Sonoma County Gazette January 2016

JANUARY 2016
T To o o o L L i i t t t t l l e e W W a a t t e e r r vs. Too Little Housing ~ 10
Fostering New Laws for Crab Traps Urban Growth
FIND the Gazette LIST~ 34
Success in
Our Youth ~ 17
Work - Fun - Death ~ 20
Remain On Shore ~ 33
Boundaries Up for Renewal ~ 38
Connecting
COPS to
Community
By Vesta Copestakes
Another CODE BLUE warning is
Law Enforcement Oversight Comes to Sonoma County
increased attention is being focused on use of force by law enforcement. Our county is among many communities grappling with the complex questions which follow when law enforcement uses force resulting in the death of a community member. As one means of trying to move forward after such a tragedy and hoping to reduce the potential for future incidents, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors convened the Community and Local Law Enforcement Task Force after the death of Andy Lopez to explore with the public in an open forum how this community should proceed. The Task Force was composed of 21 residents of our county and was very diverse in demographic characteristics as well as experience and point of view.
posted and I can’t help but think of the people I met recently. My house is warm. Temperatures are plummeting into the 20s at night. Ice everywhere.
By Eric Koenigshofer
Throughout the United States
John and Bonnie, who live at Camp Michela after losing their apartment to an abusive landlord, have become camp leaders of the tent village to keep it organized and safe for everyone.
Susie and David, pregnant with their first child, living in a tent while he goes to work at the day labor center every day, hoping to raise enough money to get an apartment before the baby comes.
Don who let us move him out of his river camp and is now safe in the winter shelter. His camp partner Luke, out there in his pile of debris by the Russian River, cozy - if you want to call it that - in between layers of who knows what? “Don’t touch my stuff!” he says as we approach to remove debris that will wash down the river when it floods. We gently ask again. He relents and let’s us take some of it - but not all. “You will leave your stuff when the river rises. Please let us do it now before that happens.”
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
~ Walt Disney
The Task Force split into three subcommittees and addressed community healing, community
Lisa who went into a drinking rage after her father died and lost
oriented policing and enforcement accountability.
law
Homeless cont’d on page 12
LAW cont’d on page 8
The EVERYTHING to DO Calendar: pgs 55 - 71
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