LAJKE COUNTY
LCWCC $10,000 donation deadline Feb. 14, 2022
Lake County Women’s Civic Club is trying to give away $10,000 to a local non-profit organization. If you are interested or if you know of an organization that you think would be a good candidate, please encourage them to reach out to us. They can call me, Helen Finch at 707-972-1807, or they can provide necessary information listed on our FB Page (posted Jan 7, 2022)
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LAKE AND MENDOCINO
Area Agency on Aging to hold public hearing on Area Plan Update
The Area Agency on Aging (AAA) of Lake & Mendocino Counties PSA 26 will conduct a public hearing to accept comments on the 2020-2024 Area Plan Update. The plan sets forth goals and objectives to address needs of older adults and people with disabilities in Lake and Mendocino Counties.
The AAA is interested in receiving comments from older adults, persons with disabilities, family caregivers, agencies, and advocacy groups serving these individuals, as well as other interested parties.
Copies of the plan’s goals and objectives will be available at the hearing and the entire plan for 2020-2024 can be accessed at: http://www.lakecountyca.gov/Assets/Departments/Social+Services/AAA/2020-2024+Area+Plan.pdf
Hearing date, time and location: Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 11 am Via Zoom:
https://lakecounty.zoom.us/j/93460785140?pwd=Nm5Wa0tqZzR5MWE3K0g2RWEzazgzUT09
For more information or to RSVP, please contact AAA at 707-995-3744 or aaa@dss.co.lake.ca.us
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CALIFORNIA
Demystifying California crime
About two in three Californians say violence and street crime are either a big problem or somewhat of a problem in their local community today, according to the PPIC survey. And crime continues to dominate the headlines: A Tuesday morning shooting at an Oakland spa left the suspected shooter dead and a man in critical condition, while UCLA moved classes online Tuesday after a former lecturer — later arrested in Colorado — sent threatening messages to people on campus and posted a video referencing a mass shooting.
- On Wednesday, state Sen. Anthony Portantino, a Glendale Democrat, introduced a bill that would require the state Departments of Education and Justice to develop “model content” directing schools how to handle the threat or perceived threat of a mass shooting. The proposal would also mandate families to disclose whether they keep firearms at home, and require schools to share information on safe firearm storage and search student property for guns if there’s a credible violent threat.
But, as CalMatters’ Nigel Duara points out in a comprehensive explainer, California’s crime statistics are themselves a loaded weapon that can be pointed in any direction and manipulated to paint very different pictures. So what’s really going on with homicides, hate crimes and property crimes — and how many cases is law enforcement clearing?
EDD wants to forgive most overpayments
The offices of the Employment Development Department in Sacramento on Jan. 10, 2022. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters
Some Californians may have received more money than they were technically entitled to under the federal government’s pandemic jobless benefits program, but they shouldn’t have to repay those funds unless the claims were fraudulent, the state unemployment department wrote in a Monday letter to Congress also signed by jobless agencies in every other state, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. The unemployment departments want the feds to make it easier to forgive overpayments for claimants who made honest mistakes — as of last month, California’s Employment Development Department had retroactively verified the eligibility of just 300,000 of 1.4 million recipients of federal pandemic jobless benefits.
- The jobless agencies wrote: “Individuals receiving (those benefits) spent these funds months ago to help preserve their own economic stability. The likelihood of recovering these funds is low and the cost of states’ efforts to secure repayment far outweighs any monetary returns.”
That isn’t the only challenge EDD is facing: The agency, which on Tuesday welcomed its third director in two years, is also trying to crack down on a surge in fraudulent disability insurance claims.
—Emily Hoeven, CALMatters
