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With Prop. 36 passing, Long Beach’s city prosecutor sees an opportunity for treatment, not jail
With Proposition 36 holding a strong lead in early returns and Los Angeles County on the verge of electing a new District Attorney, Long Beach’s local prosecutor says he sees a chance to push more people into mental health and drug treatment under the threat of tougher criminal penalties.
DOJ gives Long Beach $350K to help some homeless, mentally ill offenders get treatment not jail
LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) — The city of Long Beach is getting $350,000 from the federal government for a program that helps police connect some offenders with treatment programs, instead of jail.
GUIDES – A Collaborative Approach to Community Support
In January 2023, the City of Long Beach launched the Government User Integrated Diversion Enhancement System (GUIDES), a transformative mobile application designed to assist the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) and the Long Beach City Prosecutor’s Office (LBCP) in providing vital assistance to highly vulnerable populations.
2023 Crown Communities Award winner: Long Beach Calif.’s GUIDES mobile app
Police in the United States are expected to serve all citizens, including those experiencing homelessness, substance abuse and mental health disorders. Three California organizations worked together to provide vital assistance to these highly vulnerable populations through innovative technology.
2021 Impact Awardees Announced Today
The Long Beach City Prosecutor’s Office announced the winners of its Annual IMPACT Awards today. “Long Beach is blessed to have people who are passionate about improving our community, and who work hard to make a difference,” said City Prosecutor Doug Haubert.
Long Beach Mayor release rad map to recovery for downtown area
Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson released the Roadmap to Downtown Recovery on Nov. 14 with an emphasis on the relocation of resources to the downtown area
Long Beach salon owner catches man pleasuring himself in public
A woman in Long Beach caught a man pleasuring himself in front of her salon in front of her horrified clients…
Long Beach sex assault survivor angered by DA’s decision
A woman who was sexually assaulted by a homeless man in Long Beach is distraught at county prosecutors’ decision to not file felony charges against the suspect.
by: Vivian Chow, Lauren Lyster | Posted: Nov 1, 2023 | Updated: Nov 1, 2023 / 06:07 PM PDT
Misdemeanor charges filed in case of man shown following woman…
Security camera footage of the attack, which shows a man following a woman and knocking her to the ground, has sparked outrage and calls for a renewed focus on safety in Downtown Long Beach. | Posted: Oct 27, 2023
UPDATE: DA will consider felony charges in case of woman attacked…
After urging from one of Long Beach’s top law enforcement officials, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office says… | Posted: Oct 31, 2023
Gascón’s office reviewing charges for man seen attacking woman…
he Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing its decision to charge a man accused of attacking a woman in broad daylight on a Long Beach sidewalk with… | Posted October 31, 2023
Long Beach Prosecutor gets $900,000 to expand diversion program
“That money, from the Department of Justice, is the largest grant that office has ever received, said City Prosecutor Doug Haubert.”
By Harry Saltzgaver | hsalt@gazettes.com | Press Telegram
PUBLISHED: April 18, 2022 at 3:42 p.m. | UPDATED: April 18, 2022 at 3:43 p.m.
Council approves ordinance targeting attendees of illegal street takeovers in Long Beach
The council voted 8-0 to give preliminary approval to the ordinance, but some members reiterated concerns that the law should be narrowly targeted and give opportunities for youth who could potentially be ensnared by the ordinance a chance to keep the penalties off their records.
By Jason Ruiz | The Long Beach Post | PUBLISHED: March 2, 2022 at 8:00 a.m.
Newest Long Beach prosecutor product of internship program
“Jericho is the first person to go from CP (city prosecutor) intern to CP law clerk to CP prosecutor,” Haubert wrote in an email.”
By HARRY SALTZGAVER | hsalt@gazettes.com | Grunion Gazette |PUBLISHED: July 13, 2021 at 11:48 a.m.
Long Beach expands program offering services instead of jail to homeless, mentally ill defendants
“Haubert said the services offered through PAD could help homeless people break the cycle of repeatedly going to jail for low-level crimes, such as loitering and trespassing.”
By Sebastian Echeverry | The Long Beach Post | PUBLISHED: April 14, 2021 at 1:43 p.m.
Man sentenced to 6 months in jail for dumping paint into storm drain
“A Cypress man was sentenced to six months in jail today for illegally dumping latex paint and drywall into the Bouton Creek storm drain near Atherton Street and Clark Avenue in May, the Long Beach City Prosecutor’s office announced. Antonio Palma Pineda, 53, was also sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay restitution of $1,963 to the city of Long Beach for clean-up costs. A judge also ruled he must pay court fines and penalties of $2,310…”
By Valerie Osier | The Long Beach Post | PUBLISHED: February 19. 2020 at 6:16 p.m.
Have you seen price gouging in Long Beach? Here’s what to do
“We don’t want to wait until after the emergency to investigate this type of conduct,” Long Beach City Prosecutor Doug Haubert said.
By Jeremiah Dobruck | The Long Beach Post | PUBLISHED: April 7, 2020 at 8:58 a.m.
City Prosecutor’s Office Awarded $203K Gang Grant
“this grant will give us additional tools against gangs. Hopefully, we can keep kids from joining gangs in the first place,”
By Brittany Woolsey | The Long Beach Post | PUBLISHED: April 7, 2020 at 8:58 a.m.
Long Beach man receives possibly longest sentence for domestic violence in city history
By Greg Yee | greg.yee@presstelegram.com | PUBLISHED: October 3, 2014 at 7:35 p.m.
Haubert Keeps Pressure on Gang Members
“That graffiti isn’t just vandalizing a wall, it’s sending a message of intimidation and we have to stop that,” Haubert said…[We] are taking it more seriously than they ever have before in the history of Long Beach.”
By JONATHAN VAN DYKE | PUBLISHED: April 20, 2011 at 12:47 p.m. | UPDATED: May 27, 2021 at 1:28 a.m.
Mayor and Chief reveal a New type of Gang Injunction
City Prosecutor’s Office Awarded $203K Gang Grant
“The Long Beach City Prosecutor’s Office was awarded with a $203K federal grant to help combat gang crime in the city.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) award is the largest single grant ever received by the City Prosecutor’s Office through the DOJ’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.”
“The DOJ grant award announcement stated that the City Prosecutor’s Office was awarded the grant because of its commitment to focus on community-based intervention efforts to help prevent crime before it happens.”
By Brittany Woolsey | PUBLISHED: OCT 3 2014 7:35 PM
New Technology Aids Long Beach Police in Gang Enforcement
“Ever since they put in that order and curfew and that police station, it’s been very different,” Warshaw said outside her home near Santa Fe Avenue and 20th Street near one of the injunction safe zones. A Long Beach patrol vehicle drove by her home as she chatted with a neighbor and friend. All commented on how much quieter the neighborhood has been in the last several years…
“The city prosecutor’s Opt-Out program to remove from the gang injunctions those who no longer participate in gangs has been an amazing way to not only reduce crime but rebuild trust in a judicial system that was great at branding but weak at building,” [Ministers Alliance President Pastor Greggory] Sanders said.
By BEATRIZ E. VALENZUELA | bvalenzuela@scng.com | San Bernardino Sun PUBLISHED: September 14, 2013 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 4:02 a.m.
Long Beach Police Have Tough Task Rooting Out Gangs
Mexican drug cartels are now collaborating with prison and street gangs to maximize profits.
As gangs evolve, law enforcement also evolves, using new technology.
Advocates say injunctions prevent gangs from congregating and recruiting new members.
In 2010, Long Beach City Prosecutor Doug Haubert expanded the city’s gang injunction program to include any gang under the Sureños umbrella.
By KELLY PUENTE | kpuente@scng.com | Orange County Register April 2, 2014 at 3:26 p.m.
Erasing the Past, Creating a Future
“The gang problem was out of control in Long Beach.
Shortly after being voted into office, and with the support of the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles, Haubert signed a broad gang injunction initiative, mostly targeting the Hispanic Sureño gangs that dominate the city, to help curb the violence. The injunctions are basically restraining orders stipulating that gang members can’t fraternize with other gang members or participate in gang activities within designated zones without facing charge enhancements.
They injunctions are compiled with the help of gang experts like LBPD’s Gang Prevention Detective Chris Zamora, and they’re enforced at the street level by patrolling officers, with the help of new technology introduced last year created by Laserfiche. The technology allows LBPD officers in the field to scroll through pictures, names and other charges to quickly determine if a person is subject to the injunctions.
“Suddenly any gang member in Long Beach affiliated with the Sureños—and that is pretty much every gang member in Long Beach—could now face three months jail time for what were previously everyday gang activities,” Police Chief Jim McDonnell wrote in an article published by the Hendon Media Group. “These include hanging out with known gang members, disobeying a 10 pm to 5 am curfew, obstructing public right-of-ways, intimidation, and gang signaling, and having graffiti tools such as spray paint.”
Zamora put it more simply, recalling a trial he attended where a gang member paid a compliment to the effectiveness of the injunctions with an angry outburst in court.
“This isn’t fair, you’re making it too hard to be a gang member in your city,” Zamora recounted him saying.
By | Jason Ruiz | The Long Beach Post | OCT 7 2014 9:10 PM
Get help or go to jail? Some criminals in the Long Beach Area Will Soon Have a Choice
“…If these services are successful then this is a program that will reduce crime and improve public safety in the communities affected.”
“Participants in the city program are required to go to a certain number of counseling sessions over the span of several weeks in order to get their case dismissed. The program offers stable housing, trauma care, mentors and tattoo removal, among other services.”
By LONG BEACH PRESS TELEGRAM | presstelegram@dfmdev.com |PUBLISHED: August 26, 2017 at 6:19 p.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 12:02 p.m.
Gang Member Supervising Prostitute Gets Maximum Sentence
“A Superior Court Judge has sentenced a local man, Jerome Hubbard, 28, to jail for “supervising” a prostitute; a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months incarceration. Since there was evidence the crime benefited his gang, a Crip set in Long Beach, he received an additional six month “gang enhancement,” that gave him a maximum sentence of one year in County Jail.
By Long Beach Local News | LBLN
Man Gets Maximum Jail Term for Hitting Pregnant Girlfriend
“Convicted domestic abuser Daniel Acosta, of Long Beach, California, has been sentenced to 45 months of county jail after a jury found him guilty of misdemeanor domestic battery against his pregnant girlfriend.”
By Long Beach Local News LBLN
Long Beach Man Sentenced to Six Years in Jail After Domestic Violence Conviction
“A Long Beach man convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence and other charges will spend six years behind bars, authorities announced Wednesday.
Long Beach Superior Court Judge Daniel Lowenthal gave Joseph Christo Gomez, 27, the maximum sentence after a jury found him guilty on making criminal threats, resisting arrest and battery on a police officer in addition to the domestic violence charge, according to the Long Beach City Prosecutor’s office.
“This is a fair and appropriate sentence,” said City Prosecutor Douglas Haubert in a statement. “The defendant proved he is dangerous and would continue to act out violently if he was not incarcerated. The judge got it right.”
By GREG YEE | greg.yee@presstelegram.com |PUBLISHED: September 16, 2015 at 1:14 p.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 1:17 a.m.
Man gets six years for violent threats
BY SIGNAL TRIBUNE | SEPTEMBER 21, 20152 MINUTE READ
Appellate Division Affirms Six and a Half Year Sentence for Harassment
“Following the conviction, Long Beach City Prosecutor Doug Haubert issued a statement saying: “No one should have to endure months of harassment after ending a relationship.”
By a MetNews Staff Writer
LB Man Jailed for Harassing Ex-Wife, Stealing Dog
“Ignacia Ramirez, 43, of Long Beach, California, was sentenced to three and a half years in jail, the maximum sentence for misdemeanor domestic violence, for violating two restraining orders, which included an incident involving his entering his ex-wife’s residence and stealing the children’s dog.”
By LONG BEACH PRESS TELEGRAM | presstelegram@dfmdev.com |PUBLISHED: March 21, 2016 at 12:30 p.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 12:53 p.m.
Long Beach Prosecutor Doug Haubert to Keynote NAACP Law Day Event
Apr 15, 2018 | KYL Charity News, Other News
Goodwill Industries, “Community Leader of the Year”
“Doug is also recognized as a national leader in court diversion programs…directing nonviolent, first-time offenders into jobs and work-readiness programs”
By Paulette Thornton |562.435.3411, ext. 267 | pthornton@goodwillsolac.org
Long Beach Awarded $50,000 Grant to Prosecutor Environmental Cases
BY SIGNAL TRIBUNE | DECEMBER 16, 2011
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