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The new data clearly shows the virus has hit working class communities hardest but it’s also clear that increased county outreach to affected neighborhoods is stemming the tide.
Jeff LeTourneau’s resignation came after he shared a Facebook post praising the late Communist leader as someone who “liberated an entire poor, colonized nation from 2 of the most powerful military forces in the world.”
It’s the latest incident where public statements revolving around the Vietnam War and ideas about communism have sent this area of OC into a political frenzy.
The council-approved training course is meant to check social, unconscious biases among those overseeing public services and taxpayer dollars.
New partnerships between census workers and local community leaders have formed new outreach efforts to ramp up response rates in undercounted areas.
An increasing number of protesters in OC are voicing concern over police officers’ recent conduct in cities where demonstrations against nationwide police violence have occurred.
The video has prompted an internal police department probe.
After re-activing the Black Student Union at Garden Grove High, the student founders have transferred their activism to the community.
Activists, community leaders and organizers in phone interviews the following day all struggled to recall the last time a demonstration of that scale had ever happened in Garden Grove.
Aggressive police unions, spending on law enforcement over youth programs and few citizen oversight boards — activists and leaders say OC’s debate is years in the making.