MONDAY Pet of the Week Letter to the Editor Meet Bebe. No on 19. 10.05.20 Page 6 Page 3 Volume 19 Issue 172 @smdailypress @smdailypress Santa Monica Daily Press smdp.com De Buena Planta pops up on Abbot Kinney Courtesy image VOTING LOCATIONS: Voters for the 2020 election can vote by mail or in person this year. Mail Courtesy photo ballots will arrive in mailboxes starting this week. All registered voters will be sent a Vote By Mail ballot and RESTAURANT: The new space in Venice features a tiki bar. they can be returned via the USPS, to a designated ballot return box or in person at a vote center. Ballots postmarked by election day and received within 17 days will be counted in the election. CLARA HARTER based pop-up De Buena Planta, Voters can safely vote in-person at any Vote Center in the County. Select Vote Centers will be available begin- SMDP Staff Writer located in a colorful tropical garden ning Saturday, October 24. All Vote Centers will be available beginning Friday, October 30. Vote Centers will that is unrecognizable as a former be open every day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. during the early voting period. On Election Day Vote Centers will be There’s a new tiki bar on Abbot parking lot. open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Kinney serving fresh and creative The gluten and meat free menu vegetarian Mexican fare alongside features a range of tacos, aperitivos LOCAL VOTE CENTERS OPENING 10/24 Pearl St, Santa Monica, 90405. Auditorium. a range of funky margaritas and like vegan ceviche and elote National Typewriter Company, Auditorium. Palisades Recreation Center, 851 cocktails. From the creators of 1666 Euclid St, Santa Monica, 90404. John Muir Elementary School2526 Alma Real Dr, Pacific Palisades, Butcher’s Daughter, comes plant- SEE OPENING PAGE 3 1st Floor Gathering Room. 6th St, Santa Monica, 90405. Multi- 90272. Small Gymnasium. Santa Monica Community Purpose Room. Brockton Avenue Elementary College, 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Will Rogers Learning Community, School, 1309 Armacost Ave, Los Monica, 90405. Corsair Gymnasium. 2401 14th St, Santa Monica, 90405. Angeles, 90025. Auditorium. What is senior year without Cafeteria. Stoner Recreation Center, 1835 LOCAL VOTE CENTERS OPENING 10/30 Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Stoner Ave, Los Angeles, 90025. Franklin Elementary School, 2400 Ave Suite 203, Santa Monica, 90405. Gymnasium. a campus? Samohi students Montana Ave, Santa Monica, 90403. Hangar. Felicia Mahood Multipurpose Cafetorium. The Rose Room, 6 Rose Ave, Center, 11338 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Roosevelt Elementary School, 801 Venice, 90291. Rose Room and Entry Angeles, 90025. Auditorium. share their experiences Montana Ave, Santa Monica, 90403. Room. Daniel Webster Middle School, Auditorium. Oakwood Recreation Center, 11330 Graham Pl, Los Angeles, 90064. CLARA HARTER senior year, this year’s class has yet to Former Fire Station 1, 1444 7th 767 California Ave, Venice, 90291. Multi-Purpose Room. SMDP Staff Writer set foot on campus. Here’s what four St, Santa Monica, 90401. Apparatus Gymnasium. Santa Monica High School students Room. Westminster Avenue Elementary VOTE BY MAIL DROP BOXES When the pandemic broke out say this transformed senior year Santa Monica High School, 601 School, 1010 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Montana Library the Class of 2020 mourned the loss of means to them. Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, 90405. Venice, 90291. Auditorium. Virginia Avenue prom and the chance to walk across “Senior year — everyone idealizes it Cafeteria. Westminster Senior Center, 1234 Main Library the graduation stage. But while they Grant Elementary School, 2368 Pacific Ave, Venice, 90291. Lobby and Marine Park experienced two-thirds of a normal SEE EXPERIENCES PAGE 11 Gary Limjap Common Sense for City Council! ELECT (310) 586-0339 In today’s real estate climate ... KRONOVET Experience counts! BrockTheVote.org [email protected] FOR RENT CONTROL BOARD www.garylimjap.com CalRE # 00927151 PHIL BROCK / SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL CITY OF SANTA MONICA News 2 MONDAY, OCTOBER 05, 2020 Visit us online at www.smdp.com REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Santa Monica invites sealed proposals for California voters to review RFP: # 275 AIRPORT NOISE CONSULTANT criminal justice, bail reforms DON THOMPSON undercut the 2016 initiative he championed to • Submission Deadline is October 19, 2020 at 4:30 PM Pacific Time. Associated Press reduce the state prison population. About 80% of those considered for earlier parole are denied Proposals must include forms furnished by the City of Santa Monica. Request for California voters will consider rolling back a release, but Brown said that just the possibility Proposals may be obtained on the City’s Online Vendor Portal. The website for this host of criminal justice changes in what amounts “encourages people to turn their life around.” to a referendum on whether the progressive state Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice Request for Proposals and related documents is: has become too lenient. California state director Tinisch Hollins said her Planet Bids (http://vendors.planetbids.com/SantaMonica/bidsearch4.cfm) or Proposition 20 would amend criminal group opposes the measure because it would ProcureNow (https://secure.procurenow.com/portal/santa-monica-ca). There is no sentencing and supervision laws enacted during disproportionately affect racial minorities. The charge for the RFP package. the last administration of Gov. Jerry Brown that nonpartisan Legislative Analyst projects it could critics say are too favorable to criminals, while boost criminal justice costs by tens of millions of Proposition 25 could overturn a 2018 law that dollars, money that she said would be wasted on eliminates cash bail. more incarceration. Voter sentiment on both measures is being Property crime briefly ticked upward after shaped by growing public desire to change a Proposition 47 and after California began holding criminal justice system that historically has less serious offenders in county jails instead of Starting from treated racial minorities inequitably. Early voting state prisons under another Brown-backed legal begins Monday for the Nov. 3 election. change in 2011, but then continued a decades- Parking | WiFi Available Organizations representing prosecutors and long downward trend. police chiefs, police unions, and several crime Meanwhile, voters had a partial taste of a 1760 Ocean Avenue | Santa Monica, CA 90401 $ victims’ groups are among those that want justice system without cash bail last spring when voters to reverse portions of two previously the state eliminated bail for misdemeanors and 310.393.6711 approved ballot measures, saying they impede lower-level felonies to protect suspects from investigations and can free serious offenders too catching the coronavirus. + Taxes soon. The change reduced jail populations by more 88 Proposition 47 lowered penalties for drug and than 20,000 suspects, which Californians for SeaviewHotel.com property crimes in 2014, while Proposition 57 Safety and Justice founder Lenore Anderson said in 2016 allowed the earlier parole of most felons. demonstrates just how many people are detained “Whether it swings the pendulum back or for low-level offenses. But police and prosecutors it sends a message the pendulum has swung soon began highlighting cases where newly freed too far, I think that the real question is: Do suspects were arrested for new crimes. people feel safe?” said Ron Lawrence, immediate If voters enact the new law, no one would past president of the California Police Chiefs pay bail and most misdemeanor suspects would Association. remain free before trial. Two district attorneys, Diana Becton of But those suspected of felonies or Contra Costa County and Jeff Rosen of Santa misdemeanor domestic violence, sex offenses Clara County, broke with their association to or driving while intoxicated would be evaluated oppose a ballot measure Rosen said would “roll for their perceived risk of committing another back the clock” to a get-tough-on-crime stance. crime or not appearing in court. Most would The initiative would reinstate the list of crimes eventually be released, unless they are accused for which a perpetrator’s DNA is collected, with of certain crimes like murder or arson, or if a supporters citing Golden State Killer Joseph judge finds there are no conditions like electronic DeAngelo’s capture as a prime example of why monitoring that could assure their appearance at a robust DNA database is important to crime- future hearings. fighting. Lawmakers also added safeguards against Organizations representing grocers and racial biases in statistical models that would retailers are among those backing a provision help court officials decide who could be safely that would allow repeated thefts of property released, Democratic state Sen. Bob Hertzberg worth $250 or more to be prosecuted as felonies, said. after business owners complained that Prop. 47’s Brown signed Hertzberg’s bill into law before misdemeanor penalty allows thieves to steal with the bail industry collected enough signatures impunity. to put it on hold until voters weigh in, and The change is aimed at organized theft rings opponents including the NAACP say the risk that recognize they face little punishment if they assessments would still be biased against racial steal up to the current $950 limit, Lawrence minorities and the poor. said: “Even if they’re caught, because it’s a Critics fear “the computer algorithm would City of Santa Monica misdemeanor they’re only going to get a citation let people out of jail who have no business WOODLAWN with a court date. They’re not going to jail being free and would hold people in jail who Cemetery because the jail’s full.” have no business being held,” said former The initiative also would add 22 crimes to the Democratic Assemblyman Mike Gatto, speaking Mausoleum list of those ineligible for earlier release under for opponents. Mortuary Prop. 57, including rape of an unconscious Researchers at the nonpartisan Public Policy person.