September 27, 2018
Orange County
OC Register: List of improperly recorded attorney-client phone calls from Orange County jail continues to grow
The Orange County jail’s telephone vendor improperly recorded another 617 confidential phone conversations between inmates and defense attorney Joel Garson over the past three years, bringing to nearly 1,700 calls improperly recorded by a Sheriff’s Department contractor since January 2015.
OC Register: 405 Freeway to close overnight in Fountain Valley on next two Saturdays
All lanes of the 405 Freeway in both directions will close between Magnolia and Brookhurst streets from 11 p.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Sunday this weekend and again Oct. 6-7.
Daily Pilot: UC Irvine devotes new $67-million complex to 'active learning'
Responding to its burgeoning student population and the effects of new technology on education, UC Irvine on Tuesday opened the Anteater Learning Pavilion, a building devoted entirely to “active learning.”
OC Register: Obituary: Jack Wallin, the force behind Garden Grove’s Strawberry Festival, was 88
As the city’s first superintendent of parks, Wallin co-founded the Strawberry Festival. Celebrating its 60th anniversary this past May, Wallin rode in the parade as grand marshal.
Labor
Labor 411: Trillion dollar company led by CEO worth $100+ billion gives workers 25 cent raise
‘It wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough at all,’ workers said. ‘The HR manager in the room was like, “Aren’t you excited? Come on, clap!” We started a slow clap, with no emotions on our faces. A 3 percent raise in four years — it feels like damage control.
Daily Breeze: UC’s largest employee union to vote on potential strike
Service workers include security guards, groundskeepers, cooks, custodians and truck drivers, among others. Patient care workers include such jobs as nursing aides, respiratory therapists, radiology technologists and patient transporters.
California
OC Register: Protecting ourselves, and our data, in an age of rampant social media growth
Last month California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill creating the Office of Elections Cybersecurity that would attempt to secure elections and counteract false information online that may suppress voter participation. The budget for the office will be about $2 million a year.
Publication Date: September 27, 2018
