Michael Gates, the elected Huntington Beach City Attorney who has been battling for voter ID requirements and against the state sanctuary state law, announced he
Forgive us for wondering if political considerations are influencing Santa Ana Police Department decisions when it comes to California Public Record Act requests. For more
What is the City of Santa Ana hiding? On August 2 of 2023, Santa Ana police officers responded to a 911 call regarding a fistfight
Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua took her council colleague Johnathan Hernandez to task this week over his incendiary denunciations of Santa Ana police officers at
Two radical members of the Santa Ana Police Oversight Commission are using social media to actively solicit the filing of complaints against Santa Ana police
The Orange County Transportation Authority Board of Directors yesterday greenlit a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with Teamsters Local 952, which represent the agency’s coach
I wrote recently about our Orange County Sheriff’s approach to publicly announcing when people illegally in the country would be released from the Orange County
Originally published in the Orange County Register on April 4, 2024. Despite a federally preemptive law that went into effect last year to crack down
In 2017, California passed the sanctuary state legislation (SB54) that severely limited how much local law enforcement can cooperate with federal authorities to enforce immigration
The Orange County Transportation Authority and Metrolink today announced that the project team will move forward with plans to build a barrier wall to protect
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