SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Most San Diego city and county offices, services and facilities will be closed Tuesday in observance of Farm Workers Day, although public safety and emergency animal control services will operate as normal.
The state of California recently officially renamed the March 31 holiday, previously named for Cesar Chavez.
Chávez allegedly sexually assaulted female followers as young as 12 in the 1970s, and raped United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, now 95, in 1966, according to an explosive New York Times investigation released earlier this month…