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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters passed Proposition K, which closed the 2-mile span to cars permanently, in November. The race divided the city, with most westside residents voting to keep the road open, while neighborhoods farther out opted for closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Sunday evening, volunteers from Friends of Ocean Beach Park, which supported the proposition, and Recreation and Parks department painters had removed all traces of the vandalism, but anger and opposition over the park are only increasing as its official opening draws closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032902\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm1-1920x1439.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 100 volunteers gathered at Ocean Beach to help restore Emily Fromm’s vibrant 60-foot mural at Judah Street and the Great Highway after it was defaced with graffiti. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Emily Fromm)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the election, a group of westside residents launched a recall campaign against their supervisor, Joel Engardio, who represents the Sunset and broke with his neighborhood to support the proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030751/days-before-san-franciscos-great-highway-closure-opponents-aim-block-it\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city earlier this month, arguing that the measure was unlawful and asking for the city to halt the closure. The night that the road was officially shut off to cars, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13973169/temporary-public-art-great-highway-ocean-beach-plans\">first of 16 temporary artworks\u003c/a> being installed in preparation for the park’s April 12 grand opening was defaced with graffiti.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“JOEL LIE$ #RECALL” — a reference to Engardio — was scrawled in what appeared to be the same paint on the highway surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily Fromm, the artist behind the 60-foot mural that was vandalized, said that she and another artist working at the site were verbally harassed by people opposed to the closure. Her work, “A History of Play,” was restored by volunteers, who Fromm said have stepped up to keep artists company and ward off negative comments from passersby as they work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Resorting to vandalism is both counterproductive & frankly, ridiculous,” said Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Park department in a statement on Sunday, after the second incident. “There are countless constructive ways to engage in conversations about our city’s future, but spray-painting public spaces isn’t one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Recreation and Park department said that it would be stepping up official park ranger patrols in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032903 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Great-Hwy-Emily-Fromm2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers work to restore Emily Fromm’s 60-foot mural at Judah Street and the Great Highway after it was defaced with graffiti. The effort comes as San Francisco Recreation and Park moves forward with plans to transform the space, including selecting a name for the new park and preparing for its opening next month. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Emily Fromm)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucas Lux, who leads Friends of Ocean Beach Park, said that thousands of people were visiting the oceanfront weekly and that support remains strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Destructive behavior by a few won’t get in the way of our work to make the coast enjoyable and accessible by all,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the backlash, Rec and Park is making progress on the transformation of the space, including selecting a name for the park. A spokesperson said the department received more than 4,000 entries and is preparing for a community event on the official opening day next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:07 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year without pay. Millions in debt. Months without a contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are some of the allegations from homelessness services providers in Oakland that have surfaced since one nonprofit nearly had to shut down two shelters this month. Its experience is shining a spotlight on a broken repayment system that’s thwarting the city’s ability to address one of its most pressing problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/city-of-oakland-opens-100-bed-cabin-shelter-program-at-wood-street\">Wood Street Community Cabins\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.self-sufficiency.org/rvpark#:~:text=The%20Wood%20Street%20RV%20Safe,support%20to%20find%20permanent%20housing.\">RV safe parking\u003c/a> sites in West Oakland, which consist of 100 cabin beds and 40 RV spots, are slated to close at the end of June but were nearly forced to shut down three months early, after the city missed some five months of payments to the nonprofit running the sites, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofits say BOSS’ experience is only the latest example of an ongoing struggle that has them operating under the weight of massive debt as they wait on the city to reimburse them for housing and feeding its most vulnerable residents. And it’s those residents who are hurt most as they contend with subpar living conditions at some sites that are exacerbated by the stymied cash flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one really knows exactly what’s going on,” John Janosko, a former resident of the Wood Street Cabins, said during a Monday press conference outside the shelters, where advocates rebuked the city and lobbied to take over the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032760\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032760\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/016_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/016_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/016_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/016_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/016_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/016_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/016_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiny homes trucked into the Wood Street Cabin Community, a planned 100-bed shelter program on the second portion of the Game Changer lot located at 2601 Wood St., in Oakland, on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said muddled information has left residents uncertain of when they’ll need to find alternative housing, with some expecting to leave in a matter of weeks and others circulating rumors the site may run through the end of the year. According to BOSS, there are currently 70 people living in either the cabins or at the RV site. Of those, 41 are still awaiting a housing placement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is we don’t know, so we’re basically here to help uplift and support our family,” Janosko said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BOSS CEO Donald Frazier said he issued layoff notices to staff last week in preparation to shut down at the end of March after repeated and increasingly urgent requests for payment went unaddressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after the layoff notices went out that city officials sat down with Frazier and provided assurances the city would make good on its debt. In all, Frazier said the city owes BOSS about $900,000 through April and that the organization will need another $480,000 to fund the programs through June.[aside postID=news_12030792 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1020x680.jpg']“We’ll see,” he said. “Until the money is in our hands, I won’t be content.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Maher, a spokesperson for the city of Oakland, said in a statement to KQED that staff is working on solutions to “bring the city’s outstanding payments to BOSS up to current, as well as identifying solutions to support the programs’ operations to the end of June.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Friday meeting, officials with the City Administrator’s Office told Frazier they would provide the back pay owed for November through January within 10 days. As a result, Frazier said he would rescind the layoff notices and inform staff of the June closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will allow critical time for identifying options for the residents currently being served by both programs,” Maher said, adding that those options would be finalized over the next several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Monday, some cabin residents said they had little sense of where they’d end up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll go stay in a tent if it comes to that,” said Jared Defigh, who’s been living at the site for about two years. “I might get housed before then, it’s hard to say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032761\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/012_KQED_WoodStreetCommonsEviction_04102023_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Wood Street resident tours the Tuff Sheds near the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on April 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Late payments from local governments and the state are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/10/nonprofit-reimbursements/\">a thorn in the side of services providers around California\u003c/a>, with some large organizations regularly waiting on tens of millions of dollars in reimbursement at any given time. However, local nonprofits say the lags in Oakland are extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke with three other local nonprofit providers who said payment delays make it particularly challenging to operate in the city. While a typical wait time is two to three months, one leader estimates Oakland takes nearly twice as long to pay. Another said it’s not unusual for the city to run a year behind on payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roots Community Health CEO Noha Aboelata said that for the second year in a row, the city has racked up a million-dollar debt with the nonprofit. She and other CEOs, including some who declined to speak on record, said that while the situation long predates Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027537/oakland-budget-crisis-leads-nonprofit-cuts-leaving-social-services-limbo\">current budget crisis\u003c/a>, it’s only gotten worse. And, Aboelata said the delays now extend to the contracting process itself, meaning organizations are often working for months without contracts in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without a contract in place, you can’t invoice,” she said. “So the delays have gotten incredibly lengthy.”[aside postID=news_12031813 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240409-SJEncampmentBan-045-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']In a statement, Maher said the city values its service providers and welcomes feedback “on ways we can collaboratively improve our work together, including in our contracting, invoicing, and payments processes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aboelata said she understands the city is in a fiscal crisis and is willing to work through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we really do need clarity,” she said, echoing the frustration over poor communication with the city that the other CEOs expressed. “Every week we’re not knowing what’s going to happen next or what we’re going to be told, or what we are going to find, so it does create kind of an instability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That instability also breeds inefficiency, leaders said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For BOSS, that means taking out a line of credit to cover operating costs, resulting in added interest payments that will most likely get passed on to taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And residents say it also manifests as mismanagement and subpar conditions at the shelters themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t have toilet paper, they didn’t have drinking water,” said a former resident of the Wood Street Cabins and advocate who goes by Freeway. “The facilities were constantly non-functioning as they are right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t even have shower heads anymore,” Defigh said. “There might be sewage coming out of that bathroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frazier acknowledged those challenges, though he said the sewage issue had been addressed. With cashflow severely limited, he said BOSS struggled to maintain the shelters, leading to health and safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032924 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/004_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/004_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/004_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/004_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/004_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/004_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/004_KQED_WoodStreet_12162022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small home is transported to the Wood Street Cabin Community, a planned 100-bed shelter program on the second section of the Game Changer lot at 2601 Wood St. in Oakland, on Dec. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There were tremendous problems,” he said. “All that was a direct result of not having funds to do all the existing maintenance and some deferred maintenance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25867210-letter-to-city-administrator-1/\">In a February letter (PDF)\u003c/a> to City Administrator Jestin Johnson, Frazier alerted officials that delays had “significantly impacted clients, staff wages and limited our ability to accept new clients.” The letter lists an estimated $130,000–$150,000 worth of necessary maintenance, including mold testing, remediation and repairs to over two dozen units. One charred cabin needed removing, according to the letter; others needed new locks, doors, floors and windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email accompanying the letter, Frazier called the conditions at the cabins “unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staff and participants’ health and safety are at risk,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pressure ultimately led the city to reimburse BOSS for payments owed from September and October of last year, he said, but the organization hasn’t been paid since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a mess,” Frazier said. “It strains the entire agency. It’s like stretching a rubber band — how far can you stretch it before it pops?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Cross-border politics have cost the UCSF Medical Center a leading heart surgeon from Canada who was set to start his job this month but changed his mind. The reason: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909303/canadians-to-trump-we-are-not-having-it\">economic and political hostility toward our northern neighbor\u003c/a> emanating from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF touted the hiring of Dr. Marc Ruel late last year, saying he would be relocating from Canada to serve as the chief of the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dr. Ruel is one of the world’s most highly regarded cardiac surgeons, and his leadership will undoubtedly elevate our division to new heights across all our missions,” Dr. Julie Ann Sosa, chair of the Department of Surgery at UCSF, wrote in its December newsletter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruel, too, had notified colleagues in Canada that he was leaving his post at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ottawaheart.ca/profile/ruel-marc\">University of Ottawa Heart Institute\u003c/a> (UOHI) to head up the division at UCSF, a position he accepted last fall. But a message from Sosa and another UCSF physician sent on March 4 to colleagues notified staff that Ruel had decided not to move to California, apparently influenced by President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025404/canada-tariffs-paused-california-wineries-fear-trade-dispute-would-be-crushing\">threats of tariffs\u003c/a> and talk of annexing Canada as the 51st state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message, signed by Sosa and Dr. Joshua Adler, acknowledged that much preparation had been made for Ruel’s arrival, adding that he “made the personal decision not to move forward with his relocation, given the evolving political climate and his commitment to serving his current institution in Ottawa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024922 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Anna Monkeymaker/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The message also noted the “tremendous effort” UCSF teams put into preparing for Ruel’s arrival, “laying the groundwork for his transition … and extending a warm welcome to him and his family.” Despite that lost effort, the physicians said the medical center “respects his decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of Ruel’s decision is being felt by patients in the Bay Area, including Jennifer Friedman of Berkeley. She has a hereditary condition leading to a partially blocked artery to her heart — a condition she was told could, at some point, require invasive open-heart surgery and a very long recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was excited to learn from UCSF that Ruel could treat her using a far less invasive procedure. The two connected by text, email and phone to get her on his schedule at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dr. Ruel was the hero surgeon that was coming to teach everybody at UCSF how to do the magical procedure,” Friedman told KQED. “And I was so excited that he was coming.”[aside postID=news_12032263 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Friedman said it was her understanding that in preparation for Ruel’s arrival, UCSF was going to “send a team of people from UCSF to Canada to see what his whole operating room situation looked like so they could basically recreate it here in San Francisco. And I don’t know if that happened or not, but then Trump was elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internal UCSF letter to staff was careful not to weigh in on the U.S. political situation — not surprising given the enormous amount of federal dollars UCSF receives — but said, “We respect his need to adapt to changing circumstances — just as we do every day to advance our mission and provide world-class care to our patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, UCSF received $789 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which the Trump administration is trying to slash. In February, the University of California announced its \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-supports-legal-action-against-misguided-plan-cut-vital-nih-research-funds\">support for a lawsuit \u003c/a>filed by Attorney General Rob Bonta and 21 other states seeking to block the action. Earlier this month, a federal judge extended a temporary restraining order pausing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">efforts to cut NIH medical and scientific research grants\u003c/a> to universities and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF did not publicly announce the loss of Ruel and declined KQED’s repeated requests for comment while referring us to the doctor. A spokesperson for the University of Ottawa confirmed that Ruel changed his mind over political considerations and will likely stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior shot of the UCSF Health building in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of UCSF Health in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to UOHI’s website, Ruel, who was trained at Harvard, led its Division of Cardiac Surgery for 11 years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Friedman said it was her understanding that in preparation for Ruel’s arrival, UCSF was going to “send a team of people from UCSF to Canada to see what his whole operating room situation looked like so they could basically recreate it here in San Francisco. And I don’t know if that happened or not, but then Trump was elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internal UCSF letter to staff was careful not to weigh in on the U.S. political situation — not surprising given the enormous amount of federal dollars UCSF receives — but said, “We respect his need to adapt to changing circumstances — just as we do every day to advance our mission and provide world-class care to our patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, UCSF received $789 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which the Trump administration is trying to slash. In February, the University of California announced its \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-supports-legal-action-against-misguided-plan-cut-vital-nih-research-funds\">support for a lawsuit \u003c/a>filed by Attorney General Rob Bonta and 21 other states seeking to block the action. Earlier this month, a federal judge extended a temporary restraining order pausing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">efforts to cut NIH medical and scientific research grants\u003c/a> to universities and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF did not publicly announce the loss of Ruel and declined KQED’s repeated requests for comment while referring us to the doctor. A spokesperson for the University of Ottawa confirmed that Ruel changed his mind over political considerations and will likely stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior shot of the UCSF Health building in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of UCSF Health in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to UOHI’s website, Ruel, who was trained at Harvard, led its Division of Cardiac Surgery for 11 years. The university notes that the focus of Ruel’s research and work has been to make cardiac surgery “less invasive, more evidence-based, and performed with better patient outcomes.” He is currently the director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery at UOHI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to Friedman sent on March 4, Ruel told her of his regrets that he would no longer be coming to UCSF, stressing that it was his personal affection for his nation that drove his decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a proud Canadian, above all else, and I cannot in my patriotic conscience ignore what is happening,” Ruel wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Friedman, 57, is back to square one, looking for a new surgeon. \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I’m disappointed, I’m sad and I’m scared. And I feel like this is just the beginning of the ramifications” of Trump’s policies, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexis Jimenez said a stalker came to her house and knocked on her door years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It was] kind of scary,” she recalled. “After that incident, I thought about scenarios of what could have happened and whether or not I’m prepared to defend myself in those situations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jimenez, who had taken a few years of taekwondo, wanted to gain new skills, so she registered for free self-defense training offered by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13901451/the-worlds-first-transgender-district-creates-a-support-system-in-san-francisco\">the Transgender District\u003c/a>, a nonprofit in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood founded by and for trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolina Osoria, program associate with the Transgender District, helped launch the inaugural training with support from the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/departments--city-administrator--office-transgender-initiatives\">Office of Transgender Initiatives and\u003c/a> the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://lyric.org/\">LYRIC SF. \u003c/a>She said the goal of the class is to empower trans people during the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trans people are really resilient,” she said. “I hope that’s a facet we’re able to feed into because there’s a lot that’s trying to diminish us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1370\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-2-KQED-1920x1315.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolina Osoria, program associate at The Transgender District, poses for a portrait at the office in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhereLGBTQ+peoplecanfindself-defenseclassesintheBayArea\">Where LGBTQ+ people can find self-defense classes in the Bay Area\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump has issued several executive orders targeting the gender-expansive community, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292390/trump-transgender-gender-affirming-care-hospital\">defunding gender-affirming medical care\u003c/a> for transgender youth and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023321/trumps-binary-gender-mandate-leaves-trans-californians-facing-mounting-risks\">banning trans, intersex, and nonbinary people from using the X gender marker on their passports\u003c/a>. There are legal challenges to these efforts, but Osoria said the federal actions have had an impact already, creating a climate of fear even in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">transgender sanctuary city\u003c/a> like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This time, it just feels a little bit worse,” she added. “The landscape he’s creating is very much rooted in violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that trans women of color disproportionately bear the brunt of violence. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8173924/\">2021 study, \u003c/a>more than half of the physically violent crimes reported by trans women in the Bay Area were committed against Black and Latina trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029632 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Training instructor Joseph Bautista, center, demonstrates how to do a move to Skyler, left, and Moss O’Neal, right, during a self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s why Osoria said it’s important the self-defense class take place in the Tenderloin, where the majority of the neighborhood’s trans population is Black trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re able to help Black trans women … feel empowered and we are able to guide them through resistance, we’ll be helping all folks,” she said.[aside postID=news_12029428 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The self-defense training, held in February at the Transgender District office on Market Street, drew around a dozen participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martial arts instructor Joseph Bautista of \u003ca href=\"https://www.selfdefenseforthepeople.com/\">Self Defense for the People\u003c/a> ran partnered drills and gave lessons that touched on how to be aware of one’s surroundings, how to verbally de-escalate a situation, and, if things get physical, how to safely slap and push away attackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, you never have to use [it], but like insurance, it’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it,” Bautista told the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants ran through scenarios, like practicing how to escape from being choked and how to use a ballpoint pen as a weapon. But people were also having fun. Laughter and squeals echoed through the room as people cheered on their partners to push harder, slap swiftly and repeat moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was really good. I had a lot more fun interactions than I was expecting,” said Moss O’Neal, who was flushed and smiling after the two-hour training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029633 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instructor Joseph Bautista, left, demonstrates a move with Cherry Javier, right, during self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Neal said he was interested in the class because he has been in situations where he wished he had known how to defend himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Now] I feel a lot more confident about walking home,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal also came hoping to find more queer community. After the training, he and some participants stuck around to hang out and eat pizza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spots for the self-defense class sold out just days after it was announced, so the Transgender District said it \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/events\">plans to organize another training soon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With everything going on, folks have kind of felt jolted and afraid,” Osoria said. “And the remedy to fear is being in power with other folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029631\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurel Motosua, left, and Kai Rendon, right, practice moves during a self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhereLGBTQ+peoplecanfindself-defenseclassesintheBayArea\">\u003c/a>Where LGBTQ+ people can find self-defense classes in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Organizations offering regular or occasional self-defense classes that are inclusive of, or specifically geared toward, LGBTQ+ communities in the Bay Area include the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/events\">The Transgender District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.impactbayarea.org/lgbtq_course\">Impact Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://misfitcombat.com/program-queercombat/\">Misfit Combat\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/transfighters/\">Trans Fighters\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fourelementsfitness.com/\">Four Elements Fitness\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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There are legal challenges to these efforts, but Osoria said the federal actions have had an impact already, creating a climate of fear even in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989910/san-francisco-declares-itself-a-transgender-sanctuary-city\">transgender sanctuary city\u003c/a> like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This time, it just feels a little bit worse,” she added. “The landscape he’s creating is very much rooted in violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that trans women of color disproportionately bear the brunt of violence. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8173924/\">2021 study, \u003c/a>more than half of the physically violent crimes reported by trans women in the Bay Area were committed against Black and Latina trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029632 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-32-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Training instructor Joseph Bautista, center, demonstrates how to do a move to Skyler, left, and Moss O’Neal, right, during a self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s why Osoria said it’s important the self-defense class take place in the Tenderloin, where the majority of the neighborhood’s trans population is Black trans women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re able to help Black trans women … feel empowered and we are able to guide them through resistance, we’ll be helping all folks,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The self-defense training, held in February at the Transgender District office on Market Street, drew around a dozen participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martial arts instructor Joseph Bautista of \u003ca href=\"https://www.selfdefenseforthepeople.com/\">Self Defense for the People\u003c/a> ran partnered drills and gave lessons that touched on how to be aware of one’s surroundings, how to verbally de-escalate a situation, and, if things get physical, how to safely slap and push away attackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, you never have to use [it], but like insurance, it’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it,” Bautista told the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants ran through scenarios, like practicing how to escape from being choked and how to use a ballpoint pen as a weapon. But people were also having fun. Laughter and squeals echoed through the room as people cheered on their partners to push harder, slap swiftly and repeat moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was really good. I had a lot more fun interactions than I was expecting,” said Moss O’Neal, who was flushed and smiling after the two-hour training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029633 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-35-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instructor Joseph Bautista, left, demonstrates a move with Cherry Javier, right, during self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>O’Neal said he was interested in the class because he has been in situations where he wished he had known how to defend himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Now] I feel a lot more confident about walking home,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Neal also came hoping to find more queer community. After the training, he and some participants stuck around to hang out and eat pizza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spots for the self-defense class sold out just days after it was announced, so the Transgender District said it \u003ca href=\"https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/events\">plans to organize another training soon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With everything going on, folks have kind of felt jolted and afraid,” Osoria said. “And the remedy to fear is being in power with other folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029631\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250227_TRANSGENDERSELFDEFENSE_GC-24-KQED-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurel Motosua, left, and Kai Rendon, right, practice moves during a self-defense training for transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) community members, at the Transgender District office, in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhereLGBTQ+peoplecanfindself-defenseclassesintheBayArea\">\u003c/a>Where LGBTQ+ people can find self-defense classes in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Organizations offering regular or occasional self-defense classes that are inclusive of, or specifically geared toward, LGBTQ+ communities in the Bay Area include the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/events\">The Transgender District\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.impactbayarea.org/lgbtq_course\">Impact Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://misfitcombat.com/program-queercombat/\">Misfit Combat\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/transfighters/\">Trans Fighters\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fourelementsfitness.com/\">Four Elements Fitness\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The service our members provide this community is invaluable, and our customers have suffered greatly these past two weeks,” Raj Singh, president of the union, said Monday afternoon outside the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds building where ATU members cast their votes. “Our members will only return to work with a fair contract, one that guarantees their rights, their dignity and their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a difficult time and a difficult vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historic strike by more than 1,500 bus drivers, light rail train operators, maintenance workers and dispatchers represented by ATU has halted transit for tens of thousands of daily riders in Santa Clara County, forcing many to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030951/vta-strike-underscores-silicon-valleys-widening-income-inequality\">find alternate transportation\u003c/a>, sometimes at an increased cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rejection comes one day after VTA’s Board of Directors held a special meeting to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032652/vta-slightly-boosts-raise-offer-union-says-it-falls-far-short\">up their wage offer\u003c/a> to the union members while also including some concessions, such as potential restrictions on overtime pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a more than fair proposal for employees and we at this point are very concerned about the tens of thousands of riders who are not getting to their minimum wage jobs and we need people to come back to work,” Stacey Hendler Ross, a VTA spokesperson, said Monday after the results of the vote were announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said the offer was likely rejected, in part, because of what he called the agency’s “aggressive bargaining,” including that the VTA declined to guarantee workers wouldn’t be disciplined for striking after returning to work, refused to drop its lawsuit to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031632/vtas-legal-challenge-ongoing-transit-strike-hits-snag\">stop the strike\u003c/a>, as well as overtime restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had they not done that, we might have had a different outcome,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250220-VTASTRIKED1.-JG-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250220-VTASTRIKED1.-JG-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250220-VTASTRIKED1.-JG-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250220-VTASTRIKED1.-JG-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250220-VTASTRIKED1.-JG-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250220-VTASTRIKED1.-JG-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250220-VTASTRIKED1.-JG-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Baypointe light rail platform in San José has been vacant since March 10, 2025, the first day of a strike by the union representing VTA’s bus drivers and light rail train operators. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two sides continued to blame one another for the lack of a resolution and said new offers could be made to help resume negotiations. When asked about his message to riders who have been struggling without transit for more than two weeks, Singh pointed the finger at VTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The agency has continued to play games and not put forth a serious effort in resolving things,” he said. “They are the ones that continue to stall these conversations instead of trying to come to an agreement and get service restored as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hendler Ross said the agency is “not interested in negotiating the contract in the media,” and added that “negotiations remain open for ATU to come to the table.”[aside postID=news_12031632 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250220-VTASTRIKED1.-JG-4.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the vote, the agency said in a statement that its most recent offer provides “stability and opportunity” to its workers in an uncertain time across many industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“VTA’s latest proposal reflects our commitment to our workforce, and we urge our employees to embrace this chance to secure their future and return to work,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said about 100,000 riders use bus and light rail services every weekday, a large proportion of whom earn lower incomes and are students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA sued the union on the first day of the strike, alleging that the work stoppage violated a no-strike clause in the bargaining agreement between the agency and ATU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A county judge rejected VTA’s request for a temporary restraining order to halt the strike on March 17, but asked ATU to come back to court on Wednesday to argue why the strike is not a violation of the agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Such groups that provide reproductive health care have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/crt/recent-cases-violence-against-reproductive-health-care-providers\">targets\u003c/a> of political attacks in recent years. Crimes against LGBTQ people also surged in 2024, and advocates have raised alarms over hundreds of laws rolling back transgender rights in cities and states across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11933387\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing glasses and a coat hold a microphone outside around people.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS60550_DSC01205-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman speaks to a crowd at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro on Nov. 27, 2022, to honor victims of the Q club shooting. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mandelman’s proposed amendment comes after supervisors amended the city administrative code in 2023 to increase transparency in nonprofits’ expense reporting. Organizations that receive more than $100,000 a year from the city for public use were required to post their annual statement on websites and report back to the city starting in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new amendment would remove five of these statements’ requirements, including listing the names of the agencies’ chief executive officer, other officers or directors and a disclosure of any other boards of directors that they sit on. It also cuts the requirement for a program-by-program description of all funding expended or budgeted, a letter from the Internal Revenue Service confirming the organization’s status as a nonprofit and a public copy of its most recent tax return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman said that the city will still require this information from organizations in “various forms,” but it will be less publicly available to people with questionable intentions.[aside postID=news_12031588 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/0M6A0870_qed-1020x680.jpg']The amendment also increases the minimum dollar amount that requires a statement from $100,000 to $1 million a year, in line with the federal standard, and widens the scope of when required information can be redacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current language says that any of the information can be redacted to ensure that privacy-related laws aren’t violated. The amendment would add a second cause for removing information — allowing organizations to redact information that puts employees at risk if they have “received threats of violence” within the last year. It would allow the same protection to nonprofits that have similar duties to other agencies that have been the target of these threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A previous version of Mandelman’s amendments only included the expansion of when information could be redacted. He said that he worked on the larger package of amendments with local nonprofits after they expressed that the policy still made them more vulnerable to harassment and violence than they were prior to the original 2023 reporting legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still requiring some additional information that was not required before 2023 to be submitted, but we’re not going to make it quite so easy for the potential harassers and ill-wishers to do harm to organizations serving vulnerable communities,” Mandelman said during the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020020\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/12/GettyImages-2174968250-e1736293413905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall in November 2024. \u003ccite>(James Carter-Johnson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beverly Upton, the executive director of San Francisco’s Domestic Violence Consortium, said that the amendment also provides much-needed security for victims of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, trafficking, and so many other areas and issues receive help in San Francisco and want to give back,” she said, thanking Mandelman and the city attorney’s office for “helping us to shape something that gives survivors and so many other people in other marginalized communities an opportunity to give back without fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upton said that as national attention toward San Francisco has intensified, people working within marginalized communities can feel less safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is being watched very closely,” she told the committee. “We just want to make sure that we keep people as safe as possible, and this will help us do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Stephen Sherrill and Mandelman both voted to approve the amendments to the legislation, but because it includes substantive changes, the ordinance will come back before the committee in April before being forwarded to the whole board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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She said her group doesn’t feel seen or heard and is disappointed negotiations have reached this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really hoping that our union and the county could come to a fair agreement,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032772\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenny Gargarita, a clinical lab scientist, poses for a photo at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San José on March 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Union leaders said they are holding the unfair labor practice strike because the county is negotiating in “bad faith” during months-long talks that began in July. Their previous contract expired in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are dedicated public servants who provide critical, laboratory-related services primarily for our hospital system. And we look forward to being able to reach an agreement with them,” County Executive James Williams said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county and union have agreed to many items of the contract so far, but the two parties are divided over two key issues, including whether the union will be allowed to hold any future “sympathy strikes” in solidarity with other unions that might go on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials said the county wants to strip that right from them and has proposed a broader array of “management rights” that workers are worried would allow the county to shift workers from one location to another without their input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032774\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032774 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-35-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-35-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-35-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-35-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-35-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-35-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-35-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roughly 200 lab techs and other medical workers in the South Bay began a three-day strike over stalled contract negotiations at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San José on March 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The county has not been clear about what their intentions are with management rights,” Loan Yumul, a nuclear medicine technologist, said Monday. “And our concern is being transferred from one facility to the next and not having proper training or different equipment … So if we’re unfamiliar with it, it could be a detriment to our patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said the county has “not made a proposal to float or shift staff from one facility to another” and that his team welcomes the union’s engagement on any specific concerns they have over the language being proposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we’re seeking is very routine standard management rights and no-strikes language that ESC itself has agreed to with many, many, other public and private hospital systems,” Williams said Monday.[aside postID=news_12032652 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_VTAStrikeDay2_GC-6_qed-1020x680.jpg']“Our hospitals provide essential life-saving services and it’s vital that we have assurance that when entering into a contract with our labor partner that we know that there’s going to be labor peace for the duration of that contract,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest public offer from the county is from December, which was rejected by the union. It included a total 15.85% wage increase for the union members over a four-year contract term, with 5% in the first year, followed by 4% in the second year, and 3% in each of the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jay Sandhu, a clinical laboratory scientist and a part of the union’s negotiating team, said the county has tied its current wage increase proposals to the proposed changes about strikes and management rights, pushing the union into its first strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been going back and forth, back and forth with the county. And we just want to have a fair negotiation,” Sandhu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and the county have, as recently as last week, been in confidential mediation for the ongoing negotiations, but both Williams and union representatives said Monday they are waiting for the other side to restart negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032773\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20240324_SANTACLARAMEDICALSTRIKE_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center campus in San José on March 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first day of the strike for county medical workers also marked the beginning of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030951/vta-strike-underscores-silicon-valleys-widening-income-inequality\">third straight week of a strike by transit workers\u003c/a> employed by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority over stalled contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams declined to comment on whether the VTA strike has affected the way his team is handling negotiations with the medical workers group, noting that union and labor negotiation situations are unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandhu said he hopes the strike his union is holding right now will help the county see how crucial employees like him are to the overall health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We may be a small group,” Sandhu said, “but what we do touches every aspect of patient care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>BAKERSFIELD — Erlinda Carrillo is already exhausted by the first two months of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump’s\u003c/a> second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her daughter lost her job at a scientific research institute after the Trump administration canceled its government contract. She’s worried layoffs at the Department of Veterans Affairs will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031166/federal-judge-in-sf-orders-trump-administration-to-reverse-mass-firings-at-6-agencies\">affect care for her brother\u003c/a>, a Vietnam War veteran. And she’s concerned about her Social Security benefits \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5320263/social-security-administration-changes-identity-office\">amid cost-cutting\u003c/a> at the Social Security Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m tired of all of the backlash that we’re actually getting due to Donald Trump,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carillo and her husband, Mitch, went looking for inspiration in the gym of a Bakersfield community center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032453/rep-ro-khanna-on-how-democrats-should-fight-back\">where Rep. Ro Khanna\u003c/a> held a town hall meeting on Sunday — hundreds of miles from his Silicon Valley district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was part of a day-long barnstorming tour of meetings in three districts represented by California Republicans for Khanna, a Democrat. Khanna mocked Republicans for not holding in-person town halls and denounced the GOP budget framework that could set the table for cuts to Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032694 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audrey Chavez (center) listens at a town hall meeting with Rep. 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They \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327600/house-democrats-outrage-spending\">reserved particular criticism\u003c/a> for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who led nine Democrats in voting for a Republican-authored budget resolution to avoid a government shutdown earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When is the Democratic Party going to set aside its peacetime leaders and bring up some wartime leaders?” Darren Bly asked Khanna. “Because that’s what we need.”[aside postID=news_12032453 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1394023104-1020x680.jpg']Khanna reiterated his stance that the party’s “old guard needs to step aside,” and said, “If the party is letting us down, it’s time to rebuild the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not fighting and marching and organizing, then you don’t understand the moment,” he continued. “We need Democratic leaders who are going to be with the people in the fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25597409-nbc-march-2025-poll/?q=stick&mode=document#document/p16\">recent NBC poll\u003c/a> found that 20% of Democratic voters have negative views of the party. 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His choice of the 22nd District was no accident: Two-thirds of residents receive health coverage through Medicaid, according to the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need three Republicans — three Republicans — to prevent the cuts to Medicaid,” Khanna told the crowd on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s representative, David Valadao, said in a speech on the House floor last month that he has heard from many constituents “who tell me the only way they can afford health care is through programs like Medicaid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not support a final reconciliation bill that risks leaving them behind,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032695 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawna Sodders-Simpson holds a sign at a town hall meeting with Rep. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carillo and her husband, Mitch, went looking for inspiration in the gym of a Bakersfield community center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032453/rep-ro-khanna-on-how-democrats-should-fight-back\">where Rep. Ro Khanna\u003c/a> held a town hall meeting on Sunday — hundreds of miles from his Silicon Valley district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was part of a day-long barnstorming tour of meetings in three districts represented by California Republicans for Khanna, a Democrat. Khanna mocked Republicans for not holding in-person town halls and denounced the GOP budget framework that could set the table for cuts to Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032694 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-12-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audrey Chavez (center) listens at a town hall meeting with Rep. Ro Khanna at the MLK Community Center in Bakersfield on March 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also got a taste of the rising frustration among Democratic voters who have criticized party leaders for lacking vitality and vision in their response to Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dispirited Democrats made up much of the crowd in Bakersfield. They \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327600/house-democrats-outrage-spending\">reserved particular criticism\u003c/a> for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who led nine Democrats in voting for a Republican-authored budget resolution to avoid a government shutdown earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When is the Democratic Party going to set aside its peacetime leaders and bring up some wartime leaders?” Darren Bly asked Khanna. “Because that’s what we need.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Khanna reiterated his stance that the party’s “old guard needs to step aside,” and said, “If the party is letting us down, it’s time to rebuild the party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not fighting and marching and organizing, then you don’t understand the moment,” he continued. “We need Democratic leaders who are going to be with the people in the fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25597409-nbc-march-2025-poll/?q=stick&mode=document#document/p16\">recent NBC poll\u003c/a> found that 20% of Democratic voters have negative views of the party. Unlike in 2017, when most Democratic voters hoped their party would pursue compromise and consensus in Congress, the survey found 65% of Democratic voters want House Democrats to stick to their positions, even if it leads to gridlock in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what we want to see,” said Mitch Carillo, pointing to Khanna as he paced the makeshift stage answering questions. “They were mentioning the old guard in the Democratic Party, and they’ve done some really great things, but it’s time to step aside and let’s let this younger generation come in and see what they can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the Republicans aren’t playing fair, they’re not playing by the rule book, I mean, whatever it takes to win, they’ll do,” Carillo added. “The Democrats don’t have an answer for that. I think people like Ro Khanna do have an answer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032696\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-14-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From center right) Connie Wright, Sally MacGuire and Ali Ramirez applaud and cheer at a town hall meeting with Rep. Ro Khanna at the MLK Community Center in Bakersfield on March 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the short-term, Khanna is hoping strategic organizing efforts can strong-arm the Republican votes needed to block potential cuts to Medicaid, which covers health care for Americans with low incomes, disabilities or who live in nursing homes. His choice of the 22nd District was no accident: Two-thirds of residents receive health coverage through Medicaid, according to the California Budget & Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need three Republicans — three Republicans — to prevent the cuts to Medicaid,” Khanna told the crowd on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s representative, David Valadao, said in a speech on the House floor last month that he has heard from many constituents “who tell me the only way they can afford health care is through programs like Medicaid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will not support a final reconciliation bill that risks leaving them behind,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12032695 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250323-DEM-TOWN-HALLS-MD-13-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dawna Sodders-Simpson holds a sign at a town hall meeting with Rep. Ro Khanna at the MLK Community Center in Bakersfield on March 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As part of a budget roadmap that will allow the party to renew their 2017 tax cut law, Republicans set a target of $880 billion in cuts to programs under the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-03/61235-Boyle-Pallone.pdf\">analysis released\u003c/a> by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that it would be impossible for Republicans to achieve that benchmark without cutting Medicaid, which accounts for $8.2 trillion of the $8.8 trillion in spending under that committee’s jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Paul, a doctor in Bakersfield, said it would be heartbreaking if cuts led to patients being unable to afford care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul, who was invited to the town hall by a coworker, heaped his own share of criticism on the Democratic Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we get young people like [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] or very progressive people like Bernie Sanders speaking truth to power, we try to marginalize them so we seem more mainstream,” he said. “This is sort of my start in becoming more active and trying to push back against what’s going on in our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 70 passionate community members, activists and organizational leaders gathered at the Japanese Cultural Community Center of Northern California in San Francisco’s Japantown to rebuke the use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The room buzzed with a sense of urgency after Trump invoked the centuries-old law to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/g-s1-54154/alien-enemies-el-salvador-trump\">deport more than 200 people\u003c/a> with alleged ties to a notorious Venezuelan gang last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many at the cultural center on Thursday, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown carried troubling echoes of history. The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked was 84 years ago, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The act, which led to the detention of Japanese, German and Italian nationals, was the precursor to the incarceration of over 120,000 people with Japanese ancestry during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It authorized then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt to detain any Japanese national who was suspected of sabotage or espionage and allowed the FBI to raid Japanese homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1941, our religious leaders, our community leaders, our school teachers were branded criminals,” Jon Osaki, executive director of the Japanese Community Youth Council, said at the event. “We need to make sure that those who are targeted in this country right now know that there are people who support them and are looking out for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks leading up to Trump’s inauguration, many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021919/bay-area-japanese-americans-draw-on-wwii-trauma-resist-deportation-threats\">Bay Area Japanese American community members had been on edge\u003c/a>, fearing he would follow through on his campaign promise to resurrect the dormant law — which has been used only three times during wartime — as a tool for mass deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Lee (center), from Chinese for Affirmative Action, speaks at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A week ago, those fears became reality. Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to justify removing alleged Venezuelan gang members, likening them to a foreign invasion despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5246028/trump-alien-enemies-act-tren-de-aragua-deportation\">a federal court order\u003c/a> to halt the deportations and the use of wartime powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Japanese American community members say the stakes couldn’t be any clearer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re no longer in the place where we’re bracing,” Carl Takei of the Asian Law Caucus, told KQED. “This is the point where fundamental aspects of our freedoms are very clearly at risk.”[aside postID=news_12021919 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_JapaneseAmericanActivism_GC-47-1020x680.jpg']A panel that included representatives from social justice organizations such as Tsuru for Solidarity, Chinese for Affirmative Action and the San Francisco Labor Council drew parallels between Trump’s anti-immigration policies and the injustices Japanese Americans endured years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some audience members were moved to tears. Others cheered as speakers urged people to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mano Raju, one of the panelists and San Francisco’s Public Defender, underscored the troubling scope of Trump’s power grab. By invoking the Alien Enemies Act, he asserted, Trump had effectively stripped immigrants of their right to due process — critical protections for anyone accused of criminal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the people — who were essentially kidnapped by the U.S. government and shipped off to El Salvador in violation of a federal court order — have pending civil court dates in order to obtain their immigration status,” Raju said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having represented individuals accused of gang affiliation, Raju called the mass deportations without a day in court “terrifying and outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were representing any of those individuals, I would actually be digging deep to understand the dynamics of who they are, and I bet you a lot of times we’re going to find that these allegations against them are actually not true,” Raju told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032493\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaking at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Takei noted the chilling similarities between the deportations and the targeting of Japanese immigrants during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These initial roundups of Japanese immigrants who were not U.S. citizens were based on very thin evidence,” said Takei, who shared how the FBI targeted his great-grandfather for speaking to civilian ship captains who were mistaken for Japanese naval officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Takei said last weekend’s deportations could be the first step in a dangerous progression that mirrors the blueprint of the gradual expansion of arrests and detentions during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first stage is the one that looks very much like what is happening right now — that is the roundups of the Issei (immigrant) generation on the basis of the Alien Enemies invocation, and the phase that came after that was a much bigger roundup of everybody, citizens and noncitizens alike,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Japanese Cultural and Community Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That second phase came when Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. A majority of the Japanese people sent to prison camps were American citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing that progression took place during World War II is one of the reasons why Japanese Americans are so angered and afraid by what is going on right now,” said Takei, who warned that if the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act stands in the courts, the implications could be serious for other immigrant groups since it blurs the line between state and non-state actors who can be deemed an invasive enemy of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derrlyn Tom, a resident of San Francisco’s Mission District, said she attended the meeting because she wants to be an ally to vulnerable immigrant groups. She said that sense of responsibility came from her time as a science teacher at Mission High School, where she taught for over 25 years, and the majority of the student population was Latino. Many students were refugees and had minimal connections or access to resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032495\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees clap for speaker Joyce Nakamura. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tom told KQED that she also attended to connect more deeply with her Japanese heritage by witnessing how the Japanese American community was mobilizing on behalf of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel it’s an honor to just be here, to see that this is happening,” Tom, 67, said. “I feel like I can and should be proud of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Deborah Lee of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity emphasized that Japanese Americans speaking up now will be crucial to resisting the Trump administration’s efforts to upend the nation’s immigration system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their history is a marker on the U.S. It’s one of the few times the United States has ever \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906015/how-japanese-americans-in-the-bay-area-are-carrying-forward-the-legacy-of-reparations\">admitted doing wrong and apologized\u003c/a>,” Lee said. “It’s so powerful to see the way they’re using their experience. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It authorized then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt to detain any Japanese national who was suspected of sabotage or espionage and allowed the FBI to raid Japanese homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1941, our religious leaders, our community leaders, our school teachers were branded criminals,” Jon Osaki, executive director of the Japanese Community Youth Council, said at the event. “We need to make sure that those who are targeted in this country right now know that there are people who support them and are looking out for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks leading up to Trump’s inauguration, many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021919/bay-area-japanese-americans-draw-on-wwii-trauma-resist-deportation-threats\">Bay Area Japanese American community members had been on edge\u003c/a>, fearing he would follow through on his campaign promise to resurrect the dormant law — which has been used only three times during wartime — as a tool for mass deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032501\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Lee (center), from Chinese for Affirmative Action, speaks at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A week ago, those fears became reality. Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to justify removing alleged Venezuelan gang members, likening them to a foreign invasion despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5246028/trump-alien-enemies-act-tren-de-aragua-deportation\">a federal court order\u003c/a> to halt the deportations and the use of wartime powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Japanese American community members say the stakes couldn’t be any clearer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re no longer in the place where we’re bracing,” Carl Takei of the Asian Law Caucus, told KQED. “This is the point where fundamental aspects of our freedoms are very clearly at risk.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A panel that included representatives from social justice organizations such as Tsuru for Solidarity, Chinese for Affirmative Action and the San Francisco Labor Council drew parallels between Trump’s anti-immigration policies and the injustices Japanese Americans endured years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some audience members were moved to tears. Others cheered as speakers urged people to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mano Raju, one of the panelists and San Francisco’s Public Defender, underscored the troubling scope of Trump’s power grab. By invoking the Alien Enemies Act, he asserted, Trump had effectively stripped immigrants of their right to due process — critical protections for anyone accused of criminal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the people — who were essentially kidnapped by the U.S. government and shipped off to El Salvador in violation of a federal court order — have pending civil court dates in order to obtain their immigration status,” Raju said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having represented individuals accused of gang affiliation, Raju called the mass deportations without a day in court “terrifying and outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were representing any of those individuals, I would actually be digging deep to understand the dynamics of who they are, and I bet you a lot of times we’re going to find that these allegations against them are actually not true,” Raju told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032493\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaking at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Takei noted the chilling similarities between the deportations and the targeting of Japanese immigrants during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These initial roundups of Japanese immigrants who were not U.S. citizens were based on very thin evidence,” said Takei, who shared how the FBI targeted his great-grandfather for speaking to civilian ship captains who were mistaken for Japanese naval officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Takei said last weekend’s deportations could be the first step in a dangerous progression that mirrors the blueprint of the gradual expansion of arrests and detentions during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first stage is the one that looks very much like what is happening right now — that is the roundups of the Issei (immigrant) generation on the basis of the Alien Enemies invocation, and the phase that came after that was a much bigger roundup of everybody, citizens and noncitizens alike,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Japanese Cultural and Community Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That second phase came when Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. A majority of the Japanese people sent to prison camps were American citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing that progression took place during World War II is one of the reasons why Japanese Americans are so angered and afraid by what is going on right now,” said Takei, who warned that if the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act stands in the courts, the implications could be serious for other immigrant groups since it blurs the line between state and non-state actors who can be deemed an invasive enemy of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derrlyn Tom, a resident of San Francisco’s Mission District, said she attended the meeting because she wants to be an ally to vulnerable immigrant groups. She said that sense of responsibility came from her time as a science teacher at Mission High School, where she taught for over 25 years, and the majority of the student population was Latino. Many students were refugees and had minimal connections or access to resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032495\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees clap for speaker Joyce Nakamura. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tom told KQED that she also attended to connect more deeply with her Japanese heritage by witnessing how the Japanese American community was mobilizing on behalf of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel it’s an honor to just be here, to see that this is happening,” Tom, 67, said. “I feel like I can and should be proud of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Deborah Lee of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity emphasized that Japanese Americans speaking up now will be crucial to resisting the Trump administration’s efforts to upend the nation’s immigration system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their history is a marker on the U.S. It’s one of the few times the United States has ever \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906015/how-japanese-americans-in-the-bay-area-are-carrying-forward-the-legacy-of-reparations\">admitted doing wrong and apologized\u003c/a>,” Lee said. “It’s so powerful to see the way they’re using their experience. 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Some have joined her group and are participating in know-your-rights training to take action, such as serving as witnesses to Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her co-founder, Mike Ishii, echoed that call to resistance, emphasizing that standing up against injustice is a long-standing tradition in the Japanese American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This moment may feel especially fraught with anxiety, but our community has risen to the occasion many times,” he said. “We are strong, powerful, loving and resilient people. And you should not make us angry. Because when our righteous indignation is activated, we become a force to be reckoned with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "In Court, Women Detail Abuse by East Bay Federal Prison Officer: ‘It Finished Me’",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains graphic language and descriptions of sexual violence.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">Darrell Wayne Smith\u003c/a> had a reputation as a correctional officer at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women incarcerated at the East Bay federal prison said he patrolled housing units wearing a cowboy hat and boots, often leaving his shirts unbuttoned with nothing underneath. When he wasn’t making rounds, they said, he sat back in his chair at the officer’s desk, kicking his feet up and leering at women as they walked by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made passing sexual comments and locked women in cells when they broke the rules, ordering them to flash him to get out or to be awarded special privileges, women testified in federal court in Oakland this week. Whenever new women arrived at the prison, they said they were warned about Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers were known for several things, but he was the officer that walked around with his shirt open, kind of cowboy style, not professional at all,” said one woman, who remembers learning his nickname, “Dirty Dick Smith,” soon after she arrived at Dublin in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He carried himself in a different way than other officers,” she said. “He was always talking to the girls in inappropriate ways or trying to get with all the girls. Kind of flirtatious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard rumors about him,” another woman told the jury. “But I never thought I was going to go through things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of a witness giving testimony under questioning by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty in the trial of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They are among eight women who have testified that Smith’s harassment went much further. Although they used their first names in court, KQED does not identify survivors of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is charged with 15 counts of sexual abuse and related crimes against five women who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin between 2016 and 2021. The low-security women’s prison was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">shut down last year\u003c/a> after a sprawling federal investigation revealed a culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight officers were charged in the fallout. Smith, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031584/east-bay-prison-sex-abuse-trial-opens-account-guards-ultimate-control\">trial began Monday\u003c/a> and will continue next week, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">last to be tried\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three women named in Smith’s case have testified against him so far. This is what they say they endured under his watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘He thought it was a joke’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first woman who took the stand on Monday, wrapped in an oversized black coat with her long dark hair pulled tightly into a bun, recalled meeting Smith while picking up her mail. She had just arrived at FCI Dublin and said he tried to connect with her about her Native heritage and told her about his home in Florida and his marital problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, she said, he began to invite her to the small desk and office that formed the officer’s station at the center of the housing unit, where he would ask her invasive questions about her sexuality and told her he liked small breasts. One day, he called her over as he was locking up at the end of his shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1920x1258.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith watching as a witness gives testimony against him in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking down at a clipboard in his hands, he asked her quietly what she might need when she was released, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said a job, I said a car,” the woman testified. “He said he’d get one for me if I’d be with him at night,” gesturing toward his groin as he responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said she shook her head and walked away, upset, but Smith’s actions only escalated. He started to comment on her feet when she wore slides to the shower, tried to touch her, and came into her cell when she was alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2020, the woman said, she was beading on her bed when Smith showed up in her doorway. He ordered her to grab a stack of books on top of her white metal storage locker across the cell.[aside postID=news_12031584 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1181905632_qed-1020x680.jpg']“When I reached up, he took off one of my socks and he pointed to my foot. He said, ‘That’s nice,’ and I stood there,” she said. “Then he cupped my butt underneath and in between my legs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next year, the woman said, Smith kissed her, stuck his fingers into her vagina and anus on multiple occasions, and once forced her to touch his penis. She started asking to be transferred to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted a change,” she told attorneys when they questioned why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final time Smith assaulted her, she said, was in the spring of 2021. She was kneeling, facing out to the window at the back of her cell, when he rushed in and stuck his hands down her pants, touching her buttocks, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He laughed and walked away. He thought it was a joke, and I was playing with him,” she testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that day, she said, he came back. She was standing with her back to the closed door, mixing instant coffee into hot water at her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He came in very fast. He had my arm with his arm, and at the same time, he was trying to put his hands down my pants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She swatted and tried to push him off, but Smith backed her against a wall, she said. Pinning her by her wrist, she said, Smith reached into her pants and inserted his finger into her anus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kept trying to fight him off of me,” she testified through tears, looking down as Smith sat across the courtroom. “I was scared, and it brought back flashbacks of other times I had been assaulted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Smith left her room, she said, she heard another woman in the hallway ask him what he had been doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘I’m trying to help her get transferred,’” the woman said, wiping her nose with a tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Smith continued to harass her but did not touch her again, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, she feared she would be sent to a solitary housing unit or face a retaliatory investigation if she reported him, but she eventually did so in March 2022. Shortly after, she was transferred to a facility in Minnesota. Two weeks ago, she was released to a reentry center, multiple years before her sentence was set to end, after being granted compassionate release because of the abuse she endured at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That was his unit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The second woman who Smith is charged with abusing said her interactions with him started when she was moved to Housing Unit C during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was his unit,” she said Tuesday, looking out toward Smith, who sat next to his defense team in a blue button-down shirt. “He bid for the unit and worked doubles. I think he got a lot of attention from that unit, and he liked it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, watching as a witness cries while giving testimony against him on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said Smith started coming by her cell for a few minutes every now and then while she was reading in bed or making food by her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would comment about my body if he thought I looked nice,” she said. “He told me I had the nicest ass he had ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman told Smith that she was dating another woman in the unit, thinking it would get him to stop pursuing her. She said Smith responded by asking if he could watch them have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months after she had moved into Housing Unit C, the woman said she went to the officer’s station to confront Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him to leave me alone and said he was causing problems in my relationships,” she told the court. He dismissed her, and she went back upstairs to her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"FCI Dublin Women's Prison in Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, a women’s prison in the East Bay, on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even make it to the back of the cell before he was in the room, closing the door behind him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she had just walked past the room’s toilet and was standing in front of the lockers squeezed into the corner opposite her bed when “he told me to take my clothes off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “to lean over the locker. He put his fingers inside me,” she said. “I felt violated. I was in pain because he was rough. It didn’t feel like a sexual thing, it was an ‘I run shit’ thing … ‘This is my house, and I am going to do what I want.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith pulled back after that. Sometimes, he would stand in her way, forcing her to brush up against him when she passed, she said, but he left her mostly alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really relieved and hoping that would be the end of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one morning, in the fall or winter of 2020, she said, she was starting the early load on her new job as a laundry orderly for her unit when Smith came into the room behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to bend over, and he again put his fingers in my vagina,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job was one of the few positions that gave women permission to leave their cells during COVID-19 restrictions. Every morning, she would roll out of bed just after 4 a.m. and drag the first load of dirty uniforms down the dark hallway to the laundry room. She said she would be half-asleep as she started the washing machine and stumbled back to her cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few months, the woman said, Smith followed her into the laundry room again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like, ‘When is this going to end?’” she said. “Before he even did it [the second time], I thought he was going to. I heard his keys coming down the hall, and he just said, ‘Bend over.’ It was almost like a routine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after the two incidents in the laundry room, she wasn’t assaulted by Smith again. She filed a Prison Rape Elimination Act report against him at the end of 2022 and was released from prison in May, 18 months early, through a compassionate release agreement based on her abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt like I couldn’t do anything’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The third of Smith’s victims who testified this week was also transferred to Housing Unit C in the early days of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Welcome to my unit,’” the woman recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started being nice to me, getting close to me, talking to me at the balcony outside my room,” she said. “I heard rumors about him. I never thought I was going to go through things like that, but he made me uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-800x489.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1020x623.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1536x938.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1920x1173.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch shows former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, listen as a witness testifies in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Paulson is questioning her, and District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sits on the bench. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He started calling her over to the officer’s station, where he would tell her about his trips to Tijuana and ask about her family, she said. He told her he was attracted to Hispanic women with long hair, like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she was lying on her bed when she was supposed to line up for a count or have gotten up for the day, she said Smith would come in her room and spank her, saying she needed to “get ready for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began to call her his girlfriend, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said he was crazy and that I didn’t want to be part of it, I was not his girlfriend,” she told the jury. “He said I would come around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith started withholding mail her husband had sent, she said, shaking the physical letters over her head while he motioned for her to lift up her shirt. On multiple occasions, he would pull back her shower curtain and stare.[aside postID=news_12031908 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“He would touch me, spank me, rub my back when I was sleeping,” she testified. “He told me to get up and look pretty for [him].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said he told her that if she didn’t cooperate, he would take away her mail or her telephone and commissary privileges. Once, he ripped up a letter of hers in front of her, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in September 2020, he came by her cell in the evening. He told her that if she met him in the laundry room after curfew, he would give her a cellphone to call her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to walk in, and he started touching me,” she said. “I started pushing him away and saying I just wanted to see my kids. He said I needed to earn it. I wasn’t ready for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith assaulted her three times in the laundry room, sticking his fingers into her anus and vagina and exposing his penis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just closed my eyes and just lost it,” she said. “I felt so disgusted, I felt powerless. I wanted to defend myself. I wanted to do something, and I felt like I couldn’t do anything. Who was I going to ask for help, who was I going to tell?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Smith assaulted her was in the winter of 2020, she said. This time, he told her to go to the janitor’s closet, which was down the dark, sterile hallway from the laundry room she had grown accustomed to meeting him in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that she knew “he wanted more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t want to finger me or play with me or just interact with me no more,” she said. “He wanted to hurt me by getting what he wanted, to use me, to have sex with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith waited for her at the entrance to the hallway that led to the closet and followed behind her, walking slowly in his jeans and cowboy boots, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just walked toward me and told me to turn around. I wanted to push him away, but I guess he was tired of me, my actions, my mouth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997597\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Backed into a wall of tall black lockers, she said, she turned around and bent over. He forced her to have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was nothing,” she said quietly in court, pausing as she spoke. “I had no say. I couldn’t defend myself toward somebody who was there to do right for us. Instead of helping, he had done all the wrongs and really hurt me, really damaged me and showed me that I had no way of getting out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after that, Smith moved on to a new “girlfriend” but continued to harass her. She reported his abuse in December 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she remained in Dublin until it was abruptly shuttered last April, when she was transferred to a federal prison in Florida. She was also party to a civil suit that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">settled in December\u003c/a> and has had her sentence shortened by seven years as part of a compassionate release deal. Smith’s defense pointed out that she was undocumented when she was arrested and will likely be granted a U-visa — which is set aside for victims of certain crimes — for aiding the government in Smith’s trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, Smith’s “abuse broke me, it finished me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money, there’s no visa that would change anything. Not even me looking at my kids would change the damage that he cost me,” she said. “It is more painful than anything, and I don’t think I can recover from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Kind of flirtatious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard rumors about him,” another woman told the jury. “But I never thought I was going to go through things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of a witness giving testimony under questioning by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty in the trial of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They are among eight women who have testified that Smith’s harassment went much further. Although they used their first names in court, KQED does not identify survivors of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is charged with 15 counts of sexual abuse and related crimes against five women who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin between 2016 and 2021. The low-security women’s prison was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">shut down last year\u003c/a> after a sprawling federal investigation revealed a culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight officers were charged in the fallout. Smith, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031584/east-bay-prison-sex-abuse-trial-opens-account-guards-ultimate-control\">trial began Monday\u003c/a> and will continue next week, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">last to be tried\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three women named in Smith’s case have testified against him so far. This is what they say they endured under his watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘He thought it was a joke’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first woman who took the stand on Monday, wrapped in an oversized black coat with her long dark hair pulled tightly into a bun, recalled meeting Smith while picking up her mail. She had just arrived at FCI Dublin and said he tried to connect with her about her Native heritage and told her about his home in Florida and his marital problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, she said, he began to invite her to the small desk and office that formed the officer’s station at the center of the housing unit, where he would ask her invasive questions about her sexuality and told her he liked small breasts. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When I reached up, he took off one of my socks and he pointed to my foot. He said, ‘That’s nice,’ and I stood there,” she said. “Then he cupped my butt underneath and in between my legs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next year, the woman said, Smith kissed her, stuck his fingers into her vagina and anus on multiple occasions, and once forced her to touch his penis. She started asking to be transferred to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted a change,” she told attorneys when they questioned why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final time Smith assaulted her, she said, was in the spring of 2021. She was kneeling, facing out to the window at the back of her cell, when he rushed in and stuck his hands down her pants, touching her buttocks, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He laughed and walked away. He thought it was a joke, and I was playing with him,” she testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that day, she said, he came back. She was standing with her back to the closed door, mixing instant coffee into hot water at her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He came in very fast. He had my arm with his arm, and at the same time, he was trying to put his hands down my pants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She swatted and tried to push him off, but Smith backed her against a wall, she said. Pinning her by her wrist, she said, Smith reached into her pants and inserted his finger into her anus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kept trying to fight him off of me,” she testified through tears, looking down as Smith sat across the courtroom. “I was scared, and it brought back flashbacks of other times I had been assaulted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Smith left her room, she said, she heard another woman in the hallway ask him what he had been doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘I’m trying to help her get transferred,’” the woman said, wiping her nose with a tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Smith continued to harass her but did not touch her again, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, she feared she would be sent to a solitary housing unit or face a retaliatory investigation if she reported him, but she eventually did so in March 2022. Shortly after, she was transferred to a facility in Minnesota. Two weeks ago, she was released to a reentry center, multiple years before her sentence was set to end, after being granted compassionate release because of the abuse she endured at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That was his unit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The second woman who Smith is charged with abusing said her interactions with him started when she was moved to Housing Unit C during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was his unit,” she said Tuesday, looking out toward Smith, who sat next to his defense team in a blue button-down shirt. “He bid for the unit and worked doubles. I think he got a lot of attention from that unit, and he liked it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, watching as a witness cries while giving testimony against him on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said Smith started coming by her cell for a few minutes every now and then while she was reading in bed or making food by her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would comment about my body if he thought I looked nice,” she said. “He told me I had the nicest ass he had ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman told Smith that she was dating another woman in the unit, thinking it would get him to stop pursuing her. She said Smith responded by asking if he could watch them have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months after she had moved into Housing Unit C, the woman said she went to the officer’s station to confront Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him to leave me alone and said he was causing problems in my relationships,” she told the court. He dismissed her, and she went back upstairs to her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"FCI Dublin Women's Prison in Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, a women’s prison in the East Bay, on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even make it to the back of the cell before he was in the room, closing the door behind him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she had just walked past the room’s toilet and was standing in front of the lockers squeezed into the corner opposite her bed when “he told me to take my clothes off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “to lean over the locker. He put his fingers inside me,” she said. “I felt violated. I was in pain because he was rough. It didn’t feel like a sexual thing, it was an ‘I run shit’ thing … ‘This is my house, and I am going to do what I want.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith pulled back after that. Sometimes, he would stand in her way, forcing her to brush up against him when she passed, she said, but he left her mostly alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really relieved and hoping that would be the end of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one morning, in the fall or winter of 2020, she said, she was starting the early load on her new job as a laundry orderly for her unit when Smith came into the room behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to bend over, and he again put his fingers in my vagina,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job was one of the few positions that gave women permission to leave their cells during COVID-19 restrictions. Every morning, she would roll out of bed just after 4 a.m. and drag the first load of dirty uniforms down the dark hallway to the laundry room. She said she would be half-asleep as she started the washing machine and stumbled back to her cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few months, the woman said, Smith followed her into the laundry room again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like, ‘When is this going to end?’” she said. “Before he even did it [the second time], I thought he was going to. I heard his keys coming down the hall, and he just said, ‘Bend over.’ It was almost like a routine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after the two incidents in the laundry room, she wasn’t assaulted by Smith again. She filed a Prison Rape Elimination Act report against him at the end of 2022 and was released from prison in May, 18 months early, through a compassionate release agreement based on her abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt like I couldn’t do anything’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The third of Smith’s victims who testified this week was also transferred to Housing Unit C in the early days of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Welcome to my unit,’” the woman recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started being nice to me, getting close to me, talking to me at the balcony outside my room,” she said. “I heard rumors about him. 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He told her he was attracted to Hispanic women with long hair, like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she was lying on her bed when she was supposed to line up for a count or have gotten up for the day, she said Smith would come in her room and spank her, saying she needed to “get ready for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began to call her his girlfriend, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said he was crazy and that I didn’t want to be part of it, I was not his girlfriend,” she told the jury. “He said I would come around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith started withholding mail her husband had sent, she said, shaking the physical letters over her head while he motioned for her to lift up her shirt. On multiple occasions, he would pull back her shower curtain and stare.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Federal transportation safety officials named six major \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> bridges that could be vulnerable to collapse if hit by a large container ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-gate-bridge\">Golden Gate\u003c/a>, Richmond-San Rafael, Carquinez, Benicia-Martinez, Antioch and San Mateo-Hayward bridges are among a list of 68 older spans in 19 states that “have an unknown level of risk of collapse from a vessel collision,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/MIR2510.pdf\">new report\u003c/a> from the National Transportation Safety Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency’s findings are part of an investigation into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/who-is-missing-in-baltimores-francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-what-we-know-about-those-unaccounted-for/\">collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge\u003c/a> in Baltimore last year after a malfunctioning cargo ship slammed into the bridge’s support column. The collision killed six construction workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the report, NTSB investigators blamed Maryland transportation officials for failing to complete a recommended vulnerability assessment that would have shown the bridge was at significant risk of collapse from a ship strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy told reporters on Thursday that the disaster “could have been prevented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11704847\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/beniciabridge131231.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11704847\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/beniciabridge131231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/beniciabridge131231.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/beniciabridge131231-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/beniciabridge131231-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/beniciabridge131231-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/beniciabridge131231-1200x797.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/beniciabridge131231-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/beniciabridge131231-960x638.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/beniciabridge131231-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/beniciabridge131231-375x249.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/beniciabridge131231-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Benicia Bridge and Suisun Bay, viewed from Franklin Ridge in Carquinez Strait Regional Shoreline. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Had they done the assessment, they “would have been able to proactively identify strategies to reduce the risk of a collapse and loss of lives associated with a vessel collision with the bridge,” she said. “There’s no excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of the findings, the agency is urging state and local authorities overseeing the 68 named bridges to “develop and implement a comprehensive risk reduction plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NTSB’s report targets large bridges constructed before 1991, when the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials developed a vulnerability assessment calculation for new bridges. The agency, however, emphasized that it was not suggesting the bridges “are certain to collapse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Homendy emphasized that standard container ships today are substantially larger than they were when many of these bridges were built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11749629 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/aad-1447-1020x824.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These bridge owners need to be looking at recent vessel traffic,” she said. “Vessels have gotten bigger, heavier. At one point in the 1950s, we had vessels that had just 800 containers on them. Now we’re talking 24,000 containers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans said it is reviewing the NTSB’s safety recommendations but noted that all state-owned bridges — including five of the Bay Area spans listed in the report — are regularly inspected and have been seismically retrofitted “to the highest national standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s bridges are safe for travel, and Caltrans has installed fender systems on all major bridges, further protecting bridge piers from the unlikely and rare event of being struck by marine traffic,” the agency said in a statement on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, which owns the Golden Gate Bridge, responded similarly to NTSB’s recommendations, saying it was in full compliance with all state and federal regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Golden Gate Bridge has one of the most robust ship collision protection systems of any bridge on the West Coast,” the district said in a statement. But “in light of the tragic Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse,” the district recently commissioned an assessment of the bridge’s south tower fender system’s capacity to withstand a ship collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1456821940.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11938559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1456821940.jpg\" alt=\"Several people dressed in raincoats and holding umbrellas stand behind the Golden Gate Bridge.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1456821940.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1456821940-800x544.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1456821940-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1456821940-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People look at the Golden Gate Bridge at a vista point during a rainfall on Jan. 15, 2023, in Sausalito. \u003ccite>(Liu Guanguan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Absent from the NTSB’s report is the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which survived two major ship collisions, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/the-day-a-cargo-ship-crashed-into-sf-bay-bridge/\">2007\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ship-s-pilot-blamed-for-bridge-crash-4410899.php\">2013\u003c/a>, but was protected in part by its fenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real key, as I see it, is assessing probabilities of risk,” said John Goodwin, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which oversees the Bay Area’s toll authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, and the Bay Area in particular, has a lot of old bridges, Goodwin added, noting that Caltrans and local districts are conducting a multi-billion dollar, 10-year campaign “to keep every one of those structures in tip-top shape for decades to come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a comprehensive assessment of what is needed to keep these bridges going really in perpetuity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed reporting to this story\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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