The MPV will be used to provide services to people who are unhoused or live in rural areas to help them successfully comply with the terms and conditions of their probation. It’s funded by a more than $280,000 state grant.
Dr. Kaveh Ofogh, whose company, MEDIKO, will soon replace Wellpath as the medical provider at the Shasta County Jail has vowed to treat Shasta’s incarcerated people as his personal patients.
The sheriff’s office took actions to enter what’s known as a 287(g) agreement with ICE last May, but the process appears to have been halted. ICE’s 287(g) program, which gives local and state officers immigration enforcement authority, has been making national headlines.
When Phetakhom Tu Manivong was arrested in 2022, Redding Police officers posted on the department’s Facebook page, claiming he had committed a heinous crime. After being found not guilty by a jury of his peers, Manivong has filed a lawsuit against the city alleging that RPD’s false statement followed him for years, ruining his career and his reputation.
A contract with medical services provider Mediko, Inc. was approved by supervisors yesterday. It will increase medical expenses at the jail by about $3 million annually. But county officials hope it will reduce county costs overall by lowering litigation expenses.
No charges have been filed in court against a man arrested by the California Highway Patrol in January. Flight logs obtained by Shasta Scout reveal little more than what the California Highway Patrol has already said by press release, that the search of a private property as part of an “illicit cannabis cultivation operation” revealed weapons and an underground bunker — leading to an arrest.
Plans for a correctional facility that the county hopes to build on city-owned land have sparked outrage among nearby residents. At a Redding Planning Commission meeting yesterday members of the public, planning commissioners, city staff, and Sheriff Mike Johnson all expressed their frustrations — from different sides of the debate.
Tina Marie Elrite’s death brings the number of people who have died while incarcerated in Shasta to five in less than a year.
Redding City Council member Mike Littau announced last night that Barner would be returning to work, thanking the public for their patience during the potentially “sensitive” situation.
Captain Brian Cole has been appointed as acting chief, according to a city official.
