City Budget Part 3: Sacramento Police Department Gets $28M Raise, City Faces $66M Deficit
TL;DR: the Sacramento Police Department seems to be able to get anyway with doing anything they want, including murdering our community...
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- Jul 12
- 5 min
City budget part 4: A Measure U Perspective
TL;DR: unsurprisingly, Measure U funds are disproportionately being spent on policing INSTEAD OF solutions that would actually help to...
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- Jul 11
- 6 min
City budget part 2: The RydeFreeRT saga
TL;DR: Sacramento City Manager - and all around disappointment - Howard Chan attempted to remove funding for the RydeFreeRT program (a...
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- Jul 11
- 5 min
City budget part 1: The Audacity of Howard Chan
TL;DR: Bruh, how you have the audacity to try and give yourself another raise when you're already the highest paid city manager in the...
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- Nov 14, 2023
- 11 min
You want me to keep paying more and getting less?
Since the launch of SJPC 2.0 this August, we have made the decision to focus on storytelling and consistently uplifting the stories and...
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- Nov 6, 2023
- 8 min
Lies Law Enforcement Tells Us
Quick summary: This week we’re taking a look at the false narratives, lies, and propaganda fed to folks in the Sacramento area (and...
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- Oct 23, 2023
- 5 min
Embracing Our Neighbors With Compassion
This piece is centered around the #ThisClose2Unhoused Campaign, led by Public Health Advocates (PHA), which is working to promote...
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- Sep 7, 2023
- 5 min
$2BILLION for a new jail?!
Quick summary On 8/8/23 the Sac County BOS voted on an item amending a contract with jail expansion design firm Nacht & Lewis, and a...
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- Jun 28, 2023
- 5 min
Measure U - important recs ignored
Some quick background on Measure U! The Measure U Advisory Committee is the oversight body for the 1cent sales & use tax levied on all...
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- Jun 27, 2023
- 5 min
Sacramento Needs a Public Bank!
The creation of a public bank is a social justice project & movement Creating a public bank would enable Sacramento residents to have...
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- May 27, 2023
- 8 min
Copaganda Corner & SPD's raise request
The Sacramento Police Department gave a presentation on their proposed 2024 budget at the May 16th City Council meeting. The budget would...
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- May 24, 2023
- 7 min
Hey Sac County - stop housing our foster youth in a jail
The Sacramento County Children’s System of Care Committee met on 5/15/23 - let's talk about what went down. First of all, what is this...
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- May 3, 2023
- 7 min
Manipulation tactics from the SPD
SPD Chief Kathy Lester pictured below Once again, the Sacramento City Council was faced with a request for even more money and...
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- Apr 17, 2023
- 11 min
The Closing of Financially Troubled Sacramento Housing Nonprofit and the Death of Fair Housing
At the March 28th Sacramento County Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting, the Board approved $1.7 million to pay property owners back rent...
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- Feb 19, 2023
- 6 min
New Year, Same Police Nonsense
Big thank you to community advocate and ally Catita Anderson for turning in an amazingly helpful set of notes on this meeting - you made...
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- Feb 18, 2023
- 2 min
Sac County's 2023 budget priorities - more of the same
Happy new year folx, we're bringing you a short update on Sacramento County's 2023 budget cycle! BUT FIRST! From agenda item doc The...
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- Feb 18, 2023
- 3 min
Funding for Seavey Circle - a win for racial & health equity!
Back at the November 29th Sac City Council meeting (apologies for how late we are on reporting this news!!) there was a big win for...
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- Feb 18, 2023
- 2 min
Sac County - another housing department
On November 15th, 2022, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors (BOS) unanimously voted to create the Department of Homeless Services...
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- Dec 16, 2022
- 7 min
Jail expansion - it ain't over 'till it's over
What happened? This year we saw the County bring back its plan to expand the jail, despite the community having previously blocked an...
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- Nov 16, 2022
- 4 min
The Siting Plan, it was nice(?) knowin' ya
The City of Sacramento seems to have seen the writing on the wall, and has decided to officially let the Comprehensive Siting Plan To...
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