Author: 2UrbanGirls

Asset Forfeiture Funds (AFF) are monies that are obtained through the selling of individuals personal property, that is confiscated by the state pursuant to the law. AFF proceeds are to be used for police services only. Establishing awards for victims of violence, upgrading of police radio equipment and obtaining gang injunctions. Its still amazing that the rewards to capture a killer rarely exceeds $25k but the City of Inglewood used $300k to research and request gang injunctions? Oddly in 2006, Washington Interiors was contracted to install new flooring throughout Inglewood city hall offices and the Police Department. The company was owned by one of the…

The City of Inglewood has partnered with the South Bay Workforce Investment Board (SBWIB) to open a Teen Center in Inglewood. This is the second Teen Center sponsored in part by the SBWIB, with the first center opening in nearby Hawthorne back in 2008. Inglewood residents were happy their city was selected and opened for business. photo: 2UrbanGirls The Teen Center is located in the Inglewood Main Library and open Monday through Thursday from 3-6pm. Teens can come enjoy computers, video games, board games and ping pong to release energy after a long day at school. Other services provided are job training…

Today it was announced that law enforcement agencies throughout California will be the recipient of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) funding. Cities and counties were allocated a total of $20 million for the hiring of additional police officers. The Inglewood Police Department (IPD) will receive $1 million from the COPS program funding. IPD will be able to add up to eight (8) officers. Read more by clicking here.

Dear Parent or Guardian: One of the most important actions you can take to help your children and the educational programs at IUSD is to submit a meal application at the start of each school year. Your children may be eligible for free or reduced-price meals.

If you were at a Inglewood Unified School District board meeting, and were asked (coerced) into signing a mysterious petition, you may have been unintentionally signing your support to increase charter schools in Inglewood. 2UrbanGirls previously shared with you about a meeting where Joe Bowers, spouse of former IUSD board candidate Margaret Richards-Bowers, got into a shouting match with Ms. Bell, longtime IUSD critic, and was asked to leave by IUSD school police. It was during this same meeting that a Black Male Youth Academy representative shouted at LaTanya Kirk-Carter, about receiving a “cease and desist” and no longer being able to be…

As the Senate is about to take up Assembly member Isadore Hall’s, D-Compton, resolution to rename a portion of the San Francisco Bay Bridge after former city mayor, Willie Brown, is meeting strong opposition from the county supervisors stating:

The States of Colorado and Washington grabbed headlines when voters legalized marijuana in 2012.  Seattle Police Department took it a step further, when at a recent marijuana festival, they passed out potato chips with advisories on them.  Today, the City of LA took steps to increase regulation of medicinal marijuana dispensaries by approving a resolution sponsored by council member Bernard Parks.  Why was that needed when the Department of Justice sent a memo last month authorizing local governments to do just that?

Sandy Springs, GA has done what NO other city in the United States has done. It has privatized the city, cutting their budget by 50%. As pensions and retirement benefits haunt the cities, so does the amount of uncollected taxes and fees the residents can’t afford to pay. If Detroit is the model of a city going bankrupt, Sandy Springs is the model that privatizing the city is viable. Sandy Springs, the sixth-largest city in the state of Georgia, with a 2010 population of 93,853, wanted to separate itself from what it saw as wasteful government spending in surrounding communities. The city benefits greatly,…

Pio Pico is a prominent Latino in California’s history.  Pico was a first generation Californian whose parents immigrated from “New Spain” aka Mexico, and settled into San Diego.  Pio Pico was of Native American, Spanish and African ancestry due to his parents lineage.  YES, Pico was BLACK! 

In a story first reported by Inglewood’s Morningside Park Chronicle then corroborated by Streetsblog LA, a reputable community blog based out of Los Angeles, it was revealed that Metro plans to erect a 30 ft wall along the Crenshaw/LAX line that will run through the City of Inglewood. 

It’s the final city council meeting for City of Inglewood councilmembers Judy Dunlap and Mike Stevens.

Excitement is in the air as City of Inglewood residents attend the second to last council meeting with Judy Dunlap and Mike Stevens on the dais.

Today is Soulvine Thursday in today’s Wave Newspaper.  Don’t you just love that the paper is now in color?  I know 2UrbanGirls does.  Here are the highlights from this weeks post.  A supervisors son holds a fundraiser, local activists are fundraising to attend George Zimmerman’s trial, a water board member declares her candidacy, the big Showdown at Metro and Turner Construction was awarded a LAWA contract? Oh lord, I hope it doesn’t become a T&B production. JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON — Los Angeles Urban Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson announced Wednesday that a coalition of South L.A. civil rights leaders, coordinated by Project Islamic…