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SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Many people across America watched the stunning outcome of former Minneapolis, MN police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial and verdict as he was found guilty by a Minneapolis jury on all three counts in George Floyd’s murder.
Floyd’s murder has brought national and international attention to the call for police reform in America and racial justice.
Rev. Shane Harris, the President of the People’s Association of Justice Advocates, and other San Diego leaders are now pushing City Council and Board of Supervisors to pass resolutions in support of H.R. 1280, the ‘George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.‘
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The San Diego County Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to ask for more time for San Pasqual Academy, a boarding school for foster children which faces state orders to close by October.
The Supervisors voted unanimously to request an extension that would postpone closure until June 2022 and to seek an exemption to keep it open indefinitely.
Citing declining enrollment and recent changes in state and federal law, California regulators
notified San Diego County child-welfare officials in February that they must close the academy by Oct. 1. The decision follows changes to federal law that discourage use of congregate care facilities for foster children, favoring home placement instead.
Supporters of San Pasqual Academy rally to fight closure
A person walks toward the front entrance of San Pasqual Academy in Escondido in this 2013 photo.
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The news last week that San Pasqual Academy would need to close this fall took staff and students by surprise, and by late last week they joined former students and others in a campaign to save the boarding school for foster children.
Citing declining enrollment and recent changes in state and federal law, California regulators notified San Diego County child-welfare officials early this month that they must close the academy by Oct. 1. The Escondido campus
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