“[The Dana Point Headlands real estate development] project provides more coastal and direct beach access than any other project in the history of Orange County.”
–Real estate developer Sanford Edward in a 2003 successful attempt to convince a wary public to support his exclusive gated community housing and commercial project on the last major undeveloped beachfront property in OC. On Feb. 15, Los Angeles Times reporter Tony Barboza wrote that with the project completed public beach access in the area is now restricted to 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and that Edward refused to be interviewed about the limitations. In fact, Barboza says Edward hung up on him. The Pacific Ocean at the Headlands is popular with surfers–some of whom would probably like to surf before 8 a.m. and after 5 p.m.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.