What is Shasta County, California Hiding ?

[RLF]

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://reddingloavesandfishes.com/rha/

[Diesel66]

Ever been there ? Shasta county is one of the poorest, backwoods places in CA and their officials cant do a damn thing about anything.

It gets over 110 in the summer every years for multiple days. I have seen over 115 when we came back from whiskeytown lake, it was soo bad we were about to climb in the store's freezers to cool off.

So if the homeless are dying, it is because they are stupid. This isnt some random heatwave like chicago or NY have had. This is just the normal summer.

[motivez]

Yeah, those homeless people should pack up their shit and drive to more reasonable climates

Oh wait.

[Dumpy Dooby]

The public does not have a right to that information.


They can ask nicely, and the county may or may not give it to them. It's up to the county.

[WickedLou9]

Originally Posted by Dumpy Dooby

The public does not have a right to that information.


They can ask nicely, and the county may or may not give it to them. It's up to the county.

Freedom of information act?

I'm not sure if it applies to this sitution but that act ensures that alot of that sort of information is available to the public. If it's not a matter of national security, we have access.

[Kytro]

Originally Posted by Dumpy Dooby

The public does not have a right to that information.


They can ask nicely, and the county may or may not give it to them. It's up to the county.

They damn well should have a right to it.