(06:50) Santa Cruz - The progressive political group Santa Cruz County GLBT Alliance is hosting a talk with award winning political reporter and author of a daily online column for Politico- Carla Marinucci. Marinucci will speak with Alliance board member Gloria Nieto and take audience questions. The event will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Resource Center for Nonviolence at 612 Ocean Street, in santa cruz.
A series of events are being held on the state of youth homelessness in Santa Cruz County. The events are being held this evening (Fri) at the Museum of Art and History on Front Street in downtown Santa Cruz. There will be four separate half hour talks beginning at 6 p.m. and ending at 8 p.m.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were in two Central Coast cities on Wednesday. Watsonville and King City police were notified that ICE agents would be conducting operation in the area. In Watsonville raids were made on East Lake Avenue and Alvarado Street. At this time it is unclear on how many individuals have been detained.
The Santa Cruz Harbor resume partial dredging operations. Beginning on October 2nd three locations in the upper harbor will utilize the new Twin Lakes Dredge. The smaller dredge Squirt will take over in the upper harbor when Twin Lakes moves to the harbor mouth in November.
Several Salinas schools were placed on lockdown following the detection of gunfire by the Shot Spotter system yesterday (Thursday). Shortly before noon the system detected six shots fired in East Salinas on Atlantic Street. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy, Jesse Sanchez Elementary and La Paz Middle School were all locked down as police investigated the incident. A car seen leaving the area was stopped and several juveniles were detained. The campuses were reopened a short time later.