Angel Montano. Source: GoFundMe
ID’d as a U.S. Marine reserve officer
By Allen D. Payton
The Richmond Police Department announced that on Monday, August 4, 2025, at approximately 5:00 p.m., Richmond Police responded to a 911 call about a man armed with knives threatening to kill people inside a home in the 400 block of 1st Street.
When officers arrived, they heard a disturbance inside. When officers announced their presence, they were confronted by a subject who came to the door armed with at least one edged weapon. During the confrontation, two officers discharged their firearms, and the subject, unfortunately, suffered fatal injuries at the scene.
According to a KRON4 TV news report, the man was identified as 27-year-old Angel Montano who “served in the U.S. Marines as a reserve officer “
Per protocol, the Law Enforcement Involved Fatal Incident Protocol has been activated. The Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office is leading the investigation into this incident.
Investigators are in the early stages of this investigation. The Richmond Police Department is committed to conducting a thorough and transparent investigation. Updates will be shared as new information becomes available on the Richmond Police Department’s website.
A GoFundMe page was set up by Liz Montaño to raise funds to cover funeral and burial expenses with the following message:
“It is with heavy hearts that we share the sudden and tragic passing of our beloved cousin, Angel Montano, at just 27 years old.
Angel was a proud U.S. Marine, a devoted son, brother, father and to many a loyal friend. Angel brought light and strength into every room he entered. His unexpected loss has left our family heartbroken, and we are doing everything we can to give him the memorial he deserves.
We’re raising funds to help cover funeral and burial expenses, and to support his loved ones during this incredibly difficult time. Any donation, no matter the amount, is deeply appreciated. If you’re unable to give, sharing this page and keeping our family in your thoughts and prayers means just as much.
Thank you for honoring Angel’s memory with us. Your support brings us comfort and strength.
-The Montano Family
Con el corazón en la mano, compartimos la repentina y trágica pérdida de nuestro querido primo, Angel Montano, a tan solo 27 años de edad.
Angel fue un orgulloso miembro del U.S Marine, un hijo, hermano y padre devoto, y un amigo leal para muchos. Angel iluminaba cada cuarto donde entraba con su carisma y sonrisa. Su partida inesperada ha dejado a nuestra familia con el corazón destrozado, y estamos haciendo todo lo posible para darle el homenaje que se merece.
Estamos recaudando fondos para ayudar a cubrir los gastos del funeral y entierro, así como para apoyar a sus seres queridos en este momento tan difícil. Cualquier donación, sin importar la cantidad, es profundamente agradecida. Si no puedes donar, compartir esta página y mantener a nuestra familia en tus pensamientos y oraciones es igualmente agrdecido.
Gracias por honrar la memoria de Angel con nosotros. Su apoyo nos brinda consuelo y fortaleza.
La Familia Montano”
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To either keep the bike-pedestrian path open 24/7 or allow conversion to breakdown lane every Mon.-Thurs.
By 511 Contra Costa
On Thursday, August 7, 2025, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) will decide whether to keep the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike-pedestrian path open 24/7 or allow it to be converted to a breakdown lane every Mon.-Thurs. Submit comments in advance or attend meeting (virtually or in person). The meeting will last from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm.
This Commission meeting will operate as a hybrid meeting under teleconference rules established by the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act. Commissioners are located at the primary physical location and may be located at the teleconference locations specified below, all of which are publicly accessible. The Zoom video conference link and teleconference information for members of the public to participate virtually are also specified below.
Primary physical location
Metro Center
375 Beale Street, Board Room, San Francisco
415-352-3600
Teleconference locations
- Earl Warren Hiram W Johnson Building: 455 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, CA 94102
• 100 Howe Ave., Ste. 100 South, Sacramento, CA 95825
• City Hall: 701 Laurel St., Allied Arts Rm., Menlo Park, CA 94025
• 675 Texas St., Ste. 6002, Fairfield, CA. 94533
• 176 E. Blithedale Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941
• 197 Palmer Ave., Falmouth, MA 02540
• 1195 Third St., Ste. 310, Napa, CA, 94559
• 890 Osos St., Ste. H, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
• 500 County Center, 5th Fl., Buckeye Conf. Rm., Redwood City, CA 94063
• 2379 Sheffield Dr., Livermore, CA 94550
• 1021 O St., Sacramento, CA 95814
If you have issues joining the meeting using the link, please enter the Meeting ID and Password listed below into the ZOOM app to join the meeting.
Join the meeting via ZOOM
https://bcdc-ca-gov.zoom.us/j/87295886829?pwd=my206SeP5kGy5bSz3kcbUFbbbCgxYK.1
See information on public participation
Teleconference numbers
1 (866) 590-5055
Conference Code 374334
Meeting ID
872 9588 6829
Passcode
891700
If you call in by telephone:
Press *6 to unmute or mute yourself
Press *9 to raise your hand or lower your hand to speak
Details: http://511cc.org/rsrbridge
For more information about the BCDC visit
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Fine art photographer Jeff Heyman with student. Source: Jeff Heyman
Adventures in Photography for camera photographers and Fun Photography! for smartphone users
At Acalanes Adult Education
If you want to pick up a camera this fall, award-winning Contra Costa photographer Jeff Heyman is teaching two photography classes at Acalanes Adult Education.
Adventures in Photography is a course on how to use different camera techniques to improve your photographs and help you tell a story with each picture. Fun Photography! is designed for smartphone photographers so they can get the most out of the “best camera in the world” — the one you have with you.
You can read course descriptions and enroll in the classes at https://acalanesadulted.asapconnected.com/?org=3904#CourseGroupID=12444
Acalanes Adult Education is located at the Del Valle Education Center, 1963 Tice Valley Blvd., near Rossmoor, in Walnut Creek. Classes start soon! Call 510-280-3980, Ext. 8001, for more information.
Jeff Heyman’s work has been featured in The de Young Museum Open 2023. For more information visit his website heymanfoto.com, Instagram @heymanfoto or call 510.499.1420.
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To serve homeless veterans and others; volunteers needed
Community Day Sept. 13 is for anyone and everyone
By Delta Veterans Group
The Delta Veterans Group brings Contra Costa County (CCC) “Stand Down on the Delta” a Homeless Veterans’ “Hand Up” event every other year (2015, 2017, 2019….) DVG is proud to bring Stand Down on the Delta 2025, September 12-15, to the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds in Antioch.
This is a four-day event wherein U.S. military veterans receive services in Medical, Dental, Veterans Treatment Court, Housing, Job Placement, Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Counseling.
We are also looking for volunteers. Please contact us through our website at Contact Us | Delta Veterans Group.
To date the Stand Down on the Delta biennial event has helped thousands of veterans and their families, served thousands of meals, given away over 1,100 pairs of boots, over 1,500 sleeping bags, over 1,300 pairs of new jeans, $500,000 in dental care, taken over 200 veterans fishing on our Delta shores and helped many more find permanent housing.
We work with over 70 different organizations during our four day Stand Down on the Delta event. In September of 2019 over 850 Volunteers from around the State of California and even as far as South Carolina came to Antioch to help us provide these great services to our veterans.
About DVG
Delta Veterans Group is 501(c)3 Veterans service non-profit that assists our Nation’s finest men and women with housing, employment, health, and education services. Founded in Contra Costa County in 2012 by Army veteran J.R. Wilson, DVG has now grown to provide services to surrounding Northern California areas including Alameda, Monterey, Napa, San Joaquin, San Francisco and Solano counties.
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340B Drug Pricing Program costing employee health plans $5B per year
“Hospitals realized they could buy heavily discounted drugs and resell them to insured, middle-class patients at huge markups.”
By Dan Crippen
An obscure, supposedly free federal program is blowing a hole in state budgets — by depriving state governments of billions in corporate tax revenue and inflating costs for their public employee health plans.
The culprit is the 340B Drug Pricing Program, which Congress established in 1992 to help safety-net hospitals. Once enrolled, qualifying hospitals and clinics and their partner pharmacies — collectively called “covered entities” — can purchase medicines directly from drug manufacturers or wholesalers at roughly 50% discounts.
Congress expected only about 90 hospitals to participate. Today, more than 2,600 hospitals are enrolled.
This explosive, unintended growth is the result of the program’s lax requirements. Covered entities are not required to expand charity care or even report how they use their 340B earnings.
Hospitals realized they could buy heavily discounted drugs and resell them to insured, middle-class patients at huge markups. In some cases, hospitals have charged cancer patients nearly ten times what they paid to acquire the drug.
The opportunity to upcharge patients has proven irresistible and fueled the program’s bloat. In 2023, covered entities purchased $124 billion worth of medicines — but only paid $66 billion, meaning they received roughly $58 billion in discounts.
Numerous audits have revealed that many hospitals use the funds to subsidize expansion in affluent neighborhoods, rather than support low-income or uninsured patients.
This perverse behavior harms state taxpayers. Because most 340B hospitals are technically non-profits, their earnings aren’t taxed. As a result, states collect about $3.5 billion less in corporate income tax and other tax revenue than they otherwise would. That’s money not available for public health, education, infrastructure, or employee benefits.
The 340B program hurts states in other ways, too.
The program incentivizes hospital systems to acquire independent clinics — which don’t qualify for 340B — and designate them as “child sites” that subsequently become eligible for 340B.
This leads to higher healthcare spending, since care at hospital-owned sites is more expensive than at clinics and independent practices.
Care at 340B hospitals tends to be more expensive than care at competing hospitals, too. The average per-patient prescription spending at 340B hospitals is 150% higher than non-340B hospitals.
All told, large employers and their workers spend over $5 billion more per year on health care as a result of 340B. Every extra dollar that businesses spend on health care is a dollar that’s deducted from their taxable income.
The program also inflates costs for state employee health plans. Utah recently found that its Public Employees Health Program is losing out on $3.9 million in rebate savings due to 340B.
Some state lawmakers are unwittingly compounding the damage by making it easier for pharmacies to contract with 340B hospitals and clinics.
Instead of boosting care for poor patients, 340B drains public resources while enriching large hospital systems. Reform is desperately needed.
Dan Crippen is the former Director of the Congressional Budget Office. This piece originally ran in RealClearHealth.
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The Martinez Arts Association Proudly Presents the 54th Annual Art in the Park!
This year promises to be another great community event with lots of art, music, food and drink! Over 60 local artists will be showing and selling fine arts and crafts. Food trucks on site and wine and beer will be available for purchase! Susana Park, located on Susana Street, is shady with lots of seating. Plenty of free parking in the area and a free shuttle will run from the Main Street Plaza near Starbucks.
Enjoy live music throughout the day including:
Mark & the Muses
BAM!
The UnConcord
Delta Deuce
Landbirds
Art in the Park is a free and family friendly event and is MAA’s primary fund-raising event of the year, which helps support community programs like teacher grants and student scholarships.
Thank you to our sponsors: ARTSCC, City of Martinez, Embarc, Five Suns Brewing, Martinez Refining Company, Kiwanis International, Republic Services and Viano Vineyards.
For more information about MAA, visit www.martinezarts.org.
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Source: USPS
Work for the Post Office and earn up to $35.95/hour
OAKLAND, CA — The U.S. Postal Service is hosting a free hiring event to help future employees create their online profile and immediately start applying for jobs in Maintenance.
As part our innovative 10-year-plan, Delivering for America, the Postal Service is focused on building a more stable and empowered workforce. Our employees are our greatest asset, and we are investing in our new employees by providing robust training and on-the-job support.
The Postal Service is a great place to work, with job security, career advancement opportunities and benefits. The Postal Service has an immediate need for the following positions to be filled:
- Electronic Technician – $35.95/hour
- Building Equipment Mechanic – $34.16/hour
- Maintenance Mechanic (Mail Processing Equipment) – $34.16/hour
- Maintenance Mechanic – $27.32/hour
- Laborer Custodial – $21.52/hour
Please attend the Oakland Maintenance Hiring Event:
Location: Oakland P&DC located at 1675 7th Street, Oakland, CA 94615
Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Applicants must be 18 years or older. All applicants must be able to pass drug screening and a criminal background investigation. Some positions require an exam. Any position that has a driving requirement will also require a valid driver license and clean DMV two-year driving history. Citizenship or permanent resident status is required.
The Postal Service is an equal opportunity employer offering a fast-pace, rewarding work environment with competitive compensation packages, on-the-job training, and opportunities for advancement. Learn more at: Careers – About.usps.com.
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Source: CCTA
Enter a chance to win $100!
By Contra Costa Transportation Authority
Every trip matters! No matter if you’re driving to work, catching BART, biking to school, or strolling your neighborhood, we have a plan to make traveling around our county easier, safer, and smarter.
The Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA) is updating your Countywide Transportation Plan (CTP), and we’re asking residents to weigh in on the next 25 years of investments that will keep our communities moving smoothly and sustainably.
What’s on the Table?
In 2024, CCTA surveyed residents to find out what transportation solutions were most needed in their Contra Costa community — and thousands of you responded! Public engagement in early 2025 identified strategies for improving transportation
Based on your feedback, CCTA has created a series of Transformative Visions — bold project and program ideas that are visionary and will bring safer streets, more reliable transit, cleaner air, and more access to good transportation options for every corner of Contra Costa County. Your feedback will help us refine these ideas and decide which deserve top priority.
These visions are:
- Create People-First Transportation Spaces: Redesign streets to put people first, making everyday travel safer, easier, and more comfortable.
- Provide a Complete, Reliable Transit Network: Expand fast and reliable bus, shuttle, rail, and ferry services that come more often and connect you to key places.
- Provide Reliable Freeway Travel: Keep freeways moving smoothly by reducing backups from crashes, better using existing travel lanes, and fixing bottlenecks.
- Build Vibrant Communities: Revitalize and create places where people can live, gather, and connect to natural and community destinations.
Learn more about these Transformative Visions. Complete this brief survey to tell us which best fits YOUR vision for Contra Costa County. Your feedback will help us refine and update these Transformative Visions to show what the Plan’s focus should be for transportation investments in the next 25 years.
Why Take the Survey?
- Influence real projects. Your answers guide where billions in transportation funds are spent.
- It’s quick. The survey is mobile-friendly and takes just a few minutes.
- Perks! Complete it and you can enter a drawing to win one of five $100 virtual Visa gift cards—the sooner you participate, the more chances you’ll have to win.
- Survey window. The questionnaire is open through September 30, so don’t wait.
Click to take the survey.
We greatly appreciate your feedback. Individuals who complete this survey may enter a drawing to win one of five $100 virtual VISA gift cards. Winners’ names will be drawn throughout the survey period, so the earlier you take the survey, the more chances you will have to win! The survey is open through September 30.
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Angel G. Luévano. Photo by Luis Nuno Briones. Source: Todos Unidos
Luévano Consent Decree determined in 1981 written civil service test unfair to Black and Hispanic applicants
“Today, the Justice Department removed that barrier and reopened federal employment opportunities based on merit—not race.” – U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon on Aug. 1, 2025.
“The Decree has had its usefulness and a tremendous effect on the country. Millions of minorities and women hold jobs because of that class action lawsuit. It wasn’t DEI. It didn’t just benefit minorities and women. The Outstanding Scholar Program…was actually used 70% by whites.” – Angel Luévano
By Allen D. Payton
On Friday, August 1, 2025, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon announced that the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) had ended a 44-year-old decree mandating race-based government hiring. It’s named for Antioch resident Angel G. Luévano, who, with a group of attorneys in 1979, brought a class action lawsuit on behalf of African Americans and Hispanics over the Professional and Administrative Career Examination (PACE). They claimed disparate impact against them based on their test results violated Title VII’s equal employment opportunity provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Dhillon claimed the decree “imposed draconian test review and implementation procedures” on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
The 1979 Luévano v. Campbell lawsuit, against the then and first Director of the Officer of Personnel Management, Alan Campbell, resulted in a settlement during the final days of President Jimmy Carter’s Administration, just prior to President Ronald Reagan’s inauguration, eliminating use of the PACE test. According to court documents filed in March 2025 by the USDOJ, “on January 9, 1981, after two years of litigation, Plaintiffs and OPM jointly moved for ‘an order granting preliminary approval to a Consent Decree.’ Luevano, 93 F.R.D. at 72. The parties signed the Decree eleven days prior to the change in administration, and the Court accepted the Decree on February 26, 1981.”
In addition, according to the Civil Rights Litigation Clearing House Case Summary, in the Decree the “federal government in part agreed to…establish two special hiring programs, Outstanding Scholar and Bilingual/Bicultural.”
The lawsuit title was later changed to Luevano v. Ezell, named for Charles Ezell, the current Acting OPM Director. This year’s court filing reads, “Federal law requires many federal jobs be filled based on merit alone. Beginning in 1974, OPM employed a test to do just that. The Professional and Administrative Career Examination (‘PACE’) was a challenging, written examination that measured cognitive and other skills. It quickly proved an effective way of predicting future job performance, thereby increasing the efficiency and capability of the federal workforce. But it did not last long.”
In a Aug. 1 post on Dhillon’s official X (formerly Twitter) account she wrote, “Another federal government DEI program bites the dust! Today, the @CivilRights Division ended a 44-year-old decree that bound the federal government to use DEI in its hiring practices” and shared the news release from the USDOJ announcing the end to the decree:
“Today, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division ended a court-imposed decree initiated by the Carter administration, which limited the hiring practices of the federal government based on flawed and outdated theories of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
In Luevano v. Ezell, the Court dismissed a consent decree based on a lawsuit initially brought by interest groups representing federal employees in 1979. The decree entered in 1981 imposed draconian test review and implementation procedures on the Office of Personnel Management—and consequently all other federal agencies—requiring them to receive permission prior to using any tests for potential federal employees, in an attempt to require equal testing outcomes among all races of test-takers.
“For over four decades, this decree has hampered the federal government from hiring the top talent of our nation,” said Dhillon. “Today, the Justice Department removed that barrier and reopened federal employment opportunities based on merit—not race.”
“It’s simple, competence and merit are the standards by which we should all be judged; nothing more and nothing less,” said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro for the District of Columbia. “It’s about time people are judged, not by their identity, but instead ‘by the content of their character.’”
Luévano Responds
In response to the decree’s dismissal, Luévano said, “I agreed to vacate the Decree through the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) because I don’t want to make bad law. There are two interveners on the other side that wanted to broaden the attack.”
Asked when he agreed to it, he said, “Last week. Attorneys for both sides met with the judge last Thursday to resolve the matter.”
“The Decree has had its usefulness and a tremendous effect on the country,” Luévano continued. “Millions of minorities and women hold jobs because of that class action lawsuit. The Decree affected 118 job classifications in federal hiring nationwide.”
“I’m extremely proud of the effect that it has had on federal hires and getting minorities and women into federal jobs,” he stated. “It affected my decision to join, it was the key for me to join federal civil rights compliance in the Labor Department.”
Asked why he was the lead plaintiff he said, “I took the PACE exam because I wanted to get into a federal job. I achieved an 80 on the test – a passing grade, even though it’s been reported I flunked the exam. That’s not true. The result was I did not get referred to federal openings. They were only referring people with a 100 on their tests to jobs.”
“I learned about the case through the Legal Aid Society which had brought many cases in the construction industry. Our unit was successful in getting the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to be effective. I went to them and said, ‘that happened to me’ in the Office of Personnel Management. That’s the lead HR department in the federal government. They’re the gatekeepers to federal employment.”
“I asked them, is there something we can do about this. They said, ‘funny you should ask. We are looking for someone to do something about this’ and we began working on the lawsuit,” he shared.
“One of the things I was able to achieve was alternatives to merit selection in federal employment, the Outstanding Scholar and Bilingual/Bicultural programs that each agency implemented,” Luévano stated.
“I gave up back pay and also the class, to get them to agree to the decree,” he continued. “When you win a case, you usually get a settlement. But I was the one who gave up back pay for myself and for the class to get those two remedies. That was really big. That is huge. Who gets alternatives to merit-based hiring at the national level? They used it to bring in minorities and women.”
“It wasn’t DEI. It didn’t just benefit minorities and women. The Outstanding Scholar Program as an alternative to discriminatory merit-based hiring was actually used 70% by whites,” he stated. “But that’s OK. I wanted to crack the discriminatory employment barriers to federal hiring.”
“When I was in D.C. I met with the second in command at the OPM, while we were in Puerto Rico. He said, ‘Angel, you know it’s not what you know. It’s who you know. I said to him, ‘I know you!’ He replied, ‘But I don’t have any power.’ I’ve learned that every where I’ve gone. As you go up the ladder it gets narrower and narrower and harder and harder.”
“We used the impact theory to prove there was discrimination. There are only two theories, that one and disparate treatment,” Luevano explained.
“I negotiated through my lawyers,” he continued. “We had a lot of attorneys. They included the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights out of D.C., MALDEF, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund, NOW, and the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County where I worked out of Oakland as a senior law clerk in the impact litigation unit.”
He started as a summer management intern with the General Services Administration as a GS-5 employee in 1972 while in law school. Then he went to work for the Department of Defense compliance division in Burlingame.
They merged all the compliance divisions under the Labor Department.
“They leaped me from a GS-9 to a 12,” he stated. “So, I skipped 10 and 11. I met all of the qualifications.”
He ultimately rose to the level of a GS-15 as Deputy Director of Program Operations for the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
“I was number four in the agency nationwide and retired after 30 years in government,” Luevano shared. “That happened to a guy who wouldn’t have even gotten into a federal job because of PACE. Yet, I was qualified, I earned it and I moved up.”
“I had a great career. I helped write the regulations on how to detect employment system discrimination and I trained the trainers nationwide,” he continued. “That was because of my law background. I went to Hastings for four years. Even though I don’t have the degree, I have the equivalent of a Master’s in Law.”
About the timing for the lawsuit settlement Luévano shared, “Our lawyers showed up. Their lawyers showed up, the attorneys for the outgoing Carter Administration. The attorneys for the Reagan Administration showed up and wanted to put a stop to the resolution of the Consent Decree. The judge said, ‘No, you’re not in power, yet.’”
“We were all happy, we signed the Decree and made history,” he stated. “I’m humbled by this tremendous achievement.”
Luévano was recognized for his efforts at one of the conferences of LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens, in which he later rose to the level of California State Director and V.P for the Far West. Image de California gave him an award during one of their conferences at which he spoke about the Consent Decree.
“If we hadn’t accomplished that we’d still be back in the dark ages of discrimination,” Luévano stated.
“I’m actually writing a book, a memoir about it,” he added. “I’m working with Harvard on that.”
Luévano even has his own Wikipedia page.
He and his wife Argentina have been involved in the Antioch community with the Kiwanis Club of the Delta-Antioch, where he was president last year and Argentina is currently secretary. They both also served as Lt. Governors for the organization in Division 26, Area 9 in Northern California. Then Angel was elected as Trustee for the entire Division which includes California, Nevada and Hawaii.
In addition, since May 2004, Angel has also served as Executive Director for Todos Unidos, an Antioch-based non-profit organization established to raise the educational, economic, health and social outcomes of underserved communities along the Suisun Bay and the greater San Joaquin Delta area.
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Ty Leighton was arrested for child sex crimes on July 29, 2025. Photos: Brentwood PD
Led by Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department with assist from Brentwood, Orinda, Martinez PD’s; police seek additional victims
Was on felony probation with felony warrant for burglary, had 10 previous arrests dating to 2017
By Brentwood Police Department
As part of a week-long operation led by the Contra Costa County Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force hosted by the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office and supported by the Brentwood Police Department and 13 additional agencies significant progress was made in protecting children from online exploitation.
During the operation, Detectives from the Brentwood Police Department, Orinda Police Department, and Martinez Police Department arrested 29-year-old Ty Oliver Leighton (born 9/26/1995) on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, for arranging to meet a 13-year-old minor with the intent to engage in lewd and lascivious acts, among other related charges.
Leighton, who is currently on felony probation, also had a felony warrant for a commercial burglary that occurred in the city of Brentwood.
Aerial photo of Ty Leighton’s arrest.
We are releasing Leighton’s photo in an effort to identify any additional victims. If you have any information or believe you may have had contact with him, please contact the Brentwood Police Department at (925) 809-7911. Callers may remain anonymous.
We would also like to acknowledge the collaborative efforts of the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office and all the partnering agencies that contributed to this operation.
According to localcrimenews.com, Leighton has a history of arrests dating back to 2017 and is charged with attempting lewd acts with a child, arranging a meeting with a child for lewd purposes, attempting to contact a minor with intent to commit an offense and revocation of probation.
His previous arrests by multiple agencies including Napa PD, Napa County and San Joaquin Sheriff’s Departments, and Antioch PD for crimes including inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, receiving known stolen property over $200, addict in possession of firearm possession of ammunition, theft, receiving or concealing stolen property, vandalism and trespassing upon private property after notice by peace officer that property is not open to the particular person or failure to leave said property upon request.
According to the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department, the five-feet-nine-inch tall, 150-pound Leighton is Hispanic, being held in West County Detention Facility on no bail, and his next court appearance is scheduled for August 8, 2025, at 8:30 AM in the Martinez Superior Court Department 5.
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Angel Montano. Source: GoFundMe
ID’d as a U.S. Marine reserve officer
By Allen D. Payton
The Richmond Police Department announced that on Monday, August 4, 2025, at approximately 5:00 p.m., Richmond Police responded to a 911 call about a man armed with knives threatening to kill people inside a home in the 400 block of 1st Street.
When officers arrived, they heard a disturbance inside. When officers announced their presence, they were confronted by a subject who came to the door armed with at least one edged weapon. During the confrontation, two officers discharged their firearms, and the subject, unfortunately, suffered fatal injuries at the scene.
According to a KRON4 TV news report, the man was identified as 27-year-old Angel Montano who “served in the U.S. Marines as a reserve officer “
Per protocol, the Law Enforcement Involved Fatal Incident Protocol has been activated. The Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office is leading the investigation into this incident.
Investigators are in the early stages of this investigation. The Richmond Police Department is committed to conducting a thorough and transparent investigation. Updates will be shared as new information becomes available on the Richmond Police Department’s website.
A GoFundMe page was set up by Liz Montaño to raise funds to cover funeral and burial expenses with the following message:
“It is with heavy hearts that we share the sudden and tragic passing of our beloved cousin, Angel Montano, at just 27 years old.
Angel was a proud U.S. Marine, a devoted son, brother, father and to many a loyal friend. Angel brought light and strength into every room he entered. His unexpected loss has left our family heartbroken, and we are doing everything we can to give him the memorial he deserves.
We’re raising funds to help cover funeral and burial expenses, and to support his loved ones during this incredibly difficult time. Any donation, no matter the amount, is deeply appreciated. If you’re unable to give, sharing this page and keeping our family in your thoughts and prayers means just as much.
Thank you for honoring Angel’s memory with us. Your support brings us comfort and strength.
-The Montano Family
Con el corazón en la mano, compartimos la repentina y trágica pérdida de nuestro querido primo, Angel Montano, a tan solo 27 años de edad.
Angel fue un orgulloso miembro del U.S Marine, un hijo, hermano y padre devoto, y un amigo leal para muchos. Angel iluminaba cada cuarto donde entraba con su carisma y sonrisa. Su partida inesperada ha dejado a nuestra familia con el corazón destrozado, y estamos haciendo todo lo posible para darle el homenaje que se merece.
Estamos recaudando fondos para ayudar a cubrir los gastos del funeral y entierro, así como para apoyar a sus seres queridos en este momento tan difícil. Cualquier donación, sin importar la cantidad, es profundamente agradecida. Si no puedes donar, compartir esta página y mantener a nuestra familia en tus pensamientos y oraciones es igualmente agrdecido.
Gracias por honrar la memoria de Angel con nosotros. Su apoyo nos brinda consuelo y fortaleza.
La Familia Montano”
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To either keep the bike-pedestrian path open 24/7 or allow conversion to breakdown lane every Mon.-Thurs.
By 511 Contra Costa
On Thursday, August 7, 2025, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) will decide whether to keep the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike-pedestrian path open 24/7 or allow it to be converted to a breakdown lane every Mon.-Thurs. Submit comments in advance or attend meeting (virtually or in person). The meeting will last from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm.
This Commission meeting will operate as a hybrid meeting under teleconference rules established by the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act. Commissioners are located at the primary physical location and may be located at the teleconference locations specified below, all of which are publicly accessible. The Zoom video conference link and teleconference information for members of the public to participate virtually are also specified below.
Primary physical location
Metro Center
375 Beale Street, Board Room, San Francisco
415-352-3600
Teleconference locations
- Earl Warren Hiram W Johnson Building: 455 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, CA 94102
• 100 Howe Ave., Ste. 100 South, Sacramento, CA 95825
• City Hall: 701 Laurel St., Allied Arts Rm., Menlo Park, CA 94025
• 675 Texas St., Ste. 6002, Fairfield, CA. 94533
• 176 E. Blithedale Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941
• 197 Palmer Ave., Falmouth, MA 02540
• 1195 Third St., Ste. 310, Napa, CA, 94559
• 890 Osos St., Ste. H, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
• 500 County Center, 5th Fl., Buckeye Conf. Rm., Redwood City, CA 94063
• 2379 Sheffield Dr., Livermore, CA 94550
• 1021 O St., Sacramento, CA 95814
If you have issues joining the meeting using the link, please enter the Meeting ID and Password listed below into the ZOOM app to join the meeting.
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Teleconference numbers
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Read MoreFine art photographer Jeff Heyman with student. Source: Jeff Heyman
Adventures in Photography for camera photographers and Fun Photography! for smartphone users
At Acalanes Adult Education
If you want to pick up a camera this fall, award-winning Contra Costa photographer Jeff Heyman is teaching two photography classes at Acalanes Adult Education.
Adventures in Photography is a course on how to use different camera techniques to improve your photographs and help you tell a story with each picture. Fun Photography! is designed for smartphone photographers so they can get the most out of the “best camera in the world” — the one you have with you.
You can read course descriptions and enroll in the classes at https://acalanesadulted.asapconnected.com/?org=3904#CourseGroupID=12444
Acalanes Adult Education is located at the Del Valle Education Center, 1963 Tice Valley Blvd., near Rossmoor, in Walnut Creek. Classes start soon! Call 510-280-3980, Ext. 8001, for more information.
Jeff Heyman’s work has been featured in The de Young Museum Open 2023. For more information visit his website heymanfoto.com, Instagram @heymanfoto or call 510.499.1420.
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To serve homeless veterans and others; volunteers needed
Community Day Sept. 13 is for anyone and everyone
By Delta Veterans Group
The Delta Veterans Group brings Contra Costa County (CCC) “Stand Down on the Delta” a Homeless Veterans’ “Hand Up” event every other year (2015, 2017, 2019….) DVG is proud to bring Stand Down on the Delta 2025, September 12-15, to the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds in Antioch.
This is a four-day event wherein U.S. military veterans receive services in Medical, Dental, Veterans Treatment Court, Housing, Job Placement, Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Counseling.
We are also looking for volunteers. Please contact us through our website at Contact Us | Delta Veterans Group.
To date the Stand Down on the Delta biennial event has helped thousands of veterans and their families, served thousands of meals, given away over 1,100 pairs of boots, over 1,500 sleeping bags, over 1,300 pairs of new jeans, $500,000 in dental care, taken over 200 veterans fishing on our Delta shores and helped many more find permanent housing.
We work with over 70 different organizations during our four day Stand Down on the Delta event. In September of 2019 over 850 Volunteers from around the State of California and even as far as South Carolina came to Antioch to help us provide these great services to our veterans.
About DVG
Delta Veterans Group is 501(c)3 Veterans service non-profit that assists our Nation’s finest men and women with housing, employment, health, and education services. Founded in Contra Costa County in 2012 by Army veteran J.R. Wilson, DVG has now grown to provide services to surrounding Northern California areas including Alameda, Monterey, Napa, San Joaquin, San Francisco and Solano counties.
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340B Drug Pricing Program costing employee health plans $5B per year
“Hospitals realized they could buy heavily discounted drugs and resell them to insured, middle-class patients at huge markups.”
By Dan Crippen
An obscure, supposedly free federal program is blowing a hole in state budgets — by depriving state governments of billions in corporate tax revenue and inflating costs for their public employee health plans.
The culprit is the 340B Drug Pricing Program, which Congress established in 1992 to help safety-net hospitals. Once enrolled, qualifying hospitals and clinics and their partner pharmacies — collectively called “covered entities” — can purchase medicines directly from drug manufacturers or wholesalers at roughly 50% discounts.
Congress expected only about 90 hospitals to participate. Today, more than 2,600 hospitals are enrolled.
This explosive, unintended growth is the result of the program’s lax requirements. Covered entities are not required to expand charity care or even report how they use their 340B earnings.
Hospitals realized they could buy heavily discounted drugs and resell them to insured, middle-class patients at huge markups. In some cases, hospitals have charged cancer patients nearly ten times what they paid to acquire the drug.
The opportunity to upcharge patients has proven irresistible and fueled the program’s bloat. In 2023, covered entities purchased $124 billion worth of medicines — but only paid $66 billion, meaning they received roughly $58 billion in discounts.
Numerous audits have revealed that many hospitals use the funds to subsidize expansion in affluent neighborhoods, rather than support low-income or uninsured patients.
This perverse behavior harms state taxpayers. Because most 340B hospitals are technically non-profits, their earnings aren’t taxed. As a result, states collect about $3.5 billion less in corporate income tax and other tax revenue than they otherwise would. That’s money not available for public health, education, infrastructure, or employee benefits.
The 340B program hurts states in other ways, too.
The program incentivizes hospital systems to acquire independent clinics — which don’t qualify for 340B — and designate them as “child sites” that subsequently become eligible for 340B.
This leads to higher healthcare spending, since care at hospital-owned sites is more expensive than at clinics and independent practices.
Care at 340B hospitals tends to be more expensive than care at competing hospitals, too. The average per-patient prescription spending at 340B hospitals is 150% higher than non-340B hospitals.
All told, large employers and their workers spend over $5 billion more per year on health care as a result of 340B. Every extra dollar that businesses spend on health care is a dollar that’s deducted from their taxable income.
The program also inflates costs for state employee health plans. Utah recently found that its Public Employees Health Program is losing out on $3.9 million in rebate savings due to 340B.
Some state lawmakers are unwittingly compounding the damage by making it easier for pharmacies to contract with 340B hospitals and clinics.
Instead of boosting care for poor patients, 340B drains public resources while enriching large hospital systems. Reform is desperately needed.
Dan Crippen is the former Director of the Congressional Budget Office. This piece originally ran in RealClearHealth.
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The Martinez Arts Association Proudly Presents the 54th Annual Art in the Park!
This year promises to be another great community event with lots of art, music, food and drink! Over 60 local artists will be showing and selling fine arts and crafts. Food trucks on site and wine and beer will be available for purchase! Susana Park, located on Susana Street, is shady with lots of seating. Plenty of free parking in the area and a free shuttle will run from the Main Street Plaza near Starbucks.
Enjoy live music throughout the day including:
Mark & the Muses
BAM!
The UnConcord
Delta Deuce
Landbirds
Art in the Park is a free and family friendly event and is MAA’s primary fund-raising event of the year, which helps support community programs like teacher grants and student scholarships.
Thank you to our sponsors: ARTSCC, City of Martinez, Embarc, Five Suns Brewing, Martinez Refining Company, Kiwanis International, Republic Services and Viano Vineyards.
For more information about MAA, visit www.martinezarts.org.
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Work for the Post Office and earn up to $35.95/hour
OAKLAND, CA — The U.S. Postal Service is hosting a free hiring event to help future employees create their online profile and immediately start applying for jobs in Maintenance.
As part our innovative 10-year-plan, Delivering for America, the Postal Service is focused on building a more stable and empowered workforce. Our employees are our greatest asset, and we are investing in our new employees by providing robust training and on-the-job support.
The Postal Service is a great place to work, with job security, career advancement opportunities and benefits. The Postal Service has an immediate need for the following positions to be filled:
- Electronic Technician – $35.95/hour
- Building Equipment Mechanic – $34.16/hour
- Maintenance Mechanic (Mail Processing Equipment) – $34.16/hour
- Maintenance Mechanic – $27.32/hour
- Laborer Custodial – $21.52/hour
Please attend the Oakland Maintenance Hiring Event:
Location: Oakland P&DC located at 1675 7th Street, Oakland, CA 94615
Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Applicants must be 18 years or older. All applicants must be able to pass drug screening and a criminal background investigation. Some positions require an exam. Any position that has a driving requirement will also require a valid driver license and clean DMV two-year driving history. Citizenship or permanent resident status is required.
The Postal Service is an equal opportunity employer offering a fast-pace, rewarding work environment with competitive compensation packages, on-the-job training, and opportunities for advancement. Learn more at: Careers – About.usps.com.
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Source: CCTA
Enter a chance to win $100!
By Contra Costa Transportation Authority
Every trip matters! No matter if you’re driving to work, catching BART, biking to school, or strolling your neighborhood, we have a plan to make traveling around our county easier, safer, and smarter.
The Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA) is updating your Countywide Transportation Plan (CTP), and we’re asking residents to weigh in on the next 25 years of investments that will keep our communities moving smoothly and sustainably.
What’s on the Table?
In 2024, CCTA surveyed residents to find out what transportation solutions were most needed in their Contra Costa community — and thousands of you responded! Public engagement in early 2025 identified strategies for improving transportation
Based on your feedback, CCTA has created a series of Transformative Visions — bold project and program ideas that are visionary and will bring safer streets, more reliable transit, cleaner air, and more access to good transportation options for every corner of Contra Costa County. Your feedback will help us refine these ideas and decide which deserve top priority.
These visions are:
- Create People-First Transportation Spaces: Redesign streets to put people first, making everyday travel safer, easier, and more comfortable.
- Provide a Complete, Reliable Transit Network: Expand fast and reliable bus, shuttle, rail, and ferry services that come more often and connect you to key places.
- Provide Reliable Freeway Travel: Keep freeways moving smoothly by reducing backups from crashes, better using existing travel lanes, and fixing bottlenecks.
- Build Vibrant Communities: Revitalize and create places where people can live, gather, and connect to natural and community destinations.
Learn more about these Transformative Visions. Complete this brief survey to tell us which best fits YOUR vision for Contra Costa County. Your feedback will help us refine and update these Transformative Visions to show what the Plan’s focus should be for transportation investments in the next 25 years.
Why Take the Survey?
- Influence real projects. Your answers guide where billions in transportation funds are spent.
- It’s quick. The survey is mobile-friendly and takes just a few minutes.
- Perks! Complete it and you can enter a drawing to win one of five $100 virtual Visa gift cards—the sooner you participate, the more chances you’ll have to win.
- Survey window. The questionnaire is open through September 30, so don’t wait.
Click to take the survey.
We greatly appreciate your feedback. Individuals who complete this survey may enter a drawing to win one of five $100 virtual VISA gift cards. Winners’ names will be drawn throughout the survey period, so the earlier you take the survey, the more chances you will have to win! The survey is open through September 30.
Read MoreAngel G. Luévano. Photo by Luis Nuno Briones. Source: Todos Unidos
Luévano Consent Decree determined in 1981 written civil service test unfair to Black and Hispanic applicants
“Today, the Justice Department removed that barrier and reopened federal employment opportunities based on merit—not race.” – U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon on Aug. 1, 2025.
“The Decree has had its usefulness and a tremendous effect on the country. Millions of minorities and women hold jobs because of that class action lawsuit. It wasn’t DEI. It didn’t just benefit minorities and women. The Outstanding Scholar Program…was actually used 70% by whites.” – Angel Luévano
By Allen D. Payton
On Friday, August 1, 2025, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon announced that the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) had ended a 44-year-old decree mandating race-based government hiring. It’s named for Antioch resident Angel G. Luévano, who, with a group of attorneys in 1979, brought a class action lawsuit on behalf of African Americans and Hispanics over the Professional and Administrative Career Examination (PACE). They claimed disparate impact against them based on their test results violated Title VII’s equal employment opportunity provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Dhillon claimed the decree “imposed draconian test review and implementation procedures” on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
The 1979 Luévano v. Campbell lawsuit, against the then and first Director of the Officer of Personnel Management, Alan Campbell, resulted in a settlement during the final days of President Jimmy Carter’s Administration, just prior to President Ronald Reagan’s inauguration, eliminating use of the PACE test. According to court documents filed in March 2025 by the USDOJ, “on January 9, 1981, after two years of litigation, Plaintiffs and OPM jointly moved for ‘an order granting preliminary approval to a Consent Decree.’ Luevano, 93 F.R.D. at 72. The parties signed the Decree eleven days prior to the change in administration, and the Court accepted the Decree on February 26, 1981.”
In addition, according to the Civil Rights Litigation Clearing House Case Summary, in the Decree the “federal government in part agreed to…establish two special hiring programs, Outstanding Scholar and Bilingual/Bicultural.”
The lawsuit title was later changed to Luevano v. Ezell, named for Charles Ezell, the current Acting OPM Director. This year’s court filing reads, “Federal law requires many federal jobs be filled based on merit alone. Beginning in 1974, OPM employed a test to do just that. The Professional and Administrative Career Examination (‘PACE’) was a challenging, written examination that measured cognitive and other skills. It quickly proved an effective way of predicting future job performance, thereby increasing the efficiency and capability of the federal workforce. But it did not last long.”
In a Aug. 1 post on Dhillon’s official X (formerly Twitter) account she wrote, “Another federal government DEI program bites the dust! Today, the @CivilRights Division ended a 44-year-old decree that bound the federal government to use DEI in its hiring practices” and shared the news release from the USDOJ announcing the end to the decree:
“Today, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division ended a court-imposed decree initiated by the Carter administration, which limited the hiring practices of the federal government based on flawed and outdated theories of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
In Luevano v. Ezell, the Court dismissed a consent decree based on a lawsuit initially brought by interest groups representing federal employees in 1979. The decree entered in 1981 imposed draconian test review and implementation procedures on the Office of Personnel Management—and consequently all other federal agencies—requiring them to receive permission prior to using any tests for potential federal employees, in an attempt to require equal testing outcomes among all races of test-takers.
“For over four decades, this decree has hampered the federal government from hiring the top talent of our nation,” said Dhillon. “Today, the Justice Department removed that barrier and reopened federal employment opportunities based on merit—not race.”
“It’s simple, competence and merit are the standards by which we should all be judged; nothing more and nothing less,” said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro for the District of Columbia. “It’s about time people are judged, not by their identity, but instead ‘by the content of their character.’”
Luévano Responds
In response to the decree’s dismissal, Luévano said, “I agreed to vacate the Decree through the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) because I don’t want to make bad law. There are two interveners on the other side that wanted to broaden the attack.”
Asked when he agreed to it, he said, “Last week. Attorneys for both sides met with the judge last Thursday to resolve the matter.”
“The Decree has had its usefulness and a tremendous effect on the country,” Luévano continued. “Millions of minorities and women hold jobs because of that class action lawsuit. The Decree affected 118 job classifications in federal hiring nationwide.”
“I’m extremely proud of the effect that it has had on federal hires and getting minorities and women into federal jobs,” he stated. “It affected my decision to join, it was the key for me to join federal civil rights compliance in the Labor Department.”
Asked why he was the lead plaintiff he said, “I took the PACE exam because I wanted to get into a federal job. I achieved an 80 on the test – a passing grade, even though it’s been reported I flunked the exam. That’s not true. The result was I did not get referred to federal openings. They were only referring people with a 100 on their tests to jobs.”
“I learned about the case through the Legal Aid Society which had brought many cases in the construction industry. Our unit was successful in getting the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to be effective. I went to them and said, ‘that happened to me’ in the Office of Personnel Management. That’s the lead HR department in the federal government. They’re the gatekeepers to federal employment.”
“I asked them, is there something we can do about this. They said, ‘funny you should ask. We are looking for someone to do something about this’ and we began working on the lawsuit,” he shared.
“One of the things I was able to achieve was alternatives to merit selection in federal employment, the Outstanding Scholar and Bilingual/Bicultural programs that each agency implemented,” Luévano stated.
“I gave up back pay and also the class, to get them to agree to the decree,” he continued. “When you win a case, you usually get a settlement. But I was the one who gave up back pay for myself and for the class to get those two remedies. That was really big. That is huge. Who gets alternatives to merit-based hiring at the national level? They used it to bring in minorities and women.”
“It wasn’t DEI. It didn’t just benefit minorities and women. The Outstanding Scholar Program as an alternative to discriminatory merit-based hiring was actually used 70% by whites,” he stated. “But that’s OK. I wanted to crack the discriminatory employment barriers to federal hiring.”
“When I was in D.C. I met with the second in command at the OPM, while we were in Puerto Rico. He said, ‘Angel, you know it’s not what you know. It’s who you know. I said to him, ‘I know you!’ He replied, ‘But I don’t have any power.’ I’ve learned that every where I’ve gone. As you go up the ladder it gets narrower and narrower and harder and harder.”
“We used the impact theory to prove there was discrimination. There are only two theories, that one and disparate treatment,” Luevano explained.
“I negotiated through my lawyers,” he continued. “We had a lot of attorneys. They included the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights out of D.C., MALDEF, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund, NOW, and the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County where I worked out of Oakland as a senior law clerk in the impact litigation unit.”
He started as a summer management intern with the General Services Administration as a GS-5 employee in 1972 while in law school. Then he went to work for the Department of Defense compliance division in Burlingame.
They merged all the compliance divisions under the Labor Department.
“They leaped me from a GS-9 to a 12,” he stated. “So, I skipped 10 and 11. I met all of the qualifications.”
He ultimately rose to the level of a GS-15 as Deputy Director of Program Operations for the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
“I was number four in the agency nationwide and retired after 30 years in government,” Luevano shared. “That happened to a guy who wouldn’t have even gotten into a federal job because of PACE. Yet, I was qualified, I earned it and I moved up.”
“I had a great career. I helped write the regulations on how to detect employment system discrimination and I trained the trainers nationwide,” he continued. “That was because of my law background. I went to Hastings for four years. Even though I don’t have the degree, I have the equivalent of a Master’s in Law.”
About the timing for the lawsuit settlement Luévano shared, “Our lawyers showed up. Their lawyers showed up, the attorneys for the outgoing Carter Administration. The attorneys for the Reagan Administration showed up and wanted to put a stop to the resolution of the Consent Decree. The judge said, ‘No, you’re not in power, yet.’”
“We were all happy, we signed the Decree and made history,” he stated. “I’m humbled by this tremendous achievement.”
Luévano was recognized for his efforts at one of the conferences of LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens, in which he later rose to the level of California State Director and V.P for the Far West. Image de California gave him an award during one of their conferences at which he spoke about the Consent Decree.
“If we hadn’t accomplished that we’d still be back in the dark ages of discrimination,” Luévano stated.
“I’m actually writing a book, a memoir about it,” he added. “I’m working with Harvard on that.”
Luévano even has his own Wikipedia page.
He and his wife Argentina have been involved in the Antioch community with the Kiwanis Club of the Delta-Antioch, where he was president last year and Argentina is currently secretary. They both also served as Lt. Governors for the organization in Division 26, Area 9 in Northern California. Then Angel was elected as Trustee for the entire Division which includes California, Nevada and Hawaii.
In addition, since May 2004, Angel has also served as Executive Director for Todos Unidos, an Antioch-based non-profit organization established to raise the educational, economic, health and social outcomes of underserved communities along the Suisun Bay and the greater San Joaquin Delta area.
Read MoreTy Leighton was arrested for child sex crimes on July 29, 2025. Photos: Brentwood PD
Led by Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department with assist from Brentwood, Orinda, Martinez PD’s; police seek additional victims
Was on felony probation with felony warrant for burglary, had 10 previous arrests dating to 2017
By Brentwood Police Department
As part of a week-long operation led by the Contra Costa County Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force hosted by the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office and supported by the Brentwood Police Department and 13 additional agencies significant progress was made in protecting children from online exploitation.
During the operation, Detectives from the Brentwood Police Department, Orinda Police Department, and Martinez Police Department arrested 29-year-old Ty Oliver Leighton (born 9/26/1995) on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, for arranging to meet a 13-year-old minor with the intent to engage in lewd and lascivious acts, among other related charges.
Leighton, who is currently on felony probation, also had a felony warrant for a commercial burglary that occurred in the city of Brentwood.
Aerial photo of Ty Leighton’s arrest.
We are releasing Leighton’s photo in an effort to identify any additional victims. If you have any information or believe you may have had contact with him, please contact the Brentwood Police Department at (925) 809-7911. Callers may remain anonymous.
We would also like to acknowledge the collaborative efforts of the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office and all the partnering agencies that contributed to this operation.
According to localcrimenews.com, Leighton has a history of arrests dating back to 2017 and is charged with attempting lewd acts with a child, arranging a meeting with a child for lewd purposes, attempting to contact a minor with intent to commit an offense and revocation of probation.
His previous arrests by multiple agencies including Napa PD, Napa County and San Joaquin Sheriff’s Departments, and Antioch PD for crimes including inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, receiving known stolen property over $200, addict in possession of firearm possession of ammunition, theft, receiving or concealing stolen property, vandalism and trespassing upon private property after notice by peace officer that property is not open to the particular person or failure to leave said property upon request.
According to the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department, the five-feet-nine-inch tall, 150-pound Leighton is Hispanic, being held in West County Detention Facility on no bail, and his next court appearance is scheduled for August 8, 2025, at 8:30 AM in the Martinez Superior Court Department 5.
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