https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/30/huntington-beach-officials-planning-legal-challenge-to-gov-newsoms-oc-beaches-closure/ > Huntington Beach officials voted to challenge Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order to close all Orange County beaches, a decision he announced earlier Thursday in response to beach crowds during a heat wave last weekend. > “Gov. Newsom’s mandate to close all beaches in Orange County today was a jarring decision that significantly impacts us here in Huntington Beach,” Mayor Lyn Semeta said in a news release. “Given that Orange County has among the lowest per-capita COVID-19 death rates in California, the action by the state prioritizes politics over data, in direct contradiction of the governor’s stated goal to allow science and facts to guide our response to this horrible global pandemic.”