Santa Ana jail officials need to revise their policies on strip searches of women in detainment, argues attorney Christina Fialho, who works with Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC).
Tag: Community Opinions on Government
Posted inAnaheim, Community Opinion, Countywide
ACLU: Dirtbox over Disneyland? Anaheim’s Cell Surveillance Arsenal Revealed
Anaheim Police have spent several years secretly building an inventory of powerful cell phone surveillance devices and making them available to neighboring cities in Orange County, documents turned over to the ACLU of California reveal.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
ACLU: Orange County Fails Miserably in Storm Response
ACLU Homelessness Policy Analyst Eve Garrow writes that county officials need to respond to the winter with meaningful action instead of empty promises.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Sefton: OC Community Planning Efforts Should be Respected
OC Canyons Environmental Activist Gloria Sefton writes that Orange County supervisors need to reverse amendments that threaten area specific plans like the Foothill-Trabuco area, Silverado-Modjeska, North Tustin, Orange Park Acres, and Coto de Caza.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Bolsavik: Vietnam’s Communist Regime Celebrated 9/11
American media, once all eyes in Vietnam, never noticed it that in an official Party publication, Vietnam’s preeminent poet and enforcer of government positions in literature celebrated the attack as something the U.S. deserved for its hypocrisy.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Scott & Spady: OC Gang Injunctions are OverHyped
James Spady and Alex Scott write that gang injunctions are overhyped in terms of results and should be replaced with crime prevention programs instead of being expanded by District Attorney Tony Rackauckas in places like Santa Ana, Placentia, and elsewhere in the county.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Curry: Trump is Not What Republicans Need
Newport Beach City Councilman and longtime Republican Keith Curry writes that the Donald Trump phenomenon will kill the Republican Party
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide, Health & Wellness, Transportation
Miller: OC Needs to Get Rolling on Safe Streets
Orange County Bike Activist Brenda Miller wants the public to know there’s plenty of money for designing alternative transportation plans but planners need to hear from the public.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Berardino: Join Us at the OC Fairgrounds to Salute Vets
OC Fair Board Member Nick Berardino invites Orange County to turn out to thank veterans at the third annual Veterans + Labor: Partners in Service event on Veterans Day, November 11 at the Orange County Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, featuring a special commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Viet Nam War.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide
Bolsavik: Propublica and Frontline Revisit 1980s Murders but Fall Short of Expectations
Voice of OC Columnist Hao Nhien Vu, known across Little Saigon for his political blog The Bolsavik, writes that Frontline and Propublica’s recent documentary, “Terror in Little Saigon,” doesn’t live up to the hype.
