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Kern County

Civil Rights Government 

California, Kern County Sheriff Reach Reform Deal to End AG Probe

December 22, 2020December 22, 2020 NATHAN SOLIS
Excessive Force, Kern County, Police Killing

Sheriff’s officers in Kern County, California, must stop using chokeholds while in the field and will be able to stop their colleagues if they see them use the move, the California Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday in announcing a major settlement between the county and state.

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Environment Government 

Temblor Legless Lizard

October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 BRIEF
California, Endangered Species Act, Kern County

The Center for Biological Diversity asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to extend Endangered Species Act protections to the Temblor legless lizard, a rare sand-swimming reptile living in the Temblor Range in Kern County, California, that is at risk from oil and gas drilling.

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Business Civil Rights Government 

$1 Billion, Please

April 14, 2020April 15, 2020 BRIEF
Agriculture, California, Kern County, marijuana, plants, Research

Apothio, an agricultural research institution authorized to research hemp, sued Kern County, California in federal court for $1 billion, claiming it illegally destroyed 500 acres of its plants, in “one the largest wholesale destructions of personal property by government entities in the history of the United States.”

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Business Civil Rights Government Health 

Medical Marijuana

May 7, 2019May 7, 2019 BRIEF
California, Kern County, marijuana, retail

Citing “the insurmountable hurdle that federal law does not recognize any protectible liberty or property interest” in the sale of marijuana, a federal judge dismissed claims against Kern County by medical marijuana dispensaries.

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Civil Rights Criminal 

False Conviction

May 2, 2019May 2, 2019 BRIEF
California, Death Penalty, Kern County, murder, wrongful conviction

Vicente Benavides Figueroa claims in a federal complaint that false evidence, conspiracy and other misbehavior by Kern County and Delano city officials caused him to spend 25 years on California’s death row for a murder he did not commit.

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Energy Environment Regional 

Kern County Derails Refinery Expansion Plan

January 16, 2019January 17, 2019 REBEKAH KEARN
Kern County, oil, pollution

The Kern County, California, Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to rescind approval for a project that would have allowed a Bakersfield refinery to process up to 63 million barrels of volatile Bakken crude oil a year.

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Civil Rights Government Politics 

Kern County Ordered to Refranchise Latino Voters

April 12, 2018April 12, 2018 NICK CAHILL
Kern County, Latinos, redistricting, Voting

Kern County at the southern end of California’s great Central Valley will implement new voting districts and pay plaintiff $3 million in legal fees after disenfranchising Latino voters for nearly a decade.

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Courts Government Regional 

Judge Blasts Anti-Latino Bias in Kern County Redistricting

February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 NICK CAHILL
Kern County, Latinos, redistricting

In a rare challenge of a California voting district, a federal judge sided with residents that Kern County “dilutes” Latino voters’ influence through discriminatory district lines drawn in 2011.

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Education Government 

Child Abuse

February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 ROBERT KAHN
juveniles, Kern County, solitary confinement, teens

Three disabled Kern County, California, teens claim in a federal class action that juvenile-detention staffers abused them with pepper spray, prolonged solitary confinement, excessive force, painful prone restraint holds and denial of education.

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Civil Rights Government 

New Gay Wedding Cake Case Rising in California

December 15, 2017December 15, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
California, discrimination, Kern County, LGBT, same-sex marriage

In an echo of the high-profile gay wedding cake case before the U.S. Supreme Court, California this week sued a Bakersfield bakery to stop it from discriminating against same-sex couples.

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Law 

Kern County Latinos’ Redistricting Fight Headed to Trial

June 2, 2017June 5, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
California, Kern County, Latinos, redistricting

Disgruntled voters have not done enough to prove that a redistricting plan in California’s Kern County discriminates against Latinos, a federal judge ruled.

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Op-Ed 

Adventures in Jury Duty

May 10, 2017May 23, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
drugs, jury, Kern County, methamphetamine

What do sports stars, cockroaches, Courthouse News Service reporters and the measles have in common? Jury duty!

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Criminal 

Racist Bakersfield Shooter Gets 15 Years

April 11, 2017July 9, 2018 REBEKAH KEARN
California, Hate Crimes, Kern County, race, Regional5, sentencing

A federal judge Monday sentenced a Bakersfield man to 15 years in federal prison for hate crimes: firing a sawed-off shotgun and yelling racist slurs at a Latino man.

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Civil Rights 

Woman Claims Abuse by Probation Officer

April 3, 2017April 4, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
Kern County, probation, sexual assault

A mother of three claims her probation officer sexually assaulted her in his office and at her home in front of her disabled son, and threatened to put her in jail if she refused his advances.

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Consumers 

California Says Business Preys Upon Canadians

March 31, 2017August 15, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
background check, Canada, immigrants, Kern County

Kern County seeks $4.7 million in fines against a local business for preying on Canadian citizens with criminal records who want to enter the United States.

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Energy Government Health 

Policy Paper Seeks Info on California Oil Industry

March 17, 2017March 17, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
California, Kern County, Oil and gas

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace released a study this week calling for more transparency in the oil industry, and nominating California as the leader in the fight for clean air.

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Civil Rights 

Kern County Settles Videotaped Beating Case

March 9, 2017March 9, 2017 HELEN CHRISTOPHI
California, Excessive Force, Kern County, Law Enforcement, Settlement

Kern County and its sheriff’s officers have settled a 3-year old lawsuit accusing them of illegally arresting a man and seizing his cellphone after he recorded them beating another man to death.

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Energy Environment 

Environmentalists Take on Oil Industry and California

February 17, 2017February 17, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
California, Center for Biological Diversity, Kern County, Oil and gas

A California law on wastewater injection that has drawn the ire of the oil industry now faces objections from environmentalists. The Center for Biological Diversity is accusing the state of actually shirking its duty.

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Environment Government 

Oil Industry Fights California Over Wastewater Injections

January 24, 2017January 24, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
California, Kern County, Oil and gas

The oil industry sued California on Inauguration Day, calling its regulation of wastewater injection unconstitutional overreach that will shut down thousands of oil wells that do not threaten water supplies in 45 aquifers, as the state contends.

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Environment 

Greens Fight Giant Development in Kern County

January 10, 2017September 20, 2017 REBEKAH KEARN
California, construction, developers, Kern County, pollution

The Center for Biological Diversity challenged Kern County’s approval of a enormous, long-planned community in the southern San Joaquin Valley, claiming it will cause a slew of environmental problems that the county’s studies failed to address.

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