Tag: law and legislation
New California laws take effect in 2025
California lawmakers in 2024 introduced 4,821 bills, but most of them were tossed or otherwise rejected during the months-long legislative process, during which most...
News Briefs | Published July 5, 2024
County begins Aptos Area Adaptive Traffic Control System Project
The County of Santa Cruz Department of Community Development and Infrastructure has announced that the Aptos...
Sex abuse case against former SLVUSD admin paused
Just weeks before the civil child sex abuse trial was set to begin, it was canceled.
Ned Hearn, the former SLVUSD teacher and administrator who...
San Lorenzo Valley man accused of new imprisonment charge, witness tampering
A 37-year-old San Lorenzo Valley man who was already facing felony rape and violent false imprisonment charges has been accused of additional offenses prosecutors...
SVUSD considered calling CPS over boy’s pandemic protest
Court documents in a lawsuit brought by a 7-year-old Brook Knoll Elementary School student against the Scotts Valley Unified School District show the superintendent...
Santa Cruz County Civil Grand Jury tackles housing crisis
A new report from the Civil Grand Jury takes square aim at the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz County and demands local planners...
Monte Sereno appoints Powell as city attorney
Monte Sereno has voted to appoint Kirsten Powell, Scotts Valley’s top legal official, as its new city attorney.
The new post in Silicon Valley, however,...
City of Scotts Valley adopts new streetlight banner policy
Are you a nonprofit worker looking to boost awareness about a civic welfare initiative or part of a group seeking to get the word...
Road project on Highway 9 in Felton continues next week
A project to construct sidewalks, curb ramps, driveways and retaining walls on Highway 9 between Graham Hill Road and the San Lorenzo Valley schools...
