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"content": "\u003cp>A man who lost his wife and two kids in an apartment fire near San Jose State last November is suing the owner of the building that went up in flames, blaming them for his unit not having smoke alarms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khoa Dang Le filed a wrongful death and personal injury lawsuit in Santa Clara County Superior Court last month, seeking damages for the blaze at a duplex on South Ninth Street that killed his two children, Yvonne Mai Le, 14, a student at Gunderson High School, and Thuong Xuan Le, 21, an SJSU student, along with his wife, 48-year-old Lingh My Thi Nguyen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Le's lawyer says the lawsuit is also aimed at drawing attention to safety concerns associated with low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a community case for us,\" \u003ca href=\"https://harrispersonalinjury.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Harris\u003c/a> said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have low-rent apartments that, for whatever reason, codes that govern conditions of properties are either not paid attention to or purposefully avoided,\" Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family was sleeping at 5 a.m. on Nov. 18 when the fire started. The older Le woke up to thick black smoke consuming the apartment. He woke up his family and tried to escape from the front door of the apartment, the suit states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his wife and two children fell unconscious, due to smoke inhalation. before they could escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dang Le \"was narrowly rescued\" from a bedroom window. He suffered burns to over 70 percent of his body and was placed into a medically induced coma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early December he was still in that coma when his \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/03/san-jose-fire-victims-family-bids-tearful-farewell-to-mom-two-kids/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family was laid to rest\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple and their son had emigrated to the United States from Vietnam. 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Dan Vega.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11632630/no-smoke-alarms-found-in-san-jose-apartment-where-fire-killed-three\">No Smoke Alarms Found in San Jose Apartment Where Fire Killed Three\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Days after the blaze, fire officials revealed that arson investigators \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/22/no-smoke-alarms-found-in-san-jose-apartment-where-fire-killed-three/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">did not find smoke alarms\u003c/a> in the apartment. They found a pair of melted mounted rings for smoke detectors, but no alarms, according to Vega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit blames the building owners, who include Afroditi Andrews and a trust that shares her name, for the lack of alarms and, as a result, the deaths of three people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fire spread rapidly throughout the structure without any adequate safety devices to alert or warn plaintiffs of the spreading fire,\" the suit states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=13113.7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State law\u003c/a> requires smoke alarms -- or in some cases smoke detectors connected to a fire alarm system -- in all residential units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials have emphasized for years that not having the devices can be deadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10879002/no-smoke-detectors-in-mission-district-apartment-where-fire-killed-two\">No Smoke Detectors in Mission District Apartment Where Fire Killed Two\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In 2015 a fire killed two members of a family in San Francisco's Mission district. A fire department \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/26/no-smoke-detectors-in-mission-district-apartment-where-fire-killed-two/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation\u003c/a> found that their three-bedroom apartment lacked smoke detectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrews, reached by phone, declined to discuss the case. Her lawyer, Chris Beeman, has yet to return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrews' niece, Georgia Tsaboukos, who has acted as a representative for Andrews, said previously that the apartment was safe and had been inspected frequently by city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late November Tsaboukos said all four units in the building had smoke alarms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything was up to code,\" Tsaboukos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal complaint disputes that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Defendants consciously chose not to take such steps, which allowed defendants to save money and increase profits,\" the suit states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dang Le's lawyers say the building owners not only neglected to install smoke alarms but also that they \"had actual knowledge and were aware that the subject property was uninhabitable, was extremely dangerous, and presented grave risk of injury or death.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials have said their last check of the property, in June 2017, gave it a clean bill of health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a department spokesman acknowledged after the fire that it was unclear if the fire crew that inspected the building actually entered the unit where the blaze took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's common for San Jose firefighters to check common areas of apartment buildings for fire safety violations but they don't always get inside individual units, Vega said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to gather more information as to whether or not a real inspection was performed,\" Harris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first court hearing on the suit is set for May 15.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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A fire department \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/26/no-smoke-detectors-in-mission-district-apartment-where-fire-killed-two/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation\u003c/a> found that their three-bedroom apartment lacked smoke detectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrews, reached by phone, declined to discuss the case. 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So it's our job to really educate people about working with our population.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/02/HuangOCHomelessMovealong.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/OCTent-800x421.jpg\" Title=\"Orange County Struggles to Find Motels to House Homeless\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has placed more than 400 people in motels since Feb. 14 -- but there are at least 100 to 200 more people who need to be housed, said county spokeswoman Jen Nentwig, basing the estimate on the number of tents that still dot the riverbed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooke Weitzman, a lawyer for those who had been living along the riverbed, recognized the challenge the county is facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s a lot of motels who maybe say, 'Yes,' then change their mind or say, 'Sorry, we’re not interested,' \" Weitzman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And those who accept homeless people sometimes do so with caveats, Weitzman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11651607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11651607\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RiverbedHomeless-800x659.jpg\" alt=\"Brooke Weitzman, a lawyer for the homeless, urges riverbed resident Scott Henderson to pack up so he can go spend the night at a motel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RiverbedHomeless-800x659.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RiverbedHomeless-160x132.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RiverbedHomeless-1020x840.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RiverbedHomeless-960x790.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RiverbedHomeless-240x198.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RiverbedHomeless-375x309.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RiverbedHomeless-520x428.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RiverbedHomeless.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brooke Weitzman, a lawyer for the homeless, urges riverbed resident Scott Henderson to pack up so he can go spend the night at a motel. \u003ccite>(Josie Huang/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We’re getting reports of motels taking shower curtains and refrigerators out of the rooms that our guests are placed in,\" Weitzman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buena Park motel owner Kash Singh says he got a call from the county requesting rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sounded like they were in panic mode,\" Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was hesitant at first, worried that the homeless riverbed residents could cause disturbances at his motel. But he, with his wife, said they've watched the county's homelessness problem grow over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought this was one opportunity to help out, so we did it,\" Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They decided to rent out 40 of their 53 rooms. 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So he was excited to be shuttled from his riverbed tent to Singh's motel on Tuesday night with his two Chihuahuas, where he could enjoy \"hot and cold running water, a door that closes, TV, a bath!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"UjsjbMOD0tIianUfwSxeDubBIsdxUxPv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But once Reichenbach got to the motel in Buena Park, there were more people than rooms available. So he was taken back to the riverbed, where he spent a cold evening, sleeping under a tree with a blanket. His tent and other items had already gone into county storage. But he didn't complain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was happy about it,\" Reichenbach said. \"This is what I know here. But the park -- it's coming to an end.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day he was brought back to Singh's motel, and this time there was a room for him and his dogs.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles County officials, looking to address massive housing affordability challenges, are looking to expand the ways they encourage construction of low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors took a first look at a host of potential ordinances aimed at speeding up development and preserving the existing housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The housing needs of low-income Angelenos have pretty much been ignored for 30 years and the economic recession just made it worse,\" said Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who's spearheading the proposals. \"So we're trying to do what we can in an all-hands-on-deck kind of way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the California Housing Partnership Corporation, L.A. 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It would not be limited to low-income housing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another proposal, less fleshed out than the others, would look at ways to preserve the county's existing affordable housing stock. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many, if not all affordable housing developments are built using tax credits that require them to maintain affordable rents for a period. When that period expires, the developments can revert to market rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"CUANhbTj0TvVahQdYnJMk3Ub9SppHScD\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, there are 232 properties consisting of 13,883 affordable units that are set to expire within the next five years, according to the California Housing Partnership Corporation. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ramona Morales, who turns 80 in May, technically has a criminal record. Her offense? One of her renters kept chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Beautiful chickens. Beautiful roosters they were,\" Morales says walking in the backyard of the modest ranch home she rents out in the Coachella Valley city of Indio, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beautiful, but annoying to some neighbors and against the Indio's municipal code on keeping farm animals in a residential area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And violating that code comes with a price. The price for Morales: $6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The steep fine stems from a change in city codes. In most American towns, a loud dog or a room addition without the proper permits would get you a potential citation and fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indio and other Southern California cities are now prosecuting code violators criminally and slapping homeowners like Morales with bills they can't afford to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"In Indio, Calif., some residents have been charged large amounts of money and are facing liens on their homes for minor infractions. State law allows cities to recover all costs for nuisance crimes, including attorney fees, if the city has the appropriate ordinances.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650745\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Indio, Calif., some residents have been charged large amounts of money and are facing liens on their homes for minor infractions. State law allows cities to recover all costs for nuisance crimes, including attorney fees, if the city has the appropriate ordinances.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City administrators defend their aggressive approach, saying they're simply recovering the public cost of getting people to clean up their acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a nonprofit legal group filed suit Tuesday, challenging the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say it is a for-profit policy that signals a dangerous trend of criminally prosecuting people and then billing them thousands of dollars for what are otherwise minor code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what happened to Morales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inspector with the Indio Police Department sent Morales a warning citation: Provide some type of front yard landscaping, get rid of the chickens and obtain a business license for her rental property, required by a newly enacted law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wasn't sure how to force her tenants to comply but warned them to stop with the chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told him (tenant) lots of times,\" Morales says. \"He say, 'Well the chickens are gone.' And I understand that he removed the roosters because they make a lot of noise early in the morning, but he doesn't remove the hens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second warning citation arrived: \"Remove chickens/roosters from the property.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ramona Morales' renters kept chickens, which annoyed some neighbors and was against Indio's municipal code on keeping farm animals in a residential area.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650742\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramona Morales' renters kept chickens, which annoyed some neighbors and was against Indio's municipal code on keeping farm animals in a residential area.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morales finally got the tenants to get rid of all the chickens and she went to city court to clear it all up. But there, she was baffled to learn she was being criminally prosecuted for her tenant's annoying chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And the court they told me if I know about the roosters. I say 'yes.' And they said, 'How do you plead, guilty or not guilty?' And I have to say 'guilty' because if I don't say guilty, I have to pay for the lawyers. And I said 'guilty' and I paid $225.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales thought that $225 fine for all the violations was the end of the chicken, landscaping and rental license saga. \"We walk away thinking everything is good. But wasn't like that, no.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Morales finally got the tenants to get rid of all of the chickens and went to city court to clear it all up. But there she was baffled to find out she was being criminally prosecuted for her tenant's annoying chickens.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650740\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morales finally got the tenants to get rid of all of the chickens and went to city court to clear it all up. But there she was baffled to find out she was being criminally prosecuted for her tenant's annoying chickens.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On top of the $225 fine, she soon got legal bills on behalf of Indio from the private law firm of \u003ca href=\"https://www.silverwrightlaw.com/\">Silver & Wright\u003c/a> totaling $5,659.02. The order said \"the city reasonably incurred\" this money to \"abate the nuisance conditions\" and was entitled to reimbursement in \"defending the City's cost recovery rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That much money for some rooster? I think it's way too much. It's unfair,\" Morales says. \"I don't know what to do because I don't have that much money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a divorced, single mom Morales worked two, sometimes three, jobs most of her adult life to provide for her family: cleaning houses, selling Avon, working in a convenience store. She saved enough to buy some property but isn't wealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I never had that much money with me,\" she says. \"I just try to have enough for my payments, and the rest I spend it in take care of my houses and pay taxes and insurance and everything else.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She borrowed money from her son who is in the U.S. Marine Corps to get out of the chicken trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"As a divorced single mom, Morales worked two, even three, jobs most of her adult life to provide for her family: cleaning houses, selling Avon, working in a convenience store, and, for years before that, picking fruit and vegetables in the searing sun across the Coachella Valley's farm fields.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650827\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As a divorced single mom, Morales worked two, even three, jobs most of her adult life to provide for her family: cleaning houses, selling Avon, working in a convenience store, and, for years before that, picking fruit and vegetables in the searing sun across the Coachella Valley's farm fields.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New code in town\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, state law allows cities to recover all costs for nuisance crimes, including attorney fees, if the city has the appropriate ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys at Silver & Wright law firm have helped about a dozen California cities rewrite their municipal codes — including Indio and neighboring Coachella — to expand the kind of property violations that constitute a public nuisance and to pursue cost recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the cost-recovery ordinance was passed, it gives us more options to do that administratively at a lower cost than actually petitioning the court for restitution,\" says Jason Anderson, the Indio Police Department's code enforcement supervisor.\"It saves the public money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the city spent \"an exorbitant amount of time and cost\" bringing Morales' property into compliance, adding she was given ample time and warnings to fix the problems prior to her summons for criminal prosecution. The city is entitled to get that money back, Anderson says, \"to make the public whole.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\""Since the cost-recovery ordinance was passed, it gives us more options to do that administratively at a lower cost than actually petitioning the court for restitution," says Jason Anderson, the Indio Police Department's code enforcement supervisor. "It saves the public money."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Since the cost-recovery ordinance was passed, it gives us more options to do that administratively at a lower cost than actually petitioning the court for restitution,\" says Jason Anderson, the Indio Police Department's code enforcement supervisor. \"It saves the public money.\"\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The $31,000 permit violation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In neighboring Coachella, Silver & Wright helped rewrite the codes there, too. Just ask Cesar Garcia. His fine is $31,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia failed to get a permit for an addition on his house, a small room in the back that his wife needed to expand her home-based child care business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is handy and didn't think it would be a huge deal to not get a permit. Garcia says he had heard that a lot of people don't pull permits for additions. He now deeply regrets he didn't do that and that he ignored at least 10 warning citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cesar Garcia was hit with a $31,000 legal bill after he converted his back patio into a room without a permit. "I know that I did wrong in not asking for the permit. But I think to lose my house — it's too much."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Garcia was hit with a $31,000 legal bill after he converted his back patio into a room without a permit. \"I know that I did wrong in not asking for the permit. But I think to lose my house — it's too much.\"\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cesar commutes about three hours round trip every day to his job as a grocery store manager. He says he just doesn't have $31,000 to spare and is now worried he could lose everything he has worked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The letter that I receive, they say if I don't pay the $31,000, they're going to put a lien on my house,\" Garcia says. \"I know that I did wrong in not asking for the permit. But I think to lose my house — it's too much.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver & Wright's co-founder Curtis Wright and officials in Coachella say they're not trying to take away anyone's home. Wright maintains it is rare to take the criminal route for nuisance cases. But he adds, sometimes fines and the civil process just don't work to get people to clean up their messes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar Garcia's unlicensed addition, he says, \"was not a safe habitable living space in compliance with the California Building Standards Code. Each day of maintaining those violations is also a new violation for each instance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Garcia failed to get a permit for an addition on his house, a small room in the back his wife needed to expand her home-based child care business.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650741\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garcia failed to get a permit for an addition on his house, a small room in the back his wife needed to expand her home-based child care business.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I asked him whether he thought the \"cost recover\" legal bills to Garcia and Morales are proportionate to the crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, I don't think that they are proportionate,\" he says. \"But you have to understand that if the defendant is going to be uncooperative after they have been given notices and administrative opportunity to comply — and then we get into the criminal case and they're still not being cooperative and they're going to drag things out and drive up the public's cost — then the public is entitled to get that money back. It's not intended to be punitive at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many who've been prosecuted criminally for annoyance violations say they were totally unaware and never warned that they faced legal fees on top of local fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had never run into this practice of criminally prosecuting homeowners for municipal code violations,\" says Shaun Sullivan, Garcia's attorney. He alleges that Silver & Wright and Coachella, which hired the firm, are trying to run up legal fees under the guise of code enforcement. He says their methods are deceitful and end up shafting working people across the Coachella Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wait until it's difficult to withdraw your (guilty) plea and say, 'Oh, too late. By the way, you owe us money.' It's absolutely an unethical practice,\" Sullivan says. \"They don't tell Cesar before he pleads guilty that, in fact, you're going to be paying for everything we've done up this point. And they certainly don't tell it when they initially file criminal charges. And with every new court appearance, (Garcia's) bill is getting bigger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost recovery controversy here echoes the other ways the criminal justice system has greatly expanded the fees charged to criminal defendants, many of them poor, across the nation. Check out NPR's award-winning investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/313986316/guilty-and-charged\">Guilty And Charged.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"In most American towns, a loud dog or a room addition without the proper permits would get you a potential citation and fine. Indio and other Southern California cities are now prosecuting code violators criminally and slapping homeowners with bills they can't afford to pay.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650830\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In most American towns, a loud dog or a room addition without the proper permits would get you a potential citation and fine. Indio and other Southern California cities are now prosecuting code violators criminally and slapping homeowners with bills they can't afford to pay.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stories of some of the excessive nuisance fines in the Coachella Valley were first reported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2017/11/15/he-confessed-minor-crime-then-city-hall-billed-him-31-k-his-own-prosecution/846850001/\">the Palm Springs Desert Sun\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Coachella now says it's putting the brakes on new cases with Silver & Wright until it can review what is happening, says Jacob Alvarez, assistant to Coachella's city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are hearing that there are issues. We have hit pause. We just want to make sure there is some equity and sensitivity for our residents,\" Alvarez says.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Indio, however, see no problem, saying the law firm is merely recovering the cost of prosecuting violators and helping clean up the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver & Wright works on nuisance issues with more than 40 cities and towns across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whether it's a dangerous nuisance or just an aesthetic nuisance or a blight nuisance, the public is the victim of these, so we're there trying to help correct the issue for the public,\" attorney Wright says. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lawsuit against the practice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales, the 79-year-old with the annoying chickens, is fighting back. She is working with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit alleges that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver & Wright and these cities to have a financial stake in cost recovery in the nuisance cases they bring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Morales is working with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit alleges that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver & Wright and these cities to have a financial stake in cost recovery in the nuisance cases they bring.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650744\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morales is working with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit alleges that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver & Wright and these cities to have a financial stake in cost recovery in the nuisance cases they bring.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The business model here of for-profit prosecution is premised on recovering fees from every criminal defendant. That creates perverse incentives, and it distorts the way prosecutors exercise their discretion,\" says Jeffrey Redfern, the Institute for Justice's lead attorney on this case\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redfern calls it policing for-profit and charges that Silver & Wright is, essentially, asking cities to define just about any violation of their property codes as a public nuisance, \"which means that things as little as faded street numbers could be treated as a public nuisance. And, if it's a nuisance, then they can abate it by prosecuting you criminally and then they can recover those costs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Riverside County, says that as of November 2017, Silver & Wright has recovered more than $122,000 in fees in the cities of Indio and Coachella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redfern hopes that those in other California cities who've been forced to pay huge legal fees for nuisance crimes sign on to his lawsuit and that it is eventually granted statewide class action status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'd love to hear from other people who are affected by this,\" he says. \"The more we hear from people, the more we can learn about what's going on. That only makes the case stronger.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Institute for Justice is filing a lawsuit alleging that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver and Wright and these cities to have a financial "cost recovery" stake in the nuisance cases they bring. The lawsuit says that as of November 2017, Silver & Wright has recovered more than $122,000 in fees in the cities of Indio and Coachella.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650831\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/030_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2083_slide-617fb14e48d3bafd67860bb29ce6e7648bd2664c-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Institute for Justice is filing a lawsuit alleging that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver and Wright and these cities to have a financial \"cost recovery\" stake in the nuisance cases they bring. The lawsuit says that as of November 2017, Silver & Wright has recovered more than $122,000 in fees in the cities of Indio and Coachella.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Some+California+Cities+Criminalize+Nuisance+Code+Violations&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ramona Morales, who turns 80 in May, technically has a criminal record. Her offense? One of her renters kept chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Beautiful chickens. Beautiful roosters they were,\" Morales says walking in the backyard of the modest ranch home she rents out in the Coachella Valley city of Indio, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beautiful, but annoying to some neighbors and against the Indio's municipal code on keeping farm animals in a residential area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And violating that code comes with a price. The price for Morales: $6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The steep fine stems from a change in city codes. In most American towns, a loud dog or a room addition without the proper permits would get you a potential citation and fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indio and other Southern California cities are now prosecuting code violators criminally and slapping homeowners like Morales with bills they can't afford to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"In Indio, Calif., some residents have been charged large amounts of money and are facing liens on their homes for minor infractions. State law allows cities to recover all costs for nuisance crimes, including attorney fees, if the city has the appropriate ordinances.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650745\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/044_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2251_slide-7c97370aa82e25332378cce4fa66c906144937f2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Indio, Calif., some residents have been charged large amounts of money and are facing liens on their homes for minor infractions. State law allows cities to recover all costs for nuisance crimes, including attorney fees, if the city has the appropriate ordinances.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City administrators defend their aggressive approach, saying they're simply recovering the public cost of getting people to clean up their acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a nonprofit legal group filed suit Tuesday, challenging the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say it is a for-profit policy that signals a dangerous trend of criminally prosecuting people and then billing them thousands of dollars for what are otherwise minor code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what happened to Morales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inspector with the Indio Police Department sent Morales a warning citation: Provide some type of front yard landscaping, get rid of the chickens and obtain a business license for her rental property, required by a newly enacted law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wasn't sure how to force her tenants to comply but warned them to stop with the chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told him (tenant) lots of times,\" Morales says. \"He say, 'Well the chickens are gone.' And I understand that he removed the roosters because they make a lot of noise early in the morning, but he doesn't remove the hens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second warning citation arrived: \"Remove chickens/roosters from the property.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ramona Morales' renters kept chickens, which annoyed some neighbors and was against Indio's municipal code on keeping farm animals in a residential area.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650742\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/014_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2090_slide-3295ab05b59a61c63f3f27465d8df3ca00a8a309-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramona Morales' renters kept chickens, which annoyed some neighbors and was against Indio's municipal code on keeping farm animals in a residential area.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Morales finally got the tenants to get rid of all the chickens and she went to city court to clear it all up. But there, she was baffled to learn she was being criminally prosecuted for her tenant's annoying chickens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And the court they told me if I know about the roosters. I say 'yes.' And they said, 'How do you plead, guilty or not guilty?' And I have to say 'guilty' because if I don't say guilty, I have to pay for the lawyers. And I said 'guilty' and I paid $225.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales thought that $225 fine for all the violations was the end of the chicken, landscaping and rental license saga. \"We walk away thinking everything is good. But wasn't like that, no.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Morales finally got the tenants to get rid of all of the chickens and went to city court to clear it all up. But there she was baffled to find out she was being criminally prosecuted for her tenant's annoying chickens.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650740\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/007_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2022_slide-3fbc7cc75fdd37d752eac59c396e5fbc32dbf0d2-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morales finally got the tenants to get rid of all of the chickens and went to city court to clear it all up. But there she was baffled to find out she was being criminally prosecuted for her tenant's annoying chickens.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On top of the $225 fine, she soon got legal bills on behalf of Indio from the private law firm of \u003ca href=\"https://www.silverwrightlaw.com/\">Silver & Wright\u003c/a> totaling $5,659.02. The order said \"the city reasonably incurred\" this money to \"abate the nuisance conditions\" and was entitled to reimbursement in \"defending the City's cost recovery rights.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That much money for some rooster? I think it's way too much. It's unfair,\" Morales says. \"I don't know what to do because I don't have that much money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a divorced, single mom Morales worked two, sometimes three, jobs most of her adult life to provide for her family: cleaning houses, selling Avon, working in a convenience store. She saved enough to buy some property but isn't wealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I never had that much money with me,\" she says. \"I just try to have enough for my payments, and the rest I spend it in take care of my houses and pay taxes and insurance and everything else.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She borrowed money from her son who is in the U.S. Marine Corps to get out of the chicken trap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"As a divorced single mom, Morales worked two, even three, jobs most of her adult life to provide for her family: cleaning houses, selling Avon, working in a convenience store, and, for years before that, picking fruit and vegetables in the searing sun across the Coachella Valley's farm fields.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650827\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/006_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1966_slide-e8ea0f82bc15028d97904f286e314ac5bf32adf1-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As a divorced single mom, Morales worked two, even three, jobs most of her adult life to provide for her family: cleaning houses, selling Avon, working in a convenience store, and, for years before that, picking fruit and vegetables in the searing sun across the Coachella Valley's farm fields.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New code in town\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, state law allows cities to recover all costs for nuisance crimes, including attorney fees, if the city has the appropriate ordinances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys at Silver & Wright law firm have helped about a dozen California cities rewrite their municipal codes — including Indio and neighboring Coachella — to expand the kind of property violations that constitute a public nuisance and to pursue cost recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the cost-recovery ordinance was passed, it gives us more options to do that administratively at a lower cost than actually petitioning the court for restitution,\" says Jason Anderson, the Indio Police Department's code enforcement supervisor.\"It saves the public money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the city spent \"an exorbitant amount of time and cost\" bringing Morales' property into compliance, adding she was given ample time and warnings to fix the problems prior to her summons for criminal prosecution. The city is entitled to get that money back, Anderson says, \"to make the public whole.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\""Since the cost-recovery ordinance was passed, it gives us more options to do that administratively at a lower cost than actually petitioning the court for restitution," says Jason Anderson, the Indio Police Department's code enforcement supervisor. "It saves the public money."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/035_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2139_slide-aeba3f5152eb3d4922bd289e9495ddca0594a4bc-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Since the cost-recovery ordinance was passed, it gives us more options to do that administratively at a lower cost than actually petitioning the court for restitution,\" says Jason Anderson, the Indio Police Department's code enforcement supervisor. \"It saves the public money.\"\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The $31,000 permit violation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In neighboring Coachella, Silver & Wright helped rewrite the codes there, too. Just ask Cesar Garcia. His fine is $31,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia failed to get a permit for an addition on his house, a small room in the back that his wife needed to expand her home-based child care business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is handy and didn't think it would be a huge deal to not get a permit. Garcia says he had heard that a lot of people don't pull permits for additions. He now deeply regrets he didn't do that and that he ignored at least 10 warning citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Cesar Garcia was hit with a $31,000 legal bill after he converted his back patio into a room without a permit. "I know that I did wrong in not asking for the permit. But I think to lose my house — it's too much."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/058_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2440_slide-a08a6ffb39d76c3fba2504c228b7884da89350e1-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Garcia was hit with a $31,000 legal bill after he converted his back patio into a room without a permit. \"I know that I did wrong in not asking for the permit. But I think to lose my house — it's too much.\"\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cesar commutes about three hours round trip every day to his job as a grocery store manager. He says he just doesn't have $31,000 to spare and is now worried he could lose everything he has worked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The letter that I receive, they say if I don't pay the $31,000, they're going to put a lien on my house,\" Garcia says. \"I know that I did wrong in not asking for the permit. But I think to lose my house — it's too much.\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver & Wright's co-founder Curtis Wright and officials in Coachella say they're not trying to take away anyone's home. Wright maintains it is rare to take the criminal route for nuisance cases. But he adds, sometimes fines and the civil process just don't work to get people to clean up their messes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar Garcia's unlicensed addition, he says, \"was not a safe habitable living space in compliance with the California Building Standards Code. Each day of maintaining those violations is also a new violation for each instance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Garcia failed to get a permit for an addition on his house, a small room in the back his wife needed to expand her home-based child care business.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650741\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/061_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2448_wide-391c54835b52de98946e4404573c6319ab60573b-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garcia failed to get a permit for an addition on his house, a small room in the back his wife needed to expand her home-based child care business.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I asked him whether he thought the \"cost recover\" legal bills to Garcia and Morales are proportionate to the crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, I don't think that they are proportionate,\" he says. \"But you have to understand that if the defendant is going to be uncooperative after they have been given notices and administrative opportunity to comply — and then we get into the criminal case and they're still not being cooperative and they're going to drag things out and drive up the public's cost — then the public is entitled to get that money back. It's not intended to be punitive at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many who've been prosecuted criminally for annoyance violations say they were totally unaware and never warned that they faced legal fees on top of local fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had never run into this practice of criminally prosecuting homeowners for municipal code violations,\" says Shaun Sullivan, Garcia's attorney. He alleges that Silver & Wright and Coachella, which hired the firm, are trying to run up legal fees under the guise of code enforcement. He says their methods are deceitful and end up shafting working people across the Coachella Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They wait until it's difficult to withdraw your (guilty) plea and say, 'Oh, too late. By the way, you owe us money.' It's absolutely an unethical practice,\" Sullivan says. \"They don't tell Cesar before he pleads guilty that, in fact, you're going to be paying for everything we've done up this point. And they certainly don't tell it when they initially file criminal charges. And with every new court appearance, (Garcia's) bill is getting bigger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost recovery controversy here echoes the other ways the criminal justice system has greatly expanded the fees charged to criminal defendants, many of them poor, across the nation. Check out NPR's award-winning investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/313986316/guilty-and-charged\">Guilty And Charged.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"In most American towns, a loud dog or a room addition without the proper permits would get you a potential citation and fine. Indio and other Southern California cities are now prosecuting code violators criminally and slapping homeowners with bills they can't afford to pay.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650830\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85-520x346.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/064_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc2284_slide-21e93eece833a880f84ab28f5ae41e404040b7dd-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In most American towns, a loud dog or a room addition without the proper permits would get you a potential citation and fine. Indio and other Southern California cities are now prosecuting code violators criminally and slapping homeowners with bills they can't afford to pay.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stories of some of the excessive nuisance fines in the Coachella Valley were first reported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2017/11/15/he-confessed-minor-crime-then-city-hall-billed-him-31-k-his-own-prosecution/846850001/\">the Palm Springs Desert Sun\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Coachella now says it's putting the brakes on new cases with Silver & Wright until it can review what is happening, says Jacob Alvarez, assistant to Coachella's city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are hearing that there are issues. We have hit pause. We just want to make sure there is some equity and sensitivity for our residents,\" Alvarez says.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Indio, however, see no problem, saying the law firm is merely recovering the cost of prosecuting violators and helping clean up the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silver & Wright works on nuisance issues with more than 40 cities and towns across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whether it's a dangerous nuisance or just an aesthetic nuisance or a blight nuisance, the public is the victim of these, so we're there trying to help correct the issue for the public,\" attorney Wright says. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lawsuit against the practice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales, the 79-year-old with the annoying chickens, is fighting back. She is working with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit alleges that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver & Wright and these cities to have a financial stake in cost recovery in the nuisance cases they bring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11650744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Morales is working with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit alleges that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver & Wright and these cities to have a financial stake in cost recovery in the nuisance cases they bring.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11650744\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/005_20170201_jchou_npr_indiofines_dsc1922_slide-63172dc9f108ca0629d506e076afc40aaa4ca960-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morales is working with the nonprofit Institute for Justice, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday. The suit alleges that it's a violation of the U.S. and California constitutions for Silver & Wright and these cities to have a financial stake in cost recovery in the nuisance cases they bring.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Jessica Chou for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The business model here of for-profit prosecution is premised on recovering fees from every criminal defendant. That creates perverse incentives, and it distorts the way prosecutors exercise their discretion,\" says Jeffrey Redfern, the Institute for Justice's lead attorney on this case\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redfern calls it policing for-profit and charges that Silver & Wright is, essentially, asking cities to define just about any violation of their property codes as a public nuisance, \"which means that things as little as faded street numbers could be treated as a public nuisance. And, if it's a nuisance, then they can abate it by prosecuting you criminally and then they can recover those costs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Riverside County, says that as of November 2017, Silver & Wright has recovered more than $122,000 in fees in the cities of Indio and Coachella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redfern hopes that those in other California cities who've been forced to pay huge legal fees for nuisance crimes sign on to his lawsuit and that it is eventually granted statewide class action status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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