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Spillway upgrades in the cards: Department of Water Resources officials, along with the US Army Corps of Engineers, are working on a potential major redesign of the damaged Lake Oroville spillways. An official said the planned changes may be widely replicated around the globe.
Officials can’t hide behind private email: California’s Supreme Court ruled that public officials must disclose public business upon request, and can’t get around the state’s public records laws by using gmail, yahoo-mail or another service instead of their official email accounts---a method used in San Jose when city leaders and developers communicated secretly.
Cha-ching: Filing any real estate documents with your county could cost even more in the future. Legislators are considering a bill that would raise a quarter billion dollars a year for affordable housing programs, but raise the money by tacking on a $75 recording fee atop the cost of filing paperwork. Similar legislation has failed in recent years.
Did you catch KQED’s California Report? Faith leaders in the Los Angeles basin are talking up a new ‘Underground Railroad’ to help the undocumented elude capture…While some jurisdictions resist stepped up immigration enforcement, officials in Fresno County are cooperating more closely with ICE...And, Prop 109, the controversial measure that eased prison overcrowding, in the wake of the killing of a police officer in Whittier.