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Two SLO County top administrators to retirement

Written on 14 Jun, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

Within a two day period, San Luis Obispo County Administrator Jim Grant and County Council Warren Jensen both announced this week they plan to retire in the fall. Following a sex scandal that ended in both former county administrator David... (Continue reading)

Apple must defend data stalking charge

Written on 13 Jun, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that owners of iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches may pursue claims against Apple for allegedly allowing advertisers to secretly track activities of mobile device users. (San Jose Mercury News) Apple, Google and four other smaller... (Continue reading)

DNA evidence helps convict Paso Robles poacher 

Written on 13 Jun, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 20 comments

A Paso Robles man was recently convicted of deer poaching after a DNA analysis linked him conclusively to an illegally killed buck. [HuntingNews] Jason Allan Domingos, 37, plead no contest in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court to the poaching... (Continue reading)

San Luis Obispo employee union agrees to new contract

Written on 13 Jun, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

After nine months and an impasse, San Luis Obispo’s largest employee group and city management reached a tentative agreement following a fact finding hearing where it was revealed that the city of San Luis Obispo has $63 million in cash... (Continue reading)

Manson family member seeking parole

Written on 13 Jun, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 26 comments

A former Manson family member whose release was squelched two years ago by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is scheduled to have another parole hearing today at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo. [UTNews] Bruce Davis, 69, is serving life... (Continue reading)

Evidence points to evidence mismanagement

Written on 12 Jun, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 15 comments

It costs county taxpayers nearly $700,000 annually to underwrite the maintenance of property and evidence rooms for county law enforcement agencies, yet those functions — vital to the administration of justice — are in chaos in many county agencies. That’s... (Continue reading)

Voters to ponder three-strikes law

Written on 12 Jun, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 21 comments

Should California’s sometimes-controversial “Three-Strikes Law” be modified? Voters in November will have a say in the law’s future following qualification of a initiative that would ostensibly reduce the number of convictions. If endorsed by voters, the initiative would change the... (Continue reading)

State voters still like tax plan

Written on 11 Jun, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 41 comments

Potential voting support for Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax increase initiative plan remains fairly strong, according to the results of the latest Field Poll. The measure would increase for seven years state personal income taxes on persons earning more than $250,000,... (Continue reading)

Sheriffs support early release prisoner bill

Written on 11 Jun, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

Faced with the cost of a rapidly growing inmate population, California sheriffs are backing a bill that would allow some felons to leave county jails before completing minimum sentences. The bill, authored by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, would grant... (Continue reading)

Grover Beach police arrest four suspected burglars

Written on 10 Jun, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

Grover Beach police arrested four people they suspect might be responsible for a chain of commercial burglaries that have occurred during that past few months in Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo, Pismo Beach, and Arroyo Grande. Early Saturday morning, a... (Continue reading)