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Divided Board of Supervisors weighs in on drug-treatment facility for felons Shares The Yolo County Board of Supervisors voted this week to support in principle legislation that would allow the county to create a secure drug treatment facility for felony offenders who would otherwise be incarcerated in jail or prison. The vote was narrow, with three supervisors in favor, one in opposition and one abstaining. AB 1542 was authored by Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, in partnership with Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig and Yolo County Supervisor Gary Sandy of Woodland. Sandy was...

Davis Media Access: Getting back into the routine Shares Excitement is building for vaccine availability and the prospect of life beginning to return to normal. I’m starting to field many questions about when Davis Media Access will “reopen,” and would like to take this opportunity to address a number of them in one place. Some things to know: * While many KDRT programmers continue to produce from home, DMA has largely reopened to solo KDRT programmers for whom that was not possible. We’re on the cusp of figuring out to bring cohosts back into the studio together — vaccination and i...

Dear Assembly Members Jones-Sawyer and McCarty: Human Rights Watch opposes the AB 1542 Yolo County pilot program that authorizes judges to sentence people to confinement in a locked treatment facility instead of prison or jail if the judge determines that their crime was motivated in part by substance abuse. We ask legislators to reject this bill and take a more holistic, rights-respecting approach to addressing problematic substance use and crime that may be connected to it. The apparent premise of AB 1542 is that people with “Substance Use Disorders” (SUDs) have a medical condition that...

Farmworker advocates call for vaccination priority With COVID-19 vaccines still in short supply, reprioritizing who gets them and when becomes, as Yolo County’s health officer said Tuesday, “a zero sum game.” “Whenever you expand eligibility for one group, you take away vaccines from another group,” Dr. Aimee Sisson told the Board of Supervisors. Up until last week, there was no game involved — the state was requiring counties to prioritize residents 65 and older before moving on to the rest of the Phase 1B, Tier 1 cohort: essential workers in food and agriculture, education and c...

County grapples with racial disparity in foster care The increase in Yolo County children entering foster care in recent years has compounded existing racial and ethnic disparities within the child welfare system, particularly for Black children, according to a self-assessment performed by the county. In 2019, Black children made up about 2.5 percent of the total child population in Yolo County but 23 percent of the population in foster care here. They were also more likely to be placed in care outside the county, spend more time in foster care than their peers, and were less likely to progre...