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The Serna Center \u2013 headquarters of the Sacramento City Unified School District \u2013 on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n
JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS<\/p>\n
jvillegas@sacbee.com<\/p>\n
From a reported hate-motivated attack in Lavender Heights to a freeway-clogging lumber spill, Sacramento\u2019s top stories Friday touched safety, schools, commuting and state politics. Here\u2019s a fast recap of what happened and why it matters.<\/p>\n
Joseph \u201cJoey\u201d Sais, a Sacramento City Hall staffer, said four men shouting homophobic and racist slurs attacked him outside a nightclub last weekend, prompting new city promises of improved lighting and surveillance cameras<\/a> at 20th and L Streets in Lavender Heights. Sacramento Police are investigating as a felony assault with a possible bias motive, but no arrests have been made. Local leaders say the case may be hard to solve because of poor lighting and camera coverage, and the annual Rainbow Festival returns Sunday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.Sacramento City Unified fell two years behind on $3.15 million in special education bills owed to the Sacramento County Office of Education, while the county office withheld just under $3.15 million in special education property tax revenue<\/a> from the district. Trustees approved the contracts 7-0 Thursday but criticized the county office\u2019s approach, with Trustee Taylor Kayatta calling it \u201cpretty startling by someone who\u2019s trying to supposedly help us with our cash problem.\u201d The district is grappling with a $222 million structural deficit, and its unrestricted contribution to special education has more than doubled since 2018-19.A big rig collided with the center divider on southbound Interstate 5 near the J Street exit about 5:35 a.m. Friday, spilling lumber across lanes and snarling the downtown Sacramento commute<\/a>. The crash blocked the No. 1 and No. 2 lanes of northbound I-5, and one person was taken to Sutter Medical Center by the Sacramento Fire Department. One northbound lane remained closed at 8:20 a.m. as crews prepared to remove the heavily damaged truck.Right-wing content creator Nick Shirley announced Friday he is suing California over Assembly Bill 2624<\/a>, the \u201cSafe at Work Act\u201d authored by Bonta, D-Oakland, which lets immigration service providers remove their names and addresses from the public record. Conservative group America First Legal filed the complaint on Shirley\u2019s behalf, naming Attorney General Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber as defendants and arguing the law violates the First Amendment. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill, which critics have dubbed the \u201cStop Nick Shirley Act,\u201d last month. <\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Serna Center \u2013 headquarters of the Sacramento City Unified School District \u2013 on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-454883","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\/454883","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=454883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}