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Bear Valley Springs Knows the True Horrors of Kevin P. Rice
I haven’t written about the self-proclaimed, hard right extremist and self-proclaimed “activist” Kevin P. Rice lately. Honestly, that’s a good thing. When he left San Luis Obispo County in 2020, I thought: good riddance! Like many, I grew tired of his patently unhinged robocalls, litigious harassment of perceived political adversaries, and incessantly juvenile social media trolling. His incessant need of being the center of attention was grating.
Then seemingly out of the blue, I heard from several residents from the small community of Bear Valley Springs, California about Rice. They reached out to me after reading my 2019 book Defamers: How Fake News Terrorized a Community & Those Who Dared to Fight It, where I catalogued Rice’s antics in San Luis Obispo County. Before they asked me about him specifically and my experiences with him, several of them posed the same question: Can a restraining order be filed against Kevin P. Rice?
The small guarded-gate community is located in Kern County, specifically the Tehachapi Mountains. Bear Valley Springs is approximately 183 miles east of San Luis Obispo County. It’s also the community where Rice currently resides.
On January 23 this year, Rice reportedly walked into the Bear Valley Community Services District (“BVCSD”) office and threatened several…
