Civil Rights

ADA Compliance During Police Detention

Vos v. City of Newport Beach, No. 16-56791, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 15633 (9th Cir. June 11, 2018)

Police surrounded a mentally-ill man at a 7-11 store. As has become all too common, the police shot and killed him. The Vos case confirms

Today we honor Clara Shortridge Foltz, the first woman to attend UC Hastings. Among many other accomplishments, Foltz was also the first woman in California to: join the Bar, hold statewide office, and serve as deputy district attorney.

U.C. Hastings had originally NOT admitted Clara Shortridge Foltz because the directors

In February, the state released the results of an audit revealing that 185 people had died in San Diego County’s jails from 2006 through 2020, raising “concerns about underlying systemic issues with the Sheriff’s Department’s policies and practices.”

This year alone, at least twenty people