In recent months, group of local volunteers began visiting immigration detainees held in Orange County jails. Some of their and others’ discoveries have been alarming.
Category: Orange
Orange, home to Chapman University and Old Towne, has about 141,000 residents. We cover the City Council’s votes, its budget, development and traffic.
Posted inCountywide, Education, Health & Wellness, Orange, Top Stories
Parents Angry About Outcome of Student Abuse Probe
Prosecutors declined to file charges against a teacher for allegedly abusing special education students at Taft Elementary School in Orange.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Norberto Santana Jr., Orange, Top Stories
A Politico’s Quest to Change Campaign Finance Law
In recent years, taxpayer-funded lobbyists promoted state legislation that would have enabled Orange County Water District Director Denis Bilodeau to collect unlimited contributions from agency vendors.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Orange
On the Front Lines of Orange County’s Health Care Crisis
The Lestonnac Free Clinic in Orange hosted a walk-in day last week to highlight the hugely increasing need for free health services.
Posted inOrange, Top Stories
The Challenges of Treating Autism
Dr. Joseph Donnelly, who heads the county’s leading autism center, discusses the disorder’s many conundrums.
Posted inGovernment, Orange
Does Orange County Want to Dig Another Hole for Itself?
Supervisors are contemplating whether to order digging up a flood control basin in Orange that the county filled in more than a dozen years ago.
Posted inCountywide, Education, Investigative, Orange, Top Stories
Special Education Teacher Allegedly Abused Students
Parents in Orange claim a teacher threw rubber balls at the face of an autistic child, along with other acts of verbal and physical abuse. Parents also question the diligence of investigations by the district and police.
Posted inOrange
Police Hoping for Tape of Noose Perpetrators
A camera across the street might have captured video of those
who draped a hangman’s noose on the Orange County Labor Federation
building.
Posted inOrange
Opponents of Orange Development Submit Signatures for Referendum
Effort seeks to force a citywide vote on the Orange Park Acres
project.
Posted inDana Point, Government, La Habra, Orange, Transportation
Smaller Cities Fight for Fair Shake in Redistricting
Some of the proposals being considered by the California
Citizens’ Redistricting Committee lump smaller cities in with big
cities.
