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Layoffs spark rifts at struggling southeast San Diego charter school
A financially strapped charter school in southeast San Diego laid off employees to help address a nearly $1 million deficit, but some are now raising concerns about its leadership and how the cuts were decided. Officials at America’s Finest Charter School, which serves students from transitional kindergarten through 12th grade,...
Sidewalk issues drive complaints in Paradise Hills, Skyline. So why do they take so long to fix?
Guy Preuss is obsessed with improving sidewalks in Paradise Hills. He once crossed the country to ask his Congress member for money to help widen sidewalks and improve parking. He also repainted the sidewalk along a decommissioned bus stop from red to gray so people could park there and because he said the city was taking too long to do it.
Introducing ‘Fix This’: We get answers to San Diegans’ quality-of-life questions
My name is Crystal Niebla, infrastructure and government accountability reporter at inewsource, and I want to keep my prescription-assisted eyes on infrastructure problems for you in the San Diego region. Roads and sidewalks, bike lanes and parks, public transportation and buildings, those scary roundabouts, you name it. We (I, especially)...
Some officers escape discipline despite new police transparency laws
In August 2019, San Diego Police Detective James Needham handed off a shooting victim to federal immigration authorities. Needham was supposed to be investigating the shooting, but in the weeks that followed, he stopped looking into the case and repeatedly lied about his work, according to a police Internal Affairs report.
Police officers’ disciplinary files don’t always follow them to new jobs
CONTENT WARNING: This article contains graphic information and images. In the early morning hours on a Saturday in December 2019, San Diego Police Officer Dillon Fuston was investigating a stabbing downtown when he got a call about a broken window at a nearby storefront. Fuston found a 20-year-old Black man and tried to arrest him.
These officers committed misconduct. But what were the consequences?
It started as a simple call to San Diego police about three young people being drunk in public. It ended with one young man bleeding from his face after being smashed into a police vehicle, and another wedged between seats in the back of a police car, covered in pepper spray.
An Escondido company owes ex-employees $300k after stealing wages. Years later, they haven’t been paid
In three years, James Woo racked up more than $200,000 in personal credit card debt while fronting the cost of flights, meals, hotels and trade show bookings for his employer, a CBD product company based in Escondido. Then in 2020 the company abruptly fired him without paying him back, according...
Wage theft in San Diego returns to pre-pandemic levels as officials take aim at offenders
Policymakers across the state have pledged in recent years to curb wage theft and hold employers accountable for a problem that California workers say cost them $320 million in 2017 alone. And while those efforts – which include initiatives from the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and a new...
Five workplace rights San Diego workers should know
Wage theft claims in San Diego County are on the rise again after a pandemic dip. Local workers reported more than 3,300 instances of wage theft last year alone. But labor rights advocates say official numbers underrepresent how widespread the issue really is – especially because many workers often do not realize when they are being stolen from.
San Diego neo-Nazi suspected in Anne Frank House incident
This story is part of an ongoing project with KQED in San Francisco and other NPR stations to chronicle the extent of extremism in California. There will be future reporting throughout the state published by the various newsrooms in the coming months. Police suspect that former Chula Vista resident Robert...
Amid growing crisis, Mayor Gloria asks state to help pay for homelessness programs
Mayor Todd Gloria went to Sacramento last week to ask state lawmakers to help pay for homelessness programs on an ongoing basis and was met with some objections. Testifying before a State Assembly budget subcommittee, Gloria thanked lawmakers for the money they approved in June 2021 to address immediate challenges, but bemoaned that he had only just received San Diego’s remaining portion — $22 million — last month. He said local governments need the state to commit to permanent funding with enough flexibility to help people get off the streets and into shelters, but also to help prevent people from falling into homelessness.
San Diego Unified agreed to pay for his private education. Now his mom says she’s owed thousands of dollars.
For the past year, Heather Russell has home-schooled her son Ethan, who is nonverbal and, in his 17 years, has had a heart attack, 23 surgeries, and is living with cerebral palsy and floating harbor syndrome, an extremely rare disease that causes delayed bone growth and intellectual disabilities. Russell took...
San Diego, Imperial Counties have entered “low” community COVID-19 levels
San Diego County COVID-19 levels have generally continued their winter decline, public health data shows, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reason to be optimistic. The federal government’s metric for community levels of the disease, based on local hospital strain and seven-day case rates, showed a new,...
Antisemitism is on the rise in San Diego. This group is fighting back.
Hate crimes, hate-based incidents and antisemitic attitudes are becoming more prevalent across the U.S., and San Diego has felt the impact. Local law enforcement agencies say they are prioritizing hate crime cases, and Jewish community centers and synagogues are continuing to ramp up security to keep people safe. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors recently agreed to build a Holocaust remembrance exhibit to combat antisemitic messaging and conspiracy theories centered around Jewish people.
SANDAG’s internal auditor has issued several damning reports. Now the board may disband her office.
The San Diego Association of Governments’ internal auditor, whose damning reports have exposed major policy problems and drawn scrutiny on current leadership, is retiring — and she may be the agency’s last in-house watchdog. SANDAG board leaders are considering replacing Independent Performance Auditor Mary Khoshmashrab with outside...
How an antisemitic extremist in San Diego evaded hate crime prosecution
This story is part of an ongoing project with KQED in San Francisco and other NPR stations to chronicle the extent of extremism in California. There will be future reporting throughout the state published by the various newsrooms in the coming months. A prominent San Diego figure in an antisemitic...
The Bay Area roots of a neo-Nazi propaganda group
This story is part of an ongoing project with KQED in San Francisco and other NPR stations to chronicle the extent of extremism in California. There will be future reporting from throughout the state published by the various newsrooms in the coming months. Trigger warning: This article, which is about...
More Mexicans are dying in their attempts to reach San Diego from Tijuana
More Mexican nationals are dying along the U.S.-Mexico border between the San Diego and Tijuana regions in their attempt to enter the U.S. than in previous years, according to new data from the Mexican Consulate in San Diego. From October 2021 through September 2022, at least 46 Mexican nationals died...
Explore San Diego County’s 8,000 restaurants — and the food safety risks inspectors found
In the last three years, one third of San Diego County restaurants have had at least one major food safety violation, according to an inewsource analysis of publicly available inspection data. San Diego County is home to nearly 16,000 retail food facilities, from restaurants and caterers to schools and vending...
Imperial County’s largest hospital is running out of cash
Imperial County’s largest hospital is in turmoil. Prompted by what officials called “financial challenges,” the El Centro Regional Medical Center has seen most of its governing board and CEO ousted. Its obstetrics and pediatrics department has since shut down. And healthcare consultants who were hired to run the hospital following the shakeup have already resigned less than three months after signing a contract.
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