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Cal Poly student pleads not guilty to alleged lewd meeting with minor

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Carly Heltzel
February 11, 2026

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, and I’m looking at photos of Cal Poly’s newest lambs. Onto the five Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and California stories you need to know for today.

1.

Ashvir Singh, the manufacturing engineering senior arrested during SLO County’s anti-human trafficking operation last month, pleaded not guilty to meeting or arranging a meeting with a minor for lewd purposes. He could face up to four years in prison and $5,000 fine for the felony charge. Authorities can now search his electronic devices for evidence of contact with a minor, and he will next appear in court on March 17.

2.

Cal Poly students are on the front lines of the fight against federal immigration enforcement, volunteering for the 805 Undocufund rapid response network. Several said that volunteering comes before everything, including dropping everything to respond to and film federal agents when they are detaining someone in SLO. Some use their coding expertise to help parse through data, and most of the volunteers are white. The network gained 700 volunteers across the Central Coast since Trump’s second presidency began.

3.

Over Super Bowl weekend, SLO police’s DUI checkpoint on March Street stopped 781 drivers, who all passed the sobriety tests. Three were given an additional field sobriety test and passed. Two were cited for driving without a license. Police chose the Marsh Street location due to its history of reported “impaired driving-related crashes.”

4.

UC San Diego police is one of many agencies that receives federal money to assist Border Patrol’s operations. This includes overtime for patrolling the university’s oceanography institution on the coast to look for fishing boats crossing the border. The chief said university police would be patrolling there anyway, they just get compensated from a different source. Imperial, San Diego and Riverside Counties are the only in California to accept these grants.

5.

ChatGPT has an Epstein problem: as in it struggles to answer any basic information about Jeffrey Epstein, the sex trafficking charges brought against him or his death. The AI chatbot refuses to answer the questions “What did Epstein do wrong?” and “Why was Epstein bad?” but will provide detailed answers when it’s reworded slightly (“allegations against Epstein?”). OpenAI said that it’s a glitch they are working to fix.