Watch: Supes Talk, Don't Act on ICE Arrest Report; Feds Bigfoot State on Diablo; How Rent Vote Shapes SB Mayor, Council Races
On a new episode of Newsmakers TV, the gang talks fallout from that big investigation of deportation busts, conflicts over state's last nuke plant, and political blowback of SB rent control vote.
A majority of the Board of Supervisors expressed surprise and outrage after Lillian Perlmutter last week revealed the number of ICE arrests in and around Santa Barbara County jails is many times higher than Sheriff Bill Brown has been reporting.
Since then, crickets.
Perlmutter joins our all-star panel on this week’s episode of Newsmakers TV, and explains how supes in other counties, including L.A., passed legislation to prohibit all transfers from sheriff’s custody to ICE without a judicial warrant; such measures have prevented the kind of wink-and-nod kind of local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration agents apparently in progress in Santa Barbara, despite state law limiting cooperation with ICE.
Callie Fausey breaks down another high stakes, inter-governmental conflict, this one between the feds, who just awarded the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Co. authority to operate the disputed Diablo Canyon nuclear plant until 2045, and California government, which previously moved to shut it down in 2030.
And Josh Molina sorts through the multiple layers of political implications that emerged from Tuesday night’s epic City Council meeting, focused on the push for sweeping rent control in the city of Santa Barbara, which has triggered a federal lawsuit and re-shaped the November race for mayor and three other council seats.
Plus: the genial host rants about Oscar Gutierrez dragging religion in City Hall debates as he twiddled his little handheld fidget device. There were no injuries.
All this and more, right here, right now on Newsmakers TV.
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