“I may be the only person in California’s 175-year history to speak before every County Board of Supervisors. Informing people about the dangers of COVID-19 vaccines necessitated such effort,” writes Ronald Owens.

In November 2023, a coworker snapped a casual photograph of Ronald F. Owens Jr. sitting outside a California Department of Public Health building. At the time, Owens had no way of knowing that two years later, that quiet moment would mark the beginning of a 14,000-mile journey on his three-wheeled Can-Am Spyder motorcycle through California’s freeways, with a goal of appearing in front of all 58 County Boards of Supervisors. His public testimony has three goals:  warning Californians about COVID-19 vaccine injuries, demanding accountability from public officials and asking Supervisors to cease the use of mRNA COVID shots in their county.

Owens has given public testimony in 51 counties to Boards of Supervisors and to Public Health Department officials. Only 7 California counties remain. The public and Free Now Foundation cheer him on, so he can reach the goal of bringing his message to all 58 counties.

That journey— part whistleblower reckoning, part civic pilgrimage — is now documented in Owens’ Stop COVID-19 Vaccines in California: 2025 Year-End Progress Report, a 12-page record of emails, meetings, testimony, and public warnings delivered across the state.

A Whistleblower Inside Public Health

Ronald Owens served as a California civil servant for nearly three decades, including roles at the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, the Department of Motor Vehicles, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and most recently the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), where he worked as an Information Officer II from 2009 until his retirement at the end of 2023.

His break with CDPH began in April 2022, following a public statement by then-Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra acknowledging that COVID-19 vaccines were killing people of color at disproportionately higher rates. Disturbed by the implication– both medical and ethical, Owens raised internal alarms, citing Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data showing tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of serious injuries.

What followed, according to Owens’ documentation, was not investigation, but suppression.

Emails to CDPH leadership went unanswered or were dismissed. Follow-ups were met with warnings about “conflict with the Department’s stance.” Eventually, Owens was formally counseled and placed under probationary pressure, a move he describes as a pretext to silence dissent. Rather than comply, he chose early retirement, a decision he says was necessary to prevent the state from “muzzling truth from the public.”

Taking the Warning to the People

If state leadership would not act, Owens decided local governments must.

Beginning in July 2024, Owens launched a statewide campaign to notify every California County Board of Supervisors — 296 elected officials across 58 counties, urging them to halt the promotion, administration, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines under California Health & Safety Code §101025, which charges counties with protecting public health.

He did not stop at emails.

Owens mounted his Can-Am Spyder motorcycle and began attending Board of Supervisors meetings in person, riding county to county, often hundreds of miles at a time, to speak during public comment. By the end of 2025, he had appeared before 51 county boards, sometimes repeatedly, documenting each visit and the reactions he received.

The responses varied. Some supervisors privately thanked him. Others acknowledged vaccine injuries within their communities. A few admitted family members had been harmed. Several expressed interest in reviewing the data themselves. Most, however, did nothing.

Shasta County Listened

One county did more than listen.

In Shasta County, Owens’ warnings, delivered alongside Butte County resident Julie Threet, herself vaccine-injured, ultimately led to a public Board of Supervisors meeting in May 2025 where the county’s public health officer formally addressed COVID-19 vaccine risks before residents.

It was a rare moment of transparency, and one Owens describes as proof that citizen testimony still matters. Julie recalls:

“I joined Ronald F. Owens Jr. in October of 2024, traveling County to County, speaking with Boards of Supervisors, after making 40 trips on my own to Butte County — unfortunately all of them fell on deaf ears. I am grateful Ronald came along when he did. We have much better outcomes by joining forces.”

Yet even in Shasta County, the vaccinations continued.

“Informing residents is not the same as stopping the harm,” Owens notes in his report.

Beyond County Boards: Regulators, Media, and the Record

Owens’ efforts extended well beyond county governments. Over the past two years, he has submitted public comments and formal letters to:

• The California Board of Pharmacy (BoP)
• The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• And in the landmark fetal-demise case Spencer v. Community Medical Centers, involving allegations of concealed stillbirth spikes following COVID-19 vaccination

He also notified dozens of journalists, press associations, and media outlets, including national investigative reporters, challenging them to confront what he calls a “public health catastrophe hiding in plain sight.”

Meanwhile, Owens and Threet became regular voices across podcasts, radio shows, and independent media, documenting injuries, deaths, and institutional failures that mainstream coverage largely ignored.

Lessons From the Road

Traveling county to county, Owens collected stories few public health reports ever capture:

• Law enforcement officers suffering strokes and heart attacks in their 20s
• Nurses reporting unprecedented increases in fetal demise
• Families describing sudden deaths after vaccination
• Officials privately admitting they never took the shots themselves

Taken together, Owens argues, these accounts form a pattern — one systematically excluded from official narratives.

The Record Cannot Be Unwritten

Owens’ 2025 Year-End Progress Report is not a scientific study. It is something else entirely: a public record of warnings delivered, names notified, testimony given, and responsibility placed squarely where he believes it belongs— with those who had the power to act and chose not to.

“I may be the only person in California’s 175-year history to speak before every County Board of Supervisors,” Owens writes. “Informing people about the dangers of COVID-19 vaccines necessitated such effort.”

Whether history judges his warnings as prophetic or inconvenient, one fact is now undeniable: California was warned, repeatedly, publicly, and on the record.