Delegates for the Orange County Labor Federation voted unanimously Thursday night to fire Executive Director Julio Perez, after a months-long investigation found “credible testimony from multiple women” of sexual harassment and retaliation by Perez.
Tag: OC Weekly
Posted inCountywide, Top Stories
Hundreds Protest Anaheim Arrest of Teens in Confrontation with Off-Duty LAPD Officer
Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait and a city board responsible for hearing public grievances will address the controversy created by a confrontation between an off-duty Los Angeles police officer, who apparently fired his gun, and a group of teens that led to a demonstration by more than 200 people and the arrest of 23.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, News Briefs, Top Stories
Amin David, Activist and Founder of Los Amigos, Dies at 83
The renowned Latino activist who for decades fought for the rights of underrepresented communities in Orange County, died Saturday night after a bout with lymphoma.
Posted inCountywide, News Briefs, Top Stories
OC Weekly: Hundreds of West OC Court Cases May Have Been Tampered With By ‘Rogue’ Worker
Court begins investigation into altered records of hundreds of cases like traffic tickets and drunk driving citations.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Top Stories
DA’s Chief of Staff Files Incomplete Conflict of Interest Forms
Susan Kang Schroeder rushed to file five years worth of overdue public conflict of interest statements Wednesday after her failure to disclose was scheduled for a public discussion by the Board of Supervisors.
Posted inFullerton
A History of Choking off Transparency at Cal State Fullerton
Complaints from student journalists about the university’s communications department, and its chief spokesman Christopher Bugbee, are echoed by members of the professional media.
Posted inGovernment, Top Stories
OC Weekly: More Questionable Campaign Cash for DA
OC Weekly’s R. Scott Moxley reported that the DA took $3,200 from a wealthy Republican and his wife days before filing charges against their Democratic adversaries.
Posted inGovernment, Orange, Water, Power & Waste
Bilodeau’s Billings to OC Water District Questioned Again
Records show the city councilman in Orange continues to charge the district for meetings he doesn’t attend.
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 inCosta Mesa
Costa Mesa City Councilman Owes His Lawyer Big-Time
An arbitration judge ruled last week that Councilman Jim
Righeimer owes $195,000 in overdue legal fees to his corporate
attorney.
