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Flock cameras are spreading across the IE, and no one's telling residents who put them up
Citrus Belt Review: Residents across the corridor keep spotting new license plate readers — on city streets, county roads, and inside their own gated neighborhoods. What they can't find is a straight answer about who installed them or why.
Redlands pays $475,000 to settle another police harassment lawsuit
Community Forward Redlands: Settlement pushes the city's payouts tied to allegations involving former Deputy Chief Michael Reiss to about $4.25 million across four cases.
San Bernardino County opens $125.6 million emergency dispatch hub
San Bernardino County: Federal American Rescue Plan money covered $106 million of the cost; the facility puts county emergency management, Sheriff dispatch and CONFIRE under one roof.
Redlands Police drone deploys on e-bike chase, mental health call, armed standoff
Community Forward Redlands: The "Drone as First Responder" program — also called "Mav-1" — launched earlier this year. The department logged three deployments in the week of May 13.
San Bernardino County rewrites flood design rules last set in 1983
San Bernardino County: First overhaul of the county's Hydrology Manual in 43 years; new post-wildfire flooding and debris-flow rules now shape how engineers and developers design drainage.
Hundreds pack Temecula council against SDG&E's 500-kilovolt line through wine country
CBS Los Angeles: SDG&E's Golden Pacific Powerlink would cut a 150-mile, 500-kilovolt corridor from Imperial Valley to Camp Pendleton through Temecula Parkway, Temecula Creek, and the heart of the wine country. The CPUC has final say. Construction targets 2029.
AI clerks tested in Riverside Superior Court motions
CalMatters: Riverside Superior Court signed a $10,000 deal in February with Learned Hand, whose tool drafts orders and research memos using Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models. CalMatters obtained emails suggesting eventual criminal-case applications.
New federal suit alleges Riverside jail medical lapses, 11 years into consent decree
NBC Palm Springs: Another deliberate-indifference suit against a jail system that's been under federal court oversight since 2015 and met only a fraction of the decree's provisions a decade in.
Victorville's unsheltered homeless count falls 68% in two years
City of Victorville: Per the 2026 Point-in-Time Count, the city's unsheltered population dropped from 326 in 2024 to 104 in 2026. Total homelessness is at a six-year low.
Riverside advances 24-hour notice rule for unhoused drop-offs
Raincross Gazette: Council introduced an ordinance Tuesday requiring agencies and organizations to notify the city before transporting unhoused people into Riverside. City staff peg the cost of stabilizing one unsheltered resident at about $63,000.
Riverside halts new pallet yards after 29 fires since 2025
Raincross Gazette: Council passed an urgency ordinance unanimously Tuesday, citing 29 fire incidents at pallet storage yards since January 2025 and a March fire that hospitalized three firefighters.