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Jerry Brown repeated his now-familiar call for fiscal responsibility in his State of the State address Thursday, laying out a case for his circumspect approach to budgeting -- including avoiding the expansion of anything that would increase state spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After seven years of economic growth, Brown continued to lay out the message of caution that has been the hallmark of his tenure since he returned in 2011 to the governor's office, 36 years after he first took the oath of office to lead California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/243114554\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor, who is serving his fourth and final term, started on a light note, joking he could use the more than $20 million he currently has in a campaign account to change term limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was 41 years ago that I first spoke in this chamber. At that time, my father was rather surprised to see me make it to the governorship at such a young age. Now I’m kind of surprised that I am still here -- and three more years to go,\" Brown said to laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"28r48P19ReR9VQR9fVymSIJQNmOcGFiI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the governor, who took over five years ago at a time of huge budget shortfalls and deep cuts, told lawmakers that another recession is certain and that state officials must prepare for it by squirreling away money and not expanding state services too ambitiously. Brown echoed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/07/browns-budget-mantra-caution\" target=\"_blank\">the arguments he made two weeks ago\u003c/a> when he laid out his budget proposal for the 2016-17 fiscal year, setting the state for a spring of battles with legislative Democrats eager to restore the cuts made during the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We live in a world today that is profoundly uncertain,\" Brown said. \"Here at the state Capitol we often think we have more control over things than we actually do. But the truth is that global events, markets and policies set the pace and shape the world we live in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor said no economists have accurately predicted the 10 recessions since World War II and noted that the state's deficits between 2000 and 2016 were seven times as large as its surpluses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools, child care, courts, social services and other vital state programs were deeply affected. So, too, were our universities, which had to reduce classes and double tuition,\" he said. \"I don't want to make those mistakes again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anticipating pushback from Democrats and advocates, Brown stressed that the state has responded to growing inequality, saying California \"has not been passive.\" He cited a new income tax credit for the working poor, a minimum wage that increased to $10 in January, the state's staggering increase in health coverage for low-income residents and its expansion of an in-home care program for the elderly and disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the benefits of these programs are enormous, so, too, are the costs -- both now and into the future,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown used those increased costs to pitch another cornerstone of his budget proposal: A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/01/07/browns-budget-plan-new-managed-care-tax-increase-ssi-benefits-more-medi-cal-enrollment/\" target=\"_blank\">new tax to fund Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, which is necessary because of a change in federal rules that will leave the state without $1 billion in health care revenue this summer. Brown, who needs Republican votes to enact the new tax formula, insisted, \"This is not a tax increase, no matter what anyone tells you. The arithmetic is simple: California comes out a clear winner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor also stressed his other budget priorities: Investing in state infrastructure, continuing to rethink the state's water system and fighting climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"BH4SmUT7y4h1plSFLVYa25e8N9cQ889f\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He ended on a high note, listing the litany of gains California has made since he took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This morning I have talked a lot about the difficulties that lie ahead, but let’s not forget how far we have come. In 2011, the state deficit was $27 billion, our credit rating was the worst in the nation and unemployment was 12 percent,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now, the budget is in surplus. Standard & Poor's has raised the state's credit rating three times. We have paid down accumulated debt -- $26 billion worth. We created a solid rainy day fund to offset the next economic downturn. We have increased funding for schools 51 percent. We are covering, under Medi-Cal, 13.5 million people, a 74 percent increase. We enacted -- for the first time -- an earned income tax credit. We raised our minimum wage, to $10 an hour, and that’s 38 percent higher than the federal minimum. And two million new jobs have been created and unemployment has dropped in half. Of course, the global recovery has a lot to do with that, so we should applaud, we can't take total credit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: \"Yes, it is clear that California is still The Great Exception. We dare to do what others only dream of. Difficulties remain, as they always will. That is the human condition. And finding the right path forward is formidable. But find it we will, as we have in the past and as we will again -- with courage and confidence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's speech was warmly met by the Legislature, and in particular Democratic lawmakers. They largely praised the governor and his approach, while acknowledging that they will be pushing for some new spending in the 2016-17 budget negotiations that will unfold in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Budget Committee Chair Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, said Brown is often quick to reject social services proposals made by lawmakers -- but then comes around. She cited the earned income tax credit --- which is expected to put $380 million back in the pockets of working families -- saying Assembly Democrats pushed the credit for several years before Brown included it in his budget last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He’s had a cautious approach, but that's him, we know that. We know his heart is right, he loves California, he is going to focus on what's good for California, but he's cautious because he doesn't want us to once again be in another bust and boom cycle,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Democratic Sen. Holly Mitchell, who has been a vocal critic of Brown's lack of investment in social services, said she was happy to hear him acknowledge the state's income inequality. Mitchell, who entered the Legislature in 2011 as the state was still facing huge deficits, said she's optimistic that lawmakers in both houses can band together and restore at least some of the cuts made during the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are so far from where we were my first year in the Assembly ... there was so little money, we were simply trying to levy cuts that did the least amount of harm,\" she said. \"Now, there's money on the table and that gives us an opportunity to build upon -- we have got to invest in people. 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That includes stints couch surfing at friends’ homes and most recently living along the Arroyo Seco, a mostly dry streambed that snakes through Pasadena and East Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are long lines for everything, you got 600 people you gotta feed every night, tempers are flying,” says Reina. “People are using drugs, and it’s filthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He avoids the crowded shelters in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/29/with-few-places-left-to-turn-southlands-homeless-often-end-up-on-l-a-s-skid-row\" target=\"_blank\">downtown L.A.’s teeming Skid Row\u003c/a>. He’s also leery of the county’s temporary emergency winter shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the rain and cold descended on L.A., he chose to join around 30 other people inside the pyramid-shaped sanctuary of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/allsaintsla.org/timeline\">All Souls Episcopal Church in Highland Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reina says unlike many conventional shelters, people at the East L.A. church shelter can usually stay during the day. They can hang on to their pets, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This place is awesome. There are two people to a pew. 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The temporary winter shelter allows people to stay with their animals.\" width=\"640\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-1440x1098.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-400x305.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-800x610.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-768x586.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-1180x900.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/BlanketPup-960x732.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rueben Reina’s dog, Moses, snuggles up on the altar of All Souls Episcopal Church in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood. 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That includes stints couch surfing at friends’ homes and most recently living along the Arroyo Seco, a mostly dry streambed that snakes through Pasadena and East Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are long lines for everything, you got 600 people you gotta feed every night, tempers are flying,” says Reina. “People are using drugs, and it’s filthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He avoids the crowded shelters in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/29/with-few-places-left-to-turn-southlands-homeless-often-end-up-on-l-a-s-skid-row\" target=\"_blank\">downtown L.A.’s teeming Skid Row\u003c/a>. He’s also leery of the county’s temporary emergency winter shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the rain and cold descended on L.A., he chose to join around 30 other people inside the pyramid-shaped sanctuary of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/allsaintsla.org/timeline\">All Souls Episcopal Church in Highland Park\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reina says unlike many conventional shelters, people at the East L.A. church shelter can usually stay during the day. They can hang on to their pets, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This place is awesome. There are two people to a pew. 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More than 90 percent of the Proposition 63 money raised each year would continue to go to existing programs, supporters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, who authored the ballot measure, said the money would mostly fund multifamily complexes to house lower-income workers as well as those currently on the streets. 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The Los Angeles City Council declared a homelessness crisis in November as it prepared to change city ordinances to let people temporarily live in their cars and sleep on sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared a \"shelter crisis\" because of concerns that strong winter storms could flood homeless camps along riverbeds and storm drains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighboring Orange County is buying a $4.25 million warehouse for a 200-bed homeless shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article52756620.html\">police have clashed in recent days\u003c/a> with homeless people camped outside City Hall to protest an ordinance prohibiting such urban camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bond lawmakers proposed Monday would be repaid by redirecting money from Proposition 63, the 2004 ballot measure that added a 1 percent tax on incomes over $1 million to pay for mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10822493\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10822493 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/DeLeon-1440x1390.jpg\" alt=\"California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon.\" width=\"640\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/DeLeon-1440x1390.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/DeLeon-400x386.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/DeLeon-800x772.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/DeLeon-768x741.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/DeLeon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/DeLeon-1180x1139.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/DeLeon-960x927.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/DeLeon-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Senate President pro tem Kevin de León. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Senate proposal would target the housing money to chronically homeless people with mental illness. More than 90 percent of the Proposition 63 money raised each year would continue to go to existing programs, supporters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Senate leader Darrell Steinberg, who authored the ballot measure, said the money would mostly fund multifamily complexes to house lower-income workers as well as those currently on the streets. Even those whose mental illnesses make them reluctant to accept permanent housing can usually be persuaded to accept help though consistent, intensive outreach programs, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senators also want to use $200 million from the state's general fund over the next four years to provide rent subsidies and other shorter-term assistance while the permanent housing is built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De León also called for increased spending in the Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment program that aids about 1.3 million poor elderly, blind and disabled people who can't work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said the amount will have to be negotiated with the Assembly and with Gov. Jerry Brown, who presents his proposed budget on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Brown administration supports empowering local governments to address homelessness, poverty and mental health issues and will take a close look at the Senate proposals, Deborah Hoffman, a spokeswoman for the governor, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details on distributing the housing money will also have to be worked out before the June budget deadline, de León said. However, he envisions a competitive grant program for local governments. With matching local and federal funds, he estimated the $2 billion could be leveraged into $5 billion or more worth of construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, said California is following the lead of Utah and other areas that are using supportive housing to help mentally ill homeless people. New York City has a $2.6 billion plan to create 15,000 apartments to aid that population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"First and foremost, we have to stabilize them\" before other services, like mental health and drug treatment, can be provided, de León said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It was a big year, legislatively, in Sacramento: With the budget wrapped up in June, lawmakers passed hundreds of laws dealing with everything from climate change to workers rights. Here’s KQED’s annual roundup of highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these bills take effect Jan. 1, unless we note otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239851144″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate Change and the Environment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing global warming loomed large in Sacramento, after Gov. Jerry Brown and Senate President pro tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), both made the issue their top priority in 2015. The state’s drought also received some attention, though most of the rules around water use were handled administratively by the state’s water board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 350\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: De León’s signature climate change legislation wasn’t as ambitious as he’d hoped, after the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/Democrats-strip-oil-goal-from-climate-legislation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oil industry killed a target\u003c/a> of cutting in half gas consumption over the next 15 years. But it’s still groundbreaking, mandating that 50 percent of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2030, and doubling energy efficiency requirements for existing buildings.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1288\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Authored by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), this bill seeks to bring different voices to the state’s powerful Air Resources Board by expanding its membership to 14. The two new appointees will be named by the Legislature and must represent someone who works directly with the most polluted communities in the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Senate Bills \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">295\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB414\">414\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> were introduced by Central Coast Democrat Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/20/crews-struggle-to-clean-up-oil-spill-near-santa-barbara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Santa Barbara oil spill\u003c/a> in May. The legislation will increase oil pipeline inspections and make oil spill cleanup quicker and more effective by requiring state officials to study new chemical dispersants and coordinate more cleanup drills with federal agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To encourage water conservation, lawmakers passed both\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, D-San Bernardino, and\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Assembly Bill 1164\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Glendale Assemblyman Mike Gatto. AB1 prohibits localities from fining residents for letting their lawns turn brown; AB1164, which took effect in the summer, prohibits localities from forbidding drought-tolerant landscaping, including artificial turf.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two groundbreaking environmental restrictions were also approved in 2015 but won’t take effect immediately. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 96\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, by Atkins, will ban the import, selling or possession of ivory beginning July 1, 2016; and\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong> Assembly Bill 888,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Santa Monica Democrat Richard Bloom, will ban the sale of personal products containing environmentally harmful plastic microbeads, come January 2020.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with Brown’s veto of a number of criminal bills, the Legislature managed to pass dozens of laws addressing crime and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The governor signed several bills aimed at making police departments more accountable. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), mandates a system for law enforcement to collect information on each stop they make, data that would have to be reported to the attorney general each year. The law also expands the state’s definition of profiling beyond race to include things such as gender, national origin, religion and sexual orientation. Another bill that grew from recent protests over police behavior is \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 411,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), which clarifies that the public is allowed to take video of a police officer. And \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 227\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Los Angeles Democrat Holly Mitchell, bars the use of grand juries in police shooting investigations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) fought hard for \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 178\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> after seeing previous versions vetoed by Gov. Brown. The bill requires law enforcement to secure a court-ordered search warrant before inspecting electronic information stored on electronic devices like computers or cellphones.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers and the governor \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/11/Lawmakers-agree-on-medical-marijuana-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally came together around comprehensive statewide medical marijuana regulations\u003c/a> in 2015 — nearly two decades after it became legal in California and a year ahead of the plant’s potential full legalization by voters. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bills 243\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">266\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 643 \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>create a new agency, the state Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation, under the Department of Consumer Affairs. The bureau, jokingly nicknamed “BUMMER,” will be charged with licensing the entire medical marijuana supply chain, including the growing process, safety testing, transportation, distribution and sales.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two new gun control laws will take effect in January: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 707, \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>by Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis), bars concealed weapons on school campuses, while \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1014\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, a 2013 measure by former Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), allows families and law enforcement to seek a court-ordered temporary restraining order to remove someone’s firearms if they pose a threat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) authored two measures aimed at making it easier for some people to secure release from behind bars. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 261\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>requires the parole board to consider the release of many offenders in state prison who committed their crimes under the age of 23. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 230\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> mandates that the parole board release prisoners once they are found suitable to leave prison.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 405\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> has already taken effect. Authored by Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Los Angeles), the measure \u003ca href=\"http://sd18.senate.ca.gov/news/9302015-governor-signs-sen-bob-hertzberg-plan-allowing-motorists-fight-tickets-paying-fines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lets people contest a traffic ticket \u003c/a>without first paying the fine.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Care \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccinations and assisted suicide dominated discussion at the Capitol, though lawmakers also tackled questions of insurance rules and passed one measure regulating electronic cigarettes, while killing a slew of other tobacco-related bills. (For more detail on new health laws, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/12/30/californias-new-health-laws-coming-in-2016/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit our State of Health blog\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 277\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> ended California’s personal belief exemption for vaccinations and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/06/29/bill-ending-vaccine-exemptions-passes-california-senate-moves-to-governors-desk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">makes the state’s vaccine laws among the strictest in the nation\u003c/a>. Beginning July 1, it requires parents to vaccinate their kids in order for them to attend school, unless they have a medical reason. Authored by Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), it was among the year’s most hotly contested measures. With far less debate, lawmakers also approved \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 792\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, by Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia), which requires day care providers to be vaccinated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 216,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), prohibits the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors, even if the device does not contain tobacco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 960\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu, a Democrat, makes it easier for people to donate sperm or eggs and for unmarried parents who use assisted reproduction to be recognized as legal guardians.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workers Rights and Equality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers and the governor couldn’t agree on much around affordable housing, but they did back a number of bills expanding workers rights, particularly for women and parents — including a groundbreaking gender pay bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 358\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Sen. Jackson has been framed as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/07/california-governor-signs-legislation-targeting-wage-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the nation’s strongest laws\u003c/a> seeking to close the wage gap between men and women. It aims to do that by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/31/equal-pay-bill-heads-to-governors-desk-for-promised-signature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closing some loopholes \u003c/a>that allowed employers to defend disparate wages for men and women — namely specifying that women must be paid the same as their male colleagues “for substantially similar work,” and allowing employees to challenge wage gaps that exist at different worksites. It seeks to give women more ability to figure out when disparities exist by barring retaliation against women who discuss their pay or ask about the salaries of colleagues.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 579\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, also by Jackson, expands family leave laws to allow parents to take time off work to respond to child-care emergencies or enroll kids in school or child care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 202\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) — a former Stanford cheerleader — requires professional sports teams to treat their cheerleaders as full-time employees, not contractors. It grew out of disputes over pay for the entertainers for teams that included the Oakland Raiders, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-raiders-settle-cheerleader-lawsuit-20140904-column.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled a class-action wage theft lawsuit last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Foster Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plight of foster kids was in the news a lot in 2015, particularly after a San Jose Mercury News series \u003ca href=\"http://webspecial.mercurynews.com/druggedkids/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documenting the shocking number of foster children on psychotropic medication\u003c/a>. Several new laws seek to tackle that and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 238\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>by Sen. Mitchell gives child welfare social workers better oversight of mental health treatment for foster kids, including the prescription of psychotropic medications.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 731\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Sen. Leno aims to keep transgender foster kids safe by giving them the right to placements with families that support their gender identity.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voting Rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some states have seen efforts to roll back their voting rights laws, California passed a major law to expand ballot box engagement as well as measures dealing with ballot initiatives and campaign finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1461, \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>by Assemblywoman Gonzalez, is known as the “motor voter” law. Sponsored by Secretary of State Alex Padilla, it registers people to vote when they receive or renew their driver’s license, unless they opt out.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 990\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla (D-Concord), requires clearer disclosure on campaign fliers so it’s apparent who is paying for them. It took effect in October.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>AB1100, by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), raises the filing fee for ballot measures from $200 to $2,000 to discourage abuse.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Everything else\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 40\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), bars the Golden Gate Bridge District and other state-owned bridges from charging tolls to pedestrians and bicyclists.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 774\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblyman Mark Levine (D-Marin), allows beer tastings at farmers markets.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1116\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>by Assemblyman Gatto, protects Californians from television voice-recognition features that could surreptitiously record private conversations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 30,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Assemblyman Luis Alejo (D-Salinas), takes effect in 2017 and bars schools from using “Redskins” as their mascot.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was a big year, legislatively, in Sacramento: With the budget wrapped up in June, lawmakers passed hundreds of laws dealing with everything from climate change to workers rights. Here’s KQED’s annual roundup of highlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these bills take effect Jan. 1, unless we note otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239851144″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239851144″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Climate Change and the Environment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing global warming loomed large in Sacramento, after Gov. Jerry Brown and Senate President pro tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), both made the issue their top priority in 2015. The state’s drought also received some attention, though most of the rules around water use were handled administratively by the state’s water board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 350\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: De León’s signature climate change legislation wasn’t as ambitious as he’d hoped, after the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/Democrats-strip-oil-goal-from-climate-legislation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oil industry killed a target\u003c/a> of cutting in half gas consumption over the next 15 years. But it’s still groundbreaking, mandating that 50 percent of California electricity come from renewable sources by 2030, and doubling energy efficiency requirements for existing buildings.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1288\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: Authored by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), this bill seeks to bring different voices to the state’s powerful Air Resources Board by expanding its membership to 14. The two new appointees will be named by the Legislature and must represent someone who works directly with the most polluted communities in the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Senate Bills \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">295\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB414\">414\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> were introduced by Central Coast Democrat Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/20/crews-struggle-to-clean-up-oil-spill-near-santa-barbara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Santa Barbara oil spill\u003c/a> in May. The legislation will increase oil pipeline inspections and make oil spill cleanup quicker and more effective by requiring state officials to study new chemical dispersants and coordinate more cleanup drills with federal agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To encourage water conservation, lawmakers passed both\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, D-San Bernardino, and\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Assembly Bill 1164\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Glendale Assemblyman Mike Gatto. AB1 prohibits localities from fining residents for letting their lawns turn brown; AB1164, which took effect in the summer, prohibits localities from forbidding drought-tolerant landscaping, including artificial turf.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two groundbreaking environmental restrictions were also approved in 2015 but won’t take effect immediately. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 96\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, by Atkins, will ban the import, selling or possession of ivory beginning July 1, 2016; and\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong> Assembly Bill 888,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Santa Monica Democrat Richard Bloom, will ban the sale of personal products containing environmentally harmful plastic microbeads, come January 2020.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with Brown’s veto of a number of criminal bills, the Legislature managed to pass dozens of laws addressing crime and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The governor signed several bills aimed at making police departments more accountable. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), mandates a system for law enforcement to collect information on each stop they make, data that would have to be reported to the attorney general each year. The law also expands the state’s definition of profiling beyond race to include things such as gender, national origin, religion and sexual orientation. Another bill that grew from recent protests over police behavior is \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 411,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), which clarifies that the public is allowed to take video of a police officer. And \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 227\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Los Angeles Democrat Holly Mitchell, bars the use of grand juries in police shooting investigations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) fought hard for \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 178\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> after seeing previous versions vetoed by Gov. Brown. The bill requires law enforcement to secure a court-ordered search warrant before inspecting electronic information stored on electronic devices like computers or cellphones.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lawmakers and the governor \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/11/Lawmakers-agree-on-medical-marijuana-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally came together around comprehensive statewide medical marijuana regulations\u003c/a> in 2015 — nearly two decades after it became legal in California and a year ahead of the plant’s potential full legalization by voters. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bills 243\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">266\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 643 \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>create a new agency, the state Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation, under the Department of Consumer Affairs. The bureau, jokingly nicknamed “BUMMER,” will be charged with licensing the entire medical marijuana supply chain, including the growing process, safety testing, transportation, distribution and sales.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Two new gun control laws will take effect in January: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 707, \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>by Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis), bars concealed weapons on school campuses, while \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1014\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, a 2013 measure by former Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), allows families and law enforcement to seek a court-ordered temporary restraining order to remove someone’s firearms if they pose a threat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) authored two measures aimed at making it easier for some people to secure release from behind bars. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 261\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>requires the parole board to consider the release of many offenders in state prison who committed their crimes under the age of 23. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 230\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> mandates that the parole board release prisoners once they are found suitable to leave prison.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 405\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> has already taken effect. Authored by Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D-Los Angeles), the measure \u003ca href=\"http://sd18.senate.ca.gov/news/9302015-governor-signs-sen-bob-hertzberg-plan-allowing-motorists-fight-tickets-paying-fines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lets people contest a traffic ticket \u003c/a>without first paying the fine.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Care \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccinations and assisted suicide dominated discussion at the Capitol, though lawmakers also tackled questions of insurance rules and passed one measure regulating electronic cigarettes, while killing a slew of other tobacco-related bills. (For more detail on new health laws, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/12/30/californias-new-health-laws-coming-in-2016/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit our State of Health blog\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 277\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> ended California’s personal belief exemption for vaccinations and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/06/29/bill-ending-vaccine-exemptions-passes-california-senate-moves-to-governors-desk/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">makes the state’s vaccine laws among the strictest in the nation\u003c/a>. Beginning July 1, it requires parents to vaccinate their kids in order for them to attend school, unless they have a medical reason. Authored by Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), it was among the year’s most hotly contested measures. With far less debate, lawmakers also approved \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 792\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, by Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia), which requires day care providers to be vaccinated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 216,\u003c/strong> \u003c/a>by Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), prohibits the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors, even if the device does not contain tobacco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 960\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu, a Democrat, makes it easier for people to donate sperm or eggs and for unmarried parents who use assisted reproduction to be recognized as legal guardians.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workers Rights and Equality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers and the governor couldn’t agree on much around affordable housing, but they did back a number of bills expanding workers rights, particularly for women and parents — including a groundbreaking gender pay bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 358\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Sen. Jackson has been framed as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/07/california-governor-signs-legislation-targeting-wage-gap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">among the nation’s strongest laws\u003c/a> seeking to close the wage gap between men and women. It aims to do that by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/31/equal-pay-bill-heads-to-governors-desk-for-promised-signature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closing some loopholes \u003c/a>that allowed employers to defend disparate wages for men and women — namely specifying that women must be paid the same as their male colleagues “for substantially similar work,” and allowing employees to challenge wage gaps that exist at different worksites. It seeks to give women more ability to figure out when disparities exist by barring retaliation against women who discuss their pay or ask about the salaries of colleagues.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Senate Bill 579\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, also by Jackson, expands family leave laws to allow parents to take time off work to respond to child-care emergencies or enroll kids in school or child care.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>Assembly Bill 202\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) — a former Stanford cheerleader — requires professional sports teams to treat their cheerleaders as full-time employees, not contractors. It grew out of disputes over pay for the entertainers for teams that included the Oakland Raiders, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-raiders-settle-cheerleader-lawsuit-20140904-column.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled a class-action wage theft lawsuit last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Foster Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plight of foster kids was in the news a lot in 2015, particularly after a San Jose Mercury News series \u003ca href=\"http://webspecial.mercurynews.com/druggedkids/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documenting the shocking number of foster children on psychotropic medication\u003c/a>. Several new laws seek to tackle that and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 238\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>by Sen. Mitchell gives child welfare social workers better oversight of mental health treatment for foster kids, including the prescription of psychotropic medications.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 731\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> by Sen. Leno aims to keep transgender foster kids safe by giving them the right to placements with families that support their gender identity.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voting Rights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some states have seen efforts to roll back their voting rights laws, California passed a major law to expand ballot box engagement as well as measures dealing with ballot initiatives and campaign finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1461, \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>by Assemblywoman Gonzalez, is known as the “motor voter” law. Sponsored by Secretary of State Alex Padilla, it registers people to vote when they receive or renew their driver’s license, unless they opt out.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 990\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla (D-Concord), requires clearer disclosure on campaign fliers so it’s apparent who is paying for them. It took effect in October.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>AB1100, by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), raises the filing fee for ballot measures from $200 to $2,000 to discourage abuse.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Here are our top 10 stories in Oakland in 2015:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland is now a regular on lists showing the most \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2015/12/21/oakland-ascends-to-nations-4th-most-expensive-rental-market/\" target=\"_blank\">expensive and fastest-growing housing markets\u003c/a> in the nation. One-bedroom apartment rents increased 19 percent in the past year, while two bedrooms increased 13 percent, \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2015/12/zumper-national-rent-report-december-2015/\" target=\"_blank\">according to Zumper\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Home prices have also shot up, but income levels have not.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city passed no major housing reforms this year (Libby Schaaf’s first as mayor), despite \u003ca href=\"http://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/pl-report-oak-housing-070715.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a report commissioned by the city\u003c/a> that laid out several policy recommendations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf did create a Housing Cabinet, which has been working on developing new policies and laws based off those recommendations, and they are expected to trickle out in 2016. But many housing activists say Oakland is moving too slowly, especially when \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/10/16/facing-the-housing-crisis-berkeley-and-emeryville-lawmakers-are-advancing-numerous-solutions-but-not-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">compared with other cities\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. \u003cstrong>One\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Housing Victory\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In May, when activists found out that the city was selling a piece of public land on East 12th Street near Lake Merritt to a private developer solely for market-rate housing, they \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/06/activists-take-over-oakland-city-council-meeting-prevent-vote-on-condo-project\">shut down\u003c/a> an Oakland City Council meeting in protest. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later, when the city attorney determined that the sale \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/07/06/breaking-news-oakland-city-attorney-said-luxury-tower-deal-is-illegal\">might be illegal\u003c/a>, the City Council decided to pull back and reopen the bidding, this time with a focus on affordable housing first. The #SaveE12th campaign was a major win for those who have pushed the city to create more affordable housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city has been \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/cityattorney/documents/agenda/oak055937.pdf\">meeting privately\u003c/a> with five separate developer groups that want to purchase the 1-acre parcel. All of the groups have included affordable housing in their proposals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. \u003cstrong>Homicides\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland has long been on the list of \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlj45eldkd/no-3-oakland-calif/\">most dangerous cities\u003c/a> in America, for its disproportionately high rate of homicides. After a decline in the homicide rate in 2014, the numbers inched up again in 2015. Two homicides in particular stood out.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">First was the murder of artist\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/09/29/artist-shot-killed-while-working-on-west-oakland-community-mural/\"> Antonio Ramos\u003c/a>, who was killed in late September while painting a mural on an underpass beneath Interstate 580 in West Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The painting was the idea of a nonprofit group and portrays the vision of an inclusive and renewed West Oakland. It is sprinkled with images of musical notes that seem to sing above the sound of the highway. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among renderings of brightly painted Victorian houses and the faces of children, white doves fly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the middle of working on the mural, Ramos was shot and killed. He was a young man intent on giving back to his community and the tragic irony of his death -- painting a symbol of peace -- rippled throughout the city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of the year, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/24/oakland-city-council-presidents-grandson-killed-in-street-robbery\">Torian Hughes\u003c/a> -- considered a grandson by City Council president Lynette McElhaney -- was slain in what police say was a robbery homicide. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. \u003cstrong>Fatal Police Shootings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The hashtag that helped define a movement, #\u003ca href=\"https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-03-01/black-lives-matter/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a>, began, among other places, in Oakland.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland's police department has been singled out by the Obama administration as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/oakland-police-reform-115552_Page4.html#.VoUPR8ArLjA\" target=\"_blank\">progressive department\u003c/a> implementing new tactics to work more effectively in the community. But after two years of no fatal officer-involved shootings by the OPD, 2015 saw five killings at the hands of police, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-fleeing-Oakland-police-found-dead-after-6394929.php\" target=\"_blank\">at least one death \u003c/a>some saw as suspicious. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The circumstances in each instance were distinct, but the message of Black Lives Matter and other activists was uniform: They criticized OPD as too ready to fire on black men. A group known as Mapping Police Violence ranked \u003ca href=\"http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/2015/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland as the third-most-dangerous city\u003c/a> in the U.S. for being killed by police in 2015. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city says that each of these cases was justified and that it has strengthened internal review of all instances where officers use force against civilians.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. \u003cstrong>The Coal Wars\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many Oaklanders were angry when they learned that developers of a new logistics facility being built on the site of a former army base want \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/30/a-dust-up-in-oakland-over-plan-to-ship-coal-through-new-terminal\" target=\"_blank\">to export coal through the city\u003c/a>. This got the attention of Mayor Libby Schaaf, who wrote “s\u003ca href=\"http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/3khxtyd4w4j07hq.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">top it immediately\u003c/a>” in a letter to investor Phil Tagami.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland officials are now considering what legal options the city has to stop the movement of coal through the city, although it appears there may not be many. There is a clause in the agreement between the city and Tagami’s group that would allow the city to amend the agreement if the project would affect the health or safety of employees or neighbors. A hearing on the issue is scheduled for Feb. 16.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. \u003cstrong> Oakland's 'Soul'\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A distinct feeling of what might be called gentrification anxiety lingered heavily in the air in 2015, like a fog rolling across the bay. There was a widespread sense of dread that seemed to say that nothing less than Oakland's soul was at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given this tension, it is perhaps not surprising that what started out as a noise complaint one night at Lake Merritt by a newer white resident against a group of mostly black drummers ended in an altercation and the police being called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News spread quickly on social media that there were new bans being enforced at the lake. There weren't, actually, but -- added to reports that some black churches had also been the subject of complaints over late-night choir practices -- many were left feeling that the \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/who-owns-communal-space-in-oakland#t=0:00\" target=\"_blank\">city's culture, especially black culture, was under assault\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. \u003cstrong> Uber\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/23/uber-comes-to-oakland-in-a-big-way\" target=\"_blank\">Uber announced\u003c/a> in September that it would open a major office in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Schaaf called it a game-changer. The ride-service giant says it will create between 2,000 and 3,000 new jobs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Uber could become a major player in defining the future of downtown Oakland when its office opens in 2017. Since the purchase was made on the private market, the company wasn’t required to provide any specific community benefits beyond a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/10/uber-oakland-affordable-housing-fee-gentrification.html\" target=\"_blank\">$1 million affordable housing\u003c/a> fee. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some are concerned that, as Oakland attracts more large powerful companies, the housing market will price out current residents, as has happened in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/09/24/welcome-to-oakland-uber-a-few-tips-for-the-big-move/\" target=\"_blank\">Read some tips KQED has for Uber here\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. \u003cstrong>The Warriors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/16/game-6-warriors-look-to-clinch-nba-championship\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors winning\u003c/a> their first championship in 40 years made this year’s list. They were (and continue to be) the best team in the NBA. In June, the Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games and brought \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/miss-the-warriors-parade-weve-got-you-covered\" target=\"_blank\">a huge celebration to downtown Oakland\u003c/a>. This season, the team is off to an even better start.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/congratulations-warriors-fans-heres-to-you\" target=\"_blank\">“Curry with the sauce all day.”\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9. \u003cstrong>The Curfew\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of Schaaf's most \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/06/05/oakland-councilmembers-question-police-overspending-to-crack-down-on-protesters\">publicly criticized acts\u003c/a> of the year was when she instructed Oakland police to enforce a “protest curfew” to shut down \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-four-arrested-in-oakland-protests-20150525-story.html\">unauthorized protests after dark\u003c/a>. The new policy got off to a rocky start when officers tried it out on a\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/05/22/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-institutes-curfew-on-nighttime-street-protest\"> peaceful protest organized by black women\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While Schaaf says that the policy helps stop looting, actual implementation by police seems to have ended. The backlash from many activists and civil rights groups, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/blog/aclu-oakland-protest-curfew-let-people-march\">ACLU, \u003c/a>helped set the tone for an antagonistic relationship between the mayor and the city’s activists. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. \u003cstrong>Bizarre Brawls\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This technically did not happen in Oakland, but at an Alameda City Council meeting,\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/11/05/a-beat-down-at-alameda-city-hall\" target=\"_blank\"> fisticuffs broke out\u003c/a> between a tenants rights advocate and the director of public works. The tension? Rising rents and evictions in Alameda, and the passage of a moratorium on rent increases. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Former-Black-Panther-leader-claims-Oakland-6645231.php\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland proper, \u003c/a>activist and former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown accused longtime City Councilwoman Desley Brooks of attacking her at a barbecue joint, Everett and Jones. As described in \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/293641717/Elaine-Brown-Complaint\" target=\"_blank\">the complaint Brown filed against the city\u003c/a>, the incident sounds like a soap-opera episode. It sprang from the two discussing -- no surprise --affordable housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Here are our top 10 stories in Oakland in 2015:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland is now a regular on lists showing the most \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2015/12/21/oakland-ascends-to-nations-4th-most-expensive-rental-market/\" target=\"_blank\">expensive and fastest-growing housing markets\u003c/a> in the nation. One-bedroom apartment rents increased 19 percent in the past year, while two bedrooms increased 13 percent, \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2015/12/zumper-national-rent-report-december-2015/\" target=\"_blank\">according to Zumper\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Home prices have also shot up, but income levels have not.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city passed no major housing reforms this year (Libby Schaaf’s first as mayor), despite \u003ca href=\"http://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/pl-report-oak-housing-070715.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a report commissioned by the city\u003c/a> that laid out several policy recommendations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf did create a Housing Cabinet, which has been working on developing new policies and laws based off those recommendations, and they are expected to trickle out in 2016. But many housing activists say Oakland is moving too slowly, especially when \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/10/16/facing-the-housing-crisis-berkeley-and-emeryville-lawmakers-are-advancing-numerous-solutions-but-not-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">compared with other cities\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. \u003cstrong>One\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Housing Victory\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In May, when activists found out that the city was selling a piece of public land on East 12th Street near Lake Merritt to a private developer solely for market-rate housing, they \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/06/activists-take-over-oakland-city-council-meeting-prevent-vote-on-condo-project\">shut down\u003c/a> an Oakland City Council meeting in protest. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later, when the city attorney determined that the sale \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/07/06/breaking-news-oakland-city-attorney-said-luxury-tower-deal-is-illegal\">might be illegal\u003c/a>, the City Council decided to pull back and reopen the bidding, this time with a focus on affordable housing first. The #SaveE12th campaign was a major win for those who have pushed the city to create more affordable housing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city has been \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/cityattorney/documents/agenda/oak055937.pdf\">meeting privately\u003c/a> with five separate developer groups that want to purchase the 1-acre parcel. All of the groups have included affordable housing in their proposals. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. \u003cstrong>Homicides\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland has long been on the list of \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlj45eldkd/no-3-oakland-calif/\">most dangerous cities\u003c/a> in America, for its disproportionately high rate of homicides. After a decline in the homicide rate in 2014, the numbers inched up again in 2015. Two homicides in particular stood out.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">First was the murder of artist\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/09/29/artist-shot-killed-while-working-on-west-oakland-community-mural/\"> Antonio Ramos\u003c/a>, who was killed in late September while painting a mural on an underpass beneath Interstate 580 in West Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The painting was the idea of a nonprofit group and portrays the vision of an inclusive and renewed West Oakland. It is sprinkled with images of musical notes that seem to sing above the sound of the highway. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among renderings of brightly painted Victorian houses and the faces of children, white doves fly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the middle of working on the mural, Ramos was shot and killed. He was a young man intent on giving back to his community and the tragic irony of his death -- painting a symbol of peace -- rippled throughout the city.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the end of the year, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/24/oakland-city-council-presidents-grandson-killed-in-street-robbery\">Torian Hughes\u003c/a> -- considered a grandson by City Council president Lynette McElhaney -- was slain in what police say was a robbery homicide. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. \u003cstrong>Fatal Police Shootings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The hashtag that helped define a movement, #\u003ca href=\"https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-03-01/black-lives-matter/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a>, began, among other places, in Oakland.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland's police department has been singled out by the Obama administration as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/oakland-police-reform-115552_Page4.html#.VoUPR8ArLjA\" target=\"_blank\">progressive department\u003c/a> implementing new tactics to work more effectively in the community. But after two years of no fatal officer-involved shootings by the OPD, 2015 saw five killings at the hands of police, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-fleeing-Oakland-police-found-dead-after-6394929.php\" target=\"_blank\">at least one death \u003c/a>some saw as suspicious. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The circumstances in each instance were distinct, but the message of Black Lives Matter and other activists was uniform: They criticized OPD as too ready to fire on black men. A group known as Mapping Police Violence ranked \u003ca href=\"http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/2015/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland as the third-most-dangerous city\u003c/a> in the U.S. for being killed by police in 2015. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city says that each of these cases was justified and that it has strengthened internal review of all instances where officers use force against civilians.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. \u003cstrong>The Coal Wars\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many Oaklanders were angry when they learned that developers of a new logistics facility being built on the site of a former army base want \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/30/a-dust-up-in-oakland-over-plan-to-ship-coal-through-new-terminal\" target=\"_blank\">to export coal through the city\u003c/a>. This got the attention of Mayor Libby Schaaf, who wrote “s\u003ca href=\"http://documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/3khxtyd4w4j07hq.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">top it immediately\u003c/a>” in a letter to investor Phil Tagami.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland officials are now considering what legal options the city has to stop the movement of coal through the city, although it appears there may not be many. There is a clause in the agreement between the city and Tagami’s group that would allow the city to amend the agreement if the project would affect the health or safety of employees or neighbors. A hearing on the issue is scheduled for Feb. 16.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. \u003cstrong> Oakland's 'Soul'\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A distinct feeling of what might be called gentrification anxiety lingered heavily in the air in 2015, like a fog rolling across the bay. There was a widespread sense of dread that seemed to say that nothing less than Oakland's soul was at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given this tension, it is perhaps not surprising that what started out as a noise complaint one night at Lake Merritt by a newer white resident against a group of mostly black drummers ended in an altercation and the police being called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News spread quickly on social media that there were new bans being enforced at the lake. There weren't, actually, but -- added to reports that some black churches had also been the subject of complaints over late-night choir practices -- many were left feeling that the \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/who-owns-communal-space-in-oakland#t=0:00\" target=\"_blank\">city's culture, especially black culture, was under assault\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7. \u003cstrong> Uber\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/23/uber-comes-to-oakland-in-a-big-way\" target=\"_blank\">Uber announced\u003c/a> in September that it would open a major office in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood,\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Schaaf called it a game-changer. The ride-service giant says it will create between 2,000 and 3,000 new jobs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Uber could become a major player in defining the future of downtown Oakland when its office opens in 2017. Since the purchase was made on the private market, the company wasn’t required to provide any specific community benefits beyond a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/10/uber-oakland-affordable-housing-fee-gentrification.html\" target=\"_blank\">$1 million affordable housing\u003c/a> fee. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some are concerned that, as Oakland attracts more large powerful companies, the housing market will price out current residents, as has happened in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/09/24/welcome-to-oakland-uber-a-few-tips-for-the-big-move/\" target=\"_blank\">Read some tips KQED has for Uber here\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. \u003cstrong>The Warriors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/16/game-6-warriors-look-to-clinch-nba-championship\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Warriors winning\u003c/a> their first championship in 40 years made this year’s list. They were (and continue to be) the best team in the NBA. In June, the Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games and brought \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/miss-the-warriors-parade-weve-got-you-covered\" target=\"_blank\">a huge celebration to downtown Oakland\u003c/a>. This season, the team is off to an even better start.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/congratulations-warriors-fans-heres-to-you\" target=\"_blank\">“Curry with the sauce all day.”\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>9. \u003cstrong>The Curfew\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of Schaaf's most \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/06/05/oakland-councilmembers-question-police-overspending-to-crack-down-on-protesters\">publicly criticized acts\u003c/a> of the year was when she instructed Oakland police to enforce a “protest curfew” to shut down \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-four-arrested-in-oakland-protests-20150525-story.html\">unauthorized protests after dark\u003c/a>. The new policy got off to a rocky start when officers tried it out on a\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/05/22/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-institutes-curfew-on-nighttime-street-protest\"> peaceful protest organized by black women\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While Schaaf says that the policy helps stop looting, actual implementation by police seems to have ended. The backlash from many activists and civil rights groups, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/blog/aclu-oakland-protest-curfew-let-people-march\">ACLU, \u003c/a>helped set the tone for an antagonistic relationship between the mayor and the city’s activists. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>10. \u003cstrong>Bizarre Brawls\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This technically did not happen in Oakland, but at an Alameda City Council meeting,\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/11/05/a-beat-down-at-alameda-city-hall\" target=\"_blank\"> fisticuffs broke out\u003c/a> between a tenants rights advocate and the director of public works. The tension? Rising rents and evictions in Alameda, and the passage of a moratorium on rent increases. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s Navigation Center is a new kind of homeless shelter, attempting to help people living on the streets find homes, and Mayor Ed Lee believes it could help solve one of San Francisco’s longest and most intractable problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center differs from traditional shelters in that it allows active drug users and places no rules on when people can come and go. It also aims to help clients navigate the city’s bureaucracy to get benefits. At the same time, San Francisco’s top official tasked with reducing homelessness actively works to find the center’s clients permanent new homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And apparently officials from at least 33 other cities think it might serve as a model that could help them get people off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center has not only hosted tours of officials throughout the Bay Area, Southern California and at least 12 other states, but representatives of cities as far away as Capetown in South Africa and Kyoto in Japan. The Obama administration has also shown interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Leadbetter, the Navigation Center’s director, said homeless encampments are popping up in communities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a lot of visitors,” she said. “Everyone is interested in how to get people off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those visits from out-of-town officials could soon increase, thanks to even more national exposure. In the U.S. Conference of Mayors yearly \u003ca href=\"http://www.usmayors.org/pressreleases/uploads/2015/1221-report-hhreport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Hunger and Homeless Survey\u003c/a> released last week, the Navigation Center was praised for helping homeless people get government benefits and find housing, and for assisting clients without placing rules on when they can come and go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From late March to early October, the center served 211 people. Just over half have been placed in permanent homes. According to the U.S. Conference of Mayors report, 38 left without getting permanent housing and 64 are in the process of looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility’s mission is to help homeless people overcome systemic problems that have prevented them from finding homes. Visiting officials continually ask what San Francisco is doing to create new housing for its clients, especially in a city that’s in the midst of an affordability crisis that’s priced out many low- and middle-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco added more than 500 units of supportive housing in 2015 in four new buildings, according to Sam Dodge, the new director of the mayor’s office of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement. “They are all for people exiting homelessness, including from the Navigation Center,” he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, last week the city learned that the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development approved an application to build more structures to house 200 more units next year, Dodge said. He hopes to bring online another building that’s been largely empty for the last few years, which would accommodate an additional 100 units in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, several city agencies are trying to find new single-room-occupancy units that can be used to house homeless people, said Leadbetter\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officials who have visited from outside San Francisco have expressed concern over finding the money to build and run their own, similar centers. (San Francisco’s first facility in the Mission received a $3 million donation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of city officials from Oakland, where the City Council recently declared a homeless shelter emergency, visited the Navigation Center in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are learning from it a great deal in terms of what we will establish as a similar model,” said Claudia Cappio, Oakland’s assistant city administrator, in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cappio points out that in Oakland, when the city moves out unsanctioned encampments, homeless people living in them lose their possessions. In a model Oakland could use, the city would have housing units not only with beds and bathrooms, but for storage as well. If homeless people are allowed to keep their things, they feel free to look for other services, Cappio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shelter is important and is a really big deal to stabilize people to make them feel safe, but unless those wraparound services are concurrently provided, we’re not doing our job,” Cappio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The visits to the Navigation Center have affected the homeless people who currently live there, Leadbetter said. “They know they’re a part of something that’s new and exciting and different, and I think it’s very healthy for them to see that they’re a part of something that’s working,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco itself is considering expanding the number of Navigation Centers throughout the city. 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Attica Bowden, recently appointed to head the arson unit, says the department requires investigations for all of the city's largest blazes -- those in which two or more alarms have been called. For smaller fires, Bowden said, arson investigators are called in only when incident commanders believe a blaze has been intentionally set or they can't determine the cause themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 19 structure fires in the Mission this year, De Cossio says 10 have been the subject of arson investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those probes is still open, concerning a March apartment fire that killed two people at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/12/s-f-supervisor-latest-mission-fire-shows-new-danger-in-housing-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">24th Street and Treat Avenue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight of the other larger structure fires this year in the Mission were found to be accidental, De Cossio said. 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