Year: 2014
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Civic San Diego to Draft Community Benefits Policy for City Heights
Reese Jarrett talks with Myrtle Cole on a vacant lot at Euclid and Hilltop Drive July 25, 2014 | Photo Credit: Nic McVicker, KPBS By Megan Burks A City Council committee that seemed bent on adding government oversight to San Diego’s former redevelopment agency has made an about-face. The Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee…
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Civic San Diego Will Remain Its Own Boss — for Now
A City Council committee that seemed bent on adding government oversight to San Diego’s former redevelopment agency has made an about-face. The Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee voted Wednesday to give Civic San Diego the benefit of the doubt – at least until March. At issue is a lack of recourse for residents in…
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The Ominous Cloud Hanging Over the Class of 2016
Lincoln High School Principal John Ross talks with a student. | Photo By Jamie Scott Lytle By Mario Koran San Diego Unified has a huge problem on its hands. Data just released by the district shows troubling news about the class of 2016, the first class being held to new stricter graduation requirements. Among the…
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Measure on November Ballot Would Reduce Some Felonies to Misdemeanors
By Patty Lane, Maureen Cavanaugh and Peggy Pico Click here to listen to a full KPBS Midday Edition interview on Proposition 47 featuring former San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne, who co-authored the measure, and San Diego County Chief Deputy District Attorney David Greenberg. The effort to roll back decades of tough on crime legislation…
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Immigration Holds Plummet in First Year of Trust Act
By Jill Replogle California law enforcement officials have granted far fewer requests to hold detained immigrants for federal immigration authorities since the state’s Trust Act went into effect this year. The Trust Act limits the ability of local law enforcement to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests to hold immigrants longer than their scheduled…