Daily Business Report: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
County Jail Population Spikes Post-Proposition 36
By Lisa Halverstadt | Voice of San Diego
The county sheriff’s office reported Friday that 511 of the 4,263 people held in San Diego County jails had Proposition 36 charges, making up 12 percent of the population.
Assistant Sheriff Dustin Lopez said daily jail counts began rising by 1 percent to 2 percent a month after law enforcement agencies across the region started enforcing Proposition 36 in mid-December. Lopez said the daily share of people held with Proposition 36 charges has ranged from 5 percent to 12 percent of the jail population since January.
The past four years, the sheriff’s office reports that its average tally of people in its custody has hovered around 3,900. By mid-August, Lopez said county jails saw a peak of 4,456 people in custody.
Attorney claims police violating vehicle dwellers rights, files motion
By Dave Schwab | Times of San Diego
A disabled rights attorney has filed a legal motion claiming multiple city violations of a class-action settlement allowing vehicle dwellers not to be ticketed if spots in nearby Safe Parking Lots are unavailable.
At a Nov. 4 news conference and rally at South Shores Boat Launch in South Shores Park in Mission Bay, attorney Ann E. Menasche alleged police are indiscriminately handing out $173 tickets each, plus penalties, to people who can’t afford it and have no other choice near Safe Parking Lots.
Such lots include H Barracks, city-owned land off North Harbor Drive between Kincaid Road and McCain Road near the San Diego International Airport and Liberty Station.
Increasingly irrelevant, California’s Republican Party is even more isolated after Prop. 50
By Maya C. Miller | CalMatters
First, they lost their speaker. Then, they lost a key special election.
Now, with the passage of Proposition 50, California Republicans are poised to lose five congressional seats in next year’s midterms — and with them, any remaining shred of national influence they once held.
The party was already floundering after the ouster and resignation of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a prolific fundraiser who could channel campaign resources to his fellow California Republicans and run interference with the Trump administration and other GOP leadership when they needed to take tough votes.
