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LAKEPORT, calif. – Police said early Thursday that they are continuing to develop leads in the effort to locate a teenager last seen by her family on Tuesday evening.
Police are trying to locate 16-year-old Lia Nicole Long, as Lake County News has reported.
The Lakeport Police Department, with the assistance of Bay Area law enforcement agencies and the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children, continued the ongoing investigation throughout the night and early morning hours Thursday.
Officers developed leads on the whereabouts of Antonio Malik Walls, who they believed had been with Long, in the Bay Area and made contact with him.
During the investigation of Walls it was determined he did not take Lia Long from Lakeport and she was not with him when contacted, police said.
As officers were interviewing Walls, the police department received additional leads indicating Long was transported to Williams on Tuesday around 6 p.m.
At about 7 p.m. she left there in a blue- or silver-colored vehicle, believed to be a BMW, with a light-skinned white or Hispanic male and a black male adult. No other information was provided on the male subjects or the vehicle, according to police.
Police received information that Long’s cellular phone was last used in the Elk Grove area at 10 p.m. Tuesday.
The investigation is ongoing and the police department said it is working on identifying the male subjects in the BMW.
Long is described as a light-skinned American Indian female, standing 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 125 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
She currently has two dermal piercings on both her right and left cheek. Long also has the words, “forever in my heart Alyssa 05/23/17” tattooed on her right clavicle and an upside down crescent moon on her right thigh.
The police department is concerned for Long’s safety and is seeking any leads regarding her whereabouts.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Lakeport Police Department via Facebook, anonymous text message from your cellular phone by texting the words TIP LAKEPORT followed by your message to the number 888777 or by telephone at 707-263-5491.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Board of Education, in conjunction with school districts and county offices of education across California, has passed a resolution urging the state Legislature to raise school funding.
The board is asking that California school funding be raised to the national average by 2020 and to the average of the top 10 states by 2025.
California has the world’s sixth largest economy and the highest gross domestic production of any state, yet spends significantly less per pupil than most other states in America.
During the Lake County Board of Education’s March meeting, the board passed a full and fair funding resolution sponsored by the California School Boards Association.
The resolution asks the California Legislature to raise funding to a level that allows schools to prepare all students for success in college, career and civic life.
Currently, California ranks 42nd in per pupil funding; 45th in the percentage of revenue devoted to public schools; and last or nearly last in almost every measure of school staffing, including student-teacher ratio or the number of counselors, librarians or nurses per student.
Recent efforts to address the funding issue, like the Local Control Funding Formula, simply restored funding to the pre-recession levels of 2007, doing little to close the funding gap between California and other states.
In order to better serve Lake County and California students, rectify years of underinvestment in California public schools and build a brighter future for this state, the Lake County Office of Education is joining school districts and County Offices of Education across the state in calling for full and fair funding of California public schools.
For information on the Lake County Board of Education, please go to www.lakecoe.org . Board meetings are held at 1152 S. Main Street, Lakeport, on the third Wednesday of each month. Meetings begin at 1:30 p.m. Agendas are posted online and at the LCOE Main Office, 72 hours in advance of each meeting.
The full text of Resolution 1718-07 can be found at www.lakecoe.org/about/agendas_minutes.
The board is asking that California school funding be raised to the national average by 2020 and to the average of the top 10 states by 2025.
California has the world’s sixth largest economy and the highest gross domestic production of any state, yet spends significantly less per pupil than most other states in America.
During the Lake County Board of Education’s March meeting, the board passed a full and fair funding resolution sponsored by the California School Boards Association.
The resolution asks the California Legislature to raise funding to a level that allows schools to prepare all students for success in college, career and civic life.
Currently, California ranks 42nd in per pupil funding; 45th in the percentage of revenue devoted to public schools; and last or nearly last in almost every measure of school staffing, including student-teacher ratio or the number of counselors, librarians or nurses per student.
Recent efforts to address the funding issue, like the Local Control Funding Formula, simply restored funding to the pre-recession levels of 2007, doing little to close the funding gap between California and other states.
In order to better serve Lake County and California students, rectify years of underinvestment in California public schools and build a brighter future for this state, the Lake County Office of Education is joining school districts and County Offices of Education across the state in calling for full and fair funding of California public schools.
For information on the Lake County Board of Education, please go to www.lakecoe.org . Board meetings are held at 1152 S. Main Street, Lakeport, on the third Wednesday of each month. Meetings begin at 1:30 p.m. Agendas are posted online and at the LCOE Main Office, 72 hours in advance of each meeting.
The full text of Resolution 1718-07 can be found at www.lakecoe.org/about/agendas_minutes.
On Wednesday Gov. Jerry Brown responded to the federal government’s request for additional California National Guard personnel.
In a letter – which was accompanied by an agreement submitted Wednesday afternoon for review and approval by the federal government – Gov. Brown said the California National Guard will accept funding to supplement staffing for its efforts to combat transnational crime.
However Brown said the mission the California National Guard participated in wouldn’t include building a new wall, rounding up women or enforcing federal immigration laws.
The full text of the governor’s letter follows.
“Dear Secretary Nielsen and Secretary Mattis:
“Pursuant to your request, the California National Guard will accept federal funding to add approximately 400 Guard members statewide to supplement the staffing of its ongoing program to combat transnational crime. This program is currently staffed by 250 personnel statewide, including 55 at the California border.
“Your funding for new staffing will allow the Guard to do what it does best: support operations targeting transnational criminal gangs, human traffickers and illegal firearm and drug smugglers along the border, the coast and throughout the state. Combating these criminal threats are priorities for all Americans – Republicans and Democrats. That’s why the state and the Guard have long supported this important work and agreed to similar targeted assistance in 2006 under President Bush and in 2010 under President Obama.
“But let’s be crystal clear on the scope of this mission. This will not be a mission to build a new wall. It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life. And the California National Guard will not be enforcing federal immigration laws.
“Here are the facts: there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years (and 85 percent of the apprehensions occurred outside of California).
“I agree with the Catholic Bishops who have said that local, state and federal officials should “work collaboratively and prudently in the implementation of this deployment, ensuring that the presence of the National Guard is measured and not disruptive to community life.”
“I look forward to working with you on this important effort.”
Sincerely,
Edmund G. Brown Jr.
In a letter – which was accompanied by an agreement submitted Wednesday afternoon for review and approval by the federal government – Gov. Brown said the California National Guard will accept funding to supplement staffing for its efforts to combat transnational crime.
However Brown said the mission the California National Guard participated in wouldn’t include building a new wall, rounding up women or enforcing federal immigration laws.
The full text of the governor’s letter follows.
“Dear Secretary Nielsen and Secretary Mattis:
“Pursuant to your request, the California National Guard will accept federal funding to add approximately 400 Guard members statewide to supplement the staffing of its ongoing program to combat transnational crime. This program is currently staffed by 250 personnel statewide, including 55 at the California border.
“Your funding for new staffing will allow the Guard to do what it does best: support operations targeting transnational criminal gangs, human traffickers and illegal firearm and drug smugglers along the border, the coast and throughout the state. Combating these criminal threats are priorities for all Americans – Republicans and Democrats. That’s why the state and the Guard have long supported this important work and agreed to similar targeted assistance in 2006 under President Bush and in 2010 under President Obama.
“But let’s be crystal clear on the scope of this mission. This will not be a mission to build a new wall. It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life. And the California National Guard will not be enforcing federal immigration laws.
“Here are the facts: there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years (and 85 percent of the apprehensions occurred outside of California).
“I agree with the Catholic Bishops who have said that local, state and federal officials should “work collaboratively and prudently in the implementation of this deployment, ensuring that the presence of the National Guard is measured and not disruptive to community life.”
“I look forward to working with you on this important effort.”
Sincerely,
Edmund G. Brown Jr.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said a Eureka man who went missing earlier this week has been safely located.
Bronson Marcel Tarrio was located in good condition at a property in Shelter Cove, officials said.
On Tuesday, a passerby in the Shelter Cove area recognized Tarrio and his vehicle from
news reports of his missing person’s status.
The passerby notified the Sheriff’s Office Emergency Communications Center. Deputies made contact with Tarrio around 7:30 p.m.
Bronson Marcel Tarrio was located in good condition at a property in Shelter Cove, officials said.
On Tuesday, a passerby in the Shelter Cove area recognized Tarrio and his vehicle from
news reports of his missing person’s status.
The passerby notified the Sheriff’s Office Emergency Communications Center. Deputies made contact with Tarrio around 7:30 p.m.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport Police Department is looking for a teenage girl who may be with a man she met online.
Police said the family of Lia Nicole Long, 16, reported her missing at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Her family said she was last seen on Tuesday evening in the 1200 block of N. Forbes Street, police said.
Through a mutual friend of Long, the family learned she may have been at the Regency Inn Motel with an older male subject that Long met online. The family responded to the Regency Inn and learned she may have been staying with the male subject but they were not currently at the motel, according to the police report.
Lakeport Police said its officers began an investigation with the information they received. Through the course of the investigation officers were able to locate surveillance video depicting Long and a male subject at the front counter.
Receipt records from the motel revealed the male subject was identified as Antonio Malik Walls, 21, possibly out of Richmond or Citrus Heights. Police said Walls is associated with a 2014 dark-colored, possibly black, Mercury four-door sedan bearing California license plate 7UUP583.
Based on the information obtained during the investigation, the police department is considering Long an at-risk missing juvenile.
She is described as a light-skinned American Indian female, standing 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 125 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
Long currently has two dermal piercings on both her right and left cheek. She also has the words, “forever in my heart Alyssa 05/23/17” tattooed on her right clavicle and an upside down crescent moon on her right thigh, police said.
The Lakeport Police Department said Walls is currently being sought for the crime of felony child concealment.
The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information is asked to contact the Lakeport Police Department via Facebook, anonymous text message from your cellular phone by texting the words TIP LAKEPORT followed by your message to the number 888777 or by telephone at 707-263-5491.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The preliminary results for a special Tuesday election indicate that an increased fire fee on residences in the Northshore Fire Protection District has failed.
Measure E seeks to increase the fire fee on property tax bills for single family residences to $120 per year, compared to current amounts of $45 in Upper Lake, $57.50 in Nice, and $60 in Clearlake Oaks and Lucerne, as Lake County News has reported.
Northshore Fire Chief Jay Beristianos said the increase is needed to keep the district sustainable in the years ahead.
Beristianos said the measure needed to pass by a supermajority of 66.7 percent.
In preliminary results released Tuesday night by the Lake County Registrar of Voters Office, with all 12 precincts reporting, the measure received 54.1 percent of the vote in its favor, with 45.9 percent opposed.
The initial count indicated there was only a 25.9 percent turnout. That amounts to approximately 1,587 ballots, with 254 cast at precincts and 1,333 cast as absentees, the Registrar of Voters Office reported.
However, those results are far from final, as there is still work to be done to certify the election. That means the final tallies are likely to show more votes cast overall and a change in the voting breakdown.
The Registrar of Voters Office will begin the official canvass of the special election at 9 a.m. Thursday.
That process – which includes continuing to count absentee ballots that come in via mail over the next few days – typically is required to be completed within 30 days.
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Measure E seeks to increase the fire fee on property tax bills for single family residences to $120 per year, compared to current amounts of $45 in Upper Lake, $57.50 in Nice, and $60 in Clearlake Oaks and Lucerne, as Lake County News has reported.
Northshore Fire Chief Jay Beristianos said the increase is needed to keep the district sustainable in the years ahead.
Beristianos said the measure needed to pass by a supermajority of 66.7 percent.
In preliminary results released Tuesday night by the Lake County Registrar of Voters Office, with all 12 precincts reporting, the measure received 54.1 percent of the vote in its favor, with 45.9 percent opposed.
The initial count indicated there was only a 25.9 percent turnout. That amounts to approximately 1,587 ballots, with 254 cast at precincts and 1,333 cast as absentees, the Registrar of Voters Office reported.
However, those results are far from final, as there is still work to be done to certify the election. That means the final tallies are likely to show more votes cast overall and a change in the voting breakdown.
The Registrar of Voters Office will begin the official canvass of the special election at 9 a.m. Thursday.
That process – which includes continuing to count absentee ballots that come in via mail over the next few days – typically is required to be completed within 30 days.
Email Elizabeth Larson at