New sergeants installed as one leaves Sgt. Greg Yotsuya retires after 30 years Dirk Nieuwenhuis and Mike Vierra were sworn in as sergeants last week with Chief of Police Rick Collins administering the oath.
After spending 30 years with the Ceres Police Department, Greg Yotsuya has had enough of police work.
His retirement as sergeant came Friday, the day after Chief Rick Collins promoted Dirk Nieuwenhuis and Mike Vierra to rank of sergeant. Yotsuya himself is being replaced by Sgt. Keith Griebel.
Yotsuya was hired at a time when the retirement age could occur as soon as he hit 50. But he desired retirement even more seeing a new slate of state laws being passed which he feels ties the hands of police, is unfair to require of officers and a waste of time.
Los Altos council addresses dilapidated Halsey House
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Halsey House, a historical landmark in Redwood Grove, has fallen into disrepair and has been closed to the public since 2008.
The Los Altos City Council accepted a $34,000 state grant during the Jan. 12 council meeting toward preserving Halsey House, a historical landmark in Redwood Grove that has fallen into disrepair.
The money would be used to fund a historic resource study of the property, and the city also agreed to contribute $16,353 from its park-in-lieu fund as part of its matching contribution for the grant amount.
However, the council declined to immediately appropriate an additional $25,000 from its park-in-lieu fund to pay an architectural consulting group for review of the site, opting instead to have its commissions review and formulate recommendations on the direction the city should take on preserving Halsey House.
Updated on January 15, 2021 at 10:13 am
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The BART Police Department on Thursday unveiled plans to begin collecting racial data during each and every police stop throughout the transit system.
California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA), passed by the legislature in 2015, requires law enforcement agencies across the state to collect demographic data during all police stops by April 2023. BART, however, just announced it hopes to begin complying with the mandate by October of this year.
BART’s promise to improve its efforts in gathering demographic data comes in the wake of an NBC Bay Area investigation that revealed a complete lack of racial data collection during an ongoing police operation at BART’s Embarcadero Station.
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