Category: San Diego County

San Diego County Supervisors Plan to Address Law Enforcement Shortages

January 26, 2022
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San Diego County supervisors voted unanimously Jan. 25 to develop plans to address potential Sheriff’s Department staffing shortages. According to a joint statement from Supervisors Joel Anderson and Jim Desmond, applications to the Sheriff’s Department have decreased 25 percent during the past year, and decreased 36 percent between 2018 and 2021. While the county has regional…

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San Diego County Supervisors Formally Approve ‘Ghost Gun’ Ordinance

January 25, 2022
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San Diego County supervisors Jan. 25 voted 3–2 to formally adopt an ordinance requiring safe firearm storage and prohibiting the distribution or creation of untraceable “ghost guns” in the county. As they did earlier this month, Board Chairman Nathan Fletcher and Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer and Nora Vargas supported the measure, while their colleagues Joel Anderson…

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San Diego Metro Transit System’s First Private Security Officers Begin Patrols

January 25, 2022
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SAN DIEGO—The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System announced on Jan. 25 that it has begun onboarding private security officers with Inter-Con Security to provide security services on trolleys, buses, and on the transit system’s properties. The first officers began on New Year’s Day and by the end of the month, the transit system expects to…

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San Diego County Unemployment Rate Drops to 4.2 Percent in December

January 24, 2022
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SAN DIEGO—San Diego County’s unemployment rate decreased to 4.2 percent in December, down from a revised 4.6 percent in November and below the year-ago estimate of 8 percent, according to figures released on Jan. 21 by the state Employment Development Department. This compares with an unadjusted unemployment rate of 5 percent for California, which decreased…

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Former San Diego County Employee Charged With Profiting Off Wife’s County Contracts

January 21, 2022
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SAN DIEGO—A former employee of the San Diego County Clerk’s Office was charged on Jan. 20 with allegedly recommending that a contractor hire his wife’s company to work on county projects, which prosecutors say may have netted hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit for the couple. Rolf Bishop, 73, pleaded not guilty on Thursday…

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San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore Announces Early Retirement

January 19, 2022
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SAN DIEGO—Bill Gore, who has served as San Diego County sheriff for more than a dozen years, announced on Jan. 19 that he plans to retire next month, nearly a year before the end of his fourth term in the post. Gore, 74, who announced last summer that he would not seek re-election this year,…

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San Diego County Bans Ghost Guns

January 11, 2022
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SAN DIEGO—On a 3–2 vote, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance Jan. 11 requiring safe firearm storage and prohibiting the distribution or creation of untraceable “ghost guns” in the county. Board Chairman Nathan Fletcher and Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer and  Nora Vargas voted in support of the measure. Supervisors Joel Anderson and…

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San Diego County Supervisors Ban Ghost Guns

January 11, 2022
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SAN DIEGO—On a 3–2 vote, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance Jan. 11 requiring safe firearm storage and prohibiting the distribution or creation of untraceable “ghost guns” in the county. Board Chairman Nathan Fletcher and Supervisors Terra Lawson-Remer and  Nora Vargas voted in support of the measure. Supervisors Joel Anderson and…

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San Diego County Investigating Possible Tuberculosis Exposure at Sycuan Casino

January 4, 2022
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EL CAJON, Calif.—San Diego County is investigating a possible tuberculosis exposure at Sycuan Casino where a person recently diagnosed with tuberculosis may have exposed patrons and employees, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency announced on Jan. 4. According to the health agency, the dates of exposure were from April 1 to Dec. 9, 2021….

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4 Killed in El Cajon Plane Crash Reportedly Were 2 Pilots, 2 Nurses

December 29, 2021
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EL CAJON, Calif.—The investigation is continuing into the crash of a small airplane that took off from John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana and slammed into a neighborhood near El Cajon, killing all four people aboard. Multiple media reports indicated that the plane was operating as an air ambulance and that the victims were two pilots and two…

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