Fairfield Councilwoman & Candidate for Mayor
Catherine "Cat" Moy
"Protecting Fairfield is my top priority. That’s why neighbors and community leaders support me, not insiders.
Cat Moy
I’ll tackle homelessness and crime with fresh policies and bold leadership!
Homeless Advocate
Cat Moy, never afraid to get out and talk to Fairfield residents one-on-one.
Cat's Message
Protecting Fairfield is my top priority. That’s why neighbors and community leaders support me, not insiders.
I’ll tackle homelessness and crime with fresh policies and bold leadership.
I demanded an audit on all funds spent on homelessness in Solano County. Taxpayers paid too much and homelessness increased. Mismanagement slows Fairfield’s progress. We must focus on mental illness, addiction, or chronic homelessness will increase.
I voted against defunding 14 police officers, warning crime would increase if approved. Officers were lost and crime increased. As mayor, I’ll hire more police for our neighborhoods, like when I pushed for Cordelia’s new police substation.
I voted against cutting Fairfield’s fire services, warning of a disaster. It came and homes were lost. I voted to add a fire station, re-establish fire prevention, and pay for a fire-training tower. Fairfield is now safer and better prepared.
The Grand Jury found poor countywide planning left us vulnerable during wildfires. I’ll lead Solano’s mayors and supervisors to build a comprehensive disaster and evacuation plan.
I’ll continue to protect Suisun Valley by creating a permanent committee of farmers and residents who work to promote the region and prevent unnecessary development from threatening our crown jewel.
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Catherine Moy
Fairfield City Councilwoman & Candidate for Mayor
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April 24, 2022
Families protest halfway house for sexual offenders in Fairfield
By Susan Hiland
FAIRFIELD — Parents and residents near B. Gale Wilson Elementary School and K.I. Jones Elementary School are outraged to find a halfway house for sexual offenders is right in the middle of the neighborhood where their children go to school.
About 25 parents came out Saturday to B. Gale Wilson to march to the halfway house, protesting all the way.
Richard Creighton and his wife Evelyn have two little boys and they were stunned to find out about the halfway house.
“We live right across the street from the house,” Richard Creighton said.
The house is located on the 2900 block of Waterman Boulevard, less than a mile from both schools.
The state’s Megan’s Law website shows four convicted sex offenders live at the home: a 42-year-old man convicted in 2002 of rape of a drugged or intoxicated victim and released from prison in 2018; a 29-year-old man convicted in 2013 of sodomy by force, violence or fear of a victim who was younger than 14 and released from prison in 2018; a 71-year-old man convicted in 1983 of rape in concert with force or violence and oral copulation in concert, and released from prison in 1989; and an 81-year-old man convicted in 1986 of committing lewd and lascivious acts with a minor younger than 14 and released from prison the same year.
The Megan’s Law entry for the 81-year-old man also lists an allegation of continuous sexual abuse of a child but does not include conviction or release dates.
Creighton said he “had no idea” about the halfway house until he saw the information on social media from City Councilwoman Catherine Moy.
Creighton has since started a website called Stop ELDA House, which includes information that he and others have gathered on the situation.
ELDA House is an organization that provides services that include reentry housing and substance use services.
The company has taken down its website but archived pages are available to view with a lot of searching. Those archives pages show ELDA House also partners with additional community reentry partners that may assist with employment and vocational needs.
Creighton said his research shows a resident of the Bay Area purchased the house on Waterman Boulevard on Oct. 29, 2021. The owner used funding provided by the state to turn this home into a transitional house for sex offenders, including pedophiles, without notifying the county, the city or the local residents, Creighton said.
Creighton said the home has six bedrooms and can therefore accommodate six parolees. Online records from the Solano County Assessor’s Office list the house as having four bedrooms. A listing of real estate transactions shows the 4,299-square-foot home, built in 2008, has four bedrooms and sold that day for $899,000.
Similar facilities are run in Winters, Antioch and Pittsburg
An individual can purchase a house and provide a “halfway house” for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation under the 2015 Reentry Program. These programs are intended to assist prisoners in developing solid relapse prevention plans, along with a plan for reentry and various skills training from social to work assistance.
Evelyn Creighton said the police have been called to the house several times.
“The entire Fairfield government should be ashamed that they let this happen, that they allowed the permits to go through,” said neighbor Walt Phillip, who also has two children living near the house.
“This is stressful always walking around on guard,” he said.
Moy came out with the protestors. She said the state can allow these halfway houses for parolees to be located anywhere.
“This one is in a bad spot because not only is it in between two elementary schools but there is also a day care center within a few blocks of the house,” Moy said.
Moy said the City Council took a look at the business application that was filed and it said the building was going to be used for a day care/adult care center.
“This is not really adult care,” she said. “We are going to be changing the business license application to be very specific about what business is coming in.”
Because this is a state program for parolees, the owner did not have to get permission to have a halfway house for sex offender parolees, Moy said. The parolees do have GPS monitors on their ankles and are limited to attending work and shopping at the nearest stores, she said.
“The city attorney is looking into what legal avenues we can take,” Moy said. “This is really new and so it will take time to look into.”
In the meantime, Moy has contacted state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, requesting a town hall meeting, which she said he is happy to do. She said they are working to fix a date.
The city plans to have some answers to this situation sometime in May but a date is not set because the legal team needs to do the research, Moy said.
“We may do it during a regular meeting but I think there is going to be too much to cover in a regular meeting and we will do it in a town hall meeting, but that is not for sure yet,” Moy said.
Creighton has placed cameras on his front porch to face the street where children walk by and has a live YouTube feed so parents can watch the children coming and going to school.
Moy said the Police Department is aware of the situation and has added patrol cars during the opening of school and ending of school days.
“They can’t stay all day but they are also adding patrol driving by during the day,” Moy said.
One thing was clear Saturday: People support parolees getting a second chance but putting sexual offenders near schools is not the way to do it, Moy said.
For more information on this issue, gto https://stopeldahouse.org.
Residents in the neighborhood came out to B. Gale Wilson School and marched to the 2900 block of Waterman Boulevard to protest against a halfway house, located near two schools, where parolees who are sexual offenders live, Saturday, April 23, 2022.
March 16, 2022
Moy to run for Fairfield mayor
FAIRFIELD — Councilwoman Catherine Moy, who has been weighing the possibility of running for county supervisor, has decided to run for mayor instead.
“After months of in-depth talks with my family and constituents, I have decided to focus solely on the city of Fairfield, my hometown. I am running to be the next mayor of Fairfield,” Moy said in a written statement released Tuesday.
“Becoming a county supervisor would help my family financially, but I got into this line of work to help people, not make money. So that’s what I’m going to continue to do, serve the people of Fairfield.”
Moy was appointed to the council in 2008 and elected to a full term in 2009. Harry Price, if he runs, would be seeking a fifth term as mayor, having served two terms as a councilman prior to that.
“I joined the City Council in 2008 when our town was in a crisis over the deaths of two councilmen. I stepped up to help. We now have another crisis on the West Coast: homelessness,” Moy said in a statement.
And Moy, who has never been shy in her comments, strongly suggested the current mayor, Price, treats the position as a “ceremonial” job rather than what Moy said the public demands, a “full-time” city leader with a “bold agenda.”
Councilwoman Catherine Moy
August 27, 2018
Fairfield students return to class after deadly shooting
Teen killed off campus before Armijo HS football game
FAIRFIELD, Calif. (KCRA) —
Grief counselors were called into three Solano County high schools Monday after a deadly off-campus shooting left a 16-year-old dead and placed a football game on lockdown.
Ahmar Willis, 16, was killed and an 18-year-old male was sent to the hospital in critical condition following a shooting Friday evening off Bell Avenue and Washington Street.
Fairfield City Councilmember Catherine Perez Moy started a GoFundMe to raise back the concession money lost from the football game that goes to help fund school sports.
She estimated around $1,000 was lost. As of Monday, she’s received around $3,500 in donations. She is also scheduling a city meeting to see if security measures can be improved.
“It’s a lot bigger than when I was born and grew up here. We have big city issues,” Perez Moy said. “We will sit down and make sure that the training was flawless the other night, as much as it could be. It looks like it was. And then also to follow up on these preventative measures.”
On the one hand, the regular drills and training paid off: the response Friday was swift and safety procedures fell in place. On the other, students also feel uncomfortable with the reality their safety can be threatened.
June 27, 2018
Fairfield council plans to push forward with RFP process for homeless center
By Bill Hicks
FAIRFIELD — The City Council moved forward Tuesday with the request-for-proposal process to seek a new operator for the Bridge to Life homeless center.
The current operators, Mission Solano, announced a plan to file for bankruptcy, leaving the future of the center in doubt. Solano County and Fairfield contributed matching funds totaling $80,000 to sustain the facility until a permanent replacement operator can be put in place via the RFP process.
Catherine Moy, speaking via phone, was the only council member who added any additional substance to the criteria the council put forward from the previous week.
“I want to see some sort of protections put into place to protect children and their parents,” Moy said. “All homeless are vulnerable, but children are the most vulnerable.”
Catherine Moy