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Politics > Politics-USA |
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10 Jul 2007 10:03:52 PM |
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What are they hiding in Shasta County California ? |
A July 8, 2007 Redding, California news article related the death of
a 51-year-old woman on a day when temperatures in Redding rose to a
deadly 114 degrees. This article also quoted attorney Terry Francke
of the Sacramento-based public records advocacy group, Californians
Aware, as saying that "there is no rule justifying" Shasta County's
refusal to provide the public with information about this woman's
death, which includes their concealment of her name, where she
lived, and the circumstances surrounding her death. Could this be
part of Shasta County's herculean effort to deny the public access
to information about the number of homeless people who die on our
streets - which is even taken to the point of deliberately
falsifying information on their death certificates? At least 25
people died in Shasta County in 2005 as a result of being homeless.
However, representatives of both the Shasta County Coroner's Office
and the Shasta County Department of Public Health informed me that
this information "is no longer available" to the public because
Shasta County is now assigning deceased homeless people an address
deceptively listed as a "residence" on their death certificates. The
public has an absolute right to know how many human beings are
allowed to die on the streets of Shasta County for lack of adequate
emergency shelter space and housing they can afford, even if that
knowledge forces local officials to delay their next multi-million-
dollar "beautification"project in the interest of saving lives.
http://www.redding.com/news/2007/jul/07/death-spurs-warning/
http://www.reddingloavesandfishes.com/
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