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The San Diego County Sheriff's Department announced a new effort to get Naloxone out to places where opioid overdoses are likely to happen. -
Housing, immigration and the fentanyl crisis were all part of a packed agenda for San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria as he visited Washington D.C. Tuesday.
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The San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a proposal to require fentanyl awareness education in the county's classrooms as well as distribute naloxone.
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The full Assembly will now consider allowing test programs in Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco. Its consideration comes more than a year after the proposal narrowly passed the state Senate.
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Prosecutors say Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr. was "the unquestioned leader of El Seg 39," and "controlled every aspect of his organization."
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The two Tijuana journalists murdered this month had sought help from Baja California’s journalist protection program. The help never came.
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Prosecutors say the 19-year-old victim, identified in court papers only by his initials, stole drugs that he was planning to smuggle from Mexico into the U.S. In response, alleged drug traffickers kidnapped the teen and took him hostage in an effort to extort his parents.
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By their own admission, city and county officials are late to the game. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, considering that other municipalities in California have tried and failed to correct the injustices brought by the War on Drugs.
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Drug use was at a 21-year high for adult males arrested and booked into local detention facilities in 2020, with methamphetamine and fentanyl posing some worrying trends, according to a San Diego Association of Governments report released Thursday.
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The San Diego County Sheriff's Department has released unedited body cam video of what it said shows a deputy overdosing on fentanyl. The original edited video drew questions and criticism.
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