Posts Tagged ‘Police’
Marin IJ: Bay Area Health Leaders Reflect on COVID’s 5-Year Mark
But what was supposed to be a three-week pause on normal life to relieve crowded emergency rooms stretched to a months-long slog of restrictions that lasted into June 2021, six months after vaccines became available, with mask and vaccine mandates stretching well into 2022, longer than in other states. “The later decisions about when and how to reopen,” Cody conceded, “those were much more complicated.” Her former counterpart in Marin County, Dr. Matt Willis, went a step further. “A lot of our early thinking was organized almost purely around preventing transmission,” said Willis, who retired last year. “But I think we could have been more tolerant of certain forms of gatherings earlier on if we had recognized the benefits of those things.”
Read MoreCity of Mill Valley, MVFREE and MVPD Continue With Anti-Bias Campaign, Showcase Bias-By-Proxy Video
MVFREE’s greatest work in recent months has been an anti-bias campaign involving educational flyers being mailed to homeowners containing three steps that teach white people how to curb the over-policing of Black people.
Read MoreWith Its New Anti-Bias Campaign, MVFREE and Mill Valley Police Tackle a Vexing Issue
MVFREE’s greatest work in recent months has been an anti-bias campaign involving educational flyers being mailed to homeowners containing three steps that teach white people how to curb the over-policing of Black people.
Read MoreSouthern Marin CERTS Rise to the Challenge During the Storm
Southern Marin CERTS – short for the Community Emergency Response Team program that educates volunteers about disaster preparedness for the hazards that may occur where they live – have been incredibly impactful this week.
Read MoreFacing a Covid-Fueled Parking Deficit, Council Green Lights a Series of Rate Increases to Modernize and Increase Turnover
The council authorized the purchase of Automated License Plate Recognition system, which will allow the department to glean critical data around who parks where, why and when, and thus be able in the future to change certain parking designations in response to usage patterns.
Read MoreCity Manager Alan Piombo to Retire in the Fall, Tees Up Recruitment Process
City Manager Alan Piombo, whose more than three-year tenure in Mill Valley, first as police chief and then as city manager, was laden with a whiplash-inducing amount of turbulence and innovative triumph, announced this week that he plans to retire in the fall.
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