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Assemblymember Irwin's Multiple Measures Bill passes through Higher Education Committee

SACRAMENTO – Assembly Bill 705 authored by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks), passed through the Assembly Higher Education Committee. This bill codifies the use of high school transcript data as a student success indicator to ensure that California is enabling students to graduate faster and increase their likelihood for success. Several states, including Connecticut and North Carolina have implemented multiple measures programs with great success.

Assemblywoman Pushes for Additions to State Technology Recovery Plans

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Seeking to further bolster California against cyberattacks, lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation that would require state agencies and departments to inventory their critical infrastructure controls.

The inventory would be an added requirement of the Technology Recovery Plans that lawmakers last year asked state entities to complete by July 2018 and submit to the California Department of Technology.

Environment takes center stage at 20th T.O. event

Thousand Oaks' Arbor/Earth Day celebration on Saturday marked many milestones since its genesis in 1997, when the population was 112,000 compared to 130,000 today. In the past two decades, the city’s open space has grown from 13,000 acres to 15,000 acres, and 70 miles of trails have doubled to 150 miles.

Claudia Bill-de la Peña, the mayor of Thousand Oaks, talked about these accomplishments during opening ceremonies of this year's celebration at Thousand Oaks Community Park.

Technology emphasized at county agricultural summit

Plaid shirts and jeans mixed with suits and ties as farmers, students and educators mingled in an exhibit hall at the Ventura County Office of Education conference center in Camarillo.

At the end of a row of display tables featuring companies showing off their products, a group of Oxnard Union High School District students huddled around a fixed-wing drone belonging to David Alamillo, the chief pilot and flight operations manager at Dronifi, a Westlake Village-based drone technology company.

Local judge honored as Woman of the Year

Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin recognized Ventura County Superior Court's first Latina judge in an annual Woman of the Year conference in Sacramento.

Ventura County Superior Court Judge Michele Castillo, a Camarillo resident, was chosen by Irwin to represent her district in the ceremony hosted by the California Legislative Women's Caucus on Monday on the state Assembly floor, according to a news release.

I don't' could become 'I do' again

A bill pending in the state Legislature would allow judges to be paid for performing wedding ceremonies on weekends and holidays, reversing a ban that ended a tradition in Ventura County.

Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, and Assemblyman Evan Low, D-Campbell, introduced the bill in February to undo an unintended consequence of a law that Low authored last year.

Assemblymember Irwin Hosts Screening of Thank You for Your Service

(Sacramento) – Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks), Chair of the Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee, in association with Creativechaos Vmg, hosted a screening of the award winning documentary Thank you for Your Service, in Sacramento’s beautiful art deco Crest Theater. Thank You For Your Service is an in depth exploration of the challenges confronting our military community after nearly two decades of war. Assemblymember Irwin was a guest of the KMAX TV’s Good Day Sacramento program to discuss the movie screening. Watch the segment in this Assembly Assets video.

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