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by Alex Tavlian · 08/26/19

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HALL TO THE CHIEF
Hall takes over as Fresno's Police Chief: Andy Hall, a career man at Fresno P.D., took over for Chief Jerry Dyer on Friday as Acting Police Chief

During a Friday presser, Fresno Mayor Lee Brand and City Manager Wilma Quan said that their extensive search yielded candidates – a few of whom were in attendance – that were not the right fit at the right time.

Hall, similar to Dyer, has a forced retirement date in the spring of 2021.

Brand and Quan said a search for a permanent replacement would continue to ensure a successor for Hall was in place before Brand exited office. They offered few details of when that would resume and the procedure moving forward.

A key takeaway: During a Q&A, Hall deflected on whether Fresno needed a public safety tax in 2020 to increase staffing to adequate levels, saying he would focus on managing the department as it stands and avoid delving into politics.
RAPID RESPONSE
Bakersfield goes on offense to fight encampments: Staring down the largest homelessness crisis in its history, communities across California are developing a few novel methods to ushering homeless populations away from squatting on public and private property.

Bakersfield is going a step further by sending omni-present cleanup crews to take down encampments in an effort to push its homeless community into pathways that lead to social services and appropriate housing.

How it works: Crews of five workers clean out encampments in as little as a day after the city's Code Enforcement team posts a notice to vacate. For more extreme cases, the crews have cut down cleanup time following an administrative hearing from one week to four days.

The teams are equipped with a refuse truck that often tow a Bobcat loader, to be used on heavy-duty encampment cleanups.
BULLDOG FOOTBALL

Meet the guy grooming Fresno State's new Quarterback: It's not easy starting from scratch with a quarterback. But freshly-minted QB Jorge Reyna is working with newly-acquired QB coach Danny Langsdorf to make the transition seamless.

Langsdorf sat down with our Daniel Gligich to talk about his own transition to Fresno State, having joined the staff in the off-season, and what he's seeing from Reyna as they prepare to head to Los Angeles to take on the USC Trojans.

FRESNO GRIZZLIES

Splitting the difference in ABQ: The Grizzlies closed out their best series since mid-July, taking closing out a series split against the Albuquerque Isotopes on Sunday with a 5-3 victory.

The Grizzlies are a half-game away from escaping the basement of the PCL division standings, but eliminated from postseason contention. 

What's next: The Grizzlies return to the Chuk tonight for their eight-game season finale home stand, starting with a four-game series against the Tacoma Rainiers. First pitch is 7:05 p.m.

WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
A ruckus over Bullard High students taking "birth control field trips": Fresno Unified Trustee Terry Slatic is investigating why students at the high school are being picked up by non-FUSD personnel during the school day to retrieve birth control pills at a downtown Fresno clinic, citing the liability for any potential incidents or accidents that may occur off campus.   
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