Change came fast and furious for the Christian Law Enforcement Fellowship. \u00a0<\/p>\n
A little over a week ago, our Jakob McWhinney revealed that the organization, which provided Christian counseling to cops in crisis, had brought on an ex-deputy as chaplain<\/a> who\u2019d been accused of assaulting nearly two dozen women. The piece sparked broad outrage. Within days, the organization had cut ties with the man<\/a>, Richard Fischer. \u00a0<\/p>\n Days later, though, the fellowship quietly dissolved altogether. \u00a0<\/p>\n The exact details of the dissolution still aren\u2019t clear. At first, the only indication was that the organization\u2019s website had been removed<\/a>. Calls and emails to about a dozen officials with current and former ties to CLEF went unanswered. Former President Jerry Hara, who initially defended Fischer\u2019s hiring, stopped answering calls. \u00a0<\/p>\n Reached by phone, Joe Davis, a former chaplain for the organization, confirmed that CLEF had dissolved. He said the reason seemed pretty self-explanatory: \u201cYou\u2019ve become toxic to the community that you were created\u2026 to help.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full story here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n An Ocean Beach Tennis Club\u2019s $600 per Year City Lease<\/p>\n Did you know: A tennis club in Ocean Beach called Youth Tennis San Diego is renting 12 acres of city property for just $50 per month?!<\/p>\n The lease has been in place, with no escalators, since 1994, reports the U-T in a new eye-popping piece.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n The cheap lease isn\u2019t even close to the whole story. The city alleges that tennis club has committed a large number of code violations.\u00a0<\/p>\n What\u2019s more, the tennis club\u2019s president Jack McGrory helped put the lease in place \u2014 back when he was working for the city. McGrory, a former city manager, has had his hand in many of the city\u2019s most important projects of the past several decades. He himself signed the $600 per year lease and is now defending the tennis club. He says the code violations will be corrected.<\/p>\n Bad News for Public Records<\/p>\n The state Supreme Court just told us no \u2014 and that may be bad for public records access.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Until recently, Voice of San Diego was locked in a yearslong legal battle with San Diego Unified School District over public records. We sued the district, alleging it didn\u2019t produce records \u201cpromptly,\u201d as the state\u2019s Constitution demands.\u00a0<\/p>\n We lost that case<\/a>, as our Will Huntsberry reported last month. The state Court of Appeals ruled that promptly doesn\u2019t necessarily mean \u201cdays and weeks.\u201d It can meet \u201cmonths or years,\u201d depending on the circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n The court published its opinion \u2014 making the list of circumstances legally binding in future cases. We asked the Supreme Court to de-publish the opinion and we learned recently that the court declined. That means the decision is now locked in as legal precedent.\u00a0<\/p>\n Check out Huntsberry\u2019s full story here.<\/a> As he wrote, several public agencies have already acted thrilled about the decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n Former El Cajon City Councilmember Wants Mayor Held in Contempt<\/p>\n Former El Cajon city councilmember Ben Kalasho is locked in a yearslong battle with the city he represented over alleged home improvements Kalasho made that were allegedly unpermitted.<\/p>\n At one point, the city said he owed more than $2.5 million in fines. The city took Kalasho to court, but Kalasho sued back, alleging he\u2019s been a political target.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not the first time Kalasho has tangled in the courts. Kalasho and his wife Jessica were ordered to spend eight days in jail in 2023 for being held in contempt of court during a previous lawsuit, the U-T reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cNow, Kalasho wants to turn the table,\u201d writes our Will Huntsberry. \u201cHe is attempting to have El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells held in contempt of court related to the current, ongoing lawsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n