It's CAMP season in California once again.

As of this summer, CAMP, the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, has been underway for 25 years. They have charted the operation's annual impacts on charts on the state's CAMP website.

The Marijuana Policy Program argues that CAMP is not only ineffective but harmful to the community. They advocate the decriminalization of marijuana as a first step toward theregulation and control of its cultivation and use. You can read more about MPP here .

Police Accountability Clinic and Hotline (PACH)

719 Orchard Street, Santa Rosa, 95404

(707) 542-7224

(707) 542-PACH

For a short biographical portrait of Big Man Howard, read this .

Read more about cop watch in Sonoma County here .

Link to the ACLU of Northern California here .

Ben Saari

Supporters of Ben Saari have organized an online petition and letter-writing campaign on his behalf.

Ben Saari talks about his experience copwatching in Sonoma County in the audio clip below.

Fireworks stands like this are legal in Petaluma, Sonoma, Sebastopol, and some other California cities, where they are major money-makers for local non-profits. But firefighters say the potential wildfire risks outweigh the benefits to the community groups.

So far, the North Bay has mostly avoided the spate of wildfires that have flared across California. Santa Rosa Fire Chief Bruce Varner has a suggestion on how to keep that good fortune continuing.

You can see an interactive map of the current fires in California here .

Simply possessing fireworks such as these is illegal throughout California, as Santa Rosa Fire Chief Bruce Varner explains in this audio clip.