Martinez urged rejection of the OIG proposal and to focus on "collaborative" solutions that build on the department's progress in accountability and rehabilitation, stating the agency already operates under more than 20 oversight bodies.
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Three events were planned for downtown San Diego on Saturday, along with more than a dozen others throughout San Diego County. -
A total of 980,458 participants are registered in San Diego to stop everything for a minute to "drop, cover and hold on" at 10:16 a.m. -
About 2,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses, pharmacists and other frontline staff in San Diego are on strike, demanding safer staffing, fair wages and better benefits. -
The Rancho Fire started near Highway 78 and Casner Road and prompted evacuation orders. -
A KPBS investigation revealed that data collected by the El Cajon Police Department was used in immigration-related searches more than 550 times in 2025. -
Federal law enforcement officials accuse 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht of lighting a fire on New Year’s Day that was initially extinguished by fire crews, but continued to smolder underground before reigniting during high winds, officials said. -
Burbank air traffic controllers headed home at 4:15 p.m. Monday and the tower was left unstaffed. Duties were handed off to Southern California TRACON, a departure team based in San Diego. -
Imperial County immigrants’ rights groups are calling for an investigation into the death of Huabing Xie, an immigrant from China. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required regular purges of license plate databases and regularly audited how automated plate readers are used. He said the regulations would have impeded criminal investigations. -
For more than a year, Attorney General Bonta has been looking into the El Cajon Police Department’s sharing of license plate reader data with out-of-state agencies.
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