ICE agents have reportedly claimed to be police officers to gain consent to enter a person’s home – a tactic that is viewed as unethical, but within the powers granted to the officers. Civil rights groups supported Kalra’s bill, looking to stymie the Trump administration’s promise to use any and all available tools to deport undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes. Many groups fear Trump will expand deportations to include all undocumented immigrants, their families and relatives.   read more

A couple of weeks after social media consultant Sarah Slocum triggered a brawl by refusing to remove her Glass in Molotov’s, a punkish bar in the Haight, the owner of The Willows, a bar popular with tech folk, banned the $1,500 spectacles from the premises. Patrons at both bars regarded filming or snapping them as a violation of their privacy, and Slocum blamed it on “some wanker Google Glass haters."   read more

Some critics said the expansion was classic mission creep, as government sought to Hoover up any and all information it could get its hands on for indeterminate storage and undetermined use. Other critics went further, saying the entire center should be decommissioned and that the center was still poised to expand at a later date.   read more

The list of retail stores that received recalled meat from Rancho Feeding Corporation of Petaluma was 211 pages long before federal officials nearly tripled the number of outlets Wednesday to almost 6,400. It is not clear which stores received meat from cows with cancerous eyes.   read more

The doctors reviewed all polio-like cases in the state from August 2012 to July 2013 and found between 20 and 25 that seemed to constitute a cluster of disease. But the cases have not yet been linked to EV68 or, for that matter, to each other although the disease is contagious. Researchers do not know the cause of the paralysis, which is apparently permanent, and say the presence of EV68 may just be incidental.   read more

It is not clear how successful the bureau has been at solving graffiti cases in the past—nor is it clear if they’ll play a role in this one—but the spray painting of nine homes and a car with testy slogans like “Fuck the 1%” have garnered national attention. “Sometimes the FBI will monitor protest groups and things of that nature,” Atherton Police Lieutenant Joe Wade told the San Jose Mercury News.   read more

The fire department announced earlier in the month that it was overhauling its 911 procedures and ditching the process that has dispatchers reading through a complicated list of questions with multiple complex question branches, which can take a lot of time and frustrate callers. But instead of a smooth transition, the contractor gave 60 days notice he was going to cut the city off.   read more

City Council members knew that secular humanists in the Southern California community didn’t like the religious symbol and that the city attorney said it was probably unconstitutional. Now they know that a federal judge isn’t fond of it either. “The Court concludes that Lake Elsinore’s veterans’ memorial was designed without a predominantly secular purpose, and that its principal effect is to advance religion,” the judge wrote.   read more

“14,500 consumers who partially completed their applications or submitted updates to existing applications within the time frame . . . should either start a new application or resubmit any updates they made.” Around 6,500 applicants who completed their applications and thought they were done are not. Applications from another 16,000 likely Medi-Cal qualifiers were also messed up.   read more

Duncan, 31, struck a plea deal with the feds for his work managing grow operations at a legal medical marijuana dispensary and reported to Mendota Federal Correctional Institution near Fresno Monday. At least the state considered it legal. He was just an employee, not an owner, but was caught in the crossfire between state and federal officials over conflicting and confusing laws.   read more

Steven Spriggs had appealed his conviction for using the map function on his phone while stuck in traffic on a Fresno highway. In hearings in traffic court and Superior Court, Spriggs claimed the law prohibits only talking and listening on a phone. The appeals court pointed out that when the law under which Spriggs was charged was written in 2006, smartphones with map functions weren’t common.   read more

The judge said Prop. 9 “creates a significant risk” that a prisoner’s sentence will be longer than the law mandated when the case was decided. Although the initiative provides a mechanism for a parole board to actually advance a hearing, Karlton found that promise “illusory” because of hurdles the board erects. The judge also found that governors misused Proposition 89 by wielding it as a weapon to arbitrarily delay paroles rather than employ it to review prisoner applications on their merit.   read more

The council unanimously directed City Attorney Mike Feuer’s office to write an ordinance that would change the zoning code to ban the practice of well “stimulation” until the council is convinced that state and federal regulations protect residents and drilling is in compliance with the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. “I think we all can agree unregulated fracking is crazy,” Councilman Paul Koretz, one of the authors of the motion, said before the vote.   read more

The indictments date back to incidents captured on video in December 2010 and January 2011 and released two months later by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. The footage appears to show narcotics officers making two separate drug arrests after entering rooms without permission or a warrant. Other footage shows officers walking out of rooms with what appears to be bags of personal possessions, including a laptop computer, that were never logged as evidence.   read more

More than 500 people in O.C. applied for permits since the February 13 ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. That exceeds all the county permit requests in 2013. The applicants aren’t waiting to find out if an appeal filed Thursday by California Attorney General Kamala Harris is successful.   read more

The report said that the form of the reorganization had been properly implemented, but not much else. “While the physical logistics of the reorganization have been successful, the service improvements and big-picture changes that represent the plan’s promise of reinvention remain unfinished.” Those “changes” include revamping the state’s hiring system.   read more

The federal government is sufficiently unimpressed that it has not bothered to monitor the radiation’s approach. But the Center for Marine and Environmental Radioactivity (CMER) has used private funds to harness resources from around the world to track, measure and analyze this “unprecedented event” on its website.   read more