The Santa Barbara County Community Corrections Partnership (CCP) announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with the county Sheriff's Office and District Attorney's Office to allocate funds to two organizations that provide opportunities for justice-involved individuals.
Santa Barbara County Probation officers delivered back-to-school supplies to youth on community supervision as part of a successful countywide Operation Safe at Home on Wednesday.
Santa Barbara County probation teams were able to contact more than 20 people and distribute 30 wellness bags during its annual Operation Safe at Home.
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By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue
January 22, 2021
| 6:53 p.m.
Santa Barbara County appears to have passed its explosive winter peak of COVID-19 case rates and testing positivity, Public Health officials said Friday at their weekly COVID briefing.
But they warned that the community should not become complacent, noting that the number of deaths remains high — including 11 announced on Friday.
“This is really encouraging news,” Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso said. “However, I do want to share that we are not out of the woods yet.”
Public Health data shows that case rates and testing positivity peaked in the county on Jan. 9, and have been trending downward since, Do-Reynoso said.
By Brooke Holland, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @BT_Holland
January 15, 2021
| 9:12 p.m.
With a post-holiday COVID-19 surge unfolding, the spread of the virus in Santa Barbara County is the highest of all California counties.
Speaking at the weekly press briefing on Friday, Santa Barbara County Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso explained the reasoning behind that latest data and how the county is in dire straits amid the raging pandemic.
“The rate of COVID-19 spreading is higher in Santa Barbara County than any other jurisdiction in California,” Do-Reynoso said. “These are grim numbers — extremely, extremely concerning.”
The county's effective reproductive number, also called the R-effective, is the average number of people that each infected person will pass the virus onto, and it represents the rate that COVID-19 is spreading, according to the California Department of Public Health. The average R-effective number uses estimates from Covid Act Now, the state site says.