Audit Of San Joaquin’s Coroner’s Operations Recommends Removing Sheriff From Role In Process
The report, which follows two high-profile departures from the office, suggests the county institute a medical examiner's office run by a physician.
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San Joaquin County Should Install Independent Medical Examiner, Audit Finds
An audit of San Joaquin County’s sheriff-coroner operations, made public Wednesday, concluded that removing the sheriff from death investigations and instituting a medical examiner's office run by a physician is the best way to ensure the probes remain independent from law enforcement. (Small, 4/19)
In other news from across the state —
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Marchers Deliver Thousands Of Petitions Asking District Attorney To Prosecute Officers Who Shot Stephon Clark
About 80 people marched to the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office Thursday to deliver 100,000 signatures from an online campaign to have officers in the Stephon Clark shooting prosecuted. The group marched from the California Attorney General's Office up I Street and down 9th Street to District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert's office. (Moffitt, 4/19)
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Oakland Says Debris Company Still Polluting, Defying Court Order
The city of Oakland reports the operator of a debris-hauling business has refused to halt operations, in violation of a court order. The injunction, issued April 3, ordered Moacir Santos to cease transporting debris to and from his West Oakland warehouse. (Ahmed, 4/19)
Los Angeles Times:
Some California Cities Want Amsterdam-Style Pot Lounges, Push Limits Of Marijuana Legalization
The city is poised to allow cannabis lounges where people can consume the once-taboo product in a social setting. West Hollywood will join San Francisco, Oakland and South Lake Tahoe, which earlier this year became some of the first cities in California to open the consumption lounges modeled after those in Amsterdam. Communities in the Coachella Valley are also joining the ranks. (Parvini, 4/20)