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The Community Resource Center, aka CRC, based in Encinitas was picked as this year’s California Nonprofit of the Year for District 76, which includes Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, Carlsbad, Encinitas and Vista.
CRC was one of 114 nonprofits across California recognized by state senators and assembly members for their significant contributions to the communities they serve. Each year legislators from across California chose a Nonprofit of the Year in their district. Assemblymember Tasha Boerner Horvath chose the Community Resource Center.
The center’s services include a domestic violence emergency shelter and transitional housing, hotline and prevention/education outreach, a Therapeutic Children’s Center, counseling and legal advocacy along with a food distribution center, homelessness prevention programs and rental and housing assistance.
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Six lawmakers from San Diego County have asked the state auditor to investigate years of deaths inside the local jail system, which has recorded the highest mortality rate among California’s largest counties.
The request, which came after the Democratic Party of San Diego County voted to seek the independent review, asks the legislature’s Joint Legislative Audit Committee to approve an audit of the deaths among people in the San Diego Sheriff’s Department custody dating back 15 years.
“Specifically, we’d like to know why so many inmates have died while in the Department’s custody and what steps are being taken to ensure proper protocol,” the legislators wrote.
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The San Diego County Democratic Party is formally calling on its representatives in the California Legislature to request an independent investigation into deaths inside San Diego County jails.
Party members passed a resolution last week requesting local senators and assembly members introduce a measure requiring the Joint Legislative Audit Committee to examine the jail-mortality rate since 2009.
“Under San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore, 159 men and women have died while in custody, additionally costing the taxpayer millions of dollars in wrongful death case settlements, staff time and legal costs,” the resolution states.
People incarcerated in San Diego County jails have been dying at a higher rate than prisoners in other large California counties.
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