nside his cell in the Yuba County Jail, Rafael was vomiting again, too weak and dizzy to stand. He is HIV-positive and has hepatitis C. Without treatment, the two can be a deadly combination. But Rafael, 27, had not been treated for hepatitis C in six months, his medical records show.
KQED agreed not to use Rafael’s real name, to protect his medical privacy. More than once, Rafael says, he has been the target of violence as a result of the stigma of his illness.
By March, Rafael had been held in the jail for half a year, waiting to find out if he would be deported to Mexico, the country of his birth. He tried to tune out the arguments of the other inmates over what to watch on television -- a struggle between criminal defendants and immigration detainees, orange uniforms versus red ones. He tried to ignore the flooded bathroom sinks. He tried to ignore the nausea. More than anything else, he thought about seeing a regular doctor rather than the jail's medical staff, who seemed to dismiss his worsening condition.
Jailing Immigrants Means Money and Jobs for Poor Areas. Is This Deal Humane?
Rafael is one of roughly 200 men and women held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Yuba jail on any given day. They make up about half of the jail population here in this rural county in the Sacramento Valley.
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As the Trump administration moves to vastly expand the deportation of immigrants, county jails across the country could be increasingly put to use to detain them because ICE facilities have simply run out of room. But ICE itself has repeatedly faulted Yuba County -- and other jails where immigrant detainees are held -- for inadequate conditions that fail to meet ICE's own standards. Yuba also faces a lawsuit over what inmate advocates call “negligent” care.
The concern over a lack of safe and humane conditions at Yuba, and across ICE's already strained detention system, is propelling some California lawmakers to try to disentangle the state from Trump's deportation push.
Three bills moving through the California Legislature could alter -- or end -- the ability of cities and counties to enter into detention contracts with ICE. But Yuba officials say that could spell disaster for their county’s finances.
Expanding Detention and Deportation
Yuba County is among about 200 U.S. cities and counties that hold ICE detainees in local jails and private prisons under multimillion-dollar contracts with the federal government. Nationally, an average of 37,706 people a day are locked up, facing deportation. That’s 17 percent more than in fiscal year 2016, according to ICE data.
The Yuba jail began detaining immigrants for the federal government in 1994. These days, the arrangement generates close to $6 million a year. That money supports half of the sheriff’s operations, according to a recent county budget proposal.
“You come to rely upon that,” said county spokesman Russ Brown. “We make no bones about that. We've been able to find some level of stability.”
Brown said Yuba County and other local governments that have held ICE contracts for decades are now caught in a political crossfire.
“Yuba County is conducting a service and (we) have been for years, and then because of a political battle Yuba County could very well see public safety fall off the map," Brown said.
Fleeing the Stigma of HIV
Rafael was 6 months old when he came with his parents to the Bay Area from Mexico. He went to school in San Francisco and all of his family lives here, he says. As a kid he’d rent out local driveways and parking lots for 49ers football games. He punctuates every few words with “like” or “you know.” It wasn’t until he was in high school that he discovered he didn’t have legal status in the United States. That’s when his parents took him to meet an immigration lawyer after he was a victim of a crime.*
But before getting protection, he was arrested for drug possession and deported in 2010. In Mexico he discovered he was HIV-positive. That began a cycle of re-entries and deportations.
Rafael said he was physically threatened while seeking treatment for HIV in Mexico. He and his lawyers say he suffered even more traumatic incidents there. KQED agreed not to disclose them because he hasn’t shared what happened with his family. But he said he feared for his life, and fled back to the United States.
By 2016, Rafael had been diagnosed with hepatitis C, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, along with HIV.
Last September, he was convicted of driving under the influence and served 42 days at an Alameda County jail. As he was being released, Rafael was apprehended in the jail lobby by two immigration officers who sent him to ICE detention near Sacramento, ICE records show.
This time, Rafael tried to get an attorney to fight his deportation. He composed letters to lawyers outlining his fears and his medical conditions. He hid them under his mattress, the only private place he could find. One day, he returned from court to the cell he shared with several other men and saw his private papers out in the open, spread on top of his bed.
“Usually everybody came in and greeted me, just said, ‘How’s it going?’ But that day everybody was just looking at me,” Rafael said. He described the incident later in a phone call from jail, speaking softly so other inmates wouldn’t overhear.
As the confrontation unfolded, Rafael said, a friend warned him that his cellmates had read his letters and were threatening to harm him if he didn’t leave the jail.
“Everybody thought that they were going to get my infections, through me sitting down on the toilet and stuff like that,” Rafael said. “So everybody just decided that I had to go.”
Rafael grabbed his belongings and rushed to the common area, where he pressed an emergency button to summon the guards.
For his safety, ICE transferred Rafael from Sacramento to the Yuba County Jail in Marysville on Oct. 27.
Waiting for Treatment
When ICE moves a detainee, the agency is supposed to transfer all of the person’s medical records. But documents show that Yuba County Jail staff didn’t know at first that Rafael had hepatitis C. Even after they had confirmed his diagnosis, they still did not treat him.
“They weren't trying to give me my medicine, and I had symptoms,” he said in an interview from the jail. “I always put (in) my request to see the doctors and all they do is just give me, like, just Tums,” he said.
Kelly Wells, an immigration attorney with Dolores Street Community Services, took on Rafael’s deportation case. But she said she ended up spending a lot of her time pushing jail officials to provide proper medical care.
“Hep C, HIV co-infection can proceed within a matter of months to liver failure and death. So obviously we had a lot of concerns. He was exhibiting symptoms at the time, too -- symptoms that we don’t know what they were, as lawyers,” Wells says. “What we know is, he needs to see a real doctor who knows hep C.”
Both Rafael and his attorneys, Wells and Frances Kreimer, submitted requests for him to see a specialist as he became more ill.
“They don't treat you like a human being (in jail),” Rafael said. “It’s really different outside. My doctors would stay and explain to me, you know, details and stuff like that. They would do blood work and they would do all kinds of stuff to make sure that I didn't have anything else, you know, [a] complication. But in here, they don't do none of that. I have to ask for, like, blood work. My lawyers have to call them.”
KQED requested an interview with Yuba County’s sheriff (and a tour inside the jail) many times over the course of five months. Sheriff Steven L. Durfor declined to speak with us, citing many reasons, including the lawsuit challenging jail conditions.
However in court documents, the Yuba County counsel wrote that jail guards and medical staff are appropriately trained, have passed inspections and successfully “balance the legitimate interests of the jail with the rights of inmates.”
How Yuba County Got Entwined With ICE
It’s not as if Yuba County set out to become so reliant on immigration detention.
County spokesman Russ Brown, who also handles legislative affairs, said the county’s financial dependence on ICE has grown over the years, largely due to elemental forces that eroded the local economy.
Most people in Yuba County live and work near the confluence of the Feather and Yuba rivers -- an area prone to flooding.
Brown said a catastrophic flood in 1986 started a downward spiral.
That February, following a series of severe winter storms, a levee on the Yuba River collapsed, opening a 30-foot-wide gap that allowed water to engulf the towns of Linda and Olivehurst.
Aerial photographs of the flood show whole neighborhoods submerged in water, with only the rooftops of houses showing.
The flooding covered more than 30 square miles, killing one person, destroying nearly 900 homes and causing $95 million in damage, according to the Yuba County Office of Emergency Services.
“It was one of those events,” Brown said. “It changes the status of a community overnight.”
The flood also destroyed a vital economic driver for the county: the Peach Tree Mall in Linda.
Mary Jane Griego, a former Yuba County supervisor who owns and runs the popular Duke’s Diner in Olivehurst, remembers she was driving right by the mall that evening in 1986 when a sheriff’s deputy stopped her.
“There was a deputy that skidded into the intersection,” Griego recalled, “And he said, ‘Lady, the levee broke and here comes the water!’ And I looked over there and this wall of water is coming right towards the mall and towards us.”
She tore off in her car and drove to higher ground.
The water rose to nearly the top of the mall, forcing people inside to escape to the roof, to be airlifted to safety.
ICE Contract Helps Yuba County Weather Economic Downturns
Griego sees the destruction of the mall as an economic blow from which Yuba County has yet to recover, even three decades later.
When the Peach Tree Mall opened in the 1970s it held a movie theater, an arcade, and plenty of shops and eateries.
“That’s where all the kids hung out.” Griego recalled, “Either you were working there at the Orange Julius, meeting your friends there, or stopping by J.C. Penney’s to pick up some clothes for school. It was the place to be at!”
Today the Peach Tree Mall sits with boarded-up windows and doors chained shut. It’s too far gone to renovate, and too expensive to remove.
“It’s depressing to look at,” Griego said. “All 57 businesses left and not one of them came back.”
Most of those businesses relocated to a mall just across the Feather River in neighboring Sutter County, and most Yuba residents now cross the bridge to shop there.
Watching that sales tax revenue pour into another county, Griego said, makes her “resentful, mad, angry.”
Another catastrophic flood in 1997 caused an additional $300 million in economic losses.
Griego was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2000. She said the economy was in bad shape, forcing county officials to cut back vital services for residents.
“We cut a lot,” Griego recalled. “I mean we cut to the bone, and then we cut to the bone marrow after that. And then there was nothing left to cut.”
The hardship for Yuba residents would have been even worse, she said, had it not been for the revenue from the contract to detain immigrants for ICE.
In 2008, the Board of Supervisors approved an expansion of the contract to lease up to 220 jail beds -- more than half of the entire jail -- to ICE.
Yuba County's History of Immigration
Ongoing Allegations Over Negligent Medical Care
While the contract has helped the county, inmates and their advocates say the funds from the ICE contract haven't led to improved jail conditions -- for immigration detainees or the rest of the jail population.
Grand juries, human rights advocates and lawyers for inmates -- along with ICE auditors and county officials -- all have documented problems, ranging from inadequate medical and mental health care to overcrowding.
The Yuba County Jail can hold up to 433 inmates, and it’s usually close to full, ICE audits and state data show. The jail shares a cramped building, originally built in 1962, with the courthouse, county records and part of the sheriff’s department.
KQED was not permitted inside the jail, but a view of the conditions can be gained from government records and photographs taken by lawyers. The cells have bars with flaking paint. The jail’s medical facilities are underground. A May 2015 grand jury report noted that staff call part of the facility the “dungeon.” But the grand jury was more concerned with the lengthy delays for some inmates to see a doctor, or even a nurse.
The Yuba County Jail’s medical staff struggles to function in a small space, county officials wrote in a grant application to the state. Staff members use a single room for medical exams, psychiatry appointments and as an office.
Rafael described the lack of privacy. “They take you in with a bunch of inmates, and other inmates are waiting for their appointment,” he said. “Everybody can hear clearly what you're talking about.”
Rafael said he wrote notes to the doctor as a way to explain his concerns privately. But then the doctor read the notes aloud.
“I’m still scared, you know,” he said. “I don’t like people finding out my medical situation.”
ICE’s medical policy specifically requires facilities to ensure patient confidentiality, especially for people with HIV. In several reports ICE criticized the Yuba jail’s policy of allowing jail guards to read inmates’ medical requests.
Some inmates say they’ve suffered much more egregious problems with guards at the Yuba County Jail. Orsay Alegria-Simuta told KQED that he was beaten by a jail guard earlier this year while having an epileptic seizure. He said the staff denied him his prescribed medication and placed him in isolation for three days.
“I am not a criminal,” said Alegria-Simuta, who was held by ICE for months while in deportation proceedings. “I simply wanted my pills that day.”
Alegria-Simuta, a native of Mexico*, is no longer locked up. But he said his right hand remains damaged from the beating. ICE is investigating the incident. The jail guard resigned.
ICE officials say Yuba County does a poor job of monitoring its own jail. In recent audits ICE found that the facility did not properly investigate sexual assaults or guards’ use of force. Jail officials did not medically screen inmates after such incidents, and failed to inform ICE about what occurred, the audits found. County officials did not respond in writing to ICE audits.
Attorneys Sue Over Jail Conditions
Conditions at the jail have been notorious for so long that the county has been under court order to improve them for 38 years. Attorney Jennifer Stark, who helped with a lawsuit to enforce the order, has toured the jail several times and has spoken with immigrant detainees and other inmates.
Stark described an October 2014 incident in which a man attempted to hang himself in the shower, using a sheet. Other inmates found the man, but because there was no emergency call button they had to scream for several minutes to get the guards’ attention, she said. When the guards arrived, they weren’t carrying the proper masks to conduct CPR, so it was the inmates who worked to revive the man.
“The jail knew about this problem and did nothing,” said Stark. “No emergency call buttons were put into the old jail. … A few months later the very person who had been attempting CPR on his friend attempted to hang himself in the H-tank shower in the exact same way.”
In court documents, the Yuba County counsel called the concerns about suicide “exaggerated and misconceived.” The county noted that no inmates have died of suicide in the last 10 years and that “acts of self-harm do not equate a suicide attempt.” Court documents also show that, starting in March 2015, the jail added 16 emergency buttons and 13 security cameras, and is in the process of eliminating pipes that inmates could use to hang themselves.
However, a recent grand jury was worried that inmates were unable to access psychiatric help, and when they did it was mainly through videoconferencing. When inmates told staff that they were having a mental health crisis, they were sometimes placed in isolation for days at a time, the grand jury and ICE found.
Rafael’s lawyer, Kelly Wells, told KQED that she had been representing Rafael for several months before he admitted he was having suicidal thoughts at Yuba.
“He told me that he hadn't revealed them to ICE specifically because he was afraid that he would be put into some kind of worse conditions,” Wells said.
A $20 million grant from the state will help pay for a new medical wing, scheduled to open in 2020, with more space for confidential treatment. In the meantime, jail officials have increased group therapy with a crisis counselor.
The most recent grand jury also noted that despite problems, “overall, the Jail runs very effectively given their limited budget.“
In an application for the grant to build the new medical and mental health wing for the jail, county officials wrote that “the existing mental health and medical treatment, dental treatment, medical holding, medical and mental health beds, inmate programs, staff support, and laundry spaces are all deficient or non-existent in this facility.”
Conditions of Detention Spur State Response
Ongoing reports of inadequate care for immigrant detainees in California jails and private prisons prompted several state lawmakers to try to overhaul the state’s role in ICE detention.
President Trump’s promise to deport millions more undocumented people added to the urgency.
Senate President Pro Tem Kevin deLeón (D-Los Angeles) introduced a bill this year that would prohibit local agencies from using resources “to investigate, interrogate, detain, detect, or arrest” people for immigration purposes.
“It begs some ethical questions: whether counties should be profiteering on a very polarizing and polemic issue, which is the issue of immigration,” deLeón says.
While SB 54 does not explicitly target the ICE contracts of a dozen California cities and counties, including Yuba County, a legislative staff analysis observes “prohibitions in the bill would make local law enforcement agencies legally unable to continue to carry out such a contract.”
Two other measures could also impact local jails.
SB 29, introduced by state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Los Angeles), would require local jails with ICE detainees to provide a higher standard of care and subject them to a new layer of scrutiny. The attorney general would also be able to sue counties and cities and private prisons for any gross violations.
SB 630, introduced by state Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), would withhold state funds for jail construction from counties, including Yuba, Orange and Contra Costa, that hold people for ICE.
All three bills have passed the state Senate. The Assembly will vote on them later this summer. If they pass it’s unclear whether Gov. Jerry Brown will sign them.
Yuba Braces for Loss of Funds
Sacramento’s legislative backlash against the Trump administration’s immigration agenda frustrates officials in Yuba County. They say struggling local governments, not the state, will pay for it.
County spokesman Brown said federal funds for detaining immigrants are now so closely intertwined with the general budget that any loss could force the county to shut down vital services.
“It will decimate the budget of this sheriff's department, it will cause severe problems in terms of how they're able to serve our residents,” Brown said.
The sheriff could be forced to cut deputies patrolling the streets -- or find other ways to economize, Brown says.
Ultimately Yuba County leaders fear they might have to shut down the jail.
Rafael Gets His Day in Court
None of these changes will directly impact Rafael. He was released from the Yuba County Jail in April after being locked up for eight months. The medical staff finally began giving him his hepatitis C medication in the last three weeks of his incarceration. At his final immigration hearing, a judge found that Rafael has a legitimate fear of persecution if he were deported to Mexico, and granted him “withholding of removal.” It allows him to stay in the United States legally, but does not provide a path to citizenship.
“I was really relieved for him because honestly, by that point, I had really started to lose faith in the immigration system,” said Rafael’s lawyer, Wells. “I've seen cases drag out and clients remain detained for so long for no reason.”
Just a few months after winning his freedom, Rafael found a new home and a new job in the Bay Area. Wells said Rafael is excited to spend more time with his two young children, who are both U.S. citizens. She’s currently helping him get health insurance so that he can see a doctor.
KQED asked Rafael for an interview after he was freed, but he declined. He said he doesn’t want to relive everything he’s been through.
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*Note that this piece has been updated to clarify Rafael's first immigration consultation. We have also updated the story to state that Orsay Alegria-Simuta's is from Mexico.
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On the outskirts of this Silicon Valley city, atop what was once an apricot orchard, the couple kept sheep, goats and horses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They planted mulberry trees along the driveway and carved terraces and patios out of the sloping hillside, but a portion of the 1.7-acre property remained untamed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just become an area where we need to do weed control and keep it clean because the county gets after us if the weeds get too high,” said Brian Tremaine, 75. “We’re getting to the age where we want less land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple first considered building an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) or backyard cottage. But the cost — with estimates ranging from $500,000 to $700,000 — was formidable, Brian Tremaine said, as was the idea of taking out a second mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian and Gail Tremaine stand in the parcel of land that will be carved from their original parcel in San José on March 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s when they learned about \u003ca href=\"https://www.buildcasa.com/\">BuildCasa \u003c/a>— a company that would purchase a portion of their backyard and assist them in splitting the lot under SB 9, a controversial law that went into effect in January 2022. It allows property owners to build up to two duplexes on most single-family properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of its passage, supporters hailed it as the end of single-family zoning in California and an opportunity to spur more housing, while critics worried it would spark a dramatic shift in the makeup of California’s suburban neighborhoods. But in the first two years since the law was in effect, it has produced little in the way of either new lots or housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED survey of 16 cities of varying sizes across the state found that between 2022 and 2023, the cities collectively approved 75 lot split applications and 112 applications for new units under the law. That’s compared to more than 8,800 ADUs the cities permitted during the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ih4uc/4/?v=3\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a growing cadre of companies is hoping to jumpstart the construction of SB 9 projects by taking on the permitting and development work themselves, as well as making it easier for homeowners to take advantage of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These types of projects are really costly and complicated for a homeowner to take on,” said Ben Bear, co-founder and CEO of BuildCasa. “They’re basically asking the homeowner to be a developer, which, from a financial and capabilities perspective, is a challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, \u003ca href=\"https://yardsworth.com/\">Yardsworth\u003c/a> has emerged with a model similar to BuildCasa. But unlike the latter company, which sells the lots to developers, Yardsworth plans to develop the lots themselves and either sell or rent out the new homes. Elsewhere in the state, other companies are specializing in particular aspects of SB 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ben Bear, co-founder and CEO, BuildCasa.\"]‘These types of projects are really costly and complicated for a homeowner to take on. They’re basically asking the homeowner to be a developer, which, from a financial and capabilities perspective, is a challenge.’[/pullquote]Bear said his clients make, on average, just over $100,000 selling the new lot — though in high-priced areas of the state, the amounts have been as high as $400,000. Homeowners get to keep their existing home and mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tradeoff, he said, is a reduction in the value of the existing property by 10% or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there’s a major positive benefit when you compare those two numbers,” Bear said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether these offers are enticing enough to encourage more homeowners to take advantage of SB 9 remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad Alameldin, a policy associate at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley, is skeptical that these companies alone can kickstart the construction of new housing because few projects are financially viable under SB 9. He said that without changing the law itself, it would likely result in only a smattering of new homes each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do not go back after implementation and reform and fix some of the requirements of [SB 9],” he said, “then what’s the point of even having this big fight in the first place?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Slow uptake\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the law went into effect, many cities implemented their own restrictions on SB 9 projects. Alameldin co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/sb-9-turns-one-applications/\">2023 report\u003c/a> detailing many of them: limitations on the size of new units, open space requirements and burdensome fees, to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a story that had been told before — with ADUs, which were first \u003ca href=\"https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/accessory-dwelling-units-adus-in-california/#:~:text=In%202016%2C%20the%20state%20legislature,zoning%20ordinances%20and%20permitting%20processes.\">legalized statewide in 2016\u003c/a>. It took several years and nearly a dozen new laws to reduce regulations and spur construction. In 2016, just over\u003ca href=\"https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/accessory-dwelling-units-adus-in-california/#:~:text=As%20soon%20as%20the%20first,19%25%20of%20new%20housing%20permits.\"> 1,000 ADUs were approved\u003c/a> across the state. In 2022, there were nearly 25,000 — comprising \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/housing-element-implementation-and-apr-dashboard\">nearly a fifth\u003c/a> of the state’s estimated housing supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979557\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plot of land that will be carved off of Gail and Brian Tremaine’s original lot in San José on March 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t by accident,” Alameldin said. “It was years and years of legislation by multiple authors from the Assembly and Senate, who kept improving the law year after year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Toni Atkins, SB 9’s original author, has introduced a bill, \u003ca href=\"https://sd39.senate.ca.gov/news/20230320-senate-leader-atkins-introduces-legislation-improve-access-oversight-california-home\">SB 450\u003c/a>, that begins to address some of the issues that developers, planning staff and homeowners have faced. It would set a time limit for jurisdictions to approve or reject applications for SB 9 projects and mandate that new housing not be held to stricter design standards than other homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed in the Senate and Assembly last year but was then put on hold. It’s eligible for a floor vote this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Atkins acknowledged the slow rollout of SB 9 and said she was committed to “finding solutions to the housing crisis by building on past legislative efforts, like SB 9.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Implementation of new legislation like SB 9 doesn’t happen overnight; it takes time and thoughtful consideration,” Atkins wrote. “SB 9 is a modest tool that gives homeowners control of housing options that best meet their needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with the proposed changes, some developers said SB 450 doesn’t go far enough. Several said they would like to see an anti-speculation measure removed that requires applicants to live on the property for three years after undergoing a lot split.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so would make the projects more enticing to developers, said Peter Taormina, the managing owner of a development company called Cypress Pacific Investors, who is hoping the provision can be changed in subsequent legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"State Sen. Toni Atkins (D-San Diego)\"]‘Implementation of new legislation like SB 9 doesn’t happen overnight; it takes time and thoughtful consideration. SB 9 is a modest tool that gives homeowners control of housing options that best meet their needs.’[/pullquote]“You’re going to have to let the people that do this for a living, roll up their sleeves and do it,” said Taormina, who is in the process of completing an SB 9 project in Marina, California, that consists of splitting three parcels into six with a home and an in-law unit on each. “The end result will be [that] housing will be created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Matt Lucido, co-founder and CEO of Yardsworth, identified less tangible barriers, as well. Most people simply aren’t aware of the bill, he said, and even if they are, they may be reluctant to sell a portion of their backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really emotional thing. People are attached to their backyards, even if they don’t use them,” he said. “You’re asking them to carve off a piece of the American dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help potential clients overcome this hurdle, Yardsworth introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://zerodownca.com/\">new offer\u003c/a> earlier this month: The company will fund the down payment on a new home in exchange for a portion of the homebuyer’s yet-to-sentimentalized backyard. Lucido said that can help solve two problems simultaneously — adding housing amid a shortage and helping renters become owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Homeowners leverage their lots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those willing to take on an SB 9 project, the leaders of BuildCasa and Yardsworth said their clients tended to fall into two categories: retirees looking to downsize in place — similar to the Tremaines in San José — or younger homeowners hoping to leverage the equity in their properties without taking on debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter was the case for one of Yardsworth’s clients, former Olympian Jamele Mason, who competed in the 2012 Summer Games in the men’s 400-meter hurdles. Mason bought his South Los Angeles home in February 2020, right before the pandemic lockdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11968455,news_11806332,news_11770372\"]At first, he thought maintaining the large backyard, with its lemon tree and pergola, would be a fun pastime. But, he quickly realized it was more work than pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, I ripped up all the grass that was in the back. I put in artificial turf to try to make it as low maintenance as possible,” he said. “Turns out there is still maintenance that needs to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He learned about Yardsworth while researching ways to pull equity out of his house without having to sell and contacted the company last fall to begin the process. In January, he began working for Yardsworth as a sales manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason, 34, said he plans to use the $135,000 he got from Yardsworth to buy an investment property in Houston, where he grew up. He hopes the additional property will set him up for a more comfortable retirement, something he admitted was a constant worry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put everything I had into purchasing this house,” Mason said. “So, when I found out that I could pull the money out, I was like, ‘Wow, that’s actually a really cool way to leverage what I have.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cases, homeowners opt to keep their split lots vacant as an investment — either to pass down to their children or sell later. Such was the case with roughly half of Peter Riechers’ 80 or so clients, who are spread out across the state, he said. The president of civil engineering firm Riechers Engineering said he was so motivated by SB 9’s potential that he came out of a 15-year retirement when the law went into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so exciting — still is very exciting,” he said. “You’ve got all this land sitting there, not being used … when it could be used for this housing crisis we have in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Peter Riechers, president, Riechers Engineering\"]‘It was so exciting — still is very exciting. You’ve got all this land sitting there, not being used … when it could be used for this housing crisis we have in California.’[/pullquote]Easton McAllister, the owner of DeBolt Civil Engineering, which is based out of Danville, said his company has taken on at least 50 lot splits. In roughly a dozen cases, he said he’s also offered to complete the work for free in exchange for an option to purchase the newly split lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear whether these companies’ models of shepherding property owners through the process — and then selling the newly split lots or developing them themselves — are in keeping with the spirit of SB 9’s anti-speculation protections. Atkins declined to be interviewed and didn’t respond to a request for comment via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Mason and the Tremaines said their projects wouldn’t have happened without some kind of professional assistance. Brian Tremaine said he wouldn’t even have known where to start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ever go to the county, it’s impossible. … Who do you talk to?” he said. “That would have taken months — probably years, literally — just to figure it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, Mason is bracing for a duplex to be built behind his single-story home, while the Tremaines said they don’t yet know what kind of home might be built in their backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not what worries Gail Tremaine. The law requires at least 40% of the existing lot to be sectioned off, which, in the Tremaines’ case, made for an awkward gerrymandering of the property. It meant they not only had to carve off the unused portion of their backyard but a portion of their front yard, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That kind of tugs at my heart a little,” she said. “You know, change is always hard. And the older you get, the harder change is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"SB 9, which went into effect in January 2022, allows property owners to split their lot into two parcels and build a duplex on each lot.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711498816,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ih4uc/4/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":48,"wordCount":2254},"headData":{"title":"These California Companies Want to Buy Your Backyard — and Build a House | KQED","description":"SB 9, which went into effect in January 2022, allows property owners to split their lot into two parcels and build a duplex on each lot.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"TCRAM","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980785/these-california-companies-want-to-buy-your-backyard-and-build-a-house","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Brian and Gail Tremaine moved to East San José 45 years ago for the quiet. On the outskirts of this Silicon Valley city, atop what was once an apricot orchard, the couple kept sheep, goats and horses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They planted mulberry trees along the driveway and carved terraces and patios out of the sloping hillside, but a portion of the 1.7-acre property remained untamed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just become an area where we need to do weed control and keep it clean because the county gets after us if the weeds get too high,” said Brian Tremaine, 75. “We’re getting to the age where we want less land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple first considered building an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) or backyard cottage. But the cost — with estimates ranging from $500,000 to $700,000 — was formidable, Brian Tremaine said, as was the idea of taking out a second mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979558\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-8-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian and Gail Tremaine stand in the parcel of land that will be carved from their original parcel in San José on March 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s when they learned about \u003ca href=\"https://www.buildcasa.com/\">BuildCasa \u003c/a>— a company that would purchase a portion of their backyard and assist them in splitting the lot under SB 9, a controversial law that went into effect in January 2022. It allows property owners to build up to two duplexes on most single-family properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of its passage, supporters hailed it as the end of single-family zoning in California and an opportunity to spur more housing, while critics worried it would spark a dramatic shift in the makeup of California’s suburban neighborhoods. But in the first two years since the law was in effect, it has produced little in the way of either new lots or housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED survey of 16 cities of varying sizes across the state found that between 2022 and 2023, the cities collectively approved 75 lot split applications and 112 applications for new units under the law. That’s compared to more than 8,800 ADUs the cities permitted during the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ih4uc/4/?v=3\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a growing cadre of companies is hoping to jumpstart the construction of SB 9 projects by taking on the permitting and development work themselves, as well as making it easier for homeowners to take advantage of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These types of projects are really costly and complicated for a homeowner to take on,” said Ben Bear, co-founder and CEO of BuildCasa. “They’re basically asking the homeowner to be a developer, which, from a financial and capabilities perspective, is a challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, \u003ca href=\"https://yardsworth.com/\">Yardsworth\u003c/a> has emerged with a model similar to BuildCasa. But unlike the latter company, which sells the lots to developers, Yardsworth plans to develop the lots themselves and either sell or rent out the new homes. Elsewhere in the state, other companies are specializing in particular aspects of SB 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘These types of projects are really costly and complicated for a homeowner to take on. They’re basically asking the homeowner to be a developer, which, from a financial and capabilities perspective, is a challenge.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Ben Bear, co-founder and CEO, BuildCasa.","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Bear said his clients make, on average, just over $100,000 selling the new lot — though in high-priced areas of the state, the amounts have been as high as $400,000. Homeowners get to keep their existing home and mortgage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tradeoff, he said, is a reduction in the value of the existing property by 10% or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there’s a major positive benefit when you compare those two numbers,” Bear said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether these offers are enticing enough to encourage more homeowners to take advantage of SB 9 remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad Alameldin, a policy associate at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley, is skeptical that these companies alone can kickstart the construction of new housing because few projects are financially viable under SB 9. He said that without changing the law itself, it would likely result in only a smattering of new homes each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do not go back after implementation and reform and fix some of the requirements of [SB 9],” he said, “then what’s the point of even having this big fight in the first place?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Slow uptake\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the law went into effect, many cities implemented their own restrictions on SB 9 projects. Alameldin co-authored a \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/sb-9-turns-one-applications/\">2023 report\u003c/a> detailing many of them: limitations on the size of new units, open space requirements and burdensome fees, to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a story that had been told before — with ADUs, which were first \u003ca href=\"https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/accessory-dwelling-units-adus-in-california/#:~:text=In%202016%2C%20the%20state%20legislature,zoning%20ordinances%20and%20permitting%20processes.\">legalized statewide in 2016\u003c/a>. It took several years and nearly a dozen new laws to reduce regulations and spur construction. In 2016, just over\u003ca href=\"https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/accessory-dwelling-units-adus-in-california/#:~:text=As%20soon%20as%20the%20first,19%25%20of%20new%20housing%20permits.\"> 1,000 ADUs were approved\u003c/a> across the state. In 2022, there were nearly 25,000 — comprising \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-open-data-tools/housing-element-implementation-and-apr-dashboard\">nearly a fifth\u003c/a> of the state’s estimated housing supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979557\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240313-SB-9-SANJOSE-KSM-5-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plot of land that will be carved off of Gail and Brian Tremaine’s original lot in San José on March 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t by accident,” Alameldin said. “It was years and years of legislation by multiple authors from the Assembly and Senate, who kept improving the law year after year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Toni Atkins, SB 9’s original author, has introduced a bill, \u003ca href=\"https://sd39.senate.ca.gov/news/20230320-senate-leader-atkins-introduces-legislation-improve-access-oversight-california-home\">SB 450\u003c/a>, that begins to address some of the issues that developers, planning staff and homeowners have faced. It would set a time limit for jurisdictions to approve or reject applications for SB 9 projects and mandate that new housing not be held to stricter design standards than other homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed in the Senate and Assembly last year but was then put on hold. It’s eligible for a floor vote this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Atkins acknowledged the slow rollout of SB 9 and said she was committed to “finding solutions to the housing crisis by building on past legislative efforts, like SB 9.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Implementation of new legislation like SB 9 doesn’t happen overnight; it takes time and thoughtful consideration,” Atkins wrote. “SB 9 is a modest tool that gives homeowners control of housing options that best meet their needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even with the proposed changes, some developers said SB 450 doesn’t go far enough. Several said they would like to see an anti-speculation measure removed that requires applicants to live on the property for three years after undergoing a lot split.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing so would make the projects more enticing to developers, said Peter Taormina, the managing owner of a development company called Cypress Pacific Investors, who is hoping the provision can be changed in subsequent legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Implementation of new legislation like SB 9 doesn’t happen overnight; it takes time and thoughtful consideration. SB 9 is a modest tool that gives homeowners control of housing options that best meet their needs.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"State Sen. Toni Atkins (D-San Diego)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“You’re going to have to let the people that do this for a living, roll up their sleeves and do it,” said Taormina, who is in the process of completing an SB 9 project in Marina, California, that consists of splitting three parcels into six with a home and an in-law unit on each. “The end result will be [that] housing will be created.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Matt Lucido, co-founder and CEO of Yardsworth, identified less tangible barriers, as well. Most people simply aren’t aware of the bill, he said, and even if they are, they may be reluctant to sell a portion of their backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really emotional thing. People are attached to their backyards, even if they don’t use them,” he said. “You’re asking them to carve off a piece of the American dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help potential clients overcome this hurdle, Yardsworth introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://zerodownca.com/\">new offer\u003c/a> earlier this month: The company will fund the down payment on a new home in exchange for a portion of the homebuyer’s yet-to-sentimentalized backyard. Lucido said that can help solve two problems simultaneously — adding housing amid a shortage and helping renters become owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Homeowners leverage their lots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those willing to take on an SB 9 project, the leaders of BuildCasa and Yardsworth said their clients tended to fall into two categories: retirees looking to downsize in place — similar to the Tremaines in San José — or younger homeowners hoping to leverage the equity in their properties without taking on debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latter was the case for one of Yardsworth’s clients, former Olympian Jamele Mason, who competed in the 2012 Summer Games in the men’s 400-meter hurdles. Mason bought his South Los Angeles home in February 2020, right before the pandemic lockdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11968455,news_11806332,news_11770372"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At first, he thought maintaining the large backyard, with its lemon tree and pergola, would be a fun pastime. But, he quickly realized it was more work than pleasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, I ripped up all the grass that was in the back. I put in artificial turf to try to make it as low maintenance as possible,” he said. “Turns out there is still maintenance that needs to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He learned about Yardsworth while researching ways to pull equity out of his house without having to sell and contacted the company last fall to begin the process. In January, he began working for Yardsworth as a sales manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason, 34, said he plans to use the $135,000 he got from Yardsworth to buy an investment property in Houston, where he grew up. He hopes the additional property will set him up for a more comfortable retirement, something he admitted was a constant worry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I put everything I had into purchasing this house,” Mason said. “So, when I found out that I could pull the money out, I was like, ‘Wow, that’s actually a really cool way to leverage what I have.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cases, homeowners opt to keep their split lots vacant as an investment — either to pass down to their children or sell later. Such was the case with roughly half of Peter Riechers’ 80 or so clients, who are spread out across the state, he said. The president of civil engineering firm Riechers Engineering said he was so motivated by SB 9’s potential that he came out of a 15-year retirement when the law went into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so exciting — still is very exciting,” he said. “You’ve got all this land sitting there, not being used … when it could be used for this housing crisis we have in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It was so exciting — still is very exciting. You’ve got all this land sitting there, not being used … when it could be used for this housing crisis we have in California.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Peter Riechers, president, Riechers Engineering","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Easton McAllister, the owner of DeBolt Civil Engineering, which is based out of Danville, said his company has taken on at least 50 lot splits. In roughly a dozen cases, he said he’s also offered to complete the work for free in exchange for an option to purchase the newly split lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear whether these companies’ models of shepherding property owners through the process — and then selling the newly split lots or developing them themselves — are in keeping with the spirit of SB 9’s anti-speculation protections. Atkins declined to be interviewed and didn’t respond to a request for comment via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Mason and the Tremaines said their projects wouldn’t have happened without some kind of professional assistance. Brian Tremaine said he wouldn’t even have known where to start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ever go to the county, it’s impossible. … Who do you talk to?” he said. “That would have taken months — probably years, literally — just to figure it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, Mason is bracing for a duplex to be built behind his single-story home, while the Tremaines said they don’t yet know what kind of home might be built in their backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not what worries Gail Tremaine. The law requires at least 40% of the existing lot to be sectioned off, which, in the Tremaines’ case, made for an awkward gerrymandering of the property. It meant they not only had to carve off the unused portion of their backyard but a portion of their front yard, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That kind of tugs at my heart a little,” she said. “You know, change is always hard. And the older you get, the harder change is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980785/these-california-companies-want-to-buy-your-backyard-and-build-a-house","authors":["11652"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_31795","news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_3921","news_18538","news_27626","news_31235","news_1775","news_27208","news_21358","news_33930","news_33929","news_29952","news_33928","news_5986"],"featImg":"news_11980876","label":"source_news_11980785"},"news_11980780":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980780","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980780","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"robert-f-kennedy-jr-chooses-bay-area-tech-entrepreneur-as-running-mate","title":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Chooses Bay Area Tech Entrepreneur as Running Mate","publishDate":1711486796,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Chooses Bay Area Tech Entrepreneur as Running Mate | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy tech lawyer and investor, as his pick for vice president on Tuesday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal announcement was held at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts by Lake Merritt. Classic rock played as the crowd filtered in, and scenes of the American Southwest were shown on two large screens. The predominantly white crowd waved American flags in the half-filled auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so proud to introduce to you the next vice president of the United States — my fellow lawyer, a brilliant scientist, technologist, a fierce warrior mom, Nicole Shanahan,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan claimed the Republican and Democratic parties are failing to support individual freedom.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Independent Vice Presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan\"]‘If you are one of those disillusioned Republicans, I welcome you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.’[/pullquote]“In fact, the very failure of both parties to do their job to protect their founding values has contributed to the decline of this country in my lifetime,” she told the crowd. “Maybe that’s why I see so many Republicans disillusioned with their party as I become disillusioned with mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are one of those disillusioned Republicans, I welcome you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan, 38, is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist. She founded ClearAccessIP, which uses AI to manage patent portfolios and sold the company in 2020. She is also president of \u003ca href=\"https://biaecho.org/\">Bia-Echo\u003c/a>, a foundation that invests in reproductive health and criminal justice reform, according to the company’s website. She was formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The couple, who have a daughter, divorced in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan, the daughter of a Chinese immigrant, was raised on welfare in a single-parent household in Oakland. She graduated from Santa Clara Law School in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you probably know, I became very wealthy later on in life,” she said. “But my roots in Oakland taught me many things I have never forgotten — that the purpose of wealth is to help those in need. And I want to bring that back to politics, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan has never held public office, though she has donated for several years to Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden in 2020. In February, she donated $4 million to a super PAC to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/nicole-shanahan-rfk-super-bowl-ad.html\">help pay for a Super Bowl ad\u003c/a> backing Kennedy’s campaign, according to \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy apologized after the ad, which was similar to a commercial supporting John F. Kennedy, his uncle, during his presidential campaign in 1960, sparked outrage from family members. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who is the son of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, has linked himself to his family’s political legacy, but his promotion of conspiracy theories and vaccine misinformation has been criticized by his cousins, among others.[aside postID=news_11978645 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2067239298-1020x680.jpg']Kennedy has made numerous false or misleading claims about vaccines in speeches and media interviews, including referring to the COVID-19 vaccine as “the deadliest vaccine ever made.” He’s claimed that antidepressants are to blame for school shootings and that chemicals in water supplies could make children transgender. In 2023, he told the podcaster Joe Rogan that Wi-Fi causes cancer and “leaky brain,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign\">NPR’s roundup of the conspiracy theories promoted by Kennedy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do wonder about vaccine injuries,” Shanahan said in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> story about the Super Bowl ad. “I think there needs to be a space to have these conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the roughly 200 attendees were also skeptical of vaccines, like Aaron Tran, an Oakland resident who works in the cannabis industry. He said anti-vax theories haven’t been disproven in studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11980908 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced Nicole Shanahan, a tech lawyer and investor, to a crowd of a few hundred at Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the studies are there, [Kennedy] wants to make it public so we can all see it,” said Tran, 42. “And if the studies are not done, then to get them done. Then take action on whatever that evidence provides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Oakland resident, Karen Motlow, hopes Kennedy can win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if he doesn’t, we’re toast,” Motlow, 71, said. “We’re already toast as far as humanity goes because so many people have taken a synthetic genetic vaccine that has an HIV plasmid in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck with an anti-Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ad paid for by the Democratic National Committee outside a campaign rally at the Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland on March 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines contain \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-coronavirus-vaccine-hiv-185375755407\">HIV\u003c/a> or a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check/no-monkey-virus-dna-was-not-found-in-covid-vaccines-00000188e957d32da188e9ff1aef0000\">cancer-causing “monkey virus,”\u003c/a> according to the\u003cem> Associated Press\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/10/robert-f-kennedy-jr/no-covid-19-vaccine-not-deadliest-vaccine-ever-mad/\">PolitiFact\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://factcheck.org\">FactCheck.org\u003c/a>, among other organizations, have debunked Kennedy’s controversial statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonia and Paul, a couple from Fresno who declined to give their last name to KQED, said Kennedy’s anti-vaccine theories were problematic.[aside label='More on Politics and Government' tag='politics']“I don’t agree with that,” Sonia said. “But that’s why we’re here, to find out more, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parade of speakers positioned Kennedy as an underdog, including Angela Stanton-King, a conspiracy theorist who was once an ally of former President Donald Trump, former NBA player Metta Sandiford-Artest and Kennedy’s wife, the actress Cheryl Hines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy has significant hurdles to becoming a viable alternative for voters. Independent candidates must submit nomination signatures in each of the 50 states to be added to ballots. In California, Kennedy needs about 220,000 signatures to qualify for the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has officially qualified for the ballot in Utah, and his campaign claims he has collected enough signatures to qualify in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kennedy24.com/ballot-access\">Nevada, New Hampshire and Hawaii\u003c/a>. It will be expensive to collect the millions of signatures required to get on the ballot in all 50 states, and in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsvuyXAN9L0\">YouTube video,\u003c/a> Kennedy said it will cost $15 million. Shanahan’s personal wealth and Silicon Valley connections will ease the financial burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taps Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy tech lawyer and investor, as his vice presidential nominee on Tuesday in Oakland. Shanahan has limited political experience but has donated for several years to Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden in 2020.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711569152,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1121},"headData":{"title":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Chooses Bay Area Tech Entrepreneur as Running Mate | KQED","description":"Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taps Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy tech lawyer and investor, as his vice presidential nominee on Tuesday in Oakland. Shanahan has limited political experience but has donated for several years to Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden in 2020.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980780/robert-f-kennedy-jr-chooses-bay-area-tech-entrepreneur-as-running-mate","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy tech lawyer and investor, as his pick for vice president on Tuesday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal announcement was held at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts by Lake Merritt. Classic rock played as the crowd filtered in, and scenes of the American Southwest were shown on two large screens. The predominantly white crowd waved American flags in the half-filled auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so proud to introduce to you the next vice president of the United States — my fellow lawyer, a brilliant scientist, technologist, a fierce warrior mom, Nicole Shanahan,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan claimed the Republican and Democratic parties are failing to support individual freedom.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If you are one of those disillusioned Republicans, I welcome you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Independent Vice Presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In fact, the very failure of both parties to do their job to protect their founding values has contributed to the decline of this country in my lifetime,” she told the crowd. “Maybe that’s why I see so many Republicans disillusioned with their party as I become disillusioned with mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are one of those disillusioned Republicans, I welcome you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan, 38, is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist. She founded ClearAccessIP, which uses AI to manage patent portfolios and sold the company in 2020. She is also president of \u003ca href=\"https://biaecho.org/\">Bia-Echo\u003c/a>, a foundation that invests in reproductive health and criminal justice reform, according to the company’s website. She was formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The couple, who have a daughter, divorced in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan, the daughter of a Chinese immigrant, was raised on welfare in a single-parent household in Oakland. She graduated from Santa Clara Law School in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you probably know, I became very wealthy later on in life,” she said. “But my roots in Oakland taught me many things I have never forgotten — that the purpose of wealth is to help those in need. And I want to bring that back to politics, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan has never held public office, though she has donated for several years to Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden in 2020. In February, she donated $4 million to a super PAC to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/nicole-shanahan-rfk-super-bowl-ad.html\">help pay for a Super Bowl ad\u003c/a> backing Kennedy’s campaign, according to \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy apologized after the ad, which was similar to a commercial supporting John F. Kennedy, his uncle, during his presidential campaign in 1960, sparked outrage from family members. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who is the son of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, has linked himself to his family’s political legacy, but his promotion of conspiracy theories and vaccine misinformation has been criticized by his cousins, among others.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11978645","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2067239298-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kennedy has made numerous false or misleading claims about vaccines in speeches and media interviews, including referring to the COVID-19 vaccine as “the deadliest vaccine ever made.” He’s claimed that antidepressants are to blame for school shootings and that chemicals in water supplies could make children transgender. In 2023, he told the podcaster Joe Rogan that Wi-Fi causes cancer and “leaky brain,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign\">NPR’s roundup of the conspiracy theories promoted by Kennedy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do wonder about vaccine injuries,” Shanahan said in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> story about the Super Bowl ad. “I think there needs to be a space to have these conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the roughly 200 attendees were also skeptical of vaccines, like Aaron Tran, an Oakland resident who works in the cannabis industry. He said anti-vax theories haven’t been disproven in studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11980908 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced Nicole Shanahan, a tech lawyer and investor, to a crowd of a few hundred at Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the studies are there, [Kennedy] wants to make it public so we can all see it,” said Tran, 42. “And if the studies are not done, then to get them done. Then take action on whatever that evidence provides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Oakland resident, Karen Motlow, hopes Kennedy can win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if he doesn’t, we’re toast,” Motlow, 71, said. “We’re already toast as far as humanity goes because so many people have taken a synthetic genetic vaccine that has an HIV plasmid in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck with an anti-Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ad paid for by the Democratic National Committee outside a campaign rally at the Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland on March 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines contain \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-coronavirus-vaccine-hiv-185375755407\">HIV\u003c/a> or a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check/no-monkey-virus-dna-was-not-found-in-covid-vaccines-00000188e957d32da188e9ff1aef0000\">cancer-causing “monkey virus,”\u003c/a> according to the\u003cem> Associated Press\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/10/robert-f-kennedy-jr/no-covid-19-vaccine-not-deadliest-vaccine-ever-mad/\">PolitiFact\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://factcheck.org\">FactCheck.org\u003c/a>, among other organizations, have debunked Kennedy’s controversial statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonia and Paul, a couple from Fresno who declined to give their last name to KQED, said Kennedy’s anti-vaccine theories were problematic.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Politics and Government ","tag":"politics"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I don’t agree with that,” Sonia said. “But that’s why we’re here, to find out more, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parade of speakers positioned Kennedy as an underdog, including Angela Stanton-King, a conspiracy theorist who was once an ally of former President Donald Trump, former NBA player Metta Sandiford-Artest and Kennedy’s wife, the actress Cheryl Hines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy has significant hurdles to becoming a viable alternative for voters. Independent candidates must submit nomination signatures in each of the 50 states to be added to ballots. In California, Kennedy needs about 220,000 signatures to qualify for the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has officially qualified for the ballot in Utah, and his campaign claims he has collected enough signatures to qualify in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kennedy24.com/ballot-access\">Nevada, New Hampshire and Hawaii\u003c/a>. It will be expensive to collect the millions of signatures required to get on the ballot in all 50 states, and in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsvuyXAN9L0\">YouTube video,\u003c/a> Kennedy said it will cost $15 million. Shanahan’s personal wealth and Silicon Valley connections will ease the financial burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980780/robert-f-kennedy-jr-chooses-bay-area-tech-entrepreneur-as-running-mate","authors":["11772"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_18","news_17968","news_18536","news_33926","news_28984"],"featImg":"news_11980878","label":"news"},"news_11957693":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11957693","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11957693","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"applying-for-fafsa-in-2023-will-be-different-what-to-know-including-deadlines","title":"FAFSA 2024: The New Deadline for California Students and More","publishDate":1711496733,"format":"image","headTitle":"FAFSA 2024: The New Deadline for California Students and More | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>At the best of times, \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa\">the Free Application for Federal Student Aid — or FAFSA —\u003c/a> can be a dreaded process for students across the country hoping to go to college. But this year, it got even more complicated when it was meant to become simpler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education, which manages the FAFSA, \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa\">launched a revamped version of the form on Dec. 30, 2023,\u003c/a> that aimed to streamline the infamously lengthy and detailed application. However, the federal agency has reported several complications in this year’s FASFSA rollout, leading to delays and much stress for students and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to these delays, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/state_aid_deadline_extention_ab1887_may_2.pdf\">a bill on March 25 extending the deadline \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/state_aid_deadline_extention_ab1887_may_2.pdf\">for California students to file their FAFSA to May 2, 2024, in order to be eligible for state financial aid\u003c/a>. This means that students who are aiming to go to a four-year university in California can submit their applications by May 2 and still be eligible for financial aid. This also includes the CalGrant and the Middle Class Scholarship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This extension by the state will come as a relief for many students amid a fraught nationwide rollout of the new FAFSA. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979072/months-into-botched-fafsa-revamp-some-colleges-finally-receiving-students-financial-aid-info\">Federal officials only began sending out students’ FAFSA data to colleges on March 10\u003c/a>, months later than in years past. This delay — caused by a glitch in the form that wasn’t taking into account the economic inflation of recent years — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979072/months-into-botched-fafsa-revamp-some-colleges-finally-receiving-students-financial-aid-info\">has given schools less time to calculate students’ financial packages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, students from mixed-status families — where a student has a Social Security number, but their parent doesn’t — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student\">could only complete their FAFSA until March 12 due to an entirely separate technical issue with the form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news? Despite the multiple technical issues the new FAFSA has seen during its launch, some of the changes in the revamped form \u003cem>have\u003c/em> made the process of filling out the form easier for students. Keep reading to learn more about the new FAFSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#deadline\">\u003cstrong>Important deadlines and due dates for FAFSA in 2024\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#measure\">\u003cstrong>How will FAFSA now measure a student’s financial need?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#undocumented\">\u003cstrong>What undocumented students need to know about FAFSA and financial aid\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#private\">\u003cstrong>What to know if you’re also applying to private colleges\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#taxes\">\u003cstrong>My parents don’t have tax information available. How can I complete FAFSA?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Rest assured that there \u003ci>are \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/california-student-opportunity-and-access-program-cal-soap\">resources\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://cash4college.csac.ca.gov/RCO/RegionalCoordinatingOrganizations\">organizations\u003c/a> available to help you with FAFSA — including the upcoming Cash for College Webinars organized by the California Student Aid Commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/state_aid_deadline_extention_ab1887_may_2.pdf\">scheduled throughout March and April\u003c/a>. These are free and available to any student completing the FAFSA or the Dream Act application. The Commission also hosts \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/cash-college-train-trainer-program\">Train the Trainer workshops\u003c/a> to teach community partners also to host financial aid workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968584/fafsa-application-money-family-discussions\">We also have a guide to talking to your family about FAFSA — \u003c/a>especially if they’re not usually comfortable talking about their finances with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>There’s a new FAFSA timeline for 2024\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"deadline\">\u003c/a>In December 2020, Congress passed the FAFSA Simplification Act with the goal of making it easier for students to claim available financial aid and tackle the application’s infamous length and detailed, confusing tax questions — \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/658643bea675/california-student-aid-commission-public-affairs-newsletter-13577271\">complications that have historically left billions of dollars of aid unclaimed. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the Department of Education promised that the revamped FAFSA would launch sometime in December. And it did — but on Dec. 30. Because the form became available much later than normal, a lot of the steps in the financial aid process have been pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927018/fafsa-opens-oct-1-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-applications-for-federal-student-aid\">students applying for financial aid for the next academic year could start on their FAFSA around October,\u003c/a> then apply for regular admission for most schools around December, and finally receive acceptance letters in March and April. Along with their acceptance letters, many schools also send out additional documents with information on annual costs and how much financial aid a student is eligible for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This year, FAFSA came out when many students were rushing to get their college applications in before the deadline. And in January, the Department of Education confirmed that it needed to fix \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63005/exclusive-the-education-department-says-it-will-fix-its-1-8-billion-fafsa-mistake\">a major mistake in how FAFSA calculated a student’s financial need\u003c/a>. The time needed to fix this glitch pushed back the date for the Department of Education to start sending students’ FAFSA data to colleges. This usually \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63075/a-new-fafsa-setback-means-many-college-financial-aid-offers-wont-come-until-april\">takes place at the end of January,\u003c/a> but this year, federal officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979072/months-into-botched-fafsa-revamp-some-colleges-finally-receiving-students-financial-aid-info\">started transferring student information until mid-March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you receive an acceptance letter that doesn’t include information on financial aid you qualify for, don’t panic. Email the school’s financial aid office and ask their timeline for sending out this information. They may be sending that letter out later than in previous years. Additionally, you can ask the college if they plan to push back the deadline for when they expect students to decide on whether to enroll in the school. For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975534/california-students-panic-after-new-financial-aid-application-blocks-them\">schools in the University of California and California State University systems have now pushed back this deadline to May 15\u003c/a>.[aside postID=\"news_11979367\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1403066184-1020x680.jpg\"]Students in California will also have more time to apply for state aid. If you are a high school senior or a transfer student planning to go to a four-year institution — like a school in the University of California or Cal State system — you now have until May 2 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/cal-grants\">apply for the Cal Grant\u003c/a>. You must complete the FAFSA before that date to qualify for a Cal Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, the deadline to file the FAFSA to be eligible for the Cal Grant and other state aid was April 2. But\u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/state_aid_deadline_extention_ab1887_may_2.pdf\"> legislators have now approved a bill that pushes back this date\u003c/a>. “This new law will give California students more time to complete the FAFSA and gain access to the financial resources they need to begin their college careers in earnest,” said State Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes, who introduced the legislation extending the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you plan to enroll in a California community college, there’s more good news: The deadline to apply for community college-specific state aid is now set for much later in 2024. Make sure your FAFSA is completed by Sept. 2 to qualify for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/cal-grant-community-college-entitlement-award\">Cal Grant Community College Entitlement Award\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In 2024, your FAFSA application isn’t as long\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The FAFSA and financial aid process can be very overwhelming, very complex,” said Michael Lemus, the outreach and marketing manager at the California Student Aid Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original FAFSA application was over 100 questions. Now, as of this year, it is going to be fewer than 50 questions, Lemus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always been super, super long,” Lemus said of the application. “I’m someone that filled it out myself when I was in high school and in college, and I just remember it being a stressful period of time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FAFSA’s infamous length, Lemus said, can be a deterrent — “especially for folks that their families might not be as comfortable with filling out these applications or just aware of all the terminology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So some of the changes that are being looked at are making those questions easier to understand and lessening the questions,” Lemus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new FAFSA will be connected to data from the Internal Revenue Service to automatically populate that tax information in the forms, Lemus said. “So it’ll save a lot of time, and it’ll just actually populate from the information that the family’s able to provide instead of a lot of the manual entry that a lot of folks are used to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/fafsa-simplification-act\">Some questions being taken out include inquiries on drug convictions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"measure\">\u003c/a>FAFSA now has new ways to measure eligibility for student aid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is a new metric to determine how much a student can qualify for aid, said Shelveen Ratnam, a spokesperson for the California Student Aid Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Student Aid Index (SAI) will replace the Expected Family Contribution (EFC) that was generated by the FAFSA and is “a metric to understand the relative amount that the formula estimates a student can contribute,” Ratnam told KQED in an email. “The SAI will help inform how much federal aid, and in some instances other institutional aid, for which a student might qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11968584\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_0524-1020x659.jpg\"]Expected Family Contribution was \u003ca href=\"https://www.discover.com/student-loans/college-planning/how-to-pay/financial-aid/what-is-the-student-aid-index\">something of a misleading name\u003c/a>, Ratnam said because it did not truly reflect the cost someone would be paying for college by including factors like student loan interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratnam said that the EFC also factored in how many other college students were in a family — which could negatively impact someone’s eligibility for financial aid. The new Student Aid Index does not do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAI also has a larger range, meaning students with \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46909\">larger financial needs have more chances for more aid\u003c/a> (PDF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the SAI, applicants can receive an SAI below $0, with the lowest being negative $1500, which would help make it easier for financial aid counselors to determine a student’s financial need,” Ratnam said. “With the previous EFC, the lowest an applicant would receive would be $0.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The equation for determining \u003ca href=\"https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/what-is-the-student-aid-index\">financial need is calculated by subtracting your SAI from your cost of attendance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More applicants now qualify for grants through FAFSA\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Federal Pell Grant \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/fafsa-simplification-act\">will also be expanded to more students\u003c/a>, linking eligibility to family size and federal poverty level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can use \u003ca href=\"https://fsapartners.ed.gov/sites/default/files/2023-05/202425DRAFTSAIGuideSupplementEligibilityforMaxorMinPellGrantResource.pdf\">this website (link to PDF) to look up your situation and income to gauge how much aid you can get\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SAI \u003ca href=\"https://www.discover.com/student-loans/college-planning/how-to-pay/financial-aid/what-is-the-student-aid-index\">kicks in here, too\u003c/a>, as students who don’t qualify for Pell Grants based on income \u003ci>may\u003c/i> qualify based on SAI. Another change: “Additionally, incarcerated students will regain the ability to receive a Pell Grant,” Ratnam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“FAFSA simplification and the new SAI expands eligibility for Pell Grants to more students and increases the numbers of students that will qualify for a maximum Pell Grant,” Ratnam said. “Students with two parents whose adjusted gross income is less [than] or equal to 175% of the poverty line and 225% of the poverty line for a single-parent household now qualify for the maximum Pell Grant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Plus: A new option for students interested in attending HBCUs\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not have historically Black colleges or universities, meaning students would have to give up state-based financial aid if they want to go to one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Gov. Gavin Newsom last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/ab1400_signed_press_release_100223.pdf\">signed into law AB 1400\u003c/a>, which allows for a one-time $5,000 grant to California Community College students transferring to an HBCU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968640\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of young people walk together on what looks like a city street, dressed warmly and smiling at each other.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year, FAFSA is opening in December. \u003ccite>(Keira Burton/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"undocumented\">\u003c/a>What undocumented students need to know about FAFSA and financial aid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What if I’m a citizen, but my parents are undocumented and don’t have a Social Security number?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 12, the Department of Education announced it had finally fixed the technical issue that for months prevented mixed-status families — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student\">where the student has a Social Security number but their parent does not\u003c/a> — from completing the 2024-2025 FAFSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This glitch blocked mixed-status families from completing the form for months, despite the Department of Education confirming with KQED in 2023 that these families would be able to complete the new FAFSA without a problem. Now that the is resolved, undocumented parents can make an FSA ID and fill out the parent’s portion of the form without needing to input a Social Security number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the problem is now fixed, students from mixed-status families lost months of valuable time to complete their FAFSA, critical to request state financial aid. That’s why on March 25, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature pushed back the deadline for California students to file FAFSA and be eligible for state aid, like the Cal Grant. The new deadline to complete the FAFSA and be eligible for these aid programs is now May 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What if I’m undocumented? Can I still apply for FAFSA?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you, as the student, are undocumented and do not have a Social Security number, unfortunately, you cannot complete the FAFSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in this situation, there are still ways to look for financial aid for college, even if you are undocumented. \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/california_dream_act_faq.pdf?1694549553\">Undocumented students in California can complete the California Dream Act Application (CADAA\u003c/a>) in order to be eligible for \u003ci>state\u003c/i> grants and loans for college (keep reading for more information on this application). You can also complete the CADAA if you have a valid or expired DACA, a U Visa or Temporary Protected Status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented students can also apply to dozens of private colleges and universities and also apply for the scholarships and grants these schools offer. Make sure to check with each school you are interested in to see if they offer aid to undocumented students and what their process is like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Changes to know about the California Dream Act \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Dream Act — which provides aid for undocumented students — \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/renewingthedream\">will also be streamlined\u003c/a> in the future to mirror the FAFSA, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/better-fafsa-better-cadaa\">the Better California Dream Act Application\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dream Act applications will open in December, around the same to-be-announced date that the 2023 FAFSA application opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the ones, here at the California Student Commission, that administer the California Dream Act application,” Lemus said. “So we actually are the ones that can go ahead and change it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the arrival of the Better FAFSA application, the California Student Commission is now also looking at how to similarly streamline and simplify the California Dream Act for 2023, Lemus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As every year goes by, we’re listening for feedback, and so we’re constantly wanting to make updates as they come up,” Lemus said. “But what we’re looking at is also waiting on the updates to see what the FAFSA is going to look like, to see how we can streamline the California Dream Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, there may be something of a waiting game for hopeful California Dream Act applicants to find out exactly how that process will work. \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1540/id/2828767\">Newsom has recently signed AB 1540\u003c/a> into law, which takes out an extra step for undocumented students to secure their aid by making the Dream Act application the only form they need to fill out (as opposed to submitting an affidavit to their college to \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/ab_1540_signed_press_release_100923.pdf\">verify their residency and be given a nonresident tuition exemption.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind, however, that \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/sites/default/files/financial-aid-and-undocumented-students.pdf\">undocumented students\u003c/a> — including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients — are only currently eligible for \u003cem>state\u003c/em> student aid, not federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-william-fortunato-6140910.jpg\" alt=\"A young person in a grey hoodie stands smiling and looking at someone whose back is to the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-william-fortunato-6140910.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-william-fortunato-6140910-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-william-fortunato-6140910-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-william-fortunato-6140910-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-william-fortunato-6140910-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FAFSA will be shorter and streamlined this year. \u003ccite>(William Fortunato/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"private\">\u003c/a>If you’re also applying to private schools, don’t forget to complete the CSS Profile\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org/\">CSS Profile\u003c/a> is a separate application operated by the CollegeBoard and used by private colleges and universities to determine how much financial aid they will give to students, in addition to FAFSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Dieken, head of financial aid at Pomona College, a private liberal arts school in Southern California, said that his team looks at both FAFSA and the CSS Profile to get a more complete picture of what a student’s financial situation is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more money the college or university gets out of their own grants or scholarships, the more likely it is that they’re going to ask you to complete additional documentation like the CSS Profile,” he said. Many private schools, including Pomona, provide financial aid packages that include additional funds from donors or grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CSS Profile is really looking for financial resources that a family has access to,” Dieken said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to home ownership as an example. “A family that owns a home, they’re economically stronger than a family that doesn’t own a home,” he said. “But FAFSA doesn’t collect that. That’s something that we only get through the CSS Profile data.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Paul Dieken, Director of Financial Aid at Pomona College\"]‘The more money the college or university gets out of their own grants or scholarships, the more likely it is that they’re going to ask you to complete additional documentation.’[/pullquote]If private schools are also on your list, you can go ahead and start the CSS Profile now. You’ll need a few more documents than what FAFSA asks for, including your parents’ W-2, bank statements from the past few months and records of properties or assets your family owns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure to give your family enough time to find the documents you’ll need to complete the CSS Profile. If there are questions you just can’t answer — for example, your parents are separated, and you are unable to contact one of them because of safety reasons — contact the financial aid staff of the schools you’re applying to so they can give you specific instructions on what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"taxes\">\u003c/a>Q. My parents work but don’t have tax information available. How can I complete FAFSA?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First, let’s do a quick breakdown of tax vocabulary:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003cb>W-2 form\u003c/b> is a tax document that an employer gives workers once a year, which shows how much the employer paid the worker that year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003cb>1040 form\u003c/b> is a tax document, also known as a tax return, that a worker completes themselves, usually with the help of a tax expert. This document is sent to the IRS each year to confirm how much that worker got paid and how much they owe the government in taxes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Most people in the U.S. receive a W-2 form and then complete a 1040 form themselves. FAFSA will ask your parents to share information from last year’s documents. But let’s say you ask your parents and they don’t have this information. It could be for one of these reasons:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your parent is a gig worker, such as driving for Uber or doing deliveries for GrubHub, they most likely did not get a W-2 form. Instead, the company they work for gave them a 1099 form. Ask for “their 1099” instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your parent did not work last year and received unemployment benefits instead, they most likely did not get a W-2 form. Instead, the state government sent them a 1099-G form, which lists how much they received from unemployment benefits. You can ask for this instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your parent has a W-2 form but does not have last year’s 1040 form, this probably means they haven’t filed their taxes yet. Colleges will still want to see your parents’ taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talk to your parents about scheduling an appointment with a tax preparer to catch up on this. There are many community organizations that offer free tax filing services year-round. \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/freetaxhelp/\">In the Bay Area, United Way can connect you to online and in-person tax help\u003c/a> — and your parents could potentially qualify to get cash back from the government when they file, based on their income and the size of your family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your family still needs to file their taxes, keep the schools you’re applying to updated about this step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, parents may be working at a job where they just won’t receive a W-2 or 1099 at all. Perhaps they work as a housecleaner, a nanny, a landscaper, a farmworker or another job where they haven’t signed a formal paper contract and are getting paid in cash. If this is your family’s situation, don’t panic. There are solutions. But you’ll have to act quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosanna Ferro, chief of education at Oakland-based nonprofit College Track, recommends you first ask your parents, “How have you gotten paid in the past year or two?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferro, whose organization works to help first-generation and low-income high school students from across the country graduate college, said that the point of this question is twofold: How often do your parents get paid, and how much do they get paid? The piece of information you need is what’s called “proof of income,” which can help you calculate how much your parents got paid per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, let’s say your dad cleans houses and charges $100 per house. Based on the information he shares, you estimate that he can usually clean 10 houses a week. That approximates that he’s earning roughly $4,000 a month. Multiply that by 12 months, and you get an estimated $48,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may have to get crafty to help your parents organize this information, Ferro said. “Whether it’s creating an Excel sheet, a Google folder or scanning something — taking a picture, a receipt or anything that shows income in any kind of way and storing it in a way that’s going to be accessible to you,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helping your parents create a digital record of their earnings will also help you in the future when you have to fill out FAFSA again every year you’re in college. This will be especially important if you go to a school far away from home and no longer have easy access to physical receipts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you’re doing this, remember to contact a financial aid officer from any of the schools you’re applying to, who can advise your family on how to best input this information into FAFSA. They may ask you to share additional documents, like a letter from an employer or potentially filing a 1040 form with the data you’ve gathered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All in all, we ask for information that you can put in as accurately as possible,” said Sonia Jethani, the director of the financial aid office at California State University, East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147077.jpg\" alt=\"Three young people walk together on what looks like a city street, dressed warmly and smiling at each other.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147077.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147077-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147077-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147077-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147077-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How can you work with your family to accurately complete your FAFSA? \u003ccite>(Keira Burton/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What else should I know about FAFSA in 2024?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California Student Aid Commission’s Michael Lemus said students can use the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/students\">California Student Commission\u003c/a> as a resource for financial aid questions. Their website will soon have a Better FAFSA tool kit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemus advised people to start early and for seniors in the fall to stay in close contact with their high school counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting this year because the FAFSA is delayed,” he said. “But what I would recommend is just making sure that they start getting more comfortable with the financial aid process,” which could include familiarizing yourself with the types of aid available — to be ready and primed when FAFSA applications finally open in December. “While the application itself is changing, the types of aid, for the most part, are remaining the same,” Lemus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Try not to stress,” Lemus said, even though these changes can feel overwhelming and contain a lot of unknowns. He added that teachers and educators will also be trained on the new changes, providing another point of contact and resources for applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you come across something that you just can’t find an answer to? “Just know that [at] the California [Student] Commission, we are very much aware of these, and we have it on our radar,” Lemus said. “So if they want to start off with us, to ask questions, they definitely can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/contact-us\">Get in contact with the California Student Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story originally published on Feb. 15, and includes reporting from NPR’s Cory Turner and CalMatters’ Mikhail Zinshteyn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2024. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID-19\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger and help us decide what to cover here on our site and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Free Application for Federal Student Aid — or FAFSA — is open for 2024–25, but there have been several complications already. Here's what to know about due dates, extensions and more.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711501024,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":85,"wordCount":4220},"headData":{"title":"FAFSA 2024: The New Deadline for California Students and More | KQED","description":"The Free Application for Federal Student Aid — or FAFSA — is open for 2024–25, but there have been several complications already. Here's what to know about due dates, extensions and more.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11957693/applying-for-fafsa-in-2023-will-be-different-what-to-know-including-deadlines","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At the best of times, \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa\">the Free Application for Federal Student Aid — or FAFSA —\u003c/a> can be a dreaded process for students across the country hoping to go to college. But this year, it got even more complicated when it was meant to become simpler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education, which manages the FAFSA, \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa\">launched a revamped version of the form on Dec. 30, 2023,\u003c/a> that aimed to streamline the infamously lengthy and detailed application. However, the federal agency has reported several complications in this year’s FASFSA rollout, leading to delays and much stress for students and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to these delays, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/state_aid_deadline_extention_ab1887_may_2.pdf\">a bill on March 25 extending the deadline \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/state_aid_deadline_extention_ab1887_may_2.pdf\">for California students to file their FAFSA to May 2, 2024, in order to be eligible for state financial aid\u003c/a>. This means that students who are aiming to go to a four-year university in California can submit their applications by May 2 and still be eligible for financial aid. This also includes the CalGrant and the Middle Class Scholarship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This extension by the state will come as a relief for many students amid a fraught nationwide rollout of the new FAFSA. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979072/months-into-botched-fafsa-revamp-some-colleges-finally-receiving-students-financial-aid-info\">Federal officials only began sending out students’ FAFSA data to colleges on March 10\u003c/a>, months later than in years past. This delay — caused by a glitch in the form that wasn’t taking into account the economic inflation of recent years — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979072/months-into-botched-fafsa-revamp-some-colleges-finally-receiving-students-financial-aid-info\">has given schools less time to calculate students’ financial packages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, students from mixed-status families — where a student has a Social Security number, but their parent doesn’t — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student\">could only complete their FAFSA until March 12 due to an entirely separate technical issue with the form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news? Despite the multiple technical issues the new FAFSA has seen during its launch, some of the changes in the revamped form \u003cem>have\u003c/em> made the process of filling out the form easier for students. Keep reading to learn more about the new FAFSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#deadline\">\u003cstrong>Important deadlines and due dates for FAFSA in 2024\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#measure\">\u003cstrong>How will FAFSA now measure a student’s financial need?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#undocumented\">\u003cstrong>What undocumented students need to know about FAFSA and financial aid\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#private\">\u003cstrong>What to know if you’re also applying to private colleges\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#taxes\">\u003cstrong>My parents don’t have tax information available. How can I complete FAFSA?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Rest assured that there \u003ci>are \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/california-student-opportunity-and-access-program-cal-soap\">resources\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://cash4college.csac.ca.gov/RCO/RegionalCoordinatingOrganizations\">organizations\u003c/a> available to help you with FAFSA — including the upcoming Cash for College Webinars organized by the California Student Aid Commission, \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/state_aid_deadline_extention_ab1887_may_2.pdf\">scheduled throughout March and April\u003c/a>. These are free and available to any student completing the FAFSA or the Dream Act application. The Commission also hosts \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/cash-college-train-trainer-program\">Train the Trainer workshops\u003c/a> to teach community partners also to host financial aid workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968584/fafsa-application-money-family-discussions\">We also have a guide to talking to your family about FAFSA — \u003c/a>especially if they’re not usually comfortable talking about their finances with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>There’s a new FAFSA timeline for 2024\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"deadline\">\u003c/a>In December 2020, Congress passed the FAFSA Simplification Act with the goal of making it easier for students to claim available financial aid and tackle the application’s infamous length and detailed, confusing tax questions — \u003ca href=\"https://mailchi.mp/658643bea675/california-student-aid-commission-public-affairs-newsletter-13577271\">complications that have historically left billions of dollars of aid unclaimed. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the Department of Education promised that the revamped FAFSA would launch sometime in December. And it did — but on Dec. 30. Because the form became available much later than normal, a lot of the steps in the financial aid process have been pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927018/fafsa-opens-oct-1-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-applications-for-federal-student-aid\">students applying for financial aid for the next academic year could start on their FAFSA around October,\u003c/a> then apply for regular admission for most schools around December, and finally receive acceptance letters in March and April. Along with their acceptance letters, many schools also send out additional documents with information on annual costs and how much financial aid a student is eligible for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>This year, FAFSA came out when many students were rushing to get their college applications in before the deadline. And in January, the Department of Education confirmed that it needed to fix \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63005/exclusive-the-education-department-says-it-will-fix-its-1-8-billion-fafsa-mistake\">a major mistake in how FAFSA calculated a student’s financial need\u003c/a>. The time needed to fix this glitch pushed back the date for the Department of Education to start sending students’ FAFSA data to colleges. This usually \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63075/a-new-fafsa-setback-means-many-college-financial-aid-offers-wont-come-until-april\">takes place at the end of January,\u003c/a> but this year, federal officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979072/months-into-botched-fafsa-revamp-some-colleges-finally-receiving-students-financial-aid-info\">started transferring student information until mid-March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you receive an acceptance letter that doesn’t include information on financial aid you qualify for, don’t panic. Email the school’s financial aid office and ask their timeline for sending out this information. They may be sending that letter out later than in previous years. Additionally, you can ask the college if they plan to push back the deadline for when they expect students to decide on whether to enroll in the school. For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975534/california-students-panic-after-new-financial-aid-application-blocks-them\">schools in the University of California and California State University systems have now pushed back this deadline to May 15\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11979367","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1403066184-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Students in California will also have more time to apply for state aid. If you are a high school senior or a transfer student planning to go to a four-year institution — like a school in the University of California or Cal State system — you now have until May 2 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/cal-grants\">apply for the Cal Grant\u003c/a>. You must complete the FAFSA before that date to qualify for a Cal Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, the deadline to file the FAFSA to be eligible for the Cal Grant and other state aid was April 2. But\u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/state_aid_deadline_extention_ab1887_may_2.pdf\"> legislators have now approved a bill that pushes back this date\u003c/a>. “This new law will give California students more time to complete the FAFSA and gain access to the financial resources they need to begin their college careers in earnest,” said State Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes, who introduced the legislation extending the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you plan to enroll in a California community college, there’s more good news: The deadline to apply for community college-specific state aid is now set for much later in 2024. Make sure your FAFSA is completed by Sept. 2 to qualify for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/post/cal-grant-community-college-entitlement-award\">Cal Grant Community College Entitlement Award\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In 2024, your FAFSA application isn’t as long\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The FAFSA and financial aid process can be very overwhelming, very complex,” said Michael Lemus, the outreach and marketing manager at the California Student Aid Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original FAFSA application was over 100 questions. Now, as of this year, it is going to be fewer than 50 questions, Lemus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always been super, super long,” Lemus said of the application. “I’m someone that filled it out myself when I was in high school and in college, and I just remember it being a stressful period of time,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FAFSA’s infamous length, Lemus said, can be a deterrent — “especially for folks that their families might not be as comfortable with filling out these applications or just aware of all the terminology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So some of the changes that are being looked at are making those questions easier to understand and lessening the questions,” Lemus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new FAFSA will be connected to data from the Internal Revenue Service to automatically populate that tax information in the forms, Lemus said. “So it’ll save a lot of time, and it’ll just actually populate from the information that the family’s able to provide instead of a lot of the manual entry that a lot of folks are used to,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/fafsa-simplification-act\">Some questions being taken out include inquiries on drug convictions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"measure\">\u003c/a>FAFSA now has new ways to measure eligibility for student aid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is a new metric to determine how much a student can qualify for aid, said Shelveen Ratnam, a spokesperson for the California Student Aid Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Student Aid Index (SAI) will replace the Expected Family Contribution (EFC) that was generated by the FAFSA and is “a metric to understand the relative amount that the formula estimates a student can contribute,” Ratnam told KQED in an email. “The SAI will help inform how much federal aid, and in some instances other institutional aid, for which a student might qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11968584","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/IMG_0524-1020x659.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Expected Family Contribution was \u003ca href=\"https://www.discover.com/student-loans/college-planning/how-to-pay/financial-aid/what-is-the-student-aid-index\">something of a misleading name\u003c/a>, Ratnam said because it did not truly reflect the cost someone would be paying for college by including factors like student loan interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratnam said that the EFC also factored in how many other college students were in a family — which could negatively impact someone’s eligibility for financial aid. The new Student Aid Index does not do this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAI also has a larger range, meaning students with \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46909\">larger financial needs have more chances for more aid\u003c/a> (PDF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the SAI, applicants can receive an SAI below $0, with the lowest being negative $1500, which would help make it easier for financial aid counselors to determine a student’s financial need,” Ratnam said. “With the previous EFC, the lowest an applicant would receive would be $0.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The equation for determining \u003ca href=\"https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/what-is-the-student-aid-index\">financial need is calculated by subtracting your SAI from your cost of attendance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>More applicants now qualify for grants through FAFSA\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Federal Pell Grant \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/fafsa-simplification-act\">will also be expanded to more students\u003c/a>, linking eligibility to family size and federal poverty level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can use \u003ca href=\"https://fsapartners.ed.gov/sites/default/files/2023-05/202425DRAFTSAIGuideSupplementEligibilityforMaxorMinPellGrantResource.pdf\">this website (link to PDF) to look up your situation and income to gauge how much aid you can get\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SAI \u003ca href=\"https://www.discover.com/student-loans/college-planning/how-to-pay/financial-aid/what-is-the-student-aid-index\">kicks in here, too\u003c/a>, as students who don’t qualify for Pell Grants based on income \u003ci>may\u003c/i> qualify based on SAI. Another change: “Additionally, incarcerated students will regain the ability to receive a Pell Grant,” Ratnam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“FAFSA simplification and the new SAI expands eligibility for Pell Grants to more students and increases the numbers of students that will qualify for a maximum Pell Grant,” Ratnam said. “Students with two parents whose adjusted gross income is less [than] or equal to 175% of the poverty line and 225% of the poverty line for a single-parent household now qualify for the maximum Pell Grant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Plus: A new option for students interested in attending HBCUs\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not have historically Black colleges or universities, meaning students would have to give up state-based financial aid if they want to go to one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Gov. Gavin Newsom last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/ab1400_signed_press_release_100223.pdf\">signed into law AB 1400\u003c/a>, which allows for a one-time $5,000 grant to California Community College students transferring to an HBCU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968640\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A group of young people walk together on what looks like a city street, dressed warmly and smiling at each other.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147076-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year, FAFSA is opening in December. \u003ccite>(Keira Burton/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"undocumented\">\u003c/a>What undocumented students need to know about FAFSA and financial aid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What if I’m a citizen, but my parents are undocumented and don’t have a Social Security number?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 12, the Department of Education announced it had finally fixed the technical issue that for months prevented mixed-status families — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student\">where the student has a Social Security number but their parent does not\u003c/a> — from completing the 2024-2025 FAFSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This glitch blocked mixed-status families from completing the form for months, despite the Department of Education confirming with KQED in 2023 that these families would be able to complete the new FAFSA without a problem. Now that the is resolved, undocumented parents can make an FSA ID and fill out the parent’s portion of the form without needing to input a Social Security number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although the problem is now fixed, students from mixed-status families lost months of valuable time to complete their FAFSA, critical to request state financial aid. That’s why on March 25, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature pushed back the deadline for California students to file FAFSA and be eligible for state aid, like the Cal Grant. The new deadline to complete the FAFSA and be eligible for these aid programs is now May 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What if I’m undocumented? Can I still apply for FAFSA?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you, as the student, are undocumented and do not have a Social Security number, unfortunately, you cannot complete the FAFSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in this situation, there are still ways to look for financial aid for college, even if you are undocumented. \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/california_dream_act_faq.pdf?1694549553\">Undocumented students in California can complete the California Dream Act Application (CADAA\u003c/a>) in order to be eligible for \u003ci>state\u003c/i> grants and loans for college (keep reading for more information on this application). You can also complete the CADAA if you have a valid or expired DACA, a U Visa or Temporary Protected Status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented students can also apply to dozens of private colleges and universities and also apply for the scholarships and grants these schools offer. Make sure to check with each school you are interested in to see if they offer aid to undocumented students and what their process is like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Changes to know about the California Dream Act \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Dream Act — which provides aid for undocumented students — \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/renewingthedream\">will also be streamlined\u003c/a> in the future to mirror the FAFSA, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/better-fafsa-better-cadaa\">the Better California Dream Act Application\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dream Act applications will open in December, around the same to-be-announced date that the 2023 FAFSA application opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the ones, here at the California Student Commission, that administer the California Dream Act application,” Lemus said. “So we actually are the ones that can go ahead and change it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the arrival of the Better FAFSA application, the California Student Commission is now also looking at how to similarly streamline and simplify the California Dream Act for 2023, Lemus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As every year goes by, we’re listening for feedback, and so we’re constantly wanting to make updates as they come up,” Lemus said. “But what we’re looking at is also waiting on the updates to see what the FAFSA is going to look like, to see how we can streamline the California Dream Act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, there may be something of a waiting game for hopeful California Dream Act applicants to find out exactly how that process will work. \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1540/id/2828767\">Newsom has recently signed AB 1540\u003c/a> into law, which takes out an extra step for undocumented students to secure their aid by making the Dream Act application the only form they need to fill out (as opposed to submitting an affidavit to their college to \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/ab_1540_signed_press_release_100923.pdf\">verify their residency and be given a nonresident tuition exemption.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind, however, that \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/sites/default/files/financial-aid-and-undocumented-students.pdf\">undocumented students\u003c/a> — including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients — are only currently eligible for \u003cem>state\u003c/em> student aid, not federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-william-fortunato-6140910.jpg\" alt=\"A young person in a grey hoodie stands smiling and looking at someone whose back is to the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-william-fortunato-6140910.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-william-fortunato-6140910-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-william-fortunato-6140910-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-william-fortunato-6140910-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-william-fortunato-6140910-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FAFSA will be shorter and streamlined this year. \u003ccite>(William Fortunato/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"private\">\u003c/a>If you’re also applying to private schools, don’t forget to complete the CSS Profile\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org/\">CSS Profile\u003c/a> is a separate application operated by the CollegeBoard and used by private colleges and universities to determine how much financial aid they will give to students, in addition to FAFSA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Dieken, head of financial aid at Pomona College, a private liberal arts school in Southern California, said that his team looks at both FAFSA and the CSS Profile to get a more complete picture of what a student’s financial situation is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more money the college or university gets out of their own grants or scholarships, the more likely it is that they’re going to ask you to complete additional documentation like the CSS Profile,” he said. Many private schools, including Pomona, provide financial aid packages that include additional funds from donors or grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CSS Profile is really looking for financial resources that a family has access to,” Dieken said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to home ownership as an example. “A family that owns a home, they’re economically stronger than a family that doesn’t own a home,” he said. “But FAFSA doesn’t collect that. That’s something that we only get through the CSS Profile data.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The more money the college or university gets out of their own grants or scholarships, the more likely it is that they’re going to ask you to complete additional documentation.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Paul Dieken, Director of Financial Aid at Pomona College","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If private schools are also on your list, you can go ahead and start the CSS Profile now. You’ll need a few more documents than what FAFSA asks for, including your parents’ W-2, bank statements from the past few months and records of properties or assets your family owns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make sure to give your family enough time to find the documents you’ll need to complete the CSS Profile. If there are questions you just can’t answer — for example, your parents are separated, and you are unable to contact one of them because of safety reasons — contact the financial aid staff of the schools you’re applying to so they can give you specific instructions on what to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"taxes\">\u003c/a>Q. My parents work but don’t have tax information available. How can I complete FAFSA?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First, let’s do a quick breakdown of tax vocabulary:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003cb>W-2 form\u003c/b> is a tax document that an employer gives workers once a year, which shows how much the employer paid the worker that year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003cb>1040 form\u003c/b> is a tax document, also known as a tax return, that a worker completes themselves, usually with the help of a tax expert. This document is sent to the IRS each year to confirm how much that worker got paid and how much they owe the government in taxes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Most people in the U.S. receive a W-2 form and then complete a 1040 form themselves. FAFSA will ask your parents to share information from last year’s documents. But let’s say you ask your parents and they don’t have this information. It could be for one of these reasons:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your parent is a gig worker, such as driving for Uber or doing deliveries for GrubHub, they most likely did not get a W-2 form. Instead, the company they work for gave them a 1099 form. Ask for “their 1099” instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your parent did not work last year and received unemployment benefits instead, they most likely did not get a W-2 form. Instead, the state government sent them a 1099-G form, which lists how much they received from unemployment benefits. You can ask for this instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your parent has a W-2 form but does not have last year’s 1040 form, this probably means they haven’t filed their taxes yet. Colleges will still want to see your parents’ taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talk to your parents about scheduling an appointment with a tax preparer to catch up on this. There are many community organizations that offer free tax filing services year-round. \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/freetaxhelp/\">In the Bay Area, United Way can connect you to online and in-person tax help\u003c/a> — and your parents could potentially qualify to get cash back from the government when they file, based on their income and the size of your family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your family still needs to file their taxes, keep the schools you’re applying to updated about this step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, parents may be working at a job where they just won’t receive a W-2 or 1099 at all. Perhaps they work as a housecleaner, a nanny, a landscaper, a farmworker or another job where they haven’t signed a formal paper contract and are getting paid in cash. If this is your family’s situation, don’t panic. There are solutions. But you’ll have to act quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosanna Ferro, chief of education at Oakland-based nonprofit College Track, recommends you first ask your parents, “How have you gotten paid in the past year or two?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferro, whose organization works to help first-generation and low-income high school students from across the country graduate college, said that the point of this question is twofold: How often do your parents get paid, and how much do they get paid? The piece of information you need is what’s called “proof of income,” which can help you calculate how much your parents got paid per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, let’s say your dad cleans houses and charges $100 per house. Based on the information he shares, you estimate that he can usually clean 10 houses a week. That approximates that he’s earning roughly $4,000 a month. Multiply that by 12 months, and you get an estimated $48,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may have to get crafty to help your parents organize this information, Ferro said. “Whether it’s creating an Excel sheet, a Google folder or scanning something — taking a picture, a receipt or anything that shows income in any kind of way and storing it in a way that’s going to be accessible to you,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helping your parents create a digital record of their earnings will also help you in the future when you have to fill out FAFSA again every year you’re in college. This will be especially important if you go to a school far away from home and no longer have easy access to physical receipts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you’re doing this, remember to contact a financial aid officer from any of the schools you’re applying to, who can advise your family on how to best input this information into FAFSA. They may ask you to share additional documents, like a letter from an employer or potentially filing a 1040 form with the data you’ve gathered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All in all, we ask for information that you can put in as accurately as possible,” said Sonia Jethani, the director of the financial aid office at California State University, East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968635\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147077.jpg\" alt=\"Three young people walk together on what looks like a city street, dressed warmly and smiling at each other.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147077.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147077-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147077-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147077-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/pexels-keira-burton-6147077-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">How can you work with your family to accurately complete your FAFSA? \u003ccite>(Keira Burton/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What else should I know about FAFSA in 2024?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The California Student Aid Commission’s Michael Lemus said students can use the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/students\">California Student Commission\u003c/a> as a resource for financial aid questions. Their website will soon have a Better FAFSA tool kit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemus advised people to start early and for seniors in the fall to stay in close contact with their high school counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s interesting this year because the FAFSA is delayed,” he said. “But what I would recommend is just making sure that they start getting more comfortable with the financial aid process,” which could include familiarizing yourself with the types of aid available — to be ready and primed when FAFSA applications finally open in December. “While the application itself is changing, the types of aid, for the most part, are remaining the same,” Lemus said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Try not to stress,” Lemus said, even though these changes can feel overwhelming and contain a lot of unknowns. He added that teachers and educators will also be trained on the new changes, providing another point of contact and resources for applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you come across something that you just can’t find an answer to? “Just know that [at] the California [Student] Commission, we are very much aware of these, and we have it on our radar,” Lemus said. “So if they want to start off with us, to ask questions, they definitely can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/contact-us\">Get in contact with the California Student Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story originally published on Feb. 15, and includes reporting from NPR’s Cory Turner and CalMatters’ Mikhail Zinshteyn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2024. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID-19\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger and help us decide what to cover here on our site and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"hearken","attributes":{"named":{"id":"10483","src":"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11957693/applying-for-fafsa-in-2023-will-be-different-what-to-know-including-deadlines","authors":["11867","11708"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_32997","news_31715","news_28296","news_22697","news_32996"],"featImg":"news_11968639","label":"news"},"news_11980910":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980910","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980910","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-supervisors-reject-breeds-veto-of-peskins-housing-density-law","title":"SF Supervisors Reject Breed's Veto of Peskin’s Housing Density Law","publishDate":1711496445,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SF Supervisors Reject Breed’s Veto of Peskin’s Housing Density Law | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to overturn Mayor London Breed’s veto of legislation limiting housing heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin authored the legislation limiting how high buildings in the Jackson Square Historic District and nearby neighborhoods can be built.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin\"]‘It is not the way government is supposed to work if we’re going to conduct ourselves maturely.’[/pullquote]Peskin told the board it was “particularly depressing, and in my mind, unprofessional” that Breed did not discuss amendments before vetoing the legislation. He said that kind of compromise is a normal political convention in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not the way government is supposed to work if we’re going to conduct ourselves maturely,” said Peskin, who is considering a run for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should he jump into the mayor’s race, Peskin will likely argue he is successfully defending neighborhood character from moderate Democrats who would offer sweetheart deals to housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>A city law authored by Peskin last year allowed for more housing to be built downtown, but it inadvertently loosened height limits in the Jackson Square Historic District and the Northeast Waterfront Historic District. Peskin’s legislation to restore height restrictions in waterfront neighborhoods passed on March 5.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rafael Mandelman, San Francisco Supervisor, District 8\"]‘… I have not even agreed with Peskin on several of the land use and housing items that came before the board. But on this one, on the merits, he is correct.’[/pullquote]Breed vetoed it on March 14. In her veto letter to the supervisors, she cited San Francisco’s need to build taller and more dense developments to reach the state’s mandated goal of 82,000 new housing units by 2031.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A supermajority — eight out of 11 supervisors — voted to override her veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman was among the lawmakers upholding Peskin’s legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not agreed with President Peskin on everything that has come before this board. I have not even agreed with Peskin on several of the land use and housing items that came before the board,” he said. “But on this one, on the merits, he is correct. The opposition to this is pure politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view: \u003c/strong>Supervisors Matt Dorsey, Joel Engardio and Myrna Melgar voted against rejecting Breed’s veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey said the legislation would allow more neighborhoods to claim historic exemptions, making it more difficult for the city to meet its production goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taller buildings won’t hurt our city, but exclusionary zoning will,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Breed said the veto is a setback to making housing more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are those who say they want to see change, and yet when the proposals come, they will say, ‘Not here, not this way,’” she said. “But we will never address our housing shortage without bold and sustained action — and real solutions.”[aside label='More on Politics and Government' tag='politics']\u003cstrong>What we are watching: \u003c/strong>Breed and Peskin are in clear opposition on how San Francisco should solve its ongoing housing crisis. Breed is aligned with state Sen. Scott Wiener, who favors unrestricted housing development across the city. Peskin favors the housing policies of San Francisco’s progressive Democrats, who prioritize existing tenants and neighborhood character when deciding where to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Wiener called the vote a “black eye” for San Francisco amid its “debilitating housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s vote by the Board of Supervisors sends exactly the wrong message on housing. It’s deeply disappointing,” he said. “I’m grateful to Mayor Breed for vetoing the bad legislation — her leadership on housing has been extraordinary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her State of the City speech earlier this month, breed promised to veto any “anti-housing” legislation. She can now tell voters on the campaign trail that she is keeping that promise, even if she was overruled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The fate of the legislation was largely seen as a proxy battle between Mayor London Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who could be opponents in November’s mayoral election.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711559131,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":713},"headData":{"title":"SF Supervisors Reject Breed's Veto of Peskin’s Housing Density Law | KQED","description":"The fate of the legislation was largely seen as a proxy battle between Mayor London Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who could be opponents in November’s mayoral election.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980910/sf-supervisors-reject-breeds-veto-of-peskins-housing-density-law","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to overturn Mayor London Breed’s veto of legislation limiting housing heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin authored the legislation limiting how high buildings in the Jackson Square Historic District and nearby neighborhoods can be built.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It is not the way government is supposed to work if we’re going to conduct ourselves maturely.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Peskin told the board it was “particularly depressing, and in my mind, unprofessional” that Breed did not discuss amendments before vetoing the legislation. He said that kind of compromise is a normal political convention in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not the way government is supposed to work if we’re going to conduct ourselves maturely,” said Peskin, who is considering a run for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should he jump into the mayor’s race, Peskin will likely argue he is successfully defending neighborhood character from moderate Democrats who would offer sweetheart deals to housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>A city law authored by Peskin last year allowed for more housing to be built downtown, but it inadvertently loosened height limits in the Jackson Square Historic District and the Northeast Waterfront Historic District. Peskin’s legislation to restore height restrictions in waterfront neighborhoods passed on March 5.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘… I have not even agreed with Peskin on several of the land use and housing items that came before the board. But on this one, on the merits, he is correct.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Rafael Mandelman, San Francisco Supervisor, District 8","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Breed vetoed it on March 14. In her veto letter to the supervisors, she cited San Francisco’s need to build taller and more dense developments to reach the state’s mandated goal of 82,000 new housing units by 2031.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A supermajority — eight out of 11 supervisors — voted to override her veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman was among the lawmakers upholding Peskin’s legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not agreed with President Peskin on everything that has come before this board. I have not even agreed with Peskin on several of the land use and housing items that came before the board,” he said. “But on this one, on the merits, he is correct. The opposition to this is pure politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view: \u003c/strong>Supervisors Matt Dorsey, Joel Engardio and Myrna Melgar voted against rejecting Breed’s veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey said the legislation would allow more neighborhoods to claim historic exemptions, making it more difficult for the city to meet its production goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taller buildings won’t hurt our city, but exclusionary zoning will,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Breed said the veto is a setback to making housing more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are those who say they want to see change, and yet when the proposals come, they will say, ‘Not here, not this way,’” she said. “But we will never address our housing shortage without bold and sustained action — and real solutions.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Politics and Government ","tag":"politics"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we are watching: \u003c/strong>Breed and Peskin are in clear opposition on how San Francisco should solve its ongoing housing crisis. Breed is aligned with state Sen. Scott Wiener, who favors unrestricted housing development across the city. Peskin favors the housing policies of San Francisco’s progressive Democrats, who prioritize existing tenants and neighborhood character when deciding where to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Wiener called the vote a “black eye” for San Francisco amid its “debilitating housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s vote by the Board of Supervisors sends exactly the wrong message on housing. It’s deeply disappointing,” he said. “I’m grateful to Mayor Breed for vetoing the bad legislation — her leadership on housing has been extraordinary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her State of the City speech earlier this month, breed promised to veto any “anti-housing” legislation. 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The patient jumped her from behind, shoving Golomb to the floor.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dani Golomb, psychiatry resident, California Pacific Medical Center\"]‘I had one of these folding metal clipboards. [The patient] grabbed it out of my hand and smashed it repeatedly on my head.’[/pullquote]“I was punched in the head, neck and shoulders,” she told KQED in an interview. “I had one of these folding metal clipboards. [The patient] grabbed it out of my hand and smashed it repeatedly on my head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golomb suffered a concussion and a traumatic brain injury. She missed more than a year of work as she recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter Health was legally required to file a violent incident report to state regulators within 72 hours, but the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, has no record of the incident, the agency confirmed in an email to KQED. Cal/OSHA said it was “looking into the matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Sutter Health acknowledged that the hospital did not initially report Golomb’s assault or injury but said it did record the assault in an injury log filed with Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think, whether intentionally unreported or not, what upsets me the most is the possibility that more safety measures could have been implemented if Cal/OSHA had been aware of the violence,” Golomb said in an interview this week with KQED. “I think it’s a relief to hear that state regulators are looking into my case. I feel angry that it wasn’t properly reported in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dani Golomb, psychiatry resident at CPMC Sutter Davies Campus, poses for a portrait at her home in San Francisco on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2014, California lawmakers passed what was touted as the nation’s strongest state workplace violence regulations for health care facilities. The law, SB 1299, was sponsored by the California Nurses Association. It requires hospitals to develop comprehensive workplace violence prevention plans, and it mandates strict reporting requirements for acute care settings, like the inpatient psychiatry unit where Golomb was beaten.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Carmen Comsti, lead regulatory specialist, California Nurses Association\"]‘Enforcement on a basic level has been lax. My sense is that no one at Cal/OSHA is really looking to see whether or not hospitals are reporting or not.’[/pullquote]“I authored legislation to help ensure safer working environments for the nurses and doctors who provide critical care for our communities, but it’s clear that more needs to be done to build on our efforts,” Sen. Alex Padilla, who wrote SB 1299 when he was a state lawmaker, said in a statement. “Physicians on the frontlines of our mental health crisis deserve a safe workplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2017, California hospitals have reported roughly 10,000 violent incidents annually to the state. Carmen Comsti, the California Nurses Association’s lead regulatory specialist, said that many hospitals are underreporting violent incidents, and regulators have not been holding facilities accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enforcement on a basic level has been lax,” she said. “My sense is that no one at Cal/OSHA is really looking to see whether or not hospitals are reporting or not.”[aside label='More on Workplace Safety' tag='workplace-safety']“The violent incident reports are key to the success of implementation of workplace violence prevention plans,” Comsti continued. “[They allow] workers to know what is happening and can engage with their employer to say these things we need to improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golomb and her colleagues have pressed Sutter Health to increase its safety measures. Earlier this month, they delivered a petition to hospital management signed by more than 100 psychiatry residents, fellows and nurses who demanded a round-the-clock security presence in the inpatient psych unit and an intensive care unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our ability to continue to provide the highest standard of care is increasingly threatened by a growing concern for our own safety in our workplace,” the petition said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter claims it has spent nearly $40 million to improve security for the unit where Golomb was attacked, purchasing cameras, panic buttons, duress alarms and securing doors. A security officer is now stationed there during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 8, the day after KQED’s story on Golomb was published, Warner Thomas, Sutter Health’s president and CEO, sent an email to hospital employees titled, “Keeping you safe from harm at work.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dani Golomb, psychiatry resident, California Pacific Medical Center\"]‘My goal since the beginning of all this was to work towards creating a safer environment for my peers, patients, nurses and the rest of our staff.’[/pullquote]The email noted Sutter’s plan to spend an additional $45 million to simplify workplace violence reporting, develop new signage, increase training and expand security officer patrols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of you have also voiced your concerns about safety at our Sutter Health worksites,” Thomas wrote. “I want to thank you for speaking up and talking about your experiences with me and other leaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golomb said there have been “notable improvements” at work, with a more consistent security presence. Residents were also given panic buttons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal since the beginning of all this was to work towards creating a safer environment for my peers, patients, nurses and the rest of our staff,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California regulators are probing Sutter Health's handling of a violent assault on a psychiatry resident at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Sutter Health was legally required to report the incident to Cal/OSHA within 72 hours, but the agency says it has no record.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711569514,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":989},"headData":{"title":"California Regulators Investigate Sutter Health Over Unreported Assault on Psychiatry Worker | KQED","description":"California regulators are probing Sutter Health's handling of a violent assault on a psychiatry resident at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Sutter Health was legally required to report the incident to Cal/OSHA within 72 hours, but the agency says it has no record.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980953/california-regulators-investigate-sutter-health-over-unreported-assault-on-psychiatry-worker","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California regulators are reviewing Sutter Health’s handling of a violent assault on a psychiatry resident after she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1991739/bay-area-medical-psychiatry-pushes-for-hospital-safety-after-violent-attack\">shared her story with KQED\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dani Golomb was brutally beaten and knocked unconscious by a patient on Sept. 5, 2020, while working in the inpatient unit at California Pacific Medical Center. The patient jumped her from behind, shoving Golomb to the floor.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I had one of these folding metal clipboards. [The patient] grabbed it out of my hand and smashed it repeatedly on my head.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dani Golomb, psychiatry resident, California Pacific Medical Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I was punched in the head, neck and shoulders,” she told KQED in an interview. “I had one of these folding metal clipboards. [The patient] grabbed it out of my hand and smashed it repeatedly on my head.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golomb suffered a concussion and a traumatic brain injury. She missed more than a year of work as she recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter Health was legally required to file a violent incident report to state regulators within 72 hours, but the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, has no record of the incident, the agency confirmed in an email to KQED. Cal/OSHA said it was “looking into the matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Sutter Health acknowledged that the hospital did not initially report Golomb’s assault or injury but said it did record the assault in an injury log filed with Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think, whether intentionally unreported or not, what upsets me the most is the possibility that more safety measures could have been implemented if Cal/OSHA had been aware of the violence,” Golomb said in an interview this week with KQED. “I think it’s a relief to hear that state regulators are looking into my case. I feel angry that it wasn’t properly reported in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240209-HOSPITALVIOLENCE-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dani Golomb, psychiatry resident at CPMC Sutter Davies Campus, poses for a portrait at her home in San Francisco on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2014, California lawmakers passed what was touted as the nation’s strongest state workplace violence regulations for health care facilities. The law, SB 1299, was sponsored by the California Nurses Association. It requires hospitals to develop comprehensive workplace violence prevention plans, and it mandates strict reporting requirements for acute care settings, like the inpatient psychiatry unit where Golomb was beaten.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Enforcement on a basic level has been lax. My sense is that no one at Cal/OSHA is really looking to see whether or not hospitals are reporting or not.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Carmen Comsti, lead regulatory specialist, California Nurses Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I authored legislation to help ensure safer working environments for the nurses and doctors who provide critical care for our communities, but it’s clear that more needs to be done to build on our efforts,” Sen. Alex Padilla, who wrote SB 1299 when he was a state lawmaker, said in a statement. “Physicians on the frontlines of our mental health crisis deserve a safe workplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2017, California hospitals have reported roughly 10,000 violent incidents annually to the state. Carmen Comsti, the California Nurses Association’s lead regulatory specialist, said that many hospitals are underreporting violent incidents, and regulators have not been holding facilities accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enforcement on a basic level has been lax,” she said. “My sense is that no one at Cal/OSHA is really looking to see whether or not hospitals are reporting or not.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Workplace Safety ","tag":"workplace-safety"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The violent incident reports are key to the success of implementation of workplace violence prevention plans,” Comsti continued. “[They allow] workers to know what is happening and can engage with their employer to say these things we need to improve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golomb and her colleagues have pressed Sutter Health to increase its safety measures. Earlier this month, they delivered a petition to hospital management signed by more than 100 psychiatry residents, fellows and nurses who demanded a round-the-clock security presence in the inpatient psych unit and an intensive care unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our ability to continue to provide the highest standard of care is increasingly threatened by a growing concern for our own safety in our workplace,” the petition said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter claims it has spent nearly $40 million to improve security for the unit where Golomb was attacked, purchasing cameras, panic buttons, duress alarms and securing doors. A security officer is now stationed there during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 8, the day after KQED’s story on Golomb was published, Warner Thomas, Sutter Health’s president and CEO, sent an email to hospital employees titled, “Keeping you safe from harm at work.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘My goal since the beginning of all this was to work towards creating a safer environment for my peers, patients, nurses and the rest of our staff.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dani Golomb, psychiatry resident, California Pacific Medical Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The email noted Sutter’s plan to spend an additional $45 million to simplify workplace violence reporting, develop new signage, increase training and expand security officer patrols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of you have also voiced your concerns about safety at our Sutter Health worksites,” Thomas wrote. “I want to thank you for speaking up and talking about your experiences with me and other leaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golomb said there have been “notable improvements” at work, with a more consistent security presence. Residents were also given panic buttons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My goal since the beginning of all this was to work towards creating a safer environment for my peers, patients, nurses and the rest of our staff,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980953/california-regulators-investigate-sutter-health-over-unreported-assault-on-psychiatry-worker","authors":["11608"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_24939","news_6617","news_18093","news_23063","news_33132"],"featImg":"news_11980957","label":"news"},"news_11980776":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980776","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980776","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"when-is-tax-deadline-2024-myths-refund","title":"The 2024 Tax Deadline Approaches. From Free Filing to Refunds, Here's What to Know","publishDate":1711549838,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The 2024 Tax Deadline Approaches. From Free Filing to Refunds, Here’s What to Know | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>There are only a few weeks left before the April 15 deadline to file your 2023 taxes if you haven’t already done so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re feeling stressed about how much you may have to pay after talking to friends — or if you’re left confused by \u003ca href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dangerous-and-illegal-tax-advice-on-tiktok-targets-millennials-and-gen-z-with-w-2s-161113972.html\">a surge of social media videos giving out incorrect tax advice\u003c/a> — this one’s for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We talked to Bay Area tax experts to understand exactly what the IRS has changed for this year’s filing and what has stayed the same — and to debunk some of those tax rumors, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#taxdeadline2024\">What’s the deadline to file my taxes this year? Can I get an extension?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#freetaxfilingirs\">How could I file my taxes directly with the IRS for free?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#childtaxcredit2024\">What’s new with the Child Tax Credit in 2024?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#taxexpertnearme\">Can I get a bigger tax refund if I use a private tax preparer?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you’re reading this a few days before April 15 and you’re worried that you won’t find a tax expert near you to help you file before the deadline, there’s a new IRS tool available to California filers that can help you file from home for free (\u003ca href=\"#freetaxfilingirs\">scroll down for more on that\u003c/a> ). Or if you’re looking for free, in-person tax help, there are dozens of nonprofit organizations across the Bay Area offering free tax filing services. \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/freetaxhelp/\">Find the closest free or low-cost tax resources with the United Way Bay Area’s map.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to learn what’s true — or false — about filing your 2023 taxes by April 15, 2024. And remember, everyone’s tax situation is different, so if you have questions or concerns about your individual tax filing, it’s \u003cem>always\u003c/em> best to speak with a tax expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"taxdeadline2024\">\u003c/a>Is the deadline this year \u003ci>really\u003c/i> April 15?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s right. Unless you live or work in San Diego County (more on that below), the deadline for filing your state and federal taxes in California this year is Monday, April 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past few years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946379/tax-deadline-2023-california-bay-area-extension\">the IRS granted automatic extensions to millions of taxpayers\u003c/a> around the United States due to the pandemic and natural disasters. Last year, for example, the agency allowed millions of Californians to file and pay their taxes by Nov. 16. But this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/tax-time-guide-2024-what-to-know-before-completing-a-tax-return\">the IRS has stuck to their regular April 15 deadline\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IRS, however, has granted an extension this year to a specific group of Californians: People who live or own a business in San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Severe storms and floods hit San Diego County in January, and following a disaster declaration from FEMA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-announces-tax-relief-for-taxpayers-impacted-by-severe-storms-and-flooding-in-san-diego-california\">the IRS announced that residents now have until June 17 to file their 2023 federal taxes\u003c/a>. The State of California Tax Franchise Board has also confirmed that the same extension \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/newsroom/tax-news/index.html#article0\">applies to state taxes for San Diego County filers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you need more time to file? The IRS does have \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/extension-of-time-to-file-your-tax-return\">an option to request an extension and get more time to submit all your information\u003c/a> — but this isn’t a free pass. You will still need to estimate how much you owe Uncle Sam \u003ci>and \u003c/i>pay that amount when you request the extension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946480\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946480 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at her kitchen table and sifts through documents, looking concerned. Next to her is her opened laptop.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year, only people living and working in San Diego County have received an automatic filing extension on their state and federal taxes. \u003ccite>(MoMo Productions/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"freetaxfilingirs\">\u003c/a>I heard that I can now file my taxes directly to the IRS for free. How does that work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year, the IRS launched \u003ca href=\"https://directfile.irs.gov/\">a pilot version of a Direct File Tool\u003c/a>. This means that residents in 12 states, including California, can now file their taxes directly with the IRS through a virtual platform that walks you step-by-step through the process. Once you’re done, the IRS will have your information without you needing to leave the house or pay for an online tax service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://directfile.irs.gov/\">\u003cb>Learn more about filing for free with the IRS Direct File Tool here.\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free\">a long, fraught road to bring free direct tax filing to the United States\u003c/a>. Several groups across the country pushed the IRS for years to make this tool available so that more working- and middle-class families would have access to free tax filing services and reduce their dependency on private tax filers. “We believe that the tax filing should be free, simple, easy, automatic,” says Teri Olle, with the \u003ca href=\"https://economicsecurityproject.org/\">Economic Security Project\u003c/a>, one of the organizations that successfully advocated for the Direct File Tool. “This pilot really just puts money into people’s hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are a few things to remember about the new IRS Direct File tool:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Not everyone can use Direct File\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who received a W-2 for their 2023 income \u003ca href=\"https://directfile.irs.gov/\">can use the Direct File tool\u003c/a>, regardless of income, as well as people who received Social Security income or unemployment benefits. Folks who do not have a Social Security number but do have an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number can also use the IRS Direct File Tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if you only worked gig industry jobs (like driving for Lyft or delivering for DoorDash) and you only received a 1099 but not a W-2, unfortunately, you cannot use the Direct File tool — at least not this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You can only file federal taxes with Direct File\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get started with \u003ca href=\"https://directfile.irs.gov/\">the IRS Direct File Tool\u003c/a>, you’ll need your W-2, additional documentation, as well as your government ID. But once you’re done, it’s crucial that you \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/ways-to-file/online/calfile/index.asp\">head over to CalFile to then complete your \u003ci>state\u003c/i> taxes\u003c/a> — since the IRS Direct File Tool only takes care of your federal taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I saw on social media that I could avoid paying taxes if I selected “Exempt” on my W-4. Is that true?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is not true. In fact, tax experts say that doing this could actually put you in a \u003ci>much more\u003c/i> difficult position with the IRS in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To explain why, let’s review \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-w-4\">what a W-4 is\u003c/a>: A form that your employer should provide you with — usually when you begin working for them — that lets your employer know how much of your income they should deduct (or “withhold”) from your pay in order to pay your income taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get a pay stub each month, you may see that federal and state taxes have taken a percentage of your paycheck. This happens because you are marked “Non-exempt” on your W-4. When they file, many folks see that they have already paid all or most of what they owe to the IRS for the year because they’ve been paying off their tax liability bit by bit with each paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what happens when you choose to go “Exempt” on your W-4 instead? Usually, what happens is that you’ll get a bigger paycheck each month because taxes aren’t being withheld. But this doesn’t stop Uncle Sam from eventually wanting his money. When the time comes to file, you may now owe a much bigger amount because you have to pay your whole tax bill at once — versus paying it month by month if you had chosen “Non-exempt” on your W-4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a gig worker (you drive for Uber, for example), \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/manage-taxes-for-your-gig-work#:~:text=Do%20you%20work%20as%20an,give%20it%20to%20your%20employer.\">you can set up quarterly payments to the IRS\u003c/a> and, that way, avoid getting hit with a huge tax bill when filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Gig workers are] self-employed and they have to pay taxes,” says Lindsay Rojas, tax specialist and program manager with United Way Bay Area. “They’re not withholding unless they know that they need to make those estimated payments because they’re their own employer.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/manage-taxes-for-your-gig-work#:~:text=Do%20you%20work%20as%20an,give%20it%20to%20your%20employer.\">Learn more about how gig workers can set up direct payments to the IRS throughout the year.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943501\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11943501 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879.jpg\" alt=\"A family of four -- two adult parents or caregivers, and two children -- are photographed skipping along a wet street, holding hands.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you’ve been claiming the child tax credit, there are updates to know for 2024. \u003ccite>(Emma Bauso/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"childtaxcredit2024\">\u003c/a>I have children but I got a smaller tax refund than my friends who also have kids. Did my tax filer do something wrong?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Something that United Way’s Rojas says she always stresses to clients: Everyone’s tax situation is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It depends on the client,” she says, and “it’s never a cookie-cutter situation where you can say what happens with one person will happen with everybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas emphasizes, however, that families may see smaller refunds this year due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943464/irs-child-tax-credits-how-much-changes\">changes in the Child Tax Credit that started last year\u003c/a>. During the pandemic, the Child Tax Credit went up to $3,600 for children under 6 and to $3,000 for kids between ages 6 and 18. During that time, parents and caregivers were seeing refunds that were much bigger than what they had received before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting last year, the Child Tax Credit went back down to $2,000 credit for every child 16 or younger — and kids who are 17 no longer qualify for the credit. There’s also an additional requirement to receive these rebates: Parents need to have made at least $2,500 in income last year to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this means that with these changes, many parents and caregivers may see much smaller refunds in 2024. And in some cases, families may actually \u003ci>owe\u003c/i> money to the IRS when they file, depending on their situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you made less than $2,500 last year and have kids, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/credits/young-child-tax-credit.html#:~:text=Overview,income%20of%20%2430%2C931%20or%20less.\">you may still qualify for California’s Young Child Tax Credit\u003c/a>. This is a rebate for families who made $30,931 or less last year and have at least one child who is younger than 6. “[Parents] don’t have to have income to claim that credit, but they do need to be the ones who are providing the support for the child — and that [support] can come in different ways,” Rojas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that there are also many other credits you may qualify for, depending on your situation. And if you’re filing in person, regardless of whether that’s at a free community tax clinic or with a private filer, make sure that you share exactly what has changed about your life this past year, whether that is marriage, a divorce, a kid in college or \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-8936\">even if you bought an electric car\u003c/a>. And if you don’t know what you should be telling your filer, just ask them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to fully understand your return,” Rojas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"taxexpertnearme\">\u003c/a>Is it true that I can get a bigger refund if I use a private tax service?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sometimes we may believe that if something’s free, it might be lower quality. Olle from the Economic Security Project says she’s noticed that this way of thinking often motivates how and where some people file their taxes — and can push them toward paying a professional tax filer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been this conventional wisdom that the paid options ‘do better’,” she says. “But that has not been shown to be true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2014 study, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent federal agency, sent undercover officials to visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-14-467t\">19 randomly selected private tax preparers\u003c/a> and found that out of those, 17 preparers made some errors when filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GAO emphasized that the sample used in the study “cannot be generalized,” but after releasing its findings, this office \u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-14-467t.pdf\">recommended Congress give the IRS more power to regulate private tax preparers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you go to a free tax clinic that’s administered by the federal Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, many of the staff there have filed tax returns for years and have gone through rigorous training designed by IRS staff themselves. \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/freetaxhelp/\">You can find the nearest VITA site near you on United Way Bay Area’s website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaqueline Marcelos, who helps families file their taxes for free at San Francisco’s Mission Economic Development Agency, told KQED in 2023 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943464/irs-child-tax-credits-how-much-changes\">over the years, clients come to her thinking that working with a private filer instead could get them bigger returns.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many clients say, ‘I am going to report that I donated $50, $60, or I want to put down this expense, and I am going to request an extra form in my taxes,” Marcelos says — but while a private filing company can write off what a client asks for, “that [still] might not increase the amount of money that you’re getting back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2024. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID-19\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather,\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger and help us decide what to cover here on our site and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With just a few weekends left to file your 2023 taxes, make sure you know what to look for this year — and which online rumors about taxes are false.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711569561,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":2307},"headData":{"title":"The 2024 Tax Deadline Approaches. From Free Filing to Refunds, Here's What to Know | KQED","description":"With just a few weekends left to file your 2023 taxes, make sure you know what to look for this year — and which online rumors about taxes are false.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980776/when-is-tax-deadline-2024-myths-refund","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There are only a few weeks left before the April 15 deadline to file your 2023 taxes if you haven’t already done so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re feeling stressed about how much you may have to pay after talking to friends — or if you’re left confused by \u003ca href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dangerous-and-illegal-tax-advice-on-tiktok-targets-millennials-and-gen-z-with-w-2s-161113972.html\">a surge of social media videos giving out incorrect tax advice\u003c/a> — this one’s for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We talked to Bay Area tax experts to understand exactly what the IRS has changed for this year’s filing and what has stayed the same — and to debunk some of those tax rumors, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#taxdeadline2024\">What’s the deadline to file my taxes this year? Can I get an extension?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#freetaxfilingirs\">How could I file my taxes directly with the IRS for free?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#childtaxcredit2024\">What’s new with the Child Tax Credit in 2024?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#taxexpertnearme\">Can I get a bigger tax refund if I use a private tax preparer?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you’re reading this a few days before April 15 and you’re worried that you won’t find a tax expert near you to help you file before the deadline, there’s a new IRS tool available to California filers that can help you file from home for free (\u003ca href=\"#freetaxfilingirs\">scroll down for more on that\u003c/a> ). Or if you’re looking for free, in-person tax help, there are dozens of nonprofit organizations across the Bay Area offering free tax filing services. \u003ca href=\"https://uwba.org/freetaxhelp/\">Find the closest free or low-cost tax resources with the United Way Bay Area’s map.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to learn what’s true — or false — about filing your 2023 taxes by April 15, 2024. And remember, everyone’s tax situation is different, so if you have questions or concerns about your individual tax filing, it’s \u003cem>always\u003c/em> best to speak with a tax expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"taxdeadline2024\">\u003c/a>Is the deadline this year \u003ci>really\u003c/i> April 15?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s right. Unless you live or work in San Diego County (more on that below), the deadline for filing your state and federal taxes in California this year is Monday, April 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past few years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946379/tax-deadline-2023-california-bay-area-extension\">the IRS granted automatic extensions to millions of taxpayers\u003c/a> around the United States due to the pandemic and natural disasters. Last year, for example, the agency allowed millions of Californians to file and pay their taxes by Nov. 16. But this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/tax-time-guide-2024-what-to-know-before-completing-a-tax-return\">the IRS has stuck to their regular April 15 deadline\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IRS, however, has granted an extension this year to a specific group of Californians: People who live or own a business in San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Severe storms and floods hit San Diego County in January, and following a disaster declaration from FEMA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-announces-tax-relief-for-taxpayers-impacted-by-severe-storms-and-flooding-in-san-diego-california\">the IRS announced that residents now have until June 17 to file their 2023 federal taxes\u003c/a>. The State of California Tax Franchise Board has also confirmed that the same extension \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/about-ftb/newsroom/tax-news/index.html#article0\">applies to state taxes for San Diego County filers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you need more time to file? The IRS does have \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/extension-of-time-to-file-your-tax-return\">an option to request an extension and get more time to submit all your information\u003c/a> — but this isn’t a free pass. You will still need to estimate how much you owe Uncle Sam \u003ci>and \u003c/i>pay that amount when you request the extension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946480\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946480 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sits at her kitchen table and sifts through documents, looking concerned. Next to her is her opened laptop.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1400799758-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year, only people living and working in San Diego County have received an automatic filing extension on their state and federal taxes. \u003ccite>(MoMo Productions/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"freetaxfilingirs\">\u003c/a>I heard that I can now file my taxes directly to the IRS for free. How does that work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This year, the IRS launched \u003ca href=\"https://directfile.irs.gov/\">a pilot version of a Direct File Tool\u003c/a>. This means that residents in 12 states, including California, can now file their taxes directly with the IRS through a virtual platform that walks you step-by-step through the process. Once you’re done, the IRS will have your information without you needing to leave the house or pay for an online tax service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://directfile.irs.gov/\">\u003cb>Learn more about filing for free with the IRS Direct File Tool here.\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free\">a long, fraught road to bring free direct tax filing to the United States\u003c/a>. Several groups across the country pushed the IRS for years to make this tool available so that more working- and middle-class families would have access to free tax filing services and reduce their dependency on private tax filers. “We believe that the tax filing should be free, simple, easy, automatic,” says Teri Olle, with the \u003ca href=\"https://economicsecurityproject.org/\">Economic Security Project\u003c/a>, one of the organizations that successfully advocated for the Direct File Tool. “This pilot really just puts money into people’s hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are a few things to remember about the new IRS Direct File tool:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Not everyone can use Direct File\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who received a W-2 for their 2023 income \u003ca href=\"https://directfile.irs.gov/\">can use the Direct File tool\u003c/a>, regardless of income, as well as people who received Social Security income or unemployment benefits. Folks who do not have a Social Security number but do have an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number can also use the IRS Direct File Tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, if you only worked gig industry jobs (like driving for Lyft or delivering for DoorDash) and you only received a 1099 but not a W-2, unfortunately, you cannot use the Direct File tool — at least not this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You can only file federal taxes with Direct File\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get started with \u003ca href=\"https://directfile.irs.gov/\">the IRS Direct File Tool\u003c/a>, you’ll need your W-2, additional documentation, as well as your government ID. But once you’re done, it’s crucial that you \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/ways-to-file/online/calfile/index.asp\">head over to CalFile to then complete your \u003ci>state\u003c/i> taxes\u003c/a> — since the IRS Direct File Tool only takes care of your federal taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I saw on social media that I could avoid paying taxes if I selected “Exempt” on my W-4. Is that true?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is not true. In fact, tax experts say that doing this could actually put you in a \u003ci>much more\u003c/i> difficult position with the IRS in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To explain why, let’s review \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-w-4\">what a W-4 is\u003c/a>: A form that your employer should provide you with — usually when you begin working for them — that lets your employer know how much of your income they should deduct (or “withhold”) from your pay in order to pay your income taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get a pay stub each month, you may see that federal and state taxes have taken a percentage of your paycheck. This happens because you are marked “Non-exempt” on your W-4. When they file, many folks see that they have already paid all or most of what they owe to the IRS for the year because they’ve been paying off their tax liability bit by bit with each paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what happens when you choose to go “Exempt” on your W-4 instead? Usually, what happens is that you’ll get a bigger paycheck each month because taxes aren’t being withheld. But this doesn’t stop Uncle Sam from eventually wanting his money. When the time comes to file, you may now owe a much bigger amount because you have to pay your whole tax bill at once — versus paying it month by month if you had chosen “Non-exempt” on your W-4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a gig worker (you drive for Uber, for example), \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/manage-taxes-for-your-gig-work#:~:text=Do%20you%20work%20as%20an,give%20it%20to%20your%20employer.\">you can set up quarterly payments to the IRS\u003c/a> and, that way, avoid getting hit with a huge tax bill when filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Gig workers are] self-employed and they have to pay taxes,” says Lindsay Rojas, tax specialist and program manager with United Way Bay Area. “They’re not withholding unless they know that they need to make those estimated payments because they’re their own employer.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/manage-taxes-for-your-gig-work#:~:text=Do%20you%20work%20as%20an,give%20it%20to%20your%20employer.\">Learn more about how gig workers can set up direct payments to the IRS throughout the year.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943501\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11943501 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879.jpg\" alt=\"A family of four -- two adult parents or caregivers, and two children -- are photographed skipping along a wet street, holding hands.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/pexels-emma-bauso-2253879-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you’ve been claiming the child tax credit, there are updates to know for 2024. \u003ccite>(Emma Bauso/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"childtaxcredit2024\">\u003c/a>I have children but I got a smaller tax refund than my friends who also have kids. Did my tax filer do something wrong?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Something that United Way’s Rojas says she always stresses to clients: Everyone’s tax situation is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It depends on the client,” she says, and “it’s never a cookie-cutter situation where you can say what happens with one person will happen with everybody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rojas emphasizes, however, that families may see smaller refunds this year due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943464/irs-child-tax-credits-how-much-changes\">changes in the Child Tax Credit that started last year\u003c/a>. During the pandemic, the Child Tax Credit went up to $3,600 for children under 6 and to $3,000 for kids between ages 6 and 18. During that time, parents and caregivers were seeing refunds that were much bigger than what they had received before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But starting last year, the Child Tax Credit went back down to $2,000 credit for every child 16 or younger — and kids who are 17 no longer qualify for the credit. There’s also an additional requirement to receive these rebates: Parents need to have made at least $2,500 in income last year to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this means that with these changes, many parents and caregivers may see much smaller refunds in 2024. And in some cases, families may actually \u003ci>owe\u003c/i> money to the IRS when they file, depending on their situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you made less than $2,500 last year and have kids, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/personal/credits/young-child-tax-credit.html#:~:text=Overview,income%20of%20%2430%2C931%20or%20less.\">you may still qualify for California’s Young Child Tax Credit\u003c/a>. This is a rebate for families who made $30,931 or less last year and have at least one child who is younger than 6. “[Parents] don’t have to have income to claim that credit, but they do need to be the ones who are providing the support for the child — and that [support] can come in different ways,” Rojas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that there are also many other credits you may qualify for, depending on your situation. And if you’re filing in person, regardless of whether that’s at a free community tax clinic or with a private filer, make sure that you share exactly what has changed about your life this past year, whether that is marriage, a divorce, a kid in college or \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-8936\">even if you bought an electric car\u003c/a>. And if you don’t know what you should be telling your filer, just ask them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to fully understand your return,” Rojas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"taxexpertnearme\">\u003c/a>Is it true that I can get a bigger refund if I use a private tax service?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sometimes we may believe that if something’s free, it might be lower quality. 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He tried to tune out the arguments of the other inmates over what to watch on television -- a struggle between criminal defendants and immigration detainees, orange uniforms versus red ones. He tried to ignore the flooded bathroom sinks. He tried to ignore the nausea. More than anything else, he thought about seeing a regular doctor rather than the jail's medical staff, who seemed to dismiss his worsening condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/08/TCRPM8417.mp3\" Image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/08/04/YubaJail.jpg\" Title=\"Jailing Immigrants Means Money and Jobs for Poor Areas. Is This Deal Humane?\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael is one of roughly 200 men and women held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Yuba jail on any given day. They make up about half of the jail population here in this rural county in the Sacramento Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Trump administration moves to vastly expand the deportation of immigrants, county jails across the country could be increasingly put to use to detain them because ICE facilities have simply \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\">run out of room\u003c/a>. But ICE itself has repeatedly faulted Yuba County -- and other jails where immigrant detainees are held -- for inadequate conditions that fail to meet ICE's own standards. 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That’s 17 percent more than in fiscal year 2016, according to ICE data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yuba jail began detaining immigrants for the federal government in 1994. These days, the arrangement generates close to $6 million a year. That money supports half of the sheriff’s operations, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.yuba.ca.us/Departments/CAO/Budget/15-16/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county budget proposal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You come to rely upon that,” said county spokesman Russ Brown. “We make no bones about that. We've been able to find some level of stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Yuba County and other local governments that have held ICE contracts for decades are now caught in a political crossfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yuba County is conducting a service and (we) have been for years, and then because of a political battle Yuba County could very well see public safety fall off the map,\" Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599246\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-1180x819.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-960x667.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-520x361.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrant detainees help a sheriff's deputy carry items to a truck outside the Yuba County Jail. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Fleeing the Stigma of HIV\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Rafael was 6 months old when he came with his parents to the Bay Area from Mexico. He went to school in San Francisco and all of his family lives here, he says. As a kid he’d rent out local driveways and parking lots for 49ers football games. He punctuates every few words with “like” or “you know.” It wasn’t until he was in high school that he discovered he didn’t have legal status in the United States. That’s when his parents took him to meet an immigration lawyer after he was a victim of a crime.*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before getting protection, he was arrested for drug possession and deported in 2010. In Mexico he discovered he was HIV-positive. That began a cycle of re-entries and deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael said he was physically threatened while seeking treatment for HIV in Mexico. He and his lawyers say he suffered even more traumatic incidents there. KQED agreed not to disclose them because he hasn’t shared what happened with his family. But he said he feared for his life, and fled back to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2016, Rafael had been diagnosed with hepatitis C, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, along with HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"0NJTy2xDyi95AQeLIu4cHmoSGupAD8wS\"]Last September, he was convicted of driving under the influence and served 42 days at an Alameda County jail. As he was being released, Rafael was apprehended in the jail lobby by two immigration officers who sent him to ICE detention near Sacramento, ICE records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, Rafael tried to get an attorney to fight his deportation. He composed letters to lawyers outlining his fears and his medical conditions. He hid them under his mattress, the only private place he could find. One day, he returned from court to the cell he shared with several other men and saw his private papers out in the open, spread on top of his bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually everybody came in and greeted me, just said, ‘How’s it going?’ But that day everybody was just looking at me,” Rafael said. He described the incident later in a phone call from jail, speaking softly so other inmates wouldn’t overhear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the confrontation unfolded, Rafael said, a friend warned him that his cellmates had read his letters and were threatening to harm him if he didn’t leave the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody thought that they were going to get my infections, through me sitting down on the toilet and stuff like that,” Rafael said. “So everybody just decided that I had to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael grabbed his belongings and rushed to the common area, where he pressed an emergency button to summon the guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his safety, ICE transferred Rafael from Sacramento to the Yuba County Jail in Marysville on Oct. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Waiting for Treatment\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>When ICE moves a detainee, the agency is supposed to transfer all of the person’s medical records. But documents show that Yuba County Jail staff didn’t know at first that Rafael had hepatitis C. Even after they had confirmed his diagnosis, they still did not treat him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren't trying to give me my medicine, and I had symptoms,” he said in an interview from the jail. “I always put (in) my request to see the doctors and all they do is just give me, like, just Tums,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599250\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599250\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-520x780.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Wells works in the small office she shares with other immigration attorneys at Dolores Street Community Services in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kelly Wells, an immigration attorney with \u003ca href=\"http://www.dscs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dolores Street Community Services\u003c/a>, took on Rafael’s deportation case. But she said she ended up spending a lot of her time pushing jail officials to provide proper medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hep C, HIV co-infection can proceed within a matter of months to liver failure and death. So obviously we had a lot of concerns. He was exhibiting symptoms at the time, too -- symptoms that we don’t know what they were, as lawyers,” Wells says. “What we know is, he needs to see a real doctor who knows hep C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Rafael and his attorneys, Wells and Frances Kreimer, submitted requests for him to see a specialist as he became more ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don't treat you like a human being (in jail),” Rafael said. “It’s really different outside. My doctors would stay and explain to me, you know, details and stuff like that. They would do blood work and they would do all kinds of stuff to make sure that I didn't have anything else, you know, [a] complication. But in here, they don't do none of that. I have to ask for, like, blood work. My lawyers have to call them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED requested an interview with Yuba County’s sheriff (and a tour inside the jail) many times over the course of five months. Sheriff Steven L. Durfor declined to speak with us, citing many reasons, including the lawsuit challenging jail conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However in \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898770-Dkt-180-Defs-Opp-to-Pls-MTE-1-18-17-1255-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court documents\u003c/a>, the Yuba County counsel wrote that jail guards and medical staff are appropriately trained, have passed inspections and successfully “balance the legitimate interests of the jail with the rights of inmates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>How Yuba County Got Entwined With ICE\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>It’s not as if Yuba County set out to become so reliant on immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County spokesman Russ Brown, who also handles legislative affairs, said the county’s financial dependence on ICE has grown over the years, largely due to elemental forces that eroded the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599241\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599241\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-800x513.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-1180x757.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-960x616.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-240x154.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-375x241.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-520x334.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">County spokesman Russ Brown stands where a levee broke in 1986, leading to a devastating flood of the nearby towns of Olivehurst and Linda. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most people in Yuba County live and work near the confluence of the Feather and Yuba rivers -- an area prone to flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said a catastrophic flood in 1986 started a downward spiral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That February, following a series of severe winter storms, a levee on the Yuba River collapsed, opening a 30-foot-wide gap that allowed water to engulf the towns of Linda and Olivehurst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aerial photographs of the flood show whole neighborhoods submerged in water, with only the rooftops of houses showing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flooding covered more than 30 square miles, killing one person, destroying nearly 900 homes and causing $95 million in damage, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bepreparedyuba.org/pages/prepare/history.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yuba County Office of Emergency Services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of those events,” Brown said. “It changes the status of a community overnight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11604786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11604786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-800x1360.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-800x1360.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-160x272.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-1020x1734.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-1180x2006.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-960x1632.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-240x408.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-375x638.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-520x884.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuba County \u003ccite>(Mark Fiore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The flood also destroyed a vital economic driver for the county: the Peach Tree Mall in Linda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Jane Griego, a former Yuba County supervisor who owns and runs the popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/dukes-diner-olivehurst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duke’s Diner\u003c/a> in Olivehurst, remembers she was driving right by the mall that evening in 1986 when a sheriff’s deputy stopped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a deputy that skidded into the intersection,” Griego recalled, “And he said, ‘Lady, the levee broke and here comes the water!’ And I looked over there and this wall of water is coming right towards the mall and towards us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tore off in her car and drove to higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water rose to nearly the top of the mall, forcing people inside to escape to the roof, to be airlifted to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599225\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-800x560.jpg\" alt=\"After a levee broke water rose almost to the top of the Peach Tree Mall. More than 30 years later the mall still sits empty.\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-800x560.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-1020x714.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-1180x826.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-960x672.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-520x364.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After a levee broke, water rose almost to the top of the Peach Tree Mall. More than 30 years later, the mall still sits empty. \u003ccite>(Michael J. Nevins/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>ICE Contract Helps Yuba County Weather Economic Downturns\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Griego sees the destruction of the mall as an economic blow from which Yuba County has yet to recover, even three decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Peach Tree Mall opened in the 1970s it held a movie theater, an arcade, and plenty of shops and eateries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s where all the kids hung out.” Griego recalled, “Either you were working there at the Orange Julius, meeting your friends there, or stopping by J.C. Penney’s to pick up some clothes for school. It was the place to be at!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today the Peach Tree Mall sits with boarded-up windows and doors chained shut. It’s too far gone to renovate, and too expensive to remove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-800x473.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-1020x604.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-1180x698.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-960x568.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-375x222.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-520x308.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">County officials tried moving government offices into the husk of the Peach Tree Mall. But it was too moldy for habitation. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s depressing to look at,” Griego said. “All 57 businesses left and not one of them came back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those businesses relocated to a mall just across the Feather River in neighboring Sutter County, and most Yuba residents now cross the bridge to shop there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching that sales tax revenue pour into another county, Griego said, makes her “resentful, mad, angry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another catastrophic flood in 1997 caused an additional $300 million in economic losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griego was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2000. She said the economy was in bad shape, forcing county officials to cut back vital services for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cut a lot,” Griego recalled. “I mean we cut to the bone, and then we cut to the bone marrow after that. And then there was nothing left to cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hardship for Yuba residents would have been even worse, she said, had it not been for the revenue from the contract to detain immigrants for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, the Board of Supervisors approved an expansion of the contract to lease up to 220 jail beds -- more than half of the entire jail -- to ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Yuba County's History of Immigration\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"file\" ids=\"11599331,11599327,11599330,11599236,11599326,11599316\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Ongoing Allegations Over Negligent Medical Care\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>While the contract has helped the county, inmates and their advocates say the funds from the ICE contract haven't led to improved jail conditions -- for immigration detainees or the rest of the jail population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grand juries, human rights advocates and lawyers for inmates -- along with ICE auditors and county officials -- all have documented problems, ranging from inadequate medical and mental health care to overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yuba County Jail can hold up to 433 inmates, and it’s usually close to full, ICE audits and state data show. The jail shares a cramped building, originally built in 1962, with the courthouse, county records and part of the sheriff’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED was not permitted inside the jail, but a view of the conditions can be gained from government records and photographs taken by lawyers. The cells have bars with flaking paint. The jail’s medical facilities are underground. A May 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898574-Yuba-Grand-Jury-Report-2014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grand jury report\u003c/a> noted that staff call part of the facility the “dungeon.” But the grand jury was more concerned with the lengthy delays for some inmates to see a doctor, or even a nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599319\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 390px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11599319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-29.jpg 390w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-29-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-29-240x182.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-29-375x285.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One room houses Yuba County Jail's medical exam area, a telepsychiatry space and offices for medical staff. \u003ccite>(Photo from Yuba County's application to the Board of State and Community Corrections)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Yuba County Jail’s medical staff struggles to function in a small space, county officials wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898590-Yuba-County-BSCC-Proposal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a grant application\u003c/a> to the state. Staff members use a single room for medical exams, psychiatry appointments and as an office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael described the lack of privacy. “They take you in with a bunch of inmates, and other inmates are waiting for their appointment,” he said. “Everybody can hear clearly what you're talking about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael said he wrote notes to the doctor as a way to explain his concerns privately. But then the doctor read the notes aloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still scared, you know,” he said. “I don’t like people finding out my medical situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/dro/detention-standards/pdf/medical_care.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">medical policy\u003c/a> specifically requires facilities to ensure patient confidentiality, especially for people with HIV. In several reports ICE criticized the Yuba jail’s policy of allowing jail guards to read inmates’ medical requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some inmates say they’ve suffered much more egregious problems with guards at the Yuba County Jail. Orsay Alegria-Simuta told KQED that he was beaten by a jail guard earlier this year while having an epileptic seizure. He said the staff denied him his prescribed medication and placed him in isolation for three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am not a criminal,” said Alegria-Simuta, who was held by ICE for months while in deportation proceedings. “I simply wanted my pills that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alegria-Simuta, a native of Mexico*, is no longer locked up. But he said his right hand remains damaged from the beating. ICE is investigating the incident. The jail guard resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials say Yuba County does a poor job of monitoring its own jail. In recent audits ICE found that the facility did not properly investigate \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898587-Yuba-County-Jail-August-2014-Inspection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexual assaults\u003c/a> or guards’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898586-Yuba-County-Jail-April-2012-Inspection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use of force\u003c/a>. Jail officials did not medically screen inmates after such incidents, and failed to inform ICE about what occurred, the audits found. County officials did not respond in writing to ICE audits.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Attorneys Sue Over Jail Conditions\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Conditions at the jail have been notorious for so long that the county has been under \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898596-Dkt-163-6-PROP-Order-Granting-MTE-CD-for-Further.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court order\u003c/a> to improve them for 38 years. Attorney Jennifer Stark, who helped with a lawsuit to enforce the order, has toured the jail several times and has spoken with immigrant detainees and other inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stark described an October 2014 incident in which a man attempted to hang himself in the shower, using a sheet. Other inmates found the man, but because there was no emergency call button they had to scream for several minutes to get the guards’ attention, she said. When the guards arrived, they weren’t carrying the proper masks to conduct CPR, so it was the inmates who worked to revive the man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599237\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11599237\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/G-H-I-Hallways-rec_d-11-10-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/G-H-I-Hallways-rec_d-11-10-15.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/G-H-I-Hallways-rec_d-11-10-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/G-H-I-Hallways-rec_d-11-10-15-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/G-H-I-Hallways-rec_d-11-10-15-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/G-H-I-Hallways-rec_d-11-10-15-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hallway leading to sections of the jail, including the H-tank. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The jail knew about this problem and did nothing,” said Stark. “No emergency call buttons were put into the old jail. … A few months later the very person who had been attempting CPR on his friend attempted to hang himself in the H-tank shower in the exact same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898770-Dkt-180-Defs-Opp-to-Pls-MTE-1-18-17-1255-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court documents\u003c/a>, the Yuba County counsel called the concerns about suicide “exaggerated and misconceived.” The county noted that no inmates have died of suicide in the last 10 years and that “acts of self-harm do not equate a suicide attempt.” Court documents also show that, starting in March 2015, the jail added 16 emergency buttons and 13 security cameras, and is in the process of eliminating pipes that inmates could use to hang themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898574-Yuba-Grand-Jury-Report-2014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent grand jury\u003c/a> was worried that inmates were unable to access psychiatric help, and when they did it was mainly through videoconferencing. When inmates told staff that they were having a mental health crisis, they were sometimes placed in isolation for days at a time, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898574-Yuba-Grand-Jury-Report-2014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grand jury\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898587-Yuba-County-Jail-August-2014-Inspection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICE\u003c/a> found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael’s lawyer, Kelly Wells, told KQED that she had been representing Rafael for several months before he admitted he was having suicidal thoughts at Yuba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me that he hadn't revealed them to ICE specifically because he was afraid that he would be put into some kind of worse conditions,” Wells said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A $20 million grant from the state will help pay for a new medical wing, scheduled to open in 2020, with more space for confidential treatment. In the meantime, jail officials have increased group therapy with a crisis counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent grand jury also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898576-Yuba-Grand-Jury-Report-2015-16.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">noted \u003c/a>that despite problems, “overall, the Jail runs very effectively given their limited budget.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898590-Yuba-County-BSCC-Proposal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an application\u003c/a> for the grant to build the new medical and mental health wing for the jail, county officials wrote that “the existing mental health and medical treatment, dental treatment, medical holding, medical and mental health beds, inmate programs, staff support, and laundry spaces are all deficient or non-existent in this facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Conditions of Detention Spur State Response\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Ongoing reports of inadequate care for immigrant detainees in California jails and private prisons prompted several state lawmakers to try to overhaul the state’s role in ICE detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599240\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-800x1238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-800x1238.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-160x248.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-1020x1578.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-1180x1826.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-960x1486.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-240x371.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-375x580.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-520x805.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate President Pro Tem Kevin \u003cspan class=\"il\">de\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"il\">León\u003c/span> (D-Los Angeles) in his office in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>President Trump’s promise to deport millions more undocumented people added to the urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tem Kevin \u003cspan class=\"il\">de\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"il\">León\u003c/span> (D-Los Angeles) introduced a bill this year that would prohibit local agencies from using resources “to investigate, interrogate, detain, detect, or arrest” people for immigration purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It begs some ethical questions: whether counties should be profiteering on a very polarizing and polemic issue, which is the issue of immigration,” \u003cspan class=\"il\">de\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"il\">León\u003c/span> says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 54\u003c/a> does not explicitly target the ICE contracts of a dozen California cities and counties, including Yuba County, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898594-2017-2018-SB54-Senate-Floor-Analyses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislative staff analysis\u003c/a> observes “prohibitions in the bill would make local law enforcement agencies legally unable to continue to carry out such a contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other measures could also impact local jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 29\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Los Angeles), would require local jails with ICE detainees to provide a higher standard of care and subject them to a new layer of scrutiny. The attorney general would also be able to sue counties and cities and private prisons for any gross violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 630\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), would withhold state funds for jail construction from counties, including Yuba, Orange and Contra Costa, that hold people for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three bills have passed the state Senate. The Assembly will vote on them later this summer. If they pass it’s unclear whether Gov. Jerry Brown will sign them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Yuba Braces for Loss of Funds\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Sacramento’s legislative backlash against the Trump administration’s immigration agenda frustrates officials in Yuba County. They say struggling local governments, not the state, will pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County spokesman Brown said federal funds for detaining immigrants are now so closely intertwined with the general budget that any loss could force the county to shut down vital services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will decimate the budget of this sheriff's department, it will cause severe problems in terms of how they're able to serve our residents,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff could be forced to cut deputies patrolling the streets -- or find other ways to economize, Brown says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately Yuba County leaders fear they might have to shut down the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11599341 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff's deputies drive through Marysville, California, the seat of Yuba County. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Rafael Gets His Day in Court\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>None of these changes will directly impact Rafael. He was released from the Yuba County Jail in April after being locked up for eight months. The medical staff finally began giving him his hepatitis C medication in the last three weeks of his incarceration. At his final immigration hearing, a judge found that Rafael has a legitimate fear of persecution if he were deported to Mexico, and granted him “withholding of removal.” It allows him to stay in the United States legally, but does not provide a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really relieved for him because honestly, by that point, I had really started to lose faith in the immigration system,” said Rafael’s lawyer, Wells. “I've seen cases drag out and clients remain detained for so long for no reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few months after winning his freedom, Rafael found a new home and a new job in the Bay Area. Wells said Rafael is excited to spend more time with his two young children, who are both U.S. citizens. She’s currently helping him get health insurance so that he can see a doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED asked Rafael for an interview after he was freed, but he declined. He said he doesn’t want to relive everything he’s been through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[yubaDox]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Note that this piece has been updated to clarify Rafael's first immigration consultation. We have also updated the story to state that Orsay Alegria-Simuta's is from Mexico.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Federal dollars help keep rural Yuba County in the black, but critics say the jail is failing when it comes to inmates' medical needs.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1501889192,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":true,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":103,"wordCount":4138},"headData":{"title":"Jailing Immigrants Means Money and Jobs for Poor Areas. 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Her work has been honored with awards from the Online News Association, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and SXSW Interactive. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5513c5f3967df792aa65bee2501e84d6?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"pickoffwhite","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"arts","roles":["administrator"]},{"site":"styleguide","roles":["administrator"]},{"site":"news","roles":["administrator"]},{"site":"about","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"stateofhealth","roles":["administrator"]},{"site":"science","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"quest","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"food","roles":["contributor"]},{"site":"forum","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"breakingnews","roles":["administrator"]}],"headData":{"title":"Lisa Pickoff-White | KQED","description":"Data Journalist, Senior Producer","ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5513c5f3967df792aa65bee2501e84d6?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5513c5f3967df792aa65bee2501e84d6?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/lisapickoffwhite-2"},{"type":"authors","id":"6625","meta":{"index":"authors_1591205172","id":"6625","found":true},"name":"Julie Small","firstName":"Julie","lastName":"Small","slug":"jsmall","email":"jsmall@kqed.org","display_author_email":false,"staff_mastheads":["news"],"title":"KQED Contributor","bio":"Julie Small reports on criminal justice and immigration.\r\n\r\nShe was part of a team at KQED awarded a regional 2019 Edward R. Murrow award for continuing coverage of the Trump Administration's family separation policy.\r\n\r\nThe Society for Professional Journalists recognized Julie's 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11636262/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident\">reporting\u003c/a> on the San Joaquin County Sheriff's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634689/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement\">interference\u003c/a> in death investigations with an Excellence in Journalism Award for Ongoing Coverage.\r\n\r\nJulie's\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11039666/two-mentally-ill-inmates-died-one-month-in-santa-clara\"> reporting\u003c/a> with Lisa Pickoff-White on the treatment of mentally ill offenders in California jails earned a 2017 regional Edward R. 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Murrow Award for investigative reporting and a Golden Mic Award from the RTNDA of Southern California.\r\n\r\nJulie began her career in journalism in 2000 as the deputy foreign editor for public radio's \u003cem>Marketplace, \u003c/em>while earning her master's degree in journalism from USC’s Annenberg School of Communication.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4baedf201468df97be97c2a9dd7585d0?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"@SmallRadio2","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"news","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"stateofhealth","roles":["author"]},{"site":"science","roles":["author"]}],"headData":{"title":"Julie Small | KQED","description":"KQED Contributor","ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4baedf201468df97be97c2a9dd7585d0?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4baedf201468df97be97c2a9dd7585d0?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/jsmall"}],"imageData":{"ogImageSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba_jail_final01-1020x546.png","width":1020,"height":546,"mimeType":"image/png"},"twImageSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba_jail_final01-1020x546.png","width":1020,"height":546,"mimeType":"image/png"},"twitterCard":"summary_large_image"},"tagData":{"tags":["featured","immigration detention","tcr","the-california-report-featured","U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement","Yuba County"]}},"disqusIdentifier":"11597341 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11597341","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/02/these-immigrants-and-their-county-jailer-need-each-other-to-survive-will-they-make-it/","disqusTitle":"Jailing Immigrants Means Money and Jobs for Poor Areas. Is This Deal Humane?","path":"/news/11597341/these-immigrants-and-their-county-jailer-need-each-other-to-survive-will-they-make-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>nside his cell in the Yuba County Jail, Rafael was vomiting again, too weak and dizzy to stand. He is HIV-positive and has hepatitis C. Without treatment, the two can be a deadly combination. But Rafael, 27, had not been treated for hepatitis C in six months, his medical records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED agreed not to use Rafael’s real name, to protect his medical privacy. More than once, Rafael says, he has been the target of violence as a result of the stigma of his illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By March, Rafael had been held in the jail for half a year, waiting to find out if he would be deported to Mexico, the country of his birth. He tried to tune out the arguments of the other inmates over what to watch on television -- a struggle between criminal defendants and immigration detainees, orange uniforms versus red ones. He tried to ignore the flooded bathroom sinks. He tried to ignore the nausea. More than anything else, he thought about seeing a regular doctor rather than the jail's medical staff, who seemed to dismiss his worsening condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/08/TCRPM8417.mp3","image":"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/08/04/YubaJail.jpg","title":"Jailing Immigrants Means Money and Jobs for Poor Areas. Is This Deal Humane?","program":"The California Report","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael is one of roughly 200 men and women held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Yuba jail on any given day. They make up about half of the jail population here in this rural county in the Sacramento Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Trump administration moves to vastly expand the deportation of immigrants, county jails across the country could be increasingly put to use to detain them because ICE facilities have simply \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/08/how-trump-could-detain-more-immigrants-in-california/\">run out of room\u003c/a>. But ICE itself has repeatedly faulted Yuba County -- and other jails where immigrant detainees are held -- for inadequate conditions that fail to meet ICE's own standards. Yuba also faces a lawsuit over what inmate advocates call “negligent” care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concern over a lack of safe and humane conditions at Yuba, and across ICE's already strained detention system, is propelling some California lawmakers to try to disentangle the state from Trump's deportation push.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three bills moving through the California Legislature could alter -- or end -- the ability of cities and counties to enter into detention contracts with ICE. But Yuba officials say that could spell disaster for their county’s finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Expanding Detention and Deportation\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Yuba County is among about 200 U.S. cities and counties that hold ICE detainees in local jails and private prisons under multimillion-dollar contracts with the federal government. Nationally, an average of 37,706 people a day are locked up, facing deportation. That’s 17 percent more than in fiscal year 2016, according to ICE data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yuba jail began detaining immigrants for the federal government in 1994. These days, the arrangement generates close to $6 million a year. That money supports half of the sheriff’s operations, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.yuba.ca.us/Departments/CAO/Budget/15-16/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">county budget proposal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You come to rely upon that,” said county spokesman Russ Brown. “We make no bones about that. We've been able to find some level of stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Yuba County and other local governments that have held ICE contracts for decades are now caught in a political crossfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yuba County is conducting a service and (we) have been for years, and then because of a political battle Yuba County could very well see public safety fall off the map,\" Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599246\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-1180x819.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-960x667.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-240x167.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/women-detainees-520x361.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrant detainees help a sheriff's deputy carry items to a truck outside the Yuba County Jail. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Fleeing the Stigma of HIV\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Rafael was 6 months old when he came with his parents to the Bay Area from Mexico. He went to school in San Francisco and all of his family lives here, he says. As a kid he’d rent out local driveways and parking lots for 49ers football games. He punctuates every few words with “like” or “you know.” It wasn’t until he was in high school that he discovered he didn’t have legal status in the United States. That’s when his parents took him to meet an immigration lawyer after he was a victim of a crime.*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before getting protection, he was arrested for drug possession and deported in 2010. In Mexico he discovered he was HIV-positive. That began a cycle of re-entries and deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael said he was physically threatened while seeking treatment for HIV in Mexico. He and his lawyers say he suffered even more traumatic incidents there. KQED agreed not to disclose them because he hasn’t shared what happened with his family. But he said he feared for his life, and fled back to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2016, Rafael had been diagnosed with hepatitis C, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, along with HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Last September, he was convicted of driving under the influence and served 42 days at an Alameda County jail. As he was being released, Rafael was apprehended in the jail lobby by two immigration officers who sent him to ICE detention near Sacramento, ICE records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, Rafael tried to get an attorney to fight his deportation. He composed letters to lawyers outlining his fears and his medical conditions. He hid them under his mattress, the only private place he could find. One day, he returned from court to the cell he shared with several other men and saw his private papers out in the open, spread on top of his bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually everybody came in and greeted me, just said, ‘How’s it going?’ But that day everybody was just looking at me,” Rafael said. He described the incident later in a phone call from jail, speaking softly so other inmates wouldn’t overhear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the confrontation unfolded, Rafael said, a friend warned him that his cellmates had read his letters and were threatening to harm him if he didn’t leave the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody thought that they were going to get my infections, through me sitting down on the toilet and stuff like that,” Rafael said. “So everybody just decided that I had to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael grabbed his belongings and rushed to the common area, where he pressed an emergency button to summon the guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his safety, ICE transferred Rafael from Sacramento to the Yuba County Jail in Marysville on Oct. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Waiting for Treatment\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>When ICE moves a detainee, the agency is supposed to transfer all of the person’s medical records. But documents show that Yuba County Jail staff didn’t know at first that Rafael had hepatitis C. Even after they had confirmed his diagnosis, they still did not treat him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They weren't trying to give me my medicine, and I had symptoms,” he said in an interview from the jail. “I always put (in) my request to see the doctors and all they do is just give me, like, just Tums,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599250\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599250\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells-520x780.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/kelly-engel-wells.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Wells works in the small office she shares with other immigration attorneys at Dolores Street Community Services in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kelly Wells, an immigration attorney with \u003ca href=\"http://www.dscs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dolores Street Community Services\u003c/a>, took on Rafael’s deportation case. But she said she ended up spending a lot of her time pushing jail officials to provide proper medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hep C, HIV co-infection can proceed within a matter of months to liver failure and death. So obviously we had a lot of concerns. He was exhibiting symptoms at the time, too -- symptoms that we don’t know what they were, as lawyers,” Wells says. “What we know is, he needs to see a real doctor who knows hep C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Rafael and his attorneys, Wells and Frances Kreimer, submitted requests for him to see a specialist as he became more ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don't treat you like a human being (in jail),” Rafael said. “It’s really different outside. My doctors would stay and explain to me, you know, details and stuff like that. They would do blood work and they would do all kinds of stuff to make sure that I didn't have anything else, you know, [a] complication. But in here, they don't do none of that. I have to ask for, like, blood work. My lawyers have to call them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED requested an interview with Yuba County’s sheriff (and a tour inside the jail) many times over the course of five months. Sheriff Steven L. Durfor declined to speak with us, citing many reasons, including the lawsuit challenging jail conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However in \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898770-Dkt-180-Defs-Opp-to-Pls-MTE-1-18-17-1255-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court documents\u003c/a>, the Yuba County counsel wrote that jail guards and medical staff are appropriately trained, have passed inspections and successfully “balance the legitimate interests of the jail with the rights of inmates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>How Yuba County Got Entwined With ICE\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>It’s not as if Yuba County set out to become so reliant on immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County spokesman Russ Brown, who also handles legislative affairs, said the county’s financial dependence on ICE has grown over the years, largely due to elemental forces that eroded the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599241\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599241\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-800x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-800x513.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-1180x757.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-960x616.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-240x154.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-375x241.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/russ-levee-520x334.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">County spokesman Russ Brown stands where a levee broke in 1986, leading to a devastating flood of the nearby towns of Olivehurst and Linda. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most people in Yuba County live and work near the confluence of the Feather and Yuba rivers -- an area prone to flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said a catastrophic flood in 1986 started a downward spiral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That February, following a series of severe winter storms, a levee on the Yuba River collapsed, opening a 30-foot-wide gap that allowed water to engulf the towns of Linda and Olivehurst.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aerial photographs of the flood show whole neighborhoods submerged in water, with only the rooftops of houses showing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flooding covered more than 30 square miles, killing one person, destroying nearly 900 homes and causing $95 million in damage, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bepreparedyuba.org/pages/prepare/history.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yuba County Office of Emergency Services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of those events,” Brown said. “It changes the status of a community overnight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11604786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11604786\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-800x1360.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-800x1360.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-160x272.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-1020x1734.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-1180x2006.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-960x1632.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-240x408.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-375x638.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2-520x884.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/yuba_vertical_final01-2.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuba County \u003ccite>(Mark Fiore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The flood also destroyed a vital economic driver for the county: the Peach Tree Mall in Linda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Jane Griego, a former Yuba County supervisor who owns and runs the popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/dukes-diner-olivehurst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duke’s Diner\u003c/a> in Olivehurst, remembers she was driving right by the mall that evening in 1986 when a sheriff’s deputy stopped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a deputy that skidded into the intersection,” Griego recalled, “And he said, ‘Lady, the levee broke and here comes the water!’ And I looked over there and this wall of water is coming right towards the mall and towards us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tore off in her car and drove to higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water rose to nearly the top of the mall, forcing people inside to escape to the roof, to be airlifted to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599225\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-800x560.jpg\" alt=\"After a levee broke water rose almost to the top of the Peach Tree Mall. More than 30 years later the mall still sits empty.\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-800x560.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-1020x714.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-1180x826.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-960x672.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/USGS-peachtree-mall-flood-520x364.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After a levee broke, water rose almost to the top of the Peach Tree Mall. More than 30 years later, the mall still sits empty. \u003ccite>(Michael J. Nevins/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>ICE Contract Helps Yuba County Weather Economic Downturns\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Griego sees the destruction of the mall as an economic blow from which Yuba County has yet to recover, even three decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Peach Tree Mall opened in the 1970s it held a movie theater, an arcade, and plenty of shops and eateries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s where all the kids hung out.” Griego recalled, “Either you were working there at the Orange Julius, meeting your friends there, or stopping by J.C. Penney’s to pick up some clothes for school. It was the place to be at!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today the Peach Tree Mall sits with boarded-up windows and doors chained shut. It’s too far gone to renovate, and too expensive to remove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-800x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-800x473.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-1020x604.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-1180x698.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-960x568.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-240x142.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-375x222.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/peachtreemall1-520x308.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">County officials tried moving government offices into the husk of the Peach Tree Mall. But it was too moldy for habitation. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s depressing to look at,” Griego said. “All 57 businesses left and not one of them came back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those businesses relocated to a mall just across the Feather River in neighboring Sutter County, and most Yuba residents now cross the bridge to shop there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watching that sales tax revenue pour into another county, Griego said, makes her “resentful, mad, angry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another catastrophic flood in 1997 caused an additional $300 million in economic losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griego was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2000. She said the economy was in bad shape, forcing county officials to cut back vital services for residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cut a lot,” Griego recalled. “I mean we cut to the bone, and then we cut to the bone marrow after that. And then there was nothing left to cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hardship for Yuba residents would have been even worse, she said, had it not been for the revenue from the contract to detain immigrants for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, the Board of Supervisors approved an expansion of the contract to lease up to 220 jail beds -- more than half of the entire jail -- to ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Yuba County's History of Immigration\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"gallery","attributes":{"named":{"type":"slideshow","link":"file","ids":"11599331,11599327,11599330,11599236,11599326,11599316","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Ongoing Allegations Over Negligent Medical Care\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>While the contract has helped the county, inmates and their advocates say the funds from the ICE contract haven't led to improved jail conditions -- for immigration detainees or the rest of the jail population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grand juries, human rights advocates and lawyers for inmates -- along with ICE auditors and county officials -- all have documented problems, ranging from inadequate medical and mental health care to overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yuba County Jail can hold up to 433 inmates, and it’s usually close to full, ICE audits and state data show. The jail shares a cramped building, originally built in 1962, with the courthouse, county records and part of the sheriff’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED was not permitted inside the jail, but a view of the conditions can be gained from government records and photographs taken by lawyers. The cells have bars with flaking paint. The jail’s medical facilities are underground. A May 2015 \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898574-Yuba-Grand-Jury-Report-2014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grand jury report\u003c/a> noted that staff call part of the facility the “dungeon.” But the grand jury was more concerned with the lengthy delays for some inmates to see a doctor, or even a nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599319\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 390px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11599319\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-29.jpg 390w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-29-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-29-240x182.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-29-375x285.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One room houses Yuba County Jail's medical exam area, a telepsychiatry space and offices for medical staff. \u003ccite>(Photo from Yuba County's application to the Board of State and Community Corrections)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Yuba County Jail’s medical staff struggles to function in a small space, county officials wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898590-Yuba-County-BSCC-Proposal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a grant application\u003c/a> to the state. Staff members use a single room for medical exams, psychiatry appointments and as an office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael described the lack of privacy. “They take you in with a bunch of inmates, and other inmates are waiting for their appointment,” he said. “Everybody can hear clearly what you're talking about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael said he wrote notes to the doctor as a way to explain his concerns privately. But then the doctor read the notes aloud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still scared, you know,” he said. “I don’t like people finding out my medical situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/dro/detention-standards/pdf/medical_care.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">medical policy\u003c/a> specifically requires facilities to ensure patient confidentiality, especially for people with HIV. In several reports ICE criticized the Yuba jail’s policy of allowing jail guards to read inmates’ medical requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some inmates say they’ve suffered much more egregious problems with guards at the Yuba County Jail. Orsay Alegria-Simuta told KQED that he was beaten by a jail guard earlier this year while having an epileptic seizure. He said the staff denied him his prescribed medication and placed him in isolation for three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am not a criminal,” said Alegria-Simuta, who was held by ICE for months while in deportation proceedings. “I simply wanted my pills that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alegria-Simuta, a native of Mexico*, is no longer locked up. But he said his right hand remains damaged from the beating. ICE is investigating the incident. The jail guard resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE officials say Yuba County does a poor job of monitoring its own jail. In recent audits ICE found that the facility did not properly investigate \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898587-Yuba-County-Jail-August-2014-Inspection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexual assaults\u003c/a> or guards’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898586-Yuba-County-Jail-April-2012-Inspection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use of force\u003c/a>. Jail officials did not medically screen inmates after such incidents, and failed to inform ICE about what occurred, the audits found. County officials did not respond in writing to ICE audits.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Attorneys Sue Over Jail Conditions\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Conditions at the jail have been notorious for so long that the county has been under \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898596-Dkt-163-6-PROP-Order-Granting-MTE-CD-for-Further.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court order\u003c/a> to improve them for 38 years. Attorney Jennifer Stark, who helped with a lawsuit to enforce the order, has toured the jail several times and has spoken with immigrant detainees and other inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stark described an October 2014 incident in which a man attempted to hang himself in the shower, using a sheet. Other inmates found the man, but because there was no emergency call button they had to scream for several minutes to get the guards’ attention, she said. When the guards arrived, they weren’t carrying the proper masks to conduct CPR, so it was the inmates who worked to revive the man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599237\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11599237\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/G-H-I-Hallways-rec_d-11-10-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/G-H-I-Hallways-rec_d-11-10-15.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/G-H-I-Hallways-rec_d-11-10-15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/G-H-I-Hallways-rec_d-11-10-15-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/G-H-I-Hallways-rec_d-11-10-15-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/G-H-I-Hallways-rec_d-11-10-15-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hallway leading to sections of the jail, including the H-tank. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The jail knew about this problem and did nothing,” said Stark. “No emergency call buttons were put into the old jail. … A few months later the very person who had been attempting CPR on his friend attempted to hang himself in the H-tank shower in the exact same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898770-Dkt-180-Defs-Opp-to-Pls-MTE-1-18-17-1255-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court documents\u003c/a>, the Yuba County counsel called the concerns about suicide “exaggerated and misconceived.” The county noted that no inmates have died of suicide in the last 10 years and that “acts of self-harm do not equate a suicide attempt.” Court documents also show that, starting in March 2015, the jail added 16 emergency buttons and 13 security cameras, and is in the process of eliminating pipes that inmates could use to hang themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898574-Yuba-Grand-Jury-Report-2014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent grand jury\u003c/a> was worried that inmates were unable to access psychiatric help, and when they did it was mainly through videoconferencing. When inmates told staff that they were having a mental health crisis, they were sometimes placed in isolation for days at a time, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898574-Yuba-Grand-Jury-Report-2014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grand jury\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898587-Yuba-County-Jail-August-2014-Inspection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICE\u003c/a> found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafael’s lawyer, Kelly Wells, told KQED that she had been representing Rafael for several months before he admitted he was having suicidal thoughts at Yuba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me that he hadn't revealed them to ICE specifically because he was afraid that he would be put into some kind of worse conditions,” Wells said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A $20 million grant from the state will help pay for a new medical wing, scheduled to open in 2020, with more space for confidential treatment. In the meantime, jail officials have increased group therapy with a crisis counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent grand jury also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898576-Yuba-Grand-Jury-Report-2015-16.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">noted \u003c/a>that despite problems, “overall, the Jail runs very effectively given their limited budget.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898590-Yuba-County-BSCC-Proposal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an application\u003c/a> for the grant to build the new medical and mental health wing for the jail, county officials wrote that “the existing mental health and medical treatment, dental treatment, medical holding, medical and mental health beds, inmate programs, staff support, and laundry spaces are all deficient or non-existent in this facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Conditions of Detention Spur State Response\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Ongoing reports of inadequate care for immigrant detainees in California jails and private prisons prompted several state lawmakers to try to overhaul the state’s role in ICE detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599240\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11599240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-800x1238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-800x1238.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-160x248.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-1020x1578.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-1180x1826.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-960x1486.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-240x371.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-375x580.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/de-leon-1-520x805.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate President Pro Tem Kevin \u003cspan class=\"il\">de\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"il\">León\u003c/span> (D-Los Angeles) in his office in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>President Trump’s promise to deport millions more undocumented people added to the urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tem Kevin \u003cspan class=\"il\">de\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"il\">León\u003c/span> (D-Los Angeles) introduced a bill this year that would prohibit local agencies from using resources “to investigate, interrogate, detain, detect, or arrest” people for immigration purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It begs some ethical questions: whether counties should be profiteering on a very polarizing and polemic issue, which is the issue of immigration,” \u003cspan class=\"il\">de\u003c/span> \u003cspan class=\"il\">León\u003c/span> says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 54\u003c/a> does not explicitly target the ICE contracts of a dozen California cities and counties, including Yuba County, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3898594-2017-2018-SB54-Senate-Floor-Analyses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislative staff analysis\u003c/a> observes “prohibitions in the bill would make local law enforcement agencies legally unable to continue to carry out such a contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other measures could also impact local jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 29\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Los Angeles), would require local jails with ICE detainees to provide a higher standard of care and subject them to a new layer of scrutiny. The attorney general would also be able to sue counties and cities and private prisons for any gross violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 630\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), would withhold state funds for jail construction from counties, including Yuba, Orange and Contra Costa, that hold people for ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three bills have passed the state Senate. The Assembly will vote on them later this summer. If they pass it’s unclear whether Gov. Jerry Brown will sign them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Yuba Braces for Loss of Funds\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Sacramento’s legislative backlash against the Trump administration’s immigration agenda frustrates officials in Yuba County. They say struggling local governments, not the state, will pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County spokesman Brown said federal funds for detaining immigrants are now so closely intertwined with the general budget that any loss could force the county to shut down vital services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will decimate the budget of this sheriff's department, it will cause severe problems in terms of how they're able to serve our residents,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff could be forced to cut deputies patrolling the streets -- or find other ways to economize, Brown says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately Yuba County leaders fear they might have to shut down the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11599341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11599341 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/yuba-25-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff's deputies drive through Marysville, California, the seat of Yuba County. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>Rafael Gets His Day in Court\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>None of these changes will directly impact Rafael. He was released from the Yuba County Jail in April after being locked up for eight months. The medical staff finally began giving him his hepatitis C medication in the last three weeks of his incarceration. At his final immigration hearing, a judge found that Rafael has a legitimate fear of persecution if he were deported to Mexico, and granted him “withholding of removal.” It allows him to stay in the United States legally, but does not provide a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really relieved for him because honestly, by that point, I had really started to lose faith in the immigration system,” said Rafael’s lawyer, Wells. “I've seen cases drag out and clients remain detained for so long for no reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few months after winning his freedom, Rafael found a new home and a new job in the Bay Area. Wells said Rafael is excited to spend more time with his two young children, who are both U.S. citizens. She’s currently helping him get health insurance so that he can see a doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED asked Rafael for an interview after he was freed, but he declined. He said he doesn’t want to relive everything he’s been through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[yubaDox]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Note that this piece has been updated to clarify Rafael's first immigration consultation. We have also updated the story to state that Orsay Alegria-Simuta's is from Mexico.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11597341/these-immigrants-and-their-county-jailer-need-each-other-to-survive-will-they-make-it","authors":["199","6625"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19542","news_20584","news_17286","news_17041","news_20529","news_21355"],"featImg":"news_11598747","label":"news_72","isLoading":false,"hasAllInfo":true}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. 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