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Sacramento finally sees Califia. Can the city get her the help she desperately needs?
The city government of Sacramento, from Mayor Kevin McCarty to paramedics, wants to save 33-year-old Califia Carlisle from more than a decade of homelessness, drug addiction and mental illness. But in assembling its effort, the city discovered that there was no record of Carlisle in the official Sacramento County homeless database, despite that she has been swept for years from illegal homeless encampments and arrested for panhandling near the Home Depot off Folsom Boulevard. Officially, it was as if Carlisle had never existed. “She is hiding in plain sight,” said 69-year-old Christopher Carlisle, Califia’s father, who attended a recent briefing with city and county staff about his daughter. There are nearly 6,000 homeless people in Sacramento County’s Homeless Information Management System, or HMIS. Sacramento Steps Forward is the nonprofit group that manages the database. Califia’s absence from county records illustrates the fallibility of homeless record keeping in California. It’s why Gov. Gavin Newsom’s claim that homelessness has decreased by 13% in the last two years should be viewed with skepticism. The HMIS database, like the biennial count conducted on a single day in January, is flawed because people experiencing homelessness are difficult to count, and the methods used to track
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Death row clemency, Matsui-Vang congressional race: What Sacramento talked about Nov. 2-8
Sacramento readers had plenty on their minds last week. From Nov. 2-8, these are the stories on sacbee.com that drew the most comments — a snapshot of what the community had to say about election night, a historic clemency decision and the future of the 7th Congressional District. Newsom moves to spare all 548 on California’s death row Gov. Gavin Newsom notified the California Supreme Court he intends to commute the sentences of the 548 people on California’s death row to life without parole — what advocates describe as the largest single act of clemency in U.S. history. “I take this action because I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s values, undermines the foundations of our legal system, and diminishes each of us,” Newsom wrote in a letter first reported by The Sacramento Bee . »» Read the story, see the comments Prosecutors and victims’ families split sharply The move drew polarized reactions. Former Sacramento DA Anne Marie Schubert said she plans to sue to block it. Former Los Angeles DA Gil Garcetti, who once pursued capital punishment, now backs Newsom: “There is nothing to show that the death penalty is a deterrent.” Sandy Friend, mother of
hoodline.com
Dutra Wraps 2026 Sacramento River Levee Push, Sinks 180,000 Tons of Stone
Crews working along the Sacramento River have wrapped up this year's levee-protection push in the city's Pocket neighborhood, placing 180,000 tons of graded stone and installing roughly 750 trees in the water to bolster flood defenses and fish habitat along the riverbank. The milestone was reported by DredgeWire, which said...
americas-engineers.com
Flood Risk Management & Emergency Response: USACE Sacramento District Engineers Deploy Across Three Western States Under Public Law 84-99
Editor’s Note: The following is from USACE Sacramento District, curated by America’s Engineers for general public, commercial contractor, and industry visibility. The original article can be found at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers news repository. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District teams deployed to three states...
folsomtimes.com
Election latest; Hoover concedes Dist. 7 race to Slavensky; Folsom council incumbents hold their leads
Niello maintains advantage in Senate District 6 as additional ballot counts update Folsom City Council, school board and local measure results. Republican Assemblyman and Folsom resident Josh Hoover officially conceded his reelection race Tuesday, Nov. 10, congratulating Democratic challenger Amy Slavensky after updated election returns showed her expanding lead in California’s 7th Assembly District. The concession came one week after Election Day, as election officials continued counting ballots across the Sacramento region and updating results in state, county and local contests.