Apr 26 - Monthly Meeting — Sexual Assault Awareness Month with speaker Wendy Fry
Sunday April 26, 2026 — 4PM Point Loma Assembly, 3035 Talbot St
Emmy-winning journalist, Wendy Fry, will speak on her investigation of Rape Reports at local ICE Detention Facility and how they are conducted. Such investigations are normally under the purview of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office, but Sheriff Kelly Martinez has ceded that responsibility to the corporation running the facility, Core Civic Corporation through an MOU, citing insufficient staffing in her department to handle the workload.
Wendy Fry is an Emmy-winning multimedia investigative journalist.
She’s a board member of the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and has reported for the Watchdog team at the San Diego Union-Tribune from 2009 to 2012.
For television, she worked as an on-air reporter, investigative producer and assignment editor at NBC San Diego from 2013 to 2018 — where she helped launch an investigative team and Telemundo20, the Spanish language news station — before returning to print journalism, covering Mexico and Baja California for the Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2022.
Wendy won SPJ’s Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism in 2012 for uncovering corruption among construction contractors and elected officials at the Sweetwater Union High School District, resulting in indictments of about a dozen public officials.
She also won the Grand Golden Watchdog Award from the San Diego County Taxpayers Association in 2017, for her coverage of dangerous levels of lead in water in the San Diego Unified and San Ysidro school districts. Her short documentary “Missing in Mexico,” about family members searching for the remains of missing loved ones, won a regional Emmy.
A graduate of San Diego State, Wendy speaks English and Spanish.
Walk with Mandy
Come on out and join Team Mandy as we walk your neighborhoods and tell the public about her campaign!
Please contact Mandy’s Field Coordinator, Zach at zacharyfgomez@gmail.com and/or call at (619) 942-9512 to volunteer. This is a people driven campaign and we need you all to help Mandy win!
Mandy is our endorsed candidate for San Diego City Council, District 2.
Vice President position
Our Vice-President, Dave Engel, has had to step down in order as he pursues a seat in Congress. Dave is running in District 53.
The board thanks you for your service, Dave, and extends its heartfelt good wishes as you run for this office. Your voice was an asset to our club, and it would be an even bigger asset in the halls of Congress.
Nicole Larson will be beating the bushes jooking for Dave’s replacement. Nominations from the floor will be welcome.
ICE Out of San Diego — every Thursday, Federal Building
Immigration attorney Valerie Sigamani speaks out against ICE raids in San Diego. (Photo by Gabrielle Wallace)
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