Wilk, who said he is fully vaccinated and asymptomatic, added that he had planned to receive his booster shot this week and urged unvaccinated Californians to get the shot. Meanwhile, state lawmakers started to introduce a flurry of new bills on Monday. Some key examples:. The California Supreme Court waded into the state's ongoing crime debate on Monday, when it shot down an attempt to grant early parole consideration to inmates convicted of violent crimes.
The court ruled unanimously that a ballot measure that made prisoners eligible for parole consideration after serving their longest current sentence for a nonviolent crime did not apply to inmates also convicted of violent felonies. However, the ruling doesn't entirely eliminate the possibility of early parole for violent offenders. Heather MacKay, who represented inmate Mohammad Mohammad in the case before the court, noted that it "left open the possibility that Mr.
Mohammad and other folks with mixed offenses might become eligible for early parole after they serve the violent felony portions of their terms. The ruling from the state's highest court comes about a week after a superior court judge temporarily blocked the Newsom administration from moving forward with plans to accelerate the pace at which nonviolent second-strike inmates can accumulate good conduct credits and become eligible for parole consideration.
Although California seems determined to avoid more COVID lockdowns , the ultra-contagious — though apparently less deadly — omicron variant is sparking closures and concerns as it sets new case records. Rising infections also seem to have resulted in lower attendance numbers in some Bay Area school districts that reopened Monday after a two-week winter break.
And as of Monday, only half of the 6 million at-home tests that Newsom pledged last month to school districts had been delivered, though another 1 million were scheduled for distribution within 24 hours, the Los Angeles Times reported. Virus outbreaks have also forced the San Diego Fire Department to idle some of its crews , Sacramento City Unified School District students to enter quarantine , Newport Beach to close many public buildings and hundreds of flights into and from California airports to be cancelled.
Napa County doesn't have any available intensive-care beds , and COVID outbreaks among Los Angeles County hospital employees coupled with a patient surge have resulted in delayed ambulance response times to calls. Another way to protect the environment: State leaders must fully fund a new program to conserve California's deserts, which are critical to fighting climate change, argues Pamela Flick of Defenders of Wildlife. Willie Brown on crime and street conditions in San Francisco.
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The battle for Beacon's Beach. This isn't the California I married. It now only lags behind neighbouring Italy which has an infection to death rate of Officials put the shocking rates down to the size of the population and the the fact the tiny city state is landlocked in Italy - which itself has been hit by more than 17, deaths. The virus is thought to have been brought into San Marino by commuters working outside it's territory and the first confirmed case was at the end of February.
San Marino went into immediate lockdown on March 1 - ten days before neighbouring Italy did and all entry into or out of the country is banned unless for exceptional work or health reasons. But now health chief Gabriele Rinaldi has announced every single citizen in the country will now be tested to see if the have coronavirus with those proving positive put into quarantine.
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