The biennial counts, mandated in every state, track the number of unsheltered and sheltered homeless people because those numbers determine how much each county will receive in state and federal funding to address homelessness.
The report differentiated between sheltered versus unsheltered homeless people: sheltered meaning they are residing in a supervised public or privately operated shelter that provides temporary living arrangements, with unsheltered referring to those living in the streets, cars, parks, and with other sleeping arrangements not designed for regular living.
In 2022, San Joaquin County had a total of 2,319 people experiencing homelessness, with 42 percent being sheltered and 58 percent reporting being unsheltered.
Now, in 2024, the total number for the county is 4,732 with 27 percent sheltered and 73 percent unsheltered -- a 104 percent increase from the 2022 numbers, according to the report.
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A public speaker at the Pittsburg City Council meeting Monday demanded to know why city officials and police had failed to alert the public about an alleged sexual predator at a public pool following an alleged assault on a child more than a month ago.
Speaker David Manly said one of his young female relatives had been swimming at the municipal Buchanan Swim Center on the Fourth of July when a man pulled her under the water twice to penetrate the 11-year-old with his fingers.
"It appears to me that this has been given a low priority as there was no notification sent to the public. This predator is out there. He's molesting our children," Manly said to the City Council.
"I have to ask, by not going public, whose interest is being protected over the safety of our children?" he continued.
Manly went on to highlight his grievances that no notifications appeared to have been sent out to parents who were at the pool on July 4, nor were any distributed from the city nor the Pittsburg Police Department.
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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors declined to act Tuesday on a proposal that would ban right turns at an estimated two-thirds of red lights in the city. The board instead signaled support for a blanket ban for all intersections.
The proposal in front of the board Tuesday would instruct city staff to ban right turns on red at intersections with "high levels of pedestrian activity," which longtime SFMTA engineer Ricardo Olea estimated would cover two-thirds of all lights in the city.
It comes after a successful pilot in the Tenderloin where a banning of right turns on red lights led to a reduction in close calls between vehicles and pedestrians. The program is currently expanding into adjacent areas like the Financial District.
At Tuesday's meeting, numerous public commenters and SFMTA directors asked Olea, why not just go all the way?
"We just have to have a full-on debate about going the full nine yards," Director Steve Heminger said.
But Olea said that the case for a blanket ban isn't as cut and dry as it may seem, particularly for traffic engineers whom he described as "divided" on the issue.
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A 12-year-old boy riding a scooter was struck and killed by a pickup truck in San Jose on Tuesday afternoon, according to police.
The collision was reported at 4:21 p.m. in the area of Camden and Leigh avenues.
Investigators determined a man driving a 2006 Chevrolet truck west on Camden hit the boy, who was riding a non-electric scooter north near a marked crosswalk. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene and his name was not immediately released.
The Chevy driver stayed at the scene following the collision and cooperated with investigators.
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A man who died in a shooting that left two others injured in the area of San Francisco's Market Street on Monday night has been identified by the city's Medical Examiner's Office as 35-year-old Jimmy Lee Thomas III.
Officers responded at 10:49 p.m. Monday to a ShotSpotter gunshot detection system activation in the 1000 block of Market Street and learned while en route that a man was found with a gunshot wound in the area of Sixth and Market streets, San Francisco police said.
The man was taken to a hospital to be treated for life-threatening injuries. Officers found another man injured nearby at Seventh and Stevenson streets and he was taken to a hospital, though he is expected to survive, according to police.
A third victim, later identified as San Francisco resident Thomas, was found in the 1000 block of Market Street and was taken to a hospital but succumbed to his injuries there.
Police have not announced an arrest or any suspect details in connection with the shooting.
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The Oakland Zoo said Wednesday it has a new orphaned mountain lion cub, which came into its care Monday.
The 4-week-old cub was discovered in El Dorado County by a local resident. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife used ground and wildlife cameras to try to find its mother over a period of days, but no mountain lions were found in the area.
The cub's name is Briar. The zoo said it will take care of Briar until his "forever home" can be found.
Oakland Zoo has a long history of rehabilitating mountain lion cubs. The zoo said last month it has successfully rescued and rehabilitated 26 mountain lion cubs as part of the zoo's rescue and recovery program for local wildlife in need.
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A 33-year-old father of two is fighting for his life in a hospital after being shot while taking a nap in his East Oakland home last week.
Last Thursday, Run Hua Kuang had just come back from his job as a delivery driver when he laid down to take a nap.
Then, at a little before 5 p.m., someone fired a bullet that penetrated the wall of his apartment in the 2200 block of East 19th Street.
It went through a headboard and then through his head and out his left eye, according to an account of the shooting posted on GoFundMe by his sister.
A spokesperson for the Oakland Housing Authority, which is in charge of the investigation because it manages the apartment building, said they don't have a lot of details yet and are still looking for a suspect.
Kuang's GoFundMe page can be found at https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-huas-fight-for-life-after-tragic-shooting and had raised more than $262,000 as of Wednesday afternoon.
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