Year: 2015
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San Diego Police Chief to Present Progress on Federal Audit Recommendations
By Megan Burks San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman is scheduled this week to update the city on progress she’s made since federal auditors found gaps in supervision and accountability for police officers. In a report to the city’s Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee, Zimmerman said she has implemented, or is in the process…
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Students Ask San Diego Unified For More Structure in Discipline Program
By Matt Bowler The success of a discipline program at Crawford High School has students asking the San Diego Unified School District to expand the program. The program, Restorative Justice, helps students figure out why they misbehave. The idea is to treat the offending act like a symptom. Crawford High School Academy of Law student…
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Court Rules Dumanis Must Extend Prop. 47 to Juveniles
By Megan Burks The 4th District Court of Appeal Thursday ruled a state law that reduces sentences and charges for some crimes applies to youth and adults alike. The ruling stems from a San Diego case in which District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis held that Proposition 47 did not apply to juveniles. That meant minors could…
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City Improves Language Access for Renters Seeking Help With Problem Landlords
Abraham Rojas points to a non-functioning wall heater in his apartment in December 2014. Rojas and his wife sought help for this and other problems from a tenants rights attorney, in part because a language barrier kept them from getting adequate service from city inspectors. | Photo Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego…
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Renters Facing Unsafe Conditions Get a Boost from the City
In response to a Voice of San Diego and KPBS investigation into substandard housing, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer said earlier this year he’d form a special enforcement team to help tenants. The program got under way this month as the new fiscal year began, and its first order of business was improving access for non-English…