Despite nearly eight months of seniors lobbying the Anaheim City Council for help, councilmembers this week shelved discussion of a rent control ordinance that could help seniors living at Rancho La Paz Mobile Home Park, who face looming rent increases.
Category: Fullerton
Fullerton, home to Cal State Fullerton and a busy downtown, has about 140,000 residents. We cover the City Council’s votes, its budget, city services and downtown.
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OC Judge Orders Fullerton Blog and Resident to Stop Publishing Secret City Hall Documents
Local blog Friends for Fullerton’s Future and resident Joshua Ferguson have been ordered by an OC Superior Court judge to stop publishing confidential city documents. The move comes within a week of Ferguson suing the city for allegedly failing to produce police misconduct and other records. A full hearing on the issue is scheduled for Nov. 21.
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Fullerton City Officials Target Local Bloggers in Lawsuit, Want to Search Private Computers
Fullerton city attorneys are asking an OC Superior Court judge to keep local resident Joshua Ferguson, and the blog he writes for, from deleting confidential records and to appoint someone to look through electronics to find the records. Ferguson filed a public records lawsuit against the city last week.
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How Did a Former City Manager Get a Ride Home From Police After Drinking and Crashing Car?
Fullerton may have to produce records that could show why former City Manager Joe Felz didn’t get arrested for driving under the influence following his 2016 election night car crash after a lawsuit demanding those records, along with numerous others, was filed by local resident Joshua Ferguson.
Posted inARTS & CULTURE, Fullerton, Theater, Top Stories
Stages Ends Eight-Year Drought of ‘Silence! The Musical’ with an O.C. Premiere
PREVIEW: Created at a New York City fringe festival, the “unauthorized parody” musicalizes and pokes fun at the intense 1991 suspense thriller “Silence of the Lambs.”
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Fullerton To Study Authorizing Legal Pot Shops
Legal pot shops could come to Fullerton after the City Council decided to study the issue and revisit it in March to decide if they want to move forward on it. Meanwhile, the city is struggling to address the illegal shops operating in the city.
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Fullerton Takes First Step to Open a Homeless Shelter
Fullerton gives nonprofit homeless services provider Illumination Foundation $500,000 to help start the first homeless shelter in the city.
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Fullerton to Allow Homeless to Sleep in Cars Overnight
Homeless people living in their cars in Fullerton will be allowed to park and sleep overnight at some point, after the City Council directed City Manager Ken Domer to begin rolling out the program, starting with finding a location.
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Fullerton Police Officers to Get Raises, Added Salary Levels as City Tries to Keep Officers From Leaving
The Fullerton City Council voted 4-1 to give police officers raises in an effort to stop them from leaving the city for higher paying jobs elsewhere and will defund 10 vacant positions to pay for the raise.
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Rancho La Paz Seniors Lobby Fullerton and Anaheim For Help, Get Two Different Outcomes
Rancho La Paz seniors have been lobbying Fullerton and Anaheim city councils for nearly six months for help on raising rents. Seniors secured a rent subsidy from Fullerton. Anaheim decided to let the market runs its course.
