Kern County

加州分水岭

Kern County’s 2020 free speech violations trigger new safeguards. Will they work?

Kern County agrees to better protect free speech in a deal with the state Justice Department — inspired by the county’s’ 2020 squashing of COVID contracts to organizations that advocated defunding police.

经过 Nicole Foy • 12 月 28, 2023

加州分水岭

California child welfare agencies under fire for pocketing foster kids’ Social Security money

A California grandmother fights to retrieve $30,000 taken by San Diego County from her grandchildren's survivor benefits. Counties take millions of dollars in federal benefits from foster children, says a lawmaker trying to stop it.

经过 邝婧 • 4 月 5, 2023

正义

Mentally ill prisoners in California are three times likelier to get shuffled around

Newly acquired state data shows that the Corrections Department transferred patients with serious mental illnesses an average of five times over a six-year period, underscoring a CalMatters’ investigation this year that revealed the practice and raised questions about the harm it could cause.

经过 Byrhonda Lyons, 乔斯琳·维纳 和 余丽卡 • 11 月 21, 2022

正义

‘A perfect storm of bad’: Report finds incarceration rates highest among rural Californians

A new report from a prisoners’ advocacy group finds Kings and Shasta counties have the state’s highest rates of residents incarcerated for crimes.

经过 杜赞奇 • 8 月 31, 2022

正义

‘Devil on the loose’: What’s behind Kern County’s soaring homicide rate?

Kern County has had state’s highest homicide rate since 2016, with rival prison gangs warring on its rural northern border.

经过 杜赞奇 • 12 月 1, 2021

正义

California judges don’t reflect the state’s diversity — how that could change

Whites make up a little more than a third of California’s population but nearly two-thirds of its Superior Court judges. Advocates are devising ways to get more people of color into law and onto the bench.

经过 Byrhonda Lyons • 6 月 23, 2021

新冠病毒

A dozen counties criticized OptumServe for vaccine clinic problems, documents show

California authorized paying OptumServe up to $221 million. But the company has helped with only 1% of the state’s vaccinations since January.

经过 Caitlin Antonios 和 Bianca Fortis • 5 月 25, 2021

新冠病毒

Herd immunity? Only two counties are even close

Less than half of eligible people in 45 of the state’s 58 counties have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Marin and Alpine rank at the top with 69%, while Lassen, Mariposa and Kings are at the bottom with 25% or less.

经过 安娜·B·伊瓦拉 • 5 月 18, 2021

环境

Newsom orders ban on new oil fracking by 2024

The move comes after environmentalists lambasted Newsom for failing to tackle California’s oil and gas production. The oil industry called it an “illegal mandate” and vowed to fight it. Fracking accounts for only 17% of California's oil production.

经过 雷切尔贝克尔 和 劳雷尔·罗森霍尔 • 4 月 23, 2021

重要的事情

California hits huge vaccine milestone

Good morning, California. It’s Friday, April 16. Nearly halfway there California is at its pandemic best. No counties are left in the state’s most restrictive reopening tier. California has the lowest coronavirus positivity rate in the country. And 49% of eligible residents are at least partially vaccinated — a number sure to have crossed the […]

经过 Emily Hoeven • 4 月 16, 2021