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"content": "\u003cp>A controversial bill that would allow \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031302/wieners-controversial-bill-to-allow-housing-near-transit-is-back\">more apartments near public transit\u003c/a> stations throughout California narrowly squeaked through the state Senate on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB79\">SB 79\u003c/a>, needed 21 “yes” votes to pass, and it had none to spare, with senators voting 21–13 to advance it to the Assembly. Authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, SB 79 would enable the construction of buildings between four and nine stories tall near certain high-frequency bus stations, train and ferry stops. Wiener said the goals of the bill are twofold: to buoy beleaguered public transit agencies still recovering from \u003ca href=\"https://www.metro.net/about/la-metro-kicks-off-2025-with-continued-ridership-growth/#:~:text=January%20year%2Dover%2Dyear%20ridership,of%20its%20pre%2Dpandemic%20level.\">pandemic-era\u003c/a> ridership dips and to boost housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see that we do have [transit] systems in California that don’t have a lot of housing around it, and they have low ridership as a result,” Wiener said on the Senate floor on Tuesday. “And so the purpose of this bill is to say, ‘Let’s focus more housing around the highest-quality public transportation, where we have made significant public investments of tax dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous attempts to pass similar measures — most recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\">SB 50 in 2020\u003c/a> and its predecessor, SB 857, which was first introduced in 2018 — died in the legislature before making it to the governor’s desk. 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Heavy rail lines, such as BART and Caltrain, could see taller apartments, and lower-frequency commuter lines, such as SMART Rail and ferry stops, would see less intensive development. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Darren Tu/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lola Smallwood Cuevas, D-Los Angeles, agreed with the bill’s basic premise to prioritize new housing around transit, but worried that without stronger anti-displacement measures, it would allow new development to push out lower-income residents, who are also most likely to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/05/la-gentrification-public-transit/\">ride public transportation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I don’t see enough opportunity in this bill to stop the massive displacement,” she said before ultimately abstaining from a vote. “There is no mention of community benefits. There’s no mention in terms of — how do we ensure that our most vulnerable communities, that are at the most risk of being displaced, how do we ensure that they have an opportunity to fully participate?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill requires developers to abide by local inclusionary housing mandates and allows them to take advantage of existing \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB423\">permit streamlining\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=65915&lawCode=GOV\">density bonus\u003c/a> laws, which would trigger built-in affordability requirements, Wiener noted. If developers opt out, they would have to go through the same public process they undergo now. But he added, the bill’s premise — to allow apartments in areas where they wouldn’t otherwise be permitted — also makes affordable housing easier to build.[aside postID=news_12031302 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/010_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023-1020x680.jpg']“Low-density housing means no affordable housing because you’re not going to have affordable housing unless you have a certain level of multi-unit density,” he said, noting that the Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California, which had earlier been opposed to the bill, was now in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB79\">support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also faced bipartisan opposition from senators who said it would override cities’ ability to plan for housing in their communities by allowing transit agencies to have more control over what gets built near stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill also allows transit agencies to become de facto land developers,” Sen. Kelly Seyarto, R-Murrieta, said. “And the need to make land use decisions based on agency fiscal needs will taint the need to act in the best interest of the public and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://cayimby.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/SB-79-Wiener-Fact-Sheet-5.14.25.pdf\">the proposed legislation\u003c/a>, apartment buildings would be the tallest directly adjacent to a transit stop, stepping down with a quarter-mile and again within a half-mile. The transit systems would be further separated into “tiers” based on the type of system, frequency of service and where the transit agencies are located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy rail and high-frequency commuter trains — such as BART, Caltrain and LA Metro’s B and D lines — would have the most intensive housing development near stations and ferry stops or commuter rail, such as the SMART Rail, having the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/002_KQED_Housing_Oakland_02212020_3417_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apartment buildings under construction near Macarthur BART station in Oakland, on Feb. 21, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Transit stops located in counties with fewer than 15 rail stations would be subject to the least intensive development standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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Some pried his arms open while others spread his legs, and finally, his daughter was pulled from his chest and taken away screaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, Mendoza did not know where his daughter Catalina was or when he would see her again. When he asked the detention center officials about her, he said they’d insist that he had been detained alone and that they did not have his daughter in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the Guatemalan Consulate, Mendoza learned that his daughter had been taken to El Paso, Texas, hundreds of miles away. It would take a total of four months for the pair to be reunited in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Chales Gomez shows a photo of her daughter Catalina at age 4, on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendoza, who now lives in Stockton, is one of the thousands of parents who were forcibly separated from their children in immigration detention during President Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a court settlement in an ACLU class-action lawsuit over the separations, the federal government agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">fund legal services for those families\u003c/a>, including help applying for asylum or temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. But legal service providers say that program, known as Legal Access Services for Reunified Families, is now in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Criticisms of the government’s plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, the government said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038327/doj-proposes-giving-legal-advice-to-immigrants-in-cases-it-oversees\">not renew its legal services contract\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://acaciajustice.org/\">Acacia Center for Justice\u003c/a>, which expired less than 20 days later on April 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU lawyers have argued that this constitutes a breach of the settlement agreement, and they want the courts to step in. The two sides are set to meet again in court on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/eoir\">Executive Office for Immigration Review\u003c/a>, which is now running the program, declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041240 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-08-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Mendoza at her home in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In court filings, lawyers for ICE have laid out some of their plans. They said EOIR will use pro bono attorneys to “maximize efficiency in the delivery of the program services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a federal court hearing in Southern California on May 15, ICE lawyers said they had already received 71 responses from individuals or organizations expressing interest in doing this pro bono work and are working to find more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“EOIR is going about this differently. There will be more group training, more web-based programs, they are doing a lot of outreach,” said Christina Parascandola, one of the attorneys for ICE.[aside postID=news_12025647 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1243312873-1020x680.jpg']However, legal service providers like Sara Van Hofwegen, managing director for legal access programs at Acacia, have expressed skepticism that the government will find enough pro bono attorneys to meet the needs of the nearly 1,200 class members that Acacia and its subcontractors had helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, what the government is doing is they’re cutting funding from legal service providers, and then they’re turning around to the same legal service providers and saying, ‘Please take these cases for free,’” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Hofwegen also emphasized that providing quality help to immigrant families that were forcibly separated requires a level of trust with legal service providers that the federal government is unlikely to provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our consultations with folks, we ask them all about their histories. They disclose really personal things that have happened to them,” Van Hofwegen said. “It’s not realistic to expect that they would have that kind of relationship with the government that harms them, and we think far fewer people will come forward to receive services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember what the government did to me. It separated me from my daughter. The first thing they’re going to do is — this scares me — I think they’re going to deport me and my family,” Mendoza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providers and clients in limbo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legal service providers working with the reunited families said the cancellation of the contract came as a surprise to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even sent us over a statement of work, asked us for a bunch of different budgets, and then suddenly we got a notice that they did not intend to renew the program. We got that notice April 11,” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the contract’s expiration at the end of April, some of the regional offices that were subcontracted to provide legal aid decided to continue offering their services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041237 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizandro and Catalina Mendoza play soccer behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those is the Immigration Center for Women and Children, a San Francisco-based nonprofit. Danielle Fritz, the center’s directing attorney, said her office is prioritizing cases where families have impending deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say probably about half of the people we’ve served need support with various things, whether that’s parole reauthorization applications, filing motions to the immigration court, meeting deadlines for filing for asylum,” Fritz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without funding, however, Fritz said the program is unsustainable. She hopes the issue is resolved in court soon and the contract is reinstated, but in the meantime, families could miss those crucial deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the settlement agreement, legal service providers helped class members with immigration applications such as those for parole, which grants them permission to live in the country for three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza and his family’s parole was set to expire on May 3, but he said ICWC helped them renew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041238 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Mendoza reaches for a soccer ball that rolled into the family’s garden behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also hopes to use those legal services to apply for asylum on the basis of political and racial persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza said he previously worked as a driver for a member of a controversial, now-disbanded conservative political party and had become a target for opponents. One day, he said, somebody poured boiling water over his small shack, scarring his daughter on her neck and chest. He also faced discrimination as an indigenous person in Guatemala, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the May 15 court hearing, Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said that while 414 people had parole or work authorizations that were set to lapse in May alone, EOIR had so far only connected 74 people to pro bono attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for ICE countered that the ACLU could not point to a single case so far where the government had denied a class member services. They also argued in court filings that the settlement agreement does not obligate them to hire a contractor to help with renewing parole or work authorizations, only with the initial applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United States District Judge Dana M. Sabraw ultimately ordered the government to notify the ACLU within 24 hours if it detains any member of the class action or their immediate family, but ICE lawyers have requested that Sabraw rescind that order or at least give them up to 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabraw has indicated that he will rule on whether the government is violating the settlement agreement during or soon after the upcoming hearing on Wednesday, and in the meantime, families that rely on these services await anxiously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximo Hernandez Perez stands in front of the home where he and his family live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My children were very worried because they are very attached to their school, they already have a lot of friends, they’re close with their teachers, they like school a lot,” said Maximo Hernandez Perez, another class member whose parole was set to expire in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said he’s been trying to establish a life in the U.S. for decades, originally fleeing Guatemala in 1989 due to fears of being conscripted into the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his daughter, Celina, then 14 years old, were detained after crossing the border in 2017.[aside postID=news_12042197 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/008_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1470_qed-1020x680.jpg']Border Patrol rounded them up with others that were caught, Hernandez said, and they were loaded into separate vehicles: adults in one, children in another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez was deported, and Celina was sent to live with a family member in Florida. The pair would talk over the phone, but they would not see each other in person for almost five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told her, ‘It’s OK, daughter, it is OK. You see how we suffered [in detention], and we were there for a long time. Only God knows if one day we’ll see each other. And if not, you’re there so give it your all,’” Hernandez said. “‘Value what happened to us, I want you to behave.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the time apart was difficult and even traumatizing, Hernandez said he thanks God and the legal aid program for how far his family has come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of his sons graduated from high school last week, and another daughter will be heading for college soon, but by then, they will need help renewing their parole again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said he hopes the program is still around to offer that help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It would take a total of four months for the pair to be reunited in Guatemala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041239\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-07-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Chales Gomez shows a photo of her daughter Catalina at age 4, on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mendoza, who now lives in Stockton, is one of the thousands of parents who were forcibly separated from their children in immigration detention during President Trump’s first term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a court settlement in an ACLU class-action lawsuit over the separations, the federal government agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026959/families-separated-at-the-border-are-protected-by-a-2023-settlement-will-trump-honor-it\">fund legal services for those families\u003c/a>, including help applying for asylum or temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. But legal service providers say that program, known as Legal Access Services for Reunified Families, is now in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Criticisms of the government’s plan\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last month, the government said it would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038327/doj-proposes-giving-legal-advice-to-immigrants-in-cases-it-oversees\">not renew its legal services contract\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://acaciajustice.org/\">Acacia Center for Justice\u003c/a>, which expired less than 20 days later on April 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU lawyers have argued that this constitutes a breach of the settlement agreement, and they want the courts to step in. 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They said EOIR will use pro bono attorneys to “maximize efficiency in the delivery of the program services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a federal court hearing in Southern California on May 15, ICE lawyers said they had already received 71 responses from individuals or organizations expressing interest in doing this pro bono work and are working to find more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“EOIR is going about this differently. There will be more group training, more web-based programs, they are doing a lot of outreach,” said Christina Parascandola, one of the attorneys for ICE.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, legal service providers like Sara Van Hofwegen, managing director for legal access programs at Acacia, have expressed skepticism that the government will find enough pro bono attorneys to meet the needs of the nearly 1,200 class members that Acacia and its subcontractors had helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, what the government is doing is they’re cutting funding from legal service providers, and then they’re turning around to the same legal service providers and saying, ‘Please take these cases for free,’” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Hofwegen also emphasized that providing quality help to immigrant families that were forcibly separated requires a level of trust with legal service providers that the federal government is unlikely to provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our consultations with folks, we ask them all about their histories. They disclose really personal things that have happened to them,” Van Hofwegen said. “It’s not realistic to expect that they would have that kind of relationship with the government that harms them, and we think far fewer people will come forward to receive services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember what the government did to me. It separated me from my daughter. The first thing they’re going to do is — this scares me — I think they’re going to deport me and my family,” Mendoza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providers and clients in limbo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The legal service providers working with the reunited families said the cancellation of the contract came as a surprise to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They even sent us over a statement of work, asked us for a bunch of different budgets, and then suddenly we got a notice that they did not intend to renew the program. We got that notice April 11,” Van Hofwegen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the contract’s expiration at the end of April, some of the regional offices that were subcontracted to provide legal aid decided to continue offering their services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041237 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-05-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizandro and Catalina Mendoza play soccer behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of those is the Immigration Center for Women and Children, a San Francisco-based nonprofit. Danielle Fritz, the center’s directing attorney, said her office is prioritizing cases where families have impending deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d say probably about half of the people we’ve served need support with various things, whether that’s parole reauthorization applications, filing motions to the immigration court, meeting deadlines for filing for asylum,” Fritz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without funding, however, Fritz said the program is unsustainable. She hopes the issue is resolved in court soon and the contract is reinstated, but in the meantime, families could miss those crucial deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the settlement agreement, legal service providers helped class members with immigration applications such as those for parole, which grants them permission to live in the country for three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza and his family’s parole was set to expire on May 3, but he said ICWC helped them renew it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12041238 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-06-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina Mendoza reaches for a soccer ball that rolled into the family’s garden behind the house where they live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also hopes to use those legal services to apply for asylum on the basis of political and racial persecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza said he previously worked as a driver for a member of a controversial, now-disbanded conservative political party and had become a target for opponents. One day, he said, somebody poured boiling water over his small shack, scarring his daughter on her neck and chest. He also faced discrimination as an indigenous person in Guatemala, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the May 15 court hearing, Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said that while 414 people had parole or work authorizations that were set to lapse in May alone, EOIR had so far only connected 74 people to pro bono attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for ICE countered that the ACLU could not point to a single case so far where the government had denied a class member services. They also argued in court filings that the settlement agreement does not obligate them to hire a contractor to help with renewing parole or work authorizations, only with the initial applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United States District Judge Dana M. Sabraw ultimately ordered the government to notify the ACLU within 24 hours if it detains any member of the class action or their immediate family, but ICE lawyers have requested that Sabraw rescind that order or at least give them up to 72 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabraw has indicated that he will rule on whether the government is violating the settlement agreement during or soon after the upcoming hearing on Wednesday, and in the meantime, families that rely on these services await anxiously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250522-IMMIGRATION-COURT-FOLO-MD-01-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximo Hernandez Perez stands in front of the home where he and his family live in Stockton on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My children were very worried because they are very attached to their school, they already have a lot of friends, they’re close with their teachers, they like school a lot,” said Maximo Hernandez Perez, another class member whose parole was set to expire in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said he’s been trying to establish a life in the U.S. for decades, originally fleeing Guatemala in 1989 due to fears of being conscripted into the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his daughter, Celina, then 14 years old, were detained after crossing the border in 2017.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,500 transit workers in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/south-bay\">South Bay\u003c/a> — who staged a historic 17-day strike in March over wages and benefits negotiations with the Valley Transportation Authority — are set to vote on a new contract offer from the agency on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265, which represents bus drivers, light rail operators, maintenance workers and dispatchers, confirmed its members will vote on the latest offer from the VTA, which includes a 14.5% wage increase over a period of four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t even tell you confidently which way the vote’s going to go,” Raj Singh, the president of ATU Local 265, said Monday afternoon. “I think it’s going to be a very divided vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote comes more than two months after Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Daniel T. Nishigaya issued a preliminary injunction to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033248/vta-strike-will-end-after-judges-order\">end the union’s strike\u003c/a>. The VTA had sought the injunction, claiming the union breached the “no-strike” clause of their contract by walking off the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling brought an abrupt end to a grueling work stoppage that left tens of thousands of daily riders in the region without transportation and was marked by bitter exchanges between the union and the agency, which often blamed each other for the dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_VTAStrikeDay2_GC-6_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_VTAStrikeDay2_GC-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_VTAStrikeDay2_GC-6_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_VTAStrikeDay2_GC-6_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_VTAStrikeDay2_GC-6_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_VTAStrikeDay2_GC-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_VTAStrikeDay2_GC-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_VTAStrikeDay2_GC-6_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority workers and represented by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265 raise fists during their historic 17-day strike in early March, in front of the VTA headquarters, on N First St, in San José, to demand a better contract and an increase in wages, on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Workers were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033549/all-vta-bus-routes-rolling-after-strike-some-light-rail-returns-monday\">forced back to their jobs on March 27\u003c/a>. Singh said the agency and the union leadership had met three times since early April to continue contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stacey Hendler Ross, a spokesperson for VTA, said Monday the agency is hopeful for a positive vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been several months now that employees have gone without a contract. We are eager to get this settled and have people move on and get the raises they deserve and kind of put this behind us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the contract offer is based on the agency’s “financial realities,” as the VTA, which is primarily funded by sales taxes, is facing a potential $14 million budget deficit in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These financial constraints have made it essential for all labor agreements, not just ATUs, to remain within sustainable budget limits,” she said. “We want to be able to pay employees a fair, competitive contract and, at the same time, we need to be able to continue to serve our customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033248 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250326-VTACOURT.-JG-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the court ruling, union members overwhelmingly rejected the agency’s previous contract offer, which included an 11% raise over a period of three years. The current offer adds a fourth year onto the deal, which matches the contract lengths of other VTA labor groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said the agency and union also negotiated terms ensuring the agency won’t seek punishments or retaliation against the union members for their strike actions, which the prior offer didn’t include.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it includes some positive changes, Singh said he doesn’t feel the wage proposal is a fair deal for the union, but felt compelled to bring the latest offer to a vote so members can voice their opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He accused VTA of “politely threatening” the union by noting there might not be another chance to get a deal approved by the agency’s board of directors for a month or more because of the Fourth of July holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are at the point where we’ve been negotiating over eight months, and the agency is using the time and the injunction against us at this point,” Singh said. “They want to continue dragging their feet, and we owe it to our members to put this offer in front of them and let them decide if they are acceptable to the terms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hendler Ross said the agency has “been eager and open” to negotiating the entire length of the contract dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is nothing that VTA has done or would do to drag its feet or to draw this out. 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The three shared the first-place win, smiling as they stepped together onto the podium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez wrapped up the night with a first place finish in the triple jump, sharing the top spot with Kira Gant Hatcher who trailed by just over a half-meter. Earlier in the afternoon, Hernandez placed second in the long jump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olympians Marion Jones and Tara Davis-Woodhall previously set state championship records in the long jump in 1993 and 2017, respectively, both surpassing 22 feet. This year’s winner, Loren Webster, topped 21 feet, with Hernandez trailing by a few inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Interscholastic Federation announced the new policy earlier this week in response to Hernandez’s success heading into the championships. 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Some critics wore pink bracelets and T-shirts that read, “Save Girls’ Sports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Friday’s qualifying events, an aircraft circled above the stadium for more than an hour with a banner: “No Boys in Girls’ Sports!” Two groups that oppose transgender athletes participating in women’s sports — the Independent Council on Women’s Sports and Women Are Real — took credit for flying the banner.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>California at center of national debate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The federation’s rule change reflected efforts to find a middle ground in the debate over trans girls’ participation in youth sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CIF values all of our student-athletes and we will continue to uphold our mission of providing students with the opportunity to belong, connect, and compete while complying with California law,” the group said in a statement after announcing its rule change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/may-W2-2025-topline-.pdf\">recent AP-NORC poll\u003c/a> found that about 7 in 10 U.S. adults think transgender female athletes should not be allowed to participate in girls and women’s sports at the high school, college or professional level. That view was shared by about 9 in 10 Republicans and roughly half of Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federation announced the change after Trump threatened to pull federal funding from California unless it \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-transgender-athletes-3606411fc12efffec95a893351624e1b\">bars trans female athletes\u003c/a> from competing on girls teams. The federation said it decided on the change before then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice also said it would investigate the federation and the district that includes Hernandez’s high school to determine whether they violated federal sex discrimination law. [aside postID=\"news_12029289,news_12041770,news_12026189\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law allows trans students to compete on sex-segregated sports teams consistent with their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federation said the rule opens the field to more “biological female” athletes. One expert said the change may itself be discriminatory because it creates an extra spot for “biological female” athletes but not for other trans athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federation did not specify how it defines “biological female” or how it would verify whether a competitor meets that definition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sophia Lorey, outreach director with California Family Council, was among those at the stadium Saturday. She said the federation’s policy is not a fix for the issue and only ends up causing more confusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day,” Lorey said, “it shows the girls that we know this is wrong and we’re still letting it happen to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez \u003ca href=\"https://capitalandmain.com/a-league-of-her-own-transgender-athlete-ab-hernandez-faces-down-hecklers\">told the publication Capital & Main\u003c/a> this month that she cannot worry about critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m still a child, you’re an adult, and for you to act like a child shows how you are as a person,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other students break records\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s championship stands out from that of other states because of the sheer number of competitors. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Congress moves forward with a controversial \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/upshot/medicaid-republicans-work-requirement.html\">proposal to require people to report work hours\u003c/a> to keep Medicaid, more than a million of California’s poorest residents could lose their health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget bill that the U.S. House advanced last week includes a requirement that certain adults — largely those under 65 without children or a disability — meet work reporting rules. In California, about a third of them could lose their health coverage, according to an analysis by the research group Urban Institute. Based on 2026 enrollment projections, that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/research/publication/expanding-federal-work-requirements-medicaid-expansion-coverage-age-64-would\">between 1.2 and 1.4 million\u003c/a> Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Congress looks at Medicaid for ways to help offset the cost of extending President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, imposing work requirements has increasingly been deemed as one of the most feasible and significant cost-savings actions. House Speaker Mike Johnson \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-johnson-house-speaker-trump-bill-medicaid-work-requirements/\">told CBS that work requirements\u003c/a> have a “moral component” and that people who don’t work are “defrauding the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But health policy researchers and advocates point to New Hampshire and Arkansas, where state-imposed work requirements failed in recent years. Their \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00538\">policies didn’t actually boost employment\u003c/a>; they did, however, leave thousands of eligible people without health insurance within a matter of months. Both states have since canceled their work policies. Georgia is the only state that currently has work requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide and in California, about two-thirds of Medicaid enrollees work, according to the health research firm KFF. Another 29% care for children, attend school or have a disability that would exempt them. But health advocates say the additional red tape to prove employment could be so cumbersome that many eligible people would fall out of the health insurance program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You might say you’re combating waste, fraud and abuse,” said Katherine Hempstead, a senior policy officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit health advocacy organization that funds policy research. But “the way you’re going to save money is by people inadvertently or accidentally losing their coverage. The program saves money through mistakes. And that’s not a good way to run social insurance or to run policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal — the California version of Medicaid — provides health insurance to almost 15 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana Alfaro, associate executive director of Central City Neighborhood Partners, a nonprofit that helps people enroll in public benefits and services, says some of her low-income clients in Los Angeles who rely on Medi-Cal are employed — but not always in “typical” paying jobs. They are housekeepers, gardeners, construction workers and others who don’t have a regular paycheck or a single employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/052825_WorkRequirements_JC_CM_16-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long, wavy dark hair smiles while leaning on a podium decorated with various organizational logos. They wear a navy blouse with white trim and black pants, standing against a bright blue background. The overall mood is confident and welcoming.\">\u003cfigcaption>Diana Alfaro, shown at the Central City Neighborhood Partners office in Los Angeles, worries about people who will have trouble documenting work requirements if Congress’ proposal is enacted. Many are housekeepers, gardeners or others without a single employer and pay stubs. \u003cem>Jill Connelly for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, it’s unclear exactly what documentation enrollees would need to show if a work requirement is enacted. But Alfaro is concerned that it could be especially challenging for people whose schedules fluctuate or who are paid in cash and don’t receive a pay stub that shows their hours worked. Some enrollees use a copy of their taxes, a letter from their employer or in some cases self-attestation to verify income eligibility when first applying for Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of them are doing those jobs of gardening or being a nanny or a housekeeper, and so they’re already going to have a hard time getting a letter that certifies the amount of hours that they’re doing if this were to pass,” Alfaro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>House proposal requires 80 hours a month of work or school\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The work requirement proposal is part of President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” which the U.S. House passed last week and is now in the hands of the Senate. All nine of California’s House Republicans voted in favor of the bill, while all Democrats voted against it.[aside postID=news_12039465 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']The current version requires certain adults to log at least 80 hours a month of “community engagement,” which could be employment, school or volunteer work. As proposed, the rule would pertain specifically to adults ages 19 to 64 who qualify for Medicaid as part of an expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Pregnant women, parents and caregivers of young children, and people with mental and physical disabilities would be exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. David Valadao, a California Republican who represents portions of the San Joaquin Valley that have some of the highest Medicaid enrollment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBNAOogpqGs\">told ABC’s Bakersfield affiliate\u003c/a> that work requirements are a fair ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who are able-bodied with no dependents and you choose not to try to make that effort to go get a job, go to school or volunteer, do something in your community, yeah you’re probably going to be affected by this, but the average person who is working really hard to provide for their family thinks that’s the right thing to do,” Valadao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rep. Laura Friedman, a California Democrat representing Los Angeles, said it is the responsibility of the government to help people stay safe and healthy, but work requirements would do the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to make it so hard for you and your family to access care with these onerous work requirements that you say ‘I’m not even going to bother, I’ll just try not to get sick,’” Friedman said during a press conference this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said the proposed cuts and requirements in the House bill would lead to more uncompensated care costs for clinics and hospitals, which ultimately could lead to reduced services for entire communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/052825_WorkRequirements_JC_CM_02-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Two people sit across from each other at a white table in a brightly lit community center. One person, wearing a blue blazer, types on a laptop and speaks while holding a pen. The other person listens attentively, seated with hands on the table. Papers, folders, and a red wallet are spread out between them. The background includes folding chairs, a table with flowers, and yellow walls.\">\u003cfigcaption>Health navigator Elba Medina, right, works with Carmen Umana to apply for Medi-Cal. \u003cem>Jill Connelly for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As currently drafted in the House bill, work requirements would kick in on Dec. 31, 2026. States would have the option to start earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the work rules, the House budget bill proposes several other changes, including requiring these enrollees to verify their income every six months, rather than once a year. A separate measure seeks to financially penalize states that offer non-emergency Medicaid coverage to undocumented people, even if it’s with state-only funds, as California does. And less federal funding may force states to reduce benefits or enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal proposals are on top of changes that Gov. Gavin Newsom is already eyeing that could also force people to lose their health insurance. In his most recent budget proposal, Newsom proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/05/newsom-freeze-medi-cal-undocumented-immigrants/\">benefit reductions, a premium charge and enrollment freezes\u003c/a> for undocumented residents as the state deals with a projected $12 billion shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the proposals at the federal and state level are bound to result in confusion and disruption for patients, Alfaro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year we were doing a bunch of promotion around how easier it is to get health insurance,” she said. “And it seems like now we’re going a step backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Arkansas and New Hampshire experience\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Currently about 5 million Californians with Medi-Cal are eligible because of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. The 2010 health law allowed states to add adults without children or a disability to their rolls. It’s this group of enrollees that would be subject to the work requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Urban Institute’s estimate of more than a million of them losing coverage in 2026 is based on multiple factors, including trends and experiences observed in Arkansas and New Hampshire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Arkansas became the first state to implement work rules as a condition for Medicaid coverage. The rule applied to adults ages 30 to 49 who had to show 80 hours of work a month. Within six months, 18,000 adults had lost their coverage. In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707425729/federal-judge-strikes-down-medicaid-work-requirements-in-arkansas-and-kentucky\">a federal judge struck down\u003c/a> the state’s work requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers in New Hampshire said they’d do a better job than Arkansas in rolling out their own 2019 work requirement, but they faced similar challenges. The state had \u003ca href=\"https://www.unionleader.com/news/health/spreading-the-word-on-medicaid-work-requirement-proves-challenging/article_740b99e7-9f48-52d4-b2d8-030167e66af8.html\">a difficult time reaching enrollees\u003c/a> and notifying them about the changes, news reports at the time show. On track to lose thousands of people more than anticipated, the state suspended its rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the experience of other states, even if you spend a ton of energy on outreach, a lot of people just don’t realize what they have to do,” said Nari Rhee, director of the Retirement Security Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. “People have a bunch of questions: ‘Am I exempt? 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David Valadao, a California Republican who represents portions of the San Joaquin Valley that have some of the highest Medicaid enrollment, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBNAOogpqGs\">told ABC’s Bakersfield affiliate\u003c/a> that work requirements are a fair ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who are able-bodied with no dependents and you choose not to try to make that effort to go get a job, go to school or volunteer, do something in your community, yeah you’re probably going to be affected by this, but the average person who is working really hard to provide for their family thinks that’s the right thing to do,” Valadao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rep. Laura Friedman, a California Democrat representing Los Angeles, said it is the responsibility of the government to help people stay safe and healthy, but work requirements would do the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to make it so hard for you and your family to access care with these onerous work requirements that you say ‘I’m not even going to bother, I’ll just try not to get sick,’” Friedman said during a press conference this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said the proposed cuts and requirements in the House bill would lead to more uncompensated care costs for clinics and hospitals, which ultimately could lead to reduced services for entire communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/052825_WorkRequirements_JC_CM_02-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Two people sit across from each other at a white table in a brightly lit community center. One person, wearing a blue blazer, types on a laptop and speaks while holding a pen. The other person listens attentively, seated with hands on the table. Papers, folders, and a red wallet are spread out between them. The background includes folding chairs, a table with flowers, and yellow walls.\">\u003cfigcaption>Health navigator Elba Medina, right, works with Carmen Umana to apply for Medi-Cal. \u003cem>Jill Connelly for CalMatters\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As currently drafted in the House bill, work requirements would kick in on Dec. 31, 2026. States would have the option to start earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the work rules, the House budget bill proposes several other changes, including requiring these enrollees to verify their income every six months, rather than once a year. A separate measure seeks to financially penalize states that offer non-emergency Medicaid coverage to undocumented people, even if it’s with state-only funds, as California does. And less federal funding may force states to reduce benefits or enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal proposals are on top of changes that Gov. Gavin Newsom is already eyeing that could also force people to lose their health insurance. In his most recent budget proposal, Newsom proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/05/newsom-freeze-medi-cal-undocumented-immigrants/\">benefit reductions, a premium charge and enrollment freezes\u003c/a> for undocumented residents as the state deals with a projected $12 billion shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the proposals at the federal and state level are bound to result in confusion and disruption for patients, Alfaro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year we were doing a bunch of promotion around how easier it is to get health insurance,” she said. “And it seems like now we’re going a step backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Arkansas and New Hampshire experience\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Currently about 5 million Californians with Medi-Cal are eligible because of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. The 2010 health law allowed states to add adults without children or a disability to their rolls. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a warm evening in a backyard tucked into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/oakland\">North Oakland neighborhood\u003c/a>, people sipped drinks, sat on outdoor cushions and blankets, their heads turned toward a small stage strung with lights. At the center were two women, one singing, the other strumming a guitar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wrote this song 13 years ago,” said Charito Soriano, before launching into the opening chords of “Be,” the first song she ever wrote with her musical partner, Chen Conlu. “It still applies today. Our music is like a self-help book for me. I hope it self-helps you, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://astralogik.com/\">AstraLogik, Soriano and Conlu\u003c/a> have been performing together for more than a decade. Their music blends R&B, soul and spoken word with themes of healing, self-acceptance, and identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met nearly 15 years ago through a mutual friend who insisted they had to connect. The first time they played together — Soriano singing, Conlu on guitar — something clicked. Soriano later wrote “Be” during a jam session with Conlu, scribbling lyrics on a napkin as Conlu played the guitar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never done that before,” Soriano said. “I’ve never been so inspired by hearing someone play that I was just like, ‘Oh, I want to write all this stuff down. I’m going to sing on top of it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042270\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-21-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-21-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-21-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charito Soriano holds family photos at home in Hayward on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That chemistry sparked not only a musical partnership but a personal one. The two eventually became romantic partners and creative collaborators. Through music, they found a way to understand themselves more deeply, as individuals and as a couple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soriano said she often felt the weight of her family’s expectations growing up in an immigrant household, where success often meant chasing a version of the American dream tied to social status and constant productivity. But through her relationship with Conlu, she began to question that pace and the pressure to always do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always chasing something, trying to be the good daughter, thinking about what I had to do next,” Soriano said. “But Chen was one of the few people that showed me that it’s okay to slow down, to sit still and not think about tomorrow.”[aside postID=news_12040449 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-REENA-ESMAIL-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Their name, \u003ca href=\"https://astralogik.com/\">AstraLogik\u003c/a>, reflects the roles they play in each other’s lives. Conlu is the “Astra” — the dreamer. Soriano is the “Logik” — the planner. Through their music and partnership, they’ve learned to slow down, listen inward and be present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As children of Filipino immigrants who grew up outside the Philippines, both have wrestled with what it means to be Filipino in diaspora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conlu, raised in Guam, said she often felt out of place among her Chamorro peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I honestly didn’t identify as a Filipino in school,” Conlu said. “I was trying to understand, how come this family speaks different languages from my family? When I was younger, I was always questioning my whereabouts and who I belonged to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her relationship with Filipino culture deepened after moving to the United States after high school. She learned Filipino martial arts and was exposed to home-cooked Filipino food through her cousins in Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soriano, meanwhile, grew up in the Bay Area but still felt disconnected from her heritage as a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042269\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-18-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-18-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-18-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-18-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-18-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-18-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-18-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chen Conlu holds a photo of family members at home in Hayward on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I lived in the ‘suburbias’ of California,” she said. “I almost didn’t feel Filipino for a long time. Most of my young life, when I was a child and an adolescent, I was trying to be what I saw on TV, which was pretty white people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her experience is far from unique. Anthony Ocampo, a sociologist and author who studies the Filipino American experience, said many Filipinos raised outside ethnic enclaves often grow up ashamed of their heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m seeing more and more Filipinos trying to assert their American-ness or their sense of belonging,” Ocampo said. “Part of that is actually othering and marginalizing people in their own community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ocampo tied that internalized shame and obsession with whiteness to nearly four centuries of Western colonization in the Philippines — first by Spain, from 1565 to 1898, and then by the United States until 1946. And that colonial legacy still affects many Filipino Americans today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042264 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250530-ASTRALOGIK-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charito Soriano (left) and Chen Conlu practice for an upcoming show for their band AstraLogik at their home in Hayward on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But he also sees a growing number of Filipino artists using their work to reverse that trend and embrace their heritage with pride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s exactly what AstraLogik is doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the awareness of how colonialism has taken hold of our culture, our internal programming since birth,” Conlu said. “I think it’s acknowledging that, being brave to step out of that matrix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AstraLogik’s music has become a vessel for that reclamation. Through lyrics and community performances, they create spaces that affirm their intersecting identities — queer, Filipina and children of immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming out queer wasn’t easy. Soriano struggled with the fear of losing family support and being judged by her community.[aside postID=news_12037162 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250407-EL-COMPA-NEGRO-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']But performing and making music with Conlu allowed her to show up authentically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having music to continuously be together and show ourselves, and to see how the response was that we are embraced,” Soriano said. “It’s the only reason that we’re still getting gigs today. People accept us how we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through music, they’ve found a way not just to express, but to build a community. Their songs have become affirmations of identity, resilience, and love. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The death of a high school teacher who was struck in Oakland this week by the driver of a vehicle fleeing California Highway Patrol officers has intensified an already heated \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001829/oakland-residents-divided-over-gov-newsoms-involvement-in-local-crime-solutions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">debate over police pursuit policies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the city.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/05/29/oakland-chp-chase-beloved-castlemont-teacher-marvin-boomer/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marvin Boomer\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a veteran Castlemont High School math teacher who also worked as an academic coach, was pronounced dead at the scene on Wednesday after the vehicle slammed into him and another pedestrian around 7:45 p.m. at the intersection of East 21st Street and 12th Avenue. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The second victim, a woman in her 40s who has not been identified, was rushed to the hospital and is stable, according to Oakland police, who were not involved in the pursuit.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">CHP and the Oakland Police Department said they have each launched separate investigations. The driver, 18-year-old Eric Scott Hernandez-Garcia of Oakland, was arrested and booked into Santa Rita Jail on multiple felony charges, CHP said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pursuit started when CHP officers tried to stop Hernandez-Garcia as he drove a vehicle that was “wanted in association with a felony evading incident,” the agency said. CHP officers pursued Hernandez-Garcia on the ground for just over 30 seconds before pulling back as he drove west from 102nd Avenue, with aircraft monitoring him overhead. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seconds after CHP reinitiated its ground pursuit at a second location, the driver hit a minivan near Park Boulevard, causing minor injuries to its passengers, before continuing east to where the fatal crash occurred, CHP said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“While CHP terminated pursuit within mere seconds and CHP fixed-wing aircraft continued to monitor overhead, Hernandez-Garcia’s reckless and dangerous driving caused him to crash twice, within seconds of each other,” the agency said in a statement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12040592 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00044-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Cat Brooks, the co-founder and executive director of the Anti-Police Terror Project, directed much of the blame toward the officers who started the chase.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“No one was in danger until CHP decided to engage in a high-speed chase over a vehicle. What a waste of life,” said Brooks, whose group is holding a vigil on Friday evening at the site of the crash and demanding that CHP end what it called “reckless” chases. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Police high-speed chases kill more people every year than tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and lightning combined,” she said. “They do not prevent crime. They do not solve crime.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The crash happened just hours before the final day of the school year, leaving the Castlemont community in a state of shock and mourning as it prepared for Friday’s graduation ceremonies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Everyone was devastated, not just because someone had died, but because it was Boomer,” said George Arterberry, a fellow Castlemont teacher who started working at the school the same year as Boomer.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arterberry said he and Boomer both graduated from historically Black universities in the South and came to Oakland with a deep sense of mission and purpose around empowering the next generation of Black and brown students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He was the genuine article. Authentic, likable, charismatic, relatable,” Arterberry said. “And so instantly, when you would meet him — whether you were one of the kids, teachers, adults — you liked him. You couldn’t help it. There just didn’t seem to be an agenda with him. He wasn’t trying to prove something.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After teaching math for four years at Castlemont, Boomer headed its career education department. While working at the school, he also completed a doctorate in philosophy from North Carolina State University, with a focus on educational research and policy analysis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> said Boomer was a “beloved and vital member of the Castlemont family,” where he served for eight years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“His warmth, wisdom, and joyful spirit left a lasting impact on students and fellow educators,” the district said. “We extend our deepest condolences to everyone impacted by this loss. Dr. Boomer was more than a teacher — he was a mentor, a friend, and a source of strength and inspiration in the halls of Castlemont.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deadly crash comes a week after the Oakland Police Commission suggested it was leaning toward \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/05/23/oakland-police-pursuit-policy-proposed-revisions/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">revising OPD’s pursuit policy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which many residents argue is too restrictive and allows suspects to easily escape authorities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those rules, issued under former Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong in late 2022, following a spike in police pursuits and deadly crashes, require officers who don’t have additional command approval to end a chase if any vehicles involved exceed 50 mph on city streets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1PM8a3qLj2zhKqO2y02wRQ3Wbpm4WPr/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new proposal\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, submitted to the commission last week by current Chief Floyd Mitchell, would rescind the pre-authorization requirement, a rule that he argued “deviates from national best practice.” Mitchell noted that police pursuits in Oakland have plummeted since the 2022 rule was put in place — from 130 that year to 68 in 2024 — even as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1743494392012\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">violent crime in the city increased\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, CHP officers are not bound by the city’s pursuit rules. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993611/newsom-to-quadruple-chp-deployment-in-oakland-ramping-up-states-policing-role\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">deployed the CHP\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Oakland last year to patrol high-crime areas and target vehicle theft, sideshows and organized retail crime, has been openly critical of Oakland’s chase rules. Last year, he even threatened to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/07/26/governor-newsom-oakland-police-chase-policy/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">withdraw CHP support\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> unless the restrictions were loosened.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The governor’s office declined to comment on this week’s pursuit crash, instead referring KQED to CHP. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brooks, of APTP, criticized the Oakland police chief for seeking to loosen restrictions on chases in the city, suggesting he was bowing to outside pressure. Even with the existing restrictions, she argued, the department has repeatedly violated its own policies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is another knee-jerk policy reaction. 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While working at the school, he also completed a doctorate in philosophy from North Carolina State University, with a focus on educational research and policy analysis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement, the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> said Boomer was a “beloved and vital member of the Castlemont family,” where he served for eight years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“His warmth, wisdom, and joyful spirit left a lasting impact on students and fellow educators,” the district said. “We extend our deepest condolences to everyone impacted by this loss. Dr. Boomer was more than a teacher — he was a mentor, a friend, and a source of strength and inspiration in the halls of Castlemont.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The deadly crash comes a week after the Oakland Police Commission suggested it was leaning toward \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/05/23/oakland-police-pursuit-policy-proposed-revisions/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">revising OPD’s pursuit policy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which many residents argue is too restrictive and allows suspects to easily escape authorities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those rules, issued under former Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong in late 2022, following a spike in police pursuits and deadly crashes, require officers who don’t have additional command approval to end a chase if any vehicles involved exceed 50 mph on city streets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p1PM8a3qLj2zhKqO2y02wRQ3Wbpm4WPr/view\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new proposal\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, submitted to the commission last week by current Chief Floyd Mitchell, would rescind the pre-authorization requirement, a rule that he argued “deviates from national best practice.” Mitchell noted that police pursuits in Oakland have plummeted since the 2022 rule was put in place — from 130 that year to 68 in 2024 — even as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1743494392012\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">violent crime in the city increased\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, CHP officers are not bound by the city’s pursuit rules. 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"content": "\u003cp>Weeks after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040473/trouble-at-san-francisco-zoo-could-soon-lead-to-ceos-removal\">attempt to oust\u003c/a> the embattled CEO of the struggling \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-zoo\">San Francisco Zoo\u003c/a>, it appears that she’s come out on top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanya Peterson, who has been under fire for growing concerns over safety and alleged mismanagement at the facility in recent years, will remain CEO while the chair of the zoo’s board of directors, who supported the effort to remove her, resigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board chair Melinda Dunn is among five members of the San Francisco Zoological Society board who have left their posts since last week, according to Corey Hallman of Teamsters Local Union 856, which represents about 100 zookeepers, dieticians, gardeners and other zoo workers. 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They wrote that she has created an environment that is “toxic beyond comprehension,” led by a lack of transparency, increasingly siloed departments and caused high employee turnover.[aside postID=news_12040473 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-1020x752.jpg']The dozen signatories, who said they are members of the zoo’s leadership team and sent the letter anonymously for fear of retaliation, wrote that employees would be able to step up to lead the facility if Peterson were removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will reverse the erosion of the programs, facilities, and standards that have progressively declined each year [Peterson] has held onto her power,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A zoo manager, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, told KQED that communication between departments has been siloed since the COVID-19 pandemic, and that earlier this year, he and other managers were barred from contacting the board of directors without Peterson’s approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any communication with members of the Board are cleared through the CEO,” reads a draft communication policy viewed by KQED, which the manager said he and other managers had to verbally agree to. 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