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Public Health Launches Gun Violence Prevention Platform

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Friday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LADPH) released a multi-point Gun Violence Prevention Platform to address gun violence impacting communities in Los Angeles County including Santa Clarita. Using a public health approach to gun violence, the partners identified four key priority areas and accompanying strategies that are set to form the foundation of actions to be taken ...

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Canyon High To Hold Last Day Of Finals Online Following School Threat

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Due to a threat made toward Canyon High School , the last day of finals are going to be held  online Thursday with the campus closed to high schoolers. On Wednesday, a threat was written in the girls bathroom at Canyon High School referencing gun violence on June 2, according to officials with the William S Hart High School District. ...

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Politically, Racially Motivated Attacks Across The Country Cause Echoes Of Victim Solidarity From Santa Clarita

With the alleged racially-motivated attack that killed ten in New York last Saturday and a reported politically-motivated killing in Laguna Woods on Sunday, six Santa Clarita organizations are honoring the lives lost by the hands of civil unrest and gun violence this weekend.  News of the grocery store shooting in Buffalo, New York last weekend reverberated across the country after ...

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Congresswoman Katie Hill Joins Santa Clarita Residents At Gun Violence Protest

Santa Clarita residents were joined by Congresswoman Katie Hill, D-Agua Dulce, and students from Valencia High School at a gun violence protest on Wednesday. The event was organized by CA25 United for Progress, a group aimed at making progressive change in the community. Hilary Schardein, chair of CA25 United for Progress, thanked Santa Clarita representatives for their part in the ...

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Los Angeles County Gun Offenders To Serve Full Sentence In County Jail

Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell announced Thursday that anyone arrested and convicted for using a gun during the commission of a crime, or in illegal possession of a gun, will serve their full statutory sentence in county jail. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox.  “In the course of our office’s ongoing ...

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Santa Clarita Students Take Part In National School Walkout Against Gun Violence

Students at Academy of the Canyons Middle College High School took part in another national school walkout Friday designed to inspire legislative action for stronger gun safety laws in the U.S. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. “We are the generation that will grow up in the shadow of gun violence,” said ...

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National Student Walkout: Santa Clarita Students Demonstrate On And Off Campus

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Students from across the Santa Clarita Valley held walkouts and demonstrations to stand in solidarity and rememberance of those that died during the Parkland, Florida school shooting, one month after the massacre. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. The demonstrations began at 10 a.m. in each time zone for schools across the ...

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High School Students Stage Rally, Exercise First Amendment Rights In Santa Clarita

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In the wake of last week’s mass school shooting in Florida, students across the Santa Clarita Valley staged protests alongside teenagers from schools across the country, advocating for stricter gun control laws. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Dean Douglas, a student activist who organized the event at Golden Valley, said the ...

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