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Good morning, San Diego ☀️
Here’s what we have for you today:
- A 17-year-old girl in North Carolina has been charged with murder and federal conspiracy for her alleged role in the San Diego Islamic Center shooting.
- Waymo is welcoming it’s first set of public riders today. They’ve released their service area map and will be accepting riders on a rolling basis.
- And shoutout to reader Suzanne Roth, who correctly guessed yesterday’s “Step back in time” question. Scroll to the bottom to see if you did too. 😊
Tessa Balc
Audience engagement producer
Top story
Encinitas sets date to consider new red-light cameras after traffic deaths
In 2020, Encinitas abandoned all of it’s red-light cameras. Now the city council is set to discuss whether to bring them back to city intersections amid safety concerns.
The cameras were abandoned initially because of concerns over privacy and whether tickets were issued correctly. But a new law has changed the issue at hand.
Senate Bill 720, known as the Safer Streets Program, allows cities to install cameras at their own discretion and it changes red light infractions to a violation similar to parking tickets. These violations are no longer based on the photos of drivers, instead they will be sent to the vehicle’s registered owner.
There’s also the fact that the Encinitas residents are ready to have them back after three teens over the past three years have been hit and killed by cars while walking or biking in the city.
And going forward, it might not only be red light cameras with eyes on drivers. At the same transportation committee meeting where red light cameras were discussed, so was the possibility of bringing speed cameras to the city.
Though that discussion is not imminent as the conversations around red light cameras which will happen at a scheduled council hearing on Sept. 9.
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Stories you should know about
🏗️ California lawmakers greenlight Midway Rising, bypassing environmental hurdles: Senate Bill 344, which allows the developer of Midway Rising to use an existing environmental review of the project to comply with CEQA, has made it to the governor’s desk to be signed into law.
🌪️ Forecasters say there’s a 90% chance a tropical system south of Baja becomes a cyclone: The weather system designated Invest 95-E could either take a westerly route farther into the Pacific Ocean, or a northern route toward San Diego and Los Angeles after moving through northwestern Mexico.
☢️ Experts warn that San Onofre’s nuclear waste could remain dangerous for ‘2000 generations’: Lawmakers and experts are still searching for a solution as the federal government’s proposal to dispose of the waste as never materialized.
🥊 A knockout event — Punches in the Piazza returns to Little Italy: The event, taking place on Sept. 11, serves as both a tribute and fundraiser. They’ll be raising funds for both the Washington Elementary School Foundation and the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
What else we’re reading
🚌 Students and staff at the Monarch School — which serves about 170 homeless students — were vacated after concerns about possible mold in school facilities just a week and a half into the school year. Students were sent to either Perkins Elementary, the South County Regional Education Center or they could opt for independent study. (Voice of San Diego)
🚔 Two years ago San Diego Sheriff’s Deputy Rick Fischer pleaded guilty to a half dozen charges related to sex crimes with victims who ranged from women that were pulled over for a traffic stop to those who called for help. He’s found a new role adjacent to field of law enforcement: chaplain with the Christian Law Enforcement Fellowship. (Voice of San Diego)
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Step back in time…
This is a photo of Newport Avenue in 1943. Did you guess correct? Want to read more, check out this article.
