Visit our Facebook photo album featuring some of the many veterans employed here at Placer County. Please join us in sharing your appreciation and gratitude for our veterans and those actively serving. Community members are welcome to share their photos, too. Thank you for your service! View photos

Our Veteran Services Office promotes the interest and welfare of veterans, their dependents and their survivors through counseling, education, benefits assistance and advocacy. We connect veterans to their benefits by assisting in their interactions with the Department of Veterans Affairs and hope to make the process of applying for benefits easier. Learn more

In honor of Veterans Day, the Placer County Human Resources Department recently hosted its annual Military Care Packages Donation Drive in partnership with Sacramento Blue Star Moms. This year, they deployed 12 donation stations at various county offices from South Placer to North Lake Tahoe, and Team Placer delivered! Thanks to employee kindness and generosity, several cars were needed to load up the treats for our troops. Here at Placer County we greatly appreciate our military service members and are thankful for their faithful service to our country. Check out our pictures from the donation drive!

Our Veteran Services Officer Derrick Oliveira this week gave a presentation to the Placer County Board of Supervisors at their meeting in Auburn. Derrick, along with Health and Human Services Assistant Director Greg Geisler, detailed the strong work provided by our Veteran Services Office, connecting veterans and their family members to the benefits they earned. Learn more about Derrick, here, and our Veteran Services Office at placer.ca.gov/veterans. Watch video

The Placer County Advisory Redistricting Commission will continue last week’s meeting at 6 p.m. tonight in North Auburn. The commission last week voted for a continuance of its meeting and moved forward with five proposed supervisorial redistricting map alternatives. Community members are invited to join the meeting in person or virtually via Zoom. Get meeting details

This month's in-depth COVID-19 update from Public Health's epidemiology team explores trends during the recent surge in COVID-19 cases peaking in August, stemming from the highly infectious Delta variant. It also details new changes to our COVID-19 data dashboard. Read the report

Time is running out! If you have not started receiving your child tax credits, you still can file a simplified return by Nov. 15 and get $250-300 a month per child. This is YOUR money for your kids—you won’t owe it back. Learn more

Help Placer advocate for improving internet service where you live or run a business in the county. By providing your information through a quick survey, data will help us identify communities that need improved broadband infrastructure. Take the survey

With the rainy season upon us, it is important to stay safe and be careful while driving in the rain. The Placer County Sheriff’s Office encourages residents to maintain a safe distance between cars, slow down for turns, avoid heavy braking and keep an eye out for large puddles. As a reminder, it is California law to have your headlights on if your windshield wipers are on. Stay safe and dry! View driving safety tips