January 17, 2019
Orange County
OC Register: Costa Mesa to lease space for temporary homeless shelter, searches for long-term site
The search is on for a long-term site for a 50-bed homeless shelter in Costa Mesa, and the city is on a tight deadline. In the meantime, the city will help with improvement to expand a temporary shelter at a local church.
Voice of OC: Santa Ana grapples with $400,000 payout, police records destruction, during leadership vacuum
Santa Ana City Council members grappled Tuesday with a range of issues including a $400,000 payment to the ousted city manager and creating closed-door committees where council members can make policy in secret, while City Hall’s day-to-day leadership remained in limbo.
Voice of OC: Sheriff’s union seeks to block public access to misconduct records
Orange County’s Deputy Sheriff’s union today will ask Superior Court Judge Nathan Scott to block the County of Orange from releasing any police misconduct or disciplinary records under a new state law that allows information on use of force, sexual assaults or lying while on duty to be released to the public.
OC Register: Former heir apparent to DA job, Susan Kang Schroeder quits under new boss Todd Spitzer
Schroeder helped lead the office’s anti-human trafficking unit. Since its inception in 2013, the unit has obtained more than 300 prison sentences for traffickers, including eight life sentences, according to an editorial by Schroeder published by the Voice of OC
OC Register: Fullerton City Council accepting applications for a vacant council seat
The Fullerton City Council is giving itself two weeks to see if it can find a consensus on who to appoint for a vacant seat.
Labor
Labor 411: Administration orders nearly 50,000 furloughed employees back to work without pay
The efforts by the Administration to keep the government operating during the partial shutdown came as the White House and Congress made no progress toward resolving their underlying dispute.
Publication Date: January 17, 2019
