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The pandemic has been brutal to California’s most vulnerable seniors.
Over the weekend, my colleagues Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Amy Julia Harris published an investigation that found that nursing homes across the country have evicted some of their most vulnerable residents.
The story starts and ends with a chilling anecdote, about an 88-year-old man with dementia who was moved out of a nursing home in Los Angeles with a history of regulatory problems and deposited at an unregulated boardinghouse.
No one told his family. Later, he was found disoriented on a Koreatown sidewalk.
But it wasn’t an isolated incident. It was part of a troubling trend identified by watchdogs, elder-care lawyers and social workers, in which nursing homes have been pushing out old and disabled residents to make way for more lucrative Covid-19 patients.
Throughout the pandemic, older Californians have been hard hit. Nursing homes have been sites of outbreaks, and the economic downturn in the wake of lockdowns is likely to continue to chip away at funding for services for seniors.
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The state’s Great Plates program was supposed to help low-income seniors get free meals, while also helping keep restaurants afloat. But advocates say that a rule meant to ensure that more seniors are able to access aid is actually preventing the poorest older Californians from being fed. [The Los Angeles Times]
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State lawmakers and the governor reached a budget deal on Sunday night that would reportedly avert some cuts that might have pushed some seniors into nursing homes. But the budget reportedly doesn’t include a plan to expand health care to low-income undocumented seniors. (Official details of the deal were scarce on Monday; Gov. Gavin Newsom refused to talk about specifics.) [The Sacramento Bee]
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On Monday, Mr. Newsom said the state could be forced to reinstate some restrictions amid a troubling rise in Covid-19 hospitalizations. [The San Francisco Chronicle]
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Track coronavirus cases per capita in each California county. [The New York Times]
More law enforcement shootings have spurred renewed, tense protests.
In the weeks since the death of George Floyd, what started out as widespread unrest has coalesced into efforts to reform, defund or dismantle law enforcement agencies across the country.
But even as law enforcement leaders and elected officials have responded with calls for change, a string of killings by officers have spurred new protests.
Most recently, a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy gunned down an 18-year-old security guard named Andres Guardado in Gardena after they said he “produced a firearm” and ran away from deputies on Thursday night. The authorities provided almost no details about what initially led to the encounter.
Mr. Guardado’s family members quickly began calling for justice, and hundreds of protesters showed up on Sunday at the sheriff’s Compton station. The demonstrators were met with deputies in riot gear, who fired “less lethal” rounds into the crowd, according to The Daily Breeze.
The Daily Breeze reported that Sheriff Alex Villanueva at first said the shooting “would not be the news it needed to be today,” if the deputies involved had body cameras, and said calls for an independent investigation were premature. But on Monday, he sent a letter to Attorney General Xavier Becerra, asking for his office to monitor the local investigation “out of an abundance of caution.”
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On Monday, Santa Ana officials implemented a curfew ahead of protests calling for justice for Mr. Guardado. [The Orange County Register]
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On Wednesday, not long after demands rose to investigate the hanging death of Robert Fuller in Palmdale — initially called a suicide — Mr. Fuller’s half brother was shot by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies. He had been charged the day before with assault with a deadly weapon and domestic violence. [The Guardian]
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Mr. Becerra’s office said it would not independently investigate the death of Sean Monterrosa, the man killed by a Vallejo police officer in the midst of protests earlier this month. [Kron 4]
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The renewed scrutiny of prosecutors and law enforcement comes as Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles County’s first female and first black district attorney, fights to keep her job. Activists have long criticized her for not prosecuting police officers who have killed people. Over the weekend, Representative Adam Schiff withdrew his support. [The Los Angeles Times]
Statues are coming down in California, too.
In the South, monuments to the Confederacy are embedded into the landscape. But as efforts to excise those symbols of racism and oppression take hold, my colleagues reported that statues of figures who represent other painful parts of America’s history have been toppled as well. That includes statues in California.
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The Catholic Church quickly removed a statue of Junípero Serra from the San Luis Obispo Mission on Monday after protesters knocked down similar statues in other parts of the state. [The San Luis Obispo Tribune]
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Last week, city crews took down a statue of Christopher Columbus at Coit Tower in San Francisco. The piece was made by Mussolini’s official sculptor. [Mission Local]
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President Trump on Monday temporarily suspended new work visas and stopped hundreds of thousands of people from trying to work in the United States. The move has been fiercely opposed by business leaders. [The New York Times]
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Evacuations were in place on Monday night after a fire in Paso Robles destroyed two homes and damaged others. [The San Luis Obispo Tribune]
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Los Angeles International Airport is adding thermal-imaging cameras to screen passengers from a distance for coronavirus symptoms. [ABC 7]
And Finally …
The good news, if you’re starting to get stir crazy and you live in California, is that we are blessed with some of the nation’s — nay, the world’s — best camping and road-tripping opportunities. (Looking for a route? We wrote about two favorites last year.)
Of course, hitting the road or the outdoors will be different this year. A lot more people are becoming R.V. travelers.
For those of us who will instead travel by not-particularly-recreational vehicle, The San Francisco Chronicle put together a helpful road trip prep checklist. And The Los Angeles Times has this guide to hiking in the pandemic.
Perhaps you are also more wary than usual about using public lavatory facilities, but you haven’t gotten the whole “going” outside thing down. (No judgment!) In that case, The New York Times has you covered with this fun, instructional cartoon explaining how to pee in the woods. The wonders of 2020 are unceasing.
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Jill Cowan grew up in Orange County, went to school at U.C. Berkeley and has reported all over the state, including the Bay Area, Bakersfield and Los Angeles — but she always wants to see more. Follow along here or on Twitter.
California Today is edited by Julie Bloom, who grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from U.C. Berkeley.
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