Santa Ana’s Police Chief has raised questions about whether Police Sgt. Gerry Serrano — the man just re-elected to lead the city’s powerful police union — scored excessive cash-outs for unused time off from City Hall.
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Santa Ana Council Increases Police Spending but Reallocates Some Money After Protests
Santa Ana City Council members in a near-unanimous vote of the majority Democrat panel approved a budget Tuesday that increases police spending by nearly $3 million.
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All Eyes on OC Officials as Calls for Systemic Changes to Police Oversight Grow Amid Protests
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.
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Santa Ana Voters Decide Today Whether To Recall City Councilwoman Ceci Iglesias
What happens today could set the stage for the November general election, and impact the future of Santa Ana politics. If voters want Iglesias out, they’ll have three different replacement candidates, all backed by different people, to choose from.
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Council Member Pushes Discussion on Suspending Santa Ana Sales Tax Increase
Iglesias is calling on the city to find a way to lower sales taxes for people and families making purchases during the coronavirus public health crisis on tonight’s meeting agenda.
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Santa Ana Disbands Public Safety Board Amid Police Union Demand for Council Critics’ Removal
The union in a memo to the council last month criticized Villegas and Iglesias and requested their removal from the public safety board, questioning their commitment to the city’s police officers and their ability to make key public safety policy decisions.
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County Certifies Recall Efforts Against Santa Ana Councilwoman Ceci Iglesias
The recall campaign was largely funded by the city’s police union after Iglesias opposed controversial pay raises for police officers last year. It’s one of the city’s first recall campaigns in years that’s been successful enough to go forward with an election.
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Santa Ana Police Union Wants Council Critics Off Public Safety Committee
Santa Ana’s police union has backed recall efforts against two council members: Juan Villegas and Ceci Iglesias, who vocally opposed the scale of $23 million in controversial raises granted to police officers last February. Now the union wants both off a public safety board, which could be disbanded or restructured by council members today.
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Santa Ana Councilman Publicly Calls Out Dark Money Campaign, Welcomes FBI Interview
Councilman Juan Villegas, who also works as a special officer at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, is publicly alleging that one the key people behind the controversial 2525 N. Main St. project admitted to him their involvement in a dark money campaign to influence the 2018 Santa Ana city council elections – which involved hiding $320,000 in campaign money through a shell company.
