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For some, the North Richmond farm is one of the few places they can reliably get fresh produce. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A neighborhood with no grocery store\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>North Richmond has no full-service grocery store and limited infrastructure, said Chinue Fields, who directs food access programs for Urban Tilth, the Richmond nonprofit that runs the farm. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Getting to a grocery store means a car or a bus, Fields said, and the neighborhood doesn’t have many sidewalks. Corner stores and liquor stores dot residential streets. The farm is within sight of a landfill and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2001777/residents-near-chevrons-richmond-refinery-face-higher-risk-of-cancer-air-district-says\">Chevron refinery\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The access is gone. The infrastructure is gone,” Fields said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12097662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSA coordinator Marco Huerta places bags of produce into a walk-in cooler at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12097660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Purple carrots in a CSA box at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The weekly \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbantilthcsa.org/\">produce\u003c/a> share, a community-supported agriculture subscription, reaches more than 400 households across West Contra Costa County. Half of recipients pay nothing. Since need is greater than what the 10-acre farm can grow, the organization buys from about a dozen small farms, prioritizing growers within 200 miles. The free farm stands open four days a week at five sites until the produce runs out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth said turnout at its free farm stands rose roughly 150% in the first quarter of this year, during the coldest and thinnest stretch of the growing calendar, when demand normally sags. Fields said that timing indicated food needs in the area were rising. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The goal at each stand is a bag per household, enough for one meal. During those busy weeks, Fields said, when supply is stretched thin, the bags include three to four items. Now, with new federal rules pushing Californians off food assistance, staff say more residents are turning to the farm for sustenance.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>HR 1, the tax and spending law President Donald Trump signed in 2025, put more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091819/california-food-banks-brace-for-slow-moving-avalanche-of-snap-cuts\">650,000 Californians\u003c/a> at risk of losing CalFresh — the state’s version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/jobs/keep-benefits\">changes\u003c/a> took effect on paper in June, but they land household by household as annual recertification deadlines come due. The changes also rolled back exemptions that protected veterans, former foster youth and people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>County and food bank officials expect the effects to become visible around October and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078490/hundreds-of-thousands-could-be-booted-from-calfresh-and-medi-cal-this-bill-aims-to-help\">continue into next year\u003c/a>. The farm bill, the sprawling federal law that sets both agriculture policy and the rules for SNAP, \u003ca href=\"https://www.naco.org/news/senate-agriculture-committee-holds-farm-bill-markup-remains-committee\">expires Sept. 30\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘It’s survival mode out here’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091819/california-food-banks-brace-for-slow-moving-avalanche-of-snap-cuts\">1 in 4\u003c/a> California adults experienced food insecurity. As many as 104,900 Contra Costa County residents rely on CalFresh as of June, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/data-portal/research-and-data/calfresh-data-dashboard\">state data\u003c/a>. In District 1, which includes Richmond, a county \u003ca href=\"https://contra-costa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14903929&GUID=9C3B6018-6D20-4170-97F3-739C6E6AE6C4\">presentation\u003c/a> counted 28,035 individuals and 17,399 households — over a quarter of the county’s caseload — as having received CalFresh in September 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth’s free weekly delivery has a long waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Cost of life has gone up. It’s survival mode out here,” said Adam Boisvert, Urban Tilth’s deputy director and director of education programs. “Sometimes we don’t have enough food to give to everybody, and that’s heartbreaking.”\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/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097661\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSA coordinator Marco Huerta, left, and procurement specialist Josue Mejia, right, place produce into a walk-in cooler at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>The strain has also started moving up the supply chain. Fields said churches that normally draw their distributions from the regional food bank began calling Urban Tilth directly after the food bank came up short.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That was really eye-opening and a little bit scary, to be honest,” she said. “We consider the cut to SNAP as an emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Costs are climbing on Urban Tilth’s side, too. Fuel surcharges have appeared on top of delivery fees from partner farms, and produce prices have risen. Urban Tilth raised its standard weekly share from $35 to $50 this year. A subsidized share runs $15 for the same bag and the same delivery, Fields said, and a third tier is free for residents who are unemployed, undocumented, unhoused, elderly or disabled.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Folks who really, really need that type of service and wouldn’t otherwise have access to that type or produce,” Fields said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The model Urban Tilth uses — buying from small local growers at full price to feed people who can’t pay — is the same one the federal Local Food Purchase Assistance Program ran until the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088977/a-lifeline-for-californias-small-farms-just-expired-what-comes-next\">Trump administration ended it\u003c/a>. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a budget in June that includes $15 million to keep the state’s version alive for one more year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Food as medicine, and as a job\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Through its \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbantilthcsa.org/veggierx\">VeggieRx\u003c/a> program, Urban Tilth delivers free produce to two groups of residents. For patients on Medi-Cal at LifeLong Medical Care, a doctor can decide the produce is part of their care, generally for people managing a chronic illness or recently out of the hospital, and the farm fills it through the same weekly share. A second, state-funded version covers anyone living in Richmond’s Iron Triangle, Santa Fe or Coronado neighborhoods. It runs through July 2027 and is already full, with a waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Fields said people rarely mention a diagnosis when they first come by the stand. There’s shame and stigma around nutrition-related disease, she said, especially in Black and other communities with people of color. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the stands set up in the same spots week after week, year after year, and eventually people volunteer the information themselves: an A1C reading that dropped, a mother who came off her blood-pressure medication.\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/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matthew Mackie fillls CSA boxes with produce at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. Mackie works with Urban Tilth through nonprofit Vistability, which helps individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health needs. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“We offer a high level of dignity with our food distribution,” Fields said. “We are there to really engage with people and get to know them on a personal level. We don’t want it to be a transactional relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Staff record what city someone lives in, and more than 90% come from Richmond, North Richmond and San Pablo. They don’t ask about income, need or disability. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The volunteers are usually borrowed. Local businesses, nonprofits and school groups schedule time to help pack, Boisvert said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The staff, roughly 85% local, have largely come through the same pipeline: garden lessons at Verde Elementary, the urban agriculture course Boisvert teaches at Richmond High, a summer apprenticeship, a job.\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/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097666\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">North Richmond farm co-manager Cathy Sandoval stands for a portrait at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Cathy Sandoval came up through Urban Tilth’s Rudy Lozito Fellowship Program four years ago, driving CSA deliveries, and now works in the greenhouses. She said the neighborhood changed how she understood the work. Growing food in a place with little access to organic produce, she said, is “basically political because you are going against what people here in the community are lacking, not having organic food and produce.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Anytime that I come here to the farm on a bad day, it always ends on a good day, always,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On bad days, she amends a bed, breaking up the rocky soil and aerating it — challenging, physical labor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You’re giving it life through anger and emotion, sadness, happiness, whatever it is,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sandoval’s grandfather and father farmed in Mexico, and growing food, in a way, helps her connect to her heritage and family. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We tend to forget about our history and our culture,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Uniting neighbors over shared land\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than 20 Japanese American families grew flowers \u003ca href=\"https://richmondmuseum.org/flower-families-in-richmond/\">across Richmond and El Cerrito\u003c/a> for decades, according to the Richmond Museum of History & Culture. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans. Most of the local flower families were sent to the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah, where they were incarcerated for four years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When the Nabeta family returned, and their business began to bounce back, their land was \u003ca href=\"https://richmondmuseum.org/flower-families-in-richmond/\">seized\u003c/a> by the state in 1947 to build Interstate 80.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21-160x73.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21-1536x704.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Left: North Richmond farm co-manager Cathy Sandoval places weeds into a bucket at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. Right: Rows of crops at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>They then rebuilt in North Richmond — a Black neighborhood that was brimming with blues clubs and quickly becoming a nightlife hot spot in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Redlining and restrictive covenants had made it one of the few places in the area where Black families could live, according to Urban Tilth’s \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:363291a1-c927-4b85-884e-508bd4f5bebe\">history\u003c/a> of the neighborhood, and people who came from the South to work in the shipyards built homes there with their wages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The area was also contending with violent crime, and becoming a backdrop to some of the era’s radical politics: In 1967, one of the first pushes of the rising Black Panther Party involved investigating the killing of a North Richmond man by Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Eventually most of the nurseries closed. In 2022, the Nabeta family decided to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-06/questions-of-justice-flare-in-bay-area-warehouse-dispute\">sell their land\u003c/a> to a developer. Urban Tilth, whose farm sat against the property line, learned the plan was a five-story warehouse, said Chito Floriano, the farm programs director.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It [would have been] shaded out by about five to six hours of sunlight,” Floriano said. What followed was what the farm called the “No Shade Campaign”: letters to the developer, letters to the family, a street mural on Brookside Drive.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>About three months in, Floriano said, members of the Nabeta family walked over. They would rather sell to Urban Tilth if the price could be met, they said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Executive Director Doria Robinson \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-02/urban-farm-japanese-flower-nursery-warehouse-distribution-center-bay-area\">raised\u003c/a> more than $4.5 million to purchase it. The farm grew from 3 acres to 10.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Floriano said Urban Tilth is part of a long lineage of people who have worked the land — the Ohlone, the Black cowboys who once kept horses here and the Japanese American nursery families.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We aren’t the original light bearers of this movement,” he said. “Urban Tilth is gonna be a moment in history now.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘By whatever means necessary’ \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In late 2024, Contra Costa County won a federal grant that would have paid for a new resilience center on the farm. The farm planned a solar-powered building where neighbors could wait out a heat wave, a refinery accident or a stretch of dangerous wildfire smoke, stocked with cots, first-aid supplies and portable showers, with a battery system able to run the air-filtration and refrigeration systems for up to three days off the grid. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Floriano estimated construction would cost $6 million. It was one of \u003ca href=\"https://urbantilth.org/epa-community-change-grant-status/\">nine\u003c/a> projects across North Richmond covered by a $19 million grant to Contra Costa County from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\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/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSA (community-supported agriculture) coordinator Marco Huerta fills bags with fruit at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Weeks after the county secured the contract, the federal government pulled the plug. In February 2025, the nonprofit lost contact with the EPA’s grant administrator and later learned the staffer had been fired. The county did not receive formal notice that the EPA had terminated the grant until May of that year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We took it off the books as soon as we got wind that it wasn’t coming through,” Boisvert said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Five \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:d8774ef4-9c01-4ae5-b06b-88b18f55d0c9\">new buildings\u003c/a> now stand on the farm, paid for without federal money: a greenhouse, a native plant nursery, a watershed learning center, a toolshed and what Urban Tilth says is the first permitted public composting toilet in an urban area of Contra Costa County. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth says it has raised more than $9.3 million of the roughly $14.3 million this phase will cost. It needs $5 million more to finish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Among the \u003ca href=\"https://urbantilth.org/the-north-richmond-farm-project/\">remaining\u003c/a> line items is $250,000 for a \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:363291a1-c927-4b85-884e-508bd4f5bebe\">history walk\u003c/a>, a path running the length of the farm that tells the story of the neighborhood: the Ohlone, the blues clubs, the Black Panthers and the Japanese American nursery families, including the Nabetas.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Floriano said Urban Tilth receives almost no federal funds now, and is instead carried by state contracts, city creek restoration work, foundations and individual donors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth recently finished two outdoor classrooms, one in the crop rows and one in the orchard, and Boisvert said the spaces get more use as more kids cycle through. His two urban agriculture classes at Richmond High started back up with 80 students, and the farm still runs after-school sessions, senior gardening and a volunteer day every fourth Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“By whatever means necessary, we’re going to see this thing through,” Boisvert said. “Piece by piece, one day at a time, one grant at a time, getting buildings finished, getting projects done.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>On a sunny Tuesday in August, a group of volunteers rinsed the soil off of freshly harvested greens on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/urban-agriculture\">urban farm\u003c/a> in North \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/richmond\">Richmond\u003c/a>, beside beehives and greenhouses. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>By the week’s end, the vegetables will be packed and delivered to doorsteps across Richmond and San Pablo, or will stock the tables of free farm stands in five neighborhoods. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>What began as an East Bay nonprofit and community garden in 2005 has grown into a food access program serving hundreds. For some, the North Richmond farm is one of the few places they can reliably get fresh produce. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A neighborhood with no grocery store\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>North Richmond has no full-service grocery store and limited infrastructure, said Chinue Fields, who directs food access programs for Urban Tilth, the Richmond nonprofit that runs the farm. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Getting to a grocery store means a car or a bus, Fields said, and the neighborhood doesn’t have many sidewalks. Corner stores and liquor stores dot residential streets. The farm is within sight of a landfill and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2001777/residents-near-chevrons-richmond-refinery-face-higher-risk-of-cancer-air-district-says\">Chevron refinery\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The access is gone. The infrastructure is gone,” Fields said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12097662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSA coordinator Marco Huerta places bags of produce into a walk-in cooler at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12097660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Purple carrots in a CSA box at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The weekly \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbantilthcsa.org/\">produce\u003c/a> share, a community-supported agriculture subscription, reaches more than 400 households across West Contra Costa County. Half of recipients pay nothing. Since need is greater than what the 10-acre farm can grow, the organization buys from about a dozen small farms, prioritizing growers within 200 miles. The free farm stands open four days a week at five sites until the produce runs out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth said turnout at its free farm stands rose roughly 150% in the first quarter of this year, during the coldest and thinnest stretch of the growing calendar, when demand normally sags. Fields said that timing indicated food needs in the area were rising. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The goal at each stand is a bag per household, enough for one meal. During those busy weeks, Fields said, when supply is stretched thin, the bags include three to four items. Now, with new federal rules pushing Californians off food assistance, staff say more residents are turning to the farm for sustenance.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>HR 1, the tax and spending law President Donald Trump signed in 2025, put more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091819/california-food-banks-brace-for-slow-moving-avalanche-of-snap-cuts\">650,000 Californians\u003c/a> at risk of losing CalFresh — the state’s version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfhsa.org/services/jobs/keep-benefits\">changes\u003c/a> took effect on paper in June, but they land household by household as annual recertification deadlines come due. The changes also rolled back exemptions that protected veterans, former foster youth and people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>County and food bank officials expect the effects to become visible around October and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078490/hundreds-of-thousands-could-be-booted-from-calfresh-and-medi-cal-this-bill-aims-to-help\">continue into next year\u003c/a>. The farm bill, the sprawling federal law that sets both agriculture policy and the rules for SNAP, \u003ca href=\"https://www.naco.org/news/senate-agriculture-committee-holds-farm-bill-markup-remains-committee\">expires Sept. 30\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘It’s survival mode out here’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091819/california-food-banks-brace-for-slow-moving-avalanche-of-snap-cuts\">1 in 4\u003c/a> California adults experienced food insecurity. As many as 104,900 Contra Costa County residents rely on CalFresh as of June, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/data-portal/research-and-data/calfresh-data-dashboard\">state data\u003c/a>. In District 1, which includes Richmond, a county \u003ca href=\"https://contra-costa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14903929&GUID=9C3B6018-6D20-4170-97F3-739C6E6AE6C4\">presentation\u003c/a> counted 28,035 individuals and 17,399 households — over a quarter of the county’s caseload — as having received CalFresh in September 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth’s free weekly delivery has a long waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Cost of life has gone up. It’s survival mode out here,” said Adam Boisvert, Urban Tilth’s deputy director and director of education programs. “Sometimes we don’t have enough food to give to everybody, and that’s heartbreaking.”\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/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097661\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSA coordinator Marco Huerta, left, and procurement specialist Josue Mejia, right, place produce into a walk-in cooler at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>The strain has also started moving up the supply chain. Fields said churches that normally draw their distributions from the regional food bank began calling Urban Tilth directly after the food bank came up short.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That was really eye-opening and a little bit scary, to be honest,” she said. “We consider the cut to SNAP as an emergency.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Costs are climbing on Urban Tilth’s side, too. Fuel surcharges have appeared on top of delivery fees from partner farms, and produce prices have risen. Urban Tilth raised its standard weekly share from $35 to $50 this year. A subsidized share runs $15 for the same bag and the same delivery, Fields said, and a third tier is free for residents who are unemployed, undocumented, unhoused, elderly or disabled.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Folks who really, really need that type of service and wouldn’t otherwise have access to that type or produce,” Fields said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The model Urban Tilth uses — buying from small local growers at full price to feed people who can’t pay — is the same one the federal Local Food Purchase Assistance Program ran until the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088977/a-lifeline-for-californias-small-farms-just-expired-what-comes-next\">Trump administration ended it\u003c/a>. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a budget in June that includes $15 million to keep the state’s version alive for one more year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Food as medicine, and as a job\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Through its \u003ca href=\"https://www.urbantilthcsa.org/veggierx\">VeggieRx\u003c/a> program, Urban Tilth delivers free produce to two groups of residents. For patients on Medi-Cal at LifeLong Medical Care, a doctor can decide the produce is part of their care, generally for people managing a chronic illness or recently out of the hospital, and the farm fills it through the same weekly share. A second, state-funded version covers anyone living in Richmond’s Iron Triangle, Santa Fe or Coronado neighborhoods. It runs through July 2027 and is already full, with a waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Fields said people rarely mention a diagnosis when they first come by the stand. There’s shame and stigma around nutrition-related disease, she said, especially in Black and other communities with people of color. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the stands set up in the same spots week after week, year after year, and eventually people volunteer the information themselves: an A1C reading that dropped, a mother who came off her blood-pressure medication.\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/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097658\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matthew Mackie fillls CSA boxes with produce at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. Mackie works with Urban Tilth through nonprofit Vistability, which helps individuals with developmental disabilities and mental health needs. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“We offer a high level of dignity with our food distribution,” Fields said. “We are there to really engage with people and get to know them on a personal level. We don’t want it to be a transactional relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Staff record what city someone lives in, and more than 90% come from Richmond, North Richmond and San Pablo. They don’t ask about income, need or disability. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The volunteers are usually borrowed. Local businesses, nonprofits and school groups schedule time to help pack, Boisvert said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The staff, roughly 85% local, have largely come through the same pipeline: garden lessons at Verde Elementary, the urban agriculture course Boisvert teaches at Richmond High, a summer apprenticeship, a job.\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/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097666\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">North Richmond farm co-manager Cathy Sandoval stands for a portrait at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Cathy Sandoval came up through Urban Tilth’s Rudy Lozito Fellowship Program four years ago, driving CSA deliveries, and now works in the greenhouses. She said the neighborhood changed how she understood the work. Growing food in a place with little access to organic produce, she said, is “basically political because you are going against what people here in the community are lacking, not having organic food and produce.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Anytime that I come here to the farm on a bad day, it always ends on a good day, always,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On bad days, she amends a bed, breaking up the rocky soil and aerating it — challenging, physical labor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You’re giving it life through anger and emotion, sadness, happiness, whatever it is,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sandoval’s grandfather and father farmed in Mexico, and growing food, in a way, helps her connect to her heritage and family. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We tend to forget about our history and our culture,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Uniting neighbors over shared land\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than 20 Japanese American families grew flowers \u003ca href=\"https://richmondmuseum.org/flower-families-in-richmond/\">across Richmond and El Cerrito\u003c/a> for decades, according to the Richmond Museum of History & Culture. In 1942, Executive Order 9066 authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans. Most of the local flower families were sent to the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah, where they were incarcerated for four years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When the Nabeta family returned, and their business began to bounce back, their land was \u003ca href=\"https://richmondmuseum.org/flower-families-in-richmond/\">seized\u003c/a> by the state in 1947 to build Interstate 80.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21-160x73.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-21-1536x704.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Left: North Richmond farm co-manager Cathy Sandoval places weeds into a bucket at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. Right: Rows of crops at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>They then rebuilt in North Richmond — a Black neighborhood that was brimming with blues clubs and quickly becoming a nightlife hot spot in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Redlining and restrictive covenants had made it one of the few places in the area where Black families could live, according to Urban Tilth’s \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:363291a1-c927-4b85-884e-508bd4f5bebe\">history\u003c/a> of the neighborhood, and people who came from the South to work in the shipyards built homes there with their wages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The area was also contending with violent crime, and becoming a backdrop to some of the era’s radical politics: In 1967, one of the first pushes of the rising Black Panther Party involved investigating the killing of a North Richmond man by Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Eventually most of the nurseries closed. In 2022, the Nabeta family decided to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-06/questions-of-justice-flare-in-bay-area-warehouse-dispute\">sell their land\u003c/a> to a developer. Urban Tilth, whose farm sat against the property line, learned the plan was a five-story warehouse, said Chito Floriano, the farm programs director.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It [would have been] shaded out by about five to six hours of sunlight,” Floriano said. What followed was what the farm called the “No Shade Campaign”: letters to the developer, letters to the family, a street mural on Brookside Drive.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>About three months in, Floriano said, members of the Nabeta family walked over. They would rather sell to Urban Tilth if the price could be met, they said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Executive Director Doria Robinson \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-02/urban-farm-japanese-flower-nursery-warehouse-distribution-center-bay-area\">raised\u003c/a> more than $4.5 million to purchase it. The farm grew from 3 acres to 10.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Floriano said Urban Tilth is part of a long lineage of people who have worked the land — the Ohlone, the Black cowboys who once kept horses here and the Japanese American nursery families.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We aren’t the original light bearers of this movement,” he said. “Urban Tilth is gonna be a moment in history now.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘By whatever means necessary’ \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In late 2024, Contra Costa County won a federal grant that would have paid for a new resilience center on the farm. The farm planned a solar-powered building where neighbors could wait out a heat wave, a refinery accident or a stretch of dangerous wildfire smoke, stocked with cots, first-aid supplies and portable showers, with a battery system able to run the air-filtration and refrigeration systems for up to three days off the grid. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Floriano estimated construction would cost $6 million. It was one of \u003ca href=\"https://urbantilth.org/epa-community-change-grant-status/\">nine\u003c/a> projects across North Richmond covered by a $19 million grant to Contra Costa County from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\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/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097659\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260811-UrbanTilth-JY-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CSA (community-supported agriculture) coordinator Marco Huerta fills bags with fruit at Urban Tilth Farm in Richmond on Aug. 11, 2026. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Weeks after the county secured the contract, the federal government pulled the plug. In February 2025, the nonprofit lost contact with the EPA’s grant administrator and later learned the staffer had been fired. The county did not receive formal notice that the EPA had terminated the grant until May of that year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We took it off the books as soon as we got wind that it wasn’t coming through,” Boisvert said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Five \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:d8774ef4-9c01-4ae5-b06b-88b18f55d0c9\">new buildings\u003c/a> now stand on the farm, paid for without federal money: a greenhouse, a native plant nursery, a watershed learning center, a toolshed and what Urban Tilth says is the first permitted public composting toilet in an urban area of Contra Costa County. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth says it has raised more than $9.3 million of the roughly $14.3 million this phase will cost. It needs $5 million more to finish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Among the \u003ca href=\"https://urbantilth.org/the-north-richmond-farm-project/\">remaining\u003c/a> line items is $250,000 for a \u003ca href=\"https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:363291a1-c927-4b85-884e-508bd4f5bebe\">history walk\u003c/a>, a path running the length of the farm that tells the story of the neighborhood: the Ohlone, the blues clubs, the Black Panthers and the Japanese American nursery families, including the Nabetas.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Floriano said Urban Tilth receives almost no federal funds now, and is instead carried by state contracts, city creek restoration work, foundations and individual donors.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Urban Tilth recently finished two outdoor classrooms, one in the crop rows and one in the orchard, and Boisvert said the spaces get more use as more kids cycle through. His two urban agriculture classes at Richmond High started back up with 80 students, and the farm still runs after-school sessions, senior gardening and a volunteer day every fourth Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“By whatever means necessary, we’re going to see this thing through,” Boisvert said. “Piece by piece, one day at a time, one grant at a time, getting buildings finished, getting projects done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>Over the past 10 years, Joanna Hernandez has learned that even a small thing can become a challenge when a loved one is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/jails\">behind bars\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her son has been held in San Francisco County Jail since July 2016 and is set for trial in September. A tooth ached without dental care. Lunch trays served cold. Deputies ridiculed him, he told his mother.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And for her 9-year-old grandson, seeing his father has meant months of emails to command staff and visits canceled without warning.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They’re still human beings,” Hernandez said. “They deserve compassionate medical care and mental health support. And I mean, dignity for crying out loud.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A new San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/SF_Jail_Survey_2026_Report.pdf\">report suggests Hernandez’s son’s experience is far from isolated.\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1231\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Carolyn Sufrin reads to female inmates at San Francisco Jail from her book, 'Jailcare.'\" class=\"wp-image-11591983\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-1020x654.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-1180x757.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-960x616.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-240x154.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-375x240.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-520x333.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Carolyn Sufrin reads to female inmates at San Francisco County Jail from her book, ‘Jailcare.’ (Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The survey of the city’s jail population, conducted by the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability, reported poor conditions across nearly every aspect of daily life, including nutrition, safety, access to sunlight, family visitation, medical care and contact with attorneys. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nearly one-third reported being seriously injured while held in custody.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The survey was offered on jail tablets from March 18 to April 24. Nearly 500 people completed the survey of the roughly 1,200 people incarcerated at the time. DPA designed the 78-question survey in collaboration with the Sheriff’s Office and other city departments.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I hope that this sheds light and provides an avenue for a lot of other neighboring counties and states to review and look at what’s happening inside of their county jails,” said Paul Briley, who spent about two months in a San Francisco county jail and now leads nonprofit Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. “So that the conditions of confinement are not depriving people of their basic humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the survey, about 31% said they had been seriously injured in the jails, and 36% said the jail does not adequately protect people from violence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Of the 151 people who reported an injury, 64 identified a physical altercation with Sheriff’s Office deputies as the source, compared with 40 who named other incarcerated people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said following up on the injury reports is his highest priority, and noted the responses are self-reported and were not independently verified. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We want people to be safe, and we don’t want to think that our system is not protecting people,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>His office logged 226 fights between incarcerated people and 125 incidents of violence toward staff last fiscal year, he said, plus 36 excessive force complaints, one sustained after an outside investigation by DPA. But he said the survey’s anonymity makes individual claims nearly impossible to trace.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than half of women surveyed said they felt unprotected. This followed calls from advocates earlier this year to investigate reports that more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065232/advocates-demand-investigation-after-women-say-sf-jail-deputies-recorded-strip-searches\">a dozen women incarcerated\u003c/a> at a San Francisco jail were strip-searched in front of male deputies and recorded on body-worn cameras.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Briley said he became an advocate after seeing the conditions in county jails: 4 a.m. cold showers, wearing other people’s dirty clothing and an intake unit where meals are cold and no one goes outside.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sheriff in uniform speaks from a podium.\" class=\"wp-image-11968000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sheriff Paul Miyamoto speaks during a news conference in Civic Center in San Francisco on June 8, 2023. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It sparked a fire inside of me to have to address this from the outside,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Food was the lowest-rated section in the survey. Nearly two-thirds said meals do not meet their nutritional needs at all. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Angela Chan, assistant chief attorney at the Public Defender’s Office, said she watched a client receive a lunch of two small pieces of bread, a ball of unidentifiable meat and a few dried baby carrots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s supposed to keep that adult individual full and healthy for half a day,” Chan said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said clients have left custody with high blood pressure and other conditions they did not arrive with. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Miyamoto said the menu is vetted against state standards and reviewed by a nutritionist. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It may not seem tasty or healthy at some times, but we definitely have guardrails,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roughly one in three said they could not reach their attorney by phone, video or in person, and 40% said lockdowns interfered with legal visits. Chan said her staff sometimes wait hours to see a client and are told no one is available to bring them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a matter of priority,” she said, adding that lockdowns are not a lawful basis to deny a legal visit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Miyamoto said delays happen but denied intentionally “preventing people from seeing their attorneys.” He cited the difficulty of moving people between San Bruno and downtown courts and the mismatch between jail phone hours and public defenders’ court calendars.\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/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12085080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaks during a rally outside of San Francisco County Jail 2 on May 22, 2026, one year after women incarcerated at the jail alleged they were subjected to illegal strip searches by sheriff’s deputies in a women’s housing unit. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Briley said he was most surprised by how long some people have been inside. The survey found 39 respondents had spent five to 10 years in the jails and 15 for more than a decade. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In a county jail,” he said. “This is not a prison.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a next step, the Sheriff’s Office has asked the Jail Justice Coalition for recommendations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I don’t think this is just a list of complaints,” said Anne Stuhldreher, senior adviser in the city’s office of the Treasurer, which helped develop the survey. “It’s really a list that lays out, OK, these are the challenges that we really need to work on — to fix.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Asked what she would change right now, Hernandez said she wants to be able to hold her son. There should be a rule, she said, that anyone held longer than a year gets at least one hug a month from their mother.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The human touch between a loved one and an incarcerated loved one can do so much,” she said. “Imagine what that can do to his mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the city’s Department of Police Accountability sustained two excessive force complaints. Only one complaint was sustained. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Over the past 10 years, Joanna Hernandez has learned that even a small thing can become a challenge when a loved one is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/jails\">behind bars\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her son has been held in San Francisco County Jail since July 2016 and is set for trial in September. A tooth ached without dental care. Lunch trays served cold. Deputies ridiculed him, he told his mother.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And for her 9-year-old grandson, seeing his father has meant months of emails to command staff and visits canceled without warning.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They’re still human beings,” Hernandez said. “They deserve compassionate medical care and mental health support. And I mean, dignity for crying out loud.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A new San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/SF_Jail_Survey_2026_Report.pdf\">report suggests Hernandez’s son’s experience is far from isolated.\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1231\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Carolyn Sufrin reads to female inmates at San Francisco Jail from her book, 'Jailcare.'\" class=\"wp-image-11591983\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-1020x654.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-1180x757.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-960x616.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-240x154.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-375x240.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-520x333.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Carolyn Sufrin reads to female inmates at San Francisco County Jail from her book, ‘Jailcare.’ (Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The survey of the city’s jail population, conducted by the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability, reported poor conditions across nearly every aspect of daily life, including nutrition, safety, access to sunlight, family visitation, medical care and contact with attorneys. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nearly one-third reported being seriously injured while held in custody.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The survey was offered on jail tablets from March 18 to April 24. Nearly 500 people completed the survey of the roughly 1,200 people incarcerated at the time. DPA designed the 78-question survey in collaboration with the Sheriff’s Office and other city departments.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I hope that this sheds light and provides an avenue for a lot of other neighboring counties and states to review and look at what’s happening inside of their county jails,” said Paul Briley, who spent about two months in a San Francisco county jail and now leads nonprofit Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. “So that the conditions of confinement are not depriving people of their basic humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the survey, about 31% said they had been seriously injured in the jails, and 36% said the jail does not adequately protect people from violence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Of the 151 people who reported an injury, 64 identified a physical altercation with Sheriff’s Office deputies as the source, compared with 40 who named other incarcerated people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said following up on the injury reports is his highest priority, and noted the responses are self-reported and were not independently verified. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We want people to be safe, and we don’t want to think that our system is not protecting people,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>His office logged 226 fights between incarcerated people and 125 incidents of violence toward staff last fiscal year, he said, plus 36 excessive force complaints, one sustained after an outside investigation by DPA. But he said the survey’s anonymity makes individual claims nearly impossible to trace.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than half of women surveyed said they felt unprotected. This followed calls from advocates earlier this year to investigate reports that more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065232/advocates-demand-investigation-after-women-say-sf-jail-deputies-recorded-strip-searches\">a dozen women incarcerated\u003c/a> at a San Francisco jail were strip-searched in front of male deputies and recorded on body-worn cameras.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Briley said he became an advocate after seeing the conditions in county jails: 4 a.m. cold showers, wearing other people’s dirty clothing and an intake unit where meals are cold and no one goes outside.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sheriff in uniform speaks from a podium.\" class=\"wp-image-11968000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sheriff Paul Miyamoto speaks during a news conference in Civic Center in San Francisco on June 8, 2023. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It sparked a fire inside of me to have to address this from the outside,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Food was the lowest-rated section in the survey. Nearly two-thirds said meals do not meet their nutritional needs at all. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Angela Chan, assistant chief attorney at the Public Defender’s Office, said she watched a client receive a lunch of two small pieces of bread, a ball of unidentifiable meat and a few dried baby carrots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s supposed to keep that adult individual full and healthy for half a day,” Chan said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said clients have left custody with high blood pressure and other conditions they did not arrive with. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Miyamoto said the menu is vetted against state standards and reviewed by a nutritionist. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It may not seem tasty or healthy at some times, but we definitely have guardrails,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roughly one in three said they could not reach their attorney by phone, video or in person, and 40% said lockdowns interfered with legal visits. Chan said her staff sometimes wait hours to see a client and are told no one is available to bring them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a matter of priority,” she said, adding that lockdowns are not a lawful basis to deny a legal visit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Miyamoto said delays happen but denied intentionally “preventing people from seeing their attorneys.” He cited the difficulty of moving people between San Bruno and downtown courts and the mismatch between jail phone hours and public defenders’ court calendars.\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/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12085080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaks during a rally outside of San Francisco County Jail 2 on May 22, 2026, one year after women incarcerated at the jail alleged they were subjected to illegal strip searches by sheriff’s deputies in a women’s housing unit. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Briley said he was most surprised by how long some people have been inside. The survey found 39 respondents had spent five to 10 years in the jails and 15 for more than a decade. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In a county jail,” he said. “This is not a prison.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a next step, the Sheriff’s Office has asked the Jail Justice Coalition for recommendations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I don’t think this is just a list of complaints,” said Anne Stuhldreher, senior adviser in the city’s office of the Treasurer, which helped develop the survey. “It’s really a list that lays out, OK, these are the challenges that we really need to work on — to fix.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Asked what she would change right now, Hernandez said she wants to be able to hold her son. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> activists launched a multi-day wave of protests this week to demand that cities shut off automated license plate readers entirely instead of adopting new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The mobilization by 20 immigrant rights groups, climate organizers and other community groups is part of a national week of action and arrives as the technology and its primary provider, Flock Safety, face mounting pushback. Over the past eight months, several Bay Area cities, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074467/santa-clara-county-leaders-cut-out-flock-safety-in-new-surveillance-policy\">county\u003c/a> and a university have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072077/as-california-cities-grow-wary-of-flock-safety-cameras-mountain-views-shuts-its-off\">canceled contracts\u003c/a>, switched cameras off or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075999/san-jose-is-the-latest-bay-area-city-to-restrict-flock-license-plate-cameras\">tightened their rules\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>These moves followed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12088076/san-francisco-police-audit-shows-feds-accessed-licenseplate-data-hundreds-of-times\">audits\u003c/a> and public records that showed federal and out-of-state agencies accessed local camera data in apparent violation of a 2015 California law that bars it. Flock announced \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/flock-license-plate-cameras-surveillance-deflock-2a93bc075e2f7ffcca9e04a35d75a3fe\">privacy changes\u003c/a> on Aug. 13, shortening the default period it holds data from 30 days to seven and requiring police customers to turn on misuse-detection tools by Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Organizers say the changes don’t go far enough.\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/10/2026/05/050726BERKELEY-FLOCK-RALLY_GH_023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12082873\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/050726BERKELEY-FLOCK-RALLY_GH_023-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/050726BERKELEY-FLOCK-RALLY_GH_023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/050726BERKELEY-FLOCK-RALLY_GH_023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Organizers speak during a rally opposing Berkeley’s proposed contract expansion with surveillance company Flock Safety outside the Berkeley Unified School District boardroom in Berkeley on May 7, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We cannot sacrifice every person’s rights for the false and dangerous illusion of safety,” said Kimberly Woo, a community organizer with the Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network, or SIREN, in San José. “That’s why the best solution is to turn all these cameras off.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the events are taking place in Bay Area cities that are actively grappling with how to best balance public safety with privacy. In Palo Alto, where organizers gathered Thursday evening outside City Hall under a “Safety Over Surveillance” banner, 30 cameras are still in use under a contract that extends to 2029. The city council is scheduled to take up an independent audit of the program on Aug. 24. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12095764/why-is-flock-safety-so-controversial-in-the-bay-area\">Reporting by \u003cem>The Palo Alto Weekly\u003c/em>\u003c/a> earlier this year found that police agencies around the country had searched Palo Alto’s Flock data, something city police said they had not authorized.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area cities have embraced the technology. The Oakland City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067461/oakland-council-expands-flock-license-plate-reader-network-despite-privacy-concerns\">voted in December\u003c/a> to renew and expand its Flock network in a $2.25 million, two-year deal, adding pan-tilt-zoom cameras that can follow pedestrians as well as vehicles. Berkeley extended its contract by up to a year in May but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082887/berkeley-extends-surveillance-contract-with-flock-safety-but-rejects-major-expansion\">rejected a $1.4 million expansion\u003c/a> after a city attorney memo warned the company might not be able to honor promises about data sharing.\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/10/2025/11/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12064595\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/image-9.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/image-9-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/image-9-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan helps install a Flock Safety automated license plate reader on April 23, 2024. Civil liberties groups are now suing the city and Mahan over the technology’s uses. (Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Police departments have consistently defended the cameras as among their most effective investigative tools. San José Police Chief Paul Joseph told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075999/san-jose-is-the-latest-bay-area-city-to-restrict-flock-license-plate-cameras\">city council in March\u003c/a> that no technology in his career had been more useful for solving serious crimes. Oakland’s Lt. Gabriel Urquiza told the city council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067461/oakland-council-expands-flock-license-plate-reader-network-despite-privacy-concerns\">in December\u003c/a> that the system had produced 232 arrests and the recovery of 68 firearms since mid-2024.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Anti-Flock advocates reject the link between the cameras and safety. Woo said crime has been trending down nationally for years for reasons that predate the cameras, and that clearance rates don’t move measurably when the systems are switched on or off. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In an email \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12094101/stanford-cuts-ties-with-flock-safety-shifts-to-new-surveillance-vendor\">earlier this month\u003c/a>, Flock spokesperson Courtney Terlecki told KQED that pulling out a technology that is actively helping solve violent crimes moves public safety backward, leaving cases unsolved longer and victims waiting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She added it supported more than a million criminal investigations in 2025 and helped locate more than 10,000 missing people, and that new city partnerships this year have outpaced nonrenewals by roughly seven to one. In California, she said, it has disabled its national search feature, blocked out-of-state discoverability and cut off federal access to state agencies’ data.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In Gilroy on Sunday, organizers plan to draw a connection between Flock cameras, a planned Amazon data center and an ICE processing facility under construction to highlight the dangers of data collection by automated plate readers. More than 50 agencies and jurisdictions nationwide have canceled, suspended or rejected Flock contracts \u003ca href=\"https://deflock.org/council#wins\">since January\u003c/a>, according to DeFlock, the volunteer group that maps the cameras. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A lot of the group’s concerns center around the use of license plate readers for immigration enforcement. Woo described immigrants who fear that a trip to work, school or the grocery store could be the last time they see their families. 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The Oakland City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067461/oakland-council-expands-flock-license-plate-reader-network-despite-privacy-concerns\">voted in December\u003c/a> to renew and expand its Flock network in a $2.25 million, two-year deal, adding pan-tilt-zoom cameras that can follow pedestrians as well as vehicles. Berkeley extended its contract by up to a year in May but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082887/berkeley-extends-surveillance-contract-with-flock-safety-but-rejects-major-expansion\">rejected a $1.4 million expansion\u003c/a> after a city attorney memo warned the company might not be able to honor promises about data sharing.\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/10/2025/11/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12064595\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/image-9.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/image-9-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/image-9-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan helps install a Flock Safety automated license plate reader on April 23, 2024. Civil liberties groups are now suing the city and Mahan over the technology’s uses. (Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Police departments have consistently defended the cameras as among their most effective investigative tools. San José Police Chief Paul Joseph told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075999/san-jose-is-the-latest-bay-area-city-to-restrict-flock-license-plate-cameras\">city council in March\u003c/a> that no technology in his career had been more useful for solving serious crimes. Oakland’s Lt. Gabriel Urquiza told the city council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067461/oakland-council-expands-flock-license-plate-reader-network-despite-privacy-concerns\">in December\u003c/a> that the system had produced 232 arrests and the recovery of 68 firearms since mid-2024.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Anti-Flock advocates reject the link between the cameras and safety. Woo said crime has been trending down nationally for years for reasons that predate the cameras, and that clearance rates don’t move measurably when the systems are switched on or off. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In an email \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12094101/stanford-cuts-ties-with-flock-safety-shifts-to-new-surveillance-vendor\">earlier this month\u003c/a>, Flock spokesperson Courtney Terlecki told KQED that pulling out a technology that is actively helping solve violent crimes moves public safety backward, leaving cases unsolved longer and victims waiting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She added it supported more than a million criminal investigations in 2025 and helped locate more than 10,000 missing people, and that new city partnerships this year have outpaced nonrenewals by roughly seven to one. In California, she said, it has disabled its national search feature, blocked out-of-state discoverability and cut off federal access to state agencies’ data.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In Gilroy on Sunday, organizers plan to draw a connection between Flock cameras, a planned Amazon data center and an ICE processing facility under construction to highlight the dangers of data collection by automated plate readers. More than 50 agencies and jurisdictions nationwide have canceled, suspended or rejected Flock contracts \u003ca href=\"https://deflock.org/council#wins\">since January\u003c/a>, according to DeFlock, the volunteer group that maps the cameras. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A lot of the group’s concerns center around the use of license plate readers for immigration enforcement. Woo described immigrants who fear that a trip to work, school or the grocery store could be the last time they see their families. Some of the organization’s most outspoken people now come to public events in masks, or skip them, worried that being recorded could be turned against them, Woo said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, the youth climate group Sunrise Movement’s Bay Area chapter said that it sees the two fights as connected. Getting to a “green economy,” one that runs on clean energy and the jobs that come with it, requires a democracy that puts working people’s needs first, not mass surveillance, the group said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want cities and counties to completely reject ALPRs and mass surveillance and instead invest in initiatives that create healthy communities like education, affordable housing, green jobs, and social services,” it continued.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The California Transportation Commission will vote Friday on a $95 million funding bid that would launch the long-delayed overhaul of Highway 37, the flood-prone route linking Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/northern-california\">counties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Thompson, who has directed federal money to the corridor, said the road’s problems have been deferred for decades. Thompson noted that officials had installed traffic barriers known as K-rails years ago to divide the two directions of traffic because a real fix was too expensive at the time. Now, the road is not only inadequate and unsafe but is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1940162/north-bays-highway-37-is-going-to-be-a-serious-climate-mess\">going underwater\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Highway 37 runs close to sea level across the San Pablo Baylands and already faces regular storm closures and permanent flooding risks as the bay rises. Caltrans says the work would be built to hold up against sea level rise projected through 2050.\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/10/2026/08/081926-Highway37-02-MC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096033\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081926-Highway37-02-MC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081926-Highway37-02-MC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081926-Highway37-02-MC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cars drive down Highway 37 in Sonoma County on Aug. 19, 2026. More than twice the share on other Bay Area roads, 85% of people who use Highway 37 to get to work earn below the region’s median wage, according to figures from the California Alliance for Jobs. (Miles Cull/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Marin County Supervisor Stephanie Moulton-Peters and other supporters of the reconstruction vision gathered Wednesday at a nearby ranch, urging commissioners to approve the funding as traffic tops 40,000 vehicles daily and commute delays stretch past 90 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The responsible thing to do is build for the future instead of having this conversation again and again when the need is so urgent,” said Moulton-Peters, a member of the regional policy committee for the corridor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Reding, a union official representing Caltrans workers who maintain the road, said improvements have been discussed for decades. “We’ve been talking about this Fix 37 [project] for well over 30 years,” he said. “It’s time that we make a change.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The money sits in two separate budgetary items. One \u003ca href=\"https://catc.ca.gov/-/media/ctc-media/documents/ctc-meetings/2026/2026-08/108-2-5d5-a11y.pdf\">allocates\u003c/a> $32.35 million to rebuild the intersection at Sears Point where Highway 37 meets Highway 121; extend the eastbound merge lane by about a mile; and replace pavement, barriers and lighting. The \u003ca href=\"https://catc.ca.gov/-/media/ctc-media/documents/ctc-meetings/2026/2026-08/130-2-5c10-a11y.pdf\">other\u003c/a> allocates $62.79 million toward the first phase of the larger Sears Point to Mare Island project, which includes replacing the Tolay Creek Bridge with a longer, wider and higher span. Caltrans plans to advertise the combined contract in September and start work in May.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, executive director of the California Alliance for Jobs, said the work is also an equity issue. He told KQED that 85% of people who use Highway 37 to get to work earn below the region’s median wage, while on other Bay Area roads that share is less than 40%. Backers estimate the construction would support as many as 5,000 jobs in Solano County, a region that has the Bay Area’s highest unemployment rate among the nine San Francisco Bay Area Counties.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse-1536x964.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The endangered salt-marsh harvest mouse is typically about 3 inches long, weighs 1/2 ounce or less, and its tail can be longer than its body. Protections for the rodent were eased in a California bill to benefit a highway project. (William Thein/U.S. Geological Survey)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state has been inching toward this point for years. \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-projects/d4-37-corridor-projects/37-projects/1q761-sears-point-mare-island-improvement-project\">Caltrans\u003c/a> programmed the Sears Point intersection work in 2022, but the funding lapsed in 2025 and had to be reprogrammed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An updated July estimate pushed costs 54% higher after engineers discovered bay mud required them to swap standard sheet walls for complex, pile-supported retaining walls and extensive groundwater treatment. The department also asked for three more years to finish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom helped to grease the wheels last October when he signed a bill that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB697\">eased protections\u003c/a> for three species of bird and the salt-marsh harvest mouse, all inhabitants of the marsh beside the highway. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new law lets state wildlife regulators permit a limited number of deaths of the mouse, the California Ridgway’s rail, the California black rail and the white-tailed kite, provided Caltrans restores habitat in return. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters of the roadwork plans said the preexisting restrictions would have limited construction to roughly three months out of a year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some environmental and transit groups are in the meantime fighting the plan to widen Highway 37. In a 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://transformca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sign-on-Letter_-Oppose-Backdoor-Streamlining-for-HW-37.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to state Senate leadership, two dozen organizations warned that changes to wildlife protections would invite other highway expansions to seek similar exemptions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates at the nonprofit TransForm, which was the lead signatory of the 2024 letter, are not opposing Friday’s item.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>TransForm policy director Zack Deutsch-Gross told KQED it is staying neutral on the Tolay Creek bridge replacement while continuing to fight the added lanes planned for later phases. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Spending money on expanding a highway that already floods regularly is a waste of taxpayer money and time,” he said. \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/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12069962\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A kayaker floats down the Napa River past the Navy Yard of Mare Island in the city of Vallejo on Jan. 14, 2025. (David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deutsch-Gross said more lanes won’t relieve congestion long-term, and any elevation gained in this phase is minimal and doesn’t address sea level rise. He also argued that construction of the causeway would mean tearing out the interim work entirely. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We should be advancing truly equitable solutions like affordable housing near jobs and reliable transit service so people don’t have to pay over $12,000 a year in car upkeep and maintenance,” Deutsch-Gross said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday’s vote covers phase one. Later phases would widen the highway to four lanes between Sears Point and Mare Island, adding a carpool lane in each direction and bringing bus service to a corridor that has none. Caltrans describes the project as including marsh restoration and nature-based shoreline protection.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Solano County Supervisor Cassandra James, whose district includes where the highway enters the county, said commuters absorb the cost daily. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single day, thousands of working families across our region are paying a hidden tax,” she said. Nearly one in four Solano residents commute out of the county for work, she said, and for many, the highway is the only route.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Reding, a union official representing Caltrans workers who maintain the road, said improvements have been discussed for decades. “We’ve been talking about this Fix 37 [project] for well over 30 years,” he said. “It’s time that we make a change.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The money sits in two separate budgetary items. One \u003ca href=\"https://catc.ca.gov/-/media/ctc-media/documents/ctc-meetings/2026/2026-08/108-2-5d5-a11y.pdf\">allocates\u003c/a> $32.35 million to rebuild the intersection at Sears Point where Highway 37 meets Highway 121; extend the eastbound merge lane by about a mile; and replace pavement, barriers and lighting. The \u003ca href=\"https://catc.ca.gov/-/media/ctc-media/documents/ctc-meetings/2026/2026-08/130-2-5c10-a11y.pdf\">other\u003c/a> allocates $62.79 million toward the first phase of the larger Sears Point to Mare Island project, which includes replacing the Tolay Creek Bridge with a longer, wider and higher span. Caltrans plans to advertise the combined contract in September and start work in May.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, executive director of the California Alliance for Jobs, said the work is also an equity issue. He told KQED that 85% of people who use Highway 37 to get to work earn below the region’s median wage, while on other Bay Area roads that share is less than 40%. Backers estimate the construction would support as many as 5,000 jobs in Solano County, a region that has the Bay Area’s highest unemployment rate among the nine San Francisco Bay Area Counties.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse-1536x964.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The endangered salt-marsh harvest mouse is typically about 3 inches long, weighs 1/2 ounce or less, and its tail can be longer than its body. Protections for the rodent were eased in a California bill to benefit a highway project. (William Thein/U.S. Geological Survey)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state has been inching toward this point for years. \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-projects/d4-37-corridor-projects/37-projects/1q761-sears-point-mare-island-improvement-project\">Caltrans\u003c/a> programmed the Sears Point intersection work in 2022, but the funding lapsed in 2025 and had to be reprogrammed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An updated July estimate pushed costs 54% higher after engineers discovered bay mud required them to swap standard sheet walls for complex, pile-supported retaining walls and extensive groundwater treatment. The department also asked for three more years to finish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom helped to grease the wheels last October when he signed a bill that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB697\">eased protections\u003c/a> for three species of bird and the salt-marsh harvest mouse, all inhabitants of the marsh beside the highway. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new law lets state wildlife regulators permit a limited number of deaths of the mouse, the California Ridgway’s rail, the California black rail and the white-tailed kite, provided Caltrans restores habitat in return. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters of the roadwork plans said the preexisting restrictions would have limited construction to roughly three months out of a year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some environmental and transit groups are in the meantime fighting the plan to widen Highway 37. In a 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://transformca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sign-on-Letter_-Oppose-Backdoor-Streamlining-for-HW-37.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to state Senate leadership, two dozen organizations warned that changes to wildlife protections would invite other highway expansions to seek similar exemptions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates at the nonprofit TransForm, which was the lead signatory of the 2024 letter, are not opposing Friday’s item.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>TransForm policy director Zack Deutsch-Gross told KQED it is staying neutral on the Tolay Creek bridge replacement while continuing to fight the added lanes planned for later phases. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Spending money on expanding a highway that already floods regularly is a waste of taxpayer money and time,” he said. \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/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12069962\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A kayaker floats down the Napa River past the Navy Yard of Mare Island in the city of Vallejo on Jan. 14, 2025. (David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deutsch-Gross said more lanes won’t relieve congestion long-term, and any elevation gained in this phase is minimal and doesn’t address sea level rise. He also argued that construction of the causeway would mean tearing out the interim work entirely. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We should be advancing truly equitable solutions like affordable housing near jobs and reliable transit service so people don’t have to pay over $12,000 a year in car upkeep and maintenance,” Deutsch-Gross said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday’s vote covers phase one. Later phases would widen the highway to four lanes between Sears Point and Mare Island, adding a carpool lane in each direction and bringing bus service to a corridor that has none. 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The letter said the deployment has been extended twice and remains in a combat zone three months past that date, “with no anticipated redeployment date in sight.” The ship has pulled into port twice since deploying — once in December and once for a single day in July — a 208-day stretch that the crew called a “modern record.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Garamendi, who leads Democrats on the House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee, told KQED that the war has been “nothing but a disaster for our service members,” whom he said are contending with shifting objectives and little clarity about the mission. Garamendi said he would use his subcommittee role to press for answers. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/John-Garamendi-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12076926\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/John-Garamendi-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/John-Garamendi-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/John-Garamendi-Getty-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rep. John Garamendi, D-California, at the U.S. Capitol after the last votes of the week on June 16, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier told KQED that President Donald Trump started the war “in a way that didn’t consult with Congress sufficiently and was very thoughtless.” He said he is primarily concerned for the young sailors sent into a war zone.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re sending people out into a war zone that we created,” he said. “You’re exposing them to very difficult risks.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier said the purpose of the letter was to ask the administration directly whether the deployment’s extension had been thought through.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“These reports are not political conjecture; they come from sailors’ worried family members,” the members wrote. They say numerous sailors have reportedly tried to go overboard, citing an Aug. 11 \u003ca href=\"https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/11/multiple-uss-abraham-lincoln-sailors-have-tried-to-go-overboard-amid-extended-deployment-families-say/\">Navy Times report\u003c/a>, and that since April, families have raised concerns about food quality. Those grievances culminated in what the letter calls a “fever pitch” at an \u003ca href=\"https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-08-11/abraham-lincoln-middle-east-mental-health-town-hall-meeting-22506344.html\">Aug. 6 town hall\u003c/a> in San Diego, where families addressed Cao directly.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>MS NOW \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ms.now/news/conditions-safety-uss-lincoln-iran-war\">interviewed a dozen\u003c/a> relatives of sailors and Marines aboard the ship this month. Family members described moldy showers, broken laundry facilities, stretches without hot water, and the ship’s store frequently running out of basic toiletries. One mother said her son had spent days subsisting on rationed portions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Navy’s 5th Fleet, Cmdr. Joseph Hontz, told \u003cem>MS NOW\u003c/em> that supplies had run low only briefly and that the ship and others in the region have enough food to sustain operations, with fresh produce being the most difficult item to deliver before it spoils. He said the crew has access to mental health and chaplain teams and to fitness facilities, and disputed accounts of damage to the flight deck.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Pentagon completely disputes the families’ accounts. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hegseth-says-reports-about-poor-conditions-aboard-carrier-are-misrepresented-2026-08-13/\">said\u003c/a> the reports had been “completely misrepresented.” U.S. Central Command \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/centcom/status/2088049195080880337?s=46\">posted\u003c/a> that claims of a spike in suicidal ideation are false, insisting that the Lincoln has among the highest reenlistment rates in the carrier fleet and that a sailor who went overboard Aug. 3 was recovered safely.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Trump was dismissive when asked about the deployment on Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-uss-lincolns-deployment-was-not-nearly-long-enough\">saying\u003c/a> the ship would be replaced “with another very similar ship.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Responding to the denials from Hegseth and CENTCOM, DeSaulnier said the burden is on them. “They’re calling the families liars,” he told KQED. 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She pressed for regular retesting and for assurances about the welding teacher, who spends the day in one of the two rooms where PCE was detected. \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/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094387\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The campus of John F. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pollution\">carcinogenic dry-cleaning solvent\u003c/a> is not seeping into classrooms at John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond, state officials announced, clearing the way for the campus to begin a new school year on Tuesday as scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Had the air testing shown similar contamination to what was found in the soil, the school district \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12094345/richmonds-kennedy-high-to-stay-closed-pending-test-for-toxic-chemical\">was prepared\u003c/a> to start the school year at Contra Costa College, the Craneway Pavilion or another district site.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The West Contra Costa Unified School District was notified on July 31 when tetrachloroethylene, a carcinogen commonly abbreviated as PCE, turned up in five of six soil-vapor samples drilled about 5 feet down on the east side of campus. \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/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094386\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The campus of John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond is closed on Aug. 7, 2026, as school district officials await air-testing results from the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. The campus has been under construction since 2025. (Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Though now banned in California, \u003ca href=\"https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSp/PHS/PHS.aspx?phsid=263&toxid=48\">PCE\u003c/a> was once commonly used in dry cleaning. California officials have linked the underground contamination at Kennedy High to a broader plume that includes the Miraflores housing development and the former location of a dry cleaning business that operated at nearby San Pablo Avenue from 1959 to 2015. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In March, the current and former owners of Omo’s Fabricare Dry Cleaners paid $100,800 to \u003ca href=\"https://dtsc.ca.gov/2026/03/26/dtsc-secures-more-than-100000-settlement-with-former-bay-area-dry-cleaner-for-cleanup-violations/\">settle\u003c/a> charges that they had failed to clean up the site.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In a letter to the district on Thursday, scientists for the state stated that the source of detected PCE is expected to be consumer products rather than the plume underground.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hughes said the readings in both rooms fall below standards set by the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, as well as the state’s commercial screening level.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jeff Carter, the district’s interim associate superintendent of business services, said staff will inventory the chemicals stored in those rooms, “remove those consumer products that we believe are enhancing that level of PCE,” retest and then decide whether to reopen the spaces.\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/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094385\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The campus of John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond is closed on Aug. 7, 2026. The campus has been under construction since 2025. (Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hughes said the samples were collected under deliberately conservative conditions, with no ventilation running, and that the kitchen in particular needs to be sampled again “under typical working conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Dr. Gina Solomon, chief of occupational, environmental and climate medicine at UCSF, who was briefed by state investigators and has advised the district as a volunteer, said that she feels “extremely confident that the school is safe.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If she were the parent of a Kennedy student, she said, “I would feel totally comfortable sending my child to that high school.” In the district’s news release, Solomon called the results “truly the best case scenario.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hughes said her office has not identified the source of the contamination, nor has it mapped how far the plume extends, and that cleanup options cannot be evaluated until those determinations are made. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Asked whether the state could simply dig the chemical out, she said that would be ideal but that the agency expects to be working on it “in the coming years.” A schedule for future testing at Kennedy has not been set. Carter said the district hopes to test again during a school break, when results can be compared across seasons.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Addressing the town hall on Thursday, a woman who said she lives directly across from the school, at the corner of 45th Street and Cutting Boulevard, said she watches construction crews dig, and that “the dirt blows into my house” while her children play in the backyard. She pressed for regular retesting and for assurances about the welding teacher, who spends the day in one of the two rooms where PCE was detected. \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/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094387\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260807-Kennedy-High-BK-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The campus of John F. Kennedy High School in Richmond is closed on Aug. 7, 2026, as school district officials await air-testing results from the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Soil samples detected the presence of PCE, a carcinogenic solvent that is used in dry cleaning. (Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hughes said the western side of the campus on Burke Avenue was not sampled because the plume, as mapped, has not reached that far, and that her office has found no PCE in indoor air in nearby homes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Richmond Swim Center, closed alongside the school, will reopen and start moving programs back during the week of Aug. 24, said LaShonda White, the city’s deputy city manager for community services.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carter, the associate superintendent, put the cost of testing so far at “somewhere north of $100,000,” covered by bond and general fund money, along with air purifiers for classrooms and offices. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Cheryl Cotton said the district’s involvement does not end Tuesday. “We would not bring our students back to a situation that was not safe,” she said. “We will continue to monitor the situation, so this is not the end of this process.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Police released body camera footage from a fatal July 13 shooting of a man in the Fruitvale neighborhood on Wednesday, a month after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091598/after-third-opd-shooting-this-year-advocates-demand-body-cam-footage\">advocates demanded the department \u003c/a>make the video public.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The release comes a month after OPD’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/News-Releases/Police/Officer-Involved-Shooting-in-the-4000-block-of-International-Boulevard\">initial account\u003c/a> of the shooting, which said only that officers “located an armed individual” who “lunged at officers with a weapon.” The department did not describe the weapon publicly at the time, which activists criticized, calling for transparency around the use of force.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Police identified the man as José Ángel Castillo, 43. The department said that it is waiting on the Alameda County Coroner’s office to formally verify his identity.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The footage shows what the department calls “homemade weapons”: two long poles with blades affixed to the ends, one in each of Castillo’s hands. The footage shows officers with their guns drawn following Castillo down an East Oakland street for roughly a minute, firing Tasers at him as he stood in a parking lot, then shooting him seconds later as he swung one of two bladed poles he was carrying.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The videos do not capture every angle of the encounter, and CHP has not released footage from its officers, but OPD’s release offers more insight into the moments leading up to Castillo’s death. The videos can be publicly viewed \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandca.nextrequest.com/documents?folder_filter=26-0708_OIS\">here\u003c/a>, with a warning that they contain graphic content. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video footage\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The footage shows California Highway Patrol officers first encountering Castillo at a homeless encampment near 40th Avenue and International Boulevard after 2 p.m. He is holding a hammer and complies when officers tell him to drop it. Castillo then raises the two bladed poles toward the officers, one of whom points a gun at him. He then walks away from the encampment toward the street.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Oakland officers arrive at East 12th Street and 41st Avenue, Castillo is still carrying both poles. Officers get out of their cars and order him to drop the weapons. He keeps walking. One officer can be heard telling him, “Just stop and talk to us.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Castillo yells back, but most of what he says is difficult to make out.\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/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12046794\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OAKLAND-POLICE-DEPARTMENT-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An Oakland Police Department Vehicle in Oakland on July 1, 2025. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As Castillo walks up 41st Avenue toward International Boulevard, footage from a second officer’s camera and a nearby security camera shows two adults and a child walking past Castillo on the sidewalk. An officer waves them along. Roughly 20 seconds later, as Castillo continues walking toward International Boulevard on 41st Avenue, one of the officers says, “We are going to use force. Just stop.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Castillo walks into a parking lot on 41st Avenue, connected to businesses on International Boulevard. Around five officers follow him at a walking pace. Tasers are deployed — an officer can be heard saying, “Hit him again,” before a second Taser is heard. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Castillo swings one pole. Immediately, multiple gunshots follow, and he falls forward. One more shot is heard. In the footage, no officer appears to be within arm’s reach of him when he swings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A wider angle from the parking lot shows nine officers in view. Text on one video states that two officers fired their weapons. After a resuscitation attempt, Castillo died on scene.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The officers who fired were placed on paid administrative leave. The department is conducting criminal and internal affairs investigations. The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office is also conducting an independent investigation, and the city’s civilian Community Police Review Agency has been notified. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>OPD told KQED the investigation remains ongoing and that no additional information is being provided at this time.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The shooting is the third by Oakland officers this year and the second that was fatal, following an April 27 shooting in the 1800 block of 89th Avenue that left one dead, and a May 8 shooting near Ninth Avenue that wounded a man police said dragged one officer and pinned another against a parked car. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It also lands seven weeks before U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick is scheduled to decide whether to end more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12085228/oakland-police-judge-clears-path-for-possible-end-to-federal-oversight\">two decades of federal oversight\u003c/a> of the department. Federal monitor Robert Warshaw found in a May 22 report that OPD had met all 51 court-ordered reforms for the first time, and Orrick has said he will close the case at a Sept. 29 hearing as long as the department stays in compliance. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Community response\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cat Brooks, co-founder and executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project, questioned the role of CHP on the scene and said the man visible in the footage appeared to be in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“He needed help,” Brooks said. “He needed somebody that knows how to talk to people that are in elevated states of mental health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12017328\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Oakland Police Department on Nov. 12, 2016. 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In the footage, no officer appears to be within arm’s reach of him when he swings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A wider angle from the parking lot shows nine officers in view. Text on one video states that two officers fired their weapons. After a resuscitation attempt, Castillo died on scene.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The officers who fired were placed on paid administrative leave. The department is conducting criminal and internal affairs investigations. 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"content": "\u003cp>San José wants \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/data-centers\">data center developers\u003c/a> to pay for something beyond the buildings themselves: parks, job training, affordable housing, home solar and clean energy programs in the neighborhoods that end up living next to them.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A City Council committee voted Wednesday to direct city staff to \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=15752905&GUID=11893A51-FCE0-417A-8951-EC5579F2384E&G=920296E4-80BE-4CA2-A78F-32C5EFCF78AF\">fold community benefits\u003c/a> into their ongoing drafting of standards for data centers, and to study whether a share of the tax revenue those facilities generate could be reinvested in a defined area around each site.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Councilmember David Cohen framed it as filling a hole in work already underway. The city has been drafting \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=15547954&GUID=A36CDEFA-BA9E-4B3B-BD22-1A00AB49745A\">environmental standards\u003c/a> since June, and he said the authors realized they should stipulate what residents might get in return.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The decision reflects a growing challenge as Silicon Valley leaders try to square the economic benefits of a growing data center industry with mounting concerns from residents who live near the projects. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx\">Gallup\u003c/a> poll found that 7 in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area, including nearly half who are strongly opposed. About a quarter favor these projects, with 7% strongly in favor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-SJPOWER-JG-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12049894\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-SJPOWER-JG-8_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-SJPOWER-JG-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-SJPOWER-JG-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks during a July 25, 2025, press conference in North San José about a partnership with PG&E intended to attract more data center development to the city. (Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Compared to other Bay Area cities, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076074/oakley-drops-data-center-plans-approves-massive-industrial-project\">Oakley, which have restricted\u003c/a> data center construction, San José has historically been more open to tech-related development and is already home to about 25 data centers as of last summer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city struck a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049830/san-jose-and-pge-strike-deal-to-attract-data-centers-to-south-bay\">partnership with PG&E\u003c/a> that guaranteed power for 10 large projects and stopped the city’s plans to build its own utility. PG&E committed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/tag/pge\">investing $2.6 billion \u003c/a>in South Bay infrastructure between 2026 and 2035. City officials estimated then that each data center could generate $3.4 million to $6.8 million a year for the city in utility and property taxes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San José is now reviewing 11 more Data Center projects.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Downtown, developers want to stack them vertically alongside housing. A proposal at 180 Park Ave. would put an 11-story data center next to a 28-story residential tower and an expansion of The Tech Interactive science museum. Another project, at 300 S. First St., pairs a seven-story data center with three 30-story towers holding 1,164 apartments. A third, at 323 Terraine St., offers the city a choice between a residential building alone or a version that adds a seven-story data center beneath 345 units.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Developers have also pitched standalone data center projects in North and South San José, with the substations, water tanks and generator yards visible from the street.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A project at 2549 Orchard Parkway would put two four-story buildings totaling 630,000 square feet on 22 acres, with three water-storage tanks, its own substation and a PG&E switching station. One on West Trimble Boulevard would remove 224 trees for a building with 21 generators and a private substation. Three more are pending in the south, near Highway 85 and Silver Creek, including a 516,000-square-foot facility on Silver Creek Valley Road and a 444,436-square-foot building proposed for Great Oaks Parkway.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/data-center-and-other-large-energy-use-projects#!/\">city’s list shows eight data center\u003c/a> applications under review and three approved. Several of the largest — approved and pending alike — are capped at 99 megawatts. Data centers are often sized that way to stay \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049830/san-jose-and-pge-strike-deal-to-attract-data-centers-to-south-bay\">under the 100-megawatt threshold\u003c/a> that triggers stricter state oversight.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://myemail.constantcontact.com/A-Message-from-Mayor-Matt.html?soid=1140225190588&aid=MQ9jlS7apXw\">July newsletter\u003c/a> to residents, San José Mayor Matt Mahan said that data centers generate stable revenue for the general fund and that a large facility should produce millions annually for police, firefighters, parks, libraries and roads.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“But revenue cannot be a permission slip to ignore quality of life or harm the environment,” Mahan wrote. “A project that creates economic value while shifting environmental or other costs to nearby families is not a good deal.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At the Wednesday evening meeting, Lena Drape, speaking for the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority, asked the committee to go beyond the memo and stop accepting and processing new applications until the standards are approved. Compared with pausing, Drape said, it is more expensive for the city to continue taking proposals with the intention of revisiting them later.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20230801-SJCityHall-21-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12075969\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20230801-SJCityHall-21-JY_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20230801-SJCityHall-21-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20230801-SJCityHall-21-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pedestrians walk past City Hall in San José, California, on Aug. 1, 2023. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This would also address what is clearly an unintended reverse incentive for rushed applications to be submitted now before sound regulations are in place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San José resident Evan Brooks told the committee that a rezoning effort tied to the marketing of a site for a data center is scheduled for council action Aug. 18 — one day before the city’s first community listening session on the standards.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If entitlements move first, projects filed in the interim escape rules the council has already determined are necessary,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Christopher Burton, the city’s planning director, said a special use permit takes longer than six months to move through review, and that anything filed now would not reach a hearing before February or March. Cohen added that a new data center requires its own environmental impact report, pushing the timeline out at least a year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Many residents who addressed the committee said the timeline was beside the point. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12037773\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flags at City Hall in San José, California, on Aug. 1, 2023. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The trade-off you’re asking us to accept is in exchange for some tax investment for our community to shoulder the health burdens imposed by AI data centers,” Dash Leeds, the conservation coordinator for the Sierra Club’s Loma Prieta chapter, said, arguing that infrasound and generator emissions cannot be mitigated away.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jasmine Jordan, a design student at San José State University, told the committee the buildings will cost her generation more than they deliver. She said the artificial intelligence economy has shrunk the entry-level job market she and her classmates are graduating into, and “the building of data centers in San José will destroy our environment further than it already has been.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than a \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=15763923&GUID=3FBB3136-EB6C-4004-B29F-CF0885D0B501\">dozen letters \u003c/a>came in ahead of the meeting. Mani Bekele, writing for the city’s Climate Advisory Commission in July, urged the council to publish a live public dashboard of every existing, approved and proposed project, listing megawatt demand, water use, backup-generator capacity, revenue to date and permanent jobs created. The commission asked for numerical thresholds, rather than what it called “aspirational language,” and for a rule barring city staff, councilmembers and the mayor from signing nondisclosure agreements with developers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Manuel Pineda, a deputy city manager overseeing energy projects, laid out an engagement plan that has been running since late July, involving small meetings already held with groups including the Sierra Club, Mothers Out Front and the local chapters of two building trades. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Officials said they hope to replicate past partnerships that they say have brought benefit to the community. For example, in 2021, after four years of negotiations on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069836/googles-once-grand-vision-for-downtown-west-in-san-jose-still-on-hold-apparently\">Google’s Downtown West campus\u003c/a>, the city announced a $200 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868310/google-san-jose-development-deal-includes-200-million-in-housing-funds\">community benefits package\u003c/a>, including $150 million for preserving affordable housing, fighting homelessness and preventing displacement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The campus was set to bring 4,000 homes, 600 of them affordable and 15 acres of open space. City officials had approved a $110 million sale of public land to Google in 2018, and housing advocates spent the subsequent years organizing over what the project would do to a city already struggling with affordability.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At the time, Maria Noel Fernandez, then-campaign director for Silicon Valley Rising, heralded the deal as endowing grassroots leaders in neighborhoods at risk of displacement with money and real decision-making power. She said it set a new model for how tech development could keep families housed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjeconomy.com/how-we-help/programs-and-services/why-data-centers-in-san-jose/data-centers-and-large-energy-project-uniform-standards\">first public listening session\u003c/a> around data center community benefits is Aug. 19 from 6-8 p.m. in the City Hall wing rooms, followed by working sessions, a developer roundtable and a Stanford University polling effort through September. Staff will offer small-group meetings to anyone who signs up and will bring a summary of every comment received when the standards return to the council in December.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San José City Councilmember Domingo Candelas said he plans to hold his own meetings in his district.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t the final opportunity to review, supplement or modify,” he said. “But I think it’s important that we have an opportunity to engage our residents.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city struck a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049830/san-jose-and-pge-strike-deal-to-attract-data-centers-to-south-bay\">partnership with PG&E\u003c/a> that guaranteed power for 10 large projects and stopped the city’s plans to build its own utility. PG&E committed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/tag/pge\">investing $2.6 billion \u003c/a>in South Bay infrastructure between 2026 and 2035. City officials estimated then that each data center could generate $3.4 million to $6.8 million a year for the city in utility and property taxes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San José is now reviewing 11 more Data Center projects.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Downtown, developers want to stack them vertically alongside housing. A proposal at 180 Park Ave. would put an 11-story data center next to a 28-story residential tower and an expansion of The Tech Interactive science museum. Another project, at 300 S. First St., pairs a seven-story data center with three 30-story towers holding 1,164 apartments. A third, at 323 Terraine St., offers the city a choice between a residential building alone or a version that adds a seven-story data center beneath 345 units.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Developers have also pitched standalone data center projects in North and South San José, with the substations, water tanks and generator yards visible from the street.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A project at 2549 Orchard Parkway would put two four-story buildings totaling 630,000 square feet on 22 acres, with three water-storage tanks, its own substation and a PG&E switching station. One on West Trimble Boulevard would remove 224 trees for a building with 21 generators and a private substation. Three more are pending in the south, near Highway 85 and Silver Creek, including a 516,000-square-foot facility on Silver Creek Valley Road and a 444,436-square-foot building proposed for Great Oaks Parkway.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/data-center-and-other-large-energy-use-projects#!/\">city’s list shows eight data center\u003c/a> applications under review and three approved. Several of the largest — approved and pending alike — are capped at 99 megawatts. Data centers are often sized that way to stay \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049830/san-jose-and-pge-strike-deal-to-attract-data-centers-to-south-bay\">under the 100-megawatt threshold\u003c/a> that triggers stricter state oversight.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://myemail.constantcontact.com/A-Message-from-Mayor-Matt.html?soid=1140225190588&aid=MQ9jlS7apXw\">July newsletter\u003c/a> to residents, San José Mayor Matt Mahan said that data centers generate stable revenue for the general fund and that a large facility should produce millions annually for police, firefighters, parks, libraries and roads.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“But revenue cannot be a permission slip to ignore quality of life or harm the environment,” Mahan wrote. “A project that creates economic value while shifting environmental or other costs to nearby families is not a good deal.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At the Wednesday evening meeting, Lena Drape, speaking for the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority, asked the committee to go beyond the memo and stop accepting and processing new applications until the standards are approved. Compared with pausing, Drape said, it is more expensive for the city to continue taking proposals with the intention of revisiting them later.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20230801-SJCityHall-21-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12075969\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20230801-SJCityHall-21-JY_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20230801-SJCityHall-21-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20230801-SJCityHall-21-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pedestrians walk past City Hall in San José, California, on Aug. 1, 2023. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This would also address what is clearly an unintended reverse incentive for rushed applications to be submitted now before sound regulations are in place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San José resident Evan Brooks told the committee that a rezoning effort tied to the marketing of a site for a data center is scheduled for council action Aug. 18 — one day before the city’s first community listening session on the standards.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If entitlements move first, projects filed in the interim escape rules the council has already determined are necessary,” Brooks said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Christopher Burton, the city’s planning director, said a special use permit takes longer than six months to move through review, and that anything filed now would not reach a hearing before February or March. Cohen added that a new data center requires its own environmental impact report, pushing the timeline out at least a year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Many residents who addressed the committee said the timeline was beside the point. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12037773\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20230801-SJCityHall-04-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flags at City Hall in San José, California, on Aug. 1, 2023. (Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The trade-off you’re asking us to accept is in exchange for some tax investment for our community to shoulder the health burdens imposed by AI data centers,” Dash Leeds, the conservation coordinator for the Sierra Club’s Loma Prieta chapter, said, arguing that infrasound and generator emissions cannot be mitigated away.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jasmine Jordan, a design student at San José State University, told the committee the buildings will cost her generation more than they deliver. She said the artificial intelligence economy has shrunk the entry-level job market she and her classmates are graduating into, and “the building of data centers in San José will destroy our environment further than it already has been.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than a \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=15763923&GUID=3FBB3136-EB6C-4004-B29F-CF0885D0B501\">dozen letters \u003c/a>came in ahead of the meeting. Mani Bekele, writing for the city’s Climate Advisory Commission in July, urged the council to publish a live public dashboard of every existing, approved and proposed project, listing megawatt demand, water use, backup-generator capacity, revenue to date and permanent jobs created. The commission asked for numerical thresholds, rather than what it called “aspirational language,” and for a rule barring city staff, councilmembers and the mayor from signing nondisclosure agreements with developers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Manuel Pineda, a deputy city manager overseeing energy projects, laid out an engagement plan that has been running since late July, involving small meetings already held with groups including the Sierra Club, Mothers Out Front and the local chapters of two building trades. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Officials said they hope to replicate past partnerships that they say have brought benefit to the community. For example, in 2021, after four years of negotiations on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069836/googles-once-grand-vision-for-downtown-west-in-san-jose-still-on-hold-apparently\">Google’s Downtown West campus\u003c/a>, the city announced a $200 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11868310/google-san-jose-development-deal-includes-200-million-in-housing-funds\">community benefits package\u003c/a>, including $150 million for preserving affordable housing, fighting homelessness and preventing displacement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The campus was set to bring 4,000 homes, 600 of them affordable and 15 acres of open space. City officials had approved a $110 million sale of public land to Google in 2018, and housing advocates spent the subsequent years organizing over what the project would do to a city already struggling with affordability.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At the time, Maria Noel Fernandez, then-campaign director for Silicon Valley Rising, heralded the deal as endowing grassroots leaders in neighborhoods at risk of displacement with money and real decision-making power. She said it set a new model for how tech development could keep families housed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjeconomy.com/how-we-help/programs-and-services/why-data-centers-in-san-jose/data-centers-and-large-energy-project-uniform-standards\">first public listening session\u003c/a> around data center community benefits is Aug. 19 from 6-8 p.m. in the City Hall wing rooms, followed by working sessions, a developer roundtable and a Stanford University polling effort through September. 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