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Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Chair Rosario Rodriguez listens during a Board of Supervisors meeting at the County Administration Center in Sacramento on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Sacramento County relies on incarceration over prevention, prioritizing jail spending instead of cost-effective rehab and community solutions.<\/p>\n
HANNAH RUHOFF<\/p>\n
hruhoff@sacbee.com<\/p>\n
Budget realities<\/p>\n
\u201cSacramento leader: The county\u2019s budget rewards failure, cuts public safety | Opinion<\/a>,\u201d (sacbee.com<\/a>, June 18)<\/p>\n Sacramento Supervisor Rosario Rodriguez\u2019s editorial fails to mention that the county\u2019s commitment to \u201csafety\u201d relies primarily on coercion after the fact rather than prevention. Cops, courts and cages are what she complains are being underfunded, despite being roughly 70% of the county\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n Incarcerating for addiction is seven times the cost of medical treatment, and it is less effective. But Rodriguez proposes no expansion of rehab. She just wants a jail expansion, even though the Mays decision settlement doesn\u2019t request it.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not news that cops just want more money without being more effective. Please start solving problems, and stop adding to them.<\/p>\n Mark Dempsey<\/p>\n Orangevale<\/p>\n Newsom\u2019s regressive mandate<\/p>\n \u201cWhat does Gov. Gavin Newsom have to gain politically from state workers\u2019 return to office?<\/a>\u201d (sacbee.com<\/a>, June 23)<\/p>\n Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s return-to-office mandate will effectively move money from state workers to rich downtown building owners. Meanwhile, state workers face increased costs for gas, parking, commute time and childcare.<\/p>\n It is regressive and discriminatory.<\/p>\n The mandate also lacks a genuine operational need. Telework flexibility attracts and retains the knowledge base that runs the state, even while salaries lag.<\/p>\n Kate Turner<\/p>\n Rancho Cordova<\/p>\n Who is an American?<\/p>\n \u201cPatterson shooting shatters California\u2019s bubble: We aren\u2019t safe from ICE | Opinion<\/a>,\u201d (sacbee.com<\/a>, April 9)<\/p>\n Everywhere I go, I see people decorating their homes and businesses for our nation\u2019s 250th birthday. We celebrate our privilege to be an American, and our pride to live in the greatest country in the world.<\/p>\n But at the same time, we have also seen thousands of people in our streets being rounded up and deported \u2014 many of them with families and jobs, just trying to live the American dream. Individuals who are deported lose everything.<\/p>\n So what is an American? What makes us American? Is it where you were born? Is it where you\u2019re parents were born? Or whether you speak English?<\/p>\n Steven Trevino Jr<\/p>\n Clovis<\/p>\n Fossil fuel industry<\/p>\n \u201cCalifornia physicians: Fossil fuel companies must pay for climate damages | Opinion<\/a>,\u201d (sacbee.com<\/a>, April 24)<\/p>\n Emissions from burning fossil fuels are rapidly warming our world at a rate that has never occurred in the history of our planet. So why do we continue to burn fossil fuels?<\/p>\n The fossil fuel industry has tremendous control over our government. The industry spends more than $100 million per year lobbying elected officials. This lobbying serves as a highly effective financial instrument, yielding unparalleled returns on investments by securing multi-billion-dollar taxpayer subsidies, rolling back environmental regulations and stalling clean energy competition.<\/p>\n We cannot expect meaningful climate action as long as our representatives are financially beholden to the industry driving this crisis. Voters must demand transparency and reject candidates who prioritize fossil fuel payouts over our planet\u2019s future.<\/p>\n Ron Sadler<\/p>\n Fresno<\/p>\n Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento County Board of Supervisors Chair Rosario Rodriguez listens during a Board of Supervisors meeting at the County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-378244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378244","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=378244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}