A County Equity Cabinet and a questionable contract
On November 17, 2020, the Board of Supervisors approved a Resolution declaring racism a public health crisis in Sacramento County. Y'all...
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- May 3, 2022
- 3 min
Housing round-up
Hello to all you beautiful SJPC readers! This post will cover a few miscellaneous items regarding housing in both Sac City and County...
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- May 3, 2022
- 1 min
Contract negotiation solidarity!
The United Public Employees Union was out in force at the County Board of Supervisors meeting on April 27th, to show their strength and...
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- Apr 3, 2022
- 3 min
Ending Project Roomkey means throwing folx back out onto the streets
In February of 2022, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors made the ill-informed and inhumane decision to begin the closure of the...
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- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
Food inequity and ARPA inequity
Item 52 at the Sac County BOS meeting was ostensibly an unobjectionable item. It sets aside money for a Food Insecurity Pilot Program...
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- Feb 21, 2022
- 7 min
Child Protective Systems - another carceral system?
Thank you so much to the awesome community members and social justice allies who made the creation of this piece possible. We want to...
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- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
Covid (still) in Jails + BOS Covid Update
During the January Board of Supervisors monthly COVID-19 Update, Supervisors had questions related to policies, marketing, and the jail. ...
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- Feb 20, 2022
- 3 min
More Incarceration More Money
2.8.22 Sac County Board of Supervisors meeting report-back Item 30: Sacramento County Jail Accessibility Update and Plan.pdf For those...
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- Feb 19, 2022
- 3 min
What's an inmate welfare fund?
At the Sacramento Board of Supervisors on 2/8/22, the Inmate Welfare Fund Annual Report For Fiscal Year 2020- 2021 was presented (item...
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- Feb 18, 2022
- 6 min
Hiring a retired-cop to help reduce the jail population?
Thank you to Decarcerate Sacramento (site linked here) for creating the amazing toolkit that provided the basis for this piece. Thanks to...
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- Feb 18, 2022
- 3 min
Sac County and housing - ARPA update
Big thanks to Mason Taylor - our ARPA expert from the California COVID Justice team at Public Health Advocates! See Mason in our latest...
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- Jan 17, 2022
- 3 min
An ARPA Update!
First, the County: BOS Meeting 1.11.22 (Item 7 and Tip of the iceberg for Item 60) Last Tuesday, county staff presented a proposal to the...
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- Jan 17, 2022
- 1 min
Homeland Security Grant Program
Item 9, Sac BOS meeting 1/11/22: Request Approval To Apply For Federal Fiscal Year 2022 State Homeland Security Grant Program (Office of...
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- Dec 20, 2021
- 3 min
Valuing Business over Human Lives
The City Council met for over seven hours on December 14th and spent the vast majority of that time focused on one issue: homelessness. ...
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- Dec 20, 2021
- 5 min
Drugs, Traffic, and Tear Gas
Two Public Safety and Justice items at the BOS meeting on the Nov. 16th caught our eye, both related to increasing the amount of money...
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- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min
Watching County Officials rake in the DOUGH
12.08.2021 Item #5: SET SALARIES FOR THE ELECTED DEPARTMENT HEADS: ASSESSOR, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, AND SHERIFF FOR THE 2023-2027 TERM OF...
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- Dec 19, 2021
- 5 min
Realignment and a lack of transparency
Shoutout to Miguel A. Garcia for all his help creating this piece! So what happened? In December the County Board of Supervisors approved...
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- Dec 19, 2021
- 3 min
More Funding for Probation
Thanks to our friends at Decarcerate Sacramento for writing up this piece! On 12/14 Decarcerate Sacramento mobilized voices to the Board...
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- Dec 19, 2021
- 5 min
Illegal Cooperation with ICE
A Newsbreak article (from SJPC ally Robert J Hansen) to check out in reference to this issue is linked here. What was this item all...
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- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
Another Community Survey - Another Community Bill
This just in - Sacramento County’s residents main concern is homelessness and homelessness’s younger sibling affordable housing. It only...
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