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She was 96.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s family said in a statement through her foundation that she died Wednesday at home.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She kept a busy schedule well into her 90s, marching in protests and speaking in cities across the country about race, poverty, LGBTQ+ and women’s rights on behalf of her Bakersfield, California-based foundation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s resolve cemented her place in history as one of the nation’s most influential labor leaders, civil rights icons and feminist activists. Her three-word Spanish-language slogan — which translates to “Yes, it can be done” — was grounded in the belief that people could effect change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta told KQED’s \u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em> in 2025, when the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement in California — hitting agricultural communities like Bakersfield first, she noted — that farm workers still had “an awful lot of pride” for the work they do. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12044395\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-1536x1070.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Portrait of labor activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers group, with a union flag that reads “Viva La Causa,” ca.1970s. 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When then-President Barack Obama presented the award in 2012, he praised Huerta as a tenacious leader and joked that he had stolen her slogan for his 2008 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, Huerta sent shockwaves through the Latino community when she revealed that she was sexually abused in the 1960s by the farmworker movement’s co-founder, César Chavez, leading to the birth of two children, a secret she kept for 60 years and long after he died.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the early 1970s on, Huerta’s life partner was Richard Chavez, César’s brother, and together they had four kids. She also had seven children from two earlier marriages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta said she had kept silent for so long because she feared that coming forward would compromise her life’s work and unravel all the progress made for workers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked during a 2026 interview with the news organization Latino USA about keeping the secret, Huerta said: “It was my personal pain, it was my personal problem and, you know, I think it was worth it because it was my cross to bear. I’ll say it that way.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Homegrown activism\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was born Dolores Clara Fernandez in 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Her father was a miner and union activist who went on to win a seat in the state Legislature. 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She was 96.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s family said in a statement through her foundation that she died Wednesday at home.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She kept a busy schedule well into her 90s, marching in protests and speaking in cities across the country about race, poverty, LGBTQ+ and women’s rights on behalf of her Bakersfield, California-based foundation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s resolve cemented her place in history as one of the nation’s most influential labor leaders, civil rights icons and feminist activists. Her three-word Spanish-language slogan — which translates to “Yes, it can be done” — was grounded in the belief that people could effect change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta told KQED’s \u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em> in 2025, when the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement in California — hitting agricultural communities like Bakersfield first, she noted — that farm workers still had “an awful lot of pride” for the work they do. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12044395\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-1536x1070.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Portrait of labor activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers group, with a union flag that reads “Viva La Causa,” ca.1970s. 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Her parents divorced when she was 3, and her mother took her and her brothers to California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immersed in a melting pot of Mexican, Filipino, African American, Japanese and Chinese working families, Huerta learned from her mother — who owned a restaurant and hotel — about independence, compassion and activism.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was a young, energetic elementary school teacher in the farm-rich San Joaquin Valley when she decided to answer another calling after growing frustrated by her students’ poor living conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I couldn’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes,” she said in a 2017 PBS Independent Lens documentary on her life. “I thought I could do more by organizing farmworkers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s early work with a civil rights group in Stockton resulted in her meeting Chavez. 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Robert Kennedy of Massachusetts during his visit to Delano in 1968 and became a volunteer on his presidential campaign, registering Mexican Americans in California to vote. Huerta was on stage with Kennedy after he won the California primary, and he publicly thanked her moments before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The assassination devastated Huerta, but she kept organizing for farmworkers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was jailed 22 times for union demonstrating. In 1988, she was seriously injured while protesting Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush’s opposition to the UFW grape boycott during his visit to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106902\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-1536x1201.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">American labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) Dolores Huerta speaks on stage during a UFW rally in California, circa 1975 or 1976. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caught in a crowd, she was struck by a police officer’s baton, suffered three broken ribs and a pulverized spleen, and required more than a dozen blood transfusions. She reached a settlement with the city to resolve her claims.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a long recovery, Huerta shifted focus and hit the road to campaign for women’s rights and encourage Latinas to run for office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also campaigned for Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton, Obama and Joe Biden. California Gov. Gavin Newsom considered her a close friend.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fueled by courage\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emilio Huerta, one of Dolores’ 13 children, once pointed to his mom’s courage during an interview, saying it was one of the most significant drivers of her life’s work.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“To dedicate your life to building a dream of a union for farmworkers, to take on agriculture, which to this day is still a powerhouse … That took a lot of guts,” he had said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta learned the art of lobbying politicians. She secured financial aid for the unemployed and disability insurance for California farmworkers. She spoke out against toxic pesticides, pushed for amnesty for immigrants in the country illegally and fought federal guest worker programs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty2-a3693d7e.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106906\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty2-a3693d7e.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty2-a3693d7e-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty2-a3693d7e-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A close-up shows the hands of Dolores Huerta, 95, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) labor union, with bracelets reading “huelga” (“strike”) and “si se puede” (“yes we can”) as she poses in her office in Bakersfield, California, on July 21, 2025. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By directing nationwide boycotts of grapes and lettuce in the early 1970s, she helped to create the economic pressure and political climate necessary for California to pass what would be the first state law recognizing farmworkers’ right to collective bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her work earned her many accolades. She was the first Latina to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and she’s received nine honorary doctorates from U.S. universities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schools are named in her honor in a handful of states, including California. San Francisco Unified School District renamed an elementary school in her honor back in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her image graces many murals, and streets bear her name, but she didn’t always win favor with more liberal activists.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2016, when she endorsed Hillary Clinton instead of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont in the presidential Democratic primary, actor Rosario Dawson — a Sanders supporter who played Huerta in a 2014 movie about César Chavez — said Huerta had become “an instrument of the establishment.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dawson and Huerta eventually reconciled.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guitarist Carlos Santana later oversaw a documentary based on Huerta’s life after the pair had a late-night conversation about music while in Hawaii. Santana, a Miles Davis fan, discovered Huerta was a huge fan of bebop legend Charlie Parker.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I even met Charlie Parker. That’s my claim to fame,” Huerta joked during an interview with \u003cem>The Associated Press\u003c/em> when she was 87.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was her work as a leader within the labor movement that reverberated through the U.S. and beyond, making her name synonymous with civil rights. In the 2025 documentary \u003cem>Seeds of Change: The Life and Legacy of Dolores Huerta\u003c/em>, she recounted her decades-long journey in activism and talked about the inspiration she drew from the women’s movement during the 1970s, saying it provided validation that she too could stand on the stage with other labor leaders.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I hope that my legacy will be one of an organizer that organized to fight injustice,” she said in the film. “We want to give our children an inheritance of justice, right, not jewels or property or money because they’ll just fight over it. So the main thing to do is to give them this love for justice — and that is the greatest gift I think that any of us can have.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy\">\u003cem>Samantha Kennedy\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>and Associated Press journalist Brian Melley contributed to this report. Former AP journalist Russell Contreras also contributed reporting previously for this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State court interpreters in Oakland are walking off their jobs on Wednesday, the latest half-day \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/workers-strike\">strike\u003c/a> to protest what they call stagnating wages and too-slow contract talks with administrators, as the system struggles to give people who speak little to no English \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/3656/interpreters-finally-coming-to-californias-civil-courts-2\">equal access to justice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interpreter employees at state courts earn lower salaries than interpreters in federal courts or private contractors, which contributes to persistent job vacancies, said Mary Lou Aranguren, bargaining spokesperson for the California Alliance of Legal Interpreters. Court officials have responded to interpreter shortages by going over budget to contract often costlier private services in recent years to meet language needs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They are not bargaining in good faith when they are throwing money at contractors, and then they tell us at the table, ‘Well, we don’t have the budget for paying you more.’ That just doesn’t make sense,” said Aranguren, a Spanish court interpreter in Alameda County with 30 years of experience. “Employees make a commitment. We’re available, we work all the time, and we’re making a lot less money.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The union, which represents 91 court staffers working in Spanish, Cantonese, Hindi and other languages in coastal Northern California counties, has \u003ca href=\"http://google.com/search?q=kqed+court+interpreter+strike&rlz=1C1GCHA_enUS1179US1179&oq=kqed+court+interpreter+strike+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORifBTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIHCAUQIRigATIHCAYQIRiPAjIHCAcQIRiPAtIBCDY0MTdqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&source=chrome.ob&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on\">accused the employer\u003c/a> of engaging in unfair labor practices by favoring contractors with higher pay.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on March 19, 2025. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local court interpreters on staff earn about $86,000 to $105,000 per year, not including retirement, medical and other benefits, according to a 2025 report by the Judicial Council of California, which administers state courts. The union is pushing to gradually raise interpreters’ salary range to $128,000-$150,000, which Aranguren said would near pay in federal courts and help fill dozens of vacant positions in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alicia Vojnik, a state courts bargaining representative, said they remain committed to negotiating a fair agreement with interpreters. Contractor rates and employee salaries “cannot be compared directly” without considering the additional benefits employees receive or the assignment frequency for contractors, said Vojnik, administrative chair for Region 2 courts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The Region has proposed and continues to propose that the parties enter mediation to assist in resolving the significant difference between their respective wage proposals, as well as other outstanding issues,” said Vojnik, chief operating officer at Superior Court in Santa Clara County. “Every court in the Region is committed to maintaining essential operations and language services.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She added that Alameda County Superior Court will remain open during the strike. The labor action on Wednesday at the Wiley W. Manuel and René C. Davidson courthouses, which is set to involve some of the nearly two dozen interpreters in the county, is the second by the union this month. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS24075_courthouse-sign-cameo-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An engraving outside of the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland.\" class=\"wp-image-11647421\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS24075_courthouse-sign-cameo-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS24075_courthouse-sign-cameo-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS24075_courthouse-sign-cameo-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS24075_courthouse-sign-cameo-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS24075_courthouse-sign-cameo-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS24075_courthouse-sign-cameo-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS24075_courthouse-sign-cameo-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS24075_courthouse-sign-cameo-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS24075_courthouse-sign-cameo-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An engraving outside of the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Oct. 16, San Francisco court interpreters were also on strike as the Judicial Council met in the city and decided to corral rising spending on private contractors by standardizing rates statewide to levels that don’t exceed those in the federal court system. Court officials said that contractors were often able to negotiate higher pay, with courts competing against each other for the same pool of interpreters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2023, courts have exceeded their funds for interpreter services due to growing contractor costs, with $19 million in overspending last year. The state increased the budget for interpreter services by $20 million this year, bringing the total available to pay employees and contractors to $155 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Slayton, court executive officer for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, said that higher pay for contractors disincentivizes interpreters from staying as employees with the courts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Sometimes [we see] those same interpreters that were employees come back two weeks later, paying them more, for the services they were providing as employees,” said Slayton, adding that Los Angeles County has more than 120 interpreter job vacancies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“When contract work pays more than court employment, it becomes harder to recruit and keep employees, and we fill the gap with contractors at a premium.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California state courts, the nation’s largest court system, are required to provide interpreter services to plaintiffs, witnesses and other users with limited English proficiency in criminal and civil cases. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While demand for language services has increased, staffing shortages have left vulnerable people without understanding legal procedures that are critical to their freedom, family or livelihood.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An 18-year-old immigrant who only speaks Mixteco, a major indigenous language in Mexico, received a traffic ticket but was unable to get assistance at court with communication, Francisca Camarillo, with the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project, told the Judicial Council at a recent meeting.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the teen contacted the organization for help, he discovered that there was already a warrant for his arrest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident is one of many across the state in which limited English speakers faced barriers to the courts, according to \u003ca href=\"https://crla.org/sites/default/files/2026-10/Written%20Comments%20to%20Judicial%20Council,%20October%2016,%202026%201_0.pdf\">a letter this month\u003c/a> by dozens of community organizations that asked the Judicial Council to review its language access program. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“While case records might make it appear that he is noncompliant for missing court, the reality is that no one provided language support,” Camarillo said. “A young adult seeking a better future was denied a fair chance to present his case simply because of a language barrier. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State court interpreters in Oakland are walking off their jobs on Wednesday, the latest half-day \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/workers-strike\">strike\u003c/a> to protest what they call stagnating wages and too-slow contract talks with administrators, as the system struggles to give people who speak little to no English \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/3656/interpreters-finally-coming-to-californias-civil-courts-2\">equal access to justice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interpreter employees at state courts earn lower salaries than interpreters in federal courts or private contractors, which contributes to persistent job vacancies, said Mary Lou Aranguren, bargaining spokesperson for the California Alliance of Legal Interpreters. Court officials have responded to interpreter shortages by going over budget to contract often costlier private services in recent years to meet language needs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They are not bargaining in good faith when they are throwing money at contractors, and then they tell us at the table, ‘Well, we don’t have the budget for paying you more.’ That just doesn’t make sense,” said Aranguren, a Spanish court interpreter in Alameda County with 30 years of experience. “Employees make a commitment. We’re available, we work all the time, and we’re making a lot less money.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The union, which represents 91 court staffers working in Spanish, Cantonese, Hindi and other languages in coastal Northern California counties, has \u003ca href=\"http://google.com/search?q=kqed+court+interpreter+strike&rlz=1C1GCHA_enUS1179US1179&oq=kqed+court+interpreter+strike+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORifBTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIHCAUQIRigATIHCAYQIRiPAjIHCAcQIRiPAtIBCDY0MTdqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&source=chrome.ob&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on\">accused the employer\u003c/a> of engaging in unfair labor practices by favoring contractors with higher pay.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on March 19, 2025. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local court interpreters on staff earn about $86,000 to $105,000 per year, not including retirement, medical and other benefits, according to a 2025 report by the Judicial Council of California, which administers state courts. The union is pushing to gradually raise interpreters’ salary range to $128,000-$150,000, which Aranguren said would near pay in federal courts and help fill dozens of vacant positions in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alicia Vojnik, a state courts bargaining representative, said they remain committed to negotiating a fair agreement with interpreters. Contractor rates and employee salaries “cannot be compared directly” without considering the additional benefits employees receive or the assignment frequency for contractors, said Vojnik, administrative chair for Region 2 courts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“The Region has proposed and continues to propose that the parties enter mediation to assist in resolving the significant difference between their respective wage proposals, as well as other outstanding issues,” said Vojnik, chief operating officer at Superior Court in Santa Clara County. “Every court in the Region is committed to maintaining essential operations and language services.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She added that Alameda County Superior Court will remain open during the strike. The labor action on Wednesday at the Wiley W. Manuel and René C. Davidson courthouses, which is set to involve some of the nearly two dozen interpreters in the county, is the second by the union this month. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS24075_courthouse-sign-cameo-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An engraving outside of the René C. 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Whoever made the system that was evaluating the calls, Vue said, didn’t “really understand what we’re going through.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-KAISER-AI-NURSES-01-KQED-bab50399.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-KAISER-AI-NURSES-01-KQED-bab50399.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-KAISER-AI-NURSES-01-KQED-bab50399-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-KAISER-AI-NURSES-01-KQED-bab50399-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pa Vue, a Telephone Triage Nurse, at her home office in Fresno on Oct. 22, 2026. (Jennifer Emerling for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contacted for comment, a spokesperson for Kaiser wrote KQED, “We currently do not use AI tools to recognize, predict or infer emotional states of our nurses.” The spokesperson also wrote that the healthcare giant is reviewing the implications of AB 1883 for its operations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Scoring whether someone said the right words is one thing, and that’s okay, but scoring what they were feeling now is off limits,” management-side employment attorney Anthony Zaller told KQED. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AB 1883 should, in theory, require removing sentiment scoring-style software from jobs like Vue’s. Zaller said he’s not familiar with Kaiser’s use of AI specifically, but he said that employers commonly don’t realize the extent to which AI is embedded in their software — or that existing laws already make employers responsible in a way they can’t sidestep “just because you ran it through some software.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vue is a member of the California Nurses Association, which has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097878/in-oakland-kaiser-nurses-take-staffing-ai-concerns-to-the-picket-lines\">battling Kaiser\u003c/a> over its use of AI bossware. Her account appeared under a pseudonym as one first-person example among a couple dozen from workers around the state in a recent labor coalition \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/wjHhCwpkPvsknn3yFVfGpsJn6NG?domain=report.norobobosses.org/\">report\u003c/a> warning that artificial intelligence and surveillance tools are increasingly used to monitor, manage and discipline workers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Workers are experiencing unprecedented levels of surveillance and monitoring in their workplaces,” said Stasia Hansen, deputy director of research and strategy at one of the coalition members, the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, a labor and housing organization focused on Alameda and Contra Costa counties. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vue first learned of the 2024 pilot because she sits on a joint union-management committee on nursing practice; the committee brought its concerns to management’s attention “to really hold them accountable to their own principles,” she said, referring to \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/expertise-and-impact/public-policy/our-key-issues/artificial-intelligence\">Kaiser’s publicly stated AI policy\u003c/a>. She was less than impressed with management’s response.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They tell us they can’t turn it off. Of course, nothing can be turned off because it’s built into the system. So they will have to lose a lot of money and go with a different software, or they’re just going to have to use the platform,” Vue said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KQED asked Kaiser whether its call platform generates sentiment scores, whose sentiment they measure and whether the feature can be turned off. Kaiser did not answer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How widespread bossware is remains hard to measure. Employers rarely disclose the tools they use, and the algorithms are proprietary, so outside researchers seldom get to examine them except through leaks or lawsuits. But the signs keep piling up.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The use of work-surveillance technology took off during the pandemic. As many people started working remotely, more employers began surveilling their teams in new ways: tracking keyboard strokes, taking screenshots and monitoring pauses. According to The New York Times, by 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/14/business/worker-productivity-tracking.html\">eight of the 10 biggest private employers\u003c/a> in the United States were tracking the productivity metrics of individual workers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260317-KAISER-RETREATS-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12076763\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260317-KAISER-RETREATS-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260317-KAISER-RETREATS-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260317-KAISER-RETREATS-MD-09-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Kaiser Permanente building at 1800 Harrison (center-top) in Oakland on March 16, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workers in a wide variety of industries, Hansen said, “are facing consequences due to productivity expectations or due to systems that don’t reasonably take into consideration key factors of their workplaces and work situations, which we as humans are able to assess.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it moved through the legislature last session, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097632/chatbots-data-centers-and-surveillance-5-silicon-valley-bills-land-on-newsoms-desk\">AB 1883\u003c/a> faced opposition among business-friendly interests. The California Chamber of Commerce, for example, said in a letter to lawmakers that the bill would open employers up to litigation over what the phrase “emotional state” means. The Chamber also said that the ban could sweep in AI security systems that detect agitation or aggression, tools some employers adopted to comply with a 2023 state law requiring workplace violence prevention plans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California lawmakers aren’t the only ones to consider legislating limits on bossware. The European Union, for instance, has banned emotion recognition at work since 2025. But similar bills specifically seeking to regulate the use of AI to detect worker emotion died this year in Minnesota, New York and Washington. A broader Massachusetts bill limiting workplace monitoring stalled in committee. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California’s bills “took some hits in the committee process,” said Hansen, the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy deputy research director, referring to the compromises made to get the proposals through the legislature and signed by the governor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What can pass in Sacramento, she said, is different from what can pass locally. “So while we’re thrilled to see this foundation at the state level, we also know that there’s a lot more to be done for actual robust protections for workers, and so we’re looking to move those on the local level, across the state.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hansen did not name a Bay Area city or county that has agreed to take up such a measure. None appears to have done so, although Santa Clara County supervisors voted in March to study AI use across county departments, and San José’s largest city employee union has sought limits on AI in contract talks with the city.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The East Bay coalition, which includes the San José nonprofit Working Partnerships USA, held its launch at San José City Hall in September. Hansen said the coalition plans to start with public employers, because cities can act both as employers — setting rules for their own workforce and the technology they buy — and as regulators of private employers within their limits. “It’s both the city as an employer and also the city as a regulatory body,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, tech companies are pouring some of the largest private investments in history into AI built to automate work. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pa Vue is a telephone triage nurse with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kaiser-permanente\">Kaiser Permanente\u003c/a>. She works the night shift, from midnight to 8:30 a.m., from her home in the Central Valley. Vue’s job is to calmly assess each caller as they describe their concerns and symptoms, looking for red flags that indicate immediate treatment is warranted, like signs of a heart attack or stroke.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It’s a critical job, and one of a growing number impacted by AI-powered surveillance software, aka “bossware.” California has gone further than any other state to begin regulating it. At the end of September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102337/newsom-signs-slate-of-ai-workplace-laws-barring-robo-bosses-and-surveillance\">five labor-backed bills regulating AI in the workplace\u003c/a>. Among them is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1979\">AB 1979\u003c/a>, which bars health facilities from letting AI alone do work reserved for licensed professionals, and requires them to protect clinicians’ independent judgment when AI informs care. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVersionsCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1883\">AB 1883\u003c/a> restricts employers from using AI-powered workplace surveillance tools to read workers’ emotions or collect their neural data. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2024, Vue said she learned Kaiser was piloting a feature that included scoring the sentiment of recorded calls — as in, evaluating employees’ attitudes in the recordings. Nurses were later told the pilot was paused. But while Vue was on maternity leave a year later, Kaiser appeared to have instituted the feature, because Vue said she came back to work to find a “sentiment score” in the metadata attached to each of her recorded calls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vue said she isn’t opposed to AI in medicine, but she objects to the sentiment scoring because triage nurses are trained to stay calm and press patients to detail their symptoms, even if that means the patients become agitated or fearful in the process. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vue said she wasn’t even sure how to interpret the numbers she was seeing in the metadata. She wasn’t sure what scale she was being graded on or how high the numbers went. The nurses asked management about the metrics, Vue said, but got no answers. Whoever made the system that was evaluating the calls, Vue said, didn’t “really understand what we’re going through.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-KAISER-AI-NURSES-01-KQED-bab50399.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106026\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-KAISER-AI-NURSES-01-KQED-bab50399.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-KAISER-AI-NURSES-01-KQED-bab50399-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-KAISER-AI-NURSES-01-KQED-bab50399-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pa Vue, a Telephone Triage Nurse, at her home office in Fresno on Oct. 22, 2026. (Jennifer Emerling for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contacted for comment, a spokesperson for Kaiser wrote KQED, “We currently do not use AI tools to recognize, predict or infer emotional states of our nurses.” The spokesperson also wrote that the healthcare giant is reviewing the implications of AB 1883 for its operations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Scoring whether someone said the right words is one thing, and that’s okay, but scoring what they were feeling now is off limits,” management-side employment attorney Anthony Zaller told KQED. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AB 1883 should, in theory, require removing sentiment scoring-style software from jobs like Vue’s. Zaller said he’s not familiar with Kaiser’s use of AI specifically, but he said that employers commonly don’t realize the extent to which AI is embedded in their software — or that existing laws already make employers responsible in a way they can’t sidestep “just because you ran it through some software.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vue is a member of the California Nurses Association, which has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097878/in-oakland-kaiser-nurses-take-staffing-ai-concerns-to-the-picket-lines\">battling Kaiser\u003c/a> over its use of AI bossware. Her account appeared under a pseudonym as one first-person example among a couple dozen from workers around the state in a recent labor coalition \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/wjHhCwpkPvsknn3yFVfGpsJn6NG?domain=report.norobobosses.org/\">report\u003c/a> warning that artificial intelligence and surveillance tools are increasingly used to monitor, manage and discipline workers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Workers are experiencing unprecedented levels of surveillance and monitoring in their workplaces,” said Stasia Hansen, deputy director of research and strategy at one of the coalition members, the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, a labor and housing organization focused on Alameda and Contra Costa counties. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vue first learned of the 2024 pilot because she sits on a joint union-management committee on nursing practice; the committee brought its concerns to management’s attention “to really hold them accountable to their own principles,” she said, referring to \u003ca href=\"https://about.kaiserpermanente.org/expertise-and-impact/public-policy/our-key-issues/artificial-intelligence\">Kaiser’s publicly stated AI policy\u003c/a>. She was less than impressed with management’s response.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“They tell us they can’t turn it off. Of course, nothing can be turned off because it’s built into the system. So they will have to lose a lot of money and go with a different software, or they’re just going to have to use the platform,” Vue said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KQED asked Kaiser whether its call platform generates sentiment scores, whose sentiment they measure and whether the feature can be turned off. Kaiser did not answer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How widespread bossware is remains hard to measure. Employers rarely disclose the tools they use, and the algorithms are proprietary, so outside researchers seldom get to examine them except through leaks or lawsuits. But the signs keep piling up.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The use of work-surveillance technology took off during the pandemic. As many people started working remotely, more employers began surveilling their teams in new ways: tracking keyboard strokes, taking screenshots and monitoring pauses. According to The New York Times, by 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/14/business/worker-productivity-tracking.html\">eight of the 10 biggest private employers\u003c/a> in the United States were tracking the productivity metrics of individual workers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260317-KAISER-RETREATS-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12076763\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260317-KAISER-RETREATS-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260317-KAISER-RETREATS-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260317-KAISER-RETREATS-MD-09-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Kaiser Permanente building at 1800 Harrison (center-top) in Oakland on March 16, 2026. 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The Chamber also said that the ban could sweep in AI security systems that detect agitation or aggression, tools some employers adopted to comply with a 2023 state law requiring workplace violence prevention plans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California lawmakers aren’t the only ones to consider legislating limits on bossware. The European Union, for instance, has banned emotion recognition at work since 2025. But similar bills specifically seeking to regulate the use of AI to detect worker emotion died this year in Minnesota, New York and Washington. 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Another lawsuit filed on behalf of 13 women who were injured during the incident was settled for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077737/california-agrees-to-1-9m-settlement-in-prison-use-of-force-case\">$1.9 million in March\u003c/a>, bringing the combined value of the settlements to nearly $12 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It was a gross violation of constitutional rights,” said attorney Mark Merin, who represents the women in the class action. “The state obviously recognizes that on some level and is coming forward with substantial compensation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prison agency has not admitted fault in either suit. CDCR Press Secretary Terri Hardy said in an email that the agency cannot comment on active litigation, but that the department “continues its commitment to safe and constitutional operations at all institutions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104812/put-them-down-with-gas-kqed-investigation-finds-abuse-and-retaliation-at-chowchilla-prison\">KQED investigation found\u003c/a> the mass use-of-force incident was carried out amid a striking rise in sexual assault complaints —known as Prison Rape Elimination Act complaints — at the prison. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five women told KQED they believed the incident was intended to stop the flood of PREA complaints. 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It really messed me up in a lot of different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the morning of Aug. 2, 2024, correctional officers at the Chowchilla facility moved more than 150 women to the dining hall to conduct a massive search of their unit, according to the suit, and seize any personal belongings that did not fit in a 6-cubic-foot box. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-a8Fb2UwB1c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-a8Fb2UwB1c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After hours of being confined to the cafeteria without food, water or access to medication, tensions became heightened. 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Three correctional officers were fired and 31 more received discipline, ranging from reprimands to pay cuts. Several officers are still appealing those actions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the agreement, $7.45 million would be split among the class members, while $2.5 million would go to their attorneys. 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CDCR Press Secretary Terri Hardy said in an email that the agency cannot comment on active litigation, but that the department “continues its commitment to safe and constitutional operations at all institutions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104812/put-them-down-with-gas-kqed-investigation-finds-abuse-and-retaliation-at-chowchilla-prison\">KQED investigation found\u003c/a> the mass use-of-force incident was carried out amid a striking rise in sexual assault complaints —known as Prison Rape Elimination Act complaints — at the prison. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five women told KQED they believed the incident was intended to stop the flood of PREA complaints. 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