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October 13, 2011 – Daily Brief

By Jeff — Jeff Wilson

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  • Great article by Carol Rock at KHTS on the Sheriff’s Station new Crime Prevention Unit, which, if you’re cynical like me, you thought was just a fancy title for traditional police operations. But you’d be wrong: the CPU uses some advanced tech that mashes up criminal records, Google maps, and spit out relevant data to mobile devices in patrol cars. The unit has also divided the SCV into several security zones. Deputy Harris tells Rock that the Sheriff’s Station is “shifting from community relations to crime prevention.” KHTS
  • But all that high tech still hasn’t helped us solve the numerous unsolved murders in the SCV; for that, we still have to depend on homicide detectives in downtown LA
  • Bob Haueter -deputy chief of staff to Buck McKeon, campaign manager for Patricia McKeon, and one of the guys behind the second Republican club in the SCV- tells that Jim Holt of the Signal that all the recent debate among local conservatives is healthy, and that eventually, everyone will pull together behind the GOP nominee, even if its Romney. The article also notes that Haueter’s former group, the California Republican Assembly, is headed by David Gauny now and has 130+ members, while the new group only has 40 members. So why didn’t the Signal talk to David Gauny since he seems to represent more local Republicans than Haueter does? Also why didn’t Holt ask Haueter why those 40 Republicans decided to take their ball and go home rather than work under Gauny? SIGNAL
  • Candidates for COC Board held a discussion forum Wednesday at COC in front of 40 students, administrators and faculty members. One interesting fact: by 2018, the state projects that COC will have 37,000 students, but that’s going to be tough to reach if the state doesn’t get it its act together. Also, Diana Shaw, one of the candidates, made a swipe at SCV politicians saying that if she was elected, she’d walk around campus and talk to students more and spend less time at galas and dinners around town SIGNAL
  • SEIU blog thanks public library supporters in Santa Clarita and elsewhere for helping to pass AB 438, the state bill that regulates how cities can outsource library services to private companies BLOG
  • The Lombardi land under dispute near the proposed Castaic High site was auctioned off yesterday for $800,000, nearly half of what was owed on it SIGNAL
  • Happy ending for a stray horse that was found wandering around Lancaster recently KHTS
  • A computer that malfunctioned in Canyon Country may have started a fire that caused $20,000 of damage to a house SIGNAL
  • More Petz commentary on Occupy SCV: It just seems wrong to organize a #occupuanything event, but it is so Santa Clarita. Free tuition folks over here-Global Warming nuts over there, big bank bashers by the playground, free love hippies in the olive tree grove ….food modification people by the Kogi truck ….at 2 o’clock Carol Lutness will talk about campaign finance reform…….Jonathan Kraut will lead us in meditation at 3……..We will start and end on time….speakers are limited to three minutes….You can do better than this. FACEBOOK
  • Interesting TIME RANGER this week. Did you know the SCV once had a There Will Be Blood-style oil blowout? WRB

Comments (41)

  1. NateOctober 13, 2011 at 8:12 am
    I had the privilege of doing the branding identity for Sgt. Harris’ Crime Prevention Unit… He is really a great guy in our community. I am happy he ran with the theme almost verbatim, brought a tear to my eye
  2. Mr PerezOctober 13, 2011 at 6:30 pm
    You’re such a little girl :*) lol
  3. Jim FarleyOctober 13, 2011 at 8:44 am
    After a quiet summer in the Northbridge area there has been a beginning of some grafitti, and last weekend vandalism in terms of broken paseo fence rails an irrigation control box yanked out of the ground. The Sherriff quickly responded to my report on the vandalism. I loved Carol Rocks report in light of this. Hopefully the new system will allow the perps of this activity to be caught much sooner before more damage occurs. Kudos to Chief Becker, Deputy Harris, and the SCV Sherrifs Dept.
  4. Phil EllisOctober 13, 2011 at 8:55 am
    I thought Chief Becker was the Santa Clarita Chief. Is the City paying him to patrol the west side of I-5, or is the County finally doing the right thing?
  5. iMagicOctober 13, 2011 at 9:15 am
    Does the county ever do the right thing? *Becker is the Santa Clarita Station Captain, as we don’t have a police department.
  6. Jim FarleyOctober 13, 2011 at 9:57 am
    Thanks for the clarification. Captain Becker.
  7. LarMccOctober 13, 2011 at 10:26 am
    Becker is Captain at the Sheriff’s station. He is also Chief of Police for our city. The city does not pay for patrols on the west side of I-5. There are specific cars that are ‘county cars’ and are assigned solely to the unincorporated areas. You will notice these black and whites will not have the Santa Clarita (Looney Toons) logo on the side of the cars. City cars can go into the county area to assist and vice versa, but only in an emergency.
  8. Phil EllisOctober 13, 2011 at 10:01 am
    So why is he dabbling in Stevenson Ranch? I don’t think we have annexed that area yet.
  9. iMagicOctober 13, 2011 at 11:00 am
    The county gets what they pay for.
  10. ToddOctober 13, 2011 at 1:18 pm
    The SCV Station serves more than the City of Santa Clarita. The unincorporated areas are staffed with so many deputies, and the city is staffed with another amount. They share space. One of the HOAs in SR actually pays (or they used to… think they still do) the County for an extra deputy to patrol in their area as well.
  11. Phil EllisOctober 13, 2011 at 1:30 pm
    Thanks for clarification
  12. MikeOctober 13, 2011 at 9:25 am
    I heard they’re shutting down major crimes. Lester will land on his feet, but McNulty? That’s another story.
  13. iMagicOctober 13, 2011 at 10:59 am
    In the end they both took a walk…
  14. Timothy Myers SROctober 13, 2011 at 9:37 am
    Reading the bizarre Haueter piece (I am still scratching my head as to what the purpose was) I just kept thinking about Life of Brian (“The Judean People’s Front” “The People’s Front of Judea”) Did I read it right when he said it would be great to even have more splinter Republican clubs?
  15. MikeOctober 13, 2011 at 10:01 am
    Dave Gauny’s favorite Public Enemy song is “Fight the Haueter”
  16. Rap CityOctober 13, 2011 at 10:18 am
    “McKeon was a hero to most but he never meant spit to me, a straight up Mormon the sucka was bought, simple and plain….”
  17. MikeOctober 13, 2011 at 10:34 am
    mf him and Bob H
  18. MikeOctober 13, 2011 at 10:35 am
    Exactly 3% of the readers will get this joke
  19. VenturanOctober 13, 2011 at 10:49 am
    I’d say it’s closer to 4% if you account for the Korn factor.
  20. MikeOctober 13, 2011 at 11:08 am
    Is there something I don’t know about? How angry will I be once I hear it?
  21. VenturanOctober 13, 2011 at 11:23 am
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogK9Uct_SuQ
  22. MikeOctober 13, 2011 at 11:33 am
    oh my
  23. CCOctober 13, 2011 at 12:34 pm
    …and yet the Smug ratio is off the charts
  24. MikeOctober 13, 2011 at 12:48 pm
    not being smug, just young(er)
  25. IHeartSCVOctober 13, 2011 at 1:21 pm
    “not being smug, just young(er)” Or older. Some of us still in our twenties also missed the reference.
  26. MikeOctober 13, 2011 at 1:29 pm
    You were five years old! No excuse.
  27. Mike MOctober 13, 2011 at 5:40 pm
    I’ve always wondered if Flavor Flav ever had any idea what he was saying, or if he just repeated what he was told? Chuck D comes across as someone with a lot of intelligence, but Flavor is a fricking cartoon…
  28. Mr PerezOctober 13, 2011 at 6:31 pm
    Flav was the best hype man in the business lol
  29. Phil EllisOctober 13, 2011 at 10:02 am
    I don’t think he used the word “splinter.” And the article didn’t name all the local Republican groups.
  30. Alan FerdmanOctober 13, 2011 at 1:39 pm
    Tim I thought the story was particularly interesting since Bob Haueter has continuously stated he is NOT a member of the GSCVRA and is STILL a member of the SCVRA. I wonder when that changed?
  31. MikeOctober 13, 2011 at 10:01 am
    On COC: it’s nice to see the other candidates at least show up to the forum. I never understand the people who run and decline the free exposure. Why bother? Incumbents will trounce on election day, I’m sure. But still.
  32. PetzOctober 13, 2011 at 10:09 am
    They did change the meeting room without public announcement, so Room 137 was locked when I arrived.
  33. MikeOctober 13, 2011 at 10:33 am
    Did you find it eventually? How was it?
  34. PetzOctober 13, 2011 at 1:28 pm
    I gave up because the students looked at me as if they were ready to call security.
  35. Mr PerezOctober 13, 2011 at 4:06 pm
    You should’ve said “Hi! I’m Steve Petzold! I know you are 28 but have you ever thought of moving out of your mom and dads house and invested in your own home?”
  36. CastaicClayOctober 13, 2011 at 11:16 am
    Why didn’t the Hart District buy the Lombardi property? Wouldn’t it have cost less than the current proposed site?
  37. spineflower2October 13, 2011 at 12:23 pm
    This has been hashed out for years (access, drainage, oak trees, if I remember correctly, but it’s been a long time). Time to move on.
  38. CastaicClayOctober 13, 2011 at 1:46 pm
    Okay, an inferior it is.
  39. CastaicClayOctober 13, 2011 at 6:33 pm
    An Inferior site.
  40. CastaicClayOctober 13, 2011 at 1:57 pm
    And expensive too!
  41. Timothy Myers SROctober 13, 2011 at 1:03 pm
    There is what a private buyer will pay at auction and what a public entity will pay. There is sometimes very little similarity between the two.

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