The Bureau of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, created in November 2022, was supposed to spearhead recruitment of underrepresented groups, including women, who were less than 4% of firefighters at the time.
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The Trump administration is reviewing a California sex ed program. LGBTQ+ advocates worry about censorship of queer and transgender healthcare information.
As the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration, California farm groups are working to influence legislation that would ensure a stable supply of laborers for an industry long reliant on a foreign-born workforce.
Last month’s contentious town hall in Yucca Valley was among several events across the U.S. in which GOP lawmakers were shouted down while touting the Trump administration’s first month in office.
The protest, promoted on social media as a “mass mobilization against mass deportation,” was led by the San Bernardino-based Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice.
ACLU attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging the Border Patrol’s January raid in Kern County indiscriminately targeted Latino laborers and that the immigrants detained were coerced into signing voluntary deportation agreements.
Advocates on the scene said the Border Patrol raid in Kern County last month indiscriminately targeted Latino farmworkers commuting from the fields and day laborers soliciting work in the parking lots of big box stores.
A federal judge found President Trump’s executive orders on DEI likely carry constitutional violations, including against free-speech rights.
The Calabasas Landfill in Agoura Hills is one of at least seven Southern California landfills approved to accept waste from the second phase of cleanup from the devastating L.A. fires.
