Every time a vehicle, bike or motorcycle enters or exits Cal Poly’s campus, it’s being tracked, often without the driver knowing. Its license plate is scanned and make and model noted, along with the exact date, time and location by a network of license plate readers monitored by the Cal Poly Police Department. The readers […]
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On the front line: Cal Poly students juggle school and local immigrant advocacy work
An engineering student woke up to his phone buzzing one Wednesday morning. The text message he saw sent him quickly out the door and over to the San Luis Obispo County Jail. Federal immigration agents, he was told, were planning to detain someone. Around the time he and other volunteers for the Central Coast immigrant […]
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SLO-area congressman Carbajal calls for impeachment of Homeland Security secretary
ICE arrested 118 undocumented immigrants in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties in December, according to a Department of Homeland Security press release. DHS claims these individuals included pedophiles, registered sex offenders, burglars, domestic abusers and serial drunk drivers. Now, U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, who represents the southern part of San Luis Obispo County, […]