JULY ARCHIVES
1998

Yaroslavsky Qualifies MTA Initiative - Supervisor Yaroslavsky has announced the successful qualification of his initiative, "The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Reform and Accountability Act of 1998," which will be submitted to County voters on the November ballot. The measure, which garnered the support of more than 170,000 voters signing petitions, will halt local transit tax spending for new subway lines beyond completion of the Metro Red Line to North Hollywood, and redirect the money instead toward a range of more cost-effective transit alternatives. Click on MTA Initiative on the Zev Yaroslavsky Home Page for further details.

Yaroslavsky Renews Call for Justice for Filipino War Veterans - On Tuesday, 7/21, the Board of Supervisors approved Yaroslavsky’s urgency motion and reiterated its support for congressional legislation, H.R. 836, the Filipino Veterans Equity Act (Filner, D-Calif.), to restore the benefits to World War II Filipino veterans drafted into service by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Board Approves Yaroslavsky Request that Sheriff  Review "Stun Belt" Policy - In the wake of a highly-publicized case in which a Long Beach Municipal Court Judge ordered her bailiff to discipline an unruly defendant by administering a 50,000-volt shock with an electronic "stun belt," the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, 7/21, approved Yaroslavsky’s request that Sheriff Sherman Block be asked to review his department’s "stun-belt" policy and return with recommendations to ensure that the belt’s activation be limited only to incidents where there is a threat of violence or escape.

Board Adopts Yaroslavsky Call for Wider Probe of Epidural Abuses - On Tuesday, 7/9/98, the Board of Supervisors adopted Yaroslavsky’s motion calling for a wider probe by the State Department of Health Services into the possible illegal denial of epidural anesthesia to thousands of Medi-Cal mothers delivering babies in Southland hospitals. News reports first detailed Northridge Hospital Medical Center’s now-discontinued policy of wrongly denying such services to Medi-Cal mothers in labor unless they first paid $400 in cash. The hospital apologized publicly, and state officials ordered refunds to hundreds of patients who were entitled to receive the painkiller free of charge as part of their Medi-Cal coverage.

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