Ben Parker, Redlands

A disarmament agenda

The Democrats are pushing gun control to stop school shootings, starting with the AR-15. The AR-15 is no different than a Mini-14 but no one is talking about banning them.

If the globalists can talk the American people into banning any gun it will open the door to banning them all. Pistols are concealable, shotguns shoot hundreds of projectiles down range in seconds and nobody “needs” a rie that can shoot 500 yards. Get the picture?

Let’s say that the Democrats have a magic wand making all of the AR-15’s disappear overnight. Then, school shooters switch to a Mini-14. If they ban that, school shooters switch to pistols. So they ban that until every rearm is banned, but the school shootings continue. It’s not the gun, but it does fulll the globalist disarmament agenda.

The globalists cannot proceed to a socialist paradise until everyone, including the American people, are disarmed. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

— Michael A. Pacer, Pomona

Making demands get you nowhere in government

Is there a way to lead Americans of any age to realize that they cannot obtain desired results in government by demand?

Moving the nation requires people to work toward their desired goals by setting goals, joining various organizations, attending meetings, presenting logical arguments and convincing others of the value of your position.

Speaking from experience, I know this is hard and sometimes tedious work. Nothing is gained by loud and disruptive demonstrations which lead to confrontations. That type of behavior may get the proverbial 30 seconds of fame on the nightly news but does not convince intelligent people to fall in step.

— Richard Rorex, Apple Valley

Too so on drug dealers

Re “Is Trump right to ‘get tough’ on opioids?” (Question of the Week, March 20):

Drug trafcking is unacceptable. Being too so on drug trafckers is another reason the number of trafckers is increasing. They are indeed smart since they barely get caught.

In order to solve the problem, we need to think smarter. The government is doing the right thing proposing the death penalty for high- volume trafckers. Also, besides trafcking drugs, they also kill people and get away with it.

It’s sad that people die from overdosing on drugs and leave family members behind, but they are the ones who make the decision to do drugs, choosing their destiny and path and have to live with the consequences.

— Kenya Flores, Montclair

Thanks, RSO

A few days ago, my husband and I stopped at a local restaurant in West Riverside. We reached the front door just as a group of Riverside sheriff’s deputies were about to enter. We tried to let them in rst but they asked us to go ahead. When my husband was ready to pay, one of the deputies stepped up and paid for our order. https://www.sbsun.com/2018/03/25/developers-gone-wild-in-colonies-corruption-case-letters/ 2/4 Political ad accuses San Bernardino County DA of being a ‘sexual predator’ – San Bernardino Sun

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LOCAL NEWS Political ad accuses San Bernardino County DA of being a ‘sexual predator’

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San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael A. Ramos

By JOE NELSON | [email protected] | San Bernardino  Sun PUBLISHED: March 26, 2018 at 2:49 pm | UPDATED: March 26, 2018 at 5:08 pm

Former Colonies corruption case defendants are accusing San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos of being a sexual predator in a full-page political https://www.sbsun.com/2018/03/26/political-ad-accuses-san-bernardino-county-da-of-being-a-sexual-predator/[3/27/2018 7:37:29 AM] Political ad accuses San Bernardino County DA of being a ‘sexual predator’ – San Bernardino Sun

ad running in at least six local weekly newspapers.

The ad pictures Ramos in a photo spread with several male celebrities recently accused of sexual misconduct, including former Miramax studio head Harvey Get the latest news delivered daily! Weinstein, actor Kevin Spacey, politician Al Franken, SUBSCRIBE and Today Show host Matt Lauer.

The ad reads, “For years RAMOS has engaged in a Follow Us series of illicit affairs with female staff within his own agency.” Below his photo, the caption reads, “San    Bernardino County’s existing Sexual Predator, District Attorney Mike Ramos.” SPONSORED CONTENT Ramos did not respond to repeated requests for comment Friday and Monday about the ad, which repeats allegations from nearly a decade ago. His campaign manager, David Ellis, said in an email that Ramos was not going to dignify the ad with a response.

“This is another lame attempt by a couple of disgruntled rich guys trying to elect a criminal defense attorney to carry their water,” Ellis said. “Mike Ramos’ record protecting women is one of the best in California. His Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit has convicted 75 pimps who are serving 689 years in prison, including 5 life sentences.”

The ad appeared Thursday, March 22 in the San Bernardino City News, Colton City News, Grand Terrace City News, Loma Linda City News and Redlands City News. The weekly publications are part of the Grand Terrace-based City News Group. How This Luxury Vehicle Subscription Service Is Changing the Game

City News Group Publisher Margie Miller said Friday By BOOK By Cadillac that it’s a paid ad, noting that Ramos is welcome to place ads in her publications as well.

“I do believe in our First Amendment rights, and this MOST POPULAR stuff happens in the political season,” Miller said. … “I had a paid ad, and I’m not judging either way.” 1 In-N-Out Burger seeks restraining order over YouTube prank She said the ad will run again in Thursday’s editions of San Bernardino police investigate shooting Sunday that left a person wounded the same publications. 2

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Anderson, who left the District Attorney’s Office in 2014 12 Authorities look for Mercedes Benz SUV driver who fled from deputy in Rancho Cucamonga to be a criminal defense attorney, said he was aware of allegations by several employees of sexual impropriety against Ramos when he worked for the office. He declined to comment further Friday, saying his focus was “on the future of the D.A.’s Office.”

The ad was purchased by the political action committee Business Leaders for Fair and Ethical Government, formed in February by vindicated Colonies defendants Jim Erwin and Mark Kirk to support “good government candidates,” including Anderson.

The allegations date back nearly 10 years, when the Colonies criminal case was still in its infancy. Erwin, a former county assessor, sheriff’s deputy and law enforcement labor union president, helped spread the allegations then.

On Friday, he said he stands by the ad and would welcome a lawsuit by Ramos challenging the allegations.

“If they file litigation against me or the PAC, we will file a countersuit for malicious prosecution against us,” Erwin said in a telephone interview Friday. “We will depose him and more than a dozen women that we’re aware of, and we will make those depositions public.”

In September, prosecutors dropped their case against Erwin after his jury declared it was “hopelessly deadlocked” following a marathon 8-month trial in San Bernardino Superior Court. A separate jury acquitted Kirk, developer Jeff Burum, and former county Supervisor Paul Biane in August.

The jurors felt prosecutors from the District Attorney’s and state Attorney General’s offices failed to prove that bribery drove a historic $102 million settlement https://www.sbsun.com/2018/03/26/political-ad-accuses-san-bernardino-county-da-of-being-a-sexual-predator/[3/27/2018 7:37:29 AM] Political ad accuses San Bernardino County DA of being a ‘sexual predator’ – San Bernardino Sun between the county and Burum’s Rancho Cucamonga investor group, Colonies Partners in November 2006. The former defendants fought the allegations since their indictment in May 2011, and even longer for Erwin, who was first publicly accused in the case in February 2010.

The Colonies settlement ended a longstanding legal battle between the county and Colonies Partners over flood control improvements at Colonies’ 434-acre residential and commercial development in Upland, Colonies at San Antonio and Colonies Crossroads, respectively.

Colonies Partners and the former defendants have taken legal action against the county and state, alleging malicious prosecution and seeking tens of millions of dollars.

“As a victim of Mike Ramos, I have a moral duty to stand up for his other victims. Evil must be opposed by those who can do so, and what he did to me, and does to others, is nothing short of evil,” Burum said in a statement Friday.

Only one former DA’s employee has ever come forward publicly with allegations of sexual misconduct against Ramos, and that was in 2009.

Former investigative technician Cheryl Ristow alleged she had an affair with Ramos from September 2003 to February 2005. She said she was retaliated against and punished after the allegations were made public in a local weekly newspaper, the San Bernardino County Sentinel, which also published the Ramos attack ad.

After a 6-month human resources investigation by an outside law firm, the county released a 183-page report in January 2010 that vindicated Ramos and painted Ristow as an unreliable problem employee with a penchant for gambling and a taste for alcohol. Investigators noted in their report that Ristow repeatedly told them the alleged affair was welcome and that she had “intensely positive, romantic feelings toward Ramos.”

County spokesman David Wert said Friday that no claims have been filed with the county accusing Ramos of sexual harassment or misconduct in the years since.

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AP Photo/Richard Vogel San Bernardino is being sued by a cannabis company over its recently-passed ordinance Follow Us addressing commercial cannabis businesses. Bubba Likes Tortillas, the company, claims the ordinance violates Prop. 64 and other California laws.

https://www.sbsun.com/...abis-entrepreneur-sues-san-bernardino-over-new-pot-license-ordinance/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter[3/27/2018 7:49:45 AM] Major cannabis entrepreneur sues San Bernardino over new pot-license ordinance – San Bernardino Sun   

By BRIAN WHITEHEAD | [email protected] | San Bernardino Sun  PUBLISHED: March 26, 2018 at 5:37 pm | UPDATED: March 26, 2018 at 5:41 pm

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The cannabis company owned by a Pacific Palisades woman whose Save The Food marijuana growing operation was uprooted by San Bernardino police late last year is suing the city to overturn a new ordinance addressing By Save The Food commercial cannabis businesses.

The suit – filed Friday by Bubba Likes Tortillas, which owns a lot of property used for cannabis businesses – says the ordinance violates Prop.MOST POPULAR 64 and other California laws. The San Bernardino City Council

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The ordinance – one of three passed earlier this month – says the city Sandals Church to open new 11 locations in Banning, Riverside can award only 17 cannabis business licenses in this first year; with 19 San Bernardino on Easter different cannabis license types available under California law, certain 64 dead in Russia shopping m businesses can hold a monopoly on the marketplace, the suit says. 12 fire: Alarms were silent, emerg exits blocked State law grants cities the authority to limit cannabis businesses as they choose.

Additionally, Smith claims, the ordinance disqualifies any cannabis- related enterprise previously labeled as non-compliant with city law from holding a commercial license. And a renewal could be denied if a business owner is found to have operated in violation of city or state law.

Cities such as Los Angeles and Oakland are going the opposite direction and giving priority in licensing to business owners who’ve had cannabis- related convictions in the past. Such social equity programs have been created to help undo some of the historic harms from the war on drugs.

San Bernardino’s requirements violate due process, the suit says. They do “not require a conviction, administrative hearing, or any other process other than that the City of San Bernardino has determined that the actions occurred.”

“This misguided ordinance is a backdoor ban that continues the City’s illogical campaign against a legal product,” Smith said in a statement.

Smith made headlines late last year when San Bernardino police seized

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nearly 25,000 marijuana plants at three Bubba Likes Tortillas locations as part of an intensive investigation. One of the locations was less than a block from the rear of the police station.

Smith’s home also was raided. She was not arrested, though eight men at the sites were arrested on suspicion of cultivating marijuana. Less than a week later, nearly 4.5 tons of marijuana was seized at another warehouse owned by Smith.

Smith did not have a permit to grow in the city, authorities said.

San Bernardino’s marijuana laws have been murky for a while.

Voters in 2016 passed Measure O, a ballot measure requiring the city allow marijuana dispensaries in certain areas. Three permits were awarded, including one to the Flesh Showgirls strip club on Hospitality Lane. Measure O’s validity later was challenged in court, putting those permits in limbo.

Smith’s operations were uprooted Dec. 13 and 19. On Dec. 20, city leaders passed a temporary moratorium on certain marijuana activities not covered by Measure O. Nine days later, a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Measure O invalid for spot zoning – that is, singling out parcels of land for uses benefiting their owners at the expense of others in the surrounding area.

Under Measure O’s zoning restrictions, Judge David Cohn wrote, only two locations in city – one being the Flesh Club, which is not associated with Bubba Likes Tortillas – would be allowed to sell marijuana.

Captain Jack’s, a dispensary at the Flesh Club address, opened to the public in January with a city and a state license.

On Feb. 1, the City Council extended the temporary moratorium up to 10 months and 15 days. At the end of the month, Cohn declared Measure O invalid in his final, written decision. An appeal was filed on behalf of the Flesh Club owner, and Saenz said the court ruled Monday that dispensaries operating with a Measure O permit and a state license can continue operating in the city until at least April 27.

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The court at that time is expected to make a determination on the city’s new commercial cannabis ordinance, Saenz said. “There’s a lot going on in the cannabis world as far as San Bernardino is concerned right now.”

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The fire lookout tower on top of 8,828-foot Tahquitz Peak in the San Bernardino National Forest near Idyllwild in October 2016. (Photo by David Downey, Staff) Follow Us    By DAVID DOWNEY | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise  PUBLISHED: March 26, 2018 at 1:21 pm | UPDATED: March 26, 2018 at 1:27 pm

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Mike McCoy calls attention to an ICE hotline as motorists drive along Katella Avenue outside Los Alamitos City Hall. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

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Just more than a week after tiny Los Alamitos voted to defy California's law protecting immigrants in the country illegally, http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-anti-sanctuary-movement-in-oc-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 7:49:04 AM] Anti-'sanctuary state' movement picks up steam in Orange County Orange County is poised to become a counterpoint against the state's resistance to the Trump administration's policies.

On Tuesday, Orange County supervisors may consider whether to take up a resolution to condemn and possibly take legal action against the state's "sanctuary" laws.

"These state laws are preempted by federal law," Orange County Supervisor Shawn Nelson said. "Our officers actually face penalties under state law if they so much as talk to federal agents for the wrong thing. That's just unacceptable and it's contrary to federal law."

Nelson said he'll broach in closed session whether to join a federal lawsuit against the state or launch its own litigation. 

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Other cities in the county, including Yorba Linda, Buena Park, Huntington Beach and Mission Viejo are also starting to take action to voice their grievances against the state's sanctuary laws aimed at protecting immigrants from President Trump's immigration crackdown.

On Monday, Texas and more than a dozen other states led by Republican http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-anti-sanctuary-movement-in-oc-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 7:49:04 AM] Anti-'sanctuary state' movement picks up steam in Orange County

governors got behind the Trump administration and filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit against California's sanctuary laws.

Nelson jumped onboard of a resolution initially brought on by Orange County Supervisor Michelle IMMIGRATION Steel that would condemn the state's In revolt of California sanctuary law, O.C. Sheriff's Department makes inmate release dates public sanctuary laws. She later added wording that would direct the MAR 26, 2018 | 7:45 PM county's public counsel to take legal action.

"We cannot allow this to happen in Orange County and we need to protect our families and our homes here in Orange County," she said. "And that means bolstering our cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and stopping our county from becoming a sanctuary for criminal illegal immigrants."

Once a conservative and Republican stronghold, Orange County has undergone stark demographic shifts. In 2016, Hillary Clinton defeated Trump in the county, which a Democrat hadn't won in a presidential election since the Great Depression.

The issue of illegal immigration and sanctuary laws has been highly divisive in Orange County. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-anti-sanctuary-movement-in-oc-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 7:49:04 AM] Anti-'sanctuary state' movement picks up steam in Orange County

Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, along with other California sheriffs, spoke out in opposition to the law, SB 54. On Monday, Hutchens made inmate release dates — including for those in the country illegally — public in response to the state law.

"We have an obligation to safeguard our community and we will use every tool available to help hold criminals accountable," said Orange County Undersheriff Don Barnes. "Our inability to relinquish these individuals to the custody of ICE causes them to be returned to the communities which they prey upon."

From Jan. 1 to March 19, the agency released 172 inmates in the country illegally into the community because state law prohibited authorities from notifying ICE, said Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Department. It's unclear if any of those people — whose convictions include domestic violence, theft, driving under the influence and criminal threats — have recidivated.

Orange County gave birth to Proposition 187, a ballot initiative approved by voters that sought to deny public services such as public schooling and healthcare to people in the country illegally; the measure was eventually struck down in the courts. And Costa Mesa passed anti-day laborer ordinances and became the epicenter of the anti-illegal immigration movement during the mid-2000s.

Since then, however, much of the county's anti-illegal immigration fervor has eased after many of its cities experienced an influx of Latino and Asian immigrants.

But the anti-sanctuary momentum gaining ground in Orange County shows that it remains a place with a very conservative core.

SB 54, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed after the Legislature passed it last year, prohibits state and local police agencies from notifying federal officials in many cases when immigrants potentially subject to deportation are about to be released from custody.

The Trump administration went to federal court to invalidate the state laws, contending they blatantly obstruct federal immigration law and thus violate the Constitution's supremacy clause, which gives federal law precedence over state measures. That case is pending.

Legal costs is one of the reasons Yorba Linda Mayor Gene Hernandez said the city has not done what Los Alamitos did.

Instead, the city voted to send a supporting amicus brief to the federal lawsuit. The city's decision was prompted by a request http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-anti-sanctuary-movement-in-oc-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 7:49:04 AM] Anti-'sanctuary state' movement picks up steam in Orange County from the national field director of Federation for American Immigration Reform, an anti-illegal immigration and immigration restrictionist group in Washington, D.C., known as FAIR.

A letter directed to Hernandez said that FAIR's legal team, the Immigration Reform Law Institute, had been working to support the federal government and that FAIR had been "searching for California Cities and Counties who are interested in filing supporting Amicus Briefs in this lawsuit."

Brian Lonergan, a spokesman for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, disputed the idea that it or FAIR had approached cities. Instead, he said, cities in the state had approached them.

State Sen. Kevin de León, who wrote SB54, warned cities going against the sanctuary state laws.

"Pushing a racist and anti-immigrant agenda devoid of facts or supporting legal analysis is a pretty sad use of taxpayer resources, especially when it could result in crippling legal costs for cities that rush to join this dead-end effort," he said in a written statement.

Times staff writer Alene Tchekmedyian and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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L.A. NOW LOCAL LA TIMES In revolt of California sanctuary law, O.C. Sheriff's Department makes inmate release dates public

By ALENE TCHEKMEDYIAN

MAR 26, 2018 | 7:45 PM

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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-orange-county-sheriff-immigration-20180326-story.html[3/27/2018 8:08:13 AM] In revolt of California sanctuary law, O.C. Sheriff's Department makes inmate release dates public

Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens authorized the release dates of jail inmates — including those in the country illegally — to be made publicly available online. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

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The Orange County Sheriff's Department on Monday made the release dates of jail inmates — including those in the country http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-orange-county-sheriff-immigration-20180326-story.html[3/27/2018 8:08:13 AM] In revolt of California sanctuary law, O.C. Sheriff's Department makes inmate release dates public illegally — publicly available online, marking the latest local revolt against California's so-called sanctuary laws.

Undersheriff Don Barnes said the action is in response to the harms done to the community under Senate Bill 54, which became law on Jan 1. and restricts local law enforcement's cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Barnes and Sheriff Sandra Hutchens vocally fought against it.

"We have an obligation to safeguard our community, and we will use every tool available to help hold criminals accountable," Barnes said Monday. "Our inability to relinquish these individuals to the custody of (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) causes them to be returned to the communities which they prey upon."

An ICE spokeswoman declined to comment on the change. 

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Several municipalities in Orange County are voicing objections to the state's sanctuary movement, which has wide support among elected officials in left-leaning California. Leaders of tiny Los Alamitos voted last week to exempt the city from SB 54.

"SB 54 makes local law enforcement's job more difficult and requires bureaucratic processes that could allow dangerous individuals to fall through the cracks of our justice system," Hutchens said in a statement. "My department, however, remains committed to cooperating fully with federal authorities in all areas where I have discretion to remove serious criminals from our community."

From Jan. 1 to March 19, the Sheriff's Department released 172 inmates in the country illegally into the community because state law prohibited them from notifying ICE, said Carrie Braun, a department spokeswoman. It's unclear if any of those people — whose convictions include domestic violence, theft, multiple DUIs and criminal threats — have gone on to commit http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-orange-county-sheriff-immigration-20180326-story.html[3/27/2018 8:08:13 AM] In revolt of California sanctuary law, O.C. Sheriff's Department makes inmate release dates public other crimes.

"ICE is going out and actively looking for them," Barnes said. "It would be easier for everyone involved and safer for the community and law enforcement if they were relinquished to the custody of ICE rather than returned to the community."

In that same time period, 168 other inmates with more serious convictions did meet the requirements and were turned over to immigration agents as the law allows.

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OP-ED LIVABLE CITY OPINION Southern California has the resources to solve homelessness. It chooses not to

By ERIK SKINDRUD

MAR 27, 2018 | 4:15 AM

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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-oe-skindrud-speak-up-for-homeless-housing-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 8:13:06 AM] Southern California has the resources to solve homelessness. It chooses not to

A homeless woman wearing a glamorous dress while being evicted with her belongings from a homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River on Nov. 10, 2017. (Los Angeles Times)

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Disdain for street people is nothing new. To Marcus Tullius Cicero, homeless Romans were "the poverty-stricken scum of the city," who ought to be "drained off to the colonies."

Following Huntington Beach's recent mobilization of the city's paid legal staff to oppose a county plan to house 100 homeless people near Huntington Central Park, similar coarse statements appeared in newspaper comment sections.

"Push them out to the middle of the stinking desert," one reader said.

"Building tent villages for bums and hoboes," another bellowed. "This is the level to which demented and deranged Liberals have sunk." http://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-oe-skindrud-speak-up-for-homeless-housing-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 8:13:06 AM] Southern California has the resources to solve homelessness. It chooses not to 

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City officials and residents in Irvine and Laguna Niguel, the other O.C. communities proposed as sites for temporary shelters in recent weeks, sounded just as despicable. They aren't alone: In Los Angeles County, where the homeless population tops 55,000, NIMBY outrage consistently greets plans for permanent supportive housing to be built on municipal land.

When one scratches deeper into the homelessness issue, these attitudes appear not just a byproduct of the problem but also a source of it. And while the sentiment dates to Cicero — and exists in Europe, Canada, South America and elsewhere — residents in Southern California seem to shout the loudest about grime, odors and plunging housing values linked to their homeless neighbors.

Brave people will need to stand up to ignorance and immorality if anything is to improve on the homelessness front.

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To United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston, who toured Los Angeles as part of a fact-finding tour on poverty last year, one thing stands out about Southern California's homelessness problem. The region, he stated multiple times, has the resources to solve the issue, but chooses not to.

Americans "don't want to put the money into it," Alston said in December. They "want to see homeless people as losers, a low form of life."

In a preliminary report, the Australian law professor notes one factor that may account for Americans' babbling fear of their unwashed neighbors, unequal distribution of wealth, income and opportunity that threatens to push even the middle class out of their homes and onto the street.

"Only a tiny percentage of the [U.S.] population is immune from the possibility that they could fall into poverty as a result of http://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-oe-skindrud-speak-up-for-homeless-housing-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 8:13:06 AM] Southern California has the resources to solve homelessness. It chooses not to bad breaks beyond their own control," Alston writes. "The American Dream is rapidly becoming the American Illusion as the U.S. now has the lowest rate of social mobility of any of the rich countries." He bases his assertions on data from the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Income Inequality Database.

Moderating knee-jerk responses to poverty and homelessness is the first step toward addressing the problem. But they're tough to budge — politicians reap benefits by spouting them, the media are complicit, and these ideas gain a foothold in our fears.

"I have been struck by the extent to which caricatured narratives about the purported innate differences between rich and poor have been sold to the electorate by some politicians and media, and have been allowed to define the debate," Alston writes.

Anyone with ties to Huntington Beach ought to be embarrassed by City Atty. Michael Gates' clumsy response to the recent county proposal for the parcel near Central Park.

"It would be inhumane for the county to relocate up to 100 individuals to create a homeless tent city on that parcel in Huntington Beach," Gates said on March 20, citing methane gas at the site. "It's right by Central Park. It's right near where kids play sports and, more importantly, that piece of property has been known as a contaminated site."

Gates' concern for homeless people laced with a warning about the danger these people purportedly pose to children ought to leave him — and us — red-faced.

Lost in the clamor that defeated the proposal is the fact that a facility for homeless young people has operated in Huntington Central Park for more than 10 years without incident. Since 2006, more than 1,200 youths have passed through Huntington Beach Youth Shelter and moved on to jobs and independence, or returned to their families.

Rather than viewing the aborted O.C. plan as a victory for Huntington Beach, Irvine and Laguna Niguel, it would be more accurate to see it as a regional failure of community. Instead of stepping up, politicians and residents regurgitate narratives in the most cowardly way imaginable.

Contrast this to the calm logic that has emanated from U.S. District Judge David O.Carter's courtroom in Orange County, as he deals with the rousting of homeless people from encampments along the Santa Ana River: We must find a way "humanely and with dignity" to relocate them.

Brave people will need to stand up to ignorance and immorality if anything is to improve on the homelessness front. I would like to be able to invite a portion of Southern California's homeless people to a facility near me that was created by citizens, volunteers and city agencies. I'm guessing others may secretly agree. Funding can come from government coffers, from charitable organizations, from earmarked new taxes of the kind L.A. residents have already voted for — but we must insist rather than resist.

Homelessness cannot be an issue defined by loudmouthed residents, politicians and ignoramuses. If good people stay quiet, nothing will change.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-oe-skindrud-speak-up-for-homeless-housing-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 8:13:06 AM] Southern California has the resources to solve homelessness. It chooses not to Erik Skindrud is a writer and editor who grew up in Huntington Beach and now lives in Long Beach.

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By DAVID MONTERO

MAR 27, 2018 | 3:00 AM | LAS VEGAS

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The Los Angeles Times and other media outlets have gone to court in an effort to get Las Vegas police to release the hundreds of hours of 911 calls and body camera footage recorded during the Oct. 1 http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooting-files-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 8:09:56 AM] Nearly 750 hours of video and 2,000 calls to 911 in Vegas shooting. Almost all of it remains unseen and unheard shooting rampage.

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The footage looks unremarkable — a balding man sitting slouched at a video poker machine. The same man walking in a hallway with luggage on a carrier. Riding in an elevator. Eating alone.

Unremarkable except that the figure in the video was Stephen Paddock, the man who ultimately settled in on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and opened fire down below at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on the night of Oct. 1, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds of others.

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Released by MGM International Resorts, it was just one more glimpse into the largest mass shooting in modern American history. But hundreds of hours of 911 calls and body-camera footage from police during the rampage remain unreleased.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has fought the release of those items in court for months — much as they fought the unsealing of search warrants related to Paddock after the shooting. State and federal judges ultimately ruled against the department and ordered hundreds of pages of search warrants be unsealed.  http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooting-files-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 8:09:56 AM] Nearly 750 hours of video and 2,000 calls to 911 in Vegas shooting. Almost all of it remains unseen and unheard

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock in the Mandalay Bay hotel, followed by a bellhop. (Associated Press)

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Last week, as MGM released its security camera footage and still images of Paddock, lawyers for Las Vegas police were arguing in court against the request of media outlets — including the Los Angeles Times — for police body-camera footage http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooting-files-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 8:09:56 AM] Nearly 750 hours of video and 2,000 calls to 911 in Vegas shooting. Almost all of it remains unseen and unheard and 911 recordings made the night of the shooting.

The tug of war has resulted in police asking for — and being granted — a new judge to hear the case after another judge ordered the release of the requested items. In the meantime, the material — except for some edited video that was released days after the shooting — remains off-limits to the media.

Jackie Nichols, a lawyer for the police department, wrote in her brief last week that District Court Judge Richard Scotti's March 2 ruling was "clearly erroneous because the government's interest in non-disclosure significantly outweighs any interest the public has in access."

The department, when ordered to comply with the public records requests, also cited a heavy toll on manpower and said reproducing the records would be a burdensome endeavor. According to the department, there is almost 750 hours of body- camera footage that would require review and the redaction of some items, a process that could take as long as six months to complete.

There were also 2,000 calls related to the shooting, police said, and the department has only three analysts qualified to oversee redactions on 911 calls. The department also argued in briefs that the material is "extremely graphic and it is against LVMPD policy to assign a single person to review."

Police department lawyers estimate there are also 1,500 documents related to the shooting. According to the brief, the department said "these documents will likely contain personal information that will require redaction. Like much of the other information requested, this will require employees to review and redact personal, identifiable information, requiring significant use of personnel."

Police said the cost could approach $500,000 to provide copies of all the material — a figure Scotti dismissed as unreasonable.

Barry Smith, executive director of the Nevada Press Assn., said it was hard to see how police could argue there wasn't compelling interest in the largest mass shooting in modern American history. Further, he said, there isn't an active investigation by Las Vegas police, given that Paddock killed himself in the hotel room.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooting-files-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 8:09:56 AM] Nearly 750 hours of video and 2,000 calls to 911 in Vegas shooting. Almost all of it remains unseen and unheard

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock in the casino at Mandalay Bay. (Associated Press)

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"That is really the only excuse for withholding any information or delaying its release — an active investigation," Smith said. "Even then, you should make some argument beyond that why the release of the information will hurt you and that isn't a http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooting-files-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 8:09:56 AM] Nearly 750 hours of video and 2,000 calls to 911 in Vegas shooting. Almost all of it remains unseen and unheard line of thinking we get to see. In this case, there appears to be zero reason for withholding any public information."

Justin Shiroff, one of the attorneys arguing for the release of court records and representing media clients — including the Los Angeles Times — argued Friday at a hearing before District Court Judge Stefaney Miley that there are items within police records that aren't controversial, could be easily turned over and that releasing that material should start immediately.

MGM Resorts, in a statement, said it decided to release its security camera footage last week "in the interest of providing greater context around Stephen Paddock's actions in the days leading up to October 1."

"As the security footage demonstrates, Stephen Paddock gave no indication of what he planned to do and his interactions with staff and overall behavior were all normal," MGM spokeswoman Debra DeShong wrote. "MGM and Mandalay Bay could not reasonably foresee that a longtime guest with no known history of threats or violence and behaving in a manner that appeared outwardly normal would carry out such an inexplicably evil, violent and deadly act."

Craig Eiland, an attorney representing several victims in the shooting, said the video footage provided valuable information — that there weren't enough security measures in place.

"There was no attempt to smuggle his assault weapons, because it wasn't necessary. He was open and obvious," Eiland said in an email. "He knew that Mandalay Bay wasn't looking, therefore, they wouldn't find his 21 assault rifles or ammunition. No security system, no detection, no training. There are red flags throughout the video."

With the volume of mass shootings in recent years, it's been a mixed bag in terms of how long it takes for police departments to release 911 calls of video footage.

After the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., police were sued for the release of 911 calls, and it took a court order to make them public about five months after 49 people were killed in 2016.

In Newtown, Conn., 911 calls were made public almost a year after the 2012 massacre that left 26 people dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

In both cases, neither shooter survived — though Noor Salman, the wife of Omar Mateen, is currently standing trial on charges she aided her husband in the Pulse attack.

In Aurora, Colo., where James E. Holmes killed 12 people at a movie theater in 2012, the 911 calls were public in just more than a week. Holmes survived and stood trial.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooting-files-20180327-story.html[3/27/2018 8:09:56 AM] Nearly 750 hours of video and 2,000 calls to 911 in Vegas shooting. Almost all of it remains unseen and unheard Last month, when 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., 911 calls and surveillance video were released about three weeks later, though an attorney representing the media said he was not convinced all the surveillance video had been released. The Parkland shooter was taken into custody and is awaiting trial.

Interest in the information was high, and arguments for not releasing it came down to whether the material would present a danger to law enforcement by exposing tactics and techniques or assist in providing tools for how to improve responses to such tragedies.

The next court hearing for the release of 911 calls and body-camera footage in Las Vegas is set for late April — six months after the shooting.

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