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By JOHN PHILLIPS |PUBLISHED: March 21, 2018 at 7:30 pm | UPDATED:March 21, 2018 at 10:01 pm

Photo by Rachel Luna, The Sun/SCNGDeveloper Jeff Burum, center, and his attorneys Jennifer Kellerand Stephen Larson react as Burum is found not guilty of allcharges in the Colonies corruption case verdict hearing at SanBernardino Superior Court in San Bernardino.

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For mid-level politicians to move up the political

pecking order in a state the size of California, they

sometimes need to ride the wave of a big news

event all the way to the front page of the paper.

It happened to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein in the

late 1970s, when San Francisco Mayor George

Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were

assassinated, and Feinstein was given the task of

leading a grieving city.

Similarly, in 2002 Orange County Sheriff Mike

Carona became known as “America’s Sheriff” after

he gained national prominence during the hunt for

the killer of abducted 5-year-old Samantha

Runnion.

In these cases, Feinstein and Carona didn’t choose

to be principal players in above-the-fold stories,

they were forced into it.

But sometimes politicians have been known to

exploit, or even manufacture, a scandal to gain

notoriety. When they do it with a badge and a gun,

it’s downright chilling.

That’s exactly what San Bernardino County

District Attorney Mike Ramos seems to have done

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with his shameful pursuit of political scalps in the

Colonies “corruption” case.

If you’re not familiar with the Colonies case,

prosecutors from the San Bernardino County

District Attorney’s and state Attorney General’s

offices alleged Rancho Cucamonga developer Jeff

Burum, former county Supervisor Paul Biane,

former Assistant Assessor Jim Erwin, and Mark

Kirk, former chief of staff for former county

Supervisor Gary Ovitt, attempted to scam

taxpayers out of $102 million in settlement money,

in what was described as a fixed lawsuit between

the county and Burum’s investor group, Colonies

Partners LP, in November 2006 in exchange for

bribes. The deal would end an enduring flood-

control dispute between the county and Colonies

Partners.

Also, former county Supervisor Bill Postmus was

bullied by prosecutors into pleading guilty to 15

felonies in March of 2011 while he was in the

throes of a severe substance abuse addiction, in

exchange for his testimony at the Colonies bribery

trial.

After 5-years of legal wrangling and 8 months of a

trial, all of the defendants were exonerated by the

jury.

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Why? Jurors say there wasn’t a modicum of

evidence.

I asked one juror, Donald Platten of Cedar Pines

Park, if he thought this was a political prosecution

and he said, “Yes, definitely. Everybody was

looking to put a feather in their cap, especially

Ramos, and that idiot Jerry Brown. If it wasn’t for

the money that Jeff Burum had, they would have

been walked all over. Anybody else would have

been screwed.”

Another juror, Crystal Hess of Highland, told me,

“You grow up being told that the government and

law enforcement are the good guys. But they were

pulling a fast one on us and bringing up things that

weren’t true. I didn’t think our government would

ever do this. It didn’t sit right with me … Mike

Ramos needs to remember his core values as to

why he got into his position. He’s lost sight of the

morality of his office.”

Ramos never paid a price for his sins. In fact, his

political stock went up.

In 2010, Ramos and then-state Attorney General

Jerry Brown hosted a widely covered news

conference where they declared that the Colonies’

case was the “biggest corruption scandal in county

history, if not the state of California.” Ramos was

re-elected district attorney that year, and Brown

was elected governor.

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Additionally, Ramos entertained the idea of

parlaying his newfound fame into a run for state

attorney general.

Somebody should have told Ramos that if he was

this desperate to get on TV all he had to do was fly

to New York and stand behind the “Today Show”

set.

Launching a politically motivated prosecution is an

abuse of power and just about the worst offense a

district attorney can commit.

And that’s what jurors say Mike Ramos did.

Actions like this should have real-world

consequences.

Juror Platten put it simply, “I never thought that

the D.A.’s office was corrupt until after this trial.

I’m pro-police and pro-D.A. But after seeing what

Ramos did in this case, it shattered my

expectations of what the D.A. is.”

Any prosecutor whose thirst for stardom exceeds

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their commitment to justice shouldn’t have the

power to put people in prison.

San Bernardino County deserves better than Mike

Ramos. And most importantly, Jeff Burum, Paul

Biane, Jim Erwin, Mark Kirk, and yes, Bill

Postmus, deserve their reputations back.

John Phillips is a CNN political commentator andcan be heard weekdays at 3 p.m. on “The DriveHome with Jillian Barberie and John Phillips” onKABC/AM 790.

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By SANDRA EMERSON | semerson@scng.com |

Redlands Daily FactsPUBLISHED: March 21, 2018 at 6:02 pm | UPDATED: March 21, 2018 at6:03 pm

Upland residents have two opportunities to hear more

about the city’s proposal to raise water rates.

The city will hold public workshops at 6:30 p.m. April 2

and at 10 a.m. April 7 at City Hall, 460 N. Euclid Ave.,

according to the city’s website.

On April 23, the City Council will consider the proposal

to raise rates by 17 percent beginning May 1, followed by a

9 percent increase in January 2019, a 9 percent increase

in January 2020, a 5 percent increase in January 2021

and a 3 percent increase in 2022.

The proposal also includes a Temporary Demand

Management Surcharge, which would protect the city

from a loss in revenue due to decreased water usage in the

future.

The surcharge, however, would be applied to customers’

water bills only if the state imposes future water use

restrictions or if water usage trends downward and the

city anticipates a decline in revenue.

If approved, the rate adjustments would address

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increased costs for buying water and operating the water

system, a decline in revenue due to water conservation,

and the replacement of pipes and infrastructure. The

additional revenue would also help the city shore up the

water-fund reserve, according to city officials.

The proposal comes on the heels of a 2014 rate

adjustment which did not take into account the effects of

the statewide drought, according to the city.

The water fund lost revenue as residents cut back on their

usage, causing delays in infrastructure improvements and

forcing the city to dip into its reserves to cover costs,

according to the water rate report by the city’s consultant,

Carollo Engineers.

Written protests can be submitted to the City Clerk’s

Office at City Hall, 460 N. Euclid Ave., until the close of

the public hearing April 23. Those who submit a written

protest must state their reasons for opposing the water

rate adjustments; their street address or parcel number;

and the name and signature of the property owner or

tenant responsible for paying the water bill. Only one

written protest will count per property.

The city has also provided a water rate calculator for

residents on its website.

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By BRIAN WHITEHEAD | bwhitehead@scng.com |

San Bernardino SunPUBLISHED: March 21, 2018 at 4:49 pm | UPDATED: March 21,2018 at 4:51 pm

Colton voters may decide this November whether

to reduce the number of elected officials who

represent them.

Tuesday, March 20, the Colton City Council

directed staff to prepare a ballot measure to reduce

the panel from seven to five members.

Downsizing the council would save about $52,000

annually in salaries, benefits and other expenses,

officials estimate. The council has until Aug. 9 to

approve a measure for the November ballot.

While eliminating two council positions is a

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practical cost-saving option, it isn’t the only

option, Councilman Isaac Suchil said.

Suchil, who represents District 6, proposed cutting

council members’ perks entirely; no car allowance,

medical reimbursement, allowance for health

benefits. Eliminating those, he said, would keep

representation the same, save more over the long

run and not require voter approval.

City staffers said Suchil’s proposal would save

$120,000 annually starting in 2019-20. Council

members would still receive stipends, per state

statute, City Attorney Carlos Campos said.

“Why not lead the way?” Suchil asked from the

dais. “We can … show we get nothing for what we

do, no perks. We’re showing we do this because we

want to serve our constituents, not because of the

$300 or $400 we get.

“It’s important our residents know we’re here for

them.”

David Toro, who represents District 1, supported

Suchil’s proposal. The two opposed moving

forward with the ballot measure without a staff

report or additional information to “decide what is

in the best interest of the city,” Toro said.

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In 1992, Colton voters approved adding two

members to the then-five-person council. Colton –

population: 54,712 – and San Bernardino –

216,000-plus – are the only cities in the county

with more than five council representatives.

“Why does it take seven people to do the job five

are doing elsewhere?” Councilman Luis Gonzalez

asked during his presentation on the issue.

Any ballot measure must include a new district

map, as drawn by a contracted demographer. That

map may need to be redrawn after the 2020 census

at a cost, Suchil noted. Therefore, Suchil added,

the council should eliminate perks and save money

now, then revisit reducing the council to five

members after the census.

Five council members supported preparing the

ballot measure. New district maps should be ready

for council review in a couple months, city staffers

said.

“This council needs to be downsized for several

reasons,” Mayor Richard DeLaRosa said. “Not just

for cost, but to streamline (decision-making), to

improve efficiency, to provide a better way to do

business in Colton. This is the better way to go in

terms of saving a little money at a time.

“We can make more (cost) reductions in a year or

two.”

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Press-EnterprisePUBLISHED: March 21, 2018 at 6:34 pm | UPDATED: March 21,2018 at 8:13 pm

The next fallout from the battle over Riverside

Mayor Rusty Bailey’s attempted veto of the city

manager’s contract could be a $10,000 to $25,000

investigation into the mayor’s office.

Councilman Andy Melendrez wanted the City

Council to approve a probe by Steven Miller of San

Francisco-based Hanson Bridgett into whether

Bailey’s office breached attorney-client privilege by

releasing a legal opinion.

Then on Tuesday, March 20, he asked that the

discussion be postponed. The vote to delay was

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unanimous and taken without discussion.

Council members still need to publicly discuss the

potential investigation — probably within 30

days — Melendrez said Wednesday, March 21.

Melendrez said he asked for a postponement so

council members could speak to the mayor and

possibly reach a resolution, but he doesn’t know

what that might be. Melendrez said he’s not asking

Bailey to drop his lawsuit against the city, which

seeks to establish that the mayor has the power to

veto the city manager’s contract, in exchange for

dropping the investigation.

“I hate to answer hypotheticals, but my concern

has nothing to do with that (lawsuit),” Melendrez

said. “My concerns have to do with possible breach

of attorney-client privilege.”

Two questions trouble Melendrez, he said: First,

did Bailey’s office violate the City Council’s

attorney-client privilege by releasing a memo from

attorney Michael Colantuono that argues Bailey

doesn’t have the power to veto the city manager’s

contract?

Second, did Bailey violate any other policies by

contacting a law firm — Rutan & Tucker — on the

city’s list of outside attorneys, in order to back his

own opinion that the city charter does give him

that power?

Melendrez said there hasn’t been a similar

situation in his four terms on the City Council —

though a city investigation into council members

in 2014 cost taxpayers more than $130,000 — but

the questions had to be answered.

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“It’s extremely difficult, especially when we deal

with colleagues,” he said. “But I think it’s

important to discuss, and I would like everything

to be out in the open so the community can be

aware.”

Bailey said that, given his attempt to veto the

contract, he felt a responsibility to show the public

the legal basis for his decision as well as the legal

argument against it.

“I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m glad the

public knows about it now,” he said. “… If I

disagree with the city attorney’s opinion, where do

I go for an opinion?”

Melendrez asked that Councilman Chris Mac

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Arthur, as the mayor pro tem, lead the process.

Mac Arthur declined to discuss the question

because it’s related to the lawsuit with the mayor.

Several other council members said that, if Bailey’s

office were investigated, others involved in the

situation should be investigated as well, including

all council members and the city manager’s office.

“You don’t just investigate one side,” Councilman

Chuck Conder said. “If you’re going to look at one,

you look at us all.”

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By BEATRIZ E. VALENZUELA | bvalenzuela@scng.com | San Bernardino SunMarch 22, 2018 at 6:29 am

Hundreds of law enforcement officers, family members, city leaders and

California Gov. Jerry Brown will be among the mourners expected to gather

today to honor fallen Pomona police Officer Greggory Casillas.

The funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. at Purpose Church, 601 N. Garey Ave.

in Pomona. The funeral is open to the public. The doors of the church will

open at 8:30 a.m.

Casillas, 25, was fatally shot March 9 while attempting to make contact with a

man who fled police and locked himself in his apartment, authorities said. He

is survived by his wife and their two small children, his parents and two

brothers.

A second officer, Alex Nguyen, was seriously wounded in the shooting. The

Pomona police Officer Greggory Casillas died in the line of duty on Friday, March 9, 2018. (Photocourtesy Pomona Police Department)

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suspected shooter, 39-year old Isaias De Jesus Valencia, was arrested by

police after a 15-hour standoff. He is being held without bail.

The United States Honor Flag will also be present during the service. The

Honor Flag honors members of law enforcement, fire fighting, the US Armed

Forces and first responders killed in the line of duty.

Video posted to the USHF Facebook page showed the solemn transfer of the

flag in front of the Pomona Police Department’s headquarters still covered by

flowers and mementos left for Casillas by mourners.

City Hall will be closed Thursday morning to give employees an opportunity

to attend the funeral. City Hall will reopen at noon.

Immediately after the service, there will be a law enforcement procession to

Forest Lawn-Covina Hills Cemetery, 21300 Via Verde Drive in Covina.

The route will begin south onto Garey Avenue to Mission Boulevard, west on

Mission Boulevard to White Avenue, north on White Avenue onto the

westbound 10 Freeway to Via Verde then onto the cemetery, Pomona police

officials said.

The procession will pass by the Pomona Police Department, Superior Court

and City Hall.

The Pomona Police Department has announced the following street

closures Thursday, starting at 6 a.m.:

Valencia was charged with one count of capital murder with the special

circumstance allegations of murder of a peace officer and murder for the

purpose of avoiding or preventing a lawful arrest, the Los Angeles County

District Attorney’s Office said. Valencia also faces seven counts of attempted

murder and one count each of fleeing a pursuing peace officer’s vehicle and

possession of a firearm by a felon, prosecutors said.

Valencia did not enter a plea on March 13 at his scheduled arraignment,

which was postponed until May 1. He was ordered held without bail.

Casillas was hired in March 2015 as a records specialist before being

transferred to the Pomona City Jail in November 2015. He was hired as an

officer trainee in March 2017. He was nearly done with his training the day he

Garey Avenue in both directions from Holt Avenue (near Purpose Church) to

Alvarado Street. This street closure could extend as high as Orange Grove

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Casillas is survived by wife Claudia, sons Gregorio, 4 years, Mariano, 5

months, father Gregory, mother Marisela and brothers Dominick and Shawn.

The Greggory Casillas Memorial Fund has been established to help the family

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Jill Replogle | March 21, 2018

The three cities where Orange County officials want to placetemporary homeless shelters are threatening to sue the countyover the plan.

Irvine officials voted Tuesday night to initiate litigation against the county,

alleging its plan to open a tented homeless shelter for up to 200 people lacks

local permits and violates state environmental law.

“You’re trying to put human beings on land that is contaminated, on land that

doesn’t have running water, doesn’t have sewer services, doesn’t have

electricity,” Irvine Mayor Donald Wagner said. Some of the land, which borders

the Orange County Great Park, was once the El Toro Marine base and is

awaiting industrial cleanup.

Wagner also said the site was far from health care and job placement services

and lacked adequate transportation options. "It's the wrong site," he said.

But Supervisor Andrew Do said county officials carefully considered each

proposed site.

"We looked at a list of our County-owned land and chose the sites that had the

feasibility by way of access and location to provide emergency shelter," he wrote

in a statement.

Huntington Beach and Laguna Niguel, the other two cities where the county

plans to potentially site temporary homeless shelters, also plan to file legal

complaints.

The negative reactions highlight an ongoing spat between the county and cities

about who is responsible for chronic homelessness and what should be done to

resolve it. U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter, who has taken an

unusually prominent role in trying to find solutions, has chastised the county for

failing to spend money to prevent homelessness.

He has also accused cities of dumping homeless people in central Orange

County and not doing their share to address the problem.

The reactions to the emergency shelter plan were expected by county

supervisors but leave them in a tough spot. The county is under pressure from

Judge Carter to prove it has enough beds and appropriate services to

accommodate some 700 homeless people who were removed from a Santa Ana

River homeless encampment in February.

The judge also announced at a special hearing Saturday that he expects the

county to find shelter for another approximately 200 homeless people currently

sleeping in the Santa Ana Civic Center. He said clearing of that encampment

would begin April 2.

Under a preliminary legal settlement reached in February between the county

and lawyers for the homeless, most of the riverbed evictees are currently living

in motels scattered throughout the area. But time is running out on their 30-day

guaranteed stays. On Thursday, up to 100 people could be asked to move out

of the motels.

Most have been referred to emergency homeless shelters, temporary housing

with mental health services, residential treatment for substance abuse or

recuperative care. But lawyers representing homeless clients have alleged that

some of the placements are inappropriate for disabled individuals, among

others. They’ve also said the county has failed to show it has enough available

shelter beds to accommodate the influx of riverbed evictees.

Irvine Mayor Wagner, who is part of a newly formed, countywide coalition on

homelessness, said the county’s plan for temporary shelters would merely shift

homelessness from central Orange County to Irvine and the other cities.

“Instead of solving anything, they just moved it, and that’s not a solution to the

homeless crisis” he said. Wagner said the county should’ve convened the cities

and private sector to come up with a solution to the lack of shelter space.

Wagner admitted concern that the city’s pushback against the plan would be

perceived as NIMBYism. But he said the city was doing its share to fight

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homelessness. He said city government had dedicated almost $30 million in

state funds toward affordable housing and was home to several organizations

that assist homeless people, including Families Forward and the Second

Harvest food back.

“We've been at the forefront of trying to solve the problem for the last couple of

years,” he said.

Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates said his city also plans to file a

legal complaint against the county if it doesn’t reconsider its plan to site a 100-

person temporary shelter on county-owned land near the city’s Central Park. He

also cited environmental and safety concerns with the site, which is a former

landfill.

“It’s not a compatible situation,” he said.

Laguna Niguel City Council also voted Tuesday night to sue the county over its

plans to locate a 100-person shelter on land in its downtown area.

Mayor Elaine Gennawey said in a statement that she was “outraged by the

Orange County Board of Supervisors’ poorly thought out decision.”

"They have had years to address this issue, and they are the ones who put

themselves in this 'time crunch' with an apparent limitation of ill-advised

options,” Gennawey wrote.

The mayor said the county should consider providing transitional housing and

accompanying services for the homeless at one, larger site. County supervisors

said at their meeting Monday that they chose the three sites based on the

availability of county land. They also noted that the sites were spread evenly

among the county's three geographic planning areas.

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Huntington Beach officials are pushing back against an Orange County proposal totemporarily house up to 100 homeless people in an emergency shelter on county-owned land in the city.

Huntington Beach City Atty. Michael Gates said the City Council authorized himduring a closed session Monday to take any necessary legal action to prevent thecounty from relocating homeless people to the site of an abandoned landfill onGothard Street near Central Park.

Gates said the former landfill is contaminated with methane, which he contendsmakes it unsuitable for even temporary shelter. He said the situation would amountto a "health and safety catastrophe."

"From what we hear of the proposal, it would be inhumane for the county torelocate up to 100 individuals to create a homeless tent city on that parcel inHuntington Beach," Gates said. "It's right by Central Park. It's right near where kidsplay sports and, more importantly, that piece of property has been known as acontaminated site."

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The county Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Monday, with Supervisor ToddSpitzer dissenting, to direct county staff to develop three sites for emergency shelteron county-owned land in Irvine, Huntington Beach and Laguna Niguel.

Supervisors indicated that homeless people would be first sent to the site in Irvine,which would have a capacity of 200, then to Huntington Beach and, if more shelteris necessary, to property near City Hall in Laguna Niguel, which could serve up to100 people. The housing would be in tent-like structures.

It isn't clear when the relocation may begin. County staff is expected to take a planto the board April 17.

The action comes on the heels of negotiations in an ongoing civil rights lawsuit filedagainst the county in January by attorney Brooke Weitzman, who represents sevenhomeless people and their advocates, over the clearing of a homeless encampmentalong the Santa Ana River trail.

The suit also sought to prevent the cities of Costa Mesa, Anaheim and Orange fromenforcing laws against camping, trespassing and loitering.

As part of the negotiations, the county last month moved more than 700 homelesspeople from the encampment to various motels in Orange County, including somein Costa Mesa.

Vouchers for the motels expired after 30 days — beginning Friday — promptingadvocates and county officials to try to provide longer-term temporary housing.

After a daylong federal court hearing Saturday, county officials agreed to extendmotel stays on a case-by-case basis.

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Weak financial oversight and rampant overspending by the city of Compton turned a general fund surplus of $22.4 million a decade ago into a deficit of $42.7 million just three years later, according to astate audit. Above, Compton City Hall. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

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Compton officials overpaid themselves, charged questionable trips on city-issued credit cards and failed to safeguardtaxpayer money, resulting in a staffer stealing millions of dollars over years, according to a state audit.

The city of Compton's weak financial oversight and rampant overspending turned a general fund surplus of $22.4 million adecade ago into a deficit of $42.7 million just three years later. Even after officials adopted a plan to repay the debt in 2014,the deficit increased by $6.4 million the next year.

The California state controller review, released Thursday, found that the city received failing marks in 71 out of the 79measures assessing internal accounting and administrative controls, a score that ranks Compton's accountability as"nonexistent," state Controller Betty Yee said.

"The City Council's brazen overspending contributed to the city's financial hardship," Yee said. "Clearly, the City Councilneeds to right the ship."

In a statement from the city manager's office, Compton officials said they took measures to increase financial oversight andadhere to the debt elimination plan long before the state audit was released.

"It cannot be overstated that Compton is fiscally solvent and is at no risk of a financial breakdown or bankruptcy," cityofficials said.

Fiscal mismanagement is not a new problem in Compton, where former Mayor Omar Bradley was convicted last year ofmisappropriating public funds. Current Mayor Aja Brown took office in 2013 on a good governance platform and vowed tobring financial stability to a municipality that had run through city managers.

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Though the audit did not single out any officials by name, its publication — just days after Brown announced her ambition torun for Congress — suggests Compton's problems are not entirely behind the city.

Brown said in a statement that fixing nearly three decades of problems "is a process that requires stable leadership, newpolicies, adequate organizational capacity and time."

"Compton is on a firm and definitive path to recovery, which includes a new solid source of annual tax revenue, neweconomic development, new fiscal policies, stable senior management and full city council support — which all occurredunder my administration," she said.

In a response to the audit, City Manager Cecil Rhambo offered a list of new safeguards implemented after a deputy citytreasurer was arrested on suspicion of stealing money from the treasurer's office last year. The employee, Salvador Galvan,was sentenced in November to six and a half years in federal prison for embezzling $3.72 million from 2010 to 2016.

Among the reforms was a move two years ago to ensure the salaries of council members and the mayor do not exceed $600 amonth, as mandated by the city charter. For years, they had boosted their salaries by paying themselves for sitting on boardsand commissions — a long-standing practice the district attorney's office said was illegal. That action brought total salaries ofthe four council members and the mayor from an annual average of $207,000 to about $26,500, according to the audit.

Still, officials upped their pay with monthly car and phone allowances, as well as other unspecified payments, whichincreased their total compensation to more than the amount allowed by the city charter, according to the audit.

The state review, which examined city finances from July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2016, found that Compton has a budget300% higher than the average budget of cities of similar size and population. City officials overspent on events and failed tosend public works projects out for bids. The report found that $51,695 in expenses charged to city-issued credit cards werequestionable because officials did not provide required documentation and justification for the purchases. Some of thosecharges include unexplained trips to Connecticut, Miami, New York, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C. The charges alsoinclude $1,975 in for unspecified supplies and $1,274 for a camera.

The city failed to conduct meaningful oversight, allowing, in one instance, a single employee to count cash, prepare dailydeposit slips and perform end-of-day reconciliations — duties that should be conducted by different people to prevent theft,the report found. For three years, the city did not compare its bookkeeping records with those of its bank, "an effective tool todetect mistakes, errors and embezzlement." And Compton officials frequently missed financial report deadlines, leaving oneaccounting document past due by 35 months, the audit found.

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It was the tardiness of financial reports that triggered the state audit.

Jessica Levinson, an L.A. city ethics commissioner and Loyola Law School professor, said the level of financialmismanagement in Compton does not rise to the level of Bell, a small Southern California city that became a poster child forgraft after city leaders were caught paying themselves outsized salaries. But she said she sees a lot of similarities: failure toadhere to common accounting practices, lack of oversight and excess pay.

"All of this is harming constituents and the people who live in Compton," she said. "Bell is a really high threshold to hit and Idon't think we're quite there, but if they don't do anything the city is going to get closed."

In 2012, Compton was on the brink of bankruptcy and the city's general fund had a $40-million deficit because for yearsofficials used the city's water, sewer and retirement funds when the general fund ran short on cash. Two years later, a think-tank study named Compton the most financially distressed city in the state. Compton officials disputed the claim, saying thefirm that compiled information for the study used outdated reports and secondhand sources.

More recently, Compton has been on the upswing. Crime is down, property values are on the rise, and the city has been ableto attract new development. Brown touted these accomplishments as proof that voters should support her congressional bid.

"Our city is making a strong comeback and I'm proud to have served as a catalyst for real change that my community can seeand feel," Brown said in a statement last week after she launched her campaign to run for the 44th Congressional District,which represents Carson, Compton, Lynwood and several other cities in south Los Angeles County.

But the report found that the city might find itself in real financial trouble if it does not rein in spending and follow thebudget approved by the City Council.

"We hope this is a wake-up call to the residents and businesses of Compton to please pay attention to what your City Councilis doing with your public funds," Yee told The Times.

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retrofits required by law in roughly 15,000 buildings.

The city passed an ordinance in 2015 requiring the retrofitting, but the high upfront costs can cause enormous financialstrain on property owners and could prevent its implementation, according to a motion introduced by Councilman MitchellEnglander and approved Monday by the Budget and Finance Committee.

Retrofitting can cost upward of $130,000 for wood-frame buildings and millions of dollars for larger concrete structures. Thecity does have programs that focus on cost recovery for owners, but there are no incentives to provide upfront financialassistance, according to the motion.

When Mayor Eric Garcetti signed the 2015 ordinance into law, it gave Los Angeles the nation's strongest earthquake-safetyrules. The law applies to roughly 15,000 older buildings considered vulnerable in major earthquakes, including 13,500 wood-framed "soft-story'" buildings with weak lower floors, such as multistory apartments with tuck-under parking spaces, and anestimated 1,500 vulnerable concrete buildings.

Under the ordinance, seismic retrofits of wooden structures must occur within seven years, and retrofits of concrete buildingswithin 25 years, with certain benchmarks to be met along the way.

The ordinance targets buildings constructed prior to the enactment of seismic building standards, which include pre-1978soft-story wooden buildings and concrete buildings with permits dating back to before Jan. 13, 1977.

Once the work is complete, an owner can recover 50% of the cost through the city's Seismic Retrofit Program. But if the workcannot be completed within the time frame, the building must be demolished, which could affect the city's effort to maintain

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as much of its affordable housing as possible at a time of rising homelessness and spikes in the cost of renting or owning ahome.

A possible source of funding for the program could be the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund, according to the motion. Thefund has been depleted in recent years by federal cuts, but it could benefit from a windfall by next year as a result of the CityCouncil and Garcetti's signing off late last year on a linkage fee for developers that is predicted to generate about $100million annually for the fund.

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Have you met your new neighbors?

There are more than 82,000 of them in Los Angeles,

Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

That’s the estimated population increase between 2016

and 2017, according to data released Wednesday night,

March 21, by the U.S. Census Bureau.

New homes under construction near Newport Road and Murphy RanchRoad in Menifee are worked on Thursday, February 22, 2018. Moreaffordable housing is one of the main reasons more than 57,000 morepeople are living in Riverside and San Bernardino counties than a yearago, according to census estimates and local experts. (Photo by FrankBellino for The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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The biggest growth, not surprisingly, is in the Inland

Empire, where housing is relatively cheaper and home

construction is feverishly trying to keep up with

demand.

Riverside County alone added almost 37,000 new

residents during that period – the third-biggest

population growth of any county in the U.S.

San Bernardino County brought in another 20,000

new residents, coming in at No. 18 in the nation.

Los Angeles and Orange counties also grew by almost

13,000 residents each, enough to put both of them in

the top 40 on a list of 3,220 counties, including Puerto

Rico’s municipios.

Nationwide, the growth was focused in southern

states; Texas had 10 counties in the top 40, while

Florida had nine. More than 1,400 counties shrank in

population, led by the Illinois county that contains

Chicago, while four Puerto Rico municipios were in the

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Because all four Southern California counties are so

huge already — Los Angeles County is the most

populous in the U.S., and all four are in the top 15 —

their growth wasn’t so remarkable percentage-wise.

Riverside County’s increase came out to 1.54 percent,

or 389th in the nation. Los Angeles County’s increase

was only 0.13 percent for a rank of 1,638.

Southern California is an attractive place to live for a

variety of reasons: famously sunny weather, proximity

to ocean surf and snowy mountains, a robust job

market and world-class universities, said Hasan

Ikhrata, executive director for the Southern California

Association of Governments, a regional agency that

coordinates on issues such as housing, transportation

and population growth.

Not so attractive? A worsening housing crisis as both

home prices and apartment rents rise. But housing is

more affordable in the Inland counties than along the

coast, which adds to their appeal.

The median home price was $710,000 in Orange

County and $580,000 in Los Angeles County in

February, according to CoreLogic. Compare that to

$375,000 in Riverside County and $336,500 in San

Bernardino County.

“Affordability is in the eye of the beholder,” Ikhrata

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said.

The rate of population growth has been rising in the

Inland Empire since 2013, but it’s decreased most

years since 2010 in the two coastal counties, the

census data show.

The high housing costs are a primary factor in those

slowing rates, Ikhrata said.

The housing costs also are beginning to make

prospective employers nervous.

“Employers who want to move to L.A. and Orange

County are thinking twice now because of housing,” he

said.

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He said that could even affect, for example, Amazon’s

location decision for a second headquarters.

Meanwhile, a major driver of Inland Empire

population growth has been the significant number of

new jobs being created in the two-county region, said

Karthick Ramakrishnan, associate dean for the UC

Riverside School of Public Policy.

“It took a little bit longer than other regions to

rebound from the recession,” he said, but the economy

is strong now.

Ikhrata said international migration has been a strong

factor in Los Angeles and Orange County’s growth in

recent years, and slowing immigration rates are also

partly responsible for slowing growth there.

The coastal counties’ population peak is within sight.

The California Department of Finance predicts that

Los Angeles County will hit a ceiling in 2052 — at

11,279,077 residents — then will start slipping.

Orange County should peak in 2055 at a population of

3,621,879, according to the Finance Department,

whose estimates and methodologies differ from those

of the U.S. Census Bureau.

Riverside and San Bernardino counties are on track to

grow every year through at least 2060, the farthest into

the future that the state forecasts. Riverside County

could start that decade with at least 3.6 million

residents; San Bernardino County, with at least 3.2

million.

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The Los Angeles Times has sued L.A. County, accusing it of repeatedly androutinely flouting laws designed to ensure government transparency.

Over the last year alone, county officials have refused to release information aboutthe status of homicide investigations, allegations of sexual misconduct againstprosecutors and even mundane information such as email addresses for Sheriff'sDepartment employees, the lawsuit says.

County officials also ignored a request for copies of two instruction manualscoaching employees on how to respond to such requests, according to the lawsuit.One of the manuals is titled "California Public Records Act 'Emergency Kit' forCounty Counsel."

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With limited exceptions, such laws make information such as city contracts withvendors, local government payrolls and the written correspondences of publicofficials open to inspection. The idea is to ensure transparency, but there is aconstant tension between the public's right to know and government officials'desire to avoid embarrassment, or worse.

"It used to be much more common" for news outlets to sue to force compliance withthe laws, said Peter Scheer, a board member of the First Amendment Coalition,which advocates for open records.

Budget constraints, he noted, have left many media companies reluctant to take onthe expense of a potentially lengthy court fight.

"The largest organizations will still do it, thank goodness," Scheer said.

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filed Tuesday, Times attorneys Jeff Glasser and Kelly Aviles accused county officialsof issuing "baseless denials" of requests over the years and attempting to charge"exorbitant fees" when the newspaper requested information that could proveembarrassing — such as emails from top Sheriff's Department officials after it wasdiscovered that one had sent multiple messages mocking Muslims, blacks, Latinosand women from a work account at his previous job.

The result is a "pattern and practice" by the county of denying access to records thatare legally and routinely open to the public, The Times' attorneys argued.

In its petition, The Times asked a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge todeclare that the records in question are public and to order the county officials torelease them immediately. The Times also asked the court to require the county topay the newspaper's legal expenses.

A spokeswoman for L.A. County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey declined to comment onthe pending litigation. A spokeswoman for Sheriff Jim McDonnell also did notcomment, for the same reason.

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Among the records at issue in the suit are files involving prosecutors and otheremployees of the district attorney's office who have been disciplined for sexualharassment or misconduct.

The request for those records, filed Feb. 13 by reporter Marisa Gerber, is timelybecause the district attorney's office is reviewing whether to file charges in high-profile cases of celebrities such as Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who isaccused of sexual assault and similar misconduct.

Last month, the California Legislature released similar records of 18 cases ofalleged sexual harassment involving lawmakers and their employees. Those casesincluded the sharing of pornography and a staff member accused of grabbing awoman's buttocks and genitals.

The records, which had been shielded for more than a decade in some cases,became public after three months of requests from Times reporters and attorneys.

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Two years ago, McDonnell's chief of staff, Tom Angel, resigned after The Timesreported he had forwarded racist and sexist emails from a work account while hehad been second-in-command at the Burbank Police Department.

"I took my Biology exam last Friday," said one of the forwarded emails, which wereobtained under the state's public records act. "I was asked to name two thingscommonly found in cells. Apparently 'Blacks' and 'Mexicans' were NOT the correctanswers."

Angel told The Times he did not mean to embarrass or demean anyone and said itwas unfortunate that his work emails could be obtained by the public under thestate's records laws.

When The Times requested copies of emails Angel and others might have sent fromtheir official Sheriff's Department accounts containing a list of potentially racist orsexist terms, McDonnell was personally involved in deciding how to respond to thenewspaper's request, according to testimony taken in a lawsuit that the paper filedin 2016. The Sheriff's Department hired an outside firm to do the search, whichquoted The Times nearly $7,000 to produce the records, a fee that is more than 10times what the county usually charges, the testimony showed.

A judge is expected to decide next week whether the county's proposed charges areallowable under the public records law.

In the 2016 lawsuit, The Times unsuccessfully attempted to obtain throughdiscovery copies of the two instruction manuals coaching employees on how torespond to public records requests.

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3:55 p.m.: This article was updated to note that a sheriff's spokeswoman declinedcomment.

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