County Supervisors to decide whether ICE agents can continue using two county firing ranges for training
Good Morning, I’m Lawrence K. Jackson….it’s TUESDAY, AUGUST 18TH.
SHOULD ICE BE ABLE TO USE TWO OF THE COUNTY’S FIRING RANGES FOR TRAINING? More on that next. But first... the headlines.
THE MLB AND ITS OWNERS HAVE NOW UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED OF THE
THREE POINT NINE BILLION DOLLAR SALE OF YOUR SAN DIEGO PADRES
THE NEW OWNERS GROUP IS LED BY PRIVATE EQUITY BILLIONAIRE JOSE
E FELICIANO AND HIS WIFE KWANZA JONES
FELICIANO HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS THE PADRES CONTROL PERSON
IN ALIGNMENT WITH MLB REQUIREMENTS
THE MLB SAYS DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS WILL CONTINUE TO BE LED BY PADRES PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER AJ PRELLER AND CEO ERIK GREUPNER.
THIS NEWS ALSO SEES THE END OF THE SEIDLER FAMILY'S OWNERSHIP OF THE TEAM DATING BACK TO 2012.
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SAN DIEGO'S HISTORIC WONDER BREAD BUILDING IN THE EAST VILLAGE MIGHT JUST END UP AS THE CITY'S NEXT PREMIERE MUSIC VENUE
ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY 'LIVE NATION' PURCHASED THE BUILDING AND PLANS TO CONVERT IT INTO A FOUR THOUSAND CAPACITY MUSIC VENUE
LIVE NATION SAYS QUOTE SAN DIEGO CURRENTLY HAS NO PURPOSE-BUILT VENUES BETWEEN ITS SMALL CLUBS AND ITS LARGE ARENAS...
LIVE NATION SAYS THIS PROJECT IS MEANT TO FILL THAT NEED
THE COMPANY PLANS TO PRESERVE THE HISTORIC BUILDING AND RESTORE ITS BRICK-FACADE
THE NEW MUSIC VENUE IS EXPECTED TO OPEN IN 20-28
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THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS A HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM IS SLOWLY BUILDING IN THE EAST THIS WEEK WHICH WILL BRING GRADUAL WARMING TO THE COUNTY
N-W-S SAYS THAT SYSTEM, IS ALSO EXPECTED TO BRING A SHALLOW MARINE LAYER AND DRY WEATHER
COASTAL TEMPS ARE EXPECTED TO LAND IN THE MID TO UPPER 70'S
INLAND VALLEYS SHOULD BE SOMEWHERE IN THE MID 80'S ...
OUR MOUNTAINS SHOULD BE IN THE UPPER 70'S TO MID 80'S
AND OF COURSE OUR DESERTS ARE THE WARMEST, JUMPING INTO THE 90'S
AND TRIPLE DIGITS IN SOME AREA
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THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS WILL DECIDE TODAY [TUESDAY] WHETHER FEDERAL IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES CAN CONTINUE USING TWO COUNTY FIRING RANGES.
PUBLIC MATTERS REPORTER KEVIN TREVELLYAN HAS MORE.
ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents have for several years been training at a county-owned gun range in Otay Mesa. ICE agents have also been using a county-leased facility at Miramar Air Base.
But Board of Supervisors Chair Terra Lawson-Remer says they’re no longer welcome.
“Our community is a home, not a target. If the Trump administration wants to spend billions on this flawed deportation agenda, they can use their own federal resources to carry it out.”
Lawson-Remer says ICE’s tactics and emphasis on mass deportations undermine trust in local government.
ICE data shows agents removed more than 16-thousand people in San Diego County between January 2025 and April 1st of this year. The vast majority of immigrants arrested locally last year did not have criminal records. That’s according to a separate KPBS analysis.
Both ICE and Customs and Border Protection fall under the Department of Homeland Security. DHS did not respond to a request for comment on the gun range proposal.
KT, KPBS News.
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A MAN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH INTENTIONALLY SETTING THE SORRENTO FIRE.
THE FIRE STARTED SUNDAY IN THE LOS PEÑASQUITOS CANYON PRESERVE, FORCING EVACUATIONS AND ROAD CLOSURES.
IT BURNED MORE THAN 130 ACRES.
NORTH COUNTY REPORTER ALEXANDER NGUYEN HAS MORE ON THE ARREST.
Police say people saw 30-year-old Brandon James Glasgo walking out of the creek near where the fire started.
They arrested him Sunday night on one count of arson.
Judy Turnbull and her friend, Kristina Quandt, were surprised to hear that.
They were dropping off supplies to thank firefighters … who were still mopping up hot spots.
"It's very unfortunate and disappointing that somebody would do something like that.
Yeah, yeah, it's sad to think that people are just heartless to do that.”
Fire officials say crews will remain on scene for the next three days to mop up any hotspots.
Glasgo is due in court on Wednesday.
AN KPBS NEWS.
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NEW POLLING SHOWS MORE CALIFORNIANS ARE LIKELY TO SUPPORT THE BILLIONAIRES’ WEALTH TAX AND OPPOSE A MEASURE REQUIRING VOTER ID.
CAP-RADIO’S LAURA FITZGERALD HAS MORE :
The poll by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies indicates 48 percent of respondents support the wealth tax while 41 percent oppose.
The measure, known as Proposition 40, would impose a one-time 5 percent tax on billionaires’ assets as of January 1st this year.
The poll shows voters were less aware of two counter measures aimed at cancelling the tax.
A slight majority, 51 percent, said they’d vote no on a proposal to require proof of citizenship to vote, Proposition 39. 42 percent said they’d support it.
The measure would require voters to show a government-issued ID card when voting in person, or posting the last four digits of the social security number on their ballot.
The respondents who said they’d support the wealth tax and oppose the voter ID measure were overwhelmingly Democrats.
In Sacramento, I’m Laura Fitzgerald
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IN OTHER ELECTION NEWS, THE RACE FOR CALIFORNIA’S NEXT GOVERNOR CAME TO CHULA VISTA OVER THE WEEKEND.
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE STEVE HILTON HOSTED A TOWN HALL AT NOVO BREWING AND SHARED HIS VISION IN FRONT OF A PACKED ROOM ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
“Here's my plan. What does this sound like to you? A working class tax cut in California. Your first 150 grand, tax free! [cheers]”
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR CANDIDATE GLORIA ROMERO ALSO SPOKE AT THE EVENT.
THEIR POPULIST MESSAGE AIMS TO WIN OVER WORKING CLASS VOTERS IN THE STATE, A KEY DEMOGRAPHIC IN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S 2024 VICTORY.
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AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READERS … OR A-L-P-RS… ARE FACING SCRUTINY IN SAN DIEGO. NOW, LOCAL COMMUNITY GROUPS ARE JOINING IN A NATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION AGAINST THE TECHNOLOGY.
SETH HALL IS AN ADVOCATE WITH THE TRUST S-D COALITION. HE TALKED TO REPORTER ANDREW BOWEN ABOUT THE CONTROVERSIAL TECHNOLOGY AND WHAT HIS GROUP HAS BEEN DOING.
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what are the trust coalition's main concerns with this technology and how it's being used in San Diego? Yeah, we've been working with the city for years now to to try to accommodate this request that this technology be used in the city in a safe way, right? So we've proposed many policies.
We've worked with the city's privacy advisory board who is full of experts on what kind of policies would need to be in place to make this kind of system work while still being safe for San Diegans, right? For minimizing abuse, for example, or not allowing the data to escape our control and go out and be usable by somebody else. For many years we've worked with the city on that.
Unfortunately, you know, we just haven't had the kind of success that we imagined that we would have when we set up the oversight program. Uh so a lot of the recommendations from the experts are being ignored by the city. Um certainly the community concerns are are not reaching our leaders in a way that's that's convincing to them.
So, uh let's talk about Flock. Flock is a company that makes a lot of this technology used in San Diego and across the country for ALPRs. It's been the subject of particular scrutiny around the nation. What have been some of the main controversies surrounding Flock? Um and let's talk specifically in San Diego. In San Diego, obviously the community has made a lot of requests over how this technology be deployed and be used. And frustration is also growing here because we feel like our leaders are also not listening to what people are asking uh asking for in this city.
In the meantime, we've had examples of um like we just had a recent story of a gentleman who spent 30 days in jail on the back of a flock Reed and and police guessing that the car that he was driving was a car that they suspected, right? And and that man's life is is probably forever altered behind that error, right? Now he's suing the city and that's got financial ramifications. And he was innocent.
Let's make it clear, he was not it was a it was a misread. I don't I believe that he has been cleared of that of wrongdoing, right? But the lawsuit against the city is ongoing and so nobody's nobody's any comment, right, about what's going to happen in the city. Now that we've had that incident, you know, how are we going to have accountability for that? How are How are you and I not going to end up in that exact same situation? No comment on that from anybody because that situation hasn't been resolved yet.
So, police have supported this technology. They generally oppose legislation that seeks to regulate it or limit its use, and they say that ALPRs have been used to find car thieves, kidnappers, murderers, hit run drivers, you know, and they say that these crimes would not be solved without this technology. How do you respond to those claims from law enforcement? Sure. I think law enforcement gets to say, you know, they have all the information on their side as far as how they use this technology.
Uh unfortunately, the the the proof behind that is not always ready, right? It's not always provided. Uh we've offered many opportunities to the city to provide data that backfills some of those claims. I think San Diegans would be really interested to know if those claims really have substance to them or whether they are just uh perhaps marketing items that have been offered by the company that wants to keep the technology in San Diego.
Uh without the right transparency, we're not really sure that those claims actually can be verified, right? The certainly we cannot know if those crimes would have been able to be solved, right? And irrespective of those things, I I think that the underlying problem there is one of of trust, right?
So, if if people are going to go to jail for for weeks at a time right behind false reads, that shakes the trust in the community and that's really a a reason for the city to come out with more information to be more transparent. And um, you know, honestly with with trust our approach here is If this technology cannot be used transparently and responsibly, then it really ought not be used at all, right?
Because the people of San Diego deserve that level of safety and if we can't give it to them, we really just need to hit the brakes on that.
THAT WAS ANDREW BOWEN SPEAKING WITH SETH HALL OF THE TRUST S-D COALITION.
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THE TIJUANA TOROS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS AGAIN. THE TEAM HAS MADE IT TO THIS STAGE ELEVEN TIMES IN TWELVE YEARS AND HAS WON TWO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS … BUT WEB PRODUCER RILEY ARTHUR SAYS THEY’RE NOT THE ONLY REASON TO COME TO A GAME.
Forget everything you know about pro baseball. In the Mexican League, the fan experience is just as vital as the game itself—think Banana Ball, but even more electric.
Roberto Kelly is a three time Major League World Series champion. This year he was named the team manager for The Tijuana Toros.
If you come for the game, obviously you’ll see a good game but people come for the excitement of the stuff too and they put on a good show. They put on a good show.
The team has several mascots that roam the stadium. Three dance troupes perform in between innings. The action never stops. A band plays after every game.
The Toros' signing of former Dodgers World Series champion Justin Turner this season has triggered a 33 percent surge in U.S. fans crossing the border for games.
Tickets to the game start around $2 US dollars. Tacos start at less than $3 dollars. 32 oz cups of beer go for $9. Making entry and a meal less than $15 bucks.
You can watch the Toros in the playoffs through September 16th.
Riley Arthur KPBS news.
That’s it for the podcast today. As always you can find more San Diego news online at KPBS dot org. Today’s podcast was edited by Brooke Ruth and hosted and produced by me, Lawrence K. Jackson.
Thanks for listening and have a great day.
