The California Department of Public Health says the current ICU capacity in the Bay Area is 11.3%. There were 30,375 newly recorded confirmed cases in California on Friday.
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California attorney general reaches settlement with Kern County sheriff, resolving 4-year civil rights probe [Los Angeles Times :: BC-CALIF-KERNCOUNTY-CIVILRIGHTS:LA]
LOS ANGELES The Kern County Sheriff’s Office and the California Department of Justice have resolved a four-year investigation of potential civil rights abuses with a settlement that implements modest reforms and places the sheriff’s office under oversight from an outside monitor, state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Tuesday.
Becerra had overseen an investigation opened in 2016 by his predecessor, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, that probed civilian complaints of excessive force and other misconduct by the Kern County Sheriff’s Office and the Bakersfield Police Department. The investigation was civil not criminal in nature.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Secretary of State Alex Padilla, left, to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Assembly member Shirley Weber, right, will take Padilla’s spot as the Golden State’s elections chief.
(CN) California’s new election chief Shirley Weber had a story to tell Wednesday as she was introduced to the state’s 40 million residents, save the San Diego County constituents she represents in the Assembly: Her grandfather never voted because he lived in Arkansas during Jim Crow, before the Voting Rights Act.
Her father fled Hope, Arkansas, because he was imminently in peril of being lynched. But once safely ensconced in California in the 1950s, Weber said one of the first things he did was vote because he finally had the opportunity to do so.