Update on Placement of SVP in SC County

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Nov 5, 2021 | All Talk, Local, Politics, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay | 0

Talk of the Bay from KSQD

Update on Placement of SVP in SC County

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As the deadline nears for Judge Syda Cogliati to decide whether to place a violent sexual predator in the community of Bonny Doon, residents are sounding the alarm about unscrupulous practices on behalf of the private company in charge of finding housing for Michael Cheek, who raped a woman in the 1980s and is proposed to be housed in the rural community. Michael Geluardi and residents from other communities who have successfully resisted the placement of SVPs in their neighborhoods talk about the broken system and keeping children safe from those likely to reoffend.

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Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.