Posted By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson on Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 2:44 PM click to enlarge Mark McKenna Charmaine Lawson is hugged by supporters at a 2019 vigil for her son, David Josiah Lawson. Charmaine Lawson still hasn’t cashed the $200,000 check that came as a part of her settlement agreement with the city of Arcata. She says it took her four days to even open the envelope it was mailed in and it has now sat for weeks atop her son’s urn. Filed in November of 2018, the lawsuit alleged the city and its officials violated Charmaine Lawson’s equal protection rights by inadequately and incompetently investigating the April 15, 2017, stabbing death of her son, 19-year-old David Josiah Lawson, with racism and bias contributing to what th
SURVEY: County of Humboldt Wants to Know How Satisfied You Are With Its Services
File photo of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office overseeing the removal of abandoned vehicles at Samoa Beach last year. | HCSO
The County of Humboldt has made it easier for citizens to air their grievances with its various departments. The county administrative office released a new survey yesterday that allows members of the public to rate their level of satisfaction with each department, ranging from “very satisfied” to “very dissatisfied.”
Humboldt County Administrative Office spokesperson Manny Machado told the
Outpost that the county issued the online questionnaire in accordance with a grand jury report recommendation made in August of last year.
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Next week will mark the fourth anniversary of the fatal stabbing of David Josiah Lawson, a 19-year-old Humboldt State University sophomore whose still unsolved killings left fissures throughout the local community.
Lawson died early in the morning of April 15, 2017, after he was stabbed multiple times including once to the heart amid a series of fights at an off-campus house party in Arcata. Kyle Zoellner, a then 23-year-old McKinleyville man, was arrested at the scene and charged with Lawson s murder but within weeks a Humboldt County Superior Court judge had dismissed the case against him, finding there was insufficient evidence to hold him for trial.
Press release from the Yurok Tribe:
Today,
the Yurok Tribe, Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria, the
Wiyot Tribe and the Trinidad Rancheria announced their support of the
California Attorney General’s effort to pursue a court order
requiring the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services
Child Welfare Services Division and the Humboldt County Sheriff’s
Office to fully and transparently implement the terms of a 2018 court
ruling regarding the agencies’ mismanagement of child abuse and
neglect cases.
California
Attorney General Xavier Becerra recently took a first step toward
extending the conditions in the Court-ordered Judgment against the