{"id":394800,"date":"2026-07-11T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394800\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:17:09","slug":"journalist-kelly-davis-remembered-as-a-hero-to-those-fighting-for-justice-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394800\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Kelly Davis remembered as a hero to those fighting for justice \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cKelly Davis \u2014 the conscience of San Diego \u2014 is gone at 53\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/07\/02\/opinion-kelly-davis-the-conscience-of-san-diego-is-gone-at-53\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 2<\/a>): Kelly Davis was a true hero to me in every sense of the word. In my family, we learned that if we witnessed an injustice, it wasn\u2019t enough to talk about it; we must take action to correct the inequity. Kelly\u2019s life was a testament to this directive.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, I asked her if she would send me a list of the names of the poor souls who had died in custody in our county jail cells. I, along with advocates for those with severe mental illness from across our state, was preparing to hold a rally for care, not jail, at the Capitol in Sacramento in support of the CARE Act.<\/p>\n<p>She came through, and I pinned name badges of the victims all over my jacket. We got great media coverage of our march. I will miss her \u2014 she is irreplaceable.<\/p>\n<p>In her memory, I will continue advocating for our sickest citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Linda L. Mimms, Poway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cKelly Davis \u2014 the conscience of San Diego \u2014 is gone at 53\u201d (July 2): Kelly Davis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-394800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394800","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=394800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}