Jules Hotz for CalMatters
In the closing days of the legislative year, California lawmakers sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill that is meant to toughen scrutiny of the state’s embattled fire insurer of last resort by insisting that two of their leaders join its governing committee.
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They are two disasters that require opposite responses: To save lives and reduce the spread of COVID-19, people are being told to remain isolated. But in a wildfire, thousands of firefighters will be summoned to work in close quarters for weeks. -
The Pala Band of Mission Indians is following the state's stay-at-home guidance on its reservation as local communities try to limit the spread of COVID-19. -
KPBS Midday EditionCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom granted clemency to more than two dozen prisoners last week. Four of the cases have been championed by the San Diego-based California Innocence Project. -
KPBS Midday EditionOver the weekend, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department ticketed 22 beachgoers for violating the stay-at-home order. Meanwhile, the department also confirmed four employees and one inmate have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. -
The quake was centered in Anza at 6:53 p.m. and was felt from Oceanside to Chula Vista to Alpine. -
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.
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