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Feb. 10—The federal government will give Sacramento County close to $60 million to strengthen its response to the coronavirus pandemic as a part of a larger effort to boost public health operations. The funding will support COVID-19-related efforts around testing, case investigation, contact tracing
Jan. 13—Coronavirus deaths continue to pour in at a record clip in California, but recent signs of plateau in hospital totals have spurred some cautious optimism amid the state's winter surge. California's COVID-19 death toll officially passed 30,000 on Tuesday with the confirmation of 548 fatalities and added 589 more on Wednesday to surpass 31,000, pushing the average to 439 deaths a day ...
The Sacramento County Deputy Sheriff's Association called for the resignation of a Sacramento County supervisor for his comments toward Trump supporters.
Sacramento Sheriff’s Office Released 52 People To ICE Deportation Agents Last Year — One By Mistake Wednesday, December 23, 2020 | Sacramento, CA Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones. Rich Pedroncelli / AP Photo By Raheem Hosseini Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones admitted this month that his department turned over a Latino man to federal deportation agents even though it wasn't supposed to alert ICE. The father was one of 52 people who completed ja...
Sacramento County’s campaign to keep Black children alive worked. Here’s how [The Sacramento Bee] Dec. 19—Year after year, in some of Sacramento County’s poorest and disinvested neighborhoods, Black children were dying at a higher rate than children of other ethnic groups. Infants died sleeping next to their parents or siblings. Mothers gave birth to stillborn babies, or babies who lived just a few days. Teenagers were gunned down. Some were abused and neglected. From 2010 to 2015, nearly a quarter of the 873 children who died in the county were Black, although they make up just 11 pe...