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Supervisors attack Newsom, advisers on mental health funding proposal Daily Republic Staff

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Former Vacaville Councilmember Nolan Sullivan speaks during a Suisun City Homeless Forum at the Joseph

A. Nelson Community Center, Wednesday. About 60 people attended the forum.

Suisun Homeless Forum unites service providers, public for information and answers

FAIRFIELD — Supervisor Monica Brown, in a rare outburst against Democratic leadership, this week attacked Gov. Gavin Newsom and “those whispering in his ear” on a proposal to “sweep away” mental health funding from the county. “When I saw that the governor was working to deal with the money, with MHSA, who is advising him?” said Brown, her voice rising with her pent-up frustration. “Does he not understand we are not screwing with this kind of money? We are doing what we can do. Does he not get that?” Brown said, directing her comments, admittedly rhetorically, toward the county’s state lobby-

ist, Karen Lange, who is with the firm Shaw Yoder Antwih Schmelzer & Lange. Her response was a clearly uncomfortable laugh. “So you are watching TV, right? And he does something, and it’s just, where are you?” Brown added about the governor on this issue. “So he is doing something in the south, doing what he wants to do; that’s fine, but don’t come back and ruin what we are working on.” Republicans have occasionally been targets of Brown, but not Democrats, and not a governor by whom she has often referred to by his first name only. The supervisor is a member of the Solano County Democratic Central See Mental, Page A8

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Members of the community attend a Suisun City Homeless Forum at the Joseph A. Nelson Community Center, Wednesday.

SUISUN CITY — About 60 people showed up Wednesday night to address homelessness in Suisun City. A panel of service providers shared what they offered to that population, discussing the regional and local context of the issue. “This came about because we hear you,” Mayor Alma Hernandez said. “I know there is a lot of frustration about this topic.” Some basic ground rules were shared. Attendees were reminded a few times, the issue See Forum, Page A8

Flynn formally censured by school board Susan Hiland

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FAIRFIELD — The youngest trustee to take a seat at the Fairfield school board, Jack Flynn, received a formal public censure on Thursday afternoon. According to the censure papers, on Dec. 1, 2022, Flynn made an audio recording of a private conversation with Superintendent Kris Corey without her knowledge, a violation of the California Penal Code § 632, which prohibits recording of confidential conversa-

tions without the consent of the other party. Trustee Ana Petero said the incident happened at the California School Board Association AEC conference FLYNN in San Diego on Dec. 1 after the day’s conference activities were finished, and board members were relaxing. According to Petero’s version of events, Corey “had been drinking, along with other board members and she was ‘screaming’ at Flynn.”

“Of course he felt he needed to protect himself,” she said. Trustee Helen Tilley in an interview after the meeting, completely rebutted Petero’s version of events. “This matter was independently investigated,” Tilley said. “Flynn and Petero both were interviewed by the investigators and that statement is at odds with other board members’ portrayal of events.” California makes

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Fairfield man back from Lassen County to face murder charge Daily Republic Staff

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FAIRFIELD — Milton Jay “Porkchop” O’Neal Jr. has been returned to Solano County to face a charge of first-degree murder, the city Police Department reported on Thursday. The charge is in connection to the fatal Oct. 29 stabbing of 48-year-old Roderick Harris, 48, of Suisun City, about 2:45 p.m. in the 300 block of Jefferson Street, the police said. O’Neal, 40, of Fairfield, was arrested on Monday by Lassen County Sheriff’s deputies on a no-bail warrant out of Solano

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it a crime to record or eavesdrop on any confidential communication, including a private conversation or telephone call, without the consent of all parties to the conversation, according to the Penal Code. Flynn, after the conference, shared the contents of the recording with other people in the school community including members of the teacher’s union. He has acknowledged making the recording between

County, the police department reported. Lassen deputies had responded to a residence on an emergency health call involving O’Neal. He was treated and released, then arrested after he reportedly gave a false name to the deputies, said Jennifer Brantley, a Fairfield police spokeswoman. Brantley declined to say how investigators tracked O’Neal to Lassen. O’Neal had been identified as a “person of interest” in the case shortly after the incident, the police said, adding that the two men knew each other, but no other details have been released.

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