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COMMUNITY NEWS Newman Leads Housing Coalition

Housing Santa Cruz County, a countywide coalition of local organizations and individuals working to increase affordable housing opportunities for local residents and workers, has named Brooke Newman as interim managing director.

This is a new position.

Newman will lead the staff as Housing Santa Cruz County enters its second year of mobilizing the community in support of key affordable housing policies and affordable projects designed to meet the needs of Santa Cruz County’s lower-income families and individuals.

“Brooke has seen the devastating impact that inadequate and unaffordable housing supply has on our community,” said Don Lane, Housing Santa Cruz County governing board chairman. “We believe her deep experience working with marginalized communities will help housing Santa Cruz County better understand and advocate for community members in need of affordable housing solutions.”

Newman’s background is in community organizing and building partnerships between disparate groups. She is experienced at facilitating relationships between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to work toward shared goals.

“After years of working in the realm of homelessness, it has become abundantly clear that our collective efforts to lift people out of poverty will continue to be stalled until we demand that the creation of more affordable housing be prioritized throughout the county,” Newman said.

Brooke Newman

She played a lead role in the management and strategic growth of the Santa Cruz Downtown Streets Team. During her tenure, she developed its first CalFresh Employment Training program, first weekly women’s empowerment program, first culinary training program, and expanded the Team’s reach throughout the county.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Newman worked with the City of Santa Cruz and the County of Santa Cruz, and their nonprofit and community partners, to expand access to shelter and services for people experiencing homelessness throughout the county.

“For many of those who are housed and unhoused in Santa Cruz County, there has been little reason to believe that a pathway to safe, stable affordable housing exists for them,” Newman said. “I’m excited about working with Housing Santa Cruz County and its members as we advocate for a sea change in affordable housing development throughout our county.”

Newman has held leadership positions in a variety of nonprofit organizations including executive director of Birchbark Foundation, founding board member for the Alliance of Self-Directed Education and administrative manager of the World Trade Center Health Program in Queens, New York.

She earned a bachelor’s degree from the Eugene Lang College at the New School University and a master’s of public administration from the Baruch School of Public Affairs.

For more about the coalition, see www.housingsantacruzcounty.com and on Facebook.

See the 2020 City of Santa Cruz Reponse to Homelessness report: https:// tinyurl.com/sc-homeless-report n

“Mock Trial” from page 12

Another tenant of Smith will testify to Cobey’s even-tempered character and lack of hostility toward Smith before Smith’s death. A different neighbor and friend of Cobey will testify to Cobey’s habit of “cooling off” after outrageous actions by Smith, as well as the common knowledge about rattlesnakes crawling into mailboxes. Finally, Jamie Cobey will deny placing the snake in the mailbox and will testify that the items found by the sheriff’s deputy were everyday items for desert horticulturalists.

The question is whether Erik Smith’s use of a smart camera provided by law enforcement to capture an image of snake-feeding tongs on the property of Jamie Cobey constituted a search under the Fourth Amendment and therefore required a search warrant, or whether it fell outside the warrant. n