Two Sacramento County, Calif. supervisors walked out of a board meeting on Tuesday after seeing others in the room not wearing masks, which are still required in the building for another week.
Sacramento County To Keep Motels For Homeless Residents Open Through August Tuesday, April 20, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
Curtis Freeman has a room at a motel in Sacramento through Project Roomkey, Monday, Jan. 18 2021.
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The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday directed staff to keep open the county’s three Project Roomkey motels through at least August, providing a respite for the nearly 500 formerly homeless residents who live at the temporary shelters.
The decision reverses plans by county officials to close the motels this spring due to cost concerns. Roomkey is a partially state-funded program that has sheltered thousands of homeless Californians during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Sacramento County Deputy Sheriff's Association called for the resignation of a Sacramento County supervisor for his comments toward Trump supporters.
Sacramento Sheriff’s Office Released 52 People To ICE Deportation Agents Last Year One By Mistake Wednesday, December 23, 2020 | Sacramento, CA
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones.
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By Raheem Hosseini
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones admitted this month that his department turned over a Latino man to federal deportation agents even though it wasn t supposed to alert ICE.
The father was one of 52 people who completed jail sentences in Sacramento only to be released to Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year.
Jones acknowledged the mistake during an annual presentation mandated by California s TRUTH Act. That law requires local governing bodies to hold at least one public forum a year if their law enforcement agencies provided access to ICE.