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Presiding Judge Lorna Alksne's order states "There is an immediate and continuing need to protect the health and safety of the jail population and staff by reducing the jail population in order to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus." -
Four employees of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and an inmate in a local jail have tested positive for COVID-19, the agency announced Friday. -
San Diegans are generally behaving themselves and following orders to stay at home due to the coronavirus outbreak, said a San Diego Police Department spokesman. -
KPBS Midday EditionStay-home orders to avoid the coronavirus could mean increased danger of domestic violence. Economic stress and food insecurity may cause abusers to find more ways to exercise control over victims. New help for domestic violence sufferers is available in San Diego. -
The coronavirus pandemic is giving new urgency to an ongoing lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections that demands the release of "low-risk" inmates from state prisons. -
The Trump administration has issued an advisory ruling calling gun shops "essential" businesses that should remain open during stay-at-home directives. Gun control groups are challenging that advisory. -
A very big employer in San Diego — besides the Navy, biotech and academia — is tourism. So what's happening to attractions like Sea World? And what are tourism-dependent employers doing for their laid-off employees amid the coronavirus outbreak? -
Four lifeguards in the city of San Diego have now tested positive for the coronavirus. -
For the San Diego Police Department, calls for service dipped by 11% over a five-day period ending last Thursday, as compared with the comparable time span the previous week, according to SDPD public-affairs Lt. Shawn Takeuchi. -
Advocates say the greatest risk of the spread of coronavirus doesn’t come from the detainees themselves, who have been kept isolated from the larger world for weeks and months, but from the guards and other employees at facilities.
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