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Rombough and his colleagues then falsified police reports to misrepresent their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel horrible about the victims, and about the other police officers who have had to clean up the job I created,” Rombough told White. “I understand why certain individuals don’t trust the police, because of what has happened here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Antioch Police vehicle sits in the parking lot of the Antioch Police Department on March 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rombough joined the Antioch Police Department in 2017. 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In one text exchange with another officer, he sent a photograph of an injury, with the comments “and another one got 40d,” referring to his firearm, and “Bro so much fun.”[aside postID=news_12069430 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']But U.S. prosecutors said there was a second part to Rombough’s story: that after the former officer was indicted by a federal jury in 2023, investigators witnessed “a tremendous turnaround as well, unlike anyone else involved in the case,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Cheng said during the sentencing hearing. “In this, we saw a full and complete acceptance of responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal attorneys recommended a 36-month sentence — much more lenient than the punishments meted out to Amiri and Wenger. 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"content": "\u003cp>A group of Democratic lawmakers, led by East Bay Assemblymember Mia Bonta, is rolling out a bill on Tuesday that they hope will pave the way to ensuring legal representation for every California resident \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075670/california-officials-demand-ice-return-family-to-us-after-arrest-and-deportation\">facing deportation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, the measure would make California the second state to commit to providing counsel (subject to funding) for everyone in immigration proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes in response to the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, which led to a \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/analysis/immigration-enforcement-first-nine-months-trump.html\">quadrupling\u003c/a> of immigration arrests nationally in the first nine months of last year. In Northern California, arrests more than doubled, even though a planned surge of federal immigration agents \u003ca href=\"http://federal\">was averted\u003c/a> at the last minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are literally being scooped up without due process rights, being separated from their families,” Bonta said. “And we have a record number of people in detention centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already has relatively robust legal aid for immigrants, channeling tens of millions of dollars in public funds to legal service providers, including a one-time $25 million approved by the legislature last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has meant that \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/addressrep/\">70% of Californians\u003c/a> with pending immigration cases had an attorney as of the end of December, the highest rate of any state except Hawaii (which had 84% representation but just 1,435 cases total). Even so, more than 100,000 California immigrants fighting deportation did not have a lawyer’s help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AP26020826398216-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A guard walks to the entrance of an immigration detention center during a visit by California Democrats Sen. Adam Schiff and Sen. Alex Padilla, on Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, California. \u003ccite>(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s bill, AB 2600, aims to close that gap. It does not obligate a specific dollar amount to immigrant legal aid, but creates a framework to channel funds when the money is there. It builds off a state law passed last year that provides a right to counsel for children in immigration proceedings, expanding that to people of all ages, with priority for those in immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed language reads: “Subject to the availability of state funding, the state shall provide legal counsel to every covered individual that is not otherwise being provided counsel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pledge to provide counsel should be a prod to put the necessary funding in the budget — not only for California lawmakers, but also for other states, said Liz Kenney, associate director at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, who advocates for universal representation around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given California’s leadership on funding and supporting legal representation for immigrants, it’s an incredibly significant next step,” she said. “States across the country have always looked to California for leadership on this issue, so passing a right to counsel in California would significantly impact what other states are interested in exploring.”[aside postID=news_12076370 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/HaywardFamilyDeportation1.jpg']For a decade, New York City has invested in \u003ca href=\"https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/economic-benefits-of-immigration-legal-services/\">universal representation\u003c/a> for residents in immigration detention. And several California counties are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/02/city-immigrant-legal-defense/\">putting extra resources\u003c/a> into deportation defense. Lawmakers in both New York state and Congress have tried to pass such laws, but so far without success. In 2022, Illinois passed a law establishing a right to legal representation in immigration proceedings, but it has not yet been implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Constitution guarantees legal counsel for every person facing criminal charges, at government expense if necessary. However, for people fighting deportation in immigration court, federal law provides a \u003ca href=\"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1362&num=0&edition=prelim\">right to counsel\u003c/a>, but only if they can supply their own attorney. In practice, that means more than half — 57% at the end of 2025 — did not have a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University shows that in nearly 1 million \u003ca href=\"https://tracreports.org/phptools/immigration/asylum/\">asylum cases\u003c/a> decided in the first quarter of this century, immigrants with an attorney won asylum nearly 45% of the time, while those who were unrepresented won less than 15% of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And immigration enforcement affects not only undocumented immigrants in California, said Bruno Huizar, supervising policy manager with the California Immigrant Policy Center. It has become a broad public safety concern, as legal immigrants and U.S. citizens have been arrested and even shot by immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Legal representation is a lifeline,” Huizar said. “We have seen people based on the color of their skin, the language they speak … federal agents are taking them, no matter their immigration status. So this is an incredibly urgent political issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Huizar, who advised Bonta’s office on the bill, acknowledged that new financial obligations are a heavy lift at a time when California policymakers are contending with a budget shortfall of between $3 billion and $18 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12060144\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12060144 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1403\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters stand outside the James A. 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Wayne Winegarden, a senior fellow with the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank, said lawmakers should look at the state budget holistically, rather than pushing individual items in isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>Where my concern comes is not on this project per se, which in my own personal values I probably would prioritize highly,” he said. “But is this going to become another justification to further increase the tax burden here in the state, which is already excessive compared to the rest of the country, and which I think is already having a lot of deleterious impacts on our growth and our prosperity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bonta said expanding legal defense is not only the humane thing to do, but it’s also a way to ensure prosperity in a state where a third of the workforce is foreign-born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our immigrant community is the economic lifeblood of not only the state of California, but the country,” she said. \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>So it’s incredibly important that we preserve that economic engine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For a decade, New York City has invested in \u003ca href=\"https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/economic-benefits-of-immigration-legal-services/\">universal representation\u003c/a> for residents in immigration detention. And several California counties are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/02/city-immigrant-legal-defense/\">putting extra resources\u003c/a> into deportation defense. Lawmakers in both New York state and Congress have tried to pass such laws, but so far without success. In 2022, Illinois passed a law establishing a right to legal representation in immigration proceedings, but it has not yet been implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Constitution guarantees legal counsel for every person facing criminal charges, at government expense if necessary. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond is calling for the Trump administration to bring back a deaf child and his family, who were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075826/immigration-attorney-says-ice-violated-hayward-familys-due-process-before-deportation\">deported\u003c/a> to Colombia last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thurmond on Thursday sent a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Thurmond-Letter-of-Support-JALR-3-12-26-for-press.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to White House officials, stressing the need for 6-year-old Joseph Londoño Rodríguez to resume his education at the California School for the Deaf in Fremont, where he was enrolled before being deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past three years, Joseph attended the state school, founded in 1860, becoming part of a community of 300 other deaf students — from infants to college age — and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at the school on Thursday, with an American Sign Language interpreter at his side, Thurmond said Joseph has been isolated and depressed since his abrupt deportation. But Thurmond said that he saw the boy crack a big smile when he was able to speak in ASL with his teacher on a video call earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joseph said: ‘I want to come back to school,’” Thurmond said, adding that “no one should be treated the way he and his family have been treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075685\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-Child-Deportation-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-Child-Deportation-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-Child-Deportation-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-Child-Deportation-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez and her two sons were deported following an asylum check-in appointment in San Francisco on Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Centro Legal de la Raza)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lawyers with the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, or ACILEP — the county’s rapid response network for immigration legal aid — said that on March 3, Joseph, his little brother and their mother, Lesly Rodríguez Gutiérrez, were summoned to a check-in at the San Francisco office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ostensibly to update photos of the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the appointment, ICE arrested the family. According to the family’s attorney, Nikolas De Bremaeker of Centro Legal de la Raza, they were not permitted to retrieve Joseph’s hearing devices, which a relative had in the car outside, or to make contact with lawyers. They were deported on March 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were not given a chance to seek humanitarian protection, which they should have under the law and under the Constitution,” De Bremaeker said. He said that ICE “misled us at every turn,” and he slammed the agency for denying Joseph access to his assistive devices.[aside postID=news_12075826 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-DEAF-DEPORTEE-MD-01-KQED.jpg']Not only did ICE’s conduct violate the Constitution, De Bremaeker said, “it shocks the conscience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A DHS spokesperson, who would not give their name, told KQED that Rodríguez Gutiérrez “received full due process,” and that an immigration judge ordered her family’s deportation on Nov. 25, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson said Rodríguez Gutiérrez was given an opportunity to designate a guardian with whom to leave her children in the U.S., but she “chose to be removed with her children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Bremaeker said Rodríguez Gutiérrez had come to the U.S. with her sons in 2022 to seek asylum, fleeing severe gender-based violence in Colombia. She did not have a lawyer to help with her asylum case, and it was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he said, as long as she was in the U.S., there were still avenues to seek protection. De Bremaeker added that after their arrest, ICE thwarted lawyers’ efforts to locate the family and file legal claims on their behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers filed an emergency petition for humanitarian parole with the Department of Homeland Security early Thursday morning, according to De Bremaeker, so the family can return lawfully and Joseph can continue to attend the deaf school. The petition asked the department to return them to the U.S. by March 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075687\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075687\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-CHILD-DEPORTATION-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-CHILD-DEPORTATION-02-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-CHILD-DEPORTATION-02-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-CHILD-DEPORTATION-02-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodriguez Gutierrez’s two sons, who are 4 and 6 years old. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Centro Legal de la Raza)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family is currently in hiding in Colombia, De Bremaeker said, because the threats that caused Rodríguez Gutiérrez to flee are still present. He added that without the medical care Joseph had been receiving in California, his health would be at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Joseph’s doctors, because of his cochlear implants, he needs ongoing care, or else he faces “risk of infection, meningitis,” De Bremaeker said. “It’s very serious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, teachers and administrators at the California School for the Deaf gathered to show support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking in ASL through an interpreter, school superintendent Amy Novotny told KQED the school provides a “critical mass” of ASL speakers, allowing students like Joseph to express themselves and develop relationships with other children and adults. She said Joseph belongs at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ASL is Joseph’s only language, officials said. His mother had only begun to learn it, leaving Joseph cut off in Colombia. He cannot communicate in Spanish or Colombian Sign Language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to DHS, Thurmond wrote that “remaining in an environment where ASL is the primary language of instruction is essential for his continued language development and academic progress and overall well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Joseph is a “joyful student” who has thrived at the school, where he “enjoys dancing, playing with his friends and participating in classroom activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without this support system, Thurmond warned, Joseph faces language loss, learning delays and social and emotional difficulties. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Not only did ICE’s conduct violate the Constitution, De Bremaeker said, “it shocks the conscience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A DHS spokesperson, who would not give their name, told KQED that Rodríguez Gutiérrez “received full due process,” and that an immigration judge ordered her family’s deportation on Nov. 25, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson said Rodríguez Gutiérrez was given an opportunity to designate a guardian with whom to leave her children in the U.S., but she “chose to be removed with her children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Bremaeker said Rodríguez Gutiérrez had come to the U.S. with her sons in 2022 to seek asylum, fleeing severe gender-based violence in Colombia. She did not have a lawyer to help with her asylum case, and it was denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he said, as long as she was in the U.S., there were still avenues to seek protection. De Bremaeker added that after their arrest, ICE thwarted lawyers’ efforts to locate the family and file legal claims on their behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers filed an emergency petition for humanitarian parole with the Department of Homeland Security early Thursday morning, according to De Bremaeker, so the family can return lawfully and Joseph can continue to attend the deaf school. The petition asked the department to return them to the U.S. by March 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075687\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075687\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-CHILD-DEPORTATION-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-CHILD-DEPORTATION-02-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-CHILD-DEPORTATION-02-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-CHILD-DEPORTATION-02-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodriguez Gutierrez’s two sons, who are 4 and 6 years old. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Centro Legal de la Raza)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family is currently in hiding in Colombia, De Bremaeker said, because the threats that caused Rodríguez Gutiérrez to flee are still present. He added that without the medical care Joseph had been receiving in California, his health would be at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Joseph’s doctors, because of his cochlear implants, he needs ongoing care, or else he faces “risk of infection, meningitis,” De Bremaeker said. “It’s very serious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, teachers and administrators at the California School for the Deaf gathered to show support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking in ASL through an interpreter, school superintendent Amy Novotny told KQED the school provides a “critical mass” of ASL speakers, allowing students like Joseph to express themselves and develop relationships with other children and adults. She said Joseph belongs at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ASL is Joseph’s only language, officials said. His mother had only begun to learn it, leaving Joseph cut off in Colombia. He cannot communicate in Spanish or Colombian Sign Language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to DHS, Thurmond wrote that “remaining in an environment where ASL is the primary language of instruction is essential for his continued language development and academic progress and overall well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Joseph is a “joyful student” who has thrived at the school, where he “enjoys dancing, playing with his friends and participating in classroom activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without this support system, Thurmond warned, Joseph faces language loss, learning delays and social and emotional difficulties. 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If people with dementia are moved, even to a different building, they can go downhill immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebner’s firm initially filed three lawsuits alleging that transfer trauma led to wrongful death after the hospital began transferring patients. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Their father left Laguna Honda on July 8 and died on July 25 at Seton, the complaint states. He was 80 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They noticed a quick decline, and he died really quickly after,” Stebner said, adding that Pham required assistance for just about every aspect of daily living. “There are laws and regulations that say what exactly is to be done if someone is transferred and we alleged they did not prepare him for this. If people with dementia are moved, even to a different building, they can go downhill immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebner’s firm initially filed three lawsuits alleging that transfer trauma led to wrongful death after the hospital began transferring patients. Two of those cases were dismissed, and Pham’s case ended with a settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although defendants knew of conditions that made [Pham] unable to provide for his own basic needs as described herein, defendants recklessly and egregiously denied and withheld goods or services necessary to meet [Pham]’s basic needs,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2025, San Francisco agreed to pay \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064768/sf-to-pay-5-8-million-in-class-action-settlement-over-elder-abuse-at-laguna-honda\">$5.8 million in a class action settlement\u003c/a> over elder abuse claims at Laguna Honda between 2016 and 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg\" alt='The entryway to a hospital driveway with a sign that reads, \"Main Hospital Entrance and Residences.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62466_012_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign points to the main entrance to the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco on Jan. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Health, which runs Laguna Honda, declined to comment and referred KQED to the city attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe the proposed settlement is an appropriate resolution given the inherent costs of continued litigation,” said Jen Kwart, a spokesperson for the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebner said the settlement with the Pham family is the last remaining lawsuit her firm has closed stemming from the turmoil at Laguna Honda while it faced potential closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that by filing all these lawsuits that the families can hold the city and county accountable and I hope we did do that,” Stebner said. “And hopefully this journey is over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Longtime listener Henry Lie was driving through San Francisco one day when he realized the staggering number of legal courts located in the heart of the city. Upon further investigation, he realized we had all levels of court on the state side, and all except the U.S. Supreme Court on the federal side. Wowsa! How did so many end up here? In this episode, KQED’s Molly Lacob takes us through some legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6205887839&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Hello, I’m Olivia Allen-Price and this is Bay Curious. A few weeks ago, I hopped on a video call with our question asker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry Lie: \u003c/strong>My name is Henry Lie. I’m from Pacifica, California in San Mateo County. And yeah, I’m an avid listener of Big Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price : \u003c/strong>And he was really quite dressed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry Lie (on phone call):\u003c/strong> Yeah, I was coming from a job interview, so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price (on phone call): \u003c/strong>Oh, I was gonna say, did you put the tie on for me, or?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry Lie( on phone call): \u003c/strong>Yeah, just for you. (laughing)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Henry’s getting a master’s degree in urban planning, and what became apparent as we spoke is he sees the city in a way that most people might not. He just notices things. And not too long ago, he was making his way through San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry Lie: \u003c/strong>I was driving on Van Ness one day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Right near City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry Lie: \u003c/strong>I, like, saw the Superior Court of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>And a few blocks away, the U.S. District Court for Northern California. Not far from that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry Lie: \u003c/strong>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>And finally…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry Lie: \u003c/strong>The California Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>He discovered practically all levels of court on both the state and federal sides are found right here in San Francisco. Henry wrote in to ask us why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry Lie: \u003c/strong>It seemed like in other states, other regions, they were located in like state capitals or like much larger cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price \u003c/strong>Why aren’t more of these courts in Sacramento or Los Angeles? On this one, I decided to slide into the DMs of Molly Lacob. She’s the deputy general counsel of operations here at KQED. She’s a former litigator and is a little bit of a legal nerd. Welcome, Molly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Lacob: \u003c/strong>Hi, Olivia. I guess I am a legal nerd. And when prepping for this, I realized I think I’ve appeared in every superior court in the Bay Area. We used to do that in person before we had all this technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Not in handcuffs, I assume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Lacob : \u003c/strong>(laughs) No, I was a willing participant. I walked in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Okay. Good. So I got to be honest, you know, this was a question that was not on my radar at all. So first up, is it unusual to have this many courts in one place?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Lacob :\u003c/strong>Generally speaking, yeah, it is pretty unusual. And a lot of that boils down to the history of the state of California and the city of San Francisco, as well as the development of the West Coast in general. And then another fun fact is that we are the only city and county in the state California. So every other county in California is made up of multiple cities. It’s just us in San Francisco County. You’ll see that on our seal, on all of our paperwork. It’s the city and county of San Francisco. So by default, all county courts and really any other county agency and building are going to be located in the city of San Fransisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Give us, so maybe step back a teeny bit, because I think some listeners — ahem, myself — might need a little bit of like a civics refresher …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Lacob:\u003c/strong> What the heck is a district court about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Lacob: \u003c/strong>Like Schoolhouse Rock,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Yes. Like Schoolhouse Rock. What is happening here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Lacob: \u003c/strong>Okay, so we have a state court system and we have federal court system. And then within both of those, we have civil disputes and we criminal disputes. Easiest way to think about it is, do you want money or do you jail time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if I want to sue you, it is most likely going to be a state action. It’s rare to have a federal civil action against somebody, it’s certainly possible. And those are mostly business disputes though. It’s rare to have, you know, Molly dislikes Olivia, she’s filing a lawsuit. So I say, I want to file a lawsuit against you. And then I think about it. And I think, okay, well, where did you do the thing that I’m so mad about? Or where do you live? And that’s typically where we decide to venue a court case. And then for criminal cases, it’s really just, where did you do the really bad thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s kind of like the high level, how we work our way through the court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District courts are the lowest level of federal courts. And then there’s an appeals court, which is the Ninth Circuit, and then the U.S. Supreme Court. Similarly, on the state side, there are also three different levels of courts. The lowest court level is the superior court for the county, in this case, San Francisco, which again, San Fransisco is a city and a county. Uh, and then we have the first appellate district for the state of California here in San Francisco. There are six appellant districts in California. And then the state Supreme Court. And as Henry mentioned, all of those courts are really within a couple blocks of each other. If we really, really wanted to see this lawsuit through of Molly doesn’t like Olivia, we could hear the entire thing over several years though, on foot. We could walk to each courthouse and never have to leave downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Do you always have to start at the bottom as a lawyer? Like, do you have to file with a small court first? And do they even bother hearing? Are they ever like, “No this goes up the chain. This is above my pay grade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Molly Lacob: \u003c/strong>Yeah. No, that’s a really, really good question. You have to start at the bottom and then you can appeal to what, you know, mid-level, if you will. It’s either the first district for California or the Ninth Circuit and then appeal up to the State Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll have to have a little more than just, ‘I don’t like it’. You will have to reason as to why the outcome was wrong. 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