COMPLIMENTARY COPY VOLUME 19, NO. 32
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SuperScooper Firefighting Aircraft to Arrive in LA County Aug. 15 Red Flag Warnings Issued, Brown Declares State of Emergency
BY TERRY MILLER Los Angeles County Fire Department has secured the early arrival of two CL-415 SuperScoopers fire-fighting aircraft leased from the government of Quebec. The SuperScoopers will arrive for service in Los Angeles County on August 15 to help with the anticipated heavy fire season which is upon us. According to Cal Fire, there are currently21 wildfires burning in the state. The National Weather Service issues Red Flag Warnings and Fire Weather Watches to alert fire departments of the onset, or possible onset, of critical weather and dry conditions that could lead to rapid or dramatic increases in wildfire activity. A Red Flag Warning is issued for weather events SEE PG. 28
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Sex Offenders Launch Series of Lawsuits Challenging Residency Restrictions
Arcadia Council Postpones Decision on Mayflower Ave. Construction Project
BY STAFF WRITER
A federal lawsuit has been filed challenging a sex offender ordinance in the City of Arcadia that severely restricts where sex offenders (“registered citizens”) may live. This is the first in a series of lawsuits to be filed in Los Angeles County after the CA Supreme Court decided that residency restrictions for some sex offenders violate the federal constitution. “Arcadia’s residency restrictions place more than ninety percent of Arcadia’s residential property in ‘Residential Exclusion Zones’
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effectively ‘banishing’ registered citizens from living in that city,” stated California Reform Sex Offender Laws president Janice Bellucci. “The law in Arcadia violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments as well as the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution. The legal challenge asserts that Arcadia’s ordinance imposes burdens on the families of registered citizens, does not protect children, fails to provide sufficient notice to registered citizens, and is “a politically
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motivated act… in response to popular sentiments, based upon misinformation, which seeks retribution against ‘a socially outcast minority.’” “Modern day unsubstantiated myths conjure up the stereotype of a registered citizen as a continuing threat to society and children,” stated Bellucci. “State and federal government statistics officially debunk these myths.” Arcadia Weekly will have in in-depth report with the city’s repose to the suit in due course.
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BY JOE TAGLIERI The Arcadia City Council on Tuesday directed a real estate developer to take another stab at revising his design for a new home on property in the city's southeast sector. Scott Yang of Figure 8 Group Inc. seeks to replace a one-story 988-squarefoot ranch-style house built in 1923 with a two-story 5,046-square-foot home designed in the "modern" architectural style, planning department officials said. In June the Planning Commission denied Yang's project "based on a finding that the proposed 'Modern'
architectural style is not compatible with the other houses in the neighborhood," the report states.
The developer appealed to the city council, which ordered him to revamp his deSEE PG. 17
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