A third member of the staff/faculty at Wilmer Amina Carter High School in Rialto has been criminally charged for failure to properly report that one and perhaps more of the students at the school had been sexually abused.
The addition of a misdemeanor filing against another school staff member at the high school where two school administrators are being subjected to novel felony prosecutions relating to sexual assaults perpetrated by a student or students against another underage student or other underage students may complicate the ability of the prosecution to obtain convictions of two original defendants in the case.  The three adults criminally charged in the case were not directly involved in nor did they have prior knowledge of those assaults, and their being held to account when the one known juvenile perpetrator of the assaults is not being charged is creating a stir in both legal and educational circles. Moreover, the enlargement of the case to a third school employee intensifies already existing questions about why the principal who was in place when the sexual abuse of one of her students was ongoing has not been criminally charged even as two of her assistant principals were.
Lindsay Morton, who was a counselor at Wilmer Amina Carter High School was formally charged by the Continue reading →

A member of a public interest group this week publicly alleged that $36,375 of the donations received by San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus’s campaign committee were inadequately delineated in campaign finance documents provided to the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters’ Office.
Dicus’s campaign contested that assertion, which was formalized in a complaint made to the California Fair Political Practices Commission by Gail Fry, a member of the local chapter of the National Action Network, in a filing made May 11. According to the campaign and a report in the San Bernardino Sun which appeared as a posting Continue reading →

A glitch at the county elections office has created the possibility that the outcome of the contest for Second District county supervisor could be impacted by perhaps as many as 5,000 residents in north Rancho Cucamonga and north Fontana voting twice in the June 7 primary election.
There is, as a consequence of the same mistake, a possibility that some of those voters who were mistakenly provided with the opportunity to vote twice will not have their votes counted at all.
County officials are not disclosing how widespread the error was. What is known is that at least 1,500 incorrect ballots were mailed to voters in north Fontana and Rancho Cucamonga, and the office followed Continue reading →

Kaiser Permanente, which provides health service for a wide cross section of those in San Bernardino County, is no longer providing its members residing in Rancho Cucamonga, where it has medical facilities, and in San Bernardino, where it has medical facilities, with COVID vaccinations.
Those seeking the shots are turned away at the door and told that they can try to see if they can get an immunization in Fontana or in Palm Springs.
Kaiser officials did not explain why they are discontinuing the injections, other than to say the policy was effective last week.
The move comes as California is experiencing another coronavirus surge. Continue reading →

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIV CB 2207721
TO  ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner:  Dora Garcia filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Genesis Danielle Garcia to Genesis Danielle Aguilar THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Continue reading →

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By Mark Gutglueck
Terry Elliott, who is seeking election to the San Bernardino City Council in the Second Ward on June 7, has an extensive history involving fraud, theft and financial misdealings that have resulted in the loss of at least two of his pastorships, civil judgments against him, a bankruptcy and criminal convictions.
Despite his checkered past, Elliott remains as a preacher with the Ship of Zion, a church in San Bernardino, and the San Bernardino Police Department has allowed him to serve in the capacity of a police chaplain. Earlier this year, Elliott was able to leverage his status as a chaplain with the department into an endorsement by the San Bernardino Police Officers Association in his run against incumbent Councilwoman Sandra Ibarra to represent the city’s Second Ward. Continue reading →