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But the state still makes most decisions about what happens in schools.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a barrage of executive orders and promises since he was inaugurated, President Donald Trump has said he wants to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, transferring its duties to other departments;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Legalize school vouchers for parents to send their children to private and religious schools;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Withhold funding from schools that use curriculum focused on race or ethnicity, or offer protections for transgender students;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Overhaul Title IX, which prohibits against discrimination based on gender.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Conservatives are celebrating Trump’s efforts to reshape education. 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In some areas, superintendents say attendance has declined significantly, a blow to school funding and student learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration and symbolism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Ventura County, the threat of deportation has been a top concern about the Trump presidency, said County Superintendent Cesar Morales. Schools throughout the county have seen drops in attendance over the past few weeks, and school districts are taking steps to reassure families. They’ve held community meetings and set up resource websites, and Morales has done interviews in Spanish on local radio stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the other threats may also have equally serious consequences, particularly for the most vulnerable students, Morales said. With the proposed elimination of the Department of Education, Morales worries about disruptions to special education and Title I funding for students with low income. Special education would likely move to another federal agency, but Project 2025, the conservative policy roadmap, calls for \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-11.pdf\">phasing out Title I (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, districts use their Title I money to hire tutors, classroom aides and counselors; train teachers; and provide other services to students who need extra help. Morales fears that Title I cuts will lead to layoffs, at a time when schools are already grappling with budget uncertainty due to the end of COVID-19 relief grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps the biggest impact of Trump’s actions is symbolic, Morales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have the most powerful country in the world dismantling its Department of Education, it means the interest is not there,” he said. “At a time when we need a renaissance in public education to meet the rapidly changing needs of society, we need to fortify public education, not tear it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Budget may be a bigger concern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Andy Rotherham, a senior partner at Bellwether, an educational consulting organization, noted that most of Trump’s proposals have not happened, and may never happen. States make most decisions about schools, and receive relatively little federal funding — about 8% of their overall education budgets, even though much of that money goes to districts with high poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more urgent concern, he said, is whether — and how — the Republican-controlled Congress will reach a budget agreement before the mid-March deadline. A budget deal could include cuts to education, reflecting Trump’s desire to slash federal spending. That could affect everything from student loans to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/01/rural-schools-2/\">funding for rural schools\u003c/a>. This week, Trump cut nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/11/elon-musk-and-doge-cancel-education-department-research-contracts/\">$900 million\u003c/a> in contracts at the U.S. Department of Education, affecting research and program evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curriculum changes are a little more nuanced, Rotherham said. Activists from both sides have long lobbied for curriculum changes, especially in history and social studies. In California’s ethnic studies curriculum, for example, some want lessons that include the plight of Palestinians, while others want that topic excluded because they say it could be construed as antisemitic. Other fights center on how teachers cover subjects like colonialism, segregation, slavery and capitalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rotherham suspects those fights will continue in California and elsewhere. Also, he said, how much those arguments affect what happens in classrooms varies, because teachers have a lot of leeway in what they teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, it’s too early to predict the impacts from Trump’s proposals, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although there’s a lot of chaos, many of the big-picture ideas are still outstanding,” Rotherham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Hatred feels normalized’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s not much comfort for students. Some said they’re already experiencing the aftershocks of Trump’s attacks on immigrants and transgender youth, even if the policies haven’t taken effect yet. They also worry about their futures, especially in light of Trump’s pushback against environmental policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kayla Houston, a senior at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, said that since Trump was elected in November, she’s seen an uptick in racist and homophobic bullying at her school. She’s even seen swastika graffiti on the walls, she said.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021521,news_12020519,news_12013686\"]“It affects how people feel at school,” she said. “Students need to feel safe. … Now hatred feels normalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damian Martinez, a sophomore at Fowler High School in Fowler, south of Fresno, said he has friends who are afraid to leave their homes, even to go to the store, for fear of being deported. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Temecula’s school board was among a handful statewide to adopt a policy requiring school staff to notify parents if a student identifies as transgender. The policy was later \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/12/california-forced-outing-lgbtq-new-laws-2025/\">struck down by the courts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This feels like vindication from the top down,” Komrosky said. “I don’t know how it’s going to play out in California, but I’m optimistic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Trump’s plans have already come to pass, such as eliminating a ban on\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2025/02/trump-executive-orders-immigration/\"> immigration raids at so-called sensitive locations\u003c/a>, including schools. Although there have been few reports of federal agents entering schools, the possibility has led to panic in many parts of California, with parents keeping their children home from school for fear of getting deported. In some areas, superintendents say attendance has declined significantly, a blow to school funding and student learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration and symbolism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Ventura County, the threat of deportation has been a top concern about the Trump presidency, said County Superintendent Cesar Morales. Schools throughout the county have seen drops in attendance over the past few weeks, and school districts are taking steps to reassure families. They’ve held community meetings and set up resource websites, and Morales has done interviews in Spanish on local radio stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the other threats may also have equally serious consequences, particularly for the most vulnerable students, Morales said. With the proposed elimination of the Department of Education, Morales worries about disruptions to special education and Title I funding for students with low income. Special education would likely move to another federal agency, but Project 2025, the conservative policy roadmap, calls for \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-11.pdf\">phasing out Title I (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, districts use their Title I money to hire tutors, classroom aides and counselors; train teachers; and provide other services to students who need extra help. Morales fears that Title I cuts will lead to layoffs, at a time when schools are already grappling with budget uncertainty due to the end of COVID-19 relief grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps the biggest impact of Trump’s actions is symbolic, Morales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have the most powerful country in the world dismantling its Department of Education, it means the interest is not there,” he said. “At a time when we need a renaissance in public education to meet the rapidly changing needs of society, we need to fortify public education, not tear it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Budget may be a bigger concern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Andy Rotherham, a senior partner at Bellwether, an educational consulting organization, noted that most of Trump’s proposals have not happened, and may never happen. States make most decisions about schools, and receive relatively little federal funding — about 8% of their overall education budgets, even though much of that money goes to districts with high poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more urgent concern, he said, is whether — and how — the Republican-controlled Congress will reach a budget agreement before the mid-March deadline. A budget deal could include cuts to education, reflecting Trump’s desire to slash federal spending. That could affect everything from student loans to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/01/rural-schools-2/\">funding for rural schools\u003c/a>. This week, Trump cut nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/11/elon-musk-and-doge-cancel-education-department-research-contracts/\">$900 million\u003c/a> in contracts at the U.S. Department of Education, affecting research and program evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curriculum changes are a little more nuanced, Rotherham said. Activists from both sides have long lobbied for curriculum changes, especially in history and social studies. In California’s ethnic studies curriculum, for example, some want lessons that include the plight of Palestinians, while others want that topic excluded because they say it could be construed as antisemitic. Other fights center on how teachers cover subjects like colonialism, segregation, slavery and capitalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rotherham suspects those fights will continue in California and elsewhere. Also, he said, how much those arguments affect what happens in classrooms varies, because teachers have a lot of leeway in what they teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, it’s too early to predict the impacts from Trump’s proposals, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although there’s a lot of chaos, many of the big-picture ideas are still outstanding,” Rotherham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Hatred feels normalized’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s not much comfort for students. Some said they’re already experiencing the aftershocks of Trump’s attacks on immigrants and transgender youth, even if the policies haven’t taken effect yet. They also worry about their futures, especially in light of Trump’s pushback against environmental policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kayla Houston, a senior at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, said that since Trump was elected in November, she’s seen an uptick in racist and homophobic bullying at her school. She’s even seen swastika graffiti on the walls, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It affects how people feel at school,” she said. “Students need to feel safe. … Now hatred feels normalized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damian Martinez, a sophomore at Fowler High School in Fowler, south of Fresno, said he has friends who are afraid to leave their homes, even to go to the store, for fear of being deported. The threat of immigration raids has overwhelmed the entire community, a quiet farming town known for its grapes and citrus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond deportations, Martinez worries about the local economy. He wonders who will pick the crops if immigrants are afraid to show up for work, and whether the upheaval in the agricultural industry will drag down the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t just stuff on the news. It’s affecting the people around me,” Martinez said. “It makes me sad because it feels like we’re going in the wrong direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Trump proposal is expanding school vouchers and school choice. School vouchers, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/which-states-have-private-school-choice/2024/01\">already exist in 28 states\u003c/a>, provide tax credits or other incentives for parents to send their children to private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vouchers, which teachers unions strongly oppose, have never been popular in California. In 2000, a ballot initiative that would have legalized vouchers \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_38,_School_Vouchers_Initiative_(2000)\">lost by 70%\u003c/a>. But school choice — families’ right to send children to schools other than their locally assigned school, including charter or magnet schools — has been legal for decades. In fact, California has more charter schools than any other state, and one of the \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=30\">highest enrollment percentages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Confusion and resistance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California officials are fighting back against many of Trump’s proposals. Attorney General Rob Bonta has \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-california-schools-will-remain-welcoming-inclusive-safe\">vowed to sue the federal government\u003c/a> if it interferes with the state’s protections for transgender and immigrant students, and issued guidelines for schools on how to handle potential immigration raids and attacks on LGBTQ students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Association of California School Administrators pledged its “unwavering support” for transgender students and recently urged its members to uphold state laws protecting them. The California School Boards Association recently hosted a webinar on how schools should handle immigration threats, and it was among its most well-attended ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But plenty of school board members in California support Trump’s moves to overhaul K–12 education. School boards in Chino Valley, Temecula, Roseville and a dozen other districts have voted in the past year or two to require school staff to “out” transgender students to their parents. The policies were struck down by courts, but advocates \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/12/california-forced-outing-lgbtq-new-laws-2025/\">vowed to continue to fight\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have communities that will be enraged at what’s happening, and some that will be enthusiastic, and everything in between,” said Troy Flint, spokesperson for the school boards association. “It’s a difficult time for school boards because traditionally the federal government has stayed out of local school decisions. It adds a layer of complexity, and there’s some confusion about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh, at Policy Analysis for California Education, echoed the sentiment about confusion. Some of Trump’s policy ideas are contradictory — for example, his belief that the federal government should have a reduced role in education, while he also wants to dictate curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, we don’t know how this will work out,” Marsh said. “Still, it’s a lot to deal with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland public school\u003c/a> parents, teachers and students packed La Escuelita Elementary School’s gym in December, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">ready for a fight\u003c/a>. The district’s board was set to vote on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013739/oakland-school-board-spurns-campus-closures-plans-merge-some-schools-instead\">plan to merge 10 schools\u003c/a> — a modest proposal compared to the number recommended by an efficiency study to align Oakland’s campuses with enrollment but a nonstarter for school communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about 30 minutes of pleas from a long line of emotional students who shuffled to the podium, former board President Sam Davis paused the public comment period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Do we still want to hear public comment given that the guy whose idea this was isn’t even here?’” Davis recalled referring to board Vice President Mike Hutchinson, who had left his seat at the dais during the comment period after no motion was made. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis and Hutchinson sparred all fall about how to address the district’s massive — and growing — budget crisis. Davis believed the district needed to close schools while Hutchinson, who originally supported voting on the merger plan, pushed back against more drastic consolidations, saying there hadn’t been sufficient community engagement to do so. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sitting in the meeting, and I’m like, ‘OK, is there a motion for this plan? And nobody makes a motion,” Davis said. “It’s not my place. I’m not going to make the motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We basically didn’t vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017852\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Board listens to public comment during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Students, families, educators, and community members raised their concerns about a proposed merger of their schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The anticlimactic finale of the school closure proposal is nothing new. Oakland’s school board has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">repeatedly floated, then backed off\u003c/a>, plans to close schools and impose other “draconian” cuts in the name of budget balancing. Lisa Grant-Dawson, the district’s chief budget officer, described it as a pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been decades of not dealing with systemic issues and ultimately asking the superintendent … and the staff to make it work for the year with some commitment that ‘We’ll do something in the future,’” she told KQED. “That doesn’t happen, and we just reach the place where we’ve run out of space for us to be able to make amends as we have historically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland — under state receivership since 2003 but now less than two years from regaining control — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023461/ousd-on-track-run-out-of-cash-after-avoiding-hard-decisions-scathing-letter-says\">certified a negative interim budget\u003c/a> in December. That designation puts it among just seven of nearly 1,000 California school districts that see no clear path to meeting their financial obligations over the next three years. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco’s school district\u003c/a> is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">also on the list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017631 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two urban, considerably well-resourced districts are outliers among California’s districts with severe financial struggles. Their budgets are hundreds of millions larger. Mike Fine, the executive director of FCMAT, the financial company tasked with assisting California districts with financial management, said the reason they find themselves at the bottom is because of this skittish pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Districts all over the state are dealing with many of the same issues,” he said. “What distinguishes the districts on the negative list from others is the districts on the negative list aren’t really dealing with their problem in a timely way. Oakland, San Francisco have [spent] lots of years of ignoring, of not dealing with the problem at hand. Of having the same conversation year over year over year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A series of rolled-back plans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, rumors and fears about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002125/as-san-francisco-school-closures-loom-frustrated-teachers-say-hiring-has-hit-a-wall\">looming school closures\u003c/a> and budget cuts swirled through Oakland and San Francisco’s schoolyards and board meetings. Like many districts across the state, both have experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014795/fewer-kids-are-going-to-california-public-schools-is-there-a-right-way-to-close-campuses\">declining enrollment\u003c/a>, shrinking the per-pupil funding they receive. COVID-19 relief money, which buoyed districts throughout the pandemic, is drying up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, SFUSD released a plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008405/these-san-francisco-schools-could-close-list-isnt-final\">close three schools and merge another eight\u003c/a>. After massive blowback, it was shelved, and the superintendent who proposed it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">was ousted\u003c/a>. Weeks later, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013739/oakland-school-board-spurns-campus-closures-plans-merge-some-schools-instead\">announced its more modest merger plan\u003c/a> — combining 10 schools that already share five campuses. Davis said this replaced a proposition to close a larger number of campuses that didn’t curry enough board support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both districts have skirted around unpopular school closures for years. In 2006, SFUSD drastically scaled back a plan to close schools and abandoned another push for consolidations just before the pandemic. After opening more than 40 small schools in the early 2000s amid declining enrollment, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937906/oakland-school-board-halts-controversial-closure-plan-sparing-5-elementary-schools\">approved five closures\u003c/a> in 2022. The board reversed them before they took effect in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have emerged from [state] receivership at some point recently, and the fact that we’re still kind of eking along in receivership, why? Why haven’t we made the progress to get out of it?” Davis said. “It’s because we’ll be like, ‘OK, we’re going to close schools. No, we’re not going to close schools. OK, we’re going to make a plan. And then, what’s the plan?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008830\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, K-5 students, families, and community members leave Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy to march to Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2024, to protest against the potential closure of the school. The school is on the list of 11 San Francisco campuses that could close after this academic year as the district grapples with declining enrollment and a budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fine said that closures are happening across the state and that, while painful, most boards approve and implement the plans without much squabbling. He said what eases the transitions is the way they’re usually rolled out. Most include at least a year of lead time and provide next steps for staff and students all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents already know exactly where their kids are going, all questions are answered,” he told KQED. “They probably have already hosted some open houses at the receiving schools so that the kids and families can start to be comfortable and meet people and integrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland and San Francisco’s school boards have said the plans they’ve been presented disproportionately affect minority groups and don’t present clear pathways for students. Past board members argued that small school environments are good for student outcomes, and closing schools is painful for families who have built community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The majority of districts follow through\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Do we want a community school manager and a restorative justice coordinator at every school?” asked new OUSD board member Patrice Berry. “I do. I think that’s important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those aren’t positions that the state covers in its base funding, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hard part about this is you are used to a lot of resources at your schools,” Elliott Duchon, SFUSD’s state-appointed advisor, said to the board at last week’s meeting. “Social workers are wonderful, but they are not generally part of the school allocation. It’s not really something that’s covered in your base expenditures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12025440 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250204-WeCantWait-04-BL.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even paying for the positions California does require to “keep the lights on” — a principal, classroom teachers, clerks and janitors — at every SFUSD school will exceed the district’s unrestricted budget by more than $57 million next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the main arguments for consolidating school sites last fall was to free up funds to support auxiliary positions — such as counselors, social workers and specialists — that parents say are needs, not wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a smaller number of schools that keep better promises to kids,” Alameda County Superintendent Alysse Castro, who stepped up oversight in Oakland after the negative budget certification, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Oakland’s negative budget certification is its first in more than 20 years, it hasn’t been skating by financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s budget had been categorized as qualified — the equivalent of a maintenance warning light in your car — for seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We adapt and balance a budget year by year, make cuts mid-year to get through the year,” Grant-Dawson told KQED last month. “What we’ve not done is not created a comprehensive plan for it to be sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949458/oakland-teachers-strike-ends-as-union-reaches-agreement-with-school-district\">gave teachers a 10% raise\u003c/a> after a tense, weeklong strike. The raise was paid for, in part, with COVID-19 relief money, Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017856\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017856\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sahaana Garg, center, attends the Oakland Unified School District Board Meeting with her mom, Medha, right, and sister Naija, left, at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. The School Board took public comment on a proposed merger of ten different schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco covered overspending with pandemic funding as well, and its current three-year budget dips into reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many years, SFUSD has relied on one-time funds to help us carry ourselves from year to year,” Su told the board last week. “If we make these cuts [to expenditures] now, we will be in a much better place in two years’ time where this district will be fully solvent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be able to give our teachers and educators and staff a level of stability and predictability that they need, which then translates to a level of stability and predictability that our students need, but we have to do this really hard thing now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the two decades Oakland has been in receivership, its school boards have come up with fiscal plans meant to set the district on a sustainable path, but they haven’t held up. The current iteration, dubbed the Re-Envision, Redesign, and Restructure plan, includes centralizing contracts for supplies and programs and potential staffing cuts. It’s been preliminarily approved but faces a final test next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco said it’s currently engaged in conversations to build its fiscal sustainability plan, which started under former superintendent Matt Wayne’s leadership and was mostly redone from scratch by Su last fall. Su is set to give insight into the staffing portion of the plan on Feb. 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fine said whether the districts are able to get out of the red depends on if they commit to pushing budget cuts and possibly moving forward on site closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of [districts] follow through on their plans. The board adopts a plan and the board follows through on what’s required to implement the plan. The exceptions are the ones that we’re talking about,” he said. “Oakland is notorious for taking a plan and naming it five different times. All they do is change the name of the plan but never fully implement the plan. San Francisco has yet to come up with a plan, in my opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 18: This story was updated to clarify that Mike Hutchinson, who was not present for public comment during the Oakland school board meeting in December, left his seat at the dais only after no motion had been made for a vote on the school closures.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis and Hutchinson sparred all fall about how to address the district’s massive — and growing — budget crisis. Davis believed the district needed to close schools while Hutchinson, who originally supported voting on the merger plan, pushed back against more drastic consolidations, saying there hadn’t been sufficient community engagement to do so. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re sitting in the meeting, and I’m like, ‘OK, is there a motion for this plan? And nobody makes a motion,” Davis said. “It’s not my place. I’m not going to make the motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We basically didn’t vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017852\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Board listens to public comment during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Students, families, educators, and community members raised their concerns about a proposed merger of their schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The anticlimactic finale of the school closure proposal is nothing new. Oakland’s school board has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">repeatedly floated, then backed off\u003c/a>, plans to close schools and impose other “draconian” cuts in the name of budget balancing. Lisa Grant-Dawson, the district’s chief budget officer, described it as a pattern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been decades of not dealing with systemic issues and ultimately asking the superintendent … and the staff to make it work for the year with some commitment that ‘We’ll do something in the future,’” she told KQED. “That doesn’t happen, and we just reach the place where we’ve run out of space for us to be able to make amends as we have historically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland — under state receivership since 2003 but now less than two years from regaining control — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023461/ousd-on-track-run-out-of-cash-after-avoiding-hard-decisions-scathing-letter-says\">certified a negative interim budget\u003c/a> in December. That designation puts it among just seven of nearly 1,000 California school districts that see no clear path to meeting their financial obligations over the next three years. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco’s school district\u003c/a> is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">also on the list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Of having the same conversation year over year over year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A series of rolled-back plans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, rumors and fears about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002125/as-san-francisco-school-closures-loom-frustrated-teachers-say-hiring-has-hit-a-wall\">looming school closures\u003c/a> and budget cuts swirled through Oakland and San Francisco’s schoolyards and board meetings. Like many districts across the state, both have experienced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014795/fewer-kids-are-going-to-california-public-schools-is-there-a-right-way-to-close-campuses\">declining enrollment\u003c/a>, shrinking the per-pupil funding they receive. COVID-19 relief money, which buoyed districts throughout the pandemic, is drying up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, SFUSD released a plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008405/these-san-francisco-schools-could-close-list-isnt-final\">close three schools and merge another eight\u003c/a>. After massive blowback, it was shelved, and the superintendent who proposed it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">was ousted\u003c/a>. Weeks later, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013739/oakland-school-board-spurns-campus-closures-plans-merge-some-schools-instead\">announced its more modest merger plan\u003c/a> — combining 10 schools that already share five campuses. Davis said this replaced a proposition to close a larger number of campuses that didn’t curry enough board support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both districts have skirted around unpopular school closures for years. In 2006, SFUSD drastically scaled back a plan to close schools and abandoned another push for consolidations just before the pandemic. After opening more than 40 small schools in the early 2000s amid declining enrollment, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937906/oakland-school-board-halts-controversial-closure-plan-sparing-5-elementary-schools\">approved five closures\u003c/a> in 2022. The board reversed them before they took effect in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have emerged from [state] receivership at some point recently, and the fact that we’re still kind of eking along in receivership, why? Why haven’t we made the progress to get out of it?” Davis said. “It’s because we’ll be like, ‘OK, we’re going to close schools. No, we’re not going to close schools. OK, we’re going to make a plan. And then, what’s the plan?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008830\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008830\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-SFUSDCLOSURESMARCH-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers, K-5 students, families, and community members leave Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy to march to Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco on Oct. 9, 2024, to protest against the potential closure of the school. The school is on the list of 11 San Francisco campuses that could close after this academic year as the district grapples with declining enrollment and a budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fine said that closures are happening across the state and that, while painful, most boards approve and implement the plans without much squabbling. He said what eases the transitions is the way they’re usually rolled out. Most include at least a year of lead time and provide next steps for staff and students all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents already know exactly where their kids are going, all questions are answered,” he told KQED. “They probably have already hosted some open houses at the receiving schools so that the kids and families can start to be comfortable and meet people and integrate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland and San Francisco’s school boards have said the plans they’ve been presented disproportionately affect minority groups and don’t present clear pathways for students. Past board members argued that small school environments are good for student outcomes, and closing schools is painful for families who have built community.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The majority of districts follow through\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Do we want a community school manager and a restorative justice coordinator at every school?” asked new OUSD board member Patrice Berry. “I do. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even paying for the positions California does require to “keep the lights on” — a principal, classroom teachers, clerks and janitors — at every SFUSD school will exceed the district’s unrestricted budget by more than $57 million next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the main arguments for consolidating school sites last fall was to free up funds to support auxiliary positions — such as counselors, social workers and specialists — that parents say are needs, not wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a smaller number of schools that keep better promises to kids,” Alameda County Superintendent Alysse Castro, who stepped up oversight in Oakland after the negative budget certification, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Oakland’s negative budget certification is its first in more than 20 years, it hasn’t been skating by financially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s budget had been categorized as qualified — the equivalent of a maintenance warning light in your car — for seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We adapt and balance a budget year by year, make cuts mid-year to get through the year,” Grant-Dawson told KQED last month. “What we’ve not done is not created a comprehensive plan for it to be sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949458/oakland-teachers-strike-ends-as-union-reaches-agreement-with-school-district\">gave teachers a 10% raise\u003c/a> after a tense, weeklong strike. The raise was paid for, in part, with COVID-19 relief money, Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017856\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017856\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-007-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sahaana Garg, center, attends the Oakland Unified School District Board Meeting with her mom, Medha, right, and sister Naija, left, at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. The School Board took public comment on a proposed merger of ten different schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco covered overspending with pandemic funding as well, and its current three-year budget dips into reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many years, SFUSD has relied on one-time funds to help us carry ourselves from year to year,” Su told the board last week. “If we make these cuts [to expenditures] now, we will be in a much better place in two years’ time where this district will be fully solvent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be able to give our teachers and educators and staff a level of stability and predictability that they need, which then translates to a level of stability and predictability that our students need, but we have to do this really hard thing now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the two decades Oakland has been in receivership, its school boards have come up with fiscal plans meant to set the district on a sustainable path, but they haven’t held up. The current iteration, dubbed the Re-Envision, Redesign, and Restructure plan, includes centralizing contracts for supplies and programs and potential staffing cuts. It’s been preliminarily approved but faces a final test next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco said it’s currently engaged in conversations to build its fiscal sustainability plan, which started under former superintendent Matt Wayne’s leadership and was mostly redone from scratch by Su last fall. Su is set to give insight into the staffing portion of the plan on Feb. 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fine said whether the districts are able to get out of the red depends on if they commit to pushing budget cuts and possibly moving forward on site closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of [districts] follow through on their plans. The board adopts a plan and the board follows through on what’s required to implement the plan. The exceptions are the ones that we’re talking about,” he said. “Oakland is notorious for taking a plan and naming it five different times. All they do is change the name of the plan but never fully implement the plan. San Francisco has yet to come up with a plan, in my opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 18: This story was updated to clarify that Mike Hutchinson, who was not present for public comment during the Oakland school board meeting in December, left his seat at the dais only after no motion had been made for a vote on the school closures.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If the flu has hit your household this winter — or your workplace or your friend group — you’re not alone. The Bay Area is in the middle of a particularly pronounced wave of influenza infections, mirroring a wave across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As anyone who’s had the flu can attest, the virus is no joke. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that this season alone, nationwide, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance\">at least 29 million illnesses, 370,000 hospitalizations, and 16,000 deaths\u003c/a> from flu so far. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said it has received reports of 11 children in California who have died due to flu-related complications this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#whereflushot\">Where to find a flu shot in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC also warns that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance\">flu is also proving deadlier in the U.S. than COVID-19 this season\u003c/a>. The week ending Jan. 25 was the first time that the percentage of deaths for influenza was higher than those for COVID-19 — and flu deaths have continued to increase throughout this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is one piece of good news: If you didn’t get your shot in the last months of 2024, you can still get vaccinated now and increase your protection against the current wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as flu is circulating in our communities, it’s not too late to get your flu vaccine,” said Dr. Erica Pan, CDPH Director and State Public Health Officer. “As a parent and a pediatrician, I ensure my family gets the flu vaccine every year because I am confident the flu vaccine is safe and can help prevent serious illness, like pneumonia and hospitalization.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where are we right now in flu season?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Respiratory-Viruses/Respiratory-Virus-Report/RespiratoryVirusReportWeek6.pdf\">The current statewide test positivity rate for the flu\u003c/a> — that is, the percentage of tests taken that return a positive result — is 26.7%, placing it in CDPH’s “high” category. By contrast, the latest test positivity rate for COVID-19 is 2.6%, which is in the agency’s “low” category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flu represents 8% of hospital visits around the country right now, said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Stanford. That’s “higher than we’ve actually seen since this particular strain of flu, the H1N1 flu, showed up as a pandemic in 2009,” she said. “So it’s actually pretty historic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flu season tends to run from October to March, Maldonado said. While she and her colleagues actually thought this season had reached its peak “a couple of weeks ago,” she said, “the numbers just haven’t gone down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flu did a little trick on us because it looked like it was peaking” a couple of weeks ago, Maldonado said. “It came down a little bit — and then it popped up even higher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to Bay Area hospital admissions, “We’re definitely getting crunched,” she said, “because the numbers are higher, more people are getting flu, and more people are being hospitalized or coming into the emergency department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I still get a flu shot now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts usually recommend that people seek out their flu shot in the fall, ahead of the coming winter wave of infections, and the CDC recommends that everyone 6 months and older get an annual flu vaccine “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevention/index.html\">ideally by the end of October\u003c/a>.” However, the CDC also said that people “should continue to get vaccinated as long as flu viruses pose a threat to their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that if you forgot to get your shot back in the last months of 2024 — and you haven’t been hit by a flu infection yourself this winter — it’s not too late to get the vaccine now and increase your protection against the current wave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside label=’Related Coverage' tag='health']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can and are interested, and you think you’re at risk, people should still get vaccinated,” Maldonado said. “There’s still time because it takes about two weeks or so for the antibodies to really kick in hard. And I do think that the risk is out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you got your flu shot in the fall, after all? “We don’t recommend a second dose at this time,” Maldonado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flu vaccine reduces your risks of severe illness and hospitalization. The virus can be especially dangerous for kids, and the CDC said that a 2022 study showed that flu vaccination reduced children’s risk of severe, life-threatening influenza by 75%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this, vaccination rates among all Americans aged 6 months and older during the 2022–23 flu season was 49.3% — a slight drop from the previous year. And this year, CDPH said their data shows “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Respiratory-Viruses/Respiratory-Virus-Report/RespiratoryVirusReportWeek6.pdf\">only a small percentage of eligible Californians have received the appropriate respiratory virus vaccines\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whereflushot\">\u003c/a>Where can I still find a flu shot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you have health insurance, a flu shot is covered and available without extra cost as a preventive service from your usual health care provider. 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"content": "\u003cp>Growing up in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1950s and ’60s, Kenny Lee spent a lot of time at Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center, formerly known as Chinese Recreation Center. Like many kids in the neighborhood, he loved to play basketball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to play ball in the 70-pound division,” said Lee, a retired San Francisco Unified School District principal. “This place has always been very special to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, as he got older, Lee noticed his beloved recreation center had lost appeal among the next generation of Chinatown youth. In 1994, he decided to take action and went on to create a “basketball jamboree,” a non-competitive tournament held during Lunar New Year celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted to create this little jamboree so that kids can come back into the community to play a fun event,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026884\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_02243-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenny Lee (second from left) listens as Terrena Miller, talks about the tournament at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco, on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. This non-competitive ‘tournament’ featured 6 local boys and girls middle school basketball teams. First organized by Francisco Middle School principal Kenny Lee, since retired, in 1995. Lee is a 3rd-generation San Franciscan. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now officially dubbed the Chinese New Year Basketball Jamboree, it’s become a beloved part of the festivities this time of year for many families. And the event, held just a week before this year’s NBA All-Star Game at Chase Center, made it feel doubly special for the middle school-age players and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the free, community-run event, three boys and three girls teams competed for fun — with no trophies or other prizes. Still, the stands — packed with parents and grandparents — roared in cheers as the kids dribbled up and down the hardwood with all the energy of a real, high-stakes game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna Jew, a parent of a seventh grader at Presidio Middle School, said the Jamboree is like a reunion. The kids she used to play against when she went to Wallenberg High School and Roosevelt Middle School are now the parents cheering from the stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We’re all in this big family of basketball,” Jew said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That extends to the referees and scorekeepers on the court, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all used to play here when they were kids, and they’re coming back to give back and to continue the tradition,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Referees Stephan Li (center) and Ryan Seto (right) talk with Jordan Chan, standing, at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vince Wong, who also grew up playing at the recreation center and has coached teams at the Jamboree in the past, said this tournament also aims to get kids excited about the Chinese New Year Festival and Parade from an early age. (The event is sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which puts on the annual festival and parade.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just ‘I’m marching with my school,’ but more so, they get to play in this, and then hopefully, as they grow up, they can volunteer for the street fairs and carry banners in the parade,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of the upcoming NBA All-Star Game, players were treated to new kicks. Representatives with Nike gave away free pairs of their new Kobe Bryant “Year of the Mamba” shoes. Many of the kids were so excited that they played in them without breaking them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Purple Cobraz gather around their coaches, Todd Huot and Alfred Lee, at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Halle Chau, a seventh grader at Roosevelt Middle School, said she plans to watch the NBA All-Star Game this weekend and mark the Chinese New Year with her family, visiting temples and honoring her ancestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brings us all together, to celebrate and play basketball,” said Chau, who played in the Jamboree for the second year, in what feels like a new tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The All-Star Game is the first of three major sporting events expected to take place in the Bay Area over the next 18 months. In 2026, Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara — home of the San Francisco 49ers — is set to host Super Bowl LX and some FIFA World Cup matches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Purple Cobraz’s Milan Thompson is guarded by Sydnie Chow, of the West Portal Lutheran Wild Cats, at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree held at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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On Thursday, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie told reporters that public transportation will be free all weekend in the city and the police department will be fully staffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also said the city has opened its emergency operations center “to strengthen our coordinated operations across departments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our priority is clear: We make sure everyone, every single person, feels safe and welcomed,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Bill Scott reminded the public that there will be road closures associated with both events and to expect longer travel times than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Emslie and Brian Watt contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The kids she used to play against when she went to Wallenberg High School and Roosevelt Middle School are now the parents cheering from the stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We’re all in this big family of basketball,” Jew said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That extends to the referees and scorekeepers on the court, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They all used to play here when they were kids, and they’re coming back to give back and to continue the tradition,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00101-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Referees Stephan Li (center) and Ryan Seto (right) talk with Jordan Chan, standing, at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vince Wong, who also grew up playing at the recreation center and has coached teams at the Jamboree in the past, said this tournament also aims to get kids excited about the Chinese New Year Festival and Parade from an early age. (The event is sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which puts on the annual festival and parade.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just ‘I’m marching with my school,’ but more so, they get to play in this, and then hopefully, as they grow up, they can volunteer for the street fairs and carry banners in the parade,” Wong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of the upcoming NBA All-Star Game, players were treated to new kicks. Representatives with Nike gave away free pairs of their new Kobe Bryant “Year of the Mamba” shoes. Many of the kids were so excited that they played in them without breaking them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_00131-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Purple Cobraz gather around their coaches, Todd Huot and Alfred Lee, at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Halle Chau, a seventh grader at Roosevelt Middle School, said she plans to watch the NBA All-Star Game this weekend and mark the Chinese New Year with her family, visiting temples and honoring her ancestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brings us all together, to celebrate and play basketball,” said Chau, who played in the Jamboree for the second year, in what feels like a new tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The All-Star Game is the first of three major sporting events expected to take place in the Bay Area over the next 18 months. In 2026, Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara — home of the San Francisco 49ers — is set to host Super Bowl LX and some FIFA World Cup matches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_LUNAR-BBALL_DMB_01856-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Purple Cobraz’s Milan Thompson is guarded by Sydnie Chow, of the West Portal Lutheran Wild Cats, at the 30th annual Lunar New Year Basketball Jamboree held at the Betty Ann Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very exciting time,” said Zaileen Janmohamed, the CEO of the Bay Area Host Committee, a nonprofit corporation that bid for the region to host the events. “It kind of puts a stamp on what these sporting organizations thought and felt about the Bay, that it could help them grow the game in a way that maybe other cities couldn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Presidents Day weekend, San Francisco braces for an influx of hundreds of thousands of visitors for both the All-Star Game and the Chinese New Year Parade. On Thursday, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie told reporters that public transportation will be free all weekend in the city and the police department will be fully staffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also said the city has opened its emergency operations center “to strengthen our coordinated operations across departments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our priority is clear: We make sure everyone, every single person, feels safe and welcomed,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Bill Scott reminded the public that there will be road closures associated with both events and to expect longer travel times than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Emslie and Brian Watt contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting and other flu-like symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s desperate for information, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a critical source of urgent analyses of the flu and other public health threats, has gone quiet in the weeks since President Donald Trump took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without more information, we are blind,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flu has been brutal this season. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/2025-week-05.html\">CDC estimates\u003c/a> at least 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 deaths from the flu since the start of October. At the same time, the bird flu outbreak continues to infect cattle and farmworkers. But CDC analyses that would inform people about these situations are delayed, and the CDC has cut off communication with doctors, researchers, and the World Health Organization, say doctors and public health experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CDC right now is not reporting influenza data through the WHO global platforms, FluNet [and] FluID, that they’ve been providing information [on] for many, many years,” Maria Van Kerkhove, interim director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness at the WHO, said at a Feb. 12 \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/live/RGflJNNUR4E?\">press briefing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are communicating with them,” she added, “but we haven’t heard anything back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump withdraws the US from WHO\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On his first day in office, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw from the WHO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A critical analysis of the seasonal flu selected for distribution through the CDC’s Health Alert Network has stalled, according to people close to the CDC. They asked not to be identified because of fears of retaliation. The network, abbreviated as HAN, is the CDC’s main method of sharing urgent public health information with health officials, doctors, and, sometimes, the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chart from that analysis, reviewed by KFF Health News, suggests that flu may be at a record high. About 7.7% of patients who visited clinics and hospitals without being admitted had flu-like symptoms in early February, a ratio higher than in four other flu seasons depicted in the graph. That includes 2003-04, when an atypical strain of flu fueled a particularly treacherous season that killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa051721\">at least 153 children\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a complete analysis, however, it’s unclear whether this tidal wave of sickness foreshadows a spike in hospitalizations and deaths that hospitals, pharmacies, and schools must prepare for. Specifically, other data could relay how many of the flu-like illnesses are caused by flu viruses — or which flu strain is infecting people. A deeper report might also reveal whether the flu is more severe or contagious than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to know if we are dealing with a more virulent strain or a coinfection with another virus that is making my patients sicker, and what to look for so that I know if my patients are in danger,” Stokes said. “Delays in data create dangerous situations on the front line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the CDC’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/2025-week-05.html\">flu dashboard\u003c/a> shows a surge of influenza, it doesn’t include all data needed to interpret the situation. Nor does it offer the tailored advice found in HAN alerts that tells health care workers how to protect patients and the public. In 2023, for example, a report urged clinics to test patients with respiratory symptoms rather than assume cases are the flu, since other viruses were causing similar issues that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is incredibly disturbing,” said Rachel Hardeman, a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the CDC. On Feb. 10, Hardeman and other committee members wrote to acting CDC Director Susan Monarez asking the agency to explain missing data, delayed studies, and potentially severe staff cuts. “The CDC is vital to our nation’s security,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Not unexpected’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several studies have also been \u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-trump-mmwr-bird-flu-studies-blocked-meddling/\">delayed or remain missing\u003c/a> from the CDC’s preeminent scientific publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Anne Schuchat, a former principal deputy director at the CDC, said she would be concerned if there was political oversight of scientific material: “Suppressing information is potentially confusing, possibly dangerous, and it can backfire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDC spokesperson Melissa Dibble declined to comment on delayed or missing analyses. “It is not unexpected to see flu activity elevated and increasing at this time of the year,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A draft of one unpublished study, reviewed by KFF Health News, that has been withheld from the MMWR for three weeks describes how a milk hauler and a dairy worker in Michigan may have spread bird flu to their pet cats. The indoor cats became severely sick and died. Although the workers weren’t tested, the study says that one of them had irritated eyes before the cat fell ill — a common bird flu symptom. That person told researchers that the pet “would roll in their work clothes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After one cat became sick, the investigation reports, an adolescent in the household developed a cough. But the report says this young person tested negative for the flu, and positive for a cold-causing virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label=’Related Coverage' tag='bird-flu']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corresponding CDC documents summarizing the cat study and another as-yet unpublished bird flu analysis said the reports were scheduled to be published Jan. 23. These were reviewed by KFF Health News. The briefing on cats advises dairy farmworkers to “remove clothing and footwear, and rinse off any animal biproduct residue before entering the household to protect others in the household, including potentially indoor-only cats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second summary refers to “the most comprehensive” analysis of bird flu virus detected in wastewater in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University, said delays of bird flu reports are upsetting because they’re needed to inform the public about a worsening situation with many unknown elements. Citing “insufficient data” and “high uncertainty,” the United Kingdom raised \u003ca href=\"https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66a0ff6dfc8e12ac3edb03e4/AH5N1-risk-assessment-july-2024.pdf\">its assessment of the risk\u003c/a> posed by the U.S. outbreak on dairies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Missing and delayed data causes uncertainty,” Nuzzo said. “It also potentially makes us react in ways that are counterproductive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another missing study\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another bird flu study slated for January publication showed up in the MMWR on Feb. 13, \u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-trump-mmwr-bird-flu-studies-blocked-meddling/\">three weeks after it was expected\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7404a2.htm?s_cid=mm7404a2_w\">It revealed\u003c/a> that three cattle veterinarians had been unknowingly infected last year, based on the discovery of antibodies against the bird flu virus in their blood. One of the veterinarians worked in Georgia and South Carolina, states that haven’t reported outbreaks on dairy farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study provides further evidence that the United States is not adequately detecting cases in cows and people. Nuzzo said it also highlights how data can supply reassuring news. Only three of 150 cattle veterinarians had signs of prior infections, suggesting that the virus doesn’t easily spread from the animals into people. More than 40 dairy workers have been infected, but they generally have had more sustained contact with sick cattle and their virus-laden milk than veterinarians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, recently released reports have been about wildfires in California and Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Interesting but not urgent,” Nuzzo said, considering the acute fire emergencies have ended. The bird flu outbreak, she said, is an ongoing “urgent health threat for which we need up-to-the-minute information to know how to protect people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American public is at greater risk when we don’t have information on a timely basis,” Schuchat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a federal judge ordered the CDC and other health agencies to “restore” datasets and websites that the organization Doctors for America had identified in a lawsuit as having been altered. Further, the judge ordered the agencies to “identify any other resources that DFA members rely on to provide medical care” and restore them by Feb. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their letter, CDC advisory committee members requested an investigation into missing data and delayed reports. Hardeman, an adviser who is a health policy expert at the University of Minnesota, said the group didn’t know why data and scientific findings were being withheld or removed. Still, she added, “I hold accountable the acting director of the CDC, the head of HHS, and the White House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hardeman said the Trump administration has the power to disband the advisory committee. She said the group expects that to happen but proceeded with its demands regardless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to safeguard the rigor of the work at the CDC because we care deeply about public health,” she said. “We aren’t here to be silent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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They asked not to be identified because of fears of retaliation. The network, abbreviated as HAN, is the CDC’s main method of sharing urgent public health information with health officials, doctors, and, sometimes, the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chart from that analysis, reviewed by KFF Health News, suggests that flu may be at a record high. About 7.7% of patients who visited clinics and hospitals without being admitted had flu-like symptoms in early February, a ratio higher than in four other flu seasons depicted in the graph. That includes 2003-04, when an atypical strain of flu fueled a particularly treacherous season that killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa051721\">at least 153 children\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a complete analysis, however, it’s unclear whether this tidal wave of sickness foreshadows a spike in hospitalizations and deaths that hospitals, pharmacies, and schools must prepare for. Specifically, other data could relay how many of the flu-like illnesses are caused by flu viruses — or which flu strain is infecting people. A deeper report might also reveal whether the flu is more severe or contagious than usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to know if we are dealing with a more virulent strain or a coinfection with another virus that is making my patients sicker, and what to look for so that I know if my patients are in danger,” Stokes said. “Delays in data create dangerous situations on the front line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the CDC’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/2025-week-05.html\">flu dashboard\u003c/a> shows a surge of influenza, it doesn’t include all data needed to interpret the situation. Nor does it offer the tailored advice found in HAN alerts that tells health care workers how to protect patients and the public. In 2023, for example, a report urged clinics to test patients with respiratory symptoms rather than assume cases are the flu, since other viruses were causing similar issues that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is incredibly disturbing,” said Rachel Hardeman, a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the CDC. On Feb. 10, Hardeman and other committee members wrote to acting CDC Director Susan Monarez asking the agency to explain missing data, delayed studies, and potentially severe staff cuts. “The CDC is vital to our nation’s security,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Not unexpected’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several studies have also been \u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-trump-mmwr-bird-flu-studies-blocked-meddling/\">delayed or remain missing\u003c/a> from the CDC’s preeminent scientific publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 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This is a matter of basic humanity, and I won’t stand for this wanton cruelty and disregard for human rights, particularly in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of the facility’s closure, hundreds of women were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984115/women-forced-to-relocate-from-fci-dublin-prison-report-traumatizing-journey-seek-compassionate-release\">quickly transferred to other federal prisons\u003c/a> throughout the country during the facility’s closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the past several years at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) has taken unprecedented steps and provided a tremendous amount of resources to address culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure — and most critical — employee misconduct,” then-BOP Director Colette S. 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In California, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">federal judge\u003c/a> this week temporarily blocked the administration’s plan to slash research funding for institutions and universities after more than 20 attorneys general filed suit against top health agencies. Meanwhile, inspectors general from eight federal agencies are taking Trump to court over his abrupt dismissal of 17 watchdogs last month without notifying Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/trump-with-executive-order-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People need to realize that much of what the president is doing could be stopped in a nanosecond if Congress stepped up,” Gerston said. “Congress — by virtue of doing nothing — is not only acceding to the president’s actions but emboldening him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judicial branch can strike down a president’s actions as unconstitutional, but challenges must first work their way through the courts, a process that varies in length and outcome, Gerston said. With legal battles often uncertain, he emphasized that Congress must step up and fulfill its role in the system of checks and balances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent that the executive branch and Trump’s power grows, it’s certainly going to lead to a different set of roles for the national government,” Gerston said. “I firmly expect that the elections in 2026 will give us a major insight into whether people find what’s done [is] acceptable or not … That will tell us much more about where our democracy is going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vice President JD Vance said in a post on social media platform X last week that judges are not permitted to challenge a president’s executive powers, adding fuel to the debate over how far the authority of the president goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. 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This has raised critical questions about whether the executive branch holds the authority to dictate the allocation of federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Lateefah Simon, D-CA, told KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> on Thursday that the idea of any government official appointing a “best friend” to dismantle departments and agencies without prior experience is unacceptable. The executive branch, she said, does not have control over the purse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump has no qualms about violating the Constitution and the limits of his authority and has done so repeatedly since coming into office, Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240108-LurieInaugurationDay-34_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The president has acted outside his executive authority, and he’s done it multiple times,” Bonta told KQED. “The Constitution sets forth what authority the president has. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university has been and remains ready to settle these contracts: we have offered UPTE what it has asked for,” Heather Hansen, a spokesperson with the UC Office of the President, said in a statement. “In the event of a strike, the University is prepared to make every effort to ensure the critical operations of the University system, which includes patient care, continue at a level of excellence UC patients, students, faculty and staff expect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPTE and UC have accused each other of engaging in bad-faith bargaining on key issues. The union charged the university with unfair labor practices before the California Public Employment Relations Board, including for allegedly failing to provide job vacancy and financial data to assess the extent of staffing issues, increasing employee health care costs without negotiating over the changes and \u003ca href=\"https://upte.org/news/upte-files-major-charge-against-ucs-crackdown-on-free-speech\">limiting worker and union speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen told KQED last October that the university was working to produce information on vacancy rates and other data. But Russell said the union has yet to receive that information. In a Friday email, Hansen told KQED UC has provided turnover rate data, as well as data that show headcount is going up as separations decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor standoff comes as a federal judge in Boston temporarily blocked this week the National Institutes of Health from reducing funding that supports biomedical and public health research at universities, after California and 21 other states sued. The NIH is the largest funder of UC research, and the university said it could lose hundreds of millions of dollars per year, leading to layoffs and disruptions to life-saving research. A hearing in the case is set for Feb. 21.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union was relieved the proposed NIH funding cuts were paused, Russell said, though he noted that reductions would represent a relatively small fraction of the \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4862#:~:text=UC%20Budget%20Currently%20Is%20%2451.4,Fund%20and%20student%20tuition%20revenue.\">$51.4 billion budget\u003c/a> for UC in 2023–24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Logan, who chairs the labor and employment studies department at San Francisco State University, said UC is bracing for challenges with the Trump administration over various issues that could impact federal funding, including policies affecting transgender, LGBTQ and undocumented students, as well as diversity, equity and inclusion measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial uncertainty under the Trump administration could make UC administrators reluctant to give out generous multi-year labor deals. However, the timing of a large, disruptive walkout could also be disastrous, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A strike which would cause major disruptions — would be the absolute last thing that university administrators would want at this time when it is trying to protect its funding and talk about the value of medical research at places like UCSF and UC San Diego,” Logan said. “The university, while being very concerned about the potential financial implications of what the Trump administration is trying to do, should also be concerned about its public image.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In California, a new year brings a raft of new laws. And one of the most talked-about new laws in the state is Assembly Bill 413, which enforces something called “daylighting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nutshell, daylighting will now make it illegal to park a car within 20 feet of a pedestrian crosswalk. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB413\">AB 413 has already been in effect\u003c/a> for the last year, but the big difference for 2025 is that cities around the Bay Area and California will now start enforcing these new parking orders — complete with hefty fines for drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, it turns out there’s actually quite a bit of difference in how that will look, depending on what city you live — or work — in. And the latest update: The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/making-enforcement-fair-our-new-plan-state-daylighting-law\">announced it’s walking back the city’s original plan\u003c/a> to enforce daylighting laws starting March 1 with tickets even for drivers who park in unmarked daylighted spots. (Jump to \u003ca href=\"#is-my-city-ticketing-for-daylighting\">more information about daylighting enforcement in San Francisco.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for everything you need to know about daylighting, from how to make sure you avoid a pricey parking ticket to hopes for pedestrian safety around the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#got-ticket-no-red-curb\">Why could I be ticketed even if the curb isn’t painted red?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#how-to-avoid-parking-ticket-daylighting\">How can I avoid getting a citation for daylighting in 2025?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#is-my-city-ticketing-for-daylighting\">Is my city enforcing daylighting with tickets?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How does daylighting work if I’m trying to park my car?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Daylighting is the practice of preventing cars from parking near crosswalks in order to make people using crosswalks more visible to drivers — thereby reducing the chance a person gets hit by a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB413\">California’s daylighting law\u003c/a> makes it illegal to “stop, stand or park” a vehicle within 20 feet of any unmarked or marked crosswalk or within 15 feet of any crosswalk where \u003ca href=\"https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/street-design-elements/curb-extensions/\">a curb extension\u003c/a> is present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019728\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1970px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A diagram with cars and a grey road.\" width=\"1970\" height=\"1570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19 PM.png 1970w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19 PM-800x638.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19 PM-1020x813.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19 PM-160x128.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19 PM-1536x1224.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19 PM-1920x1530.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1970px) 100vw, 1970px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These diagrams show how the clearance of 20 feet can make a big difference in street safety at painted and unpainted crosswalks. \u003ccite>(SFMTA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crucially, the daylighting law only prohibits parking next to a crosswalk on the “approach side” of an intersection. Confused? Imagine you’re driving a car down a regular two-way street. Daylighting would prohibit you from parking in the spot immediately before the crosswalk as you approach the intersection. But the law would not prevent you from parking in a spot directly after that crosswalk as you exit the intersection — because a car parked in such a spot doesn’t impair the ability of people crossing the street there to see a car coming towards them, and vice versa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re still having trouble picturing the kinds of parking spots that daylighting applies to, imagine yourself as a pedestrian trying to cross a super-busy street, taking your first nervous steps into a crosswalk that doesn’t have a traffic light. Is there a car parked directly on your left that you’re having to peek around to see if any drivers are racing up the street in your direction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If so, that’s the exact parking spot that daylighting now makes illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"got-ticket-no-red-curb\">\u003c/a>So all of these now-illegal parking spots will be removed or clearly marked, right?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No — and this is one of the more contentious aspects of California’s daylighting law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some cities have begun to remove parking spots, pull out meters, paint curbs red or otherwise fill daylighted spots, they don’t actually have to do so under the law. Which means it’s up to California drivers to recognize an illegal daylighted spot and stay out of it, even if the spot looks perfectly available, with no red curb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So a driver can absolutely still get a warning or a citation for parking in a daylighted spot that has no such markings — and that’s what San Francisco had planned to do starting March 1 until “community members and district supervisors shared their concerns about fairness in enforcement,” according to SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/making-enforcement-fair-our-new-plan-state-daylighting-law\">the agency has announced it’s scrapping these plans \u003c/a>and will now only ticket drivers parked in daylighted spots that are painted with red curbs. SFMTA now also plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/pedestrian-toolkit/daylighting\">“fast-track” the painting of red curbs in daylighted spots around the city\u003c/a>, with school zones receiving priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many have raised concerns about our plans for the state’s daylighting law,” said Julie Kirschbaum, SFMTA’s acting director of transportation. “Daylighting is a crucial tool for street safety, but I want to ensure that we implement it fairly when we roll it out citywide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s change of plans notwithstanding, in principle, daylighting “functions a lot like the parking restrictions around a fire hydrant,” said Liza Lutzker, a research data analyst at UC Berkeley’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t have to be red curbed, but everyone knows you’re not supposed to park within 15 feet of it,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019140\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A red curb designates a no-parking area at the intersection of Sutter and Leavenworth streets in San Francisco on Dec. 18, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"how-to-avoid-parking-ticket-daylighting\">\u003c/a>So, how can I avoid getting a ticket for daylighting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jump to: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#is-my-city-ticketing-for-daylighting\">How is my city enforcing daylighting with tickets?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the things to remember to lower your chances of being cited for parking in a daylighted spot:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get to know what 20 feet looks like…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re imagining Parking Control Officers patrolling the streets with ways to measure the curbs, it doesn’t sound like that’ll be the reality of daylighting enforcement — at least not in San Francisco. “Parking enforcement will not be out with measuring tape,” Michael Roccaforte, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), told KQED in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that means you’ll need a good handle on what 20 feet looks like — or 15 feet, in the case of daylighted spots next to a crosswalk with a curb extension. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/daylighting\">SFMTA characterizes 20 feet as “about one car length or the length of about one metered space,”\u003c/a> — so when you’re picturing that car in your mind, make it a larger SUV rather than a Mini Cooper to be on the safe side. (For scale, a Subaru Outback is almost 16 feet long.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daylighting applies on both sides of a one-way street\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space directly after a crosswalk isn’t a daylighted spot, but the space directly before it — as the driver approaches it — is. So, on a one-way street, it will be illegal to park in a spot immediately before a crosswalk on both sides of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A warning isn’t a citation — but don’t assume you can get multiple warnings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, SFTMA’s Roccaforte said the city had been giving out roughly 60 warnings per day to people who park in daylighted spots. “In theory, you could pick up multiple warnings,” Roccaforte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, other jurisdictions may indeed be limiting the amount of warnings a vehicle can get for daylighting. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssf.net/News/AB-413-Daylighting-Law\">South San Francisco is one of them\u003c/a>, working on a two-strikes-and-you’re-out approach and warning drivers that “people who park in these areas will get one warning before a citation is issued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daylighting applies to unmarked crosswalks, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if a crosswalk isn’t marked on the pavement, you still have to avoid parking in daylighted spots. So assume every intersection is a crosswalk, even if there are no road markings, Roccaforte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crosswalks aren’t just in intersections\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daylighting enforcement will also apply to the spot before a mid-street crosswalk, so be vigilant for them. “That said, most mid-block crosswalks are already red-curbed, so drivers won’t notice a change,” Roccaforte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019754\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A few people stand on one street at a person waits to cross.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait to cross 18th Street at Dolores Street in San Francisco on Dec. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Why did California introduce daylighting?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California Assemblymember Alex Lee, who authored the law, said it’s all about making streets safer and reducing collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who represents a district in the South Bay, said he was motivated to work with advocates on the bill by what he saw as a rise in reckless driving after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really to make sure that when someone is crossing the street or trying to make a turn that there is the maximum amount of visibility,” Lee said. “Because when there is that blind spot there, it can cause a lot of harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#is-my-city-ticketing-for-daylighting\">Is my city enforcing daylighting with tickets?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Lee cites some grim statistics, such as California’s pedestrian fatality rate being almost 25% higher than the national average and the fact that no state has more pedestrian deaths on its roadways than California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing research from the Federal Highway Administration, a state assembly analysis highlighted that of the 38,824 traffic fatalities in the United States in 2020, 10,626 of them occurred at an intersection — and that 1,674 of those fatalities were pedestrians, representing nearly 25% of all pedestrian fatalities. “Nearly half of all traffic injuries occur at intersections,” the authors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is also a latecomer compared to other states when it comes to daylighting. More than 40 other states have some kind of daylighting law on the books in an attempt to reduce pedestrian fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019138\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bulb-outs, or curb extensions, can be seen at the intersection of Cesar Chavez and Folsom streets in San Francisco on Dec. 18, 2024. A bulb-out extends the sidewalk into a parking lane to provide more space for pedestrians and visibility at an intersection. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What do we know about daylighting’s effect on road safety?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Restricting parking near intersections can reduce pedestrian crashes by 30%, \u003ca href=\"https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/tools_solve/fhwasa18041/fhwasa18041.pdf\">according to the Federal Highway Administration (PDF)\u003c/a>. “This is a proven way to increase pedestrian safety,” said UC Berkeley’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center’s Liza Lutzker. “It’s been really effective everywhere it has been implemented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daylighting has already been implemented in parts of cities in the Bay Area. In 2015, SFMTA led a major daylighting effort in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood by removing 180 parking spaces at 80 intersections. In 2018, the agency reported that there were 14% fewer reported collisions at those daylighted intersections, except for two intersections, which experienced an increase in collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A daylighting effort in the city of Hoboken, New Jersey, is largely credited with the fact that the city \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hoboken-zero-traffic-deaths-daylighting-pedestrian-safety-007dec67706c1c09129da1436a3d9762\">hasn’t had a traffic death in seven years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for daylighting are cheering on this law while pointing out ways that local governments could further increase its effectiveness. Luke Bornheimer, the executive director of Streets Forward, said the city of San Francisco should physically prevent people from parking in daylighted spaces by installing infrastructure like planters, bike corrals, large granite blocks or just plastic “soft-hit” posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to making it intuitive and physically impossible to stop/park a car there, most of these will also enhance intersections and streets for people in the neighborhood,” Bornheimer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is in favor of daylighting, however. The California Contract Cities Association wrote an argument in opposition to the law before it was passed, saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our organization remains concerned about the added burden placed upon cities to mark their parking distance requirements should they decide to diverge from the statewide standard in their jurisdictions. If cities decide to decrease the amount of daylighting, the legislation requires cities to erect new signage and paint curbs, which will come at a cost and pull resources away from other community priorities.” The Association also wrote an \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB413\">assembly floor analysis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"is-my-city-ticketing-for-daylighting\">\u003c/a>How do I know if my city is enforcing daylighting — and why \u003cem>wouldn’t\u003c/em> they enforce it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a rule of thumb, you should expect the possibility of being issued a citation if you park in a daylighted zone — no matter where you are in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, different municipalities are taking different approaches to how they are enforcing the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, cities like Berkeley and San Francisco have announced the amount they intend to fine drivers for parking in daylighted zones, indicating that they do, in fact, intend to enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities, like San José, say that this new legislation is going to be “challenging to implement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The legislation did not provide any funding for analysis, markings, signage, education or enforcement,” Colin Heyne, public information manager for the city of San José, told KQED in December. “Without any funding tied to the legislation, we cannot conduct a mass outreach and education campaign or enforce the daylighting rules citywide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of this, Heyne said San José would be implementing AB 413 in phases, with a focus on where daylighting will have the most benefit, like on the city’s high-injury network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heyne said San José has already removed 29 metered spaces in the greater downtown area due to AB 413 and has painted the curbs red in those places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the locations where we have removed previously available parking spots and added a red curb, we are enforcing for red curb violation,” Heyne said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he said the city has not yet set a fine amount for the specific AB 413 violation, so the city will not be issuing daylighting citations until that happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom line: to be certain how your area is enforcing daylighting or handing out tickets, you’ll need to check your local government’s website. And because enforcement varies greatly even just within the Bay Area, it’s going to be simplest if you assume all daylighting spots everywhere are off-limits — and park accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019141\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019141\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car is parked in a red zone at the intersection of Golden Gate Avenue and Jones Street in San Francisco on Dec. 18, 2024. The red curb designates a no-parking area to create more visibility at the intersection. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"“bay\">\u003c/a>How are some major Bay Area cities enforcing daylighting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, SFMTA had planned to start issuing $40 citations to drivers parked in daylighted spots starting March 1, even in instances where the curbs were not marked with red paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Feb. 10, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/making-enforcement-fair-our-new-plan-state-daylighting-law\">SFMTA announced they were revising these plans\u003c/a> and that effective immediately, drivers who park in a daylighted spot in San Francisco that \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> marked with a red curb will only be given warnings, not a ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also said it will now \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/pedestrian-toolkit/daylighting\">“fast-track” painting red curbs in daylighted spots around the city\u003c/a>, with school zones receiving priority. Drivers who park in daylighted spots with red curbs will still receive a $108 fine as previously planned — as they would for parking in any other \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2024/05/sfmta_fees_and_fines_for_posting_effective_april_16_2025.pdf\">Red Zone\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/daylighting\">Read more about daylighting enforcement in San Francisco.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s new webpage about daylighting states that the city has already been painting curbs red “to support daylighting whenever possible” since the law’s passage in 2023 — and they’ll “continue to do so going forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for enforcement, the Oakland Department of Transportation said that starting January, they’ll be distributing windshield flyers, “followed by a period of warnings.” After this, OakDOT will propose an amount for future daylighting fines to the Oakland City Council in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/daylighting\">Read more about daylighting enforcement in Oakland.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting Jan. 1, Berkeley will be issuing citations of $64 for parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk or within 15 feet of a crosswalk with a curb extension — which goes up to $96 on game days. Fines unpaid after 28 days will be raised by $30 and again after 47 days by another $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-12-10%20Item%2018%20Establishing%20a%20New%20Schedule%20of%20Fines.pdf\">Read more about daylighting citations in Berkeley (fee schedule is at the very bottom [PDF]).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San José\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José will not be issuing citations — yet — to drivers parked in unmarked daylighted spots, said Colin Heyne from the San José Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in areas where the city has removed previously available spots and painted the curbs red, “we are enforcing for red curb violation,” Heyne said — although because the city has “not yet set a fine amount for the specific AB 413 violation,” they are “not able to issue citations or warnings for that specific infraction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our enforcement strategy will evolve as we make further decisions about when and where to add signs or red curbs, as well as how well we feel the public understands the new law,” Heyne said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other Bay Area cities that have released their plans for daylighting enforcement:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.livermoreca.gov/departments/community-development/engineering/transportation-traffic/california-s-daylighting-law-ab-413\">Daylighting in Livermore\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ssf.net/News/AB-413-Daylighting-Law\">Daylighting in South San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pinole.gov/ab413-california-daylighting-law/\">Daylighting in Pinole\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/california-daylighting-law/\">Daylighting in San Rafael\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What are Bay Area cities doing with these new spaces?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Instead of leaving a daylighted spot empty, some cities are working to activate the spaces once used for car parking in a way that maintains lines of sight for people in crosswalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Prinz, the Advocacy Director of Bike East Bay, said the city of Emeryville is in the process of purchasing 100 new bike racks and that some of them will be placed on the street in newly daylighted areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When placed at a street corner in place of a car parking spot, they can also help to enforce existing red curbs or the AB 413 “daylighting” rule by adding a physical impediment to drivers parking in those spaces, even when no bikes are parked there,” Prinz told KQED by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area cities like Oakland have already installed bike infrastructure in daylighted zones, \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8351426,-122.2628981,3a,75y,305.14h,61.6t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s6SSWmuROW-JdZLEVkqB0iA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D28.4%26panoid%3D6SSWmuROW-JdZLEVkqB0iA%26yaw%3D305.14!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\">as this Google Maps view shows\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prinz said Bike East Bay is working with other local governments to encourage activating daylighted zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going forward, we hope many other cities will follow suit and start painting red curbs proactively despite not being required to under state law, in addition to adding bike racks, sidewalk extensions, rain gardens or many other reuse opportunities for these spaces to both increase safety and utility,” Prinz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was originally published on Dec. 28, 2024.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In California, a new year brings a raft of new laws. And one of the most talked-about new laws in the state is Assembly Bill 413, which enforces something called “daylighting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nutshell, daylighting will now make it illegal to park a car within 20 feet of a pedestrian crosswalk. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB413\">AB 413 has already been in effect\u003c/a> for the last year, but the big difference for 2025 is that cities around the Bay Area and California will now start enforcing these new parking orders — complete with hefty fines for drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, it turns out there’s actually quite a bit of difference in how that will look, depending on what city you live — or work — in. And the latest update: The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/making-enforcement-fair-our-new-plan-state-daylighting-law\">announced it’s walking back the city’s original plan\u003c/a> to enforce daylighting laws starting March 1 with tickets even for drivers who park in unmarked daylighted spots. (Jump to \u003ca href=\"#is-my-city-ticketing-for-daylighting\">more information about daylighting enforcement in San Francisco.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for everything you need to know about daylighting, from how to make sure you avoid a pricey parking ticket to hopes for pedestrian safety around the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#got-ticket-no-red-curb\">Why could I be ticketed even if the curb isn’t painted red?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#how-to-avoid-parking-ticket-daylighting\">How can I avoid getting a citation for daylighting in 2025?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#is-my-city-ticketing-for-daylighting\">Is my city enforcing daylighting with tickets?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How does daylighting work if I’m trying to park my car?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Daylighting is the practice of preventing cars from parking near crosswalks in order to make people using crosswalks more visible to drivers — thereby reducing the chance a person gets hit by a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB413\">California’s daylighting law\u003c/a> makes it illegal to “stop, stand or park” a vehicle within 20 feet of any unmarked or marked crosswalk or within 15 feet of any crosswalk where \u003ca href=\"https://nacto.org/publication/urban-street-design-guide/street-design-elements/curb-extensions/\">a curb extension\u003c/a> is present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019728\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1970px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019728\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19%E2%80%AFPM.png\" alt=\"A diagram with cars and a grey road.\" width=\"1970\" height=\"1570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19 PM.png 1970w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19 PM-800x638.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19 PM-1020x813.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19 PM-160x128.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19 PM-1536x1224.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-23-at-8.26.19 PM-1920x1530.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1970px) 100vw, 1970px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These diagrams show how the clearance of 20 feet can make a big difference in street safety at painted and unpainted crosswalks. \u003ccite>(SFMTA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crucially, the daylighting law only prohibits parking next to a crosswalk on the “approach side” of an intersection. Confused? Imagine you’re driving a car down a regular two-way street. Daylighting would prohibit you from parking in the spot immediately before the crosswalk as you approach the intersection. But the law would not prevent you from parking in a spot directly after that crosswalk as you exit the intersection — because a car parked in such a spot doesn’t impair the ability of people crossing the street there to see a car coming towards them, and vice versa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re still having trouble picturing the kinds of parking spots that daylighting applies to, imagine yourself as a pedestrian trying to cross a super-busy street, taking your first nervous steps into a crosswalk that doesn’t have a traffic light. Is there a car parked directly on your left that you’re having to peek around to see if any drivers are racing up the street in your direction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If so, that’s the exact parking spot that daylighting now makes illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"got-ticket-no-red-curb\">\u003c/a>So all of these now-illegal parking spots will be removed or clearly marked, right?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No — and this is one of the more contentious aspects of California’s daylighting law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some cities have begun to remove parking spots, pull out meters, paint curbs red or otherwise fill daylighted spots, they don’t actually have to do so under the law. Which means it’s up to California drivers to recognize an illegal daylighted spot and stay out of it, even if the spot looks perfectly available, with no red curb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So a driver can absolutely still get a warning or a citation for parking in a daylighted spot that has no such markings — and that’s what San Francisco had planned to do starting March 1 until “community members and district supervisors shared their concerns about fairness in enforcement,” according to SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/making-enforcement-fair-our-new-plan-state-daylighting-law\">the agency has announced it’s scrapping these plans \u003c/a>and will now only ticket drivers parked in daylighted spots that are painted with red curbs. SFMTA now also plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/pedestrian-toolkit/daylighting\">“fast-track” the painting of red curbs in daylighted spots around the city\u003c/a>, with school zones receiving priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many have raised concerns about our plans for the state’s daylighting law,” said Julie Kirschbaum, SFMTA’s acting director of transportation. “Daylighting is a crucial tool for street safety, but I want to ensure that we implement it fairly when we roll it out citywide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s change of plans notwithstanding, in principle, daylighting “functions a lot like the parking restrictions around a fire hydrant,” said Liza Lutzker, a research data analyst at UC Berkeley’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t have to be red curbed, but everyone knows you’re not supposed to park within 15 feet of it,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019140\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-22-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A red curb designates a no-parking area at the intersection of Sutter and Leavenworth streets in San Francisco on Dec. 18, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"how-to-avoid-parking-ticket-daylighting\">\u003c/a>So, how can I avoid getting a ticket for daylighting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jump to: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#is-my-city-ticketing-for-daylighting\">How is my city enforcing daylighting with tickets?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the things to remember to lower your chances of being cited for parking in a daylighted spot:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get to know what 20 feet looks like…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re imagining Parking Control Officers patrolling the streets with ways to measure the curbs, it doesn’t sound like that’ll be the reality of daylighting enforcement — at least not in San Francisco. “Parking enforcement will not be out with measuring tape,” Michael Roccaforte, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), told KQED in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that means you’ll need a good handle on what 20 feet looks like — or 15 feet, in the case of daylighted spots next to a crosswalk with a curb extension. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/daylighting\">SFMTA characterizes 20 feet as “about one car length or the length of about one metered space,”\u003c/a> — so when you’re picturing that car in your mind, make it a larger SUV rather than a Mini Cooper to be on the safe side. (For scale, a Subaru Outback is almost 16 feet long.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daylighting applies on both sides of a one-way street\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space directly after a crosswalk isn’t a daylighted spot, but the space directly before it — as the driver approaches it — is. So, on a one-way street, it will be illegal to park in a spot immediately before a crosswalk on both sides of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A warning isn’t a citation — but don’t assume you can get multiple warnings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, SFTMA’s Roccaforte said the city had been giving out roughly 60 warnings per day to people who park in daylighted spots. “In theory, you could pick up multiple warnings,” Roccaforte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, other jurisdictions may indeed be limiting the amount of warnings a vehicle can get for daylighting. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssf.net/News/AB-413-Daylighting-Law\">South San Francisco is one of them\u003c/a>, working on a two-strikes-and-you’re-out approach and warning drivers that “people who park in these areas will get one warning before a citation is issued.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Daylighting applies to unmarked crosswalks, too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if a crosswalk isn’t marked on the pavement, you still have to avoid parking in daylighted spots. So assume every intersection is a crosswalk, even if there are no road markings, Roccaforte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crosswalks aren’t just in intersections\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daylighting enforcement will also apply to the spot before a mid-street crosswalk, so be vigilant for them. “That said, most mid-block crosswalks are already red-curbed, so drivers won’t notice a change,” Roccaforte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019754\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A few people stand on one street at a person waits to cross.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241217-DaylightingLaws-11-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait to cross 18th Street at Dolores Street in San Francisco on Dec. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Why did California introduce daylighting?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California Assemblymember Alex Lee, who authored the law, said it’s all about making streets safer and reducing collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who represents a district in the South Bay, said he was motivated to work with advocates on the bill by what he saw as a rise in reckless driving after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really to make sure that when someone is crossing the street or trying to make a turn that there is the maximum amount of visibility,” Lee said. “Because when there is that blind spot there, it can cause a lot of harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#is-my-city-ticketing-for-daylighting\">Is my city enforcing daylighting with tickets?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Lee cites some grim statistics, such as California’s pedestrian fatality rate being almost 25% higher than the national average and the fact that no state has more pedestrian deaths on its roadways than California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing research from the Federal Highway Administration, a state assembly analysis highlighted that of the 38,824 traffic fatalities in the United States in 2020, 10,626 of them occurred at an intersection — and that 1,674 of those fatalities were pedestrians, representing nearly 25% of all pedestrian fatalities. “Nearly half of all traffic injuries occur at intersections,” the authors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is also a latecomer compared to other states when it comes to daylighting. More than 40 other states have some kind of daylighting law on the books in an attempt to reduce pedestrian fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019138\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-01-BL-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bulb-outs, or curb extensions, can be seen at the intersection of Cesar Chavez and Folsom streets in San Francisco on Dec. 18, 2024. A bulb-out extends the sidewalk into a parking lane to provide more space for pedestrians and visibility at an intersection. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What do we know about daylighting’s effect on road safety?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Restricting parking near intersections can reduce pedestrian crashes by 30%, \u003ca href=\"https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/tools_solve/fhwasa18041/fhwasa18041.pdf\">according to the Federal Highway Administration (PDF)\u003c/a>. “This is a proven way to increase pedestrian safety,” said UC Berkeley’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center’s Liza Lutzker. “It’s been really effective everywhere it has been implemented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daylighting has already been implemented in parts of cities in the Bay Area. In 2015, SFMTA led a major daylighting effort in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood by removing 180 parking spaces at 80 intersections. In 2018, the agency reported that there were 14% fewer reported collisions at those daylighted intersections, except for two intersections, which experienced an increase in collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A daylighting effort in the city of Hoboken, New Jersey, is largely credited with the fact that the city \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hoboken-zero-traffic-deaths-daylighting-pedestrian-safety-007dec67706c1c09129da1436a3d9762\">hasn’t had a traffic death in seven years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for daylighting are cheering on this law while pointing out ways that local governments could further increase its effectiveness. Luke Bornheimer, the executive director of Streets Forward, said the city of San Francisco should physically prevent people from parking in daylighted spaces by installing infrastructure like planters, bike corrals, large granite blocks or just plastic “soft-hit” posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to making it intuitive and physically impossible to stop/park a car there, most of these will also enhance intersections and streets for people in the neighborhood,” Bornheimer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is in favor of daylighting, however. The California Contract Cities Association wrote an argument in opposition to the law before it was passed, saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our organization remains concerned about the added burden placed upon cities to mark their parking distance requirements should they decide to diverge from the statewide standard in their jurisdictions. If cities decide to decrease the amount of daylighting, the legislation requires cities to erect new signage and paint curbs, which will come at a cost and pull resources away from other community priorities.” The Association also wrote an \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB413\">assembly floor analysis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"is-my-city-ticketing-for-daylighting\">\u003c/a>How do I know if my city is enforcing daylighting — and why \u003cem>wouldn’t\u003c/em> they enforce it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a rule of thumb, you should expect the possibility of being issued a citation if you park in a daylighted zone — no matter where you are in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, different municipalities are taking different approaches to how they are enforcing the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, cities like Berkeley and San Francisco have announced the amount they intend to fine drivers for parking in daylighted zones, indicating that they do, in fact, intend to enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities, like San José, say that this new legislation is going to be “challenging to implement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The legislation did not provide any funding for analysis, markings, signage, education or enforcement,” Colin Heyne, public information manager for the city of San José, told KQED in December. “Without any funding tied to the legislation, we cannot conduct a mass outreach and education campaign or enforce the daylighting rules citywide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of this, Heyne said San José would be implementing AB 413 in phases, with a focus on where daylighting will have the most benefit, like on the city’s high-injury network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heyne said San José has already removed 29 metered spaces in the greater downtown area due to AB 413 and has painted the curbs red in those places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the locations where we have removed previously available parking spots and added a red curb, we are enforcing for red curb violation,” Heyne said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he said the city has not yet set a fine amount for the specific AB 413 violation, so the city will not be issuing daylighting citations until that happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottom line: to be certain how your area is enforcing daylighting or handing out tickets, you’ll need to check your local government’s website. And because enforcement varies greatly even just within the Bay Area, it’s going to be simplest if you assume all daylighting spots everywhere are off-limits — and park accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019141\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019141\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241218-DaylightingLaws-35-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car is parked in a red zone at the intersection of Golden Gate Avenue and Jones Street in San Francisco on Dec. 18, 2024. The red curb designates a no-parking area to create more visibility at the intersection. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"“bay\">\u003c/a>How are some major Bay Area cities enforcing daylighting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, SFMTA had planned to start issuing $40 citations to drivers parked in daylighted spots starting March 1, even in instances where the curbs were not marked with red paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Feb. 10, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/making-enforcement-fair-our-new-plan-state-daylighting-law\">SFMTA announced they were revising these plans\u003c/a> and that effective immediately, drivers who park in a daylighted spot in San Francisco that \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> marked with a red curb will only be given warnings, not a ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also said it will now \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/pedestrian-toolkit/daylighting\">“fast-track” painting red curbs in daylighted spots around the city\u003c/a>, with school zones receiving priority. Drivers who park in daylighted spots with red curbs will still receive a $108 fine as previously planned — as they would for parking in any other \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2024/05/sfmta_fees_and_fines_for_posting_effective_april_16_2025.pdf\">Red Zone\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/walk/daylighting\">Read more about daylighting enforcement in San Francisco.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s new webpage about daylighting states that the city has already been painting curbs red “to support daylighting whenever possible” since the law’s passage in 2023 — and they’ll “continue to do so going forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for enforcement, the Oakland Department of Transportation said that starting January, they’ll be distributing windshield flyers, “followed by a period of warnings.” After this, OakDOT will propose an amount for future daylighting fines to the Oakland City Council in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/daylighting\">Read more about daylighting enforcement in Oakland.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting Jan. 1, Berkeley will be issuing citations of $64 for parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk or within 15 feet of a crosswalk with a curb extension — which goes up to $96 on game days. Fines unpaid after 28 days will be raised by $30 and again after 47 days by another $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024-12-10%20Item%2018%20Establishing%20a%20New%20Schedule%20of%20Fines.pdf\">Read more about daylighting citations in Berkeley (fee schedule is at the very bottom [PDF]).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San José\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José will not be issuing citations — yet — to drivers parked in unmarked daylighted spots, said Colin Heyne from the San José Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in areas where the city has removed previously available spots and painted the curbs red, “we are enforcing for red curb violation,” Heyne said — although because the city has “not yet set a fine amount for the specific AB 413 violation,” they are “not able to issue citations or warnings for that specific infraction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our enforcement strategy will evolve as we make further decisions about when and where to add signs or red curbs, as well as how well we feel the public understands the new law,” Heyne said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other Bay Area cities that have released their plans for daylighting enforcement:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.livermoreca.gov/departments/community-development/engineering/transportation-traffic/california-s-daylighting-law-ab-413\">Daylighting in Livermore\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ssf.net/News/AB-413-Daylighting-Law\">Daylighting in South San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pinole.gov/ab413-california-daylighting-law/\">Daylighting in Pinole\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/california-daylighting-law/\">Daylighting in San Rafael\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What are Bay Area cities doing with these new spaces?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Instead of leaving a daylighted spot empty, some cities are working to activate the spaces once used for car parking in a way that maintains lines of sight for people in crosswalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Prinz, the Advocacy Director of Bike East Bay, said the city of Emeryville is in the process of purchasing 100 new bike racks and that some of them will be placed on the street in newly daylighted areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When placed at a street corner in place of a car parking spot, they can also help to enforce existing red curbs or the AB 413 “daylighting” rule by adding a physical impediment to drivers parking in those spaces, even when no bikes are parked there,” Prinz told KQED by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area cities like Oakland have already installed bike infrastructure in daylighted zones, \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8351426,-122.2628981,3a,75y,305.14h,61.6t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s6SSWmuROW-JdZLEVkqB0iA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D28.4%26panoid%3D6SSWmuROW-JdZLEVkqB0iA%26yaw%3D305.14!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\">as this Google Maps view shows\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prinz said Bike East Bay is working with other local governments to encourage activating daylighted zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going forward, we hope many other cities will follow suit and start painting red curbs proactively despite not being required to under state law, in addition to adding bike racks, sidewalk extensions, rain gardens or many other reuse opportunities for these spaces to both increase safety and utility,” Prinz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story was originally published on Dec. 28, 2024.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>This column was reported for Political Breakdown, a bi-monthly newsletter offering analysis and context on Bay Area and California political news. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not surprising that just three weeks into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump’s\u003c/a> second term, California finds itself in the crosshairs over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026179/san-francisco-leads-lawsuit-against-trumps-threats-to-punish-sanctuary-cities\">sanctuary laws\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026189/transgender-athletes-face-new-hurdles-as-ncaa-adopts-stricter-policy-citing-trump-order\">transgender athletes\u003c/a>, climate change and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023248/trump-again-wades-into-california-water-use-fight-drawing-skepticism-from-experts\">water policies\u003c/a>, to name just a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has forced Gov. Gavin Newsom, in light of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/wildfire\">devastation from fires in Los Angeles\u003c/a>, to exchange his years of anti-Trump rhetoric for something more akin to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">kissing the ring\u003c/a> of a president who is acting like a king hellbent on settling scores and punishing political enemies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is fighting back in the courts. Attorney General Rob Bonta joined blue state attorneys general in seeking to stop Trump orders to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">freeze federal funding\u003c/a>, including grants funding research at public and private universities in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this comes as the announced candidates for the 2026 gubernatorial election await a decision from a possible contender: former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Vice President Kamala Harris\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta told \u003cem>Politico’s\u003c/em> Dustin Gardiner that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/05/california-governor-ag-newsom-00202528\">he won’t run for governor\u003c/a> as had been widely expected. Gardiner shared details of his conversation with Bonta on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who has known Harris for years, told \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> he thought she’d be “a great governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would support her if she ran,” Bonta said. “I’ve always supported her in everything she’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, toured the devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires. She met with first responders and people who lost their homes and businesses. They served meals at a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been home for two weeks and three days. My plans are to be in touch with my community, to be in touch with the leaders and figure out what I can do to support them,” Harris said when asked if she was running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, Harris is keeping her options open. And why shouldn’t she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Vice President Kamala Harris at the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/97b1p0sq\">Berkeley IGS poll\u003c/a> cosponsored by the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> that was published in November found Harris would have clear advantages over the likely field of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the survey, taken in October before the 2024 election, voters were asked whether they would consider supporting Harris for governor. Forty-six percent said they were either very or somewhat likely to consider voting for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, even without Harris in the race, no candidate received more than the 13% when voters were asked to name their first or second choice for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago, I said to her, I thought she would make a great governor. And I think the same thing today,” said Brian Brokaw, a political strategist who worked for Harris in her successful runs for state attorney general and the U.S. Senate, as well as her failed run for president in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brokaw, who said he hasn’t talked to Harris recently, expects her to announce a decision “within a month or two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is always taking her time and coming to these big types of life decisions. And then once she makes a decision, she doesn’t stop,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without Bonta in the race, Democrats have a potentially strong field of gubernatorial candidates already. The list includes Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former Assembly Speaker and Senate President Toni Atkins and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Kamala Harris’ entry into the race would be an earthquake that would have, you know, all sorts of aftershocks down the ballot,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris knows most of the candidates, some of them quite well. And that could be awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the challenges is that (Harris) and Eleni Kounalakis are very close friends,” said Democratic fundraiser Mark Buell, adding that Kounalakis “is pretty well out there in the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis on Political Breakdown on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kounalakis, who was on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026783/what-hungarys-authoritarian-regime-can-teach-us-now\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> on Thursday\u003c/a>, has racked up support for her campaign from a few prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think (Harris) has an incredibly important leadership role to play in the future, should she choose to take one. And I suspect that she is adjusting and processing,” Kounalakis said. “I think that things are going to change probably in the next couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m waiting, just like most of my supporters and others who I hope will be my supporters are kind of waiting to see what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boxer, who has also endorsed Villaraigosa, admits Harris “would be so formidable.” She said the first question Harris has to answer is whether she wants to run for president in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just doing it (running for governor) because you lost another race, people get it,” Boxer said. “The voters are very smart. They want you to be enthused, excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if it seems like Harris views the governor’s job as a consolation prize to the presidency, it won’t help her candidacy. Running for governor and winning would essentially foreclose another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t talked to anybody that said they hope she doesn’t run (for governor),” Buell said. “And there’s enough of a base that I think that there are people who would like to see her do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Buell said, there was considerably less enthusiasm for another Harris option: Another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would tell you that the party leaders that I’ve talked to don’t see her as the most viable (candidate) four years from now,” Buell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her political career, Harris has often been criticized for seeming to lack authenticity while campaigning. She is cautious and often guarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she runs, I would expect her to wage a much more personal campaign for governor of her home state,” said Dan Schnur, who teaches political communication at UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schnur, who called Harris “one of the most risk-averse politicians in the country,” said a run for governor would give her a chance to campaign in friendlier political territory than she often experienced in her 100-day run for president — and on issues where she is more personally comfortable.[aside postID=news_12019149 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GETTYIMAGES-2181827064-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has never had a female governor, and Harris, as well as the other women running, could break that barrier. Aimee Allison, whose organization She the People advocates for electing more women of color, said at this moment, that alone is not enough for any candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even more important than representation, they have to make an argument that the old guard and the old way of politicking isn’t going to work in Trump’s America, not Trump 2.0,” Allison said. “There’s too many attacks, and they’re coming from so many different places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Newsom has pivoted from criticizing Trump to figuring out how to flatter him enough to get what California needs in disaster relief, Allison said accommodation is not an option for the next governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be willing to get into the arena, set your agenda and fight like hell. That’s who we want right now,” Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris would not be the first former vice president who ran for president and lost, then turned around and ran for governor of California two years later. Richard Nixon did it in 1962 after losing a razor-thin race to John F. Kennedy. Nixon lost a bitter campaign to Pat Brown, the incumbent Democratic governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After saying he was done with politics, Nixon reemerged eight years later and was elected president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what the downsides of Harris running for governor were, Schnur’s answer was simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She could lose,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta told \u003cem>Politico’s\u003c/em> Dustin Gardiner that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/05/california-governor-ag-newsom-00202528\">he won’t run for governor\u003c/a> as had been widely expected. Gardiner shared details of his conversation with Bonta on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026230/after-years-of-attacks-newsom-tries-flattery-on-trump\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, who has known Harris for years, told \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> he thought she’d be “a great governor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would support her if she ran,” Bonta said. “I’ve always supported her in everything she’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, toured the devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires. She met with first responders and people who lost their homes and businesses. They served meals at a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been home for two weeks and three days. My plans are to be in touch with my community, to be in touch with the leaders and figure out what I can do to support them,” Harris said when asked if she was running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearly, Harris is keeping her options open. And why shouldn’t she?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2167484927-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Vice President Kamala Harris at the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/97b1p0sq\">Berkeley IGS poll\u003c/a> cosponsored by the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> that was published in November found Harris would have clear advantages over the likely field of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the survey, taken in October before the 2024 election, voters were asked whether they would consider supporting Harris for governor. Forty-six percent said they were either very or somewhat likely to consider voting for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, even without Harris in the race, no candidate received more than the 13% when voters were asked to name their first or second choice for governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ten years ago, I said to her, I thought she would make a great governor. And I think the same thing today,” said Brian Brokaw, a political strategist who worked for Harris in her successful runs for state attorney general and the U.S. Senate, as well as her failed run for president in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brokaw, who said he hasn’t talked to Harris recently, expects her to announce a decision “within a month or two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is always taking her time and coming to these big types of life decisions. And then once she makes a decision, she doesn’t stop,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without Bonta in the race, Democrats have a potentially strong field of gubernatorial candidates already. The list includes Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former Assembly Speaker and Senate President Toni Atkins and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Kamala Harris’ entry into the race would be an earthquake that would have, you know, all sorts of aftershocks down the ballot,” Brokaw said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris knows most of the candidates, some of them quite well. And that could be awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the challenges is that (Harris) and Eleni Kounalakis are very close friends,” said Democratic fundraiser Mark Buell, adding that Kounalakis “is pretty well out there in the race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250212-KOUNALAKIS-ON-PB-MD-03-KQED-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis on Political Breakdown on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kounalakis, who was on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026783/what-hungarys-authoritarian-regime-can-teach-us-now\">\u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> on Thursday\u003c/a>, has racked up support for her campaign from a few prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think (Harris) has an incredibly important leadership role to play in the future, should she choose to take one. And I suspect that she is adjusting and processing,” Kounalakis said. “I think that things are going to change probably in the next couple of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’m waiting, just like most of my supporters and others who I hope will be my supporters are kind of waiting to see what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boxer, who has also endorsed Villaraigosa, admits Harris “would be so formidable.” She said the first question Harris has to answer is whether she wants to run for president in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just doing it (running for governor) because you lost another race, people get it,” Boxer said. “The voters are very smart. They want you to be enthused, excited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, if it seems like Harris views the governor’s job as a consolation prize to the presidency, it won’t help her candidacy. Running for governor and winning would essentially foreclose another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t talked to anybody that said they hope she doesn’t run (for governor),” Buell said. “And there’s enough of a base that I think that there are people who would like to see her do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Buell said, there was considerably less enthusiasm for another Harris option: Another run for president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would tell you that the party leaders that I’ve talked to don’t see her as the most viable (candidate) four years from now,” Buell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout her political career, Harris has often been criticized for seeming to lack authenticity while campaigning. She is cautious and often guarded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If she runs, I would expect her to wage a much more personal campaign for governor of her home state,” said Dan Schnur, who teaches political communication at UC Berkeley and the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schnur, who called Harris “one of the most risk-averse politicians in the country,” said a run for governor would give her a chance to campaign in friendlier political territory than she often experienced in her 100-day run for president — and on issues where she is more personally comfortable.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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