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In a letter sent last Thursday, Sheriff Don Barnes threatened to cancel the city’s contract with the department, stating their interests were no longer “mutually aligned.”
OC Fair Board Directors are expected to consider the request today at their 9 a.m. teleconference meeting.
A Voice of OC flyover captured video of beaches up and down the OC coast, to see what members of the public were doing while Coronavirus social distancing restrictions is in effect.
Parking lots at Orange County’s regional parks, like Mile Square Park, could reopen this weekend after county supervisors decided it’s time to allow more people in the parks, but beach parking lots will remain closed.
The cities of Laguna Beach, Seal Beach, San Clemente, Dana Point, and Huntington Beach were allowed to reopen after their reopening plans were approved by the state.
City council members voted unanimously to pass a resolution to partially reopen some parks and golf courses for limited use with mandatory safety requirements.
Once the Voice of OC newsroom found out crowds were converging on the streets in Huntington Beach, Director of Photography Julie Leopo went to the front lines to see what the beaches looked like.
Beaches in Newport will remain open to the public with city staff advised to increase police and lifeguard presence to enforce social distancing guidelines after the City Council voting against closing the beaches on the weekend at a special meeting Thursday.
Laguna Beach City Council members unanimously decided to reopen city beaches under a strict set of weekday morning rules, following crowds that flocked to Newport Beach and south Laguna Beach last weekend, which made national headlines during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The cancellation — expected for weeks as the 150-acre fairgrounds property had all but closed its facilities to the public and other county fairs up and down the state already cancelled theirs — was made official by the OC Fair and Events Center Board of Directors at their Monday special meeting.