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Organizations advocate for Lompoc inmates Council
may extend COVID-19 relief By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR
The Santa Barbara City Council on Tuesday will discuss extending its emergency ordinance related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The council will be asked to authorize the city administrator to make “recovery-related amendments” to leases for city property, as well as additional relief pertaining to COVID-19 economic recovery and relief. The ordinance requires five affirmative votes to be adopted. The city formerly adopted a pair of emergency ordinances in 2020. City staff is recommending that the city’s emergency ordinances be extended until Sept. 8, if the local or state public health orders are still in effect, according to the staff report. Please see relief on A4
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Patricia Solorio, Lompoc Prison Task Force member and director of grant-making at the Fund for Santa Barbara, speaks at an event to raise awareness for COVID-19 deaths in the Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution. A small group gathered at Ryon Memorial Park in Lompoc Sunday.
Small gathering honors COVID-19related inmate deaths
City staff is recommending that the city’s emergency ordinances be extended until Sept. 8, if the local or state public health orders are still in effect.
By ANNELISE HANSHAW
Group calls for state to investigate Gaviota Creek
NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Members of the Lompoc Prison Task Force and representatives from Supervisor Joan Hartmann’s and U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal’s office gathered at Ryon Memorial Park Sunday to raise awareness of COVID-19 deaths inside Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution. Love Your Inmate, an organization that supports inmates and their families, collaborated with the task force to plan the event. “The event is a reminder to those incarcerated at the Lompoc Federal Prison that they are not forgotten and to recognize those seven lives lost due to COVID-19,” Chrissie Rogers, a spokeswoman for Love Your Inmate, told the News-Press prior to the event. “Today is just to say that we know it’s been a year, but we’re still here. We’re still fighting for you,” Tanya Hyde, Lompoc Prison Task Force member, told the News-Press Sunday. The Federal Bureau of Prisons recorded over 1,000 COVID-19 cases in the penitentiary and prison and five deaths over the past year. Five white roses sat on a table Sunday to commemorate the five deceased inmates, and red roses represented family members. The American Civil Liberties Union investigated the prison complex’s outbreak and alleges that some employees mishandled the outbreak. Lompoc Prison Task Force members Please see gathering on A4
By MADISON HIRNEISEN NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT
Jane Quandt, task force member and pastor at Valley of the Flowers United Church of Christ in Lompoc, delivered a short message encouraging compassion.
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A local environmental group is urging the State Water Board to investigate alleged water diversion from Gaviota Creek, an action they assert is being done illegally and threatening the population of endangered Southern Steelhead fish. Coastal Ranches Conservancy, an environmental protection group that operates along the Gaviota Coast, sent a petition to the State Water Board back in June 2020, requesting that officials examine water removal from Gaviota Creek. The CRC alleges that the water diversion is happening illegally to provide water to Gaviota rest stops. Please see gaviota on A4
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