Opening of Santa Barbara County’s Northern Branch Jail Pushed to Spring 2021
The $116 million facility near Santa Maria will have on-site staff training after construction is expected to be substantially completed by the end of the year
Construction on the Northern Branch Jail is now estimated to be finished by the end of the year, with a 2021 opening date. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo) By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk Managing Editor | @magnoli | UPDATED
December 23, 2020
| 8:12 p.m.
The biggest Santa Barbara County capital project in history is even further behind schedule with mounting costs, and the sheriff’s department reports that the Northern Branch Jail has a new opening date in spring 2021.
A comparison of local January-to-November DUI arrest data for 2019 to 2020 from the California Highway Patrol shows a nearly 15% rise in 2020 DUI arrests.
For the first 11 months of 2019, CHP officers arrested 549 individuals on drunken-driving charges in the Santa Clarita Valley, according to data provided by the CHP Newhall-Area Office. During the same period in 2020, 631 individuals were booked on suspicion of DUI for the same area.
And while the 2019 statewide DUI data reflects a yearslong trending decline in DUI arrests, according to an annual DMV report, CHP officers also recorded a four-month stretch in 2020 after the stay-at-home orders were lifted that saw a 42% increase in DUI arrests over the previous year.
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A 43-year-old San Diego County inmate who died in October after collapsing in a jail recreation yard died of a medical issue brought on by natural causes, authorities reported Tuesday.
Anthony Chon collapsed around 7 a.m. on Oct. 16 in a recreation yard at the downtown San Diego Central Jail and died a short time later at a hospital, according to sheriff’s officials.
Chon is also identified as Anthony Chom in court records. His death, along with those of several other inmates within a span of a few weeks, was first reported last month by The San Diego Union-Tribune.
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