San Bernardino County Supervisor Dawn Rowe Plans to Seek Full Term in 2020 – Daily Bulletin

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San Bernardino County Supervisor Dawn Rowe, who was appointed in December, said Tuesday, Sept. 17, that she’ll run for a full term in 2020. (File photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

By SANDRA EMERSON | [email protected] |  PUBLISHED: September 17, 2019 at 2:17 pm | UPDATED: September 17, 2019 at 2:20 pm

San Bernardino County Supervisor Dawn Rowe says she will run for a full term in March 2020.

Rowe, who was appointed to the 3rd District seat in December, made the announcement Tuesday, Sept. 17, shortly after Rep. Paul Cook, R-Yucca Valley, announced his intention to run for the 1st District supervisorial seat.

Rowe, Cook’s former field representative and a former Yucca Valley Town Councilwoman, joined the board in December to serve the rest of former Supervisor James Ramos’ term. Ramos left in November after his election to the 40th Assembly District.

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approach that hurts the bottom line for families and job Meet Dawn Rowe: San Bernardino creators,” Rowe said in an emailed statement. “The County’s new 3rd District Supervisor feedback I’ve received from the Third District residents is San Bernardino County faces court battle that they find it difficult to access county services in rural over naming Dawn Rowe 3rd District areas, and I’ve been working hard the past eight months to supervisor make sure my constituents understand they have an advocate on the Board of Supervisors.” Dawn Rowe named 3rd District supervisor in San Bernardino County

Rowe has advocated for rural communities and lowering Rep. Paul Cook announces he’ll run for 1st District San Bernardino County property taxes. She’s also a critic of the controversial parcel Supervisor tax associated with the expansion of a fire protection zone. San Bernardino County reconsiders fire tax; won’t raise it for now

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By SANDRA EMERSON | [email protected] |  PUBLISHED: September 17, 2019 at 10:35 am | UPDATED: September 17, 2019 at 10:35 am

Rep. Paul Cook, R-Yucca Valley, says he’s running for San Bernardino County supervisor.

Cook, who represents the 8th Congressional District, announced Tuesday, Sept. 17 that he would seek the 1st District supervisorial seat in 2020 after Supervisor Robert Lovingood announced his retirement in August.

“After twenty-six years in the Marine Corps, my attention turned first to local government,” Cook said in an emailed statement. “And while I’ve been called to serve in other capacities such as Congress, my focus has always been on empowering communities and making sure local residents have the strongest voice in decisions that affect them. As supervisor, I’ll work to carry out the will of my constituents, while fighting the bureaucracies in Sacramento and Washington DC that seek to overrun rural

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communities like ours.”

Cook, a retired Marine Corps colonel and Vietnam combat veteran, was elected to Congress in 2012, after representing the M

Rep. Paul Cook, R-Yucca Valley, area in the state Assembly for six years. He served on the Yucca announced Tuesday, Sept. 17, that he will run for the San Bernardino County Board of Valley Town Council from 1998 to 2006. Supervisors. (Courtesy photo) The 1st District lies RELATED LINKS within the footprint of the 8th Congressional District, which

includes most of San Bernardino County as well as Mono Rep. Paul Cook considering run for San and Inyo counties. Both include the High Desert cities of Bernardino County supervisor Victorville, Hesperia, Adelanto and Needles, as well as San Bernardino County Supervisor Robert Apply Valley. Lovingood will not seek re-election Lovingood, who was elected to the Board of Supervisors in Democrat challenging Rep. Paul Cook 2012 and re-elected in 2016, recently announced he would out-raises him by $66,000 not seek re-election in 2020. Election: Voters in CA 8th can opt for The morning of Cook’s announcement, Assemblyman Jay conservative or more conservative Obernolte, R-Big Bear Lake, rolled out a campaign website for a run in the 8th Congressional District. Cook is listed as an endorsement.

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Rep. Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) testiﬁes at a Public Lands and Environmental Regulation subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-17/republican-paul-cook-retire-congress?fbclid=IwAR0_j8LD6x69bllflO-mfKlgrAbZ2_wYCaFdsnqlCn… 1/6 9/17/2019 California Republican Rep. Paul Cook to retire from Congress - Los Angeles Times Rep. Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) will retire from Congress at the end of his term and will announce a run for a seat on the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, according to John Sobel, the congressman’s chief of staff.

California’s Republican U.S. House delegation has been greatly diminished in recent years. In the 2018 midterms, Democrats took control of half of the 14 remaining Republican seats in California, which has a total of 53 congressional districts.

Cook’s departure from the 8th Congressional District will mark the latest in a series of other House Republican retirements as the lawmakers have had to confront life in the minority. In all, more than a dozen GOP members have announced plans to leave Congress after 2020, including several in Texas.

Cook, who was mayor of Yucca Valley and served in the state Assembly before being elected to Congress in 2012, is in his fourth term. He plans to announce a run to represent the 1st District of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors. Robert Lovingood, who currently holds the seat, recently announced he won’t seek reelection.

Republicans hold a lead of four percentage points in voter registration in the district, which stretches from Mono County to San Bernardino County along the Nevada border. But despite recent Democratic interest in making inroads in the district, it’s been long known as a deeply conservative area. President Trump beat Hillary Clinton there by more than 15 percentage points, besting Mitt Romney’s 2012 margin in the district, and Cook won his last reelection fight against a fellow Republican with 60% of the vote. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-17/republican-paul-cook-retire-congress?fbclid=IwAR0_j8LD6x69bllflO-mfKlgrAbZ2_wYCaFdsnqlCn… 2/6 9/17/2019 California Republican Rep. Paul Cook to retire from Congress - Los Angeles Times Among those expected to seek Cook’s seat are Assemblyman Jay Obernolte (R-Big Bear Lake), whose district overlaps with about two-thirds of the 8th Congressional District. A statement released previously by a spokesman for Obernolte praised Cook’s record of service and added that, “Should [Cook] decide to seek a different office,” Obernolte “intends to continue Congressman Cook’s advocacy.”

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U.S. Rep. Cook to retire from Congress, announces supervisor bid By Staff and wire reports Posted Sep 17, 2019 at 10:41 AM Updated Sep 17, 2019 at 1:22 PM U.S. Rep. Paul Cook announced Tuesday he plans to retire from Congress at the end of his term and will run for a seat on the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors.

The retired Marine Corps colonel released a statement to the Daily Press Tuesday, confirming his plans to pursue the seat for the 1st District of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors instead of running for a fifth term in Congress.

“After twenty-six years in the Marine Corps, my attention turned first to local government,” the Yucca Valley Republican said in the statement. “And while I’ve been called to serve in other capacities such as Congress, my focus has always been on empowering communities and making sure local residents have the strongest voice in decisions that affect them. As supervisor, I’ll work to carry out the will of my constituents, while fighting the bureaucracies in Sacramento and Washington, D.C. that seek to overrun rural communities like ours.”

Last month, current supervisor Robert Lovingood announced he would not seek reelection. Supervisorial District 1 includes Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia, and Adelanto, as well as smaller communities such as Trona and Needles on the Arizona state border.

Cook continued, “Our region has always been at the forefront of attempts to balance economic, recreational, and ecological needs. I’ve fought for our communities at both the state and the federal level and know that by building consensus and coalitions, we can position our region as a go-to area for businesses, tourism, and most importantly, job growth. As always, I’ll keep an eye toward public safety and work closely with our sheriff, sheriff’s deputies, police, firefighters, and other law enforcement officers and first responders to https://www.vvdailypress.com/news/20190917/us-rep-cook-to-retire-from-congress-announces-supervisor-bid 1/4 9/18/2019 U.S. Rep. Cook to retire from Congress, announces supervisor bid - News - vvdailypress.com - Victorville, CA

protect our families and our property. Good communities are built upon good public safety, and I’ll never waiver on my commitment to keep out the criminal element and give our families peace of mind. I’m also committed to utilizing my transportation expertise for the county and to addressing veterans homelessness.

“Serving in Congress has been an absolute honor, and I’m proud of my numerous victories amid a tough partisan atmosphere. Our high desert needs continued strong leadership at the county level, and I pledge to fight for this area with the same dedication and conviction I’ve demonstrated my entire career.”

California’s Republican U.S. House delegation has been greatly diminished in recent years, according to a report from the Associated Press. In the 2018 midterms, Democrats took control of half of the 14 remaining Republican seats in California, which has a total of 53 congressional districts. Cook’s departure from the 8th Congressional District will mark the latest in a series of other House Republican retirements as the lawmakers have had to confront life in the minority.

In all, more than a dozen GOP members have announced plans to leave Congress after 2020, including several in Texas.Cook, who was mayor of Yucca Valley and served in the state Assembly before being elected to Congress in 2012, is in his fourth term.

Republicans hold a lead of 4 percentage points in voter registration in the district, which stretches from Mono County to San Bernardino County along the Nevada border.

But despite recent Democratic interest in making inroads in the district, it’s been long known as a deeply conservative area.

President Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton there by more than 15 percentage points, besting Mitt Romney’s 2012 margin in the district, and Cook won his last reelection fight against a fellow Republican with 60% of the vote.

Among those expected to seek Cook’s seat are Assemblyman Jay Obernolte, R- Big Bear Lake, whose district overlaps with about two-thirds of the 8th Congressional District.

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A statement released previously by a spokesman for Obernolte praised Cook’s record of service and added, “Should (Cook) decide to seek a different office,” Obernolte “intends to continue Congressman Cook’s advocacy.”

Chris Bubser, a former marketing executive in the biotechnology industry who lives in Mammoth Lakes, has already announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the Congressional seat.

Cook’s statement continues that during his time in office, he’s authored legislation and advocated for countless issues specific to the High Desert, including the following:

- An amendment to address damage to local military bases, including Fort Irwin, caused by recent earthquakes.

- Authored successful legislation to create the first national system of Off- Highway Vehicle Recreation areas and designate or expand six off-highway vehicle areas locally, including Johnson Valley, Spangler Hills, El Mirage, Rasor, Dumont Dunes, and Stoddard Valley.

- Authored successful legislation to protect critical wilderness areas permanently, while allowing economic development and recreational use in areas unsuitable for conservation.

- Fought to allow sale of surplus military equipment to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office to ensure they have the equipment necessary to fight heavily armed drug cartels and terrorists.

- Cosponsored and voted for HR 4854, the Justice Served Act, which provides additional resources to state and local prosecutors to address the backlog of violent crime cases involving suspects identified through DNA evidence.

- Jump started creation of an Urban Warfare Training Center at Fort Irwin, with the goal of developing a new training space to allow troops to prepare for the most modern forms of urban warfare overseas.

- Supported reform legislation for the federal Department of Veterans Affairs to speed up response times and provide improved service to our nation’s veterans.

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- Authored successful HIRE Vets Act to promote hiring of veterans and recognize businesses that do so.

- Cosponsored legislation to allow for the clearing of dead trees and other fuels that contribute to devastating wildfires.

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Firefighters pay tribute to fallen U.S. Forest Service firefighter Brent Witham during his memorial service at the National Orange Show Event Center in San Bernardino, Calif. on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017. The 29-year-old Witham, of Mentone, died when struck by a M falling tree while fighting a fire in Montana on Aug. 2, 2017. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

By BRIAN ROKOS | [email protected] | The Press-Enterprise  PUBLISHED: September 17, 2019 at 4:52 pm | UPDATED: September 17, 2019 at 4:55 pm

A portion of Highway 38 near Mentone in San Bernardino County will be named in honor of U.S. Forest Service hotshot crew member Brent Witham, who died in 2017 while fighting a fire in Montana.

Witham, 29, who lived in Mentone, was part of the Vista Grande Hotshots, who are based in the San Jacinto Mountains near Idyllwild. The elite crew was working on the Lolo Peak fire when on Aug. 2 a tree that Witham had been cutting down fell on him.

Hotshot crews hike or are airlifted into remote areas and use hand tools to cut fire breaks and put out fires.

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“Our nation’s firefighters put themselves in some of the Inland firefighter fleeing falling tree made most dangerous situations to keep all of us safe. Placing doomed run for safety his name along the highway will help ensure his ‘I admired everything about him,’ sister courageous and selfless legacy lives on,” Morrell wrote in a says of fallen Mentone firefighter news release.

The United States Forest Service Firefighter Brent Michael Witham Memorial Highway will span Highway 38 between Mill Creek Bridge and Mountain Home Creek Bridge.

Signage and installation are not publicly funded. Donations to the Brent Witham Memorial Fund will pay the cost, said Chris Odneal, a spokesman for Morrell. The cost is approximately $1,500. Caltrans will now design the signs. No date has been set for the installation.

Witham, a graduate of Redlands East Valley High, was RELATED ARTICLES praised at an August 2017 memorial service at the National

Containment of Bautista fire near Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino. He was Mountain Center grows to 90% said to be a focused man who was a friend to strangers, continued his family’s legacy in public service but who was Horseshoe fire that threatened San never above mugging for the camera with his red hair and Jacinto homes is now fully contained beard. As wildfires worsen, U.S. Forest Service seeks 1,500 temporary workers in California

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Gas prices are rising in the wake of attacks on Saudi oil facilities. (Rick Bowmer, AP) S By CITY NEWS SERVICE |  PUBLISHED: September 18, 2019 at 8:30 am | UPDATED: September 18, 2019 at 8:30 am M

By SAN BERNARDINO — The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Bernardino County rose 5.1 cents on Wednesday to $3.690 because of higher crude oil prices stemming from the weekend drone attacks on two major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia.

The average price is 6.5 cents more than one week ago, 13 cents higher than one month ago and 9.2 cents greater than one year ago, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service.

The price of crude oil accounts for two-thirds to three-quarters of the price of a gallon of gasoline, said Tupper Hull, vice president, strategic communications, of the Western States Petroleum Association, a trade association representing major oil companies in five Western states.

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M Families stroll down State Street past a no parking sign during Redlands’ Market Night on Thursday, June 14, 2018. The city recently pushed vendor setup time back to 5:30 p.m. to help customers of downtown businesses. (Jennifer Iyer, Redlands Daily Facts/SCNG) By

By JENNIFER IYER | [email protected] | Redlands Daily Facts  PUBLISHED: September 17, 2019 at 4:09 pm | UPDATED: September 17, 2019 at 5:22 pm M

An August email sent by Redlands staff saying vendors at the weekly Market Night may not promote specific political candidates has caused confusion and outrage, but it is not current policy, according to the city.

Redlands spokesman Carl Baker said the Aug. 14 email “was sent out prematurely by staff before policy changes could be vetted by the City Attorney and presented to council for approval.”

The city has been working on new rules and procedures at Market Night, but they are not specific to political activity, Baker said. https://www.sbsun.com/2019/09/17/letter-restricting-political-speech-at-redlands-market-night-was-premature-city-says/[9/18/2019 9:03:24 AM] Letter restricting political speech at Redlands Market Night was premature, city says – San Bernardino Sun

The Redlands Tea Party Patriots, a group that regularly hosts a booth at the market, sent a letter to the City Council saying the restrictions described in the August email are “unfair and unconstitutional.”

Citing complaints from customers and vendors, the email from “Redlands Market Night Staff” said “participants who purchase a booth may not sell merchandise or conduct in the promotion of a specific local, state or national political candidate.”

Political vendors, the email continued, “may only register voters and/or provide information regarding the ideas and principals of the political party they are representing.”

This email sent by Redlands staff on Aug. 14, 2019 restricting speech of political vendors at the city’s weekly Market Night was sent prematurely and is not current policy, according to the city. (Courtesy of Redlands Tea Party Patriots)

John Berry, local Tea Party spokesman, said the email violates vendors’ First Amendment rights.

Whether Republican or Democrat, it doesn’t matter, he said. “This is about free speech rights.”

Berry said the policy to limit political speech – worded as it is in the email – would not stand up if challenged in court.

“When you study our constitutional freedoms, it’s clear the Constitution goes to great length to protect free speech,” he said.

In the letter to the City Council, Tea Party member Gregory RELATED ARTICLES Brittain wrote that content regulation is not the answer if

Educators will get another shot at writing there is trouble at Market Night, which the city hosts each state ethnic studies curriculum Thursday on State Street.

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House committee approves guidelines for instruction to leave, with a citation, and if necessary and impeachment hearings appropriate, with an arrest,” Brittain wrote. “This can be done without any viewpoint or content regulation or 7 questions heading into 10-candidate restriction on anyone’s First Amendment rights.” Democratic debate The city’s current Market Night rules have no limits on Inland assemblyman’s anti-racism language added to California Republican content of speech for political vendors, but they say Party platform “participants may not harass, follow, or intimidate downtown visitors.”

The current terms and conditions can be found on the city’s website, cityofredlands.org.

As for new rules, the city is continuing to evaluate operations at Market Night after issues with setup times and street closures surfaced a year ago.

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San Bernardino County Sheriff Scientific Investigators prepare to gather evidence following an early morning fatal stabbing on Elkridge Pl. in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. A 49-year old woman was stabbed multiple times. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

By NATHANIEL PERCY | [email protected] | Daily Breeze  PUBLISHED: September 17, 2019 at 1:40 pm | UPDATED: September 18, 2019 at 1:29 am

A 49-year-old woman stabbed to death at a home in Rancho Cucamonga was an administrator at a San Fernando Valley community college, the school confirmed https://www.sbsun.com/2019/09/17/rancho-cucamonga-stabbing-victim-was-l-a-mission-college-dean/?utm_medium=social&utm_content=tw-sbsun&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=socialflow[9/18/2019 8:35:40 AM] Rancho Cucamonga stabbing victim was L.A. Mission College dean – San Bernardino Sun Tuesday, Sept. 17.

Darlene Montes was the Dean of Academic Affairs at L.A. Mission College in Sylmar, which released a statement announcing her death Tuesday.

“Our entire campus community was saddened to learn of the untimely death of our beloved Dean of Academic Affairs, Darlene Montes,” College President Monte Perez, PhD, said. “Darlene was a beautiful soul. She was well-loved on campus, and touched the lives of countless community college students, not to mention faculty, staff, and administrators. We are going to miss her terribly.”

Montes was found stabbed at her home in the 6300 block of Elkridge Place after deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department received a call from a man claiming the victim was his daughter and that he had stabbed her, authorities said. She died of her injuries at a hospital.

Joe Edward Montes, 71, was arrested by deputies and booked into jail with no bail on suspicion of murder, jail records show.

He was arrested “based on statements and physical evidence at the scene, “ the Sheriff’s Department said.

What led to the stabbing, which occurred in an upscale neighborhood of single- and two-story homes near Day Creek Boulevard, was not immediately known.

Darlene Montes, in 2016, was recognized for her contributions to the Paralegal and Administration of Justice programs on campus through her service on their advisory boards and her support of individual projects, according to a release by the school.

She became dean in 2014, school spokesman Alejandro Guzman said. She oversaw several programs on campus, including RELATED ARTICLES Adult Basic Education, Dual Enrollment, Chicano Studies, English, Communication Studies, English as a Second Language,

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“She was a great administrator and had a reputation as a hard worker,” Dr. Perez said.

A GoFundMe page was set up by the school to help the family cover funeral costs, according to spokesman Alejandro Guzman.

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3 students arrested in thwarted school shooting plot, police say; replica AR-15 is seized

A sta member at Desert Hot Springs High School spotted a social media post threatening violence. (Los Angeles Times)

By COLLEEN SHALBY STAFF WRITER

SEP. 17, 2019 1:49 PM

Three students were arrested this week in connection with a thwarted shooting plot at a high school in Desert Hot Springs, authorities said.

The arrests occurred after a Palm Springs Unified School District staff member spotted a social media post threatening violence. School officials alerted police Sunday evening, and the teens were https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-17/3-high-school-students-arrested-in-thwarted-school-shooting-plot 1/7 9/18/2019 3 students arrested in thwarted school shooting plot, police say; replica AR-15 is seized - Los Angeles Times arrested the same night. The names of the students — two boys and a girl — are being withheld because they are minors, officials said.

Desert Hot Springs police seized two guns, including a Glock semiautomatic handgun and a .357 magnum revolver. Police also confiscated a replica AR-15 assault rifle.

“There’s no real way to tell this is a fake weapon without actually having it in your hands,” Det. Larry Gaines said during a news conference Monday. “This could have ended in a deadly confrontation.”

In a message to parents, officials said security at the school would be heightened, though there was no ongoing safety threat.

“This incident serves as a reminder to our students and staff members about the importance of reporting anything they see or hear that looks, sounds or feels suspicious,” Palm Springs Unified School District Supt. Sandra Lyon said. “As a result of the sharing of information in an efficient and expedient manner, any potential threat was averted, and student and staff safety was not compromised.”

The students who were arrested are in juvenile custody and are being held on charges of making terrorist threats.

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An inmate relaxes in his bunk at the Sheriff’s Central Men’s Jail in 2011. A civilian guard has testified that he forged logs in the Orange County jail system for several years at the order of sheriff deputies to make it appear they had conducted routine security checks when they had not. (Photo by H. LORREN AU JR., THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER/SCNG)

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A civilian guard has testified he forged official logs in the Orange County jail system for several years at the direction of sheriff’s deputies to make it appear they had conducted routine security checks when they had not.

Correctional Safety Assistant Quentin Blakely told authorities he felt bullied to falsify the logs for deputies who were supposed to check hourly on a man who died July 19, 2017, of a drug overdose in his cell at the jail’s Intake Release Center. S Blakely testified March 11 during the arbitration hearing for fired Deputy Shaun Stewart, who allegedly failed to conduct required checks on inmate Robert Freeman. Freeman, 38, was found dead in his cell 10 after the overnight shift. By

According to transcripts of the hearing obtained by the Southern California News Group, Stewart was disciplined twice previously — for failing to properly conduct a security check in the January 2016 escape of three inmates, and for texting while a nearby deputy was involved in an altercation with R inmates who had surrounded him.

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READ MORE See Lake Elsinore’s Kodi Lee perform in the finals of “One of the main duties of deputies working in jails is to ensure the health and well-being of the inmates in their custody,” said Deputy County Counsel Cynthia Inda, representing the Sheriff’s Department at the hearing. “(Stewart) was well aware of the need to follow policies in the jail.”

Missed checks not uncommon

But forging jail documents and failing to make required checks seems to be a constant

stumbling block for the Sheriff’s Department. Consider:

The October 2006 killing of John Chamberlain by inmates at the Theo Lacy jail in Orange. A grand jury investigation found that napping deputies regularly missed welfare and security checks at Theo Lacy. The 2016 escape from the Men’s Jail in Santa Ana, which left the fugitives on the street for a week. The July 3, 2017, strangling of nonviolent inmate Danny Pham by his cellmate — accused of serial killings — at the Santa Ana jail. Family photo of Danny Pham, who was serving a 180-day And, two weeks later, the death of Freeman. sentence for car theft. He was killed in his jail cell on July 3, 2017. (FAMILY PHOTO COURTESY OF TINA WU) Investigations into the incidents showed missed checks played a part in each case.

After the Chamberlain killing, and years later after the escape, the department declared it had made the necessary reforms to a broken system and the problem no longer existed. Still, problems occurred.

Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Department, said the agency takes seriously policy violations at the jail.

“Sheriff (Don) Barnes remains committed to operating the nation’s best jail system. Local jails across the state have seen an increase in inmate violence, drug overdoses and open mental health cases,” Braun said. “In the past nine months, the sheriff has worked to implement a jail reorganization that addresses the increasing complexity of the inmate population.”

‘They are doing their checks’

Tom Dominguez, president of the union representing deputies, said the vast majority of his members do their required checks, which he said is confirmed by security cameras mounted in the jails.

“They are doing their checks and they are saving dozens and dozens of lives every year,” Dominguez said. “That doesn’t get reported, that’s not something we brag about.”

Dominguez noted that, so far this year, 33 opioid overdoses were reversed in the jail with the use of naloxone and CPR, while deputies in 2018 made 7,586 referrals for medical treatment at the jails.

Dominguez added he doesn’t believe the excuse by Blakely or anyone that they were bullied into forging documents by sworn deputies.

“Being bullied to ignore policy is not an excuse,” Dominguez said. “We are all trained that if anything like that were to occur, there are specific ways to deal with it.”

‘Make the log work’

Blakely testified that he started working at Theo Lacy in 2013 and began forging the logs on behalf of deputies on an “inconsistent” basis. After he started working with Stewart in 2017, Blakely testified, the deputy indicated he should continue.

During the hearing, Blakely was asked, “Had Stewart ever suggested to you to falsify the logs?”

Blakely testified: “Multiple times when we first started working together. … He said to make the log work.”

Blakely also was asked why Stewart refused to do the required checks.

“He told me that he wasn’t very motivated because he wasn’t eligible for promotion based off an event https://www.ocregister.com/2019/09/17/civilian-orange-county-jailer-says-deputies-directed-him-to-forge-logs-on-security-checks/[9/18/2019 8:39:29 AM] Civilian Orange County jailer says deputies directed him to forge logs on security checks – Orange County Register

that occurred a couple years prior,” Blakely testified. He said Stewart often sat in the guard station “playing on the computer” or leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed.

Blakely refused to be interviewed by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office during the Freeman in-custody death investigation. Prosecutors found no criminal culpability by the Sheriff’s Department in Freeman’s death.

Continues to work at IRC

Blakely continues to work for the department at the Intake Release Center. Stewart, who joined the agency as a deputy in 2012, was terminated by the department in August 2018.

Orange County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Kimberly Edds said the office may take another look at the Freeman case.

“As with any case, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office will review any evidence that comes to light and consider it in light of our legal obligation of proving a case beyond a reasonable doubt,” Edds said.

Officials at Stewart’s hearing said there were at least two types of required checks at the jails, all to be done by deputies, at least twice every shift. Book counts require the deputy to compare a photo of the inmate to the occupant of the cell. Safety checks require a visual check of the inmate every hour. This check can be merged with the distribution of meals and medicine.

Testimony shows Stewart allegedly lied to sheriff’s investigators about doing the required checks on the night Freeman died and tried to get others to lie as well. In fact, Blakely testified Stewart sent him phone texts to that effect and then instructed him to delete them, which he did not.

After Pham’s death but before Freeman’s demise, Blakely also said he counseled Stewart about the need to do security checks as required. During the night Freeman died, Blakely said, he and another deputy did one count using photographs, although Blakely was unqualified because he was not a deputy.

Testimony in the arbitration hearing was limited to the Stewart case, and authorities purposely tried to keep from learning the full extent of the problem from Blakely. Arbitrator David B. Hart told lawyers, “At this point I don’t care to ‘out’ any deputy over there (Lacy) who may have indicated to (Blakely) you do it.”

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‘Fed up’ with homeless camps, L.A. County joins case to restore its right to clear them

The case Martin vs. City of Boise prevents cities from punishing people for sleeping on the street if there aren’t enough shelter beds. L.A. County will challenge the ruling. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

By MATT STILES STAFF WRITER

SEP. 17, 2019 4:56 PM

The Board of Supervisors has decided to throw its political weight behind an effort to overturn a court decision that has allowed homeless people to bed down overnight on sidewalks across California and the West.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-17/la-county-supervisors-homeless-boise-case-amicus-brief-supreme-court-challenge 1/8 9/18/2019 L.A. County files brief to overturn Boise case on homelessness - Los Angeles Times On Tuesday, the supervisors voted to direct lawyers for Los Angeles County to draft an amicus brief, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a challenge to Martin vs. City of Boise. The case, decided by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last September, found that arresting or otherwise punishing homeless people for sleeping on the sidewalk when there are not enough shelter beds or housing was unconstitutional.

Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who authored the county’s motion, said the ruling had “tied our hands” and made serving homeless people more difficult.

“We are grappling with a problem of unprecedented scale,” she said of the nearly 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County, many of them living outdoors. “Now, more than ever, it is critical that we have access to every tool at our disposal to combat homelessness.”

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In addition to Barger, Supervisors Janice Hahn and Mark Ridley-Thomas supported the motion. Supervisors Hilda Solis and Sheila Kuehl opposed it.

In July, attorneys Theodore B. Olson and Theane Evangelis, both with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a powerhouse law firm with offices in L.A., announced that they planned to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case. In doing so, they cited the “urgent crisis and the public health challenge” of burgeoning homeless encampments in nine Western states.

“I became involved with this case because I cared deeply about the county’s ability to address the growing crisis,” Evangelis told the supervisors. “This crisis has reached the most urgent proportions. This is not a political issue. It is a humanitarian crisis.” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-09-17/la-county-supervisors-homeless-boise-case-amicus-brief-supreme-court-challenge 2/8 9/18/2019 L.A. County files brief to overturn Boise case on homelessness - Los Angeles Times Tuesday’s meeting drew dozens of public speakers — most of them coming out against the county’s proposal. It was a discussion that grew heated at times. Hahn had to warn the audience, pleading for decorum. “This is not a free-for-all out there,” she said.

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Those who argued against the county’s motion said the Boise ruling, as the case is commonly known, was necessary to prevent cities and counties from criminalizing homelessness.

“Arresting or citing someone who is out of options, to me, is not compassionate, and it’s not a common-sense solution,” Solis said.

Sahar Durali, an associate director of litigation and policy at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles, said she worried that overturning the federal court ruling would make it easier for local governments to arrest or ticket homeless residents, despite assurances from Barger and other county officials that their intention was to help.

“The idea that Martin will drain the county’s resources or prevent its progress is just not true,” Durali said. “This will give municipalities around the county free rein to throw people into containment camps, and we’ve seen how that’s going on the border.”

Several other people, including those speaking on behalf of the real estate industry, spoke in favor of the motion. Billie Greer, a South Park resident, praised the county’s effort to help homeless people with the hundreds of millions of tax dollars raised by Measure H.

“By taking the legal step before you, you will extend that leadership further for the benefit of the homeless,” she said. “I urge you to support this motion in support of the homeless and the public.”

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But he ultimately chose to support the amicus brief.

“I’m simply fed up. The status quo is untenable,” he said in a statement. “We need to call this what it is — a state of emergency – and refuse to resign ourselves to a reality where people are allowed to live in places not fit for human habitation. I refuse to accept this as our new normal.”

Times staff writer Gale Holland contributed to this report.

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Trump and California See Same Homeless Problem, but Not the Same Solutions

By Conor Dougherty

Published Sept. 17, 2019 Updated Sept. 18, 2019, 10:48 a.m. ET

SAN FRANCISCO — Open-air heroin use. Sidewalks smeared in human feces. Blocklong homeless camps and people with severe mental illnesses wading through trafﬁc in socks and hospital clothes.

You would be forgiven if you thought that those descriptions of California’s urban ills came from the mouth of the state’s biggest detractor, President Trump. After all, as the president jetted off to the Bay Area on Tuesday for a fund-raiser, he took a moment with reporters on Air Force One to fulminate against “people living in our best highways, our best streets, our best entrances to buildings.”

But no, the worst descriptions of homelessness here frequently come from San Francisco’s archliberal politicians, who found themselves this week uncomfortably in agreement with the president they loathe. Mr. Trump’s sudden ﬁxation with California’s homelessness problem is the rarest of cases where the state’s left wing actually recognizes a problem that the president feels strongly about.

Numerous protesters and politicians said they found Mr. Trump’s sudden interest in homelessness to be disingenuous and an example of the administration trying to score political points at the state’s expense instead of actually grappling with a humanitarian crisis that has become the driving political issue in state and local politics. The Department of Housing and Urban Development is, after all, putting into effect new regulations that could turn thousands of legal residents and citizens, including 55,000 children, out of public housing.

Still, the shared diagnosis of California’s housing problem left many policymakers here in the deeply uncomfortable position of conceding that the Trump administration has made some fair points.

That does not, however, mean they have any intention to cooperate with the administration on a solution, given the cauldron of mistrust and mutual distaste that exists between the president and large sections of California. For all of his talk of homelessness, Mr. Trump indicated to reporters that his sympathies rested with the taxpayers, rich immigrants and business leaders forced to wade through California’s urban detritus.

“In many cases, they came from other countries and they moved to Los Angeles or they moved to San Francisco because of the prestige of the city, and all of a sudden they have tents,” Mr. Trump exclaimed to reporters before disappearing behind the cloistered mansions of Silicon Valley. “Hundreds and hundreds of tents and people living at the entrance to their ofﬁce building. And they want to leave.”

That did not endear the president to politicians already indisposed toward his overtures.

“Donald Trump is a slumlord who has spent his presidency pushing people into homelessness by taking away health care, food assistance and affordable housing funds,” said Scott Wiener, a Democratic state senator from San Francisco. “He has no credibility on housing and homelessness.”

Few people like to acknowledge it, but there are things the Trump administration and California policymakers basically agree on. On Monday, the president’s Council of Economic Advisers released a 40-page report on homelessness that was full of grisly and true statistics, such as California being home to 12 percent of the country’s people but about half of the nation’s unsheltered homeless. The report also blamed many of California’s own policies, like its strict building and environmental regulations, for creating it. That is a fact that the state’s legislative analyst’s ofﬁce and politicians from Gov. Gavin Newsom on down routinely afﬁrm.

On Tuesday morning, Ben Carson, the housing secretary, toured a three-story building with bleached-wood exterior that looked like the boxy condominiums built for young techies but was, in fact, a new public housing development across the street from the old barracks- style projects it replaced.

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An encampment in July in San Francisco. California is home to one-twelfth of the country’s people but about half of the nation’s unsheltered homeless. Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Mr. Carson noted to reporters that the run-down public housing towers of old had given government housing a bad reputation, that people should not stigmatize public housing, that landlords should not discriminate against Section 8 voucher holders and that rampant not-in- my-backyard — or NIMBY — sentiment has impeded affordable housing and higher-density apartment construction near transit.

“We do want to create societies where policemen and ﬁremen and nurses can work and then live in the same community,” he said. “But one of the big problems, and nobody wants to talk about it, is NIMBYism. Not in my backyard. O.K. to do it over here, but don’t come anywhere near me.”

Those are roughly the same talking points that California Democrats have been using for years. Last year, Mr. Wiener introduced a bill that would essentially seize zoning control from localities and make it harder to stop higher-density projects near rail stations. California cities and the State Legislature have passed laws banning Section 8 discrimination. Mr. Newsom campaigned on a plan to build 3.5 million homes by 2025, but has acknowledged this is a far-off goal that has zero chance of happening without major regulatory reforms.

Yet as Mr. Carson spoke, protesters chanted, “Trump and Carson, it’s no lie, you’re the reason we sleep outside,” while a woman dressed as Super Girl lamented the presence of a Trump administration ofﬁcial in her city.

Some of this is pure partisanship. California has become a useful foil to Mr. Trump, and any sign of agreement with him could be seen as a political liability. The state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, has ﬁled 59 lawsuits against the Trump administration, on issues like immigration, health care and environment policy. Its Legislature has tried to counter the president on environmental regulations, climate change and labor policy, and its governor is a determined member of the “resistance.”

For its part, the administration appears to delight in confronting California. On Wednesday, the Trump administration is expected to formally revoke California’s legal authority to set tailpipe pollution rules that are stricter than federal rules, dealing a serious blow to the “green economy” that the state was trying to foster with or without Washington.

In that light, local leaders have some real and reasonable doubts about how serious the president is about trying to solve homelessness.

And Mr. Trump’s own comments on homelessness did not offer much in the way of reassurance because he seemed less focused on the homeless than their apparent victims, like California’s police ofﬁcers — “They’re actually sick; they’re going to the hospital” — and property owners: “We can’t let Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous other cities destroy themselves.”

To be sure, the main mission for Mr. Trump’s two days in Northern and Southern California was the $15 million he expected to raise at private events behind gates in enclaves like Portola Valley and Beverly Hills. The Trump Robert OʼBrien to Be National Security Adviser Trumpʼs Challenge on Iran Sean Spicer Dances With the Stars TheWhite homeless House were not holding that against him.

“He’s not my favorite,” said Alan Catoe, a homeless man asking drivers for money at an intersection on the edge of Palo Alto, a 20-minute drive from the luncheon for the president at the mansion of Scott McNealy, a Silicon Valley titan. “But I don’t mind that he’s here. There’s a lot of rich people who want to give him money.”

As the president’s limousine sped toward Tuesday’s fund-raiser near Stanford, several hundred protesters chanted, “Shame! Shame!”

“When during his whole presidency has he brought up ways to solve homelessness?” asked Toni Norton, a retired sale executive on hand for the protest. “He’s just coming here for the money.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/us/politics/trump-california-homeless.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage 2/3 9/18/2019 Trump and California See Same Homeless Problem, but Not the Same Solutions - The New York Times Correction: Sept. 18, 2019 An earlier version of this article misstated the proportion of people in the United States who live in California. The state is home to 12 percent of the country’s population, not one-twelfth, which is a little more than 8 percent.

Lola Fadulu contributed reporting from Washington, and Thomas Fuller from Palo Alto, Calif.

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 17, 2019, Section A, Page 18 of the New York edition with the headline: Seeing a Homeless Problem, but Disagreeing on Solutions

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