Added PrecautionSheriff’s officials are considering spending nearly...
Added Precaution
Sheriff’s officials are considering spending nearly $1.4 million to add airport-style X-ray machines to two entrances of the Hall of Justice in Ventura (B1). “This is a plan . . . to make the facility safer,” says Capt. Bruce Hansen, chief of courthouse security. The building currently has two metal detectors on the fourth floor, where family law cases are heard.
Unwelcome Visitors
Thousand Oaks may adopt a trio of ordinances tonight intended to clamp down on aggressive panhandling, camping in public places and sitting and lying on sidewalks (B1). Critics accuse the City Council of trying to push homeless people out of town. . . . “Instead of making laws to do things like this, why don’t we help them help themselves?” asks Cheryl Richmond of the nonprofit housing group Many Mansions.
Bad Day for Jeremiah
Wildlife officials may one day kill bullfrogs, green sunfish and black bullhead catfish and eliminate certain vegetation in hopes of restoring the habitat for steelhead trout (B1). Current estimates say only 100 are left in the Sespe Watershed. . . . “If you get much lower than that, they’re gone,” says one wildlife official.
Happening Tonight
Art Carnage plays classic rock at the Whale’s Tail, 3950 Bluefin Circle, Oxnard. 8:30 p.m. No cover. Information: 985-2511.
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