The North State Breakdown

Tuesday, September 29, 2026 — Shasta County supervisors meet today, with a second County Counsel contract renewal in 13 months, nearly $6.6 million in contracts approved after work began, and a change to how $1.5 million in opioid-settlement funding will be reviewed.

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A Second Renewal in About 13 Months, and What the County's Own Lawyer Told a Jury About the Brown Act: Tuesday, September 29th, 2026 Shasta County Agenda The county's top lawyer is up for a new four-year contract for the second time since last August. Sworn testimony he gave in an unrelated criminal trial describes texting the then-board chair during meetings and calling it privileged legal advice. A staff report recommends moving a $1.5 million opio...

*update* around 100 showed up during the peak of the event.

HAPPENING NOW — Wednesday, September 16, 2026

About 60 people are gathered in Redding this afternoon to protest the recent immigration enforcement action captured on video Sept. 12, when a man was taken from an apartment complex parking lot by ICE agents.

Tuesday’s Shasta County Board of Supervisors agenda includes a closed-session briefing on List v. Curtis, termination of the Eastside Road jail-site lease, another attempt to remove a planning commissioner, and a request for help handling hundreds of video records requests.

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Activist Who Interviewed Clint Curtis in August Is Now Suing Him: Tuesday, September 15th, 2026 Shasta County Agenda The man who spent August filming Clint Curtis's elections office is now suing him, and the county, to keep the 2024 ballots from being destroyed. The same week, a federal grand jury subpoenaed Curtis over the June primary. In open session, the board votes on a lease-termination letter for an address...

BREAKING: Video obtained by North State Breakdown appears to show U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining at least one man at a Redding apartment complex on the morning of Sept. 12.

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Breaking News: Video Shows ICE Agents Detaining Man at Redding Apartment Complex Video and photographs obtained by North State Breakdown show federal agents in vests marked "POLICE ICE" and "ERO" walking a man to an unmarked pickup truck. The encounter comes amid a sharp rise in detentions at a Redding ICE facility that city officials have said they knew little about.

BREAKING: Jessica French Censure Tabled Indefinitely

Shasta County Office of Education President Michael Orlicky moved to table indefinitely the proposed censure of Trustee Jessica French during tonight’s meeting. Orlicky was the one who put the item on the agenda to begin with.

The item concerned Board Bylaw 9005 and French’s personal social-media activity. The meeting packet did not identify a specific subsection of the bylaw that French was alleged to have violated, while also acknowledging the board’s previous determination not to apply Bylaw 9005 expectations to trustees’ personal social media.