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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:46 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Alameda County judge is considering a motion to dismiss the case against three Alameda police officers charged in connection with the death of Mario Gonzalez after their attorneys alleged that prosecutors failed to meet the statute of limitations on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family and supporters rallied Friday morning outside the county courthouse in Oakland, where Judge Scott Patton listened to arguments at a hearing on the motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a human. My son was a human. In the United States, we’re supposed to respect the lives of human people, so they need to charge those three police officers,” said Edith Arenales, Gonzalez’s mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patton did not issue a ruling on the motion, and the next hearing is scheduled for Oct. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some commotion in the hallway after sheriff’s deputies asked members of the public to immediately vacate the courtroom following the hearing. Supporters wearing shirts that read “Justice for Mario Gonzalez” began to chant as the crowd filed out, and as the chants grew louder, deputies demanded that they stop and threatened legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005495\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021, for a press conference to address the body cam footage that was shown to Gonzalez’s family. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One protester was singled out by a deputy who approached and said they would be detained for allegedly causing the disruption. After the crowd began to scream and protest, the person was eventually allowed to leave, and no one was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983439/alameda-county-da-files-manslaughter-charges-against-police-officers-in-mario-gonzalezs-death\">charged Eric McKinley, James Fisher and Cameron Leahy with involuntary manslaughter\u003c/a> for the 2021 death of Gonzalez earlier this year, reversing a decision by the previous district attorney, who did not charge them after finding no evidence of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office filed the criminal complaint and obtained certificates of probable cause signed by a judge on April 18, but the officers’ attorneys argue that wasn’t enough to officially start the felony prosecution within the three-year statute of limitations because arrest warrants for the officers were never filed after Gonzalez’s death on April 19, 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorney’s office has conceded that they did not secure an arrest warrant. In fact, they contend that they affirmatively declined one, which was a fatal error, in our view,” said Alison Berry Wilkinson, Leahy’s attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price’s office declined to comment in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, 26, was unarmed when the officers responding to a call of a man behaving oddly pinned him to the ground in an Alameda park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Body camera footage \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">released by the city\u003c/a> shows Gonzalez, who does not appear to be fully lucid, mumble multiple responses to the officers’ questions and resist putting his hands behind his back when they try to handcuff him. After several minutes, officers pin Gonzalez on his stomach, and footage shows at least one officer press an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder as he cries out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His calls become weaker, and he remains pinned down for about five minutes before appearing silent and motionless. About 15 seconds later, officers roll him onto his side and declare that he is becoming unresponsive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers administered CPR and at least two doses of Narcan before Gonzalez was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family accused the officers of murder after viewing the video and called it a case of clear\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\"> police brutality\u003c/a>. An initial autopsy by the Alameda County coroner classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide but noted contributing factors to his cardiac arrest were the “toxic effects of methamphetamine” and “other significant conditions,” including stress related to altercation and restraint, morbid obesity and alcoholism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil in his honor in Alameda on April 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office, led at the time by Nancy O’Malley, cleared the involved officers of any criminal liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after taking office in January 2023, Price reopened Gonzalez’s case through her administration’s new Public Accountability Unit. A second, independent autopsy requested by attorneys representing Gonzalez’s family found that his death was “a result of restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office filed charges against the officers on April 18 and notified them of the charges the following day with a notice to appear in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorneys argue that simply filing the charges and obtaining the certificates of probable cause was not enough to meet the three-year statute of limitations, which Wilkinson said expired on April 18 at 11:59 p.m. In its opposition to the motion to dismiss, the district attorney’s office argued that the way the timeframe has been “consistently applied by California courts” would extend the statute of limitations through 11:59 p.m. on April 19 and that it began prosecution on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12004395 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-44_qut-1020x662.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say that they believe a notice to appear, which is an informal letter sent by the district attorney’s office to someone who has been charged with an offense, is sufficient,” Wilkinson said. “Unfortunately, the California Legislature doesn’t agree with them. And so the Legislature says one of four things has to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their motion, the defense attorneys say prosecution commences when an indictment or information is filed, a complaint charging a misdemeanor or infraction is filed, the defendant is arraigned on a felony complaint, or an arrest or bench warrant is issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t do any of the four,” Wilkinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office responded in its opposition that it did commence timely prosecution and that by acknowledging receiving the complaint, probable cause declaration and notice to appear letter on April 19, “defendants cured any remaining jurisdictional defects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those documents established probable cause to arrest and gave defendants notification of the prosecution before the deadline of April 19 at 11:59 p.m., Price wrote, adding that her office opted for that procedure instead of arrest warrants in part as a “courtesy” to the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The statute of limitations did not expire, and the case should not be dismissed,” Price wrote in her opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Wilkinson believes Price failed to fulfill the “everyday steps required to start a criminal case” and that the charges might have been rushed because of the recall election Price faces in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This filing occurred just within a day or so of the DA’s recall being certified,” she said. “It appears that they rushed to file these in a political effort to help support her recall campaign. We don’t know that for certain, but that is certainly how it appears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patton did not issue a ruling on the motion, and the next hearing is scheduled for Oct. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some commotion in the hallway after sheriff’s deputies asked members of the public to immediately vacate the courtroom following the hearing. Supporters wearing shirts that read “Justice for Mario Gonzalez” began to chant as the crowd filed out, and as the chants grew louder, deputies demanded that they stop and threatened legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005495\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005495\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/021_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021, for a press conference to address the body cam footage that was shown to Gonzalez’s family. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One protester was singled out by a deputy who approached and said they would be detained for allegedly causing the disruption. After the crowd began to scream and protest, the person was eventually allowed to leave, and no one was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983439/alameda-county-da-files-manslaughter-charges-against-police-officers-in-mario-gonzalezs-death\">charged Eric McKinley, James Fisher and Cameron Leahy with involuntary manslaughter\u003c/a> for the 2021 death of Gonzalez earlier this year, reversing a decision by the previous district attorney, who did not charge them after finding no evidence of wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office filed the criminal complaint and obtained certificates of probable cause signed by a judge on April 18, but the officers’ attorneys argue that wasn’t enough to officially start the felony prosecution within the three-year statute of limitations because arrest warrants for the officers were never filed after Gonzalez’s death on April 19, 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorney’s office has conceded that they did not secure an arrest warrant. In fact, they contend that they affirmatively declined one, which was a fatal error, in our view,” said Alison Berry Wilkinson, Leahy’s attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005496\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005496\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/042_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, family and supporters of Mario Gonzalez gather outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price’s office declined to comment in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, 26, was unarmed when the officers responding to a call of a man behaving oddly pinned him to the ground in an Alameda park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Body camera footage \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\">released by the city\u003c/a> shows Gonzalez, who does not appear to be fully lucid, mumble multiple responses to the officers’ questions and resist putting his hands behind his back when they try to handcuff him. After several minutes, officers pin Gonzalez on his stomach, and footage shows at least one officer press an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder as he cries out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His calls become weaker, and he remains pinned down for about five minutes before appearing silent and motionless. About 15 seconds later, officers roll him onto his side and declare that he is becoming unresponsive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers administered CPR and at least two doses of Narcan before Gonzalez was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s family accused the officers of murder after viewing the video and called it a case of clear\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\"> police brutality\u003c/a>. An initial autopsy by the Alameda County coroner classified Gonzalez’s death as a homicide but noted contributing factors to his cardiac arrest were the “toxic effects of methamphetamine” and “other significant conditions,” including stress related to altercation and restraint, morbid obesity and alcoholism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11870697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial for Mario Gonzalez during a vigil in his honor in Alameda on April 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office, led at the time by Nancy O’Malley, cleared the involved officers of any criminal liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after taking office in January 2023, Price reopened Gonzalez’s case through her administration’s new Public Accountability Unit. A second, independent autopsy requested by attorneys representing Gonzalez’s family found that his death was “a result of restraint asphyxiation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office filed charges against the officers on April 18 and notified them of the charges the following day with a notice to appear in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorneys argue that simply filing the charges and obtaining the certificates of probable cause was not enough to meet the three-year statute of limitations, which Wilkinson said expired on April 18 at 11:59 p.m. In its opposition to the motion to dismiss, the district attorney’s office argued that the way the timeframe has been “consistently applied by California courts” would extend the statute of limitations through 11:59 p.m. on April 19 and that it began prosecution on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Matt Cagle was driving his daughter to the Oakland Zoo this week when he noticed some new eyes in the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I noticed them at the on and off ramps of 580, suddenly,” said Cagle, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. “They look like small digital cameras with a solar panel attached. It visually struck me as an Oakland resident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cameras are among more than 300 automatic license plate readers that have been installed on city streets and state highways to thwart violence and freeway crime, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom and Oakland officials. The state-purchased cameras are part of a surge in California Highway Patrol operations in Oakland as local authorities face criticism over crime and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to be a game changer,” Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said. “If you’re going to commit a crime in Oakland, just know that we have the data that is needed now to ensure that we apprehend those who are causing havoc in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flock Safety, the Atlanta company that makes the cameras, was contracted to provide 480 automatic license plate readers as part of the initiative, with 190 to be installed on highways and state right-of-ways and 290 on city streets. Last week, Newsom said, the CHP’s installation on state highways was completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has installed 126 on city streets so far and plans to finish with the rest by early November, Thao and police officials announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cameras can capture key identifying details including car type, color, license plate state, make, bumper stickers and decals, and whether a vehicle has a missing or covered plate, according to Flock Safety. They scan cars for information and then compare the data with a crime database maintained by the FBI. 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The only time we will share with another agency is if we are doing the work together to solve a particular crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, while Oakland PD may not choose to share the information directly with ICE or DHS, “having that information makes an agency vulnerable to demands from outsiders,” Cagle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Thursday’s conference, OPD touted some of the early results of the cameras as a success. Officer Omar Daza-Quiroz said there were multiple success stories, including apprehending suspects from shootings earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities have taken similar measures to step up the use of technology in recent months. In June, San Francisco announced that 100 public safety cameras were installed at city intersections to combat retail and auto theft, and multiple arrests were made with the technology. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:28 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks after a young Black woman died in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> County Jail with little official word about what happened, her family members and advocates are still seeking answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aamonte Hadley, 22, had been locked up awaiting trial for nearly two years when she was found dead on Sept. 3. Her death puts the spotlight on concerns over jail overcrowding and drops in referrals to mental health diversion programs, and comes as District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’ approach is being put to the test amid her reelection campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Department of Police Accountability, the Medical Examiner’s Office and the Criminal Investigations Unit of the Sheriff’s Office are investigating Hadley’s death. But her family said they have not received any details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing, nothing. They didn’t tell me anything. I still don’t know,” Adimika Blockman, Hadley’s mother, said at a rally joined by more than a dozen other relatives and supporters outside the San Francisco Women’s Jail on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They pointed to Hadley’s death in calling for Jenkins to seek out more alternatives to jail, such as mental health diversion programs. Hadley, who faced charges in connection with a string of robberies but had not been convicted, struggled with mental health challenges, according to her attorney and family members who sought treatment for her while in jail. The court ultimately denied their requests for mental health diversion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005062\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12005062 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-69-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lula Wright, an aunt of Aamonte Hadley, hugs Adimika Blockman, Hadley’s mother, during a rally outside of County Jail #2, a jail that houses women, in San Francisco on Sept. 17, 2024, to call for justice for Hadley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Hadley was charged with serious crimes, which were held to answer by the court. She was detained pretrial because of the public safety risk she posed,” Jenkins said in a written statement. “The court denied defense counsel’s numerous requests for mental health diversion because it was not warranted in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Shikman, an attorney who represented Hadley, said she expressed remorse for what she had done and described her as “the poster child for compassionate treatment in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tried mightily for practically two years to get her mental health diversion, but it fell almost on deaf ears. She was calling out, begging for treatment, but they denied it,” Shikman said. “The expressed mental health diversion statute in the state is to have treatment, especially for a young person, and she had no criminal record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins called Hadley’s death “tragic and alarming” but further said in her statement that if the defense had “prepared to settle or go to trial sooner, the tragedy may have been avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12005058 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrice Bolton, Aamonte Hadley’s aunt, speaks during a rally outside of County Jail #2, a jail that houses women, in San Francisco on Sept. 17, 2024, to call for justice for Hadley. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speakers at Tuesday’s rally took offense to the suggestion that settling may have saved Hadley, and they called on the district attorney to do more to provide actual treatment and mental health diversion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of people who are in county jails in California have mental health challenges, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/county-jails-house-fewer-inmates-but-over-half-face-mental-health-issues/\">according to the Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Convictions increased while referrals to diversion programs have decreased under Jenkins’ tenure, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/09/sf-da-brooke-jenkins-reverses-decline-convictions/\">Mission Local reports\u003c/a>. At the same time, the city is struggling with \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/what-was-the-plan-understaffed-overcrowded-sf-jails/\">overcrowding in jails\u003c/a>, which advocates and attorneys on Tuesday said has fueled physically and mentally unsafe conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12005060 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240917-AAMONTEHADLEYPRESS-44-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frances Travis, a cousin of Aamonte Hadley, holds a sign during a rally outside of County Jail #2, a jail that houses women, in San Francisco on Sept. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Those decisions matter when a district attorney or the courts make a decision to not let someone go to mental health diversion to get the treatment they need to move their life in a proper direction. 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It’s a way to manage the criminal justice system so we aren’t exacerbating caseloads and the backlog of criminal cases at the Hall of Justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, workers at San Francisco’s Superior Court also rallied outside the Hall of Justice to call out the city’s backlogged cases and resulting wait times that they said have caused people to languish in jail without access to their constitutional right to a speedy trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trying to get through the backlog without enough time or staffing leads to simple errors that cause real-world problems,” Robert Borders, a courtroom clerk in the Criminal Division, said in a statement. “A small mistake on paper can turn into a living nightmare for someone stuck in a jail cell waiting for their day in court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends and family described Hadley as a member of the LGBTQ community, a joyful young woman who prayed regularly, and someone who loved animals and wanted to one day be a veterinarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was my baby, and I knew she was the one person in the world that loved me the most,” Blockman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sept. 18: A previous version of this story said attorneys have seen an increased pace of convictions leading to tragic outcomes for people like Hadley and her family. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing, nothing. They didn’t tell me anything. I still don’t know,” Adimika Blockman, Hadley’s mother, said at a rally joined by more than a dozen other relatives and supporters outside the San Francisco Women’s Jail on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They pointed to Hadley’s death in calling for Jenkins to seek out more alternatives to jail, such as mental health diversion programs. Hadley, who faced charges in connection with a string of robberies but had not been convicted, struggled with mental health challenges, according to her attorney and family members who sought treatment for her while in jail. 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She was detained pretrial because of the public safety risk she posed,” Jenkins said in a written statement. “The court denied defense counsel’s numerous requests for mental health diversion because it was not warranted in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Shikman, an attorney who represented Hadley, said she expressed remorse for what she had done and described her as “the poster child for compassionate treatment in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tried mightily for practically two years to get her mental health diversion, but it fell almost on deaf ears. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> is set to continue its expansion of police technology by rolling out automated surveillance cameras across the city as part of a new public safety program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes as San Francisco supervisors are set to vote Tuesday afternoon on whether to allow police to keep using privately owned surveillance cameras and expand the use of drones for investigations after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978236/propositions-e-and-f-in-san-francisco-appear-headed-for-victory\">voters granted police expanded powers\u003c/a> in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed joined District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and other city officials at a press conference on Monday on the Embarcadero to introduce the new round-the-clock surveillance units, which they said will start to launch in the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mobile units include a 22-foot mast with three cameras, a speaker, floodlights and strobes, similar to those that have been placed in some grocery store parking lots and work sites. They will first be deployed to the Mission District, where residents have complained about illegal sex work and related problems, and to the Mid-Market area downtown, where the city has aimed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989112/can-san-francisco-arrest-its-way-out-of-tenderloins-drug-crisis\">crack down on open-air drug markets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those locations were chosen based on community feedback, according to Police Chief Bill Scott, who said that law enforcement has “been really relentless in addressing open-air drug use and drug sales.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The developments follow \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978707/san-francisco-moderates-win-big\">the passage of Proposition E\u003c/a>, which gave San Francisco law enforcement officers more access to technological tools such as drones, automated license plate readers and surveillance and facial recognition cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in the tech capital of the world here in Silicon Valley, and we have to make sure that we are not behind the curve in using technology to our full advantage,” Jenkins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the fleet of mobile units could spark \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977185/police-want-drones-in-car-chases-how-sfs-prop-e-could-affect-that\">further backlash\u003c/a> over the potential repercussions of Proposition E, whose critics questioned the implications it could hold for privacy violations and predictive policing among communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12002515 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240830-SFSIDESHOWLEGISLATION-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Subjecting some of the most vulnerable populations in San Francisco to this dragnet surveillance is a ‘kitchen sink’ approach to public safety that capitalizes on residents’ fear of crime,” Matthew Guariglia, senior policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said in a statement. “The city must be clear about how it plans to use these technologies and the protections it will give residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Ozer, technology and civil liberties director for the ACLU of Northern California, echoed Guariglia’s sentiments, calling for the city to “stop rolling out expensive and invasive surveillance gadgets and instead get serious about improving the services that actually get people healthy and housed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police and city officials said they believe the surveillance units and other technology will help to suppress crime rates and support the work of patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is yet another piece of technology, another tool for our officers that we can use in the spirit of having our officers identify crime when it happens — sometimes before it happens — so we can go out and be proactive,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LiveView Technologies will supply the units. The company’s Chief Revenue Officer Mark Cranny gave a live demonstration of how the units work, emphasizing their cloud-based capacity for 24/7 recording, live streaming, and use of artificial intelligence to monitor and report suspicious activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cranny added that law enforcement would be readily able to access the cameras in real-time and retrieve “evidence of a crime or incident that’s been committed during or after it’s taken place.” Operators can also talk remotely through the units’ speakers, which could be used to deescalate a situation before police are dispatched, Cranny said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott invited feedback from residents and others about the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please get in touch with us. We want to do this right, and we want to make this right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ronald Latney used to believe his vote didn’t matter. But after returning to jail this year, he realized the difference it can make — especially locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I try to tell everybody … like, man, we need to vote because our lives depend on this,” he said, mentioning district attorney races and bail policies. “That’s very impactful on me and what I’m going through now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also helps him feel involved in the world, he said: “Sometimes we feel like we’re forgotten about, so to speak, except for our family. But this does definitely make me feel like I’m a part of something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latney is able to vote with relative ease at a jail in San Bruno, where he’s serving time. But his experience isn’t all that common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California prides itself on making voting easier, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/06/california-voters-access-visually-impaired/\">some groups of voters\u003c/a> still face barriers. That includes many people in county jails, though the state has allowed most of them to vote since 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest data from the California Department of Corrections shows that about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2024/09/Tpop1d240911.pdf\">92,000 people\u003c/a> are in state prisons, and many are ineligible to vote. But in 2023, another \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/CA.html\">78,000 were in county jails\u003c/a>, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, a Massachusetts-based nonpartisan research group and about 60% of them have not been convicted of a crime, so they are eligible to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A disproportionate number of people in jails are Black or Latino and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/03/waiting-for-justice/\">sometimes wait years until they go to trial\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most California jails don’t offer in-person voting, and voting by mail can be challenging. People might be registered at one address, but even if mail is being forwarded to their jail, they may get released or transferred elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates who have tried to help incarcerated people vote list a host of hurdles that vary by county. Due to lengthy mail screening, some people in jails don’t get voter guides in time. Others don’t get voter guides at all because people in jail can only receive mail under a certain page limit or without staples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voter information is key to the process, advocates say — letting people know if they’re eligible or how to register or vote. However, advocates face their own barriers, such as limits on how often they can visit jails or how long they can stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state does not track the number of incarcerated people who vote, but some counties have encouraged more participation: Since 2010, nearly 9,200 jail inmates have voted by mail or at in-jail booths in Los Angeles County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more on voting rights\" tag=\"voting-rights\"]Advocates want to build on that program through a bill introduced by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/isaac-bryan-165440\">Isaac Bryan\u003c/a> that would start a \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab544?slug=CA_202320240AB544\">pilot program for in-jail voting\u003c/a> in three counties. The bill passed the Legislature in the session’s final days in late August and awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision by Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While nearly all Republicans voted against it, the bill has no official opposition on file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Topo Padilla, a board member of Crime Victims United, said that he did not understand the need for the Legislature to intervene. “I do not believe there’s a sheriff in the state of California that is saying lawful mail cannot be delivered to an inmate,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, he said, shows him again that Democrats in California “focus more about taking care of people that have been convicted of crimes than they do about victims of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Latney, he believes his vote directly affects his ability to get out of jail — and stay out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He arrived at the law library at the jail, in a visit last week arranged by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, with a red folder that held a write-up of his own experience with state laws and a printed-out opinion piece from former prisoner \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/09/after-prison-vote-first-time/\">Richard Richardson\u003c/a>, whose voting experience resonated with Latney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can honestly say that I made my mistake. … I’m paying my debt to society, and I’m just ready for this to be over with,” he said. “I know that voting can make things like this possible and can help better my circumstances and later on in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The jail upon a hill\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Melinda Benson, director of Prisoner Legal Services for the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, said every eligible person incarcerated in California should have a “meaningful” opportunity to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say meaningful because it’s not meaningful in a lot of counties. It might be just that they make an announcement that you can reach out to the Department of Elections,” she said. “The rule is that the Department of Elections has to make that opportunity available, but that’s it. That’s really the only guidance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson’s staff of three provides legal services, and also goes cell-by-cell to talk through each person’s eligibility and steps to register. A big push at the San Francisco County Jail involves convincing those incarcerated that they really can vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a lawyer, and I’m telling them, ‘No, you’re absolutely legally eligible to vote.’ They don’t believe me,” Benson said. “And then when they have the opportunity to do it, it’s pretty moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/PdQOr/2/\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office began its voting outreach program in 2003, based on interest in San Francisco’s mayoral race, and worked with the elections office to ensure anyone eligible could fill out absentee ballot forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the state has gradually expanded eligibility, such as to those on parole. And a 2021 state law that ensures that a mail ballot is sent to everyone registered made the process much easier for Benson’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from four elections in San Francisco from February 2022 to March 2024 show that a third to half of jailed people who requested voter information went on to cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004891\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004891\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12.jpeg\" alt=\"A bearded incarcerated man with glasses, in an orange shirt sits at a table in front of a bookcase of legal books.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12.jpeg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Neal of San Francisco speaks about voting while incarcerated in a San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno on Sept. 11, 2024. Neal said that voting, particularly in local elections, is important and it’s something he has done most of his life. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas Neal, 45, who is also incarcerated at its San Bruno jail, said voting has always been important to him. He sees it as his civic duty. His experience in San Francisco County jail has been better than in other counties, where he said he had to petition for voting resources to be made available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I shouldn’t have to argue about wanting to vote. It’s my right to vote,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Workarounds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A big advantage of the San Francisco program is that the team is in-house. Elsewhere, outside advocacy groups have to go through a myriad of workarounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spread the Vote tries to set up relationships with someone inside the jail — a priest, rabbi or a counselor — who can be a point of contact to answer voting questions. The group aims to boost voter participation by eliminating barriers such as not having an ID card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kat Calvin, executive director of Spread the Vote, said that it takes more than just providing pamphlets to empower those incarcerated to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve tried to work with California jails, and we’re always told, ‘Oh, we’ve got it. We’re so great.’ But then I’ve gotten letters from people who are incarcerated in California jails saying, ‘I’m trying to vote, but they won’t give me a pen. They’ll only give me a pencil,’” she said. “It’s those little things that make it impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spread the Vote works in 20 states and creates voting guides geared to those in jail, sent early enough to avoid mail processing delays. Depending on local rules, they might also set up ballot collection boxes in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VOICE program in the Alameda County public defender’s office has registered nearly 1,800 people since 2016, mostly at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. It shows prospective voters how to look at downloaded guides for statewide initiatives on their tablets to get around the limits on stapled guides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004889\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004889\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02.jpeg\" alt=\"A paper guide and two pens. The guide says '5 Facts About Voting With a Criminal History'\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02.jpeg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flier made by the San Francisco Department of Elections to inform people who are incarcerated about their voting rights. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all advocacy groups find success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, for example, the sheriff’s department denied access to Pillars of the Community, so the advocacy group partnered with the League of Women Voters, which already worked with the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego Sheriff’s Department said it works closely with the Registrar of Voters and the League of Women Voters to ensure access to voter registration and participation. In the case of the Pillars group, a sheriff’s spokesperson said some volunteers did not get security clearance or didn’t submit requests early enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some volunteers have criminal records, which could prevent them from getting clearance, said Brittany Stonesifer, a voting rights attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.\u003cbr>\n<h2″>Are there solutions in sight?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bryan, a Democratic lawmaker from Culver City, the only way to address inconsistent mail voting in county jails — sometimes due to a lack of technical assistance or staff — is to allow voting inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why he introduced \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab544?slug=CA_202320240AB544\">Assembly Bill 544\u003c/a>, which requires the Secretary of State to provide grants to the elections offices in San Benito, Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties to set up in-person voting in jails — when the Legislature allocates funding, which might be an uphill battle given the state’s budget crunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It increases public safety, it increases civic awareness, and it produces the best kind of electoral outcomes — where all eligible voters are able to be heard in our democracy,” Bryan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004888\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004888\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01.jpeg\" alt=\"A young, bald Black man with a beard, wearing a grey suit, speak at a formal hearing.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01.jpeg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Culver City) on the Assembly floor at the state Capitol on March 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If Newsom signs the bill, the pilot programs would be for elections in 2026 through 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is based on the success of the Los Angeles County “\u003ca href=\"https://spsf.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2024-06/ab-544-analysis_0.pdf\">We All Count” campaign\u003c/a>, which set up in-person voting for the March 2020 presidential primary at the Century Regional Detention Facility. More than 90 people cast ballots, but the COVID-19 pandemic suspended the effort. In 2022, the county expanded to a second jail and 40 people cast ballots between the two facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson, of San Francisco Prisoner Legal Services, said any state mandate would be helpful in case future sheriffs aren’t as supportive of voting access. “If there is a law in place, that will be followed, and if there are resources behind it — you know, now we’re talking,” she said. “So you’ve got to not just say that. It has to have some teeth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other ways the state could help short of in-jail voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ucedrah Osby, president of the Bakersfield chapter of All of Us or None, an advocacy group for the incarcerated, said the state could spend more on voter education. And jails could allow outside groups more access since voting information can have more impact coming from those with connections to the incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanh Tran, an advocate who served two-and-a-half years of his 10-year sentence in jail, agreed. He said he was focused mostly on surviving each day, and it didn’t even cross his mind that he was still eligible to vote when he was shackled and belly-chained just to walk down the hallway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran, whose sentence was commuted by Newsom in 2022, said he spent many days in solitary confinement, where he read the news and books on politics. After his release, he worked as a fellow at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, where he helped advocate for Bryan’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I knew that I could participate in voting, I would have done it. But the thing is that I wasn’t offered it. I didn’t know it was a thing,” he said. “There were many, many barriers stopping me from even conceiving the thought of voting during my incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Advocates want to build on that program through a bill introduced by Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/isaac-bryan-165440\">Isaac Bryan\u003c/a> that would start a \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab544?slug=CA_202320240AB544\">pilot program for in-jail voting\u003c/a> in three counties. The bill passed the Legislature in the session’s final days in late August and awaits Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision by Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While nearly all Republicans voted against it, the bill has no official opposition on file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Topo Padilla, a board member of Crime Victims United, said that he did not understand the need for the Legislature to intervene. “I do not believe there’s a sheriff in the state of California that is saying lawful mail cannot be delivered to an inmate,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, he said, shows him again that Democrats in California “focus more about taking care of people that have been convicted of crimes than they do about victims of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Latney, he believes his vote directly affects his ability to get out of jail — and stay out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He arrived at the law library at the jail, in a visit last week arranged by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, with a red folder that held a write-up of his own experience with state laws and a printed-out opinion piece from former prisoner \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/09/after-prison-vote-first-time/\">Richard Richardson\u003c/a>, whose voting experience resonated with Latney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can honestly say that I made my mistake. … I’m paying my debt to society, and I’m just ready for this to be over with,” he said. “I know that voting can make things like this possible and can help better my circumstances and later on in life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The jail upon a hill\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Melinda Benson, director of Prisoner Legal Services for the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, said every eligible person incarcerated in California should have a “meaningful” opportunity to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say meaningful because it’s not meaningful in a lot of counties. It might be just that they make an announcement that you can reach out to the Department of Elections,” she said. “The rule is that the Department of Elections has to make that opportunity available, but that’s it. That’s really the only guidance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson’s staff of three provides legal services, and also goes cell-by-cell to talk through each person’s eligibility and steps to register. A big push at the San Francisco County Jail involves convincing those incarcerated that they really can vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a lawyer, and I’m telling them, ‘No, you’re absolutely legally eligible to vote.’ They don’t believe me,” Benson said. “And then when they have the opportunity to do it, it’s pretty moving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/PdQOr/2/\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office began its voting outreach program in 2003, based on interest in San Francisco’s mayoral race, and worked with the elections office to ensure anyone eligible could fill out absentee ballot forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the state has gradually expanded eligibility, such as to those on parole. And a 2021 state law that ensures that a mail ballot is sent to everyone registered made the process much easier for Benson’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from four elections in San Francisco from February 2022 to March 2024 show that a third to half of jailed people who requested voter information went on to cast ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004891\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004891\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12.jpeg\" alt=\"A bearded incarcerated man with glasses, in an orange shirt sits at a table in front of a bookcase of legal books.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12.jpeg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-12-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Neal of San Francisco speaks about voting while incarcerated in a San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno on Sept. 11, 2024. Neal said that voting, particularly in local elections, is important and it’s something he has done most of his life. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas Neal, 45, who is also incarcerated at its San Bruno jail, said voting has always been important to him. He sees it as his civic duty. His experience in San Francisco County jail has been better than in other counties, where he said he had to petition for voting resources to be made available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I shouldn’t have to argue about wanting to vote. It’s my right to vote,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Workarounds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A big advantage of the San Francisco program is that the team is in-house. Elsewhere, outside advocacy groups have to go through a myriad of workarounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spread the Vote tries to set up relationships with someone inside the jail — a priest, rabbi or a counselor — who can be a point of contact to answer voting questions. The group aims to boost voter participation by eliminating barriers such as not having an ID card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kat Calvin, executive director of Spread the Vote, said that it takes more than just providing pamphlets to empower those incarcerated to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve tried to work with California jails, and we’re always told, ‘Oh, we’ve got it. We’re so great.’ But then I’ve gotten letters from people who are incarcerated in California jails saying, ‘I’m trying to vote, but they won’t give me a pen. They’ll only give me a pencil,’” she said. “It’s those little things that make it impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spread the Vote works in 20 states and creates voting guides geared to those in jail, sent early enough to avoid mail processing delays. Depending on local rules, they might also set up ballot collection boxes in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VOICE program in the Alameda County public defender’s office has registered nearly 1,800 people since 2016, mostly at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. It shows prospective voters how to look at downloaded guides for statewide initiatives on their tablets to get around the limits on stapled guides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004889\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004889\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02.jpeg\" alt=\"A paper guide and two pens. The guide says '5 Facts About Voting With a Criminal History'\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02.jpeg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/091124_InmateVoting_FM_CM-02-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flier made by the San Francisco Department of Elections to inform people who are incarcerated about their voting rights. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all advocacy groups find success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Diego, for example, the sheriff’s department denied access to Pillars of the Community, so the advocacy group partnered with the League of Women Voters, which already worked with the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Diego Sheriff’s Department said it works closely with the Registrar of Voters and the League of Women Voters to ensure access to voter registration and participation. In the case of the Pillars group, a sheriff’s spokesperson said some volunteers did not get security clearance or didn’t submit requests early enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some volunteers have criminal records, which could prevent them from getting clearance, said Brittany Stonesifer, a voting rights attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.\u003cbr>\n<h2″>Are there solutions in sight?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bryan, a Democratic lawmaker from Culver City, the only way to address inconsistent mail voting in county jails — sometimes due to a lack of technical assistance or staff — is to allow voting inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why he introduced \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab544?slug=CA_202320240AB544\">Assembly Bill 544\u003c/a>, which requires the Secretary of State to provide grants to the elections offices in San Benito, Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties to set up in-person voting in jails — when the Legislature allocates funding, which might be an uphill battle given the state’s budget crunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It increases public safety, it increases civic awareness, and it produces the best kind of electoral outcomes — where all eligible voters are able to be heard in our democracy,” Bryan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12004888\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12004888\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01.jpeg\" alt=\"A young, bald Black man with a beard, wearing a grey suit, speak at a formal hearing.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01.jpeg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/032723-Isaac-Bryan-MG-CM-01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Culver City) on the Assembly floor at the state Capitol on March 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If Newsom signs the bill, the pilot programs would be for elections in 2026 through 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is based on the success of the Los Angeles County “\u003ca href=\"https://spsf.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2024-06/ab-544-analysis_0.pdf\">We All Count” campaign\u003c/a>, which set up in-person voting for the March 2020 presidential primary at the Century Regional Detention Facility. More than 90 people cast ballots, but the COVID-19 pandemic suspended the effort. In 2022, the county expanded to a second jail and 40 people cast ballots between the two facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson, of San Francisco Prisoner Legal Services, said any state mandate would be helpful in case future sheriffs aren’t as supportive of voting access. “If there is a law in place, that will be followed, and if there are resources behind it — you know, now we’re talking,” she said. “So you’ve got to not just say that. It has to have some teeth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other ways the state could help short of in-jail voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ucedrah Osby, president of the Bakersfield chapter of All of Us or None, an advocacy group for the incarcerated, said the state could spend more on voter education. And jails could allow outside groups more access since voting information can have more impact coming from those with connections to the incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanh Tran, an advocate who served two-and-a-half years of his 10-year sentence in jail, agreed. He said he was focused mostly on surviving each day, and it didn’t even cross his mind that he was still eligible to vote when he was shackled and belly-chained just to walk down the hallway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran, whose sentence was commuted by Newsom in 2022, said he spent many days in solitary confinement, where he read the news and books on politics. After his release, he worked as a fellow at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, where he helped advocate for Bryan’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:30 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/london-breed\">London Breed\u003c/a> has tapped Mawuli Tugbenyoh to serve as the acting executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission after former head Sheryl Davis resigned from the position on Friday morning following reports of potential misspending of public money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to announcing the appointment, Breed said that the city will expand oversight into the city’s Dream Keeper Initiative, which Davis oversaw in her position with the HRC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am dedicated to upholding the highest standards of integrity as we advance the department’s mission,” said Tugbenyoh, who previously was the deputy director of the city’s Human Resources Department. “My focus will be on rebuilding the community’s trust through transparent, accountable actions that allow us to advance the transformative work of the Human Rights Commission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dream Keeper Initiative aims to support the Black community with homeownership opportunities, launch new small businesses and provide workforce training and more. Currently, in San Francisco, 30% of the Black population lives below the poverty level and the lowest rate of homeownership among the city’s racial demographics, at 31%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed emphasized the importance of continuing the program despite pausing funding for it while investigations are underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Dream Keeper has led to unprecedented support for the Black community, and that work must continue,” Breed said. “Supporting this program means committing to strengthening transparency and accountability around how any and all organizations are being funded and how the funding is being used. It means leaving no questions unanswered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original story, 1:30 p.m., Sept. 3\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission, who led a multimillion-dollar initiative meant to steer city funds to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-plan-for-reinvesting-120-million-from-police-into-black-communities\">programs benefiting the Black community\u003c/a>, is on leave amid questions surrounding her department’s handling of the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the latest example of a city department head coming under scrutiny over their spending, an issue that candidates running for mayor this November have latched onto as they aim to prove to voters that they can clean up corruption in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s city attorney is now investigating grants and contracts awarded by Sheryl Davis, the former HRC executive director whose office administers Mayor London Breed’s Dream Keeper Initiative that launched in 2021. This comes after a city audit found several instances of problematic spending at the department, including a lack of documentation and overpaying in some cases by tens of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Questions have been raised around Dream Keeper spending and Mayor Breed is committed to ensuring the integrity of the program and continuing the good that it does with full transparency,” a spokesperson for the mayor’s office said. “The Mayor has already put in place stronger budget controls over the initiative during her most recent budget signed in August.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed introduced the Dream Keeper Initiative amid the nationwide push for police reform in 2020, billing it as a way to redirect law enforcement funding to the Black community. More recently, concerns have been raised over whether the city is tracking how the funds are spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11998148 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240801_KyraWorthy_GC-1_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report published Thursday by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, Davis signed off on payments of nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/marthas-vinyard-rental-questions-spending-19743302.php\">$10,000 for a house rental on Martha’s Vineyard\u003c/a> for Dream Keeper interns to stay during a conference without undergoing a competitive bidding process or signing a formal contract. A nonprofit director who filed a whistleblower complaint over the rental said Davis asked her to book the house and to split the invoice into two separate payments, the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Proposition Q allows such no-bid payments under a certain limit and bars departments from splitting invoices to meet that limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/12/san-francisco-dream-keeper-initiative-sheryl-davis-james-spingola-nonprofit/\">\u003cem>The San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> also reported Thursday that Davis approved up to $1.5 million in contracts for Collective Impact, a local nonprofit run by a man with whom she has a close relationship. Davis and James Spingola shared a home address and acknowledged their relationship in interviews, the Standard reported, but she has not formally disclosed it to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to Davis for comment but did not receive a response before publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s opponents for mayor wasted no time criticizing her administration for enabling nepotism and improper spending and bookkeeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a matter of hours these two insiders have eroded public trust for years to come,” nonprofit executive Daniel Lurie said in a statement. “It’s time to turn the page on corruption in San Francisco. Our residents and taxpayers deserve accountable, effective leadership — no more backroom deals, conflicts of interest, or pay-to-play schemes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s recently proposed anti-corruption plan includes removing campaign fundraising loopholes, raising filing fees for candidates who have records of ethics misconduct, fully funding the Ethics Commission, and creating an ethics enforcement dashboard to track financial reports and other potential conflicts of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also takes a direct swing at fellow mayoral candidate Mark Farrell, a former supervisor and interim mayor, who has come under scrutiny over committees that have raised millions of dollars backing a ballot measure he supports. Individual contributions to candidate campaigns are limited to $500, but Farrell’s opponents say he has been able to benefit from money raised for the ballot measure to slash the number of city commissions, which is supported by TogetherSF Action, a moderate political organizing group that has endorsed Farrell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Farrell said Breed should fire Davis “immediately” and called for federal authorities to investigate the mayor’s ties to the scandal. He has put forward his own anti-corruption plans, which include centralizing all third-party nonprofit contacts under the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all too telling that one of Mayor Breed’s signature initiatives is rife with scandal, systemic misspending, and clear mismanagement. San Francisco taxpayers should not be left holding the bill for Mayor Breed’s failures,” Farrell said in a statement. “Our City needs leadership that will confront corruption head-on and ensure every taxpayer dollar spent delivers results for San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, also running for mayor, is backing Proposition C, which would create an inspector general whose job would be to monitor for conflicts of interest and financial misconduct and hold city officials accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The allegations that were made today are deeply disturbing and troubling,” said Peskin, who plans to call for a full investigation into the Human Rights Commission spending at the Board of Supervisors. “The number of corruption scandals under this mayor have shaken my confidence in her administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest questions surrounding city spending come after the former leader of the nonprofit SF SAFE was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998148/arrested-sf-nonprofit-chief-also-ran-a-richmond-charity-it-too-had-questionable-spending\">arrested in July and charged with 34 felonies\u003c/a> over accusations that she misused public funds and donations intended for crime-prevention programs. Prosecutors allege that Kyra Worthy submitted fake invoices, stopped paying employees’ payroll taxes and misused over $700,000 on lavish spending, parties and personal use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That followed one of the city’s largest corruption scandals in recent years after a sprawling FBI investigation targeting bribery and fraud at City Hall. That case led to prison sentences for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a>, former head of the Department of Public Works, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955753/jury-convicts-top-sf-official-in-corruption-trial-here-are-5-takeaways\">Harlan Kelly\u003c/a>, former general manager of the Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002617/mayor-breed-orders-increased-scrutiny-of-san-francisco-contract-work-grantees\">ordered city officials and staff\u003c/a> who work with any outside contractors or grantees to improve financial tracking and reporting and ordered the city administrator and city attorney to create a set of policies to better prevent conflicts of interest in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jsmall\">\u003cem>Julie Small\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]ncarcerated women at the Central California Women’s facility in Chowchilla say correctional officers used pepper spray, tear gas and rubber bullets on them after forcing them into a cafeteria with no food, water or medication for more than four hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four women told KQED they were left injured, had difficulty breathing and were traumatized by the incident that occurred last month on Aug. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three incarcerated people had difficulty breathing and were transported to an offsite medical facility, according to an emailed statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement, CDCR said officials have “identified concerning information about the handling of the Aug. 2 incident at the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) and are taking swift action.” The statement adds that a fight between two inmates prompted the incident and that approximately 100 others became “disruptive,” requiring staff to “quell the incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sources told KQED that a fight had broken out earlier, well before the alleged use of force by officers, whose later behavior was unprovoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central California Women’s Facility is the largest female institution in the state. It houses over 2,000 incarcerated people at all security levels, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Warden-Mary-Lattimore-One-Year-Audit-Central-California-Womens-Facility.pdf\">according to a report\u003c/a> by the California Office of the Inspector General.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘People were screaming for help’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 2, correctional officers informed the women in one of the units that they were going to conduct a contraband search of the entire building, according to half a dozen formerly and currently incarcerated women who spoke to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antoinette Yancey said she is a member of the Inmate Advisory Council, which communicates with prison staff about prisoners’ needs. She said everyone who was there that day complied with the order from officers to file into the cafeteria, also known as the chow hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yancey said that after nearly four hours inside the cafeteria, the women had missed their state-issued lunch and others had not been given their medication. She said she asked to speak to Sergeant Fernando Arroyo, the officer she believed to be in charge that day. Meanwhile, another woman was seen having a seizure, according to Yancey and other witnesses. Yancey told KQED that a guard called a “medical code.” Moments later, she said, 30 to 40 officers entered the cafeteria, including Sgt. Arroyo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I saw Sergeant Arroyo, I assumed that he was coming in to talk to us about lunches, food, water and things like that,” she said. Yancey said Arroyo did not address the women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers then formed a skirmish line around them, according to three of the women. Yancey said she saw Sergeant Arroyo tap officers on the shoulder before officers started screaming “Get back!” at the women, who, she said, posed no threat. Officers began to spray pepper spray and tear gas at the women, according to four accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the inmates ran away from the [chemical] bomb. Officers chased them, body slamming people who had walkers and couldn’t get down,” Yancey said, “Snatching shirts off people’s faces and [pepper] spraying them directly in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the chaos unfolded, Elaine De Leon Guerrero, an Iraq war veteran, said she immediately threw herself to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ended up getting trampled on. People were screaming for help, crying, asking to please stop,” she said. “There were multiple orders being sent by different staff. Some were screaming at us, saying, get down. Others were saying, ‘Get up and file.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Leon Guerrero said she saw two women have seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the statement, CDCR officials acknowledged that correctional officers used chemical weapons but would not provide any more details; the agency said no rubber bullets were used and maintained that the incident did not amount to excessive force. CDCR declined to specify whether other projectiles were used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also declined to confirm whether a Sgt. Fernando Arroyo works at the Chowchilla facility or was in charge that day. \u003ca href=\"https://openpayrolls.com/employee/fernando-arroyo-9571\">Public records show\u003c/a> that a Sgt. Fernando Arroyo worked at the Chowchilla facility until at least 2023. A Chowchilla prison employee named Fernando Arroyo is listed as one of several defendants in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/roe-vs-cdcr-complaint-sacramento.pdf\">ongoing civil suit filed by 144 plaintiffs\u003c/a> in Sacramento County alleging sexual assault and sexual battery at the Chowchilla facility. Arroyo could not be reached by phone; CDCR did not respond to KQED’s request to make Arroyo available for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘They just wouldn’t stop. It was like a war zone’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Witnesses interviewed by KQED said that eventually, officers zip-tied all the women’s hands and escorted them outside to the yard, where they were made to sit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re thinking, okay, we’re sitting, we’re defenseless, now we’re going to get answers,” inmate Johnnyne Ramirez said. Instead, Ramirez said the officers continued another round of pepper spraying and tear gas bombing. Yancey and De Leon Guerrero gave KQED a matching account of the events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really thought I was going to die that day because they were shooting. They were throwing [tear gas] grenades. They just wouldn’t stop. It was like a war zone,” Ramirez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12003230 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses told KQED that the unrest in the yard went on for another hour before prison staff escorted the women back to their cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But they didn’t decontaminate us after using the chemical agents, which they’re supposed to do,” De Leon Guerrero said. “They just sent us, little at a time, back to the cells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CDCR spokesperson declined to comment on specific allegations following the system’s written statement, citing an active investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at the facility began an immediate week-long intensive training on appropriate incident response, according to the statement from CDRC.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An unprecedented use of force\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When told about the incident, Deputy Director for the ACLU National Prison Project Corene Kendrick said she had never seen this level of force at a women’s prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never heard of anything this severe of an overreaction, especially when it’s in the context of something like a property search. And the women were just asking ‘what’s going on? And how much longer is this going to take?’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to a CDCR policy that states chemical agents should not be used once a person is restrained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Norman, an attorney who monitors jails and prisons, said the alleged violence by CDCR staff is disturbing but not surprising. In 2020, staff at the men’s correctional facility in Soledad rounded up incarcerated Black men and locked them in a cafeteria for hours at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were zip-tied and they were interrogated about involvement with Black Lives Matter,” Norman said. “So these sorts of things tend to burst out in the current culture at CDCR.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>History of alleged abuse at the Chowchilla Facility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003230/feds-investigate-california-prisons-where-women-say-culture-of-impunity-surrounded-abuse\">announced last week\u003c/a> that it is investigating the CDCR’s handling of sexual abuse allegations at the state women’s prisons in Chowchilla and Chino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-civil-rights-investigation-correctional-staff-sexual-abuse-two\">In a statement\u003c/a>, the DOJ said it found significant justification to open the investigation, including “hundreds of private lawsuits” and reports alleging sexual abuse by correctional officers. Last year a correctional officer at the Chowchilla facility was charged with \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/gregory-rodriguez-california-correctional-officer-accused-sexual-assault-womens-prison\">96 criminal counts\u003c/a>, including rape, sodomy and sexual battery over a 13-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOJ’s investigation is appropriate given the charges brought against the correctional officer, said state Sen. Nancy Skinner, the chair of the Women’s Legislative Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to imagine that that individual was able to get away with that without other officials knowing. And it really puts a spotlight on what is happening there,” the East Bay lawmaker told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women who were in the chow hall at the Central California Women’s Facility on Aug. 2 said they hope the CDCR’s investigation leads to transparency and accountability. 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