{"id":331666,"date":"2026-05-25T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331666\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:00:09","slug":"fresno-law-enforcement-raises-23000-for-special-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331666\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Law Enforcement Raises $23,000 for Special Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office, CHP-Fresno, and Starbucks raised $23,234 for the Northern California chapter of Special Olympics on May 8.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s spokesman Tony Botti said the funds from Badges for Buckets will all go to local Special Olympics athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne story in particular shines bright from this day,\u201d Botti said.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cA local community member was in a Starbucks drive-thru and started asking the deputy stationed nearby about the event. This person was on the phone with their boss, who could hear the conversation. The business owner was so excited to hear about law enforcement supporting Special Olympics that they made a $5,000 donation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Special Olympics Northern California was created by the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation to benefit people with intellectual disabilities. Learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/sonc.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Law Enforcement Torch Run<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno County Sheriff\u2019s Office, CHP-Fresno, and Starbucks raised $23,234 for the Northern California chapter of Special Olympics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-331666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}