At Tuesday’s Stockton City Council meeting, the council will discuss camping on city property, as it continues to grapple with the city’s homelessness problem. The discussion stems from a June 28 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places, even if there are not adequate bed spaces. “I think this Grants Pass decision the Supreme Court just made has a tremendous impact on the local homeless population here,”

The Stockton City Council tackled a smorgasbord of issues during this week’s council meeting – discussing plans to improve sidewalk gaps near schools, build a new parking lot across from the new city hall building, install automated restrooms at parks across the city, even listening to a public hearing on adopting the city’s 2024-25 annual budget. One topic has eluded comment from the council, however: the June 10 San Joaquin County Civil Grand Jury Report blasting the 209 Ti

While having significantly lower numbers of registered voters in San Joaquin County, Republicans fared well in the recent Primary Elections at the municipal, county, regional, state and national level, according to the local leader of the GOP. San Joaquin County voters approved of Republican candidate Steve Garvey over Democratic candidate Adam Schiff by a 5 fivepercent margin, 35%-30%.. In the State Senator District 5 Race, county voters approved of Republican candidate Jim