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Assemblymember Irwin spoke with students from CSUCI's Dolphin Radio about her favorite college classes; how to get young people more active in politics; and her experience as a woman in STEM.

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.

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.

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.

TechNet is recognizing state Sen. Ben Allen and Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin with Legislator of the Year awards for 2017.

The industry group will recognize the two lawmakers during an invite-only reception Monday evening at Microsoft's office in downtown Sacramento.

The California Department of Technology said Tuesday it has updated management guidelines to comply with legislation that Gov. Jerry Brown signed in 2016 requiring all state entities to report their annual costs for information security.

… “Without knowing how much we are currently spending, there is no way for the Legislature to consider how effective the new spending is and how the security needs of one state department compare to another,” Irwin told the panel last year”...

Merced Sun-Star

New funding could help the UC Merced Venture Lab expand not only in Merced but also into Atwater and Modesto, the university announced Tuesday.

Each of the 10 University of California campuses will receive $2.2 million in one-time funding from Assembly Bill 2664, known as “University of California: innovation and entrepreneurship expansion,” authored by Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in the fall, according to the university.

Legislators who take the time to study cybersecurity issues and ask tough questions of CIOs and CISOs are still the exception rather than the rule. But that may be changing.

In March 2016, just a few weeks after a contentious legislative oversight hearing, Michele Robinson, California’s chief information security officer (CISO), stepped down. The Feb. 24 hearing’s focus was a 2015 audit that questioned the state government’s cybersecurity preparedness.

A year after a scathing report described California’s information security as weak and vulnerable, Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed legislation intended to beef up state agency response standards.