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The Santa Cruz Police Department has been named in a legal action. An Oakland organization claims that the SCPD is one of several departments that implemented an inappropriate response to protests over George Floyds death. The Santa Cruz City Council on Tuesday will consider an agenda item recommending the city reject a settlement with the organization
In Bay Area news… something had to go last week when lawmakers approved a one-point-nine trillion dollar Covid 19 stimulas bill… and it happened to be the money slated to help fund the BART to downtown San Jose extension.
Lawmakers slashed the 141-million dollar grant that was aimed to ease the burden on local transportation funding. The BART to downtown
San Jose project comes with a pricetag of almost 7-billion dollars with a completion date of 20-30.
1 woman died, and another was arrested, as the result of a Fatal crash on Highway 9. 21 year-old Ben Lomond resident Chyanne Pilgreen was reportedly driving under the influence when she lost control of her pick-up truck late Thursday night, and it went off the highway and rolled near Sequoia Road. Her un-restrained 24 year-old passenger, Stormie Worcester, suffered fatal injuries when she was ejected from the vehicle. Pilgreen, who suffered minor physical injuries in the incident, faces Felony D.U.I. charges.
As part of an F.B.I. inestigation, a downtown Santa Cruz business was searched yesterday. Media Rights Technology, which was founded in 2001, develops security technologies and intellectual properties that resolve issues such as securing digital content during storage, transmission, and presentation in the context of a content delivery network.
A Stockton man, who threatened to rape a juvenile family member in Salinas, and kill any family member who tried to stop him, has been sentenced to 4 years behind bars. That after 32 year-old Mariano Castro Junior pleaded no contest to Felony Child Abuse for the November of 2020 incident.