Tag: City of La Mesa
The city of La Mesa issued a proclamation on Tuesday to declare Jan. 30 Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution.
Korematsu was an American citizen of Japanese ancestry who was ordered to leave his home and report to an internment camp following the attack on Pearl Harbor but was imprisoned after he refused to comply with the 1942 presidential order.
A federal...
The city of La Mesa launched the first phase of their new Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement program in which an outreach worker and a mental health clinician will be dispatched on non-emergency police calls involving homeless individuals on Nov. 1.
La Mesa Police Captain Matt Nicholass, who spearheaded the program said it is mirrored off a Eugene, OR. program...
The city of La Mesa is now accepting applications for its newly created Community Police Oversight Board. Deadline for submissions of applicants is Dec. 1 by 5:30 p.m. in the City Clerk’s Office. Applications may be obtained at La Mesa City Hall or at its website.
The CPOB will consist of an 11-member panel and members must be residents of...
Having served on La Mesa City Council for eight years, Kristine Alessio is seeking her third and final term in the upcoming election. Running as No Party Preference, Alessio is an attorney and works for her father, a real estate developer and the owner of a small mini-storage in Spring Valley.
Alessio said she and the council accomplished several things...
When video emerged this summer of La Mesa police officer Matthew Dages manhandling and eventually arresting a 23-year-old man sitting near the Grossmont Center trolley stop, residents and civil rights activists called for an internal investigation and the officer’s termination.
Dages is white and the man, Amaurie Johnson, is Black.
Dages had said he initially approached Johnson because he was smoking...
Dozens of candidates for local, state and federal offices have recently been qualified to appear on election day ballots. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of California has mandated that every registered voter receive a mail-in ballot. Ballots will be mailed beginning Oct. 5. Voters will still be able to cast their ballots at local polling places....
At a virtual Town Hall meeting on Aug. 13, La Mesa Council member Bill Baber interrupted his time, asking if a text that he had received saying that La Mesa Police Chief Walt Vasquez resigned was correct. City Manager Greg Humora confirmed that Vasquez will retire effective Aug. 27.
Vasquez has 35 years of law enforcement, serving more than five...
