Grant Phillips,
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See something, say something! Wildfires, drought, earthquakes, industrial pollution, and extreme weather are just some of the hazards the Ventura County Office of Emergency Services is hoping to address in its updated Hazard Mitigation plan.
To take the survey which will only be up for a limited time visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/G7T7W5R .
To learn about the plan, go to www.readyventuracounty.org and click on the “emergency plans” tab.
The Office of Emergency Services is required by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to update its plan every five years to continue to be eligible for federal funding.
Editor s note:
As of July 16 or 17, after this Ojai Valley News editorial was published, Ojai Unified School District added a link to written public comments on its
OUSD agenda page. The written public comments on the OUSD website are only those that are submitted on the electronic OUSD
Public CommentForm, meaning not all written public comments to the entire school board are included on the OUSD website.
At Ojai Unified School District’s special school board meeting July 12, the school board and administration once again drew a darker curtain, further obscuring the public’s view of its public business.
Despite letters, requests, and calls from the Ojai Valley News in an effort to educate the school district trustees on the laws regarding public comment, OUSD continues to flout them by withholding public comments longer than legally allowed by law.
Screenshot from The Thacher School website
Dan Yih, chair of The Thacher School Board of Trustees, wrote a letter July 15 about corrective actions the board is taking since the June 16 report outlining sexual abuse and misconduct at the school was released.
Ojai Valley News editor
A month after The Thacher School in Ojai released a 90-page report outlining allegations of past sexual abuse and misconduct at the school, with some incidents as far back as four decades, the Thacher board chair released a letter July 15 with an attachment of five pages of “corrective actions taken to date,” including the “potential removal” of the names of two former heads of school “from campus, by the end of this month.”
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Ventura County inmate dies after being found unresponsive in cell
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. - The Ventura County Sheriff s Office reported that an inmate passed away Sunday night after being found unresponsive in her cell.
Deputies at the Sheriff s Todd Road Jail Facility found inmate Jocelyn Gomez, 23, of Oxnard alone in her cell around 8:48 p.m.
They immediately provided aid and called for medical staff to respond. After Ventura County Fire personnel and AMR paramedics arrived at the scene, more advanced life-saving efforts were administered.
Unfortunately, after the life-saving efforts proved unsuccessful, Gomez was pronounced dead at the jail.
The exact cause of Gomez s death is under investigation by the Sheriff s Major Crimes Bureau and Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office.