Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President Susan Ellenberg, a key progressive voice on the governing body, has been vocal about criminal justice reform. “There is no acceptable level of deaths,” Ellenberg told San José Spotlight. “It is our obligation to ensure the safety of every pe...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - It is a troubling trend at a university in the South Bay. In one academic quarter, three students have died, two of them by suicide.Students at Santa Clara University are demanding better mental health resources and academic accommodations in the wake of...
As part of its investigation, the news group found otherdrug-related deaths of infants. It also learned that astate investigationof the local welfare agency found that Santa Clara County’s legal team was often overriding recommendations from social workers and sup...
County health officials are now also reporting the ethnicity and race of those who have died of COVID-19. So far, African-Americans and Latinos are overrepresented in the number of deaths. African-Americans make up 2.8 percent of the population of Santa Clara County, yet have acco...
Domestic-violence deaths decrease in Santa Clara County in 2010Lisa Fernandez
County U.S. PeerGroup State Extreme Heat Days per Year 10.0 11.2 11.2 12.3 FEMA National Risk Index Score 99.8 50.0 71.7 98.8 Population in Flood Hazard Zone 1.3% 4.6% 3.4% 2.4% Public Safety The public safety category aims to reward communities with low crime rates, few deaths tied to ...
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Santa Clara County leaders are still trying to lift the curtain on how taxpayer money is used to pay for lawsuit settlements on issues such as jail deaths. The Board of Supervisors took action to publicize such settlements last year, but reports haven’t fully delivered. Now supervisors want ...
12.3.18 –35-year-old man arrested on suspicion of DUI, carrying loaded firearm, found dead in his cell, allegedly committed suicide at Santa Clara County jail in Milpitas... 12.1.18 –Santa Rosa woman, 80, allegedly hit pedestrian on Hwy 12 at Middle Rincon, reportedly unaware of collisi...
- Santa Clara County health officials announced that two people died of COVID-19 in February. Those two deaths, along with another on March 6, came before what was previously thought to be the first new coronavirus-associated death in the county on March 9. In Tuesday's rev...