County Deporting for No Good Reason?

A new report about Secure Communities (S-Comm)—an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency program that requires state and local law enforcement agencies to forward fingerprints of all arrestees to ICE—alleges that in Santa Barbara County, 68 of 118 deportations from January to April through the S-Comm program have been non-criminals, or people charged with lesser offenses such as driving without a license.

Nancy Johnson Leaves Botanic Garden

After more than seven years as the public voice of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden during the institution’s most controversial era, Nancy Johnson is leaving this week to take a job as marketing and publicity director of the San Francisco Botanical Garden.

Eastsider Gets 15 Years

Jesus Martinez, 20, the lead defendant of 29 Eastside gang members who were part of a federal indictment, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on 8/30.

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