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January 7, 2020 The sheriff’s presentation before the board of supervisors this week elicited critiques of his data, a request for a resident deputy in Covelo, and demands for him to issue a formal apology for including an image of a hog-tied Black man on a PowerPoint slide.
Sheriff Matt Kendall was asking the board to give him the go-ahead to request funding from the state to hire, train and equip ten more deputies to combat organized crime and cartel grows, which he says have proliferated in the Third District, especially Covelo. The total three-year estimate for the deputies, their training and their gear, including vehicles, came out to a little over $4 million. To justify the request, the sheriff included seventeen SWAT activations, two of them out-of-county assists, an increase in coroner’s cases, and a list of major crimes per year, going back to 2014. Homicides in 2020 were up to 13 from 8 the previous year, though they climbed to 18 the year before that. Assaults, inc
December 15, 2020 The cannabis ordinance has been a puzzle for years: how to move cultivators through the county permit process and on to a state license, which will be required as of January first, 2022? The state requires site-specific CEQA review for every grow, which the county does not. State agencies and the county are short on staff, and there are over a
thousand cultivators waiting in the queue to get their county permits.
The Board of Supervisors formed an ad hoc committee, consisting of Supervisors Ted Williams and John Haschak, to figure out how to fit the state and county pieces together. They’re hosting a virtual town hall tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday, December 16, at 4:00, to try and catch everyone up on the latest information.