The Davis Enterprise Wednesday, July 15, 2020

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2020

County closes churches, gyms and hair salons BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

With the threat of federal action to remove foreign students gone, UC Davis officials can go back to planning for the 2020-21 school year. CALEB HAMPTON/ ENTERPRISE FILE PHOTO

‘An emotional roller coaster’ White House backs down on student visas BY CALEB HAMPTON Enterprise staff writer On Tuesday afternoon, the United States Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Immigration Enforcement agreed to rescind a rule change announced last week that would have forced international students to leave the country if they were not taking in-person classes this fall. The

rule would also have barred students currently abroad from entering the U.S. if they could not prove at least some of their instruction would be delivered face-to-face.

submitted by student worker unions, cities, and several of the country’s largest tech companies detailed the dangers the rule posed to students and to the U.S. economy.

In a statement released last week, UC Davis leaders called the policy “cruel and thoughtless.”

There are roughly a million international students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities, many of whom spoke out this week about research and relationships that could have been disrupted by the ICE policy. “Students come here and make plans to study, do work, pay rent, take care of children and live their life,” said Kavitha Iyengar, president of United Automobile Workers Local

Within days of the rule’s announcement, it was challenged by nine separate lawsuits that were joined by at least 180 universities and 20 states, including the University of California and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. Dozens of “friend of the court” briefs

2865, the union representing UC student workers. On Tuesday, university leaders across the country celebrated the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the rule. “This sudden reversal by ICE is a win for common sense and for public health. Revoking the visas of international students in the midst of a pandemic would have put students’ futures, their communities’ health, and the U.S. economy in further jeopardy,” UC President Janet Napolitano said in a statement. The withdrawal of the rule

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BY JEFF HUDSON Enterprise staff writer The candidate filing period for the November election’s school board race is now underway — and the switch to district elections for school board trustees means the November contest will be a bit different from school board races in past years. Two school board seats — held by trustees Bob Poppenga and Alan Fernandes

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— will be on the November ballot. Poppenga and Fernandes were both elected in 2016 on an at-large basis (across the entire school district). But because of the school district’s recent transition from at-large elections to district elections, this year the seats currently held by Poppenga and Fernandes will be filled in November under the new

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Nearly three months after the victim’s death, the Yolo County Sheriff ’s Office has publicly identified a Woodland teen killed in an April drive-by shooting near Winters as the search continues for his alleged killer. David Sanchez, 17, died two days after being struck by gunfire on the afternoon of April 24 while sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle traveling on County Road 89 north of Winters. Two other male juveniles in the car escaped unharmed, sheriff’s Lt. Matt Davis said Monday.

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Issues with testing, contact tracing hamper virus fight BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer

One of them, the driver, initially transported Sanchez to Sutter Davis Hospital, where staff alerted the Davis Police Department that a male had arrived with a gunshot wound to the head, according to the agency’s online crime log. Sanchez was transported to an area trauma center, succumbing to his injuries on April 26. Sheriff ’s investigators said the suspect shot from a small, darkcolored sedan, images of which were captured on a security camera on the same day as the 1:30 p.m. shooting. Davis said the video

Testing and contact tracing — two key components in the battle to stop the spread of COVID-19 — continue to be sources of frustration both for health officials and members of the public. Complaints have been raised about long lines and wait times for testing as well as the lag time some are seeing before test results are received. Yolo County officials have said in some cases people are waiting a week or more for results. That, in turn, complicates the job of contact tracers who face a delay in investigating who may have been exposed and stopping outbreaks sooner rather than later. State officials have indicated the problem lies, in part, in the large increase in testing which has led to a large backlog of tests that need to be processed. “Our testing capacity has increased

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Candidate filing period for Winters homicide victim ID’d school board is underway B L K Y AUREN

Churches, gyms and hair salons in Yolo County were ordered closed effective immediately on Monday unless they can be modified to operate outside. The order came via Gov. Gavin Newsom and applies to all 29 counties on the state’s COVID-19 monitoring list, a list Yolo County joined last week due to rising coronavirus cases and diminished hospital and ICU capacity. Also ordered closed were personal care services (such as nail salons, cosmetology, tattoo and piercing), indoor malls and offices used for non-essential purposes. Additionally, all counties in the state were ordered to shut down bars and indoor services including restaurant dining, movie theaters and more. Hair salons and barbershops, places of worship and dine-in restaurants had all been given the green

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