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Last May, Cal Fire officially determined that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747485/cal-fires-official-finding-pge-equipment-touched-off-camp-fire\">PG&E’s equipment ignited the fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the tensions surfaced during a Wednesday hearing focused on whether federal and state agencies are entitled to tap the fund to recoup any of the roughly $4 billion they doled out after the wildfires. Health chain Adventist Health also is seeking at least $1 billion for losses from its heavily damaged hospital in Paradise, and lawyers could try to take up to a third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victims also are upset that half the settlement, or $6.75 billion, would be paid in stock from PG&E, the company responsible for ruining their lives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stock payment may prove a clever strategy, said San Francisco bankruptcy attorney Michael Sweet, because that could make it more difficult for Gov. 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PG&E and the victims’ attorneys contend the law doesn’t allow them to make claims because the utility didn’t intentionally cause the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali didn’t rule on the issue Wednesday but signaled he will soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens are making passionate pleas to Montali asking him to rework a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11791785/pge-axes-requirement-for-newsom-to-ok-13-5-billion-settlement-with-wildfire-victims\">deal he approved in December\u003c/a>. More than 1,600 wildfire victims signed an online petition calling the settlement unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E “is building off of our losses in a sense,” said Jason Meek, 48, whose wine country home was destroyed in 2017. “It’s important in my view that this settlement is done with thought and care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Abrams, a fire survivor whose home was destroyed by the Tubbs Fire in 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11801051/lone-fire-survivor-to-make-final-plea-against-pge-victim-settlement\">has also asked Montali to overturn his approval\u003c/a> of the $13.5 billion settlement. 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Claimants have since filed more than $50 billion in wildfire claims, which the utility has proposed settling for a total of $25.5 billion, which includes reimbursement for insurers and other things. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing the victims concede the settlement isn’t perfect, but they say it’s the best deal possible under the circumstances. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pge']PG&E believes the misgivings about the settlement are being expressed by a vocal minority. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dozens of people rallied Tuesday in downtown San Francisco to urge immigration authorities not to deport a 23-year-old UC Berkeley graduate who works with the city’s Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters called on the Trump administration to drop deportation proceedings against Valeria Suarez Rojas, an asylum-seeker from Peru, using an authority known as prosecutorial discretion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suarez Rojas, who identifies as gender non-binary and uses the pronouns \"they/them,\" fears persecution if sent back to Peru, where they said LGBTQ people face violence and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found refuge in my community. 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Their mother and brother are lawful permanent residents in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Suarez Rojas became a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dreamsffellows.org/valeria2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fellow\u003c/a> at Dream SF, a leadership and professional development program with the San Francisco Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs. 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Napolitano urged the DHS to reconsider deportation efforts against Suarez Rojas, according to a petition for prosecutorial discretion Reyes Savalza submitted on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Valeria deserves our utmost support,” wrote Napolitano. “Valeria has excelled at one of our country’s leading universities and is a valued member of our academic and alumni communities and the broader San Francisco Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An immigration judge at the San Francisco immigration court is currently considering the case and a hearing will be held in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Janet Napolitano, UC president and former DHS secretary\"]'Domestic travel by a student at a leading university should not have resulted in [DHS] placing Valeria in removal proceedings.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suarez Rojas was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection last June at the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they had traveled to celebrate their anticipated graduation from UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Suarez Rojas tried to board a flight back to the Bay Area, they could not provide a valid ID and their Peruvian passport had no valid U.S. visa, according to a CBP spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in her letter, Napolitano questioned the need for deportation proceedings in Suarez Rojas' case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Domestic travel by a student at a leading university should not have resulted in the Department placing Valeria in removal proceedings,\" Napolitano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suarez Rojas said CBP officers pressured them to sign a deportation order, alluded they could be detained indefinitely at a detention center in Miami and initially refused to let them speak with an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those tactics constitute a violation of Suarez Rojas’ constitutional rights and “tainted” the removal proceedings, said Savalza, who argues that’s another reason to dismiss the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately return requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes Savalza added that while Suarez Rojas was detained, their plight went viral, and thousands of people nationwide called on officials demanding their release. 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NPR has viewed the email which senior AGMA leadership sent early Tuesday to its \u003ca href=\"https://www.musicalartists.org/about-agma/board-members-officers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">officers and national board of governors\u003c/a>, a group of about 80 individuals, saying that the union intends to take “appropriate action” against any members who had spoken to the AP, adding: “The damage caused by these individuals to our union, our members and the targets of Domingo’s harassment is incalculable.” AGMA declined to comment to NPR on details of the tentative settlement or its withdrawal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results of the AGMA investigation were not supposed to be disclosed, either in summary or in full, to the public or to the union’s membership. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Oct. 15\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official count of the entire U.S. population — which only happens every 10 years — is happening now, and it ends tonight on Thursday, Oct. 15 at 11:59 pm PDT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/\">The 2020 census\u003c/a> is a monumental effort to collect information about every person living in the United States, regardless of citizenship status, including age, address, race/ethnicity, home ownership status and size of household. That data will have widespread social, political and economic impacts on just about every community in the country for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>You have just hours to respond to the census. \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/?cid=20002:%2Bcensus:sem.ga:p:dm:en:&utm_source=sem.ga&utm_medium=p&utm_campaign=dm:en&utm_content=20002&utm_term=%2Bcensus\">Click here to start your census response online. \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also\u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/ways-to-respond/responding-by-phone.html\"> respond by phone\u003c/a> today or \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/ways-to-respond/responding-by-mail.html\">mail your paper response\u003c/a> as long as it's postmarked Oct. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked you — our readers — to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796143/what-do-you-want-to-know-about-the-2020-census\">tell us what you want to know\u003c/a> about the census. Here are answers to the questions we received:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#2\">Why does it matter?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#3\">What if there's an undercount in California?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#1\">How and when do I fill out the census?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#4\">Is the coronavirus pandemic affecting census operations?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#5\">How do I know I'm being contacted by the actual Census Bureau?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#6\">What questions are on the census?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#7\">Will the citizenship question be on the census?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#8\">Is my information protected?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#9\">What counts as a single household?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#10\">What if I don't respond or leave many questions blank?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Still have questions? \u003ca href=\"#census\">Submit them below.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why does it matter?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For starters, more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/partners/2020.html\">$675 billion in federal funding\u003c/a> is at stake, according to the Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11796143 label='Help Guide Our Coverage' hero=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/censusfinal2-1020x680.png\"]In fact, most of the federal funding California receives is based on census data, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/census-related-funding-in-california/\">research\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California shows. That data also plays a key role in determining how that money is distributed to different programs and communities throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the census count impacts political representation and redistricting — how states redraw their legislative districts based on population changes. The data are also used by scores of organizations and businesses in deciding where to have a presence — but more on that below.\u003ca id=\"3\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What if there's an undercount in California?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The census count determines, among many other things, how the U.S. House of Representatives' 435 seats are divvied up among the states. While most experts expect California to retain its 53 seats, a significant undercount could jeopardize that representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size='medium' align='right']The deadline to \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/\">respond to the census is Oct. 15\u003c/a>.[/pullquote]\u003c/span>On top of that, because lawmakers use census population data to redraw legislative lines, political representation — both federally and on the state level — could shift away from undercounted areas, which are more \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/interactive/2020-census-maps-californias-hard-to-count-communities/\">likely\u003c/a> to be poorer communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, communities rely on the data to determine investment needs, such as where to build new roads, hospitals and schools. And businesses and nonprofit groups use it to inform where services are needed and to help identify consumer demand and job markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/zuEo-lXtVjc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results of past census counts have shown that certain demographic groups are particularly hard to reach, including immigrants, children, young men, renters and Latino and African American residents. And all of those groups have become a significantly larger portion of California’s population since the 2010 count, heightening concerns of a potential undercount and prompting California to invest in an unprecedented level of census outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"1\">\u003c/a>How and when do I fill out the census?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Census Bureau, a division of the Department of Commerce, runs the count. It asks respondents to answer questions based on their location on April 1 — Census Day — to capture an accurate snapshot of that moment in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first year the census is \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/?cid=20002:%2Bcensus:sem.ga:p:dm:en:&utm_source=sem.ga&utm_medium=p&utm_campaign=dm:en&utm_content=20002&utm_term=%2Bcensus\">available online\u003c/a>. Although the bureau expects the majority of respondents to submit it that way, it can also be filled out by mail or phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 census officially began in January in the tiny, remote \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/796703843/along-the-rim-of-alaska-the-once-a-decade-u-s-census-begins-in-toksook-bay\">fishing village\u003c/a> of Toksook Bay, Alaska. The vast majority of the population, though — roughly 95% of all U.S. households — received \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/content/dam/2020census/materials/partners/2019-12/2020-informational-invitation-letter.pdf\">invitations in the mail\u003c/a> in mid-March. For everyone else, including those without home addresses, census counters — called \"enumerators\" — will deliver forms in person. This has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic — \u003ca href=\"#covid\">read more on that below.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Invitations sent to each household include a unique ID and instructions on how to respond. You may have also received a paper form along with your official invitation if you live in an area with historically low response rates. \u003ca href=\"https://www.censushardtocountmaps2020.us\">This map\u003c/a> shows the current self-response rate of your community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your unique ID is intended to help protect your identity and prevent duplicates from being submitted. However, if you don't know your ID when you fill out the census, you can use your street address instead. And if more than one person in a household submits multiple forms accidentally, the Census Bureau says it has procedures in place to resolve that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"covid\">\u003c/a>Is the coronavirus pandemic affecting census operations?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The cutoff for responding by yourself online, by phone or mail \u003cem>was\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/news-events/operational-adjustments-covid-19.html\">extended from July 31 to Oct. 31.\u003c/a> But on Oct. 13 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/13/921428056/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-end-census-early\">a Supreme Court ruling allowed the Trump administration to end the count early\u003c/a>, on Oct. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enumerators had planned to start visiting households in mid-May, but this is now \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/news-events/operational-adjustments-covid-19.html\">postponed until Aug. 11\u003c/a>. The Census Bureau conducted online, paid trainings for its recently hired temporary employees in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Census Bureau \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/update-on-2020-census-field-operations.html\">suspended all field operations\u003c/a>, which includes counting the homeless population and people living in “group quarters,\" such as on-campus students, until June 1. The bureau said it will continue to evaluate field operations and communicate updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of many colleges across the country taking instruction online and closing on-campus housing, the Census Bureau adjusted operations to specifically make sure students are counted. More on that \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/modifying-2020-operations-for-counting-college-students.html\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While field operations are suspended, households were able to respond to the census online by themselves. This meant census takers had fewer houses to visit when the time comes — and less concern about virus transmission.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"5\">\u003c/a>How do I know I'm being contacted by the actual Census Bureau (and not someone trying to con me)?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#contact\">For starters\u003c/a>, the Census Bureau will NEVER:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Send unsolicited emails\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ask for your social security number, bank account or credit card numbers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Request money or donations\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If an enumerator knocks on your door, you can ask for an ID badge, which should have that person's photograph, a U.S. Department of Commerce watermark and an expiration date. You can also call 800-923-8282 to speak with a local Census Bureau representative about any concerns.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"6\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What questions are on the census?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/content/dam/2020census/materials/partners/2019-08/2020-informational-questionnaire.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here\u003c/a> for a sample census form and \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/about-questions.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explanation\u003c/a> of why each question is asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notable changes from the 2010 census include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A question allowing respondents — both married or unmarried — to select if they are in opposite or same-sex partnerships.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The option to differentiate between Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A space to write in racial origins under the race selection question.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"7\">\u003c/a>Will the citizenship question be on the census?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Definitely not!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration's yearlong effort to include a citizenship question on the census was ruled unconstitutional by three federal judges, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/717635291/supreme-court-leaves-citizenship-question-blocked-from-2020-census\">a decision upheld\u003c/a> last year by the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, the federal government will NOT be able to determine a person's citizenship status based on census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"8\">\u003c/a>Is my information protected?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. The results of the census can only be used for statistical analysis. Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/history/www/reference/privacy_confidentiality/title_13_us_code.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal privacy law\u003c/a>, employees of the Census Bureau are prohibited from releasing any collected information, even to law enforcement agencies. The law also protects your responses from being used against you in court or by any other government agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Census workers take a lifetime oath to protect individuals' information. A violation can result in up to five years in prison and/or a penalty of $250,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Census Bureau says it has also taken major steps this year to ensure data security against hacking and cyberthreats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All data submitted online are encrypted to protect personal privacy, and our cybersecurity program meets the highest and most recent standards for protecting personal information,\" the Census Bureau's \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/factsheets/2019/comm/2020-confidentiality-factsheet.pdf\">website states\u003c/a>. \"Once the data are received, they are no longer online. From the moment the Census Bureau collects responses, our focus and legal obligation is to keep them safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/12/805159481/watchdog-warns-census-faces-cybersecurity-hiring-risks-before-national-rollout\">a report\u003c/a> from the Government Accountability Office warned that the bureau is lagging in addressing IT and cybersecurity risks tied to last-minute shifts to a new backup system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"9\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How should someone from a single home that houses two families answer the census?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents are no stranger to shared housing arrangements, so let’s break this down: A housing unit is considered separate only if its residents live and eat separately from the other tenants in the building and have direct access outside, or through a common hallway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The occupants of a housing unit may include a single person, one family, unmarried partners, multiple families living together, multiple roommates — there are plenty of possibilities.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"10\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What if I don't respond or leave many questions blank?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Contrary to what many people think, filling out the census is not voluntary: It's actually required by law. If you don’t respond or send back a largely incomplete form, the Census Bureau will continue to send reminders, deliver a paper questionnaire, and eventually, begin to make in-person enumerator visits — up to six times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although failing to respond can technically\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/13/221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> result in a fine\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/jan/09/us-census-bureau/americans-must-answer-us-census-bureau-survey-law-/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no one has been prosecuted\u003c/a> since 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Oct. 15\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official count of the entire U.S. population — which only happens every 10 years — is happening now, and it ends tonight on Thursday, Oct. 15 at 11:59 pm PDT.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/\">The 2020 census\u003c/a> is a monumental effort to collect information about every person living in the United States, regardless of citizenship status, including age, address, race/ethnicity, home ownership status and size of household. That data will have widespread social, political and economic impacts on just about every community in the country for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>You have just hours to respond to the census. \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/?cid=20002:%2Bcensus:sem.ga:p:dm:en:&utm_source=sem.ga&utm_medium=p&utm_campaign=dm:en&utm_content=20002&utm_term=%2Bcensus\">Click here to start your census response online. \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also\u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/ways-to-respond/responding-by-phone.html\"> respond by phone\u003c/a> today or \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/ways-to-respond/responding-by-mail.html\">mail your paper response\u003c/a> as long as it's postmarked Oct. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We asked you — our readers — to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11796143/what-do-you-want-to-know-about-the-2020-census\">tell us what you want to know\u003c/a> about the census. Here are answers to the questions we received:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#2\">Why does it matter?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#3\">What if there's an undercount in California?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#1\">How and when do I fill out the census?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#4\">Is the coronavirus pandemic affecting census operations?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#5\">How do I know I'm being contacted by the actual Census Bureau?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#6\">What questions are on the census?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#7\">Will the citizenship question be on the census?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#8\">Is my information protected?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#9\">What counts as a single household?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#10\">What if I don't respond or leave many questions blank?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Still have questions? \u003ca href=\"#census\">Submit them below.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why does it matter?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For starters, more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/partners/2020.html\">$675 billion in federal funding\u003c/a> is at stake, according to the Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In fact, most of the federal funding California receives is based on census data, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/census-related-funding-in-california/\">research\u003c/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California shows. That data also plays a key role in determining how that money is distributed to different programs and communities throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the census count impacts political representation and redistricting — how states redraw their legislative districts based on population changes. The data are also used by scores of organizations and businesses in deciding where to have a presence — but more on that below.\u003ca id=\"3\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What if there's an undercount in California?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The census count determines, among many other things, how the U.S. House of Representatives' 435 seats are divvied up among the states. While most experts expect California to retain its 53 seats, a significant undercount could jeopardize that representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>On top of that, because lawmakers use census population data to redraw legislative lines, political representation — both federally and on the state level — could shift away from undercounted areas, which are more \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/interactive/2020-census-maps-californias-hard-to-count-communities/\">likely\u003c/a> to be poorer communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, communities rely on the data to determine investment needs, such as where to build new roads, hospitals and schools. And businesses and nonprofit groups use it to inform where services are needed and to help identify consumer demand and job markets.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/zuEo-lXtVjc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zuEo-lXtVjc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The results of past census counts have shown that certain demographic groups are particularly hard to reach, including immigrants, children, young men, renters and Latino and African American residents. And all of those groups have become a significantly larger portion of California’s population since the 2010 count, heightening concerns of a potential undercount and prompting California to invest in an unprecedented level of census outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"1\">\u003c/a>How and when do I fill out the census?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Census Bureau, a division of the Department of Commerce, runs the count. It asks respondents to answer questions based on their location on April 1 — Census Day — to capture an accurate snapshot of that moment in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first year the census is \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/?cid=20002:%2Bcensus:sem.ga:p:dm:en:&utm_source=sem.ga&utm_medium=p&utm_campaign=dm:en&utm_content=20002&utm_term=%2Bcensus\">available online\u003c/a>. Although the bureau expects the majority of respondents to submit it that way, it can also be filled out by mail or phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 census officially began in January in the tiny, remote \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/796703843/along-the-rim-of-alaska-the-once-a-decade-u-s-census-begins-in-toksook-bay\">fishing village\u003c/a> of Toksook Bay, Alaska. The vast majority of the population, though — roughly 95% of all U.S. households — received \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/content/dam/2020census/materials/partners/2019-12/2020-informational-invitation-letter.pdf\">invitations in the mail\u003c/a> in mid-March. For everyone else, including those without home addresses, census counters — called \"enumerators\" — will deliver forms in person. This has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic — \u003ca href=\"#covid\">read more on that below.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Invitations sent to each household include a unique ID and instructions on how to respond. You may have also received a paper form along with your official invitation if you live in an area with historically low response rates. \u003ca href=\"https://www.censushardtocountmaps2020.us\">This map\u003c/a> shows the current self-response rate of your community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your unique ID is intended to help protect your identity and prevent duplicates from being submitted. However, if you don't know your ID when you fill out the census, you can use your street address instead. And if more than one person in a household submits multiple forms accidentally, the Census Bureau says it has procedures in place to resolve that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"covid\">\u003c/a>Is the coronavirus pandemic affecting census operations?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The cutoff for responding by yourself online, by phone or mail \u003cem>was\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/news-events/operational-adjustments-covid-19.html\">extended from July 31 to Oct. 31.\u003c/a> But on Oct. 13 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/13/921428056/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-to-end-census-early\">a Supreme Court ruling allowed the Trump administration to end the count early\u003c/a>, on Oct. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enumerators had planned to start visiting households in mid-May, but this is now \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/news-events/operational-adjustments-covid-19.html\">postponed until Aug. 11\u003c/a>. The Census Bureau conducted online, paid trainings for its recently hired temporary employees in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Census Bureau \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/update-on-2020-census-field-operations.html\">suspended all field operations\u003c/a>, which includes counting the homeless population and people living in “group quarters,\" such as on-campus students, until June 1. The bureau said it will continue to evaluate field operations and communicate updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of many colleges across the country taking instruction online and closing on-campus housing, the Census Bureau adjusted operations to specifically make sure students are counted. More on that \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/modifying-2020-operations-for-counting-college-students.html\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While field operations are suspended, households were able to respond to the census online by themselves. This meant census takers had fewer houses to visit when the time comes — and less concern about virus transmission.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"5\">\u003c/a>How do I know I'm being contacted by the actual Census Bureau (and not someone trying to con me)?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#contact\">For starters\u003c/a>, the Census Bureau will NEVER:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Send unsolicited emails\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ask for your social security number, bank account or credit card numbers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Request money or donations\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If an enumerator knocks on your door, you can ask for an ID badge, which should have that person's photograph, a U.S. Department of Commerce watermark and an expiration date. You can also call 800-923-8282 to speak with a local Census Bureau representative about any concerns.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"6\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What questions are on the census?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/content/dam/2020census/materials/partners/2019-08/2020-informational-questionnaire.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here\u003c/a> for a sample census form and \u003ca href=\"https://2020census.gov/en/about-questions.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explanation\u003c/a> of why each question is asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notable changes from the 2010 census include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A question allowing respondents — both married or unmarried — to select if they are in opposite or same-sex partnerships.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The option to differentiate between Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A space to write in racial origins under the race selection question.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"7\">\u003c/a>Will the citizenship question be on the census?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Definitely not!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration's yearlong effort to include a citizenship question on the census was ruled unconstitutional by three federal judges, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/27/717635291/supreme-court-leaves-citizenship-question-blocked-from-2020-census\">a decision upheld\u003c/a> last year by the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be clear, the federal government will NOT be able to determine a person's citizenship status based on census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"8\">\u003c/a>Is my information protected?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Yes. The results of the census can only be used for statistical analysis. Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/history/www/reference/privacy_confidentiality/title_13_us_code.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal privacy law\u003c/a>, employees of the Census Bureau are prohibited from releasing any collected information, even to law enforcement agencies. The law also protects your responses from being used against you in court or by any other government agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Census workers take a lifetime oath to protect individuals' information. A violation can result in up to five years in prison and/or a penalty of $250,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Census Bureau says it has also taken major steps this year to ensure data security against hacking and cyberthreats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All data submitted online are encrypted to protect personal privacy, and our cybersecurity program meets the highest and most recent standards for protecting personal information,\" the Census Bureau's \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/factsheets/2019/comm/2020-confidentiality-factsheet.pdf\">website states\u003c/a>. \"Once the data are received, they are no longer online. From the moment the Census Bureau collects responses, our focus and legal obligation is to keep them safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/02/12/805159481/watchdog-warns-census-faces-cybersecurity-hiring-risks-before-national-rollout\">a report\u003c/a> from the Government Accountability Office warned that the bureau is lagging in addressing IT and cybersecurity risks tied to last-minute shifts to a new backup system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles County will stop billing people millions of dollars a year for the costs of their incarceration in an effort to lighten the financial burden on former inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/144092.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eliminate all criminal administrative fees\u003c/a> over which the county has discretion after hearing testimony from dozens of formerly incarcerated residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is the fourth in California to eliminate the fees. If a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill\u003c/a> introduced in the state Senate is approved, the rest of California could soon follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the people who have contact with the criminal justice system are already struggling to make ends meet,” said Supervisor Hilda Solis, who co-wrote the measure. “It’s most definitely not the purpose of the justice system to punish poor people for their poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the fees that Los Angeles will no longer collect are a monthly $155 charge for probation supervision, $769 for a pre-sentence report, $50 for alcohol testing and legal counsel fees that can reach hundreds of dollars, according to a\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/aclu_socal_costs_of_injustice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> November report\u003c/a> from a coalition of criminal justice reform advocacy groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just never-ending. It’s a revolving door of fees and stipulations,” Cynthia Blake told the supervisors. A mother of seven, Blake said she was homeless when she was assessed more than $5,000 in probation fees nearly a decade ago. Unable to pay, she “ducked and dodged” the probation department, ultimately ending up in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote followed a \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/bc/1065611_121319.B101299.FinesandFees.bm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December report\u003c/a> from the county’s Chief Executive Office finding that the county assessed an average of $121 million in fines and fees each year since 2014, but collected about $11.4 million annually, or 9%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including all fees, fines and restitution, Los Angeles still has over $1.8 billion in outstanding debt on the books, dating back 50 years. The measure doesn’t touch restitution or fees and fines required by state law, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s \u003ca href=\"https://ceo.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019-20-Final-Adopted-Budget-Charts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019-2020 budget\u003c/a> for public protection — which includes the Sheriff’s Department, which operates county jails, probation and the courts — is $8.9 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles follows the lead of San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties, which have passed similar measures in the past two years. More than 30% of California’s nearly 73,000 jailed inmates and 356,000 probationers reside in the four counties that have eliminated fees, according to data from the \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/kstevens#!/vizhome/ACJROctober2013/About\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Board of State and Community Corrections\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/oconnellresearch#!/vizhome/ChiefProbationOfficersofCaliforniaAnnualDataSurvey_0/CPOCProbationSurvey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chief Probation Officers of California\u003c/a>. Another 127,000 inmates are in state prisons and 45,000 are on state-run parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11803106\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (right) authored the measure to eliminate the fees. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts/CalMatter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The supervisors also resolved to write Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators in support of Senate Bill 144, which would eliminate several of the most common and costly criminal administrative fees charged by counties and the state prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are further hampering an already fragile family or community economically,” said state Sen. Holly Mitchell, a Los Angeles Democrat who authored the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is opposed by counties and law enforcement groups, which say that eliminating fees would leave gaping funding holes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the problems is that the Legislature passes laws that have to be paid for ... When they didn’t want to use general funds, they allowed it to be done as a fine or fee,” said Darby Kernan, deputy executive director of the California State Association of Counties. “That’s what holds the system together, and minus those dollars, the system will collapse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kernan pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1046\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 state law that required\u003c/a> people convicted of driving under the influence to install in their cars an interlock device — a breathalyzer that must be passed to turn on the ignition — and pay an administrative fee to cover the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mitchell urged the governor to recognize that criminal fees are a “self-defeating, anemic source of revenue,” in a statement Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If LA can afford it, California can to,” Mitchell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles’ move may bode well for Mitchell’s bill, if history is an indication. The county was a trendsetter when it \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/48284.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stopped charging fees to parents\u003c/a> for their kids’ time in the juvenile justice system in 2009. Three Bay Area counties followed, Mitchell introduced a bill to do so statewide and in 2018, California became the first state in the nation to abolish juvenile fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that law didn’t do away with preexisting debt from the juvenile fees. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Los Angeles County will stop billing people millions of dollars a year for the costs of their incarceration in an effort to lighten the financial burden on former inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/144092.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eliminate all criminal administrative fees\u003c/a> over which the county has discretion after hearing testimony from dozens of formerly incarcerated residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is the fourth in California to eliminate the fees. If a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bill\u003c/a> introduced in the state Senate is approved, the rest of California could soon follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of the people who have contact with the criminal justice system are already struggling to make ends meet,” said Supervisor Hilda Solis, who co-wrote the measure. “It’s most definitely not the purpose of the justice system to punish poor people for their poverty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the fees that Los Angeles will no longer collect are a monthly $155 charge for probation supervision, $769 for a pre-sentence report, $50 for alcohol testing and legal counsel fees that can reach hundreds of dollars, according to a\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/aclu_socal_costs_of_injustice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> November report\u003c/a> from a coalition of criminal justice reform advocacy groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just never-ending. It’s a revolving door of fees and stipulations,” Cynthia Blake told the supervisors. A mother of seven, Blake said she was homeless when she was assessed more than $5,000 in probation fees nearly a decade ago. Unable to pay, she “ducked and dodged” the probation department, ultimately ending up in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote followed a \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/bc/1065611_121319.B101299.FinesandFees.bm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December report\u003c/a> from the county’s Chief Executive Office finding that the county assessed an average of $121 million in fines and fees each year since 2014, but collected about $11.4 million annually, or 9%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Including all fees, fines and restitution, Los Angeles still has over $1.8 billion in outstanding debt on the books, dating back 50 years. The measure doesn’t touch restitution or fees and fines required by state law, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s \u003ca href=\"https://ceo.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019-20-Final-Adopted-Budget-Charts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019-2020 budget\u003c/a> for public protection — which includes the Sheriff’s Department, which operates county jails, probation and the courts — is $8.9 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles follows the lead of San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties, which have passed similar measures in the past two years. More than 30% of California’s nearly 73,000 jailed inmates and 356,000 probationers reside in the four counties that have eliminated fees, according to data from the \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/kstevens#!/vizhome/ACJROctober2013/About\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Board of State and Community Corrections\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/oconnellresearch#!/vizhome/ChiefProbationOfficersofCaliforniaAnnualDataSurvey_0/CPOCProbationSurvey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chief Probation Officers of California\u003c/a>. Another 127,000 inmates are in state prisons and 45,000 are on state-run parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11803106\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-2-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (right) authored the measure to eliminate the fees. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts/CalMatter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The supervisors also resolved to write Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators in support of Senate Bill 144, which would eliminate several of the most common and costly criminal administrative fees charged by counties and the state prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are further hampering an already fragile family or community economically,” said state Sen. Holly Mitchell, a Los Angeles Democrat who authored the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is opposed by counties and law enforcement groups, which say that eliminating fees would leave gaping funding holes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the problems is that the Legislature passes laws that have to be paid for ... 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The county was a trendsetter when it \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/48284.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stopped charging fees to parents\u003c/a> for their kids’ time in the juvenile justice system in 2009. Three Bay Area counties followed, Mitchell introduced a bill to do so statewide and in 2018, California became the first state in the nation to abolish juvenile fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that law didn’t do away with preexisting debt from the juvenile fees. While most counties, including Los Angeles, stopped collecting the old fees from parents, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-counties-still-collecting-juvenile-justice-fee-debt-from-parents/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22 counties haven’t\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Los Angeles ordinance and Mitchell’s proposal make old administrative fees uncollectible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11803107\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-3-1020x764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-3-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-3-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-3-1920x1439.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-3-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-3-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-3-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-3-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/CRIMINAL-FEES-photo-3-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marquies Nunez has struggled to pay off his county criminal justice fees. \u003ccite>(Jackie Botts/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That could make a big difference for Marquies Nunez. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rohnert Park city leaders are set to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgranicus_production_attachments.s3.amazonaws.com%2Frpcity%2F43d9893af36e56795edae974dc13eefc0.pdf&embedded=true\">vote\u003c/a> Tuesday on two settlement agreements with eight men who sued the city over hundreds of pounds of marijuana and $55,000 they say was unlawfully seized during traffic stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huedell Freeman, a cannabis cultivator based in Mendocino who said Rohnert Park police officers took 47 pounds of his legal product, will receive \u003ca href=\"https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/536633/7F_Settlement_Agreement_and_Release_Freeman_vs_RP.pdf\">$287,500\u003c/a>. Seven other drivers who jointly filed suit against the city will split a \u003ca href=\"https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/536634/7G_Settlement_Agreement_and_Release_Regarding_Payne_vs_RP.pdf\">$1,175,000\u003c/a> settlement. In August, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768671/rohnert-park-settles-one-lawsuit-over-illegal-pot-seizures-5-more-plaintiffs-sue\">settled\u003c/a> with a Texas-based man named Zeke Flatten for $415,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The case has conditionally resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties,” was all the plaintiffs’ attorney Izaak Schwaiger would say about the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz wrote in an email that the settlements are in the best interests of the city, as they are less costly than continued litigation, but do not indicate liability or responsibility on the city’s part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\">first reported\u003c/a> on this pattern of suspicious seizures in 2018 after several drivers came forward with corresponding stories alleging that Rohnert Park police officers pulled them over 40 miles north of their jurisdiction for the purpose of taking their cash or marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Freeman said he couldn’t comment on the settlement, it should finally bring an end to his three-year struggle to get back the cannabis — a year’s worth of income — that he said was unlawfully taken from him during a December 2016 traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The joint lawsuit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768671/rohnert-park-settles-one-lawsuit-over-illegal-pot-seizures-5-more-plaintiffs-sue\">filed by seven motorists in August\u003c/a> alleges that former Rohnert Park officers Jacy Tatum, Joseph Huffaker and Christopher Snyder collectively took more than 330 pounds of marijuana from them and seized $55,000 in cash but never appropriately documented, destroyed or returned the cash or cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unusual legal move, the suit made RICO allegations — stating that the officers were basically acting like an organized crime ring by conspiring to extort drivers and obstruct justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The primary officers alleged to have been involved in inappropriate interdiction incidents are no longer with the City,” Schwartz wrote. “There have been no similar allegations against the City since 2017.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='rohnert-park']Former Sgt. Jacy Tatum, the officer at the center of the allegations, left the department in June 2018 after the city launched an internal affairs investigation. Then-director Brian Masterson retired in August 2018, and the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735983/probe-into-rohnert-park-cannabis-and-cash-seizures-will-stay-secret-despite-transparency-law\">forced out\u003c/a> former officer Joseph Huffaker in March 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal jury \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702984/federal-jury-rohnert-park-police-violated-couples-constitutional-rights\">awarded\u003c/a> a Rohnert Park couple $145,000 in damages in November 2019 in a separate case involving Tatum illegally searching their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, Schwartz said the city’s public safety department has “completed a restructuring to improve oversight and accountability and strengthened policies related to seizure, evidence storage, asset seizure requirements, video surveillance and report writing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money for these settlement agreements will be paid for by its insurer, Redwood Empire Municipal Insurance Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The California Assembly's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802590/california-lawmakers-expected-to-apologize-for-u-s-internment-of-japanese-americans\">official apology\u003c/a> for the state's role in the incarceration of Japanese Americans comes after many of those formerly incarcerated have passed away. But some of the survivors who were children during World War II continue to make annual pilgrimages to their former incarceration site each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ester Abe, a former incarceree at Heart Mountain\"]'I saw that Heart Mountain on the horizon and I kind of choked up. It came to life for my daughter.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Japanese Americans from Los Angeles, Santa Clara and San Francisco were sent to \u003ca href=\"https://heartmountain.org/\">Heart Mountain\u003c/a>, Wyoming. Anna Sale of WNYC’s \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/deathsexmoney\">Death, Sex & Money\u003c/a>\" recently traveled to Heart Mountain to talk to incarcerees and their family members for an episode of her podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report Magazine's host Sasha Khokha spoke with Sale, in a conversation that's been edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On Why 'Death, Sex & Money' Visited Heart Mountain\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>We say our show is about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. I'd heard about the pilgrimages to these former incarceration sites, and just the scraps that I picked up, I thought, 'This is a story that's about just that.' It's often the children and grandchildren are piecing together the stories, and they drip, drip, drip out. So I wanted to hear what it was like when people who live at this site in Heart Mountain, what do they talk about? What kinds of questions do their children and grandchildren have for them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802068\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11802068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41368_Shig-talking-in-the-barrack-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1092\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41368_Shig-talking-in-the-barrack-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41368_Shig-talking-in-the-barrack-qut-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41368_Shig-talking-in-the-barrack-qut-800x455.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41368_Shig-talking-in-the-barrack-qut-1020x580.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shigeru Yabu gives a tour of a new replica barrack onsite at Heart Mountain. \u003ccite>(Darrell Kunitomi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On Talking to Survivors Returning for the First Time\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ester Abe was the first person I met when we got off the school bus [from the hotel in Cody]. This was her first time back since she was a young girl and she’d brought her two adult children with her. I was struck by talking to her. She looked up on the horizon. It's called Heart Mountain because there are these two rounded peaks and I wanted to know why she had returned with her two adult children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Speaking with Sale in the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/deathsexmoney\">Death, Sex & Money\u003c/a>\" episode, Ester Abe said, \"I saw that Heart Mountain on the horizon and I kind of choked up. It came to life for my daughter. She saw our name in the registrar of books and it kind of woke her up. She thought, oh, this is true. For us to be here and talk about it freely, everybody’s memories are coming out, it's big.\" \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On Experiencing Incarceration as a Child \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It was really striking to me that the people who were able to narrate first-person accounts of Heart Mountain were youth. I met a lot of people who said, 'My memories of this place were kid memories.' They didn’t experience what adults felt, having to step away from businesses from their role in the community. They were kids. You heard a lot of stories about how fun it was to play in the river or exploring the animals and the wildlife that lived near Heart Mountain. It was interesting to hear these childlike memories on top of the meaning of what it was to be an American citizen and sent away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"This sounds kind of idiotic, but as a kid, there was no fear,\" Shigeru Yabu told Sale. \"As a youngster, we're looking for adventure. We didn't think about the guard towers, we didn't think about the barbed wires. We just wanted excitement,\" said Yabu, who was forced from his home in San Francisco at age 10.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802867\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1484px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11802867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41469_1.-Setsuko-and-Bill-in-class-picture-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Shirley Ann Higuchi's parents\" width=\"1484\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41469_1.-Setsuko-and-Bill-in-class-picture-qut.jpg 1484w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41469_1.-Setsuko-and-Bill-in-class-picture-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41469_1.-Setsuko-and-Bill-in-class-picture-qut-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41469_1.-Setsuko-and-Bill-in-class-picture-qut-1020x736.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1484px) 100vw, 1484px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Shirley Ann Higuchi's parents at Heart Mountain where they met. Setsuko, her mother, is fourth from the right on the front row, and Bill, her father, is sitting to her left. \u003ccite>(Courtesty of Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>On What It'\u003c/b>\u003cb>s Like for the Children and Grandchildren of Incarcerees to Visit Heart Mountain \u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It was a different tone when you got them off to the side and asked them what it was like to be there. It was less swapping of memories and light. It was more trying to piece together the more why and how. Some people were there with their elderly parents, but some people were there who’ve lost their parents and were there to learn more about what had happened from what they pieced together from family stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Shirley Ann Higuchi. She now at once recognizes that [incarceration] is how her parents came together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"But [if it wasn't] for that incarceration, I wouldn’t be here talking to you. When they bumped into each other years later at UC Berkeley, their faces looked identical to when they were kids. That recognition turned into a love affair and marriage,\" Higuchi told Sale.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she was able to feel more anger about the incarceration than her mother was ever able to express during her lifetime. She talked a lot about how her mother was controlling, even when Shirley was an adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802878\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11802878\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41471_ShirleySpeaking_Photo-by-Julie-Abo-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41471_ShirleySpeaking_Photo-by-Julie-Abo-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41471_ShirleySpeaking_Photo-by-Julie-Abo-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41471_ShirleySpeaking_Photo-by-Julie-Abo-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41471_ShirleySpeaking_Photo-by-Julie-Abo-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Ann Higuchi addresses attendees at the annual pilgrimage to Heart Mountain. \u003ccite>(Courtesty of Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"The psychologist turned to me, and says, 'Shirley, of course your mother's controlling. She was ripped from her home and put in a prison camp pre-adolesence, and she walked everything, and you're wondering why she's controlling? It would be strange if your mother wasn't controlling,'\" \u003c/em>\u003cem>Higuchi told Sale.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I actually said to Shirley, 'I love that you come to these pilgrimages and one of the things you talk to other children of incarcerees is 'How do your parents drive you crazy?' It wasn't something that I intuitively anticipated hearing. But of course, the ways people who were incarcerated at Heart Mountain raised their children affected not just Shirley's family, but lots of families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[After hearing her mother gloss over her experiences at Heart Mountain for so many years,] Shirley learned something surprising after her mother's death. [She] had been sending money to create a memorial and museum at the site of the former incarceration center [which was built in 2011]. Shirley discovered that her mother had stayed in touch and had been quite active in the effort to remember what had happened there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation that was happening at the pilgrimage was not just about the past. It was about what this means today. I heard from former incarcerees and their children and grandchildren talking about the ways the current political environment makes them think about this history and the obligation and responsibility they have to talk about what happened, and to make sure this doesn't happen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It's often the children and grandchildren are piecing together the stories, and they drip, drip, drip out. So I wanted to hear what it was like when people who live at this site in Heart Mountain, what do they talk about? What kinds of questions do their children and grandchildren have for them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802068\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11802068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41368_Shig-talking-in-the-barrack-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1092\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41368_Shig-talking-in-the-barrack-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41368_Shig-talking-in-the-barrack-qut-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41368_Shig-talking-in-the-barrack-qut-800x455.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41368_Shig-talking-in-the-barrack-qut-1020x580.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shigeru Yabu gives a tour of a new replica barrack onsite at Heart Mountain. \u003ccite>(Darrell Kunitomi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On Talking to Survivors Returning for the First Time\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ester Abe was the first person I met when we got off the school bus [from the hotel in Cody]. This was her first time back since she was a young girl and she’d brought her two adult children with her. I was struck by talking to her. She looked up on the horizon. It's called Heart Mountain because there are these two rounded peaks and I wanted to know why she had returned with her two adult children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Speaking with Sale in the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/deathsexmoney\">Death, Sex & Money\u003c/a>\" episode, Ester Abe said, \"I saw that Heart Mountain on the horizon and I kind of choked up. It came to life for my daughter. She saw our name in the registrar of books and it kind of woke her up. She thought, oh, this is true. For us to be here and talk about it freely, everybody’s memories are coming out, it's big.\" \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>On Experiencing Incarceration as a Child \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It was really striking to me that the people who were able to narrate first-person accounts of Heart Mountain were youth. I met a lot of people who said, 'My memories of this place were kid memories.' They didn’t experience what adults felt, having to step away from businesses from their role in the community. They were kids. You heard a lot of stories about how fun it was to play in the river or exploring the animals and the wildlife that lived near Heart Mountain. It was interesting to hear these childlike memories on top of the meaning of what it was to be an American citizen and sent away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"This sounds kind of idiotic, but as a kid, there was no fear,\" Shigeru Yabu told Sale. \"As a youngster, we're looking for adventure. We didn't think about the guard towers, we didn't think about the barbed wires. We just wanted excitement,\" said Yabu, who was forced from his home in San Francisco at age 10.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802867\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1484px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11802867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41469_1.-Setsuko-and-Bill-in-class-picture-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Shirley Ann Higuchi's parents\" width=\"1484\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41469_1.-Setsuko-and-Bill-in-class-picture-qut.jpg 1484w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41469_1.-Setsuko-and-Bill-in-class-picture-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41469_1.-Setsuko-and-Bill-in-class-picture-qut-800x577.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41469_1.-Setsuko-and-Bill-in-class-picture-qut-1020x736.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1484px) 100vw, 1484px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Shirley Ann Higuchi's parents at Heart Mountain where they met. Setsuko, her mother, is fourth from the right on the front row, and Bill, her father, is sitting to her left. \u003ccite>(Courtesty of Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>On What It'\u003c/b>\u003cb>s Like for the Children and Grandchildren of Incarcerees to Visit Heart Mountain \u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It was a different tone when you got them off to the side and asked them what it was like to be there. It was less swapping of memories and light. It was more trying to piece together the more why and how. Some people were there with their elderly parents, but some people were there who’ve lost their parents and were there to learn more about what had happened from what they pieced together from family stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Shirley Ann Higuchi. She now at once recognizes that [incarceration] is how her parents came together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"But [if it wasn't] for that incarceration, I wouldn’t be here talking to you. When they bumped into each other years later at UC Berkeley, their faces looked identical to when they were kids. That recognition turned into a love affair and marriage,\" Higuchi told Sale.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she was able to feel more anger about the incarceration than her mother was ever able to express during her lifetime. She talked a lot about how her mother was controlling, even when Shirley was an adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802878\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11802878\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41471_ShirleySpeaking_Photo-by-Julie-Abo-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41471_ShirleySpeaking_Photo-by-Julie-Abo-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41471_ShirleySpeaking_Photo-by-Julie-Abo-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41471_ShirleySpeaking_Photo-by-Julie-Abo-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41471_ShirleySpeaking_Photo-by-Julie-Abo-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirley Ann Higuchi addresses attendees at the annual pilgrimage to Heart Mountain. \u003ccite>(Courtesty of Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"The psychologist turned to me, and says, 'Shirley, of course your mother's controlling. She was ripped from her home and put in a prison camp pre-adolesence, and she walked everything, and you're wondering why she's controlling? It would be strange if your mother wasn't controlling,'\" \u003c/em>\u003cem>Higuchi told Sale.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I actually said to Shirley, 'I love that you come to these pilgrimages and one of the things you talk to other children of incarcerees is 'How do your parents drive you crazy?' It wasn't something that I intuitively anticipated hearing. But of course, the ways people who were incarcerated at Heart Mountain raised their children affected not just Shirley's family, but lots of families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[After hearing her mother gloss over her experiences at Heart Mountain for so many years,] Shirley learned something surprising after her mother's death. [She] had been sending money to create a memorial and museum at the site of the former incarceration center [which was built in 2011]. 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"content": "\u003cp>Robel Sletsion, an asylee from Eritrea who’s now a U.S. citizen, applied months ago for an immigrant visa for his wife, Tehaguas, who’s also Eritrean. The couple planned to live in Oakland together, where Sletsion works as a plumber and pipe fitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the couple’s plans to reunite are now in shambles after President Trump expanded his travel ban to cover six more countries, including Eritrea. The new restrictions went into effect Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very hard. I don’t know how long it’s going to be,” said Sletsion, 34. “I don’t know if she can come. I don’t know if I’m allowed to get her here and live a happy life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is home to thousands of immigrants from countries targeted by the Trump administration’s new travel restrictions. The policy makes it difficult for American citizens to bring spouses, children and other relatives from the affected nations to live in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration is banning new immigrant visas to permanently move here for nationals of Eritrea, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa. Citizens of Sudan and Tanzania will no longer be able to gain residency in the U.S through a diversity visa lottery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policy widens the controversial travel ban that has been in place since 2017 on five Muslim-majority nations — Libya, Somalia, Iran, Syria and Yemen — as well as for certain citizens of North Korea and Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refugees and asylees are exempted from the restrictions. And those with green cards or visas in hand will not be affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sletsion’s wife does not yet have a U.S. visa, since her application is pending. Because of the new restrictions, Tehaguas may not be able to come live with him here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Sletsion can’t return safely to Eritrea, he said, because he fled political persecution in that country after the army forcibly conscripted him when he was a teen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Haregu Gaime, immigration attorney\"]‘It’s horrifying, people are scared that they will not be able to reunite with their family members.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a dictatorial government and it was very dangerous for me to live there. So I left,” said Sletsion, who arrived in the U.S. 11 years ago. “I’m very grateful to have a peaceful life here in this country. But this [order by the president] is very unfortunate. If somebody can help, please help us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the couple’s only hope to reunite is to get a waiver of the travel ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those exceptions are very hard to get, Sletsion learned at an event attended by dozens of other Eritrean immigrants at an Oakland library in the Temescal neighborhood last Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no formal application to request a waiver, attorneys at the event said. And U.S. citizens must show they’ll suffer undue hardship if their relative is denied a visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s horrifying, people are scared that they will not be able to reunite with their family members,” said immigration attorney Haregu Gaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new restrictions will impact Eritreans particularly hard, she said, as the Trump administration has already discontinued visas for students, tourists and business purposes. Those previous limitations are due to that country’s “lack of cooperation” in accepting their nationals who were ordered deported from the U.S., according to the Department of State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now “Eritreans are not allowed to enter the United States, is essentially what this government is saying,” said Gaime, who initially arrived in the U.S. as a 5-year-old Eritrean refugee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,100 Eritreans live in California, with a third of them residing in Alameda County alone, according to census figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said the travel restrictions were imposed because the countries did not meet U.S. security criteria and have deficiencies in sharing terrorist, criminal or identity information. As a result, American officials can’t verify the true identity of all applicants from those nations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As President, I must continue to act to protect the security and interests of the United States and its people,” said Trump in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-improving-enhanced-vetting-capabilities-processes-detecting-attempted-entry/\">Jan. 31 proclamation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The travel ban expansion comes as African immigrants have surged in numbers in recent decades to more than 2 million nationwide, with the largest share of that population being born in Nigeria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ismael Okunade, co-owner of Miliki Restaurant in Oakland’s Laurel neighborhood, is one of the estimated 36,000 Nigerian immigrants living in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Okunade’s customers were shocked by the new travel restrictions, he said, because Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, is a business partner to the U.S. And culturally, Nigerians are very influenced by America, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go to Nigeria, the kids, everybody is Americanized,” said Okunade, who immigrated nearly 40 years ago and became a U.S. citizen. “Nigeria is actually like, you put New York in Lagos. It’s the same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11802731 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41459_IMG_1990-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41459_IMG_1990-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41459_IMG_1990-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41459_IMG_1990-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41459_IMG_1990-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41459_IMG_1990-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41459_IMG_1990-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41459_IMG_1990-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41459_IMG_1990-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41459_IMG_1990-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ismael Okunade works at the restaurant he owns in Oakland on Feb. 12, 2020. Many of his Nigerian customers were surprised by the travel ban expansion affecting their home country, he said. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Okunade believes a blanket ban on immigrant visas is unnecessary, because every Nigerian approved to come live in the U.S. already goes through extensive screening by American officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that easy to get a visa. So they must have vetted people very well before they can get one,” he said. “So to me, it doesn’t make any sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his proclamation, President Trump said he decided to continue allowing temporary travelers — such as tourists and students — to reduce the number of people impacted. Immigrant visas were prioritized, he said, because it’s more difficult to deport an individual from the U.S. if they already have permanent legal residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Haregu Gaime, immigration attorney\"]‘Do not lose hope. Keep filing those applications and apply for those waivers … do what you need to do, because this country belongs to all of us.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics of the restrictions questioned why the U.S. would ban new immigrant visas in the name of national security but then allow temporary visitors from the targeted countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t seem to fit the rationale that we are being fed, that this is because of security threats or because we can’t authenticate documents,” said Babak Yousefzadeh, president emeritus of the Iranian American Bar Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is clearly a discriminatory policy on the basis of ethnicity or national origin or religion,” said Yousefzadeh, a San Francisco attorney representing plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit which argues that the government’s promise to implement a “robust” waiver process is hollow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the initial travel restrictions went into effect, there were mass denials of waivers and only two people were able to obtain the exceptions, according to the lawsuit. But the government has granted more waivers since: A third of the 60,000 petitions considered were approved between December 2017 and 2019, according to the State Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the government has not provided clear criteria or guidelines to apply for waivers, and the process remains “opaque and arbitrary,” said Yousefzadeh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a version of the original travel ban to go into effect while lower courts consider whether it is constitutional. Last month, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia heard arguments from the ACLU and other organizations challenging the ban.\u003cbr>\n[aside tag=\"travel-ban\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the pending lawsuits, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other advocacy organizations “are exploring all the options available to them” on the expanded travel restrictions, said Zahra Billoo, who directs \u003ca href=\"https://www.cair.com\">CAIR\u003c/a>’s San Francisco Bay Area office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent that more countries are being added, that means that more people will be targeted. And so my colleagues are exploring whether or not additional legal challenges are possible,” said Billoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. citizens and green card holders ordinarily have a right to sponsor their family members abroad to come live with them. At the information session for Eritreans in Oakland, immigration lawyer Gaime said the travel restrictions interfere with that. But she asked those affected to be persistent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do not lose hope. Keep filing those applications and apply for those waivers … do what you need to do, because this country belongs to all of us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community organizer Meron Semedar, also an Eritrean asylee, had another recommendation for naturalized U.S. citizens at the event hoping to roll back the travel restrictions: register and vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When issues like today, like the [travel] ban come, how do you address it? If you are a citizen you can address it at the ballot, too,” said Semedar, who recently became an American citizen. “Who knows? By voting against Trump, we might have him out of office by November. And that has an impact.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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As a result, American officials can’t verify the true identity of all applicants from those nations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As President, I must continue to act to protect the security and interests of the United States and its people,” said Trump in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-improving-enhanced-vetting-capabilities-processes-detecting-attempted-entry/\">Jan. 31 proclamation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The travel ban expansion comes as African immigrants have surged in numbers in recent decades to more than 2 million nationwide, with the largest share of that population being born in Nigeria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ismael Okunade, co-owner of Miliki Restaurant in Oakland’s Laurel neighborhood, is one of the estimated 36,000 Nigerian immigrants living in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of Okunade’s customers were shocked by the new travel restrictions, he said, because Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, is a business partner to the U.S. And culturally, Nigerians are very influenced by America, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go to Nigeria, the kids, everybody is Americanized,” said Okunade, who immigrated nearly 40 years ago and became a U.S. citizen. “Nigeria is actually like, you put New York in Lagos. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland's Police Commission voted unanimously to dismiss Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick in a closed session meeting Thursday evening, a decision joined by Mayor Libby Schaaf, who said the trust between the civilian oversight body and the chief had been \"irrevocably lost.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Commission, created by voter approval of Measure LL in 2016, has the power to unilaterally fire a police chief for cause. Kirkpatrick was terminated without cause, which requires Schaaf's sign-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Libby Schaaf, Oakland Mayor\"]'I must respect the authority and the role of our independent Police Commission. I must respect key stakeholders who must have trust in our police chief.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I must respect the authority and the role of our independent Police Commission,\" Schaaf said at a press conference Thursday evening. \"I must respect key stakeholders who must have trust in our police chief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said she did not regret hiring Kirkpatrick, who took the job in early 2017 with a bold pledge to satisfy federal court oversight of the Police Department, which has been in place for 17 years. Since then, the federal court's monitor has repeatedly found Kirkpatrick's leadership lacking, notably \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11731203/federal-monitor-calls-opd-chiefs-take-on-shooting-disappointing-wants-stiffer-discipline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">clashing\u003c/a> with the chief over her attempt to reduce discipline for officers who fatally shot a homeless man as he began to wake up in March 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal monitor Robert Warshaw did not oppose Kirkpatrick's removal, Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the Commission's inception, the Commissioners, along with the rest of the citizens of the City of Oakland, observed the Oakland Police Department's failure to increase compliance with the court-ordered reforms,\" Police Commission Chair Regina Jackson said in a written statement. \"Our new Chief must address use-of-force issues and end the need for a court-appointed monitor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, in an interview, Jackson said the decision was not a dramatic move. \"Over the last two and a half years of working with the chief, we have become increasingly uncomfortable to the point that we've lost confidence in her ability to get us where we needed to go.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson added that the community \"never had much trust\" in Kirkpatrick and that they continually asked for the chief's termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor noted that Kirkpatrick was hired \"in the wake of a shameful episode\" — several OPD officers' \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11078483/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sexual exploitation\u003c/a> of a teenager — and praised her for bringing steady leadership that stabilized the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland hired Kirkpatrick after former Police Chief Sean Whent, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10992840/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">succession\u003c/a> of two replacements left the post within a week in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Officers' Association President Barry Donelan called the decision disappointing. He also criticized the Police Commission and mayor in a written statement, calling the city's police chief position \"the most difficult Chief's job in the nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[F]ighting for Oakland's residents and Police Officers alike does not endear you to Oakland's unelected Police Commissioners and our Mayor,\" Donelan said. \"These events don't bode well for public safety in Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Jim Chanin, who brought forward the Oakland Riders case that resulted in the Police Department needing to make reforms, said it was time for change when asked about his reaction to Kirkpatrick's firing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Barry Donelan, Oakland Police Officers' Association President\"]'These events don't bode well for public safety in Oakland.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Kirkpatrick] was not moving the department in the right direction,\" Chanin said. \"We were going further and further from full compliance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Kalb, the Oakland City councilmember who authored Measure LL, which allowed the Police Commission to fire Kirkpatrick with the mayor's blessing, said he was surprised by the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew there was some disagreements or some even some tension between many of the commissioners and the police chief, but I did not expect the firing of our police chief,\" Kalb said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kalb said he respects the commission's decision. He also said Kirkpatrick's three years in the police chief position is a \"decent amount of time\" for the department to make mandated reforms, and in recent years, he said there's been concern that the department was regressing in some areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under this chief they made progress on one or two [of the reforms], but they also backtracked on a couple,\" Kalb said. \"So I think the commission was feeling frustrated that, in a couple of areas, the department was backtracking ... and that's a problem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some observers raised concerns that Kirkpatrick's firing illustrates the lack of leadership consistency within the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Jim Chanin, civil rights attorney\"]'You're going to have to do things that some people don't like in order to make this department go in the direction that we want it to go, it's not about pleasing everybody.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a cost in turnover, but there is also a cost in keeping someone when we're not making progress,\" Chanin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisberg, co-chair of Stanford's Criminal Justice Center, said Kirkpatrick had to walk a fine line when trying to meet the demands of the federal monitor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's sad because I think she is a very well-regarded police chief and had a fair amount of trust, from the line officers,\" Weisberg said. \"It seems that she just had trouble navigating her way through the conflicting forces aligned against her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Weisberg and Chanin said whoever steps into the police chief position will have a difficult job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to have to do things that some people don't like in order to make this department go in the direction that we want it to go, it's not about pleasing everybody,\" Chanin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg said the position is an \"extremely unattractive job\" and a \"no-win situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You walk in with a shadow over what you’re doing because you’re walking into a court injunction,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because she was dismissed without cause, Kirkpatrick may be eligible for a year's salary in severance pay, Schaaf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Chief Darren Allison will serve as acting police chief while Oakland conducts a national search for a permanent replacement for Kirkpatrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Raquel Maria Dillon, Alex Emslie, Marnette Federis, Mina Kim and Tara Siler contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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No one — and I’m sure Governor (Gavin) Newsom, State Board of Education President (Linda) Darling-Hammond, and (State) Superintendent (Tony) Thurmond agree — should take this as the last word, or anything close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicky Waters, a press secretary for the governor, said in a statement: “California is committed to closing opportunity gaps by directing extra support and resources to school districts and schools that serve students who need extra help.” She noted that California rejiggered its school funding formula in 2013 to target additional money to schools with a greater share of disadvantaged students, and added that Newsom’s 2020-21 budget would steer $600 million in “opportunity grants” to low-performing, high-poverty schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s announced settlement builds further on these proposed investments and focuses on strengthening early literacy programs, which are critical to a child’s later success in school,” Waters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/achievement-gap-california-explainer-schools-education-disparities-explained/\">California’s attempts at reform have led to mixed results\u003c/a>: While some gaps in achievement have narrowed, the gap between black students and their white and Asian peers has remained mostly stagnant. 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The suit sought to hold the state responsible for the students’ poor literacy, noting that 11 of the country’s 26 lowest-performing large school districts were based in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella T., a 7-year-old black student at La Salle Elementary when the complaint was introduced, did not receive the “intensive support” and interventions she needed by the time she left first grade reading below kindergarten level, according to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='schools']Several other students of color represented in the complaint also were several grade levels behind in reading literacy. One black student who attended La Salle, identified in the suit as 11-year-old Russell W., did a book report for his fifth-grade class on “The Cat in the Hat,” a book meant for kindergarten readers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s settlement did not establish any precedent over whether students have a constitutional right to access to literacy, plaintiffs’ attorneys said. But they added that the settlement doesn’t ban them from suing the state over the issue again if it doesn’t follow through on improving literacy for disadvantaged students — the complaint’s central issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide reading and math proficiency under the Smarter Balanced exam has inched up about an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2019/10/california-schools-test-scores-2019-achievement-gap-caaspp-smarter-balanced/\">average of 1 percentage point each year\u003c/a> since the test debuted in 2015. 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