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Her early departure led to questions about whether the board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035005/oakland-school-board-may-replace-superintendent-despite-contract-extension\">pushed her out.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the union-backed board majority approved a $2.5 million agreement to restore teaching roles that were initially proposed to be cut this fall, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038078/oakland-teachers-set-strike-this-week-union-tells-school-district\">narrowly avoiding a labor strike\u003c/a>. At the time, it did not make any additional cuts to offset the expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard, Bachelor and board members Rachel Latta and VanCedric Williams, who approved those moves, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate letter last week, conditionally approving OUSD’s 2025–26 budget, Castro gave the board a deadline of Oct. 8 to direct district staff on how to make mid-year budget reductions to rebalance spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/007_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/007_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/007_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/007_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified students and parents make signs to support teachers at a ‘solidarity school’ in Diamond Park, Oakland, on May 11, 2023, as the Oakland Unified School District teacher strike continues. Parents, teachers, and middle and high school students volunteer to watch students, providing lunch and activities. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson believes the necessary cuts will be at least $10 million for this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They would have to further cut currently planned expenses, though, to fulfill new wage demands from the Oakland Education Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers union, whose contract expired in June, sent the district a compensation proposal in August requesting a 9% retroactive raise from July, and an additional 5% increase next year, among other costly demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until our district prioritizes stability, every year our schools will lose incredible educators to other districts with better pay and benefits,” said OEA president Kampala Taiz-Rancifer. “We know that districts that invest in their classroom staff see successful and supported students as a result, and we need to see OUSD do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said the district hasn’t set aside any money for increased wages and will have to make dollar-for-dollar cuts to raise them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our teachers union wants a $20 million package for this year, we will have to make $20 million in spending cuts for this year in order to do that,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said board leadership has yet to schedule a meeting to discuss the necessary cuts. If they fail to act, he said, it might be best for the county to step back in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 20: A previous version of this story misattributed a statement to Jessica Beard, communications organizer for the California Teachers Association. It has been corrected to attribute the statement to Kampala Taiz-Rancifer, president of the Oakland Education Association, a workforce services specialist. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter detailed a series of moves by the school board over the last year that have pushed the district toward disarray: first failing to take action on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">a plan to merge schools\u003c/a> in December to save about $3 million annually, and later continuing to renege on its own service and personnel cuts meant to close a $95 million budget deficit for the 2025–26 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, district budget chief Lisa Grant-Dawson wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ousd.org/communications-public-affairs/newsroom/news/~board/ousd-news/post/the-closing-of-the-books-for-the-2024-25-budget-continues-the-sobering-financial-news-for-the-district\">separate letter to families\u003c/a> that OUSD’s expenses have been outpacing revenue by about $4 million a month for nearly a year. The district’s budget reserve has shrunk by 53% in the last year, dwindling from $118 million to just $55.8 million, according to newly updated financial information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-2_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-2_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-2_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-2_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District parents, students and community leaders rally in support of improved schools, ahead of an OUSD board meeting at Metwest High School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grant-Dawson said that reserve will shrink further this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spending plan passed in June already violated OUSD’s policy to maintain reserves of at least 3% of its budget for unexpected expenses. Based on the updated numbers, Grant-Dawson said the district will not only spend the small $374,000 cushion it did preserve but also dip below the state’s lower 2% reserve requirement, risking financial insolvency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like districts across the state, Oakland is struggling with declining enrollment, rising costs for services and employees, and federal and state funding cuts. That has made it difficult for OUSD to regain its financial footing after taking a $100 million loan from the state in 2003 in exchange for control over its operations, but it was on the right track, said school board member Mike Hutchinson, who chairs the district’s finance committee.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Now, he believes new board leadership is driving the district back into financial jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just been a series of actions and inactions that have led us to this point,” Hutchinson said. “We were always trying to thread the needle, and with this series of actions, it’s taken all of that leeway away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson, who was among the board members opposed to merging schools in December, pointed to a series of 4–3 votes over the last nine months. He places much of the blame for the board’s shortcomings on President Jennifer Brouhard and Vice President Valarie Bachelor, who were elected board leaders in a 4–3 vote in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, that same voting bloc — which is backed by the teachers union, has been aligned on several votes that have gone against district staff and affected OUSD’s financial situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, they made changes to the district’s budget balancing plan that ended up \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040189/ousd-after-school-programs-could-be-cut-by-at-least-50\">causing upheaval to after-school programs\u003c/a> and could have cut about a third of the district’s spending on third-party services and contracts. Those union-backed “alternative budget balancing solutions,” which Brouhard said aimed to restore classroom personnel cuts, were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041279/ousd-cancels-controversial-after-school-cuts-but-deep-divisions-within-school-board-remain\">ultimately rescinded\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same four board members in April approved a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037315/oakland-school-board-votes-remove-superintendent-sparking-worries-instability\">separation agreement with Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell\u003c/a>, who was contracted to remain with OUSD until 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038081\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/021_KQED_OUSDTeacherStrike_05112023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/021_KQED_OUSDTeacherStrike_05112023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/021_KQED_OUSDTeacherStrike_05112023_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/021_KQED_OUSDTeacherStrike_05112023_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/021_KQED_OUSDTeacherStrike_05112023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/021_KQED_OUSDTeacherStrike_05112023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/021_KQED_OUSDTeacherStrike_05112023_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District teachers, parents and students rally outside of Glenview Elementary in Oakland on May 11, 2023, during a teacher strike in the district. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The longtime leader had been credited with much of the district’s financial recovery since taking over in 2017, but often sparred with the teachers union. Her early departure led to questions about whether the board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035005/oakland-school-board-may-replace-superintendent-despite-contract-extension\">pushed her out.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the union-backed board majority approved a $2.5 million agreement to restore teaching roles that were initially proposed to be cut this fall, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038078/oakland-teachers-set-strike-this-week-union-tells-school-district\">narrowly avoiding a labor strike\u003c/a>. At the time, it did not make any additional cuts to offset the expense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard, Bachelor and board members Rachel Latta and VanCedric Williams, who approved those moves, did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate letter last week, conditionally approving OUSD’s 2025–26 budget, Castro gave the board a deadline of Oct. 8 to direct district staff on how to make mid-year budget reductions to rebalance spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/007_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/007_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/007_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/007_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified students and parents make signs to support teachers at a ‘solidarity school’ in Diamond Park, Oakland, on May 11, 2023, as the Oakland Unified School District teacher strike continues. Parents, teachers, and middle and high school students volunteer to watch students, providing lunch and activities. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson believes the necessary cuts will be at least $10 million for this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They would have to further cut currently planned expenses, though, to fulfill new wage demands from the Oakland Education Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teachers union, whose contract expired in June, sent the district a compensation proposal in August requesting a 9% retroactive raise from July, and an additional 5% increase next year, among other costly demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until our district prioritizes stability, every year our schools will lose incredible educators to other districts with better pay and benefits,” said OEA president Kampala Taiz-Rancifer. “We know that districts that invest in their classroom staff see successful and supported students as a result, and we need to see OUSD do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said the district hasn’t set aside any money for increased wages and will have to make dollar-for-dollar cuts to raise them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If our teachers union wants a $20 million package for this year, we will have to make $20 million in spending cuts for this year in order to do that,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said board leadership has yet to schedule a meeting to discuss the necessary cuts. 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These are systemic, not isolated.”[aside postID=news_12013684 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ShengThaoPamelaPrice-1020x680.jpg']Aside from San Francisco, Alameda County is also the only California district that runs complicated ranked choice voting across multiple cities. 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Tam requested the Election Center’s review of the registrar’s office. \u003ccite>(Marnette Federis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Lena Tam, who requested the Election Center’s review of the registrar’s office, said she hoped it would help the office improve its transparency and accountability, and inform supervisors’ strategy for recruiting a new person, or two, to fill Dupuis’ roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nate Miley said at last week’s meeting that he expected the review to confirm a need to decouple the positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to thank Mr. Dupuis for his service in navigating the [Registrar of Voters] and [Information Technology Department] through some tumultuous times with varying ranked choice voting methodologies among four cities, youth voting, two recall elections and keeping the county safe from hackers,” Tam said. “I wish him the best as he focuses on his health and in his future endeavors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dupuis said via email that he plans to run the Nov. 4 special election, where California voters will decide on Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jeremy Walsh walked into the raucous Casements Bar in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> on a recent Thursday night and promptly put on a name tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He came to the Mission’s neighborhood Irish pub to attend a “speed-roommating” event, where participants share the same goal: finding someone to live with. Walsh had moved from San Diego a few weeks ago for a job managing an RV and camper van site and has been living in cheap hotels ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep up with the city’s high rents, he knows he needs to find an apartment he can afford — and that means finding a roommate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad this event is going on because I would really like to stop living out of a suitcase,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walsh donned a white nametag reading, “I Need A Room.” As he entered the bar’s crowded outdoor patio, he kept an eye out for blue tags that said, “I Have A Room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I do feel like I’m speed dating,” he said as he surveyed the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056574\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SpareRoom_GH-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SpareRoom_GH-8_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SpareRoom_GH-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SpareRoom_GH-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Walsh (right), who recently moved from San Diego after accepting a job in the Bay Area, during the SpareRoom event at Casements Bar in the Mission District on Sept. 11, 2025. Walsh hopes to find housing near Millbrae and is staying in a hotel until then. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SpareRoom, the company hosting the event, is an online platform for finding roommates based out of the United Kingdom. The company modeled the event after speed-dating, but without a bell, time limit and rotating chairs. Instead, renters congregate at a public place — usually a bar — and put on name tags stating their name, budget and where they want to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson Matt Hutchinson said the events draw participants that mirror the larger housing market — and increasingly, reflect its growing unaffordability for an ever-broadening range of renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re the housing crisis in a room,” Hutchinson said. “[The events are] a visible indicator of what is going on outside that room.”[aside postID=news_12051854 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240109-CAWindStorm-075_qed-1020x680.jpg']With one-bedroom apartments averaging \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-francisco-ca/?propertyTypes=apartment-condo&bedrooms=1\">nearly $2,700 in monthly rent\u003c/a> in San Francisco, according to the real estate website Zillow, single people looking for a steal can potentially save big if they find a roommate. But even then, those savings don’t go far: Rent for a two-bedroom apartment in the city is 140% higher than the national average — more than $3,600 compared to around $1,500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what brought John Nevis out. The bartender moved from the East Bay to an apartment in the city sight-unseen. But within a week of staying there, he learned the apartment was not as advertised and moved out. He’s been living in a hotel ever since, and it’s getting expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hotel — they have limits as well, you can’t live there forever,” he said. “When you don’t know where you’re gonna be at the end of the night, it puts a lot of stress on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SpareRoom held its first event in San Francisco in late May, where more than 40 people participated, according to a local SpareRoom event organizer. This month’s event saw half that number, but one feature remained constant: More people were looking for a room than had one to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levi Butler, 26, was one of the few who did. Noting the disparity, he felt he should take his time to meet as many candidates as possible to fill his two-bedroom Ingleside apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SpareRoom_GH-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SpareRoom_GH-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SpareRoom_GH-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SpareRoom_GH-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of attendees gather for SpareRoom’s speed-roommating event at Casements Bar in the Mission District on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t say I have chemistry with anyone here,” he said. “I feel, with male roommates, the goal is that you pretend the other person doesn’t exist, and each just lives in their own world. So as long as I feel I can do that, then I’m fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said, usually, the people who show up to speed-roommating events are around Butler’s age, in their 20s or 30s, but recently, the demographics of SpareRoom users have broadened, with many new users being older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not necessarily that people in their 50s and 60s are the biggest group of [people looking for] roommates, but they’re definitely the fastest growing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That mirrors rental market trends. According to a recently published study by \u003ca href=\"https://www.point2homes.com/news/research/senior-age-group-up-over-2-million-renters-in-a-decade.html\">rental market research group Point2Homes\u003c/a>, people aged 55- to 64-years-old are more likely to rent than they were a decade ago. In California, the trend is even more grim: older adults, 50 years and older, are the \u003ca href=\"https://justiceinaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CA-Older-Renters-Policy-Brief.pdf\">fastest-growing cohort of people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-6-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-6-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-6-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-6-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants mingle during SpareRoom’s speed-roommating event at Casements Bar in the Mission District on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At this month’s speed-roommating event, Walsh felt like one of the older attendees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had approached Butler and connected with him over a shared love of movies. But Walsh is 49. And, he worried the age gap could ruin his chances of getting the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like Levi was just kind of like, ‘Whatever dude, I’ll talk to this guy, I’ve got what everybody wants,’” Walsh said. “I got the feeling I was just a placeholder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Hutchinson said the company doesn’t track how many of the attendees end up as roommates, he said they provide a needed alternative to the online world by moving house-hunting conversations into the real world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-3-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-3-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-3-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-3-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hester Michael fills out a name tag during a SpareRoom speed-roommating event at Casements Bar in the Mission District on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you’re [sitting] at a bar or talking to somebody to see if you might live together, you behave differently than if you’re just going through a list and swiping this and dismissing that,” he said. “It can make a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becca Freeman was ready to try something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 30-year-old moved to the city from Boston in January and has been renting a two-bedroom apartment in Russian Hill. But starting Oct. 1, Freeman said her uncles, who own the building and have kept her rent low, will increase it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had placed ads for a roommate on SpareRoom, Meta’s Marketplace, Craigslist, and other online forums, and even though people have toured the apartment, she hasn’t gotten any bites. The room is priced at $1,950 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the speed-roommating event, the dynamic was much different, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-12-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-12-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-12-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-12-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven S., a San Francisco guitar shop owner and 40-year resident, pauses during the SpareRoom speed-roommating event at Casements Bar in the Mission District on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It feels better because, honestly, I wasn’t getting a lot [of interest] on the internet,” Freeman said. “These people are actually looking for a room, and they’re not a bot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the night, Freeman said she met three people who seemed like good candidates. The most desirable was a guy who told Freeman that he was looking for a one-year lease before he moved to Europe. Most importantly, he isn’t allergic to cats, which is a plus for Freeman, who has a cat named Oliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walsh left with a few possible matches, but nothing concrete. Same for Butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevis left without any. He felt he was competing with too many others who were also looking for a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The house hunt] hasn’t been great, but I know it’s going to get better, he said. “The right thing is going to come about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He’s been living in a hotel ever since, and it’s getting expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hotel — they have limits as well, you can’t live there forever,” he said. “When you don’t know where you’re gonna be at the end of the night, it puts a lot of stress on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SpareRoom held its first event in San Francisco in late May, where more than 40 people participated, according to a local SpareRoom event organizer. This month’s event saw half that number, but one feature remained constant: More people were looking for a room than had one to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levi Butler, 26, was one of the few who did. Noting the disparity, he felt he should take his time to meet as many candidates as possible to fill his two-bedroom Ingleside apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SpareRoom_GH-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SpareRoom_GH-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SpareRoom_GH-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SpareRoom_GH-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of attendees gather for SpareRoom’s speed-roommating event at Casements Bar in the Mission District on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t say I have chemistry with anyone here,” he said. “I feel, with male roommates, the goal is that you pretend the other person doesn’t exist, and each just lives in their own world. So as long as I feel I can do that, then I’m fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said, usually, the people who show up to speed-roommating events are around Butler’s age, in their 20s or 30s, but recently, the demographics of SpareRoom users have broadened, with many new users being older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not necessarily that people in their 50s and 60s are the biggest group of [people looking for] roommates, but they’re definitely the fastest growing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That mirrors rental market trends. According to a recently published study by \u003ca href=\"https://www.point2homes.com/news/research/senior-age-group-up-over-2-million-renters-in-a-decade.html\">rental market research group Point2Homes\u003c/a>, people aged 55- to 64-years-old are more likely to rent than they were a decade ago. In California, the trend is even more grim: older adults, 50 years and older, are the \u003ca href=\"https://justiceinaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CA-Older-Renters-Policy-Brief.pdf\">fastest-growing cohort of people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-6-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-6-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-6-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-6-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants mingle during SpareRoom’s speed-roommating event at Casements Bar in the Mission District on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At this month’s speed-roommating event, Walsh felt like one of the older attendees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had approached Butler and connected with him over a shared love of movies. But Walsh is 49. And, he worried the age gap could ruin his chances of getting the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like Levi was just kind of like, ‘Whatever dude, I’ll talk to this guy, I’ve got what everybody wants,’” Walsh said. “I got the feeling I was just a placeholder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Hutchinson said the company doesn’t track how many of the attendees end up as roommates, he said they provide a needed alternative to the online world by moving house-hunting conversations into the real world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-3-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-3-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-3-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-3-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hester Michael fills out a name tag during a SpareRoom speed-roommating event at Casements Bar in the Mission District on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you’re [sitting] at a bar or talking to somebody to see if you might live together, you behave differently than if you’re just going through a list and swiping this and dismissing that,” he said. “It can make a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becca Freeman was ready to try something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 30-year-old moved to the city from Boston in January and has been renting a two-bedroom apartment in Russian Hill. But starting Oct. 1, Freeman said her uncles, who own the building and have kept her rent low, will increase it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had placed ads for a roommate on SpareRoom, Meta’s Marketplace, Craigslist, and other online forums, and even though people have toured the apartment, she hasn’t gotten any bites. The room is priced at $1,950 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the speed-roommating event, the dynamic was much different, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-12-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-12-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-12-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250911_SPAREROOM_GH-12-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven S., a San Francisco guitar shop owner and 40-year resident, pauses during the SpareRoom speed-roommating event at Casements Bar in the Mission District on Sept. 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It feels better because, honestly, I wasn’t getting a lot [of interest] on the internet,” Freeman said. “These people are actually looking for a room, and they’re not a bot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the night, Freeman said she met three people who seemed like good candidates. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom’s\u003c/a> plan to redraw California’s congressional map has kicked off a game of musical chairs as candidates evaluate which districts they’ll run in and see new possibilities to jump into districts that were previously not competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have already announced plans to switch districts if voters approve the new maps in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chaos breeds opportunity in politics, and that’s what we’re experiencing right now,” said Katie Merrill, a veteran Democratic political strategist and campaign consultant. “It’s basically opening more doors than it’s closing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in November will be asked to approve Newsom’s proposal to toss out the congressional maps drawn four years ago by California’s independent citizens redistricting commission and temporarily adopt partisan maps that gerrymander districts to favor Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s pitch came in response to President Donald Trump’s demand that Republican states redraw their maps to solidify House Republicans’ precarious majority in 2026. If the GOP loses the House, Trump would face considerable roadblocks to his agenda and also subject his administration to Democratic scrutiny — and potentially impeachment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052277\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomRedistrictingCAGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomRedistrictingCAGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomRedistrictingCAGetty-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomRedistrictingCAGetty-1536x1034.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about the “Election Rigging Response Act” at a press conference at the Democracy Center, Japanese American National Museum, on Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. Newsom spoke about a possible California referendum on redistricting to counter the legislative effort to add five Republican House seats in the state of Texas. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marni von Wilpert, a Democratic San Diego city councilmember who flipped the city’s most conservative district blue in 2020, is diving headfirst through one of those newly opened doors. The 42-year-old former congressional staffer for the House labor committee recently announced she would challenge Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, an 11-term incumbent, in the new proposed 48th District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the lines were redrawn, it did open up a valuable opportunity,” von Wilpert told CalMatters. She said that a younger LGBTQ Democrat like her stood a much stronger chance of toppling Issa under the proposed maps, which add more registered Democrats to the voter pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Democratic congressional hopefuls and at least one Republican have signaled that they too would switch districts should voters adopt the new maps. Democrats Brandon Riker, Anuj Dixit and Abel Chavez, who all filed to run against longtime incumbent Republican Rep. Ken Calvert, have announced they’ll switch to run against Issa if voters approve the maps in November.[aside postID=news_12051494 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomTexasDemsAP.jpg']Dixit, a voting rights attorney, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/anujdixitca/status/1960348028331753840/photo/1\">declared on social media\u003c/a> that he would fight to pass Newsom’s redistricting plan and challenge Issa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riker, an entrepreneur who previously ran for lieutenant governor of Vermont in 2016, chose less overtly pro-Prop. 50 language and instead committed to running in whichever district contained his home base of Palm Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both Calvert and Issa are voting against California families and dodging their constituents,” Riker said in a statement. “No matter where the boundaries fall, I got in this race to represent my community in Palm Springs,” he added. “If we don’t put a stop to Trump’s madness, Californians will suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riker said he would continue campaigning actively in both districts until voters settled the maps in November. Chavez, a former teacher and now president of his local school board in Nuevo, similarly defended his decision to switch districts as a choice to represent his home community and refrained from any pro-Proposition 50 language in his \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Abel4Congress/status/1965114481865839035\">social media announcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Republican Kevin Lincoln is eyeing a district swap should voters approve the new maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lincoln, the former mayor of Stockton, has already launched a rematch campaign against Democratic incumbent Rep. Josh Harder, to whom he lost in 2024. But if voters embrace the new maps, Lincoln has indicated he might instead challenge the more vulnerable Democratic Rep. Adam Gray, whose district under the new maps is gerrymandered to capture part of Stockton’s downtown core.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prop. 50 delay is a boon to Democrats\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rather than wait for a final verdict on Prop. 50, candidates are forging ahead with voter engagement and fundraising as best they can, even without a guarantee that the new maps will prevail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the correct strategy for Democrats, said Merrill, the Democratic strategist, given that there will be plenty of time for fundraising and endorsement gathering after Nov. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241105-ELECTIONDAY-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters drop off their ballots on Election Day at City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everybody should jump out there and start the race,” Merrill said. “They have to sort of stake their ground so they freeze other candidates from jumping in. They send signals to the endorsing groups and donors about what they’re intending to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight for Proposition 50, which is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars that might otherwise flow toward individual candidates — could actually benefit Democrats even though it delays their ability to fundraise and gather endorsements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merrill noted that House Majority PAC, a super PAC aligned with House Democratic leadership, has already contributed $5 million to the Yes on Prop. 50 campaign. But, Merrill noted, if the group can get five new Democratic seats out of California, that investment pales in comparison to what would otherwise have been multimillion-dollar fights in each of the state’s previously competitive districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For them, it’s the most efficient use of money you can think of,” Merrill said of the super PAC.[aside postID=news_12049973 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GavinNewsomAPJuly2025.jpg']But for Republican challengers, who will face an even steeper battle if voters approve the redrawn maps, the expensive Prop. 50 fight risks siphoning crucial funds that would otherwise go to candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need money today, not tomorrow, because money begets money, and momentum begets momentum,” said Sam Oh, a Republican campaign consultant who works with Lincoln’s campaign as well as with incumbent Republican Rep. Young Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020 and 2022, Oh helped Kim and former Republican Rep. Michelle Steel oust incumbent Democrats in two Orange County swing seats. The new proposed maps shift far more Democrats into those districts to shore up support for vulnerable incumbent Reps. Dave Min and Derek Tran, who defeated Steel in 2024 to flip the seat blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they want competitive races next November, Oh said, Republican donors should give to candidates directly in addition to supporting the anti-Proposition 50 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/09/california-redistricting-prop50-shakeup/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Gavin Newsom signed a law on Wednesday asserting California’s ability to set its own immunization schedules amid a widening rift with the Trump administration’s public health officials — and confusion about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055165/where-can-i-find-new-updated-2025-covid-vaccine-near-me-moderna-pfizer-cvs-walgreens-safeway-vaccinations-health-insurance-cost\">who exactly can get the new COVID-19 vaccine. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB144&showamends=false\">AB 144\u003c/a> empowers the California Department of Public Health to adopt its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055482/california-breaks-with-cdc-cosigns-covid-vaccine-guidelines-from-medical-groups\">vaccine recommendations\u003c/a> from major professional medical societies rather than rely solely on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The legislation also requires California insurance companies to pay for any authorized vaccines at no cost to patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law came the same day that California joined Oregon, Washington and Hawaii — its partners in the newly formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054491/in-rebuke-of-rfk-jr-the-west-coast-unites-on-vaccine-policy\">West Coast Health Alliance\u003c/a> — in announcing coordinated recommendations for winter vaccinations against COVID-19, influenza and RSV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., meanwhile, have fired or replaced top CDC officials, stripped away vaccine recommendations for pregnant women and children, replaced every member on the federal immunization advisory committee and slashed funding for mRNA research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ousted CDC chief Susan Monarez, who was recently fired after less than a month on the job, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/17/nx-s1-5544143/cdc-director-susan-monarez-testimony-rfk\">warned senators\u003c/a> on Wednesday morning that Kennedy and his newly stocked team of advisers with a history of anti-vaccine statements are taking the country’s public health system to “a very dark \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/monarez-cdc-vaccines-kennedy-rfk-jr-194fd4336aaa74cb6e7c715d0605b47e\">place.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, the CDC sets vaccine recommendations based on the available data, which insurers use to set reimbursement guidelines concerning which vaccines they’ll pay for. 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And that’s just absurd,” said Dr. John Swartzberg, an infectious disease specialist at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. “And so I think California has really fixed that loophole there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health insurers regulated by California are required to cover the state’s winter vaccine recommendations and have up to 15 days to comply with the new guidelines, a spokesperson for Newsom’s office told KQED.[aside postID=news_12055165 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/COVIDGetty2.jpg']In a statement, the California Association of Health Plans said its members are on board, noting that the new law “will greatly reduce the amount of confusion for our enrollees and ensure they receive life-saving vaccinations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its own letter, Blue Shield of California applauded California’s move and said it “will continue to partner with the California Department of Public Health to cover science-backed immunization recommendations that protect public health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Flores, executive director of the California Immunization Coalition, said she’s never seen providers, experts and advocates coalesce so fully nor so quickly in her 26 years working in public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On one hand, it’s terrible that we’re having to spend the time, energy and resources to create new systems to be able to protect our communities,” Flores said. “On the other hand, I’m really proud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford infectious disease physician and researcher Dr. Abraar Karan praised California’s efforts to sharpen its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055482/california-breaks-with-cdc-cosigns-covid-vaccine-guidelines-from-medical-groups\">independence\u003c/a>, alongside other Western states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My feeling is that the next few years are going to be a lot of state-led public health initiatives that are not in line with what’s going on federally,” Karan said. “And I think that’s fine, because we are disagreeing with what the federal government is doing, and whatever experts they’re relying on have different opinions than leading academics and medical institutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/lesleymcclurg\"> Lesley McClurg\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\"> Brian Krans\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a statement, the California Association of Health Plans said its members are on board, noting that the new law “will greatly reduce the amount of confusion for our enrollees and ensure they receive life-saving vaccinations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its own letter, Blue Shield of California applauded California’s move and said it “will continue to partner with the California Department of Public Health to cover science-backed immunization recommendations that protect public health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Flores, executive director of the California Immunization Coalition, said she’s never seen providers, experts and advocates coalesce so fully nor so quickly in her 26 years working in public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On one hand, it’s terrible that we’re having to spend the time, energy and resources to create new systems to be able to protect our communities,” Flores said. “On the other hand, I’m really proud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford infectious disease physician and researcher Dr. Abraar Karan praised California’s efforts to sharpen its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055482/california-breaks-with-cdc-cosigns-covid-vaccine-guidelines-from-medical-groups\">independence\u003c/a>, alongside other Western states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My feeling is that the next few years are going to be a lot of state-led public health initiatives that are not in line with what’s going on federally,” Karan said. “And I think that’s fine, because we are disagreeing with what the federal government is doing, and whatever experts they’re relying on have different opinions than leading academics and medical institutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/lesleymcclurg\"> Lesley McClurg\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\"> Brian Krans\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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That ballot measure would create and fund the California Foundation for Science and Health Research to continue developing cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and other diseases, as well as discoveries in climate science, wildfire prevention, pandemic preparedness and other fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has historically been one of the biggest funders of scientific research in California and other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Trump administration has proposed slashing \u003ca href=\"https://www.aau.edu/key-issues/federal-research-cuts-threaten-us-innovation-and-leadership\">more than $27 billion in funds\u003c/a> to the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, NASA and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re seeing now at the federal level is nothing short of horrifying. …. Science has been one of the pillars of American prosperity,” said state Sen. 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The Trump administration has already taken steps to freeze about $584 million of that funding at UCLA, though a judge \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/08/trump-ucla-research-grants/\">ordered the government\u003c/a> last month to restore some of the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government has said that some of the research projects targeted for funding cuts are no longer priorities. At other times, the administration has used funding freezes to pressure universities to change their policies and practices on admissions, sports, transgender issues and other areas over allegations of antisemitism and civil rights violations — as in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050654/trump-is-freezing-hundreds-of-grants-to-ucla-over-suspected-antisemitism\">case of UCLA\u003c/a>. 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Strict fiscal accountability standards would rule the foundation’s operations, including annual independent audits and public disclosure of all funding allocations, according to SB 607.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/trump-guts-federal-science-agencies-senator-wiener-introduces-legislation-create-new-science\">previous bill\u003c/a> introduced by Wiener, which would have funded scientific research with dollars from the state budget, died in the Legislature due to cost concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduate student researcher Elaine Huang said nearly all the funding dried up for the laboratory where she searches for new Alzheimer’s therapeutics. The loss of funding could undo years of work, and many of her fellow scientists might lose their jobs, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m feeling really uncertain about my future as a scientist in this country. 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"content": "\u003cp>Attorneys for a former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a> prison guard \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983422/another-former-fci-dublin-officer-facing-criminal-charges-is-scheduled-for-trial\">accused of sexual abuse\u003c/a> wrapped up their defense on Wednesday, arguing that as the now-defunct prison spiraled into scandal, women who were incarcerated there saw an opportunity to frame him for their own gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032044/in-court-women-detail-abuse-east-bay-federal-prison-officer\">Darrell Wayne Smith\u003c/a> is the tenth former Dublin employee criminally charged with sexual abuse following a sprawling FBI investigation into the prison, which U.S. attorneys say was permeated by a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">culture of sexual misconduct\u003c/a>, retaliation and cover-ups. More than 100 women have alleged abuse, and the nine other former employees who were charged with related crimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047086/just-a-few-of-the-many-east-bay-prison-abuse-victims-speak-out-after-more-charges\">have been convicted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s defense team painted a different story. At FCI Dublin, they said, incarcerated women controlled the facility and took advantage of the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One juror in Smith’s first trial this year, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035958/mistrial-declared-fci-dublin-sex-abuse-case-jury-deadlocks-all-charges\">ended in a mistrial\u003c/a> after the jury was unable to reach a consensus, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/14/mistrial-declared-in-sexual-abuse-trial-of-fci-dublin-prison-guard/\">told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that his defense attorneys had cast enough doubt on the women’s stories. The attorneys had highlighted monetary settlements the women were awarded after coming forward in a related class-action civil suit, as well as other remedies they received, including early release and, in some cases, asylum in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith faces 14 charges related to allegations of abuse against four women during his time as a correctional officer at FCI Dublin, from 2019 to 2021. Before his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053087/jury-selection-begins-for-retrial-of-former-fci-dublin-officer-known-as-dirty-dick\">second trial began in August\u003c/a>, a fifth woman whose allegations were included in the first trial was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041857/after-mistrial-in-fci-dublin-abuse-case-new-charges-leave-out-one-of-the-accusers\">dropped from the case\u003c/a>, and her accusation removed.\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>During their defense in this second trial, Smith’s attorneys doubled down on attempts to cast doubt on the accounts of Smith’s accusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A formerly incarcerated woman subpoenaed to testify on behalf of Smith this week told the court that when she was at Dublin, she overheard another incarcerated woman encouraging a crowd to file Prison Rape Elimination Act complaints against guards. That crowd included one of Smith’s accusers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the woman was suggesting that others “jump on the bandwagon” after Dublin’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934639/ex-warden-of-dublin-womens-prison-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-inmates\">former warden\u003c/a> and other officers began facing accusations.[aside postID=news_12047086 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250530-DublinEmployees-62-BL_qed.jpg']Portia Louder, another formerly incarcerated woman who now runs a blog about her time in prison, suggested that her bunkmates framed her for having an alleged sexual relationship with Smith years before the current accusations against him. Smith was ultimately cleared of those accusations after an internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The inmates ran the unit” and “were much more intimidating than the officers were,” Louder said on the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She testified that she believed the allegations about her and Smith were made in retaliation after he granted her request to move into a more coveted cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense witnesses who worked or served time at the prison alongside Smith’s accusers were asked to judge their character, and multiple said they did not believe the women to be truthful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple former guards and psychologists at the prison said FCI Dublin took PREA complaints seriously, provided psychological services to women who made accusations, and had a specific guard in the prison’s control room whose job it was to watch the cameras in housing units, where Smith’s alleged abuse took place.\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>But Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty pointed out that the rules and protocols they described — which they said protected incarcerated women and should have prevented guards from acting improperly — historically, had not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it fair to say that not everyone at Dublin was following policy?” she asked witness Ty Alewine, a former guard and a drug treatment specialist. “There’ve been nine officers convicted of violating the policy not to abuse inmates, correct?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jesus, help us all, yes,” Alewine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s wife, Carla Sisi-Smith, who did not testify during his first trial, took the stand last for the defense. Her testimony on Wednesday stayed away from her and Smith’s romantic relationship, though it’s unclear if that was the defense’s initial plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning of her testimony, Judge Yvonne Rogers ruled that an 8-and-a-half-minute video the government presented could not be shown in court unless Sisi-Smith herself led to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video taken from Smith’s cellphone shows Sisi-Smith cooking a meal naked. Throughout, she asks Smith to stop recording her at least five times and appears uncomfortable, a brief filed by Paidipaty 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>“During trial, several victims testified that they told the Defendant to leave them alone and to stop verbally and physically abusing them. Yet his sexual abuse continued,” Paidipaty wrote. “Similarly, here, Mrs. Smith repeatedly asks the Defendant to stop filming her, yet he refuses. Her discomfort is evident both by her words and her actions: she eventually retrieves a towel to cover herself after he continues to film her despite her pleas to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video was not presented to jurors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government also used its cross-examination to point to a series of financial moves the couple made around the time of Smith’s indictment, seeming to propose that, as reports of officer misconduct at Dublin came to light, Smith tried to flee to Florida, where his wife and daughters had relocated years prior.[aside postID=news_12043352 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED.jpg']Sisi-Smith said that she had moved to Florida in 2018 to care for her mother, who had cancer. When Smith followed in 2021 after an alleged injury, Sisi-Smith said she wanted her husband nearby as her mother’s cancer was progressing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith reported falling while on duty at Dublin in December 2021. After the fall, he filed for workers compensation and remained on disability for about two years, but Paidipaty presented a CT scan taken of Smith’s back during an emergency room visit after that fall, which showed no significant injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government also pointed to financial documents showing that around the time Smith was charged in 2023, multiple properties the couple owned were transferred from a joint LLC under which they operated a rental company to Sisi-Smith’s name, exclusively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month after a second indictment levied additional charges against him in 2024, over a dozen more of the couple’s rental properties were transferred to Sisi-Smith’s name, and the government alleged that three cars were also transferred from Smith’s to Sisi-Smith’s name around the same time. She denied that claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LLC the couple ran their rental home business under has now been dissolved, Sisi-Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The testimony also opened the door to questions about a financial affidavit Smith signed in order to get assistance from the court covering his legal fees, in accordance with the Criminal Justice Act. It appears that Judge Rogers is questioning the affidavit after seeing Sisi-Smith’s financial statements presented by the government — which showed properties and assets moved from his name to hers in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers said closing statements would go forward as planned on Thursday, but she would hold an evidentiary hearing on the financial affidavit next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One juror in Smith’s first trial this year, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035958/mistrial-declared-fci-dublin-sex-abuse-case-jury-deadlocks-all-charges\">ended in a mistrial\u003c/a> after the jury was unable to reach a consensus, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/14/mistrial-declared-in-sexual-abuse-trial-of-fci-dublin-prison-guard/\">told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that his defense attorneys had cast enough doubt on the women’s stories. The attorneys had highlighted monetary settlements the women were awarded after coming forward in a related class-action civil suit, as well as other remedies they received, including early release and, in some cases, asylum in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith faces 14 charges related to allegations of abuse against four women during his time as a correctional officer at FCI Dublin, from 2019 to 2021. Before his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053087/jury-selection-begins-for-retrial-of-former-fci-dublin-officer-known-as-dirty-dick\">second trial began in August\u003c/a>, a fifth woman whose allegations were included in the first trial was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041857/after-mistrial-in-fci-dublin-abuse-case-new-charges-leave-out-one-of-the-accusers\">dropped from the case\u003c/a>, and her accusation removed.\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>During their defense in this second trial, Smith’s attorneys doubled down on attempts to cast doubt on the accounts of Smith’s accusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A formerly incarcerated woman subpoenaed to testify on behalf of Smith this week told the court that when she was at Dublin, she overheard another incarcerated woman encouraging a crowd to file Prison Rape Elimination Act complaints against guards. That crowd included one of Smith’s accusers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the woman was suggesting that others “jump on the bandwagon” after Dublin’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934639/ex-warden-of-dublin-womens-prison-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-inmates\">former warden\u003c/a> and other officers began facing accusations.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Portia Louder, another formerly incarcerated woman who now runs a blog about her time in prison, suggested that her bunkmates framed her for having an alleged sexual relationship with Smith years before the current accusations against him. Smith was ultimately cleared of those accusations after an internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The inmates ran the unit” and “were much more intimidating than the officers were,” Louder said on the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She testified that she believed the allegations about her and Smith were made in retaliation after he granted her request to move into a more coveted cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense witnesses who worked or served time at the prison alongside Smith’s accusers were asked to judge their character, and multiple said they did not believe the women to be truthful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple former guards and psychologists at the prison said FCI Dublin took PREA complaints seriously, provided psychological services to women who made accusations, and had a specific guard in the prison’s control room whose job it was to watch the cameras in housing units, where Smith’s alleged abuse took place.\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>But Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty pointed out that the rules and protocols they described — which they said protected incarcerated women and should have prevented guards from acting improperly — historically, had not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it fair to say that not everyone at Dublin was following policy?” she asked witness Ty Alewine, a former guard and a drug treatment specialist. “There’ve been nine officers convicted of violating the policy not to abuse inmates, correct?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jesus, help us all, yes,” Alewine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s wife, Carla Sisi-Smith, who did not testify during his first trial, took the stand last for the defense. Her testimony on Wednesday stayed away from her and Smith’s romantic relationship, though it’s unclear if that was the defense’s initial plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning of her testimony, Judge Yvonne Rogers ruled that an 8-and-a-half-minute video the government presented could not be shown in court unless Sisi-Smith herself led to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video taken from Smith’s cellphone shows Sisi-Smith cooking a meal naked. 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"content": "\u003cp>As Caltrans workers cleared the last remnants of an encampment from beneath a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> overpass on Tuesday, Candice Dixon wondered if she would soon be asked to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, workers were for the latest operation of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/08/29/governor-newsom-convenes-statewide-task-force-to-prioritize-and-dismantle-homeless-encampments-and-accelerate-care/\">new task force\u003c/a>, which brings together California’s departments of transportation, law enforcement, health and housing, among others, to remove homeless encampments across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Action for Facilitation on Encampments — or, SAFE — Task Force had just finished clearing the area where Cesar Chavez Street meets Highway 101, marking the seventh such operation along the freeway in the city since the start of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to come tell us to move,” the 44-year-old predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and another friend have, for the past three months, been living in an alcove on the opposite side of the freeway. Fenced in between Cesar Chavez Street, an onramp and a pedestrian crossing, the area is difficult to reach, which had been part of the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as she considered how long she would be able to stay, she weighed her options. “Everywhere you go, or you put up a tent somewhere, you’ve got to be mindful that you know they’re going to come,” Dixon said. “It’s just finding somewhere to stay, that’s the hard part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056156\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candice Dixon (left) and Joshua Hoffart sit near the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dixon had grown accustomed to moving. Under former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999056/sf-promises-to-make-life-uncomfortable-for-people-sleeping-outside\">mayor London Breed\u003c/a>, and then Breed’s successor, Daniel Lurie, the city has been cracking down on encampments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051236/an-unhoused-san-francisco-resident-navigates-a-new-era-of-street-enforcement\">over the past year\u003c/a>, threatening arrest to those who refuse offers of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">urged cities\u003c/a> to make it illegal for people to camp outside for more than three nights in a row. And last summer, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">directed state agencies\u003c/a> to clear encampments on state land. The new task force, announced in August, marked his latest effort to reduce unsheltered homelessness by clearing encampments and directing people into services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, California Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin described it as an “all of government” approach.[aside postID=news_12054274 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/NewsomHousingCM1.jpg']“We’re taking the comprehensive steps that we need to take, not just clearing encampments,” he said, but rather, “a wraparound approach to addressing this issue that is likely one of the biggest challenges in front of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since July 2021, Caltrans has removed more than 18,000 encampments along the state rights-of-way, filling nearly 12,000 garbage trucks with unhoused people’s discarded belongings. But Omishakin said the SAFE Taskforce would take a new approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than being primarily led by Caltrans and the California Highway Patrol, Omishakin said leaders from the state’s department of health and housing were also at the table. “All the key agencies are at the table every single day,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force will focus first on the state’s 10 largest cities, Omishakin said. Already, the state had secured agreements to allow workers onto city property with San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego and was working on another with San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a larger effort to address homelessness across California that Omishakin said is beginning to pay dividends. At \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">last count\u003c/a>, more than 187,000 people were homeless on a given night in California, according to federal data, but the rate of growth has been slowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin addresses the press from beside the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of people sleeping outside was nearly unchanged from 2023 to 2024, Omishakin noted, compared to a nearly 7% increase nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operation underway Tuesday sought to address the needs of 18 people, said Jay Wierenga, a spokesperson for the state’s Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Of those, 12 agreed to speak with task force staff, he said; five were already in shelter, seven were offered shelter, and one accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wierenga said outreach would continue: “We don’t just stop. This is a continuing effort every day — not only with the state departments — but also the city and the counties that we are working with very closely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before they leave, Omishakin said workers will also install large boulders to make it harder for people to reenter the site. The goal, he said, is to ensure that they aren’t “playing that game of whack-a-mole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056152\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Brown (left) and Alton Perdew sit together under the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We clear it, and they come right back,” Omishakin explained. “That’s why this strategy that we’re deploying now is even more important than ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon has been offered services before — and accepted them. The shelters didn’t always work out well for her, though, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They steal your stuff. They just do you wrong in there, you know?” she said. “They don’t give us the proper care that we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, after being homeless for 18 years and faced with the prospect of moving yet again, Dixon said she’s willing to give shelters another shot. If she’s told to leave, she might ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candice Dixon (left) and Joshua Hoffart sit near the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was never raised like this to be homeless,” she said. “I always had a house to go to. So, it was kind of like adapting to this life, but I’ve been adapting to it for a while now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe outreach workers would help her with the paperwork she needs to complete to get on the list for housing, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon thought about what that might look like. “My own place with my bathroom and shower, where I don’t have to worry about people stealing my stuff,” she said. “That would definitely be good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to come tell us to move,” the 44-year-old predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and another friend have, for the past three months, been living in an alcove on the opposite side of the freeway. Fenced in between Cesar Chavez Street, an onramp and a pedestrian crossing, the area is difficult to reach, which had been part of the appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as she considered how long she would be able to stay, she weighed her options. “Everywhere you go, or you put up a tent somewhere, you’ve got to be mindful that you know they’re going to come,” Dixon said. “It’s just finding somewhere to stay, that’s the hard part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056156\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-07-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candice Dixon (left) and Joshua Hoffart sit near the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dixon had grown accustomed to moving. Under former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999056/sf-promises-to-make-life-uncomfortable-for-people-sleeping-outside\">mayor London Breed\u003c/a>, and then Breed’s successor, Daniel Lurie, the city has been cracking down on encampments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051236/an-unhoused-san-francisco-resident-navigates-a-new-era-of-street-enforcement\">over the past year\u003c/a>, threatening arrest to those who refuse offers of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">urged cities\u003c/a> to make it illegal for people to camp outside for more than three nights in a row. And last summer, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">directed state agencies\u003c/a> to clear encampments on state land. The new task force, announced in August, marked his latest effort to reduce unsheltered homelessness by clearing encampments and directing people into services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, California Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin described it as an “all of government” approach.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We’re taking the comprehensive steps that we need to take, not just clearing encampments,” he said, but rather, “a wraparound approach to addressing this issue that is likely one of the biggest challenges in front of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since July 2021, Caltrans has removed more than 18,000 encampments along the state rights-of-way, filling nearly 12,000 garbage trucks with unhoused people’s discarded belongings. But Omishakin said the SAFE Taskforce would take a new approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than being primarily led by Caltrans and the California Highway Patrol, Omishakin said leaders from the state’s department of health and housing were also at the table. “All the key agencies are at the table every single day,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force will focus first on the state’s 10 largest cities, Omishakin said. Already, the state had secured agreements to allow workers onto city property with San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego and was working on another with San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a larger effort to address homelessness across California that Omishakin said is beginning to pay dividends. At \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2024-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">last count\u003c/a>, more than 187,000 people were homeless on a given night in California, according to federal data, but the rate of growth has been slowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin addresses the press from beside the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of people sleeping outside was nearly unchanged from 2023 to 2024, Omishakin noted, compared to a nearly 7% increase nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operation underway Tuesday sought to address the needs of 18 people, said Jay Wierenga, a spokesperson for the state’s Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Of those, 12 agreed to speak with task force staff, he said; five were already in shelter, seven were offered shelter, and one accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wierenga said outreach would continue: “We don’t just stop. This is a continuing effort every day — not only with the state departments — but also the city and the counties that we are working with very closely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before they leave, Omishakin said workers will also install large boulders to make it harder for people to reenter the site. The goal, he said, is to ensure that they aren’t “playing that game of whack-a-mole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056152\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056152\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Brown (left) and Alton Perdew sit together under the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We clear it, and they come right back,” Omishakin explained. “That’s why this strategy that we’re deploying now is even more important than ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon has been offered services before — and accepted them. The shelters didn’t always work out well for her, though, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They steal your stuff. They just do you wrong in there, you know?” she said. “They don’t give us the proper care that we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, after being homeless for 18 years and faced with the prospect of moving yet again, Dixon said she’s willing to give shelters another shot. If she’s told to leave, she might ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250916-SAFE-TASKFORCE-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candice Dixon (left) and Joshua Hoffart sit near the 101 Freeway in San Francisco on Sept. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was never raised like this to be homeless,” she said. “I always had a house to go to. So, it was kind of like adapting to this life, but I’ve been adapting to it for a while now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe outreach workers would help her with the paperwork she needs to complete to get on the list for housing, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dixon thought about what that might look like. “My own place with my bathroom and shower, where I don’t have to worry about people stealing my stuff,” she said. “That would definitely be good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A 2025 proposal from President Donald Trump’s administration would open up nearly 4 million acres of land in California to logging and road construction — by rescinding the so-called “Roadless Rule” law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands\">the deadline for giving public comment\u003c/a> on Friday, advocates for protecting public lands are urging members of the public to speak up in defense of these wilderness places. But what’s really at stake — and why is the Trump administration going after roadless lands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We break down the Roadless Rule, the debate around these lands and what a change in the law might mean for public lands in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jump straight to:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhydoestheTrump\">Why does the Trump administration want to open up these areas to roads?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whatpubliclands\">What public lands are at stake?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Isthisreallygoing\">Is this really going to help with wildfire mitigation?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whathappensnext\">What happens next, and how can I weigh in?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhydoestheTrump\">\u003c/a>What is the Trump administration proposing and why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almost a quarter of a century ago, the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule identified nearly 45 million acres of U.S. National Forest land where the construction of roads would be prohibited — effectively making timber logging and harvesting impossible in these spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/WH/new/html/Fri_Jan_5_151122_2001.html\">2001 rule was first instituted by former President Bill Clinton\u003c/a>, with the intent of not only preserving national forests but also protecting vital ecosystems and watersheds throughout the country. By bisecting wilderness areas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/clas/ctip/wildlife_crossing_structures/ch_2.aspx#:~:text=As%20a%20result%2C%20today%20many,may%20be%20blocked%20or%20altered.\">roads are known to be harmful to ecosystems\u003c/a> by separating wildlife, rerouting water and introducing humans and machinery to a landscape that isn’t used to these interruptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056324 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of the Trinity Alps in northern California on June 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, led by Secretary Brooke Rollins, submitted a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands\">notice of intent\u003c/a>” to rescind the Roadless Rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change, the administration claims, is to help prevent wildfires — both by opening up access for firefighters in these densely forested areas and also to perform forest management, like forest thinning, to help reduce the fire risk in these forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whatpubliclands\">\u003c/a>If the Roadless Rule is rescinded, what lands might be affected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California alone, 4 million acres would potentially be opened up to roadbuilding. Not all Forest Service land is roadless, but in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46504\">roadless lands constitute 21% of Forest Service land, and 4% of the whole state overall. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes lands surrounding Lake Tahoe, Yosemite National Park and other parts of the Sierra Nevada and Sierra Foothills. Farther north, areas like Mendocino, the Trinity Alps and Castle Crags could be opened up with new roads. The law also covers parts of the Big Sur and the San Gabriel Mountains to the south.[aside postID=news_12046147 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/452872414_qed.jpg']An analysis by the National Parks Conservation Association found that 30% of the affected lands are within 30 miles of national parks, including along the Pacific Crest Trail in California. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcta.org/2025/scrapping-the-roadless-rule-will-harm-the-pct-96600/\">Pacific Crest Trail Association said around 9% of the trail\u003c/a>, which stretches from Canada to Mexico through some of the West Coast’s most rugged lands, \u003ca href=\"https://pcta.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=39ee0c9dd291447a843a1f9a14d20541\">would be affected\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/23/secretary-rollins-rescinds-roadless-rule-eliminating-impediment-responsible-forest-management\">the Trump administration argues\u003c/a> building roads and strategically logging forests could reduce wildfire risks in these areas, public lands advocates like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.outdooralliance.org/roadless\">Outdoor Alliance\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/10409-hands-off-public-lands-parks-group-decries-proposed-rollback-of-roadless\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/08/trump-administration-attempt-repeal-roadless-rule-met-widespread-opposition\">Sierra Club\u003c/a> say the wildfire argument is a red herring for the administration’s real goal: to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-expansion-of-american-timber-production/\">open up more public lands for extraction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates also point to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wilderness.org/sites/default/files/media/file/Summary%20NFS%20roads%20fire%20paper%20-%202025.pdf\">studies\u003c/a> that show \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificbio.org/publications/wildfire_studies/Roads_And_Wildfires_2007.pdf\">fires are much more likely to start in areas with roads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone who cares for America’s national parks and public lands should be deeply alarmed about attempts to dismantle the roadless rule,” wrote Beau Kiklis, associate director of energy and landscape conservation for the NPCA, in a statement to KQED. “This is nothing short of another brazen attempt to sell off America’s public lands, by opening up these forest lands for industrial logging, roadbuilding and other development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental advocates also worry that these lands being opened to roads and logging may affect sources of clean water — like freshwater rivers across California — that millions of people rely on for their drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Isthisreallygoing\">\u003c/a>What do wildfire and forestry experts say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Trump’s proposal say that while \u003ca href=\"https://readyforwildfire.org/prevent-wildfire/\">humans start 95% of wildfires in California and worldwide\u003c/a> — and roads undoubtedly allow people to travel \u003cem>into \u003c/em>the wilderness — roads can also play a part in wildfire mitigation and firefighting. Fires need to be accessed to be fought, and the roadways themselves can often serve as firebreaks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/leadership/its-time-common-sense-roadless-reform\">Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said,\u003c/a> saying 8 million acres of roadless areas have burned since 2001. Some experts even say that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/29/nx-s1-5521379/trump-administration-forest-roads-roadless-rule-firefighters-wildfire#:~:text=While%20the%20Roadless%20Rule%20prohibits,the%20area%20would%20normally%20have.\">a “surgical” approach\u003c/a> to building new roads could be beneficial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hotshot Wakeup, a podcast and blog run by wildland firefighters, \u003ca href=\"https://thehotshotwakeup.substack.com/p/forest-service-chief-applauds-usda\">spoke out in defense of maintaining \u003cem>existing \u003c/em>roads\u003c/a>, saying unmaintained wilderness roads often set back firefighters — but did not weigh in on whether the Roadless Rule should be rescinded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055321\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plane drops fire retardant on the Garnet Fire on Aug. 26, 2025, in Fresno County, California. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But opponents of the potential repeal say the rule already allows roads to be constructed if one is \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46504\">“needed to protect health and safety in cases of imminent danger, such as wildfire\u003c/a>.” And \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/feature/timeline-of-the-roadless-rule\">one former Forest Service chief told NPR\u003c/a> that the rule also includes exceptions for small-scale logging in the case of habitat protection or to reduce wildfire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/06/roadless-rule-repeal-california-forests/#:~:text=The%20roadless%20rule%20already%20allows,the%20risk%20of%20severe%20wildfires.\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> analysis found\u003c/a> that the California Forestry Association, while in support of the Trump administration’s proposed repeal, doesn’t see the Roadless Rule as a “significant impediment” to fire management.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whathappensnext\">\u003c/a>What happens next, and how can I weigh in?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As part of the public process under the National Environmental Policy Act, the rescission is subject to a public comment period, which ends on Friday, Sept. 19. \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands\">Public comments can be submitted via the Federal Register, the federal government’s journal.\u003c/a>[aside postID=news_12055659 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-15-BL-KQED.jpg']Once public comments are in, the Forest Service must prepare an environmental impact statement, which the agency said \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document/FS-2025-0001-0001\">it aims to do by March 2026\u003c/a>. That, too, will be subject to public comment before the administration can fully end the rule by late 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public comment is part of the NEPA process, and environmental reviews can slow down implementation of a policy so much that it never gets implemented, but the comments themselves can’t directly block a proposal like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document/FS-2025-0001-0001\">But past challenges to the rule have succeeded in the courts\u003c/a>, and organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/feature/timeline-of-the-roadless-rule\">Earthjustice have vowed to continue their fight to maintain the rule. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the rule has faced legal challenges since its inception in 2001, including pushback by former President George W. Bush’s administration and the first Trump administration, and multiple legal challenges from individual states, which sought to establish their own rules. So far, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has not weighed in on this attempt to rescind the rule or whether California would protect its roadless wilderness in other ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A 2025 proposal from President Donald Trump’s administration would open up nearly 4 million acres of land in California to logging and road construction — by rescinding the so-called “Roadless Rule” law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands\">the deadline for giving public comment\u003c/a> on Friday, advocates for protecting public lands are urging members of the public to speak up in defense of these wilderness places. But what’s really at stake — and why is the Trump administration going after roadless lands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We break down the Roadless Rule, the debate around these lands and what a change in the law might mean for public lands in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jump straight to:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhydoestheTrump\">Why does the Trump administration want to open up these areas to roads?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whatpubliclands\">What public lands are at stake?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Isthisreallygoing\">Is this really going to help with wildfire mitigation?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whathappensnext\">What happens next, and how can I weigh in?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhydoestheTrump\">\u003c/a>What is the Trump administration proposing and why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almost a quarter of a century ago, the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule identified nearly 45 million acres of U.S. National Forest land where the construction of roads would be prohibited — effectively making timber logging and harvesting impossible in these spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/WH/new/html/Fri_Jan_5_151122_2001.html\">2001 rule was first instituted by former President Bill Clinton\u003c/a>, with the intent of not only preserving national forests but also protecting vital ecosystems and watersheds throughout the country. By bisecting wilderness areas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/clas/ctip/wildlife_crossing_structures/ch_2.aspx#:~:text=As%20a%20result%2C%20today%20many,may%20be%20blocked%20or%20altered.\">roads are known to be harmful to ecosystems\u003c/a> by separating wildlife, rerouting water and introducing humans and machinery to a landscape that isn’t used to these interruptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056324 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2230843397-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of the Trinity Alps in northern California on June 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, led by Secretary Brooke Rollins, submitted a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands\">notice of intent\u003c/a>” to rescind the Roadless Rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change, the administration claims, is to help prevent wildfires — both by opening up access for firefighters in these densely forested areas and also to perform forest management, like forest thinning, to help reduce the fire risk in these forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whatpubliclands\">\u003c/a>If the Roadless Rule is rescinded, what lands might be affected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California alone, 4 million acres would potentially be opened up to roadbuilding. Not all Forest Service land is roadless, but in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46504\">roadless lands constitute 21% of Forest Service land, and 4% of the whole state overall. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes lands surrounding Lake Tahoe, Yosemite National Park and other parts of the Sierra Nevada and Sierra Foothills. Farther north, areas like Mendocino, the Trinity Alps and Castle Crags could be opened up with new roads. The law also covers parts of the Big Sur and the San Gabriel Mountains to the south.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>An analysis by the National Parks Conservation Association found that 30% of the affected lands are within 30 miles of national parks, including along the Pacific Crest Trail in California. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcta.org/2025/scrapping-the-roadless-rule-will-harm-the-pct-96600/\">Pacific Crest Trail Association said around 9% of the trail\u003c/a>, which stretches from Canada to Mexico through some of the West Coast’s most rugged lands, \u003ca href=\"https://pcta.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=39ee0c9dd291447a843a1f9a14d20541\">would be affected\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/06/23/secretary-rollins-rescinds-roadless-rule-eliminating-impediment-responsible-forest-management\">the Trump administration argues\u003c/a> building roads and strategically logging forests could reduce wildfire risks in these areas, public lands advocates like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.outdooralliance.org/roadless\">Outdoor Alliance\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/10409-hands-off-public-lands-parks-group-decries-proposed-rollback-of-roadless\">National Parks Conservation Association\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/08/trump-administration-attempt-repeal-roadless-rule-met-widespread-opposition\">Sierra Club\u003c/a> say the wildfire argument is a red herring for the administration’s real goal: to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-expansion-of-american-timber-production/\">open up more public lands for extraction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates also point to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wilderness.org/sites/default/files/media/file/Summary%20NFS%20roads%20fire%20paper%20-%202025.pdf\">studies\u003c/a> that show \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacificbio.org/publications/wildfire_studies/Roads_And_Wildfires_2007.pdf\">fires are much more likely to start in areas with roads\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone who cares for America’s national parks and public lands should be deeply alarmed about attempts to dismantle the roadless rule,” wrote Beau Kiklis, associate director of energy and landscape conservation for the NPCA, in a statement to KQED. “This is nothing short of another brazen attempt to sell off America’s public lands, by opening up these forest lands for industrial logging, roadbuilding and other development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental advocates also worry that these lands being opened to roads and logging may affect sources of clean water — like freshwater rivers across California — that millions of people rely on for their drinking water.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Isthisreallygoing\">\u003c/a>What do wildfire and forestry experts say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Trump’s proposal say that while \u003ca href=\"https://readyforwildfire.org/prevent-wildfire/\">humans start 95% of wildfires in California and worldwide\u003c/a> — and roads undoubtedly allow people to travel \u003cem>into \u003c/em>the wilderness — roads can also play a part in wildfire mitigation and firefighting. Fires need to be accessed to be fought, and the roadways themselves can often serve as firebreaks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/leadership/its-time-common-sense-roadless-reform\">Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said,\u003c/a> saying 8 million acres of roadless areas have burned since 2001. Some experts even say that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/29/nx-s1-5521379/trump-administration-forest-roads-roadless-rule-firefighters-wildfire#:~:text=While%20the%20Roadless%20Rule%20prohibits,the%20area%20would%20normally%20have.\">a “surgical” approach\u003c/a> to building new roads could be beneficial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hotshot Wakeup, a podcast and blog run by wildland firefighters, \u003ca href=\"https://thehotshotwakeup.substack.com/p/forest-service-chief-applauds-usda\">spoke out in defense of maintaining \u003cem>existing \u003c/em>roads\u003c/a>, saying unmaintained wilderness roads often set back firefighters — but did not weigh in on whether the Roadless Rule should be rescinded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055321\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Garnet-Fire-AP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plane drops fire retardant on the Garnet Fire on Aug. 26, 2025, in Fresno County, California. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But opponents of the potential repeal say the rule already allows roads to be constructed if one is \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46504\">“needed to protect health and safety in cases of imminent danger, such as wildfire\u003c/a>.” And \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/feature/timeline-of-the-roadless-rule\">one former Forest Service chief told NPR\u003c/a> that the rule also includes exceptions for small-scale logging in the case of habitat protection or to reduce wildfire risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/06/roadless-rule-repeal-california-forests/#:~:text=The%20roadless%20rule%20already%20allows,the%20risk%20of%20severe%20wildfires.\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> analysis found\u003c/a> that the California Forestry Association, while in support of the Trump administration’s proposed repeal, doesn’t see the Roadless Rule as a “significant impediment” to fire management.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whathappensnext\">\u003c/a>What happens next, and how can I weigh in?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As part of the public process under the National Environmental Policy Act, the rescission is subject to a public comment period, which ends on Friday, Sept. 19. \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands\">Public comments can be submitted via the Federal Register, the federal government’s journal.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the school year began at Ruskin Elementary School in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> last month, students returned to a changed campus. Enrollment nearly doubled, from about 370 to more than 700, after a nearby elementary school closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Cherrywood Elementary students — from one of three Berryessa Union schools shuttered amid declining enrollment — transferred to Ruskin. Cherrywood’s principal, its Dual Immersion Mandarin Program and its teachers also relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now parents and their children are adjusting to what several describe as a chaotic, confusing transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern was trial and error, which is what they’re doing this year with our kids,” said Tina De Vera, a Ruskin parent for more than a decade who now has two children at the school. “There wasn’t a contingency, proactive plan put in place. So now they’re just going to try and go each day and see what works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new principal for the larger student body has introduced new routines and protocols. Some of the changes have upset parents who never wanted the closures. Several said their children have been rushed through lunch to accommodate the additional students, and many worry about safety as traffic worsens during drop-off and pick-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12055486 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03241_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03241_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03241_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03241_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play at Ruskin Elementary School in San José on Sept. 9, 2025. Parents at Ruskin Elementary School in San José say school consolidations have caused chaos on campus, leading to unsafe traffic and hurried school lunches. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen three students over the course of the beginning of the school year almost get run over at crosswalks,” De Vera said. Parents are making dangerous U-turns, she added. “Cars are just illegally blocking traffic so that they can let their kids run out of their cars onto the campus. There is no order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District spokesperson Perla Rodriguez said officials remain committed to promoting safe routes to schools. As a “Walk n’ Roll District,” Rodriguez said Berryessa Union partners with San José to teach safe walking and biking skills. San José will also conduct a formal traffic study this month at the district’s request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain committed to listening with care, learning from one another, and working side by side with all of our Ruskin families,” Rodriguez said in a statement. “Together, we will build a united community that honors the strengths of both schools and ensures the very best for our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School lunches and growing pains\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several parents are also concerned about the allotted time for school lunches. They said their children have felt pressure to finish meals in less than 15 minutes after sitting down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Chaudoin, another Ruskin parent, said during the first week of school, his third-grade daughter came home hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03238_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03238_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03238_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-BERRYESSAUNIONCLOSURES_03238_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justin Chaudoin, a parent who is vocal about the impact of school district changes on his child, poses for a portrait at Ruskin Elementary School in San José on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She was like, ‘I’m hungry, I’m hungry, I’m hungry.’ Usually, that’s her ploy to get me to take her to McDonald’s or something,” Chaudoin said. But his daughter told him she didn’t have enough time to eat, and that the staff urged students to hurry. “She said, ‘It made me nervous and angry because I wanted to eat my food, and I couldn’t. And I didn’t know what was happening. They were just telling us to leave.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education recommends students \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/sn/timetoeat.asp\">have at least 20 minutes to eat\u003c/a> lunch once seated.[aside postID=news_12053938 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20230608_ksuzuki_adelanteschool-172_qed.jpg']In the school’s newsletter, Principal Tina Tong Choy wrote that Ruskin is now feeding more than 700 students in under two hours, and students who need more time may stay to finish their meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another practice unsettling some parents is a recess protocol where students are told to “freeze” when the bell rings. 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Former Cherrywood parent Chandan Bhat said the school year at Ruskin has been “so far, so good” for his third-grade son.[aside postID=news_12040597 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-010_qed-1-1020x679.jpg']“He’s still in the Mandarin Immersion program. His teachers haven’t changed, his classmates haven’t changed, even the principal for Ruskin [was] the principal at Cherrywood,” Bhat said. “So in some sense, some things have changed, but a lot of the things are the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to the program, both his daughter and son are learning Mandarin, achieving success in competitions and making him proud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His main concern is the traffic, which he hopes will be addressed soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez said Berryessa Union is now on a stronger financial footing and the budget has stabilized after closures and other fiscal measures. 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