More Than 300 People Arrested Off Los Posas Road Reman Jailed Today,

One Man Dies From Injuries Evading ICE, Judge Orders ICE TO Stop Random Sweeps, But Trump Will Appeal

More than 300 people who were arrested in Ventura County last week remain in federal ICE prisons somewhere in California today. 

One farmworker died over the weekend. 

Jaime Alanis Garcia was evading arrest when he fell 30 feet off a glass hothouse … just off Las Posas Road. 

His is the first known death stemming from President Donald Trump’s crackdown on noncitizens.

A federal judge on Friday ordered ICE and other immigration agents to stop making random immigrant sweeps.

The Justice Department acknowledged over the weekend that 71 percent of the immigrants arrested have no criminal records … whatsoever. 

The president vowed to appeal the court order… and it is not clear if the masked federal agents will stop their raids in the LA region as the matter is appealed.

Trump wrote on his official communique channel that … all capitals … “THUGS were violently throwing rocks and bricks at ICE Officers while they were moving down a roadway in their car.

“Therefore, I am directing … Law Enforcement Officer(s) who (are) on the receiving end of thrown rocks, bricks, or any other form of assault, to stop their car, and arrest these SLIMEBALLS, using whatever means is necessary to do so.”

Angelmarie Taylor  … a Cal State Channel Islands student … says people at the campus are still in shock from the violent confrontation 15 miles up the road from Malibu.

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“It was almost unlike anything we have ever seen before. 

“Most of the protesters out there are your the average people – average community members – who have been volunteering their time to patrol our own streets and keep each other safe from these ICE agents … ICE thugs I would say … who have been on our streets operating outside the law, not identifying themselves,  not allowing us our rights. 

They have assigned themselves to prevent the even more intense violence on the farmworkers in the blocked off area.”

Oxnard mayor Luis McArthur says terror is spreading in Oxnard.

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“These unjust and harmful actions by ICE officials, without following any die process, we had it hit home here.

“Many of there individuals who worked at the Glass House were Oxnard residents. 

“These actions are very harmful to our community, to the individuals.

“We are talking about human beings.  We are talking about parents just like the gentleman who passed because of the chaotic actions of ICE.

“I’m not saying that the ICE agents killed the gentleman. 

“But because of their chaotic actions, they caused this man and others to seek refuge, and this man to fall down, from the roof.”

The Oxnard Mayor worked 10 years as a cop … and he says even the nasty criminals he arrested for murder or rape were treated better than the 300m people arrested last week by ICE in the fields next to Oxnard.

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“Like any other police officer with a tenure of time in the police force, I’ve some of the most – just persons that had committed the most-atrocious crimes … murders to sexual assaults.

“Just a number of other felonioius crimes. 

“Those individuals were afforded an opportunity to defend themselves.

“That’s not what we are seeing here. 

“SWe are seeing people being quickly transferred out of here.”

Oxnard mayor Luis McArthur.

The arrests happened 15 miles up the coast from Malibu … and some Malibu residents rushed to the large protest in the fields off Los Posas Road that morning. 

Federal troops on immigration duty were observed moving thru Malibu Saturday.

And video has been posted of two dozen children with their hands chained …  shuffling single file in the parking garage of the Los Angeles Federal Building.

Attorneys for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles, said its attorneys have contacted the girls and boys and are planningto represent them.

The children were not accompanied by their parents and are from Ventura County.

One of the people is a woman … carrying a baby … in chains. 

City Council Apparently Has Their New City Manager, Formal Appointment Likely This Afternoon

The Malibu city council has apparently agreed on who will be hired as the new city manager … to run day to day business at Malibu City Hall.

The city council met behind closed doors Thursday and Friday …to interview the three top candidates … who applied for the job …

A hald day each.

Friday afternoon … the council apparently reached a decision and changed tonight’s agenda … to discuss the matter once more in executive session … and then ratify the vote. 

On agenda tonight: deputy at Malibu schools, 

The Malibu city council is supposed to vote tonight on a huge list of important matters … 

Including … a proposal to redirect on the sheriffs deputies patrolling Malibu to be a campus cop … primarily at Malibu High and Malibu middle schools.

The issue of a small number of sheriff’s deputies in this isolated area … a long way front he schools … a major concern.

But the sheriff’s department is not able to supply more deputies for daily patrol … there simply are not enough sworn officers in all of LA County hiring a cop for the schools … 

Te school district is OK with the idea of an amrmed sheriff’s deputy on campus.

But not a private security guard.

Santa Monica school Superintendent Antonio Shelton says the the District would strongly object to the use of private security on campuses … because they believe sheriff’s deputies are better trained in de-escalation and juvenile investigation tactics.

Also on the agenda … the idea of waiving city building permit fees for fire rebuilds after the Palisades Fire.
For some homeowners who lost everything in recent fires … adding tens of thousands of dollars in building fee permit costs would be the final straw to cause them to give up.

A similar fee waiver was given to the 450 or so homeowners in the Woolsey Fire disaster of six years ago.

But this fee waiver would be three times as many homeowners … and it would transfer a huge amounts of rebuilding fee costs for staff at city hall to the general tax fund … 

It would be limited to homeowners who live in the fire destroyed buildings … 

The council will discuss how much to charge the Lumberyard and other commercial businesses near Legacy Park for rent … 

Several buildings next to Legacy Park are owned by the city … and rented out to businesses. 

The city council is also looking at loosening city rules for businesses … on a temporary basis … to help them recover from the lack of business caused by the fire … and by the half year closure of PCH.

The city council may waive the sign code for businesses during the fire recovery … and may let businesses have outdoor events like parking lot sales … as part of fire recovery.

The city council is scheduled to make a decision on restoring the wetland at the Egret Pond on Civic Center Way. … 

Also on the agenda … a proposal to set up a tow away impound yard on Stewart Ranch Road …. at the Chili Cook off site .. 

There are some recommendations to put a year-round, daytime only impound yard at the upper end of the Chili Cookoff Lot …

The logic is that the rural and bucolic field of weeds is now … and for the time being … being used as a construction equipment storage yard for contractors working to rebuild public utilities in the burned out quarter of the city.

The idea … take a small part of that lot … fence it … and park towed away cars behind green screens. 

And … as if everything can be heard and decided on tonight … there is a proposal to speed up city council meetings.

Starting at 2 pm and moving the public comment to the end of the meeting may speed things up … the city clerk says. 

She also proposes moving the public comment period to the end of the meeting … and requiring speakers to register and sign up to speak in advance of the meeting .

She also proposes that zoning appeals about Planning Commission decisions be scheduled for special meetings … because they just soak up time.

All of that starts tonight at 4:30 behind closed doors … and in public at 5:30.

Lawsuit Filed By Former City Planner Appears To Be On Shaky Legal Ground

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has issued a tentative ruling against a disgruntled former city planner … 

The judge ruled that … if a city employee has a confidential personnel complaint against the city … sending it to the entire city council made it a public matter that is open for public discussion. 

Not an invasion of privacy ,,, as claimed by the former employee … Adrian Fernandez. 

That is the gist of a tentative ruling from a judge … a tentative ruling that appears to indicate the lawsuit against two city council members is about to get thrown out. 

As we reported Saturday … the judge on Friday found that assistant city planner Adrian Fernandez made a major mistake in his claims against his employer at the time … the City of Malibu. 

He sent his complaint to the entire city council … making it public business … and making it fair game for council members Brice Silverstein and Steve Uhring to discuss it at a city council meeting.

Judge Gail Killefer on Friday also indicated that the rest of Fernandez’s lawsuit against Malibu and its council members is on thin ice. 

Judge Kelliher gave Fernandez’s lawyer an opportunity to file a third attempt at an acceptable lawsuit. 

She said Fernandez needs to change the lawsuit to press his claim of racial discrimination against the city. 

Attorneys representing the city and the two city council members have filed an “anti-SLAPP” motion against Adrian Fernandez.

That is a legal move that forces Fernandez to prove he has a valid case … some chance of winning … before a full trial gets underway.  

And that very much appears to be in doubt.

The judge said she would issue a written ruling at a future date. 

Martha Cohen, the attorney representing the city, told KBUU News outside the courtroom that she could not speak to the reporter about the legal details. 

But she expressed general confidence that the judge would soon dismiss the lawsuit. 

The attorney for Fernandez appeared via conference call from a remote location and he was not available to speak in the courthouse hallway. 

The lawsuit was filed by Fernandez after he went out on disability leave after he was roundly criticized for mistakes made by the Planning Department in presenting a proposed new hotel project at the Malibu Inn.   

Fernandez was caught unprepared when city council members asked basic questions about the massive proposed hotel, which went down on a 4-1 vote. 

On Saturday …Silverstein told KBUU News in an email that he remains highly confident that all claims against Steve Uhring and me are without legal merit or factual basis.

And judging from what the judge said during Friday’s pretrial hearing … it appears the judge is heading in that direction as well.