Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office release:

On July 31, 2025, at approximately 6:00 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO)  deputies conducted a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 101 near the Indianola Cutoff for a vehicle  code violation. This traffic stop led to the arrest of two individuals and the seizure of a  substantial quantity of suspected fentanyl and methamphetamine, underscoring HCSO’s  commitment to combating the opioid crisis in Humboldt County. 

Deputies identified the driver as Aaron Gore Stott, 46, of McKinleyville, a known suspect in  multiple recent narcotics investigations. These investigations include two separate narcotics related warrants served at his residence leading to the arrest of multiple narcotics offenders. 

The passenger was identified as Andreas Sala McDaniel, 65, of Eureka. During the stop, deputies  observed a clear plastic baggie containing suspected fentanyl on Stott’s person, prompting his  immediate detention. 

An HCSO K9 handler and his partner, Yahtzee, were on scene shortly after the traffic stop was  initiated. K9 Yahtzee was deployed and alerted to the presence of narcotics within the vehicle,  leading to a search that uncovered approximately 76 grams of suspected methamphetamine and  fentanyl, along with a digital scale, drug paraphernalia, and a stun gun.  

Stott and McDaniel were arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on  multiple charges, including: 

• Health and Safety Code § 11352(a): Transportation or sale of controlled substances
• Health and Safety Code § 11378: Possession for sale of methamphetamine
• Health and Safety Code § 11379(a): Transportation for sale of controlled substances
• Health and Safety Code § 11395: Unlawful sale or furnishing of controlled substances
• Penal Code § 22610: Unlawful possession of a stun gun by a felon or addict
• Penal Code § 12022.1: Felony committed while released on bail or own recognizance 

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office remains steadfast in its efforts to disrupt the distribution of  illicit narcotics, particularly fentanyl, which poses a severe threat to public safety. HCSO notes  that under current California law, possession of fentanyl is often classified as a “non-violent”  offense, which can result in repeat offenders being released from jail by Superior Court Judges to  appear in court at a future date and time. The Sheriff’s Office encourages community members to  stay informed about the dangers of fentanyl and to support efforts to strengthen public safety  measures.

Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the  Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at  (707) 268-2539.

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PREVIOUSLY: Motorcycle Accident on Highway 36 Results in Rider Fatality 

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David Lindberg, a local geologist and longtime active member of local government and community organizations, has been identified as the victim in yesterday’s fatal motorcycle collision with a deer on Hwy. 36.

Lindberg was in the midst of serving a four-year term as the Division 3 representative on the board of directors for the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District. 

Here’s the press release from the California Highway Patrol:

Trinity County, California – On Thursday, July 31, 2025, at approximately 1417 hours [2:17 p.m.], the Redding Communications Center received reports of a solo motorcycle crash on State Route 36 near mile post marker 33.8.

Officers from the CHP, Trinity River Area Office, Trinity County Sheriff’s Office, US Forest Service, Cal-Fire, and Cal-Trans personnel responded to the scene.

Emergency personnel located a 2019 Honda Super Cub C125, on its side, on the north dirt/gravel shoulder of State Route 36. The motorcycle appeared to have collided with a deer, causing the rider to be ejected onto the dirt/gravel shoulder. The rider was later identified as David Lindberg, born in 1954. The rider was wearing a DOT approved motorcycle helmet. DUI or drugs are not considered to be a factor in this traffic crash.

Trinity County Sheriff’s Office is handling the coroner’s investigation. The circumstances of this incident are currently under investigation by the California Highway Patrol, Trinity River Area. Anyone with information pertaining to the incident is asked to contact the Trinity River CHP Office at (530)623-3832.

The California Highway Patrol would like to thank Cal-Fire, Cal-Trans, US-Forest Service, Trinity County Sheriff’s Office, and Trinity Life Support Ambulance for their assistance with this incident.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing a special election in the first week of November to ask California voters to sign off on revised U.S. House districts that could boost Democratic prospects in the 2026 midterms.

Though no new seats have been proposed yet, Newsom said Thursday that he is working with the Legislature and congressional representatives on a plan that would temporarily set aside California’s independent redistricting commission and bring an alternative map directly to the public for approval.

“We will go to the people of this state in a transparent way and ask them to consider the new circumstances, to consider these new realities,” Newsom told reporters during a visit to a Sacramento County airfield, where he showed off new state firefighting equipment.

“This is not going to be done in a back room. This is not going to be done by members of some private group or body,” he added. “It’s going to be given to the voters for their consideration in a very transparent way so they know exactly what they’re doing and they can go back in 2030 to original form with our independent redistricting intact.”

It was the most detail the governor has publicly provided so far about how he plans to respond to a burgeoning partisan redistricting war set off by President Donald Trump in recent months.

States last redrew their congressional seats after the 2020 census, to ensure the districts are roughly equal in population, and were not expected to revisit the process for another decade.

But Republican leaders are under growing pressure from Trump to help shore up a narrow GOP majority in Congress ahead of a potentially challenging midterm election. Texas lawmakers are currently rushing to adopt a new congressional map eliminating five Democratic seats, which has sparked similar efforts in other Republican-controlled states and hand-wringing from Democrats about how to counteract it.

Newsom: California must step in

Newsom asserted again Thursday that California must pause independent redistricting, which he has previously supported, to fight a president that “wants to rig the game” against Democrats, who could potentially block Trump’s agenda if they win control of the House in 2026.

“De facto the Trump presidency ends in November of next year if the American people are given a fair chance and a voice and a choice,” Newsom said.

While most other states give redistricting authority to their legislatures, California uses a bipartisan citizen commission created by voters through a ballot measure. So to usurp the commission and implement more Democratic-leaning districts, Newsom must call a statewide special election and go back to the voters.

Democrats currently hold 43 of the state’s 52 House seats, including several competitive districts that flipped from Republican control last November.

The governor said he wants to hold the election on the first Tuesday in November because many communities already have local elections scheduled then. That could make it easier to mount on short notice and help reduce an estimated price tag of more than $200 million — though Newsom also said “there’s too much at stake” to worry about the cost.

“How much did it cost to have the theatrics with the National Guard and Trump?” he said, referring to the president’s recent deployment of thousands of troops in Los Angeles to quell immigration-related protests. “How many hundreds of millions of dollars was wasted?”

The November target gives California an extremely tight window to act. State law requires county elections offices to send a mail ballot to every registered voter a month before election day; military and overseas voter ballots and voter information guides go out 15 days before that. The material would need to be ready by late September to meet those deadlines.

Meanwhile, the Legislature is on summer recess until Aug. 18. The Democratic caucuses of the state Senate and Assembly are expected to begin private discussions next week about advancing a ballot measure, which requires a two-thirds majority in both houses, so that they could potentially pass it before the end of August.

Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire, a Healdsburg Democrat, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a Salinas Democrat, said the Assembly will review its options to counteract Trump’s redistricting scheme and “ensure our government remains fair, transparent and representative of the people.”

“This move is an attempt to silence voters who reject MAGA extremism — including here in California, where the people have spoken loud and clear in two national elections,” Rivas said in a statement.

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In its latest move against the wind industry, the Trump-led Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced Wednesday that it will rescind over 3.5 million acres of designated Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) on the outer continental shelf, halting plans for new offshore wind energy projects along the coast.

The directive does not appear to affect lease areas that have already been awarded, including those within the Humboldt WEA, which spans more than 200 square miles roughly 20 miles west of Eureka. Those lease areas sold for over $331.5 million in December 2022 during the first-ever offshore wind lease sale on the West Coast. 

“While we are not the final word, this decision does not appear to affect existing lease areas, but rather areas identified as potential future lease sites,” Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District Executive Director Chris Mikkelson told the Outpost.

“By rescinding WEAs, BOEM is ending the federal practice of designating large areas of the [outer continental shelf] for speculative wind development, and is de-designating over 3.5 million acres of unleased federal waters previously targeted for offshore wind development across the Gulf of America, Gulf of Maine, the New York Bight, California, Oregon, and the Central Atlantic,” the press release states.

The announcement comes in response to an order issued earlier this week by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum calling for the end of “any preferential treatment toward wind and solar facilities … in any Department regulations, guidance, policies, or practices.” Under the order, new wind and solar energy projects will be subject to “elevated review” and “enhanced oversight” by the federal government.

The order is yet another effort by the Trump administration to roll back Biden-era policies — or, as stated in the order, “an ideological agenda … tailored towards climate extremism” — that prioritized renewable energy over fossil fuel projects. 

BOEM’s announcement comes just days after President Donald Trump repeatedly attacked wind power during a press conference at his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland. “We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States,” he said. “They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery.”

On his first day in office, Trump fulfilled a long-held promise to block offshore wind development, issuing a sweeping Executive Order to halt leasing and permitting for new wind energy projects planned for the outer continental shelf, sparking widespread concern over the future of offshore wind in the United States.

Asked whether the announcement includes the Humboldt WEA, BOEM spokesperson Brian Walch told the Outpost: “There are no remaining unleased WEAs offshore California.”

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BOEM press release:

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced it is rescinding all designated Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). This action is being taken in accordance with Secretary’s Order (SO) 3437 - Ending Preferential Treatment for Unreliable, Foreign Controlled Energy Sources in Department Decision-Making – and the Presidential Memorandum of January 20, 2025 – Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the OCS from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects. 

WEAs were originally established to identify offshore locations deemed most suitable for wind energy development.

By rescinding WEAs, BOEM is ending the federal practice of designating large areas of the OCS for speculative wind development, and is de-designating over 3.5 million acres of unleased federal waters previously targeted for offshore wind development across the Gulf of America, Gulf of Maine, the New York Bight, California, Oregon, and the Central Atlantic. 

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Note: This post has been updated to include a brief statement from BOEM.

They can’t call this year’s event the “10th Annual Humboldt Bay Marathon” because they had to take a year off for COVID, but the first running of the Humboldt Bay Marathon was indeed 10 years ago and much has changed. Empires have risen. They have crumbled. Billions have been born; probably fewer than that have died. But by far the most substantial change between 2015 and now was the construction of the Humboldt Bay Trail, which promises to change everything. Forever. At least for the race. 

On August 10, around 90 runners will tackle the marathon, which for the first time ever will utilize the barely month-old Bay Trail from Madaket Plaza up to Arcata, where runners will circle Klopp Lake and then make the trip back down. (Another 150 runners will run the half-marathon and the 5K.) In past editions, runners had to do two out-and-backs along the Waterfront Trail, and had to share limited trail space with the half-marathoners. 

“Some people were like, ‘I love that,’” said race director Terri Vroman Little in an interview with the Outpost. “Most people were like, ‘I don’t want to go back over.’ I wouldn’t want to either.”

It’s a development that Vroman Little, 62, has been looking forward to for years, even sneaking onto the trail to do some running before its official completion. Earlier editions of the race necessitated heavy doses of traffic control, especially during the first edition, which blocked a lane on Highway 255. That race racked up costs of around $20,000 and came nowhere close to breaking even. The later use of the Bayfront Trail and the double out-and-backs meant that the race saw little of the eponymous bay; now, almost all of the marathon’s 26.2 miles will have a view. 

“We’re called ‘Humboldt Bay Marathon,’ so the more access runners have to running alongside the bay just make it more ‘Humboldt Bay Marathon-ey,’” Vroman Little said. “And that new section behind the Brainard old mill site has been off-limits for decades. Now, being able to not just get back there myself, but being able to send runners from all over the place out there to see it — like, you can have eyes on Humboldt State, if you know where to look.”

The view of the university has meaning for Vroman Little beyond a simple, pretty vista. Her friend Suzanne Seemann lectured for HSU’s geography department before she was killed in an intentional hit-and-run while running with Vroman Little and friend Jessica Hunt in 2012. The crash mangled Vroman Little, but she managed to recover enough to run the Famous Idaho Potato Marathon in 2018. Her injuries made it a “grim shit-show,” but regardless, she finished. She has no desire to run another one.

Seemann’s legacy is imbued into the marathon’s DNA. Her initials, SWS, have been hidden in every hand-drawn Humboldt Bay Marathon poster made for the event, and the race used to pass by where she died, a gesture Vroman Little said “reclaimed” the site. 

Her death brought Vroman Little and Seemann’s husband Hank Seemann closer together. Hank Seemann, the current deputy director of Humboldt County’s environmental services division, had been an instrumental force behind the development of the Bay Trail.

“I hardly knew him,” Vroman Little said. “Like, he was just the guy who held the kids in the window to wave goodbye to Suzie, and then we would go for runs and come back. I didn’t really know him until after she died. So, in part, his work on the Bay Trail and the McKay Community Forest was like — he wants that for the community, and it was just a quiet, heartfelt thing to honor runners and honor Suzie.”

Little hopes that every runner who competes enjoys the hell out of it.

“Most people have trained for months to run this,” Vroman Little said. “This is their day…I just want them to feel like they won, even if it wasn’t the perfect race.”

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• Humboldt’s Civil Grand Jury Issues Reports on the County’s Unfunded Pension Liabilities, Animal Rescue Network, Inmate Voting Rights and More

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Is Humboldt County’s criminal justice system inherently unfair to defendants? The latest report from the county’s Civil Grand Jury concludes that it most certainly is. 

Titled “Scales of Justice Out of Balance?” and featuring Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s famous quote about how best to judge a society as an epigraph, the 34-page report finds that while attorneys staff in the Humboldt County Public Defender’s Office excel in their mission to represent indigent clients, they are egregiously overworked and underpaid compared to their counterparts in the District Attorney’s Office — plus they’re forced to work in an “inadequately maintained, infested, sometimes leaking, dilapidated” old building (pictured above).

“Staff experience burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and even physical attacks, with limited resources provided to address these issues,” the report says, “Despite these challenges, the Public Defender’s Office successfully and competently represents their clients, with few client complaints.”

Regarding the workload, the report notes:

Each attorney in the Public Defender and Conflict Counsel’s Office is doing the job of at least 2.5 attorneys based on caseload recommendations from the Office of the State Public Defender. This is without taking into account the complexity of the cases, and does not allow for even a single hour of sick leave, vacation, training or administrative tasks.

(The Conflict Counsel’s Office is part of the PD’s office and also represents indigent clients, though it includes private attorneys.  Its attorneys are typically appointed when there’s a conflict of interest in the PD’s Office.)

Meanwhile, the DA’s Office receives about 40 percent more funding than the Public Defender’s Office despite having similar caseloads. Investigators and support staff in the PD’s Office staff make significantly less than their counterparts in the DA’s Office. Humboldt’s PD attorneys also make less than those in other California counties, which makes it tough to recruit and retain new ones. 

“The PD has lost experienced and effective attorneys to alcoholism and burnout,” the report says. “One former Deputy Public Defender reported it took two years after leaving the office to recover from the stress and trauma and reach the point of being able to work again.”

As a reminder, Humboldt County’s Civil Grand Jury is an independent body of 19 citizen volunteers tasked with investigating the operations of local government agencies to ensure accountability, efficiency and transparency. For this report, the group interviewed county employees, made site visits, attended court proceedings and reviewed relevant records, laws and policies.

Regarding that ugly box of rotting shingles on Fourth Street, the Civil Grand Jury notes that the county has long planned to consolidate multiple county services into one comprehensive campus, which may explain the reluctance to fix up the PD’s existing office, but those consolidation plans have been repeatedly delayed, most recently because of the county’s budget woes.

As for the pay and resource disparity between the DA and PD offices, the report notes that the problem is not unique to Humboldt. While the American Bar Association says that, as a matter of principle, there should be parity between defense counsel and the prosecution, in reality that’s just not the case.

Consider the chart below, which shows the ratio of District Attorney Office funding versus indigent defense funding for the 32 California counties that reported data for both public defender and district attorney offices. 

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The DA’s Office has other built-in advantages:

Much of what the DA needs to prosecute a case is given to them by law enforcement, including the law enforcement report, witnesses’, victims’ and defendants’ statements and contact information, electronic and physical evidence, and medical and laboratory reports. The PD must put together the defense by itself. The PD conducts its own investigations, and must identify, find and interview all defense witnesses.

The report invokes the Sixth Amendment and says it “seems difficult to justify” the big funding gap between the DA and PD offices, and it concludes that the scales of justice are most certainly out of whack.

Regarding the PD Office’s employees, the report says, “These defenders of justice are disadvantaged, deluged and devalued. They all work stressful jobs, in a demoralizing, decrepit environment, with too few staff, not enough money, little opportunity for advancement, and no hope of relief.

“Is there equity in our local judicial system? There is not,” the report continues. “The one and only advantage the Public Defender’s Office has is its quality, highly skilled, and dedicated staff. Pitted against a Goliath, these Davids are winning battles.”

As with all reports from the Civil Grand Jury, this one concludes with a list of findings followed by a list of recommendations. There are 20 of the latter in this instance. They include relocating the office into better facilities within a year; raise deputy PD wages to a level of parity with deputy DAs; provide more investigatory resources to the office; fund a full-time social worker for the office; allow the employees to bring emotional support dogs to work; and provide funding to hire more support staff.

You can download the full report by clicking here. 

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[CORRECTION: This story initially mischaracterized aspects of the Conflict Counsel’s Office and stated that the pay discrepancy between the DA and PD offices included attorneys. In fact, DA and PD attorneys are members of the same bargaining unit and thus have equal pay. The Outpost regrets the errors.]

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Sierra Freeman has a rare genetic disorder that makes her prone to aneurysms and has sent her to the hospital repeatedly.

In July 2022, the Stockton resident had surgeries to repair an aortic tear and a ruptured blood vessel in her brain and spent two months at Stanford Medical Center, which hosts one of the leading programs in connective tissue disorders like the one Freeman has.

Over the next 18 months, she racked up more than $4 million in medical bills, most of which was paid through her employee health insurance. Her share was $14,343, which she says she’d still be paying if not for Stanford’s financial assistance program.

But Stanford, like many hospitals, didn’t make it easy for her. It took months of research and persistence on her part before the hospital waived $13,971.

“I feel like I now have the knowledge and power to apply for this the next time it happens. But I wish more people knew about it,” Freeman said.

A bill moving through the California Legislature would make the process of qualifying for hospital financial assistance easier for some patients. Assembly Bill 1312 would require hospitals to check whether patients are eligible for charity care or discounted payments before sending them a bill.

Specifically, the proposal would require hospitals to presume people enrolled in means-tested programs, such as food stamps and cash assistance, are eligible for financial aid without having to apply. People who are experiencing homelessness or who qualified for assistance from the same hospital in the previous six months would be automatically eligible.

It would also require hospitals to screen patients for eligibility if they are uninsured, enrolled in Medi-Cal with a share of cost or in a Covered California health plan before they are charged.

“We think, especially in light of the cuts that are happening at the federal level, that more and more this is going to be something that is needed in our community and throughout the state,” Sen. Pilar Schiavo, a Santa Clarita Democrat and author of the bill, said during the most recent meeting of the Senate Health Committee. “This is a … way to ensure that people know upfront that these programs are available to them to prevent the kind of crushing medical debt that unfortunately can really ruin families and their financial situations.”

Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo addresses lawmakers during the floor session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on May 16, 2024. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters

Sen. Caroline Menjivar, chair of the Senate Health Committee, promised to continue discussions with Schiavo to add screening criteria for moderate-income patients with employer-sponsored insurance. The legislation has to pass the Senate by Sept. 12.

The bill recently went through a round of amendments after negotiations with the hospital lobby. Among the changes is a two-year implementation delay so hospitals can acquire the software necessary to screen patients. If the bill makes it out of the Legislature and is signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the earliest it could be enacted is July 2027. The California Hospital Association continues to oppose the bill as it awaits more possible amendments.

Applying for financial assistance

Under California law, hospitals are required to make financial assistance programs, also known as charity care, available to patients who earn up to 400% of the federal poverty level — $62,600 for a single person or $128,600 for a family of four — but also to patients whose medical expenses over the last year have exceeded 10% of their income.

Jan Emerson-Shea, a spokesperson for the California Hospital Association, said some hospitals go beyond that income threshold. Hospitals already promote their financial assistance programs through signs around the hospital, online and on medical bills sent to patients, Emerson-Shea said.

Still, many patients do not know about these programs, surveys and research have shown. A 2023 national survey by Dollar For, a nonprofit organization that helps people apply for financial assistance, found roughly half the patients who are potentially eligible for financial assistance do not apply.

Freeman said she doesn’t recall anyone at Stanford Medical Center telling her to apply for charity care, but she did find the application online.

The first time she applied on her own she was denied, she said. She applied a second time, this time with the help from Dollar For. In April 2024 Freeman received a letter from Stanford letting her know that her balance was being waived. She was also able to get back the money she’d already paid.

But the application process was not intuitive, she said. It took help from experts and emails back and forth with the hospital billing department. Yet, given her condition, it’s a process she’s likely to have to do again.

“The tricky thing is I’m supposed to be very low stress, right? Because I have a heart condition, and the disorder is made worse if your blood pressure is high, if you’re getting stressed,” Freeman said. “Like, I should be very calm, but I’m always thinking about the bills.”

The burden of medical debt

A handful of other states, including Maryland, Illinois and Oregon, have financial assistance screening requirements similar to what California is attempting.

A recent report from Oregon’s health agency showed that in the first five months its state law was in effect, hospitals reported challenges — primarily, with the software from third-party vendors that hospitals purchased to help check people’s income against publicly available financial data sources. Oregon health officials estimated in January it would take up to nine months before the program ran smoothly.

Los Angeles County is working with the Hospital Association of Southern California to develop a presumptive eligibility tool that would be available to local hospitals, saving them the need to go to third-party vendors.

“There’s nothing else like it in the country, and it really solves the problem of, OK, we know this is a good thing to do, but how do we make sure every hospital can do it?” said Dr. Naman Shah, with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

Automatic qualification for financial assistance is critical for preventing medical debt, Shah said.

About 4 in 10 Californians, or an estimated 15 million people, carry medical debt, according to the California Health Care Foundation. That includes hospital bills, but also debt owed to doctors and dental offices. Research has shown that even small amounts of debt can disrupt people’s lives and the fear of it often keeps them from seeking timely care.

Many patients who are unaware of financial assistance programs resort to GoFundMe accounts, borrow money from family or friends, or charge their medical bills onto a credit card, said Selene Betancourt, a senior policy manager at the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, one of the bill sponsors.

“And that makes it even harder to relieve because now it’s owned by a credit card company, a bank, and not by the hospitals,” Betancourt said.

Given the pervasive burden of medical debt and the lack of federal action, states and local governments have taken it upon themselves to provide at least some relief.

Last year, for example, the California Legislature passed a law to prevent medical debt from showing up on credit reports. The Biden administration announced a similar effort nationwide last summer, but recently, a judge, with support from the Trump administration, blocked the rule from taking effect.

At a more local level, Los Angeles County earlier this year rolled out a medical debt relief program, eliminating debt for approximately 134,000 residents so far, according to county health officials.

To do this, Los Angeles County partnered with the national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt to purchase debt in bulk at a discounted rate from health systems and collection agencies. The nonprofit runs similar projects in other states.

Debt relief efforts don’t fundamentally solve the issue of medical debt, “But when people are bleeding, they need a band aid,” said Allison Sesso, CEO of Undue Medical Debt. “There could be future debts for these individuals, but let’s remove the ones that are in front of them, so that the hill isn’t that much higher for them to climb.”

Sesso’s organization last month also announced that a recent donation allowed the group to pay off medical bills for an additional 47,000 Californians, largely in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Those people should have started to receive notifications at the end of June, according to the nonprofit.

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Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. Visit www.chcf.org to learn more.