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"content": "\u003cp>Two former correctional officers at a now-shuttered \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/12047086/just-a-few-of-the-many-east-bay-prison-abuse-victims-speak-out-after-more-charges\">East Bay women’s prison\u003c/a> pleaded guilty to federal sexual misconduct charges on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are the eighth and ninth employees to be convicted of related crimes at the scandal-plagued \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin\u003c/a>, dubbed the “Rape Club” for the prevalence of abuse, cover-up and retaliation by employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former FCI Dublin employees Jeffrey Wilson and Lawrence Gacad told the court that in 2022, they committed acts of abuse alleged by federal prosecutors earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are among ten former officials — including the former warden — who have been charged with related crimes. Nine have been convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, 34, who said he worked as a health technician and paramedic, pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual abuse and one count of supplying a false statement to federal agents. Shortly after leaving Dublin in August of 2022, he said he told federal officials that he had no sexual conduct with the victim in the complaint and had never given her contraband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11987297 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240408-FCIDublin-008-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin, on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wilson admitted to flirting with a woman incarcerated at FCI Dublin and watching her family visits. With his encouragement, he said, she transferred from one wing of the prison to the other, the lower security “camp,” where he said there would be less oversight and “they could have a little fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the court that in March 2022, when she transferred, he provided her with a cell phone, which he used to communicate with her, and which she used to send him naked photos of herself. Over the next six months, he would bring her into a medical room in the prison, where he touched and kissed her, and where, on multiple occasions, she performed oral sex on him, Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On another occasion, he said, he penetrated her with his fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier Thursday, Wilson pleaded not guilty to the charges and waived his right to a grand jury indictment.[aside postID=news_12047086 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250530-DublinEmployees-62-BL_qed.jpg']Gacad, 33, a correctional officer, also previously pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual abuse against a woman at the prison during 2022. He changed his plea to guilty on Thursday afternoon as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the court that beginning in February 2022, he exchanged sexually explicit notes and emails with a woman incarcerated at FCI Dublin and, on multiple occasions, kissed her and touched her buttocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Yvonne Rogers, who has presided over nine of the ten criminal FCI Dublin cases, will sentence Wilson and Gacad in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the culture of abuse at Dublin came to light in 2021, more than 100 women have come forward, including multiple who claim Wilson assaulted them, though their allegations were not included in the complaint filed against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">class action suit\u003c/a> settled with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons awarded those women a total of $116 million, and a second such suit set special protections for the roughly 300 women formerly incarcerated at Dublin who remained in custody at other facilities after it closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, watching as a witness cries while giving testimony against him on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With Wilson and Gacad’s convictions, the fate of just one former FCI Dublin official accused of abuse remains outstanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, who was indicted on charges alleging he assaulted at least five women between 2017 and 2021, will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041857/after-mistrial-in-fci-dublin-abuse-case-new-charges-leave-out-one-of-the-accusers\">begin a new trial in September\u003c/a> after his first ended in a mistrial this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the jury in that case appeared swayed by his attorneys’ argument that he was falsely accused amid the scandal in an effort for the women to receive early release and other incentives, like legal status in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s new trial, which will be based on a new superseding indictment that excludes the allegation of one of the five women he was originally tried for abusing, is currently set to begin September 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gacad, 33, a correctional officer, also previously pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual abuse against a woman at the prison during 2022. He changed his plea to guilty on Thursday afternoon as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the court that beginning in February 2022, he exchanged sexually explicit notes and emails with a woman incarcerated at FCI Dublin and, on multiple occasions, kissed her and touched her buttocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Yvonne Rogers, who has presided over nine of the ten criminal FCI Dublin cases, will sentence Wilson and Gacad in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the culture of abuse at Dublin came to light in 2021, more than 100 women have come forward, including multiple who claim Wilson assaulted them, though their allegations were not included in the complaint filed against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">class action suit\u003c/a> settled with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons awarded those women a total of $116 million, and a second such suit set special protections for the roughly 300 women formerly incarcerated at Dublin who remained in custody at other facilities after it closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, watching as a witness cries while giving testimony against him on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With Wilson and Gacad’s convictions, the fate of just one former FCI Dublin official accused of abuse remains outstanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, who was indicted on charges alleging he assaulted at least five women between 2017 and 2021, will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041857/after-mistrial-in-fci-dublin-abuse-case-new-charges-leave-out-one-of-the-accusers\">begin a new trial in September\u003c/a> after his first ended in a mistrial this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the jury in that case appeared swayed by his attorneys’ argument that he was falsely accused amid the scandal in an effort for the women to receive early release and other incentives, like legal status in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s new trial, which will be based on a new superseding indictment that excludes the allegation of one of the five women he was originally tried for abusing, is currently set to begin September 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Prosecutors and family members of Kathleen Noble said Monday that they will fight parole suitability for the man convicted of her 1989 murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-mateo-county\">San Mateo County\u003c/a> District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told KQED that Mark Hensley, 55, still constitutes a risk to public safety 23 years after his conviction. Hensley was found suitable for parole on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case went unsolved for 10 years until Noble’s family asked the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office to reopen it, said Wagstaffe, who has a framed photo of Noble in his office — a gift from her family, for obtaining a guilty verdict in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noble’s bludgeoned body was found in her car in East Palo Alto on March 5, 1989, more than a week after the 23-year-old was reported missing by her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suspicion fell strongly on Hensley, Noble’s 19-year-old co-worker and roommate. In his interview with East Palo Alto police, he kept changing his story about whether Noble had come home to their shared apartment on the night she went missing, Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But soon after, the investigation went cold, as a huge volume of other cases strained the “barebones staff” of East Palo Alto police, Wagstaffe said. In a flood of 18 other murders in the small city that year, Noble’s case drifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045700\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department squad car is seen in Redwood City, California, on Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, 10 years after the murder, San Mateo County Sheriff Don Horsley received a letter from Noble’s parents asking for the case to be reopened, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rwcpulse.com/blogs/from-the-crime-files/2022/06/16/blog-slow-justice-for-kathleen-noble/\">Redwood City Pulse\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a poignant letter,” Horsley told the true crime television show \u003ca href=\"https://www.oxygen.com/murdered-by-morning/crime-news/kathleen-noble-mark-hensley-killer-cold-case\">\u003cem>Murdered by Morning\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, “that I thought we should reinvestigate it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significant pieces of evidence from the 1989 investigation into Noble’s death were missing — including police reports, witness interviews and a polygraph taken by Noble’s boyfriend, with whom she reportedly quarreled shortly before her death, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mv-voice.com/crime/2025/08/04/man-convicted-of-1989-mountain-view-murder-found-suitable-for-parole/\">Bay City News\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appeared clear to investigators, however, from blood in and around the apartment, that Noble was killed there. With no forced entry and Hensley holding the only other key to the apartment, he became a prime suspect.[aside postID=news_12050640 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-05-KQED.jpg']“It was a thorough reexamination,” Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hensley, who had moved to Virginia but was originally from Los Altos Hills, was arrested on Dec. 20, 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors argued that Hensley made romantic overtures to Noble, which were rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made an effort one night to get romantic with her, to get physical with her. She declined it and he beat her to death,” Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Wagstaffe, the jurors were most impressed by the testimony of Dana Margulies, Hensley’s ex-fiancée in Virginia. She told the court that Hensley choked her “almost to unconsciousness” when she broke up with him, several years after Noble’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her graphic testimony, plus circumstantial evidence, clinched a guilty verdict of first-degree murder and a sentence of 25 years to life. Hensley \u003ca href=\"https://www.rwcpulse.com/blogs/from-the-crime-files/2022/06/16/blog-slow-justice-for-kathleen-noble/\">successfully appealed\u003c/a> and changed the conviction to second-degree murder, with a sentence of 15 years to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hensley appeared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2009/10/29/murderer-deemed-not-suitable-for-parole/\">admit responsibility\u003c/a> for Noble’s death in 2016, when he told a parole board that he hit his roommate with a champagne bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Thursday parole hearing was attended by Noble’s sister and two brothers, all of whom strongly opposed his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Noble, Kathleen’s twin brother, who did not attend the hearing, said the news was both a “painful shock” but something the family also expected, after attending multiple parole hearings over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a cold case,” he told KQED. “He had 10 years of freedom. That time should be added onto his sentence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe said the parole board considered the Youthful Offender Law and the Elder Parole Law, which allows for early parole consideration for people 50 or older who have served 20 or more years of their sentence. The board also noted that Hensley had not had any recent rule violations at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center state prison, ultimately finding him suitable for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data released by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2019 showed that people 55 and older make up about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2021/11/201912_DataPoints.pdf\">16% of California’s incarcerated population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, it costs California a little more than \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost\">$106,000 per year\u003c/a> to keep someone in prison, according to the state Legislative Analyst’s Office. While the agency doesn’t track expenses by age group, the nonpartisan office \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/crimjust/2010/Elderly_Inmates_05_11_10.pdf\">reported\u003c/a> that in other states, it can cost two to three times more to incarcerate an older person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su Kim, senior policy manager for parole justice nonprofit UnCommon Law, said elderly parole has been successful “in releasing elderly people who do not pose a danger and reducing exorbitant incarceration costs, all without any trade-off in public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2024/11/FY-2018-19-BPH-Supplemental-Recidivism-Report.pdf\">a CDCR report\u003c/a> that showed an elderly parole recidivism rate of just 2.4%, and less than 1% for crimes against a person — 20 times lower than the overall CDCR recidivism rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If parole consideration is concerned primarily with public safety,” Kim said, “then advanced age absolutely needs to be taken into consideration given the indisputable evidence that people age out of crime and violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a murder conviction, Hensley’s case must now go through an administrative review and then must be approved or reversed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Noble and Wagstaffe both said they would write letters to Newsom to encourage him to reverse the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort, however, “doesn’t bring Kathleen back,” Noble said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California lawmakers are \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB524\">advancing a new bill\u003c/a> that would require police officers to disclose when they use generative AI to write reports. The measure, which has passed the Senate and is awaiting a vote in the Assembly, is among the first in the country to address law enforcement’s use of AI to produce incident reports. KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007520/how-artificial-intelligence-is-changing-the-reports-police-write\">first reported\u003c/a> on local departments adopting these tools last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the bill say it’s critical to understand how police reports are created, given their key role in the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the get, this police report is used to determine whether a criminal case will be started,” said Kate Chatfield, executive director of the California Public Defenders Association, which sponsored the bill. “Then a judge would be reviewing this police report, for example, to determine the circumstances of offense and to determine whether or not to hold somebody in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatfield said she doesn’t know if AI-generated police reports have caused any miscarriages of justice — and that’s part of the concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know what we don’t know,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The torso of a person dressed in a police uniform holds a hand over a body camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officer Wendy Venegas’ Axon body camera in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police technology companies like Axon offer report-writing tools that process and summarize audio from body-worn camera footage, which have some safeguards to ensure officers review the AI-generated reports and sign off on them. But Chatfield said officers could also be using commercial products like ChatGPT, which lack such protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, introduced by state Sen. Jesse Arreguín, D-7, covers all uses of generative AI for report writing. It would require a disclosure at the bottom of each page of an AI-generated police report, along with preservation of the original draft and an “audit trail” that identifies the bodycam footage or audio from which the report was generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatfield said it’s imperative that officers take full responsibility for their reports and review anything written by AI. Officers — not the technology — are the ones who must face cross-examination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody deserves the right to know how that police report was generated,” she said.[aside postID=news_12007520 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In its analysis of the bill, the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection raised concerns that third-party tech companies could access and profit from sensitive police materials, potentially compromising privacy. KQED’s reporting was also cited in the analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is potential for a race to the bottom, where sensitive body-worn camera data could be repurposed to train other technologies, including facial recognition systems or other surveillance tools,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee added language to ensure that AI vendors cannot sell or misuse any personal information contained in the bodycam footage or report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the bill include the California Police Chiefs Association and the Police Officers Research Association of California, a police union advocacy and lobbying group. Neither responded to KQED’s request for comment, but PORAC submitted a statement to the legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill raises serious concerns about unintended consequences that would undermine officer integrity, impose significant administrative burdens, and introduce unnecessary legal vulnerabilities,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said that the mandatory page disclosures “imply to the public, courts, or defense attorneys that such reports are inherently less reliable or credible” and that defense attorneys “might argue that AI introduced errors or biases, casting doubt on the officer’s account, regardless of the officer’s oversight or edits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED.jpg?ver=1727233046\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a pink shirt stands in front of a man and woman dressed in police uniforms.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officers Wendy Venegas (left) and Spencer Lawrence take a statement from a subject while responding to a call in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the tools promise to save officers time so they can spend more of it on the street, PORAC said the disclosure mandates would undermine those potential benefits and increase administrative work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is currently with the Assembly Appropriations Committee. If approved there, it will go to a floor vote later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law is narrow by design, Chatfield said. It doesn’t prohibit the use of AI or dictate which programs can be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we’re saying is you have to be transparent about it,” she said. “That’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California lawmakers are \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB524\">advancing a new bill\u003c/a> that would require police officers to disclose when they use generative AI to write reports. The measure, which has passed the Senate and is awaiting a vote in the Assembly, is among the first in the country to address law enforcement’s use of AI to produce incident reports. KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007520/how-artificial-intelligence-is-changing-the-reports-police-write\">first reported\u003c/a> on local departments adopting these tools last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the bill say it’s critical to understand how police reports are created, given their key role in the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the get, this police report is used to determine whether a criminal case will be started,” said Kate Chatfield, executive director of the California Public Defenders Association, which sponsored the bill. “Then a judge would be reviewing this police report, for example, to determine the circumstances of offense and to determine whether or not to hold somebody in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatfield said she doesn’t know if AI-generated police reports have caused any miscarriages of justice — and that’s part of the concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know what we don’t know,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006138\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The torso of a person dressed in a police uniform holds a hand over a body camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officer Wendy Venegas’ Axon body camera in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police technology companies like Axon offer report-writing tools that process and summarize audio from body-worn camera footage, which have some safeguards to ensure officers review the AI-generated reports and sign off on them. But Chatfield said officers could also be using commercial products like ChatGPT, which lack such protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law, introduced by state Sen. Jesse Arreguín, D-7, covers all uses of generative AI for report writing. It would require a disclosure at the bottom of each page of an AI-generated police report, along with preservation of the original draft and an “audit trail” that identifies the bodycam footage or audio from which the report was generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatfield said it’s imperative that officers take full responsibility for their reports and review anything written by AI. Officers — not the technology — are the ones who must face cross-examination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody deserves the right to know how that police report was generated,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In its analysis of the bill, the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection raised concerns that third-party tech companies could access and profit from sensitive police materials, potentially compromising privacy. KQED’s reporting was also cited in the analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is potential for a race to the bottom, where sensitive body-worn camera data could be repurposed to train other technologies, including facial recognition systems or other surveillance tools,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee added language to ensure that AI vendors cannot sell or misuse any personal information contained in the bodycam footage or report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the bill include the California Police Chiefs Association and the Police Officers Research Association of California, a police union advocacy and lobbying group. Neither responded to KQED’s request for comment, but PORAC submitted a statement to the legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill raises serious concerns about unintended consequences that would undermine officer integrity, impose significant administrative burdens, and introduce unnecessary legal vulnerabilities,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said that the mandatory page disclosures “imply to the public, courts, or defense attorneys that such reports are inherently less reliable or credible” and that defense attorneys “might argue that AI introduced errors or biases, casting doubt on the officer’s account, regardless of the officer’s oversight or edits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED.jpg?ver=1727233046\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a pink shirt stands in front of a man and woman dressed in police uniforms.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">East Palo Alto Police Officers Wendy Venegas (left) and Spencer Lawrence take a statement from a subject while responding to a call in East Palo Alto on Sept. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the tools promise to save officers time so they can spend more of it on the street, PORAC said the disclosure mandates would undermine those potential benefits and increase administrative work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is currently with the Assembly Appropriations Committee. If approved there, it will go to a floor vote later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law is narrow by design, Chatfield said. It doesn’t prohibit the use of AI or dictate which programs can be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we’re saying is you have to be transparent about it,” she said. “That’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:20 a.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, for the first time, you can look up serious use of force and police misconduct incidents in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED, along with journalism and police accountability advocates, is publishing a database that houses thousands of once-confidential records gathered from the state’s nearly 700 law enforcement and oversight agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#Howtousethepolicerecordsdatabaseyourself\">How to use the police records database yourself\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The free \u003ca href=\"http://policerecords.kqed.org/\">database\u003c/a>, which has been in the works for seven years and contains files for almost 12,000 cases, promises to give anyone — including attorneys, victims of police violence, journalists and law enforcement hiring officials — insight into police shootings and officers’ past behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cephus Johnson, whose nephew Oscar Grant was fatally shot in the back by a BART police officer in Oakland in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, 2009, knows firsthand just how important this database will be to other families who’ve lost people to police violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ For impacted families, the first question is: ‘What happened?’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can now find details of what happened to their loved ones and how the police investigated it — or what they overlooked — without having to deal with the often frustrating process of trying to obtain the records themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting those answers, Johnson said, “is the beginning of part of the healing process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Click \u003ca href=\"https://policerecords.kqed.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a> to search the database.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1002px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050667 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1002\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/image-7.png 1002w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/image-7-160x65.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the Police Records Access Project database.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Shedding light on secret records\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, misconduct and use-of-force records for California law enforcement officers were among the most difficult to obtain. That began to change in 2018 with the passage of \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">Senate Bill 1421, the “Right to Know” Act\u003c/a>, which came about with the help of Johnson and other police accountability advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law unsealed records for incidents in which officers fired a gun or used force resulting in serious injury or death, and for officers who were found to have been dishonest or committed sexual assault. In 2021, the passage of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB16\">another bill\u003c/a> expanded the law to include cases of officer discrimination, excessive force and wrongful arrests or searches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11854857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11854857\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Grant mural\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1394\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural-1536x1115.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural of Oscar Grant outside BART’s Fruitvale Station, where a now-former BART police officer fatally shot Grant as he lay face-down on the platform on Jan. 1, 2009. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the new laws were just the beginning of the fight to pry open the black box of police accountability — which continues today. Agencies often slow-walk or refuse to provide records, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-police-records-california-20190630-story.html\">and have even destroyed them\u003c/a>. KQED and other outlets have sued multiple agencies, including the state attorney general, in order to force compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with these obstacles — and the difficulty of navigating California’s disparate law enforcement agencies, including 58 sheriff’s departments, hundreds of police departments, transit authorities and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation — KQED co-founded \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">The California Reporting Project,\u003c/a> a collaborative of more than 30 news outlets which is now led by \u003ca href=\"https://cjlab.stanford.edu/projects/big-local-news/\">Big Local News\u003c/a> at Stanford University, the \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\">UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://bids.berkeley.edu/\">Berkeley Institute of Data Science\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew from the start that this information needed to be available to the public,” KQED Editor-in-Chief Ethan Toven-Lindsey said. “Police misconduct records shouldn’t be locked away in filing cabinets where only a few people can see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11639714\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, mother of Hadiya Pendleton; Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant; and Lezley McSpadden, mother of Mike Brown stand on stage prior to delivering remarks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 26, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Johnson says she talks regularly with other mothers who have lost loved ones to police violence.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, mother of Hadiya Pendleton; Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant; and Lezley McSpadden, mother of Mike Brown, stand on stage prior to delivering remarks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 26, 2016, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Johnson said she talks regularly with other mothers who have lost loved ones to police violence. \u003ccite>(Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, The California Reporting Project joined forces with the Police Records Access Project, a transparency coalition which includes the ACLU, the Innocence Project, Stanford and UC Berkeley. In 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom allocated \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/state-funds-development-first-its-kind-police-misconduct-database#:~:text=The%20funding%20will%20%E2%80%9Ctransform%20that%20effort%20and,launched%20by%20a%20consortium%20that%20includes%20BIDS\">$6.7 million\u003c/a> for the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jumana Musa, director of the Fourth Amendment Center at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), said her organization joined the collaborative because justice requires transparency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This information gets hidden, it gets buried, it is not accessible,” she said. While Musa will use the database to help defend her clients, she said there’s an even more acute need for law enforcement agencies get familiar with the tool: “to ensure that you’re not gonna hire people and give them a weapon and give them a badge when that person has been known to be problematic [or] dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Police Chiefs Association did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Howtousethepolicerecordsdatabaseyourself\">\u003c/a>How can I use the database?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The nearly 12,000 cases make up about 1.5 million pages at the time of publication — but there are several ways to search and use the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three categories divide the cases: use of force, shootings and misconduct. There is a range of document types, from investigative reports to interview transcripts and incident summaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no cost for using the tool, and you won’t be asked to provide any information to search these records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator outside Oakland police headquarters on May 29 2020, carries a sign with the words, “I can’t breathe” spoken by George Floyd, the man murdered on May 25, 2020, by police in Minneapolis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lisa Pickoff-White, co-founder and research director of The California Reporting Project, said it’s helpful to take some time to understand the kinds of cases and records in the database before drawing any conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can do keyword searches, filter your search by date or the agency that provided the records — for example, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, vs. the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickoff-White suggests starting simply. “Search for things like ‘taser’ or ‘canine.’ Or search for an officer’s name. Then review the records to see if you’ve found cases where they used force or violated policy.” But remember: just because an officer’s name is in the database, it doesn’t necessarily mean they were involved in misconduct or use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://policerecords.kqed.org/about\">“About”\u003c/a> page explains the type of records, methodology and the limitations of the database. If you find information in the database that you don’t think should be public, you can also submit a request to remove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind this database is a living thing and is far from complete — the people maintaining it are adding new records as they receive them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is this database for?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victims of police violence and their families\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records in the database, Cephus Johnson said, can give families like his who have experienced police violence a clearer picture of what took place, and help them “determine how they will get justice for their loved one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Johnson advises families to use the tool with a great deal of care because sometimes the records can contain examples of callous police behavior, negligence or descriptions of graphic injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050677 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1110.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1110-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1110-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1110-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1110-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The records in the database can give families who have experienced police violence a clearer picture of what took place, and help them determine how to get justice for their loved one. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“On top of the mourning, you’re angry, you got many emotions that you gotta really deal with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson suggests that certain family members — say, the grieving mother of someone killed by police — might be better served if a relative or friend reviews the records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s got to be some caretaking,” he said, “because we know sometimes you’re gonna hear things that you just can’t believe these officers would do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Researchers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This kind of data is necessary for even basic forms of independent oversight,” said Tarak Shah, a data scientist who helped manage the Police Records Access Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said he’s excited about the database’s potential to contribute to criminal justice research. He’s spoken to researchers interested in how police killings get classified by independent medical examiners vs. coroners, who are under the purview of the local sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050676 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1111-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1111-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1111-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1111-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1111-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1111-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to data scientist Tarak Shah, who helped manage the Police Records Access Project, the database would not be possible without the latest advancements in AI and large language models, which were used to help categorize and sort the records, and identify and redact sensitive information. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a researcher, you might have questions about whether it’s possible to do unbiased investigations in those scenarios,” he said. Those cause-of-death determinations can mean the difference between a criminal investigation of a law enforcement officer and a death essentially going unexamined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other research areas could include the intersection of mental health and law enforcement, the role drug and alcohol impairment can play in some police encounters and a better understanding of what consequences officers face for misconduct — ranging from casual misogyny and racism to excessive force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said the depth and complexity of the investigative files have been both the “strength and the main challenge of this project.” The database contains incredibly granular information about officer behaviors and key incidents, but the records are not neatly organized into structured data like you might see in a spreadsheet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the database would not be possible without the latest advancements in AI and large language models, which they used to help categorize and sort the records, and to identify and redact sensitive information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lawyers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers’ credibility is fundamental to the criminal justice system; when officers take the stand, their word often determines the outcome of a case. Attorneys can now look up officers who’ve been dishonest or biased — key information for juries assessing the truth of their testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, the primary use is to impeach officers on the stand or to be able to properly defend the client, with full knowledge of who it [is] they’re dealing with,” said Musa, the attorney with NACDL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050710 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1116.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1116-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1116-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1116-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1116-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the Police Records Access Project database, attorneys can now look up officers who’ve been dishonest or biased. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2019, in one of the first cases unsealed by the new transparency law, KQED uncovered the story of a Rio Vista police officer who had lied on official documents. As a result, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11730477/impact-da-dismisses-charges-against-woman-mauled-by-rio-vista-police-dog\">the Solano County District Attorney dropped criminal charges\u003c/a> against a woman who a police dog had mauled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorneys who often look for evidence of patterns and practices within departments to substantiate their clients’ claims could also find useful information in the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Journalists\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one thing that moves the needle when it comes to getting accountability in the criminal legal system is investigative journalism,” said Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project. “If you can expose people that are systematically breaking the law or not playing by the rules or harming people they should be protecting — when you get those stories, that’s when things change.”[aside postID=news_12017652,news_11880600,news_11828774 label= Highlights from KQED's police records reporting]Since 2019, KQED has also published more than 100 stories and two seasons of the award-winning podcast \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/onourwatch\">On Our Watch\u003c/a> using records that are now a part of the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the state, members of the collaborative:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Succeeded in forcing the city of Richmond to release\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/19/one-bay-area-city-73-police-dog-bites-and-the-law-that-made-them-public/\"> records revealing 73 police dog bites\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-19/sb-1421-sheriffs-department-disclosure\">Identified 70 Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies\u003c/a> with a range of previously undisclosed transgressions on their records\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-19/sb-1421-sheriffs-department-disclosure\">Unveiled records\u003c/a> that showed how a Sutter County sheriff’s deputy used his position to coerce women into having sex with him on duty.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Taken together, press coverage has helped move the needle on police reform in California. In 2020, state lawmakers passed a law requiring the state attorney general to investigate \u003cem>all \u003c/em>police shootings in which the subject was not armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, they passed a police decertification law, putting in place a mechanism to strip officers who’ve committed egregious misconduct of their badges. This year, the Legislature is considering a number of additional \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB847&search_keywords=misconduct\">transparency\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB847&showamends=false\">oversight\u003c/a> measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Have you found this database useful?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We want to hear who you are, how you’re using this database and why. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cephus Johnson, whose nephew Oscar Grant was fatally shot in the back by a BART police officer in Oakland in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, 2009, knows firsthand just how important this database will be to other families who’ve lost people to police violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ For impacted families, the first question is: ‘What happened?’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can now find details of what happened to their loved ones and how the police investigated it — or what they overlooked — without having to deal with the often frustrating process of trying to obtain the records themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting those answers, Johnson said, “is the beginning of part of the healing process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Click \u003ca href=\"https://policerecords.kqed.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a> to search the database.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1002px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050667 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1002\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/image-7.png 1002w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/image-7-160x65.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the Police Records Access Project database.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Shedding light on secret records\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, misconduct and use-of-force records for California law enforcement officers were among the most difficult to obtain. That began to change in 2018 with the passage of \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">Senate Bill 1421, the “Right to Know” Act\u003c/a>, which came about with the help of Johnson and other police accountability advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law unsealed records for incidents in which officers fired a gun or used force resulting in serious injury or death, and for officers who were found to have been dishonest or committed sexual assault. In 2021, the passage of \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB16\">another bill\u003c/a> expanded the law to include cases of officer discrimination, excessive force and wrongful arrests or searches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11854857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11854857\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Grant mural\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1394\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural-800x581.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Oscar-Grant-Mural-1536x1115.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural of Oscar Grant outside BART’s Fruitvale Station, where a now-former BART police officer fatally shot Grant as he lay face-down on the platform on Jan. 1, 2009. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the new laws were just the beginning of the fight to pry open the black box of police accountability — which continues today. Agencies often slow-walk or refuse to provide records, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-police-records-california-20190630-story.html\">and have even destroyed them\u003c/a>. KQED and other outlets have sued multiple agencies, including the state attorney general, in order to force compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with these obstacles — and the difficulty of navigating California’s disparate law enforcement agencies, including 58 sheriff’s departments, hundreds of police departments, transit authorities and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation — KQED co-founded \u003ca href=\"https://projects.scpr.org/california-reporting-project/\">The California Reporting Project,\u003c/a> a collaborative of more than 30 news outlets which is now led by \u003ca href=\"https://cjlab.stanford.edu/projects/big-local-news/\">Big Local News\u003c/a> at Stanford University, the \u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\">UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://bids.berkeley.edu/\">Berkeley Institute of Data Science\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew from the start that this information needed to be available to the public,” KQED Editor-in-Chief Ethan Toven-Lindsey said. “Police misconduct records shouldn’t be locked away in filing cabinets where only a few people can see them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11639714\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, mother of Hadiya Pendleton; Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant; and Lezley McSpadden, mother of Mike Brown stand on stage prior to delivering remarks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 26, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Johnson says she talks regularly with other mothers who have lost loved ones to police violence.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, mother of Hadiya Pendleton; Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant; and Lezley McSpadden, mother of Mike Brown, stand on stage prior to delivering remarks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 26, 2016, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Johnson said she talks regularly with other mothers who have lost loved ones to police violence. \u003ccite>(Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, The California Reporting Project joined forces with the Police Records Access Project, a transparency coalition which includes the ACLU, the Innocence Project, Stanford and UC Berkeley. In 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom allocated \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/state-funds-development-first-its-kind-police-misconduct-database#:~:text=The%20funding%20will%20%E2%80%9Ctransform%20that%20effort%20and,launched%20by%20a%20consortium%20that%20includes%20BIDS\">$6.7 million\u003c/a> for the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jumana Musa, director of the Fourth Amendment Center at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), said her organization joined the collaborative because justice requires transparency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This information gets hidden, it gets buried, it is not accessible,” she said. While Musa will use the database to help defend her clients, she said there’s an even more acute need for law enforcement agencies get familiar with the tool: “to ensure that you’re not gonna hire people and give them a weapon and give them a badge when that person has been known to be problematic [or] dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Police Chiefs Association did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Howtousethepolicerecordsdatabaseyourself\">\u003c/a>How can I use the database?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The nearly 12,000 cases make up about 1.5 million pages at the time of publication — but there are several ways to search and use the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three categories divide the cases: use of force, shootings and misconduct. There is a range of document types, from investigative reports to interview transcripts and incident summaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no cost for using the tool, and you won’t be asked to provide any information to search these records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/200529-GeorgeFloyd-04-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator outside Oakland police headquarters on May 29 2020, carries a sign with the words, “I can’t breathe” spoken by George Floyd, the man murdered on May 25, 2020, by police in Minneapolis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lisa Pickoff-White, co-founder and research director of The California Reporting Project, said it’s helpful to take some time to understand the kinds of cases and records in the database before drawing any conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can do keyword searches, filter your search by date or the agency that provided the records — for example, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, vs. the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickoff-White suggests starting simply. “Search for things like ‘taser’ or ‘canine.’ Or search for an officer’s name. Then review the records to see if you’ve found cases where they used force or violated policy.” But remember: just because an officer’s name is in the database, it doesn’t necessarily mean they were involved in misconduct or use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://policerecords.kqed.org/about\">“About”\u003c/a> page explains the type of records, methodology and the limitations of the database. If you find information in the database that you don’t think should be public, you can also submit a request to remove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind this database is a living thing and is far from complete — the people maintaining it are adding new records as they receive them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who is this database for?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victims of police violence and their families\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records in the database, Cephus Johnson said, can give families like his who have experienced police violence a clearer picture of what took place, and help them “determine how they will get justice for their loved one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Johnson advises families to use the tool with a great deal of care because sometimes the records can contain examples of callous police behavior, negligence or descriptions of graphic injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050677 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1110.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1110-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1110-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1110-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1110-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The records in the database can give families who have experienced police violence a clearer picture of what took place, and help them determine how to get justice for their loved one. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“On top of the mourning, you’re angry, you got many emotions that you gotta really deal with,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson suggests that certain family members — say, the grieving mother of someone killed by police — might be better served if a relative or friend reviews the records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s got to be some caretaking,” he said, “because we know sometimes you’re gonna hear things that you just can’t believe these officers would do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Researchers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This kind of data is necessary for even basic forms of independent oversight,” said Tarak Shah, a data scientist who helped manage the Police Records Access Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said he’s excited about the database’s potential to contribute to criminal justice research. He’s spoken to researchers interested in how police killings get classified by independent medical examiners vs. coroners, who are under the purview of the local sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050676 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1111-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1111-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1111-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1111-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1111-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1111-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to data scientist Tarak Shah, who helped manage the Police Records Access Project, the database would not be possible without the latest advancements in AI and large language models, which were used to help categorize and sort the records, and identify and redact sensitive information. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a researcher, you might have questions about whether it’s possible to do unbiased investigations in those scenarios,” he said. Those cause-of-death determinations can mean the difference between a criminal investigation of a law enforcement officer and a death essentially going unexamined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other research areas could include the intersection of mental health and law enforcement, the role drug and alcohol impairment can play in some police encounters and a better understanding of what consequences officers face for misconduct — ranging from casual misogyny and racism to excessive force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shah said the depth and complexity of the investigative files have been both the “strength and the main challenge of this project.” The database contains incredibly granular information about officer behaviors and key incidents, but the records are not neatly organized into structured data like you might see in a spreadsheet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the database would not be possible without the latest advancements in AI and large language models, which they used to help categorize and sort the records, and to identify and redact sensitive information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lawyers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers’ credibility is fundamental to the criminal justice system; when officers take the stand, their word often determines the outcome of a case. Attorneys can now look up officers who’ve been dishonest or biased — key information for juries assessing the truth of their testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, the primary use is to impeach officers on the stand or to be able to properly defend the client, with full knowledge of who it [is] they’re dealing with,” said Musa, the attorney with NACDL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050710 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1116.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1116-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1116-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1116-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1116-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the Police Records Access Project database, attorneys can now look up officers who’ve been dishonest or biased. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2019, in one of the first cases unsealed by the new transparency law, KQED uncovered the story of a Rio Vista police officer who had lied on official documents. As a result, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11730477/impact-da-dismisses-charges-against-woman-mauled-by-rio-vista-police-dog\">the Solano County District Attorney dropped criminal charges\u003c/a> against a woman who a police dog had mauled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorneys who often look for evidence of patterns and practices within departments to substantiate their clients’ claims could also find useful information in the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Journalists\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one thing that moves the needle when it comes to getting accountability in the criminal legal system is investigative journalism,” said Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project. “If you can expose people that are systematically breaking the law or not playing by the rules or harming people they should be protecting — when you get those stories, that’s when things change.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto, like cities across California, has a law on the books that forces developers of new housing projects to foot the bill for the state’s shortage of affordable homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New residential projects need to set aside a share of the units they plan to build for lower-income renters and homeowners under the terms of the city’s “inclusionary zoning” ordinance. Builders who refuse have to instead pay a fee, ranging from the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An East Palo Alto homeowner filed a \u003ca href=\"https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Wesley-Yu-v.-City-of-East-Palo-Alto-California_-Complaint_7.31.25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit in federal court\u003c/a> on Thursday challenging the constitutionality of that law, likening it to “extortion” — and he had a little help from the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implications of the lawsuit range far beyond the Bay Area. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.lincolninst.edu/app/uploads/legacy-files/pubfiles/thaden_wp17et1_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 report\u003c/a> estimated that 149 cities and counties across California have some form of inclusionary zoning rule, though the specific terms vary. That makes it one of the most commonly used \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/affordable-housing/\">affordable housing\u003c/a> programs both in California and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/affordable-housing-montgomery-county.html\">in the country\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now all that may be on the constitutional chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was filed in federal court in San Francisco by Wesley Yu, a husband and father between jobs, who was planning to build a home and backyard guest cottage for himself and his extended family on a neighboring parcel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Yu was planning to construct two new structures, the city’s inclusionary zoning rules kicked in, requiring him to either sell or rent out one of the units at “affordable” rates or to pay a one-time fee of $54,891 to be deposited in the city’s affordable housing subsidy fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12046558 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/GavinNewsomAP3.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The core of Yu’s lawsuit, which was filed by the libertarian-oriented \u003ca href=\"https://pacificlegal.org/case/east-palo-alto-inclusionary-zoning/\">Pacific Legal Foundation\u003c/a>, draws on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from last year that also emerged from a heated California housing dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That case was brought by Placerville septuagenarian, George Sheetz, who contested that the government of El Dorado County had not done enough to justify the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/01/impact-fees-supreme-court/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WhatMatters&utm_source=31&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Trump%20immigration%20crackdown%20undermines%20CA%20tenant%20protections&utm_campaign=WhatMatters\">$23,420 traffic fee\u003c/a> it placed on his home construction project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/07/homebuilding-development-fees/\">Sheetz’s case\u003c/a> drew on the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, which puts limits on when the government can take private property. Decades of court rulings have said that if a local government wants to base approval of a construction permit on certain conditions, those conditions have to \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/483/825/\">directly relate\u003c/a> to the costs associated with the development. A city, for example, might be able to hold off on approving a new dump until a developer pays an environmental clean up fee, but not a fee to fund local arts and recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts have also ruled that such “exactions” on private development should be “roughly proportionate” to their cost. That is, the $23,420 that El Dorado County wanted to impose on Sheetz should match the cost of fixing the wear and tear his new home would leave on local roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/maternal-health-california-tortillas/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WhatMatters&utm_source=31&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Trump%20immigration%20crackdown%20undermines%20CA%20tenant%20protections&utm_campaign=WhatMatters#wm-story-1\">agreed\u003c/a> that these standards ought to apply to the impact fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Yu and his legal team are asking a federal judge to apply that same rule to inclusionary zoning. For East Palo Alto’s program to pass constitutional muster, the city would have to show that the $54,891 fee or the requirement to set aside new units at a discount relates to and matches the cost that Yu’s development would impose upon the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city won’t be able to show that, said David Deerson, the lead lawyer representing Yu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New residential development doesn’t have a negative impact on housing affordability. If anything, it has a positive impact,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2025/07/31/new-housing-slows-rent-growth-most-for-older-more-affordable-units\">growing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/joeg/article-abstract/22/6/1309/6362685\">body\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/105/2/359/100977/Local-Effects-of-Large-New-Apartment-Buildings-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">of\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4906689\">economic\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://vrollet.github.io/files/city_structure.pdf\">research\u003c/a> has indeed found that local market-rate development puts downward pressure on neighborhood and city-wide rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Affordable housing in California zoning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the past, California courts have ruled that the high constitutional bar set by the Fifth Amendment \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10564227/california-supreme-court-upholds-san-joses-affordable-housing-rules\">doesn’t apply\u003c/a> to inclusionary zoning programs like the one in East Palo Alto. Requiring private developers to toss in some added affordable housing isn’t an “exaction,” the courts have found, but a standard land-use restriction akin to any other zoning rule.[aside postID=news_12044014 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/024_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed-1020x680.jpg']Whether a city decides it needs more schools, apartment buildings, businesses or, in the case of inclusionary zoning, affordable housing, it has broad power under the constitution to “decide, for the good of the general welfare, that we’re going to require this,” said Mike Rawson, director of litigation at the Public Interest Law Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Supreme Court ruled as such most recently in 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh in, a tacit approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can always change their mind,” said Rawson. “I don’t see a basis for it, though obviously that doesn’t necessarily stop them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The composition of the court has changed since 2015, veering sharply to the right. The Sheetz decision from last year has offered new fodder for legal challenges to inclusionary zoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sheetz really helps out here a lot” in that campaign, said Deerson. He pointed to other challenges in \u003ca href=\"https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/redT-Homes-v.-City-and-County-of-Denver-Colorado_PLF-Complaint_5.29.25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wyomingnews.com/family-sues-teton-county-over-affordable-and-workforce-housing-fees/article_d7f305f2-c841-47d9-8693-1f11b3f9bf24.html\">Teton County, Wyoming\u003c/a>. “I would expect them to keep coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tradeoffs in housing policy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If and when the nation’s highest court takes up the issue of inclusionary zoning, it will be wading into one of the more politically charged debates in housing policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence on the impact of these laws is \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/99647/inclusionary_zoning._what_does_the_research_tell_us_about_the_effectiveness_of_local_action_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mixed\u003c/a>. Requiring private developers to build affordable units can and regularly does result in more local housing options for lower-income tenants at no additional cost to taxpayers. By putting affordable and market-rate units side-by-side, they also promote economic and racial integration, supporters argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But inclusionary requirements can also make any given housing project less profitable, meaning that fewer units get built, leading to \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098009360683?casa_token=smwsJ6eKiBcAAAAA:LVzyoPqfS51YAopYzDnv3ASz4njmVFT0qKagHKHRoMQGIBNLE3kF1VTzrKn2fnNoIlFVffF0ZhVgTD0\">higher prices and rents overall\u003c/a>. In housing markets, like California’s, that see relatively little new development, the rate at which these programs add designated affordable units to the housing stock is also quite slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That policy debate isn’t relevant to the legal case, which will be fought and won over abstract constitutional principles. But for libertarian-leaning groups like the Pacific Legal Foundation, building industry groups and many “Yes In My Backyard” housing development advocates, an end to inclusionary zoning would be a win on both fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to being illegal, I think that these inclusionary zoning policies are also frankly stupid,” said Deerson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/08/affordable-housing-developer-fees/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The core of Yu’s lawsuit, which was filed by the libertarian-oriented \u003ca href=\"https://pacificlegal.org/case/east-palo-alto-inclusionary-zoning/\">Pacific Legal Foundation\u003c/a>, draws on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from last year that also emerged from a heated California housing dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That case was brought by Placerville septuagenarian, George Sheetz, who contested that the government of El Dorado County had not done enough to justify the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/01/impact-fees-supreme-court/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WhatMatters&utm_source=31&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Trump%20immigration%20crackdown%20undermines%20CA%20tenant%20protections&utm_campaign=WhatMatters\">$23,420 traffic fee\u003c/a> it placed on his home construction project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/07/homebuilding-development-fees/\">Sheetz’s case\u003c/a> drew on the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, which puts limits on when the government can take private property. Decades of court rulings have said that if a local government wants to base approval of a construction permit on certain conditions, those conditions have to \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/483/825/\">directly relate\u003c/a> to the costs associated with the development. A city, for example, might be able to hold off on approving a new dump until a developer pays an environmental clean up fee, but not a fee to fund local arts and recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Courts have also ruled that such “exactions” on private development should be “roughly proportionate” to their cost. That is, the $23,420 that El Dorado County wanted to impose on Sheetz should match the cost of fixing the wear and tear his new home would leave on local roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/maternal-health-california-tortillas/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WhatMatters&utm_source=31&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Trump%20immigration%20crackdown%20undermines%20CA%20tenant%20protections&utm_campaign=WhatMatters#wm-story-1\">agreed\u003c/a> that these standards ought to apply to the impact fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Yu and his legal team are asking a federal judge to apply that same rule to inclusionary zoning. For East Palo Alto’s program to pass constitutional muster, the city would have to show that the $54,891 fee or the requirement to set aside new units at a discount relates to and matches the cost that Yu’s development would impose upon the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city won’t be able to show that, said David Deerson, the lead lawyer representing Yu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New residential development doesn’t have a negative impact on housing affordability. If anything, it has a positive impact,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2025/07/31/new-housing-slows-rent-growth-most-for-older-more-affordable-units\">growing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/joeg/article-abstract/22/6/1309/6362685\">body\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/105/2/359/100977/Local-Effects-of-Large-New-Apartment-Buildings-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">of\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4906689\">economic\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://vrollet.github.io/files/city_structure.pdf\">research\u003c/a> has indeed found that local market-rate development puts downward pressure on neighborhood and city-wide rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Affordable housing in California zoning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the past, California courts have ruled that the high constitutional bar set by the Fifth Amendment \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10564227/california-supreme-court-upholds-san-joses-affordable-housing-rules\">doesn’t apply\u003c/a> to inclusionary zoning programs like the one in East Palo Alto. Requiring private developers to toss in some added affordable housing isn’t an “exaction,” the courts have found, but a standard land-use restriction akin to any other zoning rule.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Whether a city decides it needs more schools, apartment buildings, businesses or, in the case of inclusionary zoning, affordable housing, it has broad power under the constitution to “decide, for the good of the general welfare, that we’re going to require this,” said Mike Rawson, director of litigation at the Public Interest Law Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Supreme Court ruled as such most recently in 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh in, a tacit approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can always change their mind,” said Rawson. “I don’t see a basis for it, though obviously that doesn’t necessarily stop them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The composition of the court has changed since 2015, veering sharply to the right. The Sheetz decision from last year has offered new fodder for legal challenges to inclusionary zoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sheetz really helps out here a lot” in that campaign, said Deerson. He pointed to other challenges in \u003ca href=\"https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/redT-Homes-v.-City-and-County-of-Denver-Colorado_PLF-Complaint_5.29.25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wyomingnews.com/family-sues-teton-county-over-affordable-and-workforce-housing-fees/article_d7f305f2-c841-47d9-8693-1f11b3f9bf24.html\">Teton County, Wyoming\u003c/a>. “I would expect them to keep coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tradeoffs in housing policy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If and when the nation’s highest court takes up the issue of inclusionary zoning, it will be wading into one of the more politically charged debates in housing policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence on the impact of these laws is \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/99647/inclusionary_zoning._what_does_the_research_tell_us_about_the_effectiveness_of_local_action_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mixed\u003c/a>. Requiring private developers to build affordable units can and regularly does result in more local housing options for lower-income tenants at no additional cost to taxpayers. By putting affordable and market-rate units side-by-side, they also promote economic and racial integration, supporters argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But inclusionary requirements can also make any given housing project less profitable, meaning that fewer units get built, leading to \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098009360683?casa_token=smwsJ6eKiBcAAAAA:LVzyoPqfS51YAopYzDnv3ASz4njmVFT0qKagHKHRoMQGIBNLE3kF1VTzrKn2fnNoIlFVffF0ZhVgTD0\">higher prices and rents overall\u003c/a>. In housing markets, like California’s, that see relatively little new development, the rate at which these programs add designated affordable units to the housing stock is also quite slow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That policy debate isn’t relevant to the legal case, which will be fought and won over abstract constitutional principles. But for libertarian-leaning groups like the Pacific Legal Foundation, building industry groups and many “Yes In My Backyard” housing development advocates, an end to inclusionary zoning would be a win on both fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to being illegal, I think that these inclusionary zoning policies are also frankly stupid,” said Deerson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/08/affordable-housing-developer-fees/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As a relatively new United States citizen, getting a jury duty notice — that small piece of paper politely informing me that I need to be ready to show up at the courthouse in a few weeks’ time — still comes with a sense of mystery. And perhaps even a bit of drama: American movies can make it seem like a trial will be Tom Cruise \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245567231/what-makes-a-good-courtroom-drama\">dishing one bombshell revelation after the other\u003c/a>, after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I know not everyone feels the same way. Serving on a jury when called may be required by law of all U.S. citizens, but for many, it also means figuring out childcare, requesting time off from work when money is already tight, or pushing back a family trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether we admit it or not, we all have gotten that note in the mail and the first thing that runs through your mind before you look at it is, ‘Oh God, I’m getting called \u003cem>again\u003c/em>,\u003cem>’\u003c/em>” said Bob Fleshman, court executive officer for the Napa County Superior Court. “But the bottom line is that jury service is a fundamental aspect of our justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jury service is also actually older than the United States itself. By the time of American Independence, most of the Thirteen Colonies had already \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/info-details/learn-about-the-history-of-the-jury-system\">developed their own versions of the English model\u003c/a> of deciding cases by a jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framers of the Constitution included the right to a jury trial \u003ca href=\"https://www.mow.uscourts.gov/jury/history_of_jury_duty\">as a way to protect individuals\u003c/a> who could be unfairly accused and imprisoned by a biased or corrupt judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have jurors in our jury system, our legal system would be severely compromised and probably just stop altogether,” said Judy Walker, jury operations manager for the Solano County Superior Court. “If we want this to work for us, then we need to work it for others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Courthouse in San Francisco, on March 6, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Walker acknowledged that the legal system can seem very complicated for first-time jurors. “There’s a lot of things that happen behind the scenes that not everyone is privy to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for everything you need to know about getting your first jury duty summons (or even if it’s just been a while).\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#exemption-from-jury-duty-reschedule\">Who’s exempt from jury duty?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Why did I get this jury duty notice?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>How does your county’s court know where to find you? The answer: Three different agencies provide courthouses with the name and address of potential jurors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The DMV: If you have a driver’s licence or state ID\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Franchise Tax Board: If you’ve filed state taxes in California\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your county’s voter registration office: Voter registration rolls are also used for jury duty selection.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>All the names from these different agencies are mixed, and courts then pick names randomly. Sometimes, however, this random selection can lead to unintentional mistakes: someone who is not yet a U.S. citizen could receive a summons, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, “courts don’t know if you have a medical issue. Courts don’t know if you’re taking care of an ailing parent. Courts don’t know if you’ve moved to a different county,” Napa County’s Fleshman said. “There’s a lag time in updating stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"exemption-from-jury-duty-reschedule\">\u003c/a>Who’s exempt from jury duty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Getting in touch with the court as soon as you get the summons is critical, Fleshman said. “Don’t wait till the day of where you’re going to go in and ask to be deferred because then you’re just putting yourself at a disadvantage,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When can a person be exempted from jury duty? Courts can be pretty understanding of many personal commitments like pre-planned travel or medical procedures, Fleshman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050432 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Gavel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1379\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Gavel.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Gavel-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Gavel-1536x1059.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you request an exemption, you will need to explain your hardship with a written statement and be prepared to provide documentation or other evidence proving your situation. \u003ccite>(Andrey Popov/iStock via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you call the number that is printed on your summons, the court won’t necessarily excuse you from jury duty, but it may give you a different date to come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you think that you won’t be able to make \u003cem>any \u003c/em>date at all for jury duty, you are still required by law to show up to court if you are called. On your first day in court, you will go through an orientation. “Potential jurors can request a ‘hardship’ at that time,” Solano County’s Walker said. “They can put their issue on why they cannot serve as a juror on this particular case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What other reasons could get a person excused from jury duty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there’s \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/119gnd2/how_do_i_get_out_of_jury_duty_santa_clara_county/\">plenty of chatter online\u003c/a> on what can excuse you from jury duty — not all of it accurate or reliable — the \u003ca href=\"https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/two/rule2_1008\">California Rules of Court\u003c/a> are very specific on what situations \u003cem>actually \u003c/em>count as a hardship:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>There are no transportation options available that can get you from your house to the court\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You have to travel for more than 90 minutes to get from your house to the court\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Being on a jury will cause you an “extreme financial burden” (when requesting this exemption, you will need to provide information on your source of income, and the court will then make a decisión based on the potential length of the trial and your ability to financially support yourself)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Property belonging to you could be harmed or destroyed while you serve as a juror\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You have a physical or mental disability that could affect your well-being while serving as a juror\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You are needed immediately to help protect public health and safety and there’s no one else available to replace you while you serve as a juror (remember, technically, state law only specifies police officers, sheriff’s deputies and California Highway Patrol agents \u003ca href=\"https://spsf.senate.ca.gov/sites/spsf.senate.ca.gov/files/ab_310_analysis.pdf\">as the professions exempt from jury duty\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You care for a child or loved one who is sick, elderly or infirm, and there’s no one else available to help care for that person while you serve as a juror.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that if you request an exemption, you will need to explain your hardship with a written statement — and you should be prepared to provide documentation or other evidence proving your situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember: asking for an exemption doesn’t necessarily guarantee that you will get one. But straight-up ignoring a summons — for whatever reason — could have \u003ca href=\"https://courts.ca.gov/courts/jury-service\">serious legal consequences\u003c/a>, including a fine of up to $1,500, jail time, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If I get a summons, does that definitely mean I’ll be serving on a jury trial?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not necessarily. When you get a jury summons, the court doesn’t actually know yet which case you’ll sit in on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Solano County, for example, the court will start sending out summons six weeks prior to a court date, Walker said. “We have X amount of trials on that date, so we know we’re going to need X amount of potential jurors. That’s kind of how we determine how many summons go out each time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12038231 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The A. F. Bray Courthouse Contra Costa Superior Court in Martinez on March 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not all cases end up \u003cem>going \u003c/em>to trial. In some instances, both sides in the case may reach a settlement or the defendant may take a plea deal. This could even happen the same morning you’re coming in to report for jury duty, so the court now has fewer cases to process than it initially expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have any other cases going out that day, then we will excuse the jurors,” Walker said. “Even though the trial didn’t move forward, their service is now complete for at least a year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties, like San Francisco, ask jurors to visit \u003ca href=\"https://sf.courts.ca.gov/divisions/jury-reporting-instructions\">the court’s website\u003c/a> each evening during their week of summons to check if they need to show up to court the following day. Others, like Solano, \u003ca href=\"https://solano.courts.ca.gov/divisions/jury-services/reporting-instructions\">have a phone number\u003c/a> you can call the day before to confirm whether you need to show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the court ends up not needing you that week on a jury, you may not need to show up to the courthouse at all, and can proceed with your regular routine — but you should still confirm that for each day of your summons.[aside postID=news_12048495 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250624-ParkFile-30-BL_qed.jpg']And if you \u003cem>are\u003c/em> called in but find yourself waiting in a room with other potential jurors for hours, rest assured, it’s not that the court wants to waste your time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather, judges and lawyers could still be working out plea deals or settlements that would impact the need for jurors that day. “Maybe the case was resolved, or postponed because they needed more time,” Fleshman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the case you’re assigned does move forward to trial, there’s one more step before you know for sure if you’ll be on the jury: \u003cem>voir dire\u003c/em>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscourts.gov/court-programs/jury-service/juror-selection-process\">juror selection process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, you and other jurors will meet lawyers for both sides to talk about your background and potential biases you might have that could make you unsuitable for this particular jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is when being honest about your beliefs is especially important, said Dave Sanford, chairman of civil rights firm Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, who has worked on jury trials for over two decades. For example, he said, “No one wants you to be on a jury if the case is about race discrimination and you already have preconceived biases coming in one way or another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re uncomfortable being honest in an open court, Sanford recommends that you ask to approach the bench and speak to the judge privately about what you’re thinking. When having these conversations, remember that it’s also equally important not to \u003cem>misrepresent \u003c/em>any of your beliefs in an effort to avoid serving on a jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long could my jury service take?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s say that on the week of your summons, the court \u003cem>does\u003c/em> need you to be on a jury. How much time from your work (and your personal life) should you set aside for the case?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That depends on the type of case you’re assigned to, said Solano County’s Walker. In her experience, a case involving a DUI may take a few days. “If it’s a big felony case, because there’s more to introduce, those will take longer,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s likely that you won’t know what type of case you’re assigned to until you’re sitting down inside the courthouse for your orientation. If you’re assigned to a complicated case — which could involve certain felonies like murder or other violent crimes — and you believe that you cannot fulfill the responsibilities of a juror for several weeks, \u003cem>this \u003c/em>is the moment when you need to let the court know about any potential hardships you’re experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I get time off from work for jury duty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, employers \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofilelinkcodesections.htm\">are required by law\u003c/a> to give you time off to serve on a jury. However, state law also requires that you inform your boss with “reasonable notice” ahead of your summons — although it does not provide a clear definition of what “reasonable” means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts KQED spoke to recommend you touch base with your boss as soon as you get the jury notice in the mail, to avoid any complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2219px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050451 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/78724278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2219\" height=\"1575\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/78724278.jpg 2219w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/78724278-2000x1420.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/78724278-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/78724278-1536x1090.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/78724278-2048x1454.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2219px) 100vw, 2219px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In California, jurors are paid $15 per day starting on the second day of jury service. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Your employer also cannot fire you or retaliate against you for taking time off to fulfill your responsibility as a juror. While you don’t have to use your PTO hours for jury duty, keep in mind that your employer is not legally required to pay you for the time you take off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some businesses pay their workers a certain percentage of their regular wages — and some won’t pay them anything — so it’s best to ask ahead of time what your employer’s policy is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are having issues with your boss in these matters, you can reach out to the state Department of Labor Standards Enforcement at: \u003ca href=\"mailto:DLSE2@dir.ca.gov\">DLSE2@dir.ca.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I get paid for jury duty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, you will be paid $15 per day starting on the second day of your jury service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, seven counties — including Alameda in the Bay Area — provided $100 a day to low-income jurors through the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.alameda.courts.ca.gov/news/jury-duty-pilot-program-suspended\">Jury Duty Pilot Program for low-income jurors\u003c/a>. But this program has now been suspended as part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/jury-duty-pay-california-budget/\">this year’s state budget cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I got assigned to be a juror on a very intense case. What should I know going in?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While it may sound simple, taking notes could be what gets you through a really long case. “There’s going to be long days. There’s a lot of testimony. And a lot of documents,” said Sanford of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, who has worked on jury trials for over two decades. “I think it’s expecting a lot from people to hold it all together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your notes don’t have to include every single word you hear during the trial, but jotting down what stands out to you, as well as what you’re thinking and feeling each day, can help you keep track of all the information coming your way.[aside postID=news_12047018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg']Some courts even give jurors their own notebooks, but during orientation, check in with court staff about what type of notetaking is allowed where you are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documenting the process this way can even help you deal with any feelings that come up after looking at graphic evidence or emotionally intense testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Go in with an open mind, leave your biases behind and be prepared to be honest, open and impartial throughout the process,” Sanford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the case deals with crimes of a very violent or graphic nature, the court may offer to connect you with mental health services during or after the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you otherwise feel that being a juror on your assigned case is affecting your well-being, whatever the subject matter, you can check in with the judge or court staff and let them know what you’re feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always somebody that is available or will be available to answer questions — and to provide the assurances and help that you need so that you are ready to go on day one,” Napa County’s Fleshman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I have to keep everything I hear in court as a juror secret?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s correct. Court staff will walk you through all restrictions for jurors during the trial, but in general terms, you cannot talk to anyone in the outside world — even family and friends — about the trial or the evidence you are seeing in court. This includes talking to journalists covering the case, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some courts may even restrict your social media use, as this could expose you to evidence outside the court record. Make sure to check in about Internet use with the bailiff or other court staff during orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jury service is also actually older than the United States itself. By the time of American Independence, most of the Thirteen Colonies had already \u003ca href=\"https://www.mass.gov/info-details/learn-about-the-history-of-the-jury-system\">developed their own versions of the English model\u003c/a> of deciding cases by a jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framers of the Constitution included the right to a jury trial \u003ca href=\"https://www.mow.uscourts.gov/jury/history_of_jury_duty\">as a way to protect individuals\u003c/a> who could be unfairly accused and imprisoned by a biased or corrupt judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have jurors in our jury system, our legal system would be severely compromised and probably just stop altogether,” said Judy Walker, jury operations manager for the Solano County Superior Court. “If we want this to work for us, then we need to work it for others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Courthouse1-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Courthouse in San Francisco, on March 6, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, Walker acknowledged that the legal system can seem very complicated for first-time jurors. “There’s a lot of things that happen behind the scenes that not everyone is privy to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for everything you need to know about getting your first jury duty summons (or even if it’s just been a while).\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#exemption-from-jury-duty-reschedule\">Who’s exempt from jury duty?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Why did I get this jury duty notice?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>How does your county’s court know where to find you? The answer: Three different agencies provide courthouses with the name and address of potential jurors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The DMV: If you have a driver’s licence or state ID\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Franchise Tax Board: If you’ve filed state taxes in California\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your county’s voter registration office: Voter registration rolls are also used for jury duty selection.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>All the names from these different agencies are mixed, and courts then pick names randomly. Sometimes, however, this random selection can lead to unintentional mistakes: someone who is not yet a U.S. citizen could receive a summons, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, “courts don’t know if you have a medical issue. Courts don’t know if you’re taking care of an ailing parent. Courts don’t know if you’ve moved to a different county,” Napa County’s Fleshman said. “There’s a lag time in updating stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"exemption-from-jury-duty-reschedule\">\u003c/a>Who’s exempt from jury duty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Getting in touch with the court as soon as you get the summons is critical, Fleshman said. “Don’t wait till the day of where you’re going to go in and ask to be deferred because then you’re just putting yourself at a disadvantage,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When can a person be exempted from jury duty? Courts can be pretty understanding of many personal commitments like pre-planned travel or medical procedures, Fleshman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050432 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Gavel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1379\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Gavel.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Gavel-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Gavel-1536x1059.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you request an exemption, you will need to explain your hardship with a written statement and be prepared to provide documentation or other evidence proving your situation. \u003ccite>(Andrey Popov/iStock via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you call the number that is printed on your summons, the court won’t necessarily excuse you from jury duty, but it may give you a different date to come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you think that you won’t be able to make \u003cem>any \u003c/em>date at all for jury duty, you are still required by law to show up to court if you are called. On your first day in court, you will go through an orientation. “Potential jurors can request a ‘hardship’ at that time,” Solano County’s Walker said. “They can put their issue on why they cannot serve as a juror on this particular case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What other reasons could get a person excused from jury duty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there’s \u003ca href=\"http://reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/119gnd2/how_do_i_get_out_of_jury_duty_santa_clara_county/\">plenty of chatter online\u003c/a> on what can excuse you from jury duty — not all of it accurate or reliable — the \u003ca href=\"https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/two/rule2_1008\">California Rules of Court\u003c/a> are very specific on what situations \u003cem>actually \u003c/em>count as a hardship:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>There are no transportation options available that can get you from your house to the court\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You have to travel for more than 90 minutes to get from your house to the court\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Being on a jury will cause you an “extreme financial burden” (when requesting this exemption, you will need to provide information on your source of income, and the court will then make a decisión based on the potential length of the trial and your ability to financially support yourself)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Property belonging to you could be harmed or destroyed while you serve as a juror\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You have a physical or mental disability that could affect your well-being while serving as a juror\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You are needed immediately to help protect public health and safety and there’s no one else available to replace you while you serve as a juror (remember, technically, state law only specifies police officers, sheriff’s deputies and California Highway Patrol agents \u003ca href=\"https://spsf.senate.ca.gov/sites/spsf.senate.ca.gov/files/ab_310_analysis.pdf\">as the professions exempt from jury duty\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You care for a child or loved one who is sick, elderly or infirm, and there’s no one else available to help care for that person while you serve as a juror.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind that if you request an exemption, you will need to explain your hardship with a written statement — and you should be prepared to provide documentation or other evidence proving your situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember: asking for an exemption doesn’t necessarily guarantee that you will get one. But straight-up ignoring a summons — for whatever reason — could have \u003ca href=\"https://courts.ca.gov/courts/jury-service\">serious legal consequences\u003c/a>, including a fine of up to $1,500, jail time, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If I get a summons, does that definitely mean I’ll be serving on a jury trial?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not necessarily. When you get a jury summons, the court doesn’t actually know yet which case you’ll sit in on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Solano County, for example, the court will start sending out summons six weeks prior to a court date, Walker said. “We have X amount of trials on that date, so we know we’re going to need X amount of potential jurors. That’s kind of how we determine how many summons go out each time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12038231 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The A. F. Bray Courthouse Contra Costa Superior Court in Martinez on March 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But not all cases end up \u003cem>going \u003c/em>to trial. In some instances, both sides in the case may reach a settlement or the defendant may take a plea deal. This could even happen the same morning you’re coming in to report for jury duty, so the court now has fewer cases to process than it initially expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have any other cases going out that day, then we will excuse the jurors,” Walker said. “Even though the trial didn’t move forward, their service is now complete for at least a year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties, like San Francisco, ask jurors to visit \u003ca href=\"https://sf.courts.ca.gov/divisions/jury-reporting-instructions\">the court’s website\u003c/a> each evening during their week of summons to check if they need to show up to court the following day. Others, like Solano, \u003ca href=\"https://solano.courts.ca.gov/divisions/jury-services/reporting-instructions\">have a phone number\u003c/a> you can call the day before to confirm whether you need to show up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the court ends up not needing you that week on a jury, you may not need to show up to the courthouse at all, and can proceed with your regular routine — but you should still confirm that for each day of your summons.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And if you \u003cem>are\u003c/em> called in but find yourself waiting in a room with other potential jurors for hours, rest assured, it’s not that the court wants to waste your time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather, judges and lawyers could still be working out plea deals or settlements that would impact the need for jurors that day. “Maybe the case was resolved, or postponed because they needed more time,” Fleshman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the case you’re assigned does move forward to trial, there’s one more step before you know for sure if you’ll be on the jury: \u003cem>voir dire\u003c/em>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscourts.gov/court-programs/jury-service/juror-selection-process\">juror selection process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, you and other jurors will meet lawyers for both sides to talk about your background and potential biases you might have that could make you unsuitable for this particular jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is when being honest about your beliefs is especially important, said Dave Sanford, chairman of civil rights firm Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, who has worked on jury trials for over two decades. For example, he said, “No one wants you to be on a jury if the case is about race discrimination and you already have preconceived biases coming in one way or another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re uncomfortable being honest in an open court, Sanford recommends that you ask to approach the bench and speak to the judge privately about what you’re thinking. When having these conversations, remember that it’s also equally important not to \u003cem>misrepresent \u003c/em>any of your beliefs in an effort to avoid serving on a jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long could my jury service take?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s say that on the week of your summons, the court \u003cem>does\u003c/em> need you to be on a jury. How much time from your work (and your personal life) should you set aside for the case?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That depends on the type of case you’re assigned to, said Solano County’s Walker. In her experience, a case involving a DUI may take a few days. “If it’s a big felony case, because there’s more to introduce, those will take longer,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s likely that you won’t know what type of case you’re assigned to until you’re sitting down inside the courthouse for your orientation. If you’re assigned to a complicated case — which could involve certain felonies like murder or other violent crimes — and you believe that you cannot fulfill the responsibilities of a juror for several weeks, \u003cem>this \u003c/em>is the moment when you need to let the court know about any potential hardships you’re experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I get time off from work for jury duty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, employers \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofilelinkcodesections.htm\">are required by law\u003c/a> to give you time off to serve on a jury. However, state law also requires that you inform your boss with “reasonable notice” ahead of your summons — although it does not provide a clear definition of what “reasonable” means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts KQED spoke to recommend you touch base with your boss as soon as you get the jury notice in the mail, to avoid any complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2219px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050451 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/78724278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2219\" height=\"1575\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/78724278.jpg 2219w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/78724278-2000x1420.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/78724278-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/78724278-1536x1090.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/78724278-2048x1454.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2219px) 100vw, 2219px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In California, jurors are paid $15 per day starting on the second day of jury service. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Your employer also cannot fire you or retaliate against you for taking time off to fulfill your responsibility as a juror. While you don’t have to use your PTO hours for jury duty, keep in mind that your employer is not legally required to pay you for the time you take off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some businesses pay their workers a certain percentage of their regular wages — and some won’t pay them anything — so it’s best to ask ahead of time what your employer’s policy is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are having issues with your boss in these matters, you can reach out to the state Department of Labor Standards Enforcement at: \u003ca href=\"mailto:DLSE2@dir.ca.gov\">DLSE2@dir.ca.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I get paid for jury duty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, you will be paid $15 per day starting on the second day of your jury service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, seven counties — including Alameda in the Bay Area — provided $100 a day to low-income jurors through the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.alameda.courts.ca.gov/news/jury-duty-pilot-program-suspended\">Jury Duty Pilot Program for low-income jurors\u003c/a>. But this program has now been suspended as part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/jury-duty-pay-california-budget/\">this year’s state budget cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I got assigned to be a juror on a very intense case. What should I know going in?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While it may sound simple, taking notes could be what gets you through a really long case. “There’s going to be long days. There’s a lot of testimony. And a lot of documents,” said Sanford of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, who has worked on jury trials for over two decades. “I think it’s expecting a lot from people to hold it all together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your notes don’t have to include every single word you hear during the trial, but jotting down what stands out to you, as well as what you’re thinking and feeling each day, can help you keep track of all the information coming your way.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some courts even give jurors their own notebooks, but during orientation, check in with court staff about what type of notetaking is allowed where you are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documenting the process this way can even help you deal with any feelings that come up after looking at graphic evidence or emotionally intense testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Go in with an open mind, leave your biases behind and be prepared to be honest, open and impartial throughout the process,” Sanford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the case deals with crimes of a very violent or graphic nature, the court may offer to connect you with mental health services during or after the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you otherwise feel that being a juror on your assigned case is affecting your well-being, whatever the subject matter, you can check in with the judge or court staff and let them know what you’re feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always somebody that is available or will be available to answer questions — and to provide the assurances and help that you need so that you are ready to go on day one,” Napa County’s Fleshman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Do I have to keep everything I hear in court as a juror secret?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That’s correct. Court staff will walk you through all restrictions for jurors during the trial, but in general terms, you cannot talk to anyone in the outside world — even family and friends — about the trial or the evidence you are seeing in court. This includes talking to journalists covering the case, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some courts may even restrict your social media use, as this could expose you to evidence outside the court record. Make sure to check in about Internet use with the bailiff or other court staff during orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047506/searching-for-a-loved-one-in-ice-custody-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Read in English\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La tensión entre activistas y agentes de inmigración en San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047397/ice-officers-drive-through-protesters-trying-to-stop-arrest-at-sf-immigration-court\">llegó a su punto crítico\u003c/a> a principios de julio cuando los funcionarios federales atropellaron en sus vehículos un grupo de manifestantes frente al tribunal de inmigración en esa ciudad, según \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DL2-Y7zB-Hr/\">los vídeos grabados por civiles y periodistas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los manifestantes intentaban impedir que los agentes de inmigración sacaran a un hombre detenido del interior del tribunal y lo subieran a una camioneta que se encontraba afuera. La camioneta atravesó el grupo, arrastrando a un manifestante que se aferraba al vehículo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las detenciones y arrestos dentro de los juzgados de inmigración se han convertido en \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">una táctica sin precedentes\u003c/a> para los agentes de inmigración, quienes buscan cumplir una cuota de 3 mil detenciones diarias. Según la base de datos \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/es/about.html\">Deportation Data Project\u003c/a>, el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (o ICE por sus siglas en inglés) ha detenido a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/27/us/ice-arrests-trump.html\">más de 5 mil 800 inmigrantes\u003c/a> a nivel estatal desde enero, lo que supone \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/27/us/ice-arrests-trump.html?smid=url-share&rsrc=deeplink#ice_arrests_California\">un aumento del 123%\u003c/a> con respecto a 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La represión contra la comunidad inmigrante ha \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043346/sf-rallies-for-david-huerta-california-union-leader-arrested-in-la-immigration-raid\">aterrorizado y enfurecido a los residentes del Área de la Bahía\u003c/a>, lo que ha provocado manifestaciones y \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047018/how-legal-experts-advocates-are-responding-to-the-detention-of-asylum-seekers\">acciones para evitar detenciones\u003c/a>, sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que los agentes de ICE a veces llevan el rostro cubierto para ocultar su identidad. El senador Alex Padilla ha \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/ice-agents-masks-bill-democrats\">presentado un proyecto de ley\u003c/a> que prohibiría a los agentes llevar máscaras y les obligaría a mostrar su número de placa. Muchas familias han contado \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/21/nx-s1-5439578/ice-detention-father-daughter-protest-immigration-department-homeland-security\">a los medios de comunicación\u003c/a>, que tan difícil es \u003ca href=\"https://sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/ice-has-disappeared-48-new-mexico-residents-attorneys-say/\">localizar\u003c/a> a sus seres queridos en el sistema.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED ha elaborado una guía sobre cómo navegar por la base de datos en línea de ICE para buscar a alguien en el sistema. Tenga en cuenta que este reportaje no es asesoría legal y que consultar a un abogado puede ayudarle en su situación específica. KQED también tiene una guía sobre dónde encontrar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">asistencia legal gratuita o de bajo costo en el Área de la Bahía\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049126 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/ice-agents-on-horses.jpg\" alt=\"Una persona lleva puesta una bandera de Estados Unidos y enfrente de ella aparecen varios agentes de policía montados en caballo.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/ice-agents-on-horses.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/ice-agents-on-horses-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La policía se enfrenta a manifestantes frente al Ayuntamiento de Los Ángeles durante las protestas por las redadas federales contra inmigrantes indocumentados el miércoles 11 de junio de 2025 en Los Ángeles. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Utilice el sistema en línea de ICE\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si la persona es adulta, puede utilizar el \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">Sistema de Localización de Detenidos en Línea de ICE\u003c/a> para buscarla, o puede llamar al \u003ca href=\"https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1706?language=es\">(866) 347-2423\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Necesitará tener lista \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-27/what-to-do-if-relative-detained-immigration-officials\">la información de la persona\u003c/a>, como:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Su “número de registro de extranjero” (o número A), asignado por el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional. Este número se encuentra en la tarjeta de residencia, el permiso de trabajo u otros documentos de inmigración, y suele tener \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/es/glossary-term/50684\">siete o nueve dígitos\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su nombre completo\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su país de nacimiento\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su fecha de nacimiento\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Según el \u003ca href=\"https://asaptogether.org/es/preguntas-frecuentes-otros-temas/\">Proyecto de Defensa de los Solicitantes de Asilo\u003c/a> (o ASAP por sus siglas en inglés), pueden pasar varios días hasta que una persona aparezca en la base de datos de ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si el nombre que busca no aparece en el sistema de ICE, o si le preocupa su seguridad y su posible deportación, puede solicitar ayuda a organizaciones de defensa como \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/\">Freedom for Immigrants\u003c/a> a través de \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/reunite\">un formulario en línea\u003c/a> o llamando al 209-757-3733. (También puede encontrar asistencia legal gratuita o de bajo costo específica para inmigrantes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026143/que-hacer-si-se-topa-con-ice\">en esta guía de KQED\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Consulte la herramienta de búsqueda de la Oficina de Prisiones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Según el Centro Nacional de Leyes de Inmigración (NILC por sus siglas en inglés), \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-12/trump-administration-immigrants-dublin-federal-prison\">este año\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">“ICE comenzó a utilizar prisiones gestionadas por la Oficina de Prisiones para retener a personas por casos de inmigración”\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puede utilizar \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/\">la herramienta de búsqueda de la Oficina de Prisiones\u003c/a> (BOP por sus siglas en inglés) para buscar a una persona. El NILC afirma que las personas que están detenidas por BOP también deberían aparecer en el \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">sistema de localización en línea de ICE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si conoce alguien que fue detenido cerca de una de estas prisiones, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/locations/map.jsp?region=WXR\">puede intentar llamar directamente al centro\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049127 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/little-girl-with-Mexican-flag.jpg\" alt=\"Un adulto abraza a una niña que lleva en la mano una bandera mexicana.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/little-girl-with-Mexican-flag.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/little-girl-with-Mexican-flag-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/little-girl-with-Mexican-flag-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Una joven asiste a una manifestación por los derechos de los inmigrantes frente al Ayuntamiento de Los Ángeles el 5 de febrero de 2025. \u003ccite>(Qian Weizhong/VCG vía Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>¿Busca a un menor?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si trata de encontrar a un menor que sospecha que ha sido detenido, puede llamar a ICE al 800-203-7001. También puede enviar un correo electrónico a la \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2018-Jun/next-steps-for-families.pdf\">Oficina de Reasentamiento de Refugiados\u003c/a> al correo \u003ca href=\"mailto:information@ORRNCC.com\">information@ORRNCC.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Póngase en contacto con una oficina local de ICE\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La oficina local de Operaciones de Control y Deportación de ICE en San Francisco supervisa un área que incluye el \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/es\">norte de California, Hawái, Guam y Saipán\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puede ponerse en contacto con la oficina local de SF, situada en 630 Sansome St., por teléfono al 415-365-8800 o por correo electrónico a SanFrancisco.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenga en cuenta que el NILC advierte que si llama o envía un correo electrónico a una oficina local, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">“no proporcione a los agentes más información de la necesaria”\u003c/a> y “solo facilite el número A o la información básica, como el nombre y el país de nacimiento, que utilizaría en el localizador en línea”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si no puede comunicarse con nadie en la oficina local, San Francisco cuenta con un oficial de relaciones comunitarias de ICE y puede escribirle un correo a: \u003ca href=\"mailto:CommunityRelations.SanFrancisco@ice.dhs.gov\">CommunityRelations.SanFrancisco@ice.dhs.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Llame a un centro de detención\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>El sitio web de ICE enumera \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/es\">cinco centros de detención\u003c/a> asociados con la oficina local de San Francisco, aunque no todos se encuentran en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si conoce alguien que \u003ca href=\"https://www.usa.gov/es/localizar-persona-detenida-ice\">se encuentra detenido en un centro de detención\u003c/a>, puede llamar para intentar obtener más información.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/golden-state-annex\">Golden State Annex\u003c/a> en McFarland. El número es (661) 792-2731 y puede llamar de 8 a.m. a 3:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/mesa-verde-ice-processing-facility\">El centro de procesamiento de ICE Mesa Verde\u003c/a> en Bakersfield. Puede llamar al (661) 859-1028 de 8 a.m. a 3:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/federal-detention-center-honolulu-fdc-honolulu\">Centro federal de detención Honolulu\u003c/a> en Hawái. Puede llamar al (808) 529-1970 de 8 a.m. a 3 p.m. Recuerde que Hawái tiene tres horas menos que San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/guam-department-corrections-hagatna-detention-facility\">El centro de detención Hagatna del departamento correccional de Guam\u003c/a>. Puede llamar al (671) 777-2976 de 7:30 a.m. a 3:30 p.m. Recuerde que Guam tiene 17 horas más que San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/cnmi-department-corrections\">El departamento correccional CNMI\u003c/a> en las Islas Marianas del Norte. Puede llamar al 670-237-6000 de 8 a. m. a 4 p. m. Recuerde que las Islas Marianas del Norte tienen 17 horas más que San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Según el sitio web de ICE, las personas detenidas no pueden recibir llamadas. Debe dejar un mensaje en el centro con el nombre completo del detenido, su número de registro de extranjero (su “número A”), así como su nombre y número de teléfono donde se le puede localizar.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Póngase en contacto con el consulado de la persona\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Según el \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">NILC\u003c/a>, “Todos los inmigrantes en las cárceles de ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management/national-detainee-handbook\">tienen derecho\u003c/a> a ponerse en contacto con el consulado de su país”. También puede intentar ponerse en contacto con esta oficina usted mismo para tratar de localizar a la persona. Sin embargo, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">el NILC recomienda encarecidamente\u003c/a> que no lo haga si la persona está solicitando asilo o teme por su vida en su país de origen.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Averigüe la posible fecha de su audiencia judicial\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si le preocupa que alguien sea deportado por el proceso de “deportación acelerada”, primero confirme si esta persona tiene una audiencia judicial. “Si alguien tiene una fecha pendiente para comparecer ante un tribunal, eso significa que todavía no enfrentan un proceso de deportación acelerada”, afirma Jordan Weiner, director jurídico en La Raza Centro Legal en San Francisco. “Pero una vez que inicie el proceso de deportación acelerada, la posibilidad de una audiencia con la corte desaparece”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puede buscar la próxima fecha de audiencia de una persona utilizando su número A en el \u003ca href=\"https://acis.eoir.justice.gov/es/\">sitio web de la Oficina ejecutiva de revisión de inmigración\u003c/a> (EOIR por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las personas especialmente vulnerables a la deportación acelerada son aquellas que están detenidas y no tienen información que aparezca en el sitio web de la EOIR, porque nunca se les otorgó una notificación para comparecer ante la corte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si el caso de alguien ha sido desestimado o no aparece en el sistema pero luego aparece con una fecha de comparecencia ante el tribunal, esto “probablemente significa que ha superado \u003ca href=\"http://their%20credible%20fear%20interview\">la entrevista de temor creíble\u003c/a> y ha vuelto a ser procesado ante un juez de inmigración”, explicó Weiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo cual es bueno, porque significa que puede defender su caso”, agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>La periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/a> de KQED contribuyó a este reportaje.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047506/searching-for-a-loved-one-in-ice-custody-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Read in English\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La tensión entre activistas y agentes de inmigración en San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047397/ice-officers-drive-through-protesters-trying-to-stop-arrest-at-sf-immigration-court\">llegó a su punto crítico\u003c/a> a principios de julio cuando los funcionarios federales atropellaron en sus vehículos un grupo de manifestantes frente al tribunal de inmigración en esa ciudad, según \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DL2-Y7zB-Hr/\">los vídeos grabados por civiles y periodistas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los manifestantes intentaban impedir que los agentes de inmigración sacaran a un hombre detenido del interior del tribunal y lo subieran a una camioneta que se encontraba afuera. La camioneta atravesó el grupo, arrastrando a un manifestante que se aferraba al vehículo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las detenciones y arrestos dentro de los juzgados de inmigración se han convertido en \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">una táctica sin precedentes\u003c/a> para los agentes de inmigración, quienes buscan cumplir una cuota de 3 mil detenciones diarias. Según la base de datos \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/es/about.html\">Deportation Data Project\u003c/a>, el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (o ICE por sus siglas en inglés) ha detenido a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/27/us/ice-arrests-trump.html\">más de 5 mil 800 inmigrantes\u003c/a> a nivel estatal desde enero, lo que supone \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/27/us/ice-arrests-trump.html?smid=url-share&rsrc=deeplink#ice_arrests_California\">un aumento del 123%\u003c/a> con respecto a 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La represión contra la comunidad inmigrante ha \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043346/sf-rallies-for-david-huerta-california-union-leader-arrested-in-la-immigration-raid\">aterrorizado y enfurecido a los residentes del Área de la Bahía\u003c/a>, lo que ha provocado manifestaciones y \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047018/how-legal-experts-advocates-are-responding-to-the-detention-of-asylum-seekers\">acciones para evitar detenciones\u003c/a>, sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que los agentes de ICE a veces llevan el rostro cubierto para ocultar su identidad. El senador Alex Padilla ha \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/ice-agents-masks-bill-democrats\">presentado un proyecto de ley\u003c/a> que prohibiría a los agentes llevar máscaras y les obligaría a mostrar su número de placa. Muchas familias han contado \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/21/nx-s1-5439578/ice-detention-father-daughter-protest-immigration-department-homeland-security\">a los medios de comunicación\u003c/a>, que tan difícil es \u003ca href=\"https://sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/ice-has-disappeared-48-new-mexico-residents-attorneys-say/\">localizar\u003c/a> a sus seres queridos en el sistema.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED ha elaborado una guía sobre cómo navegar por la base de datos en línea de ICE para buscar a alguien en el sistema. Tenga en cuenta que este reportaje no es asesoría legal y que consultar a un abogado puede ayudarle en su situación específica. KQED también tiene una guía sobre dónde encontrar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\">asistencia legal gratuita o de bajo costo en el Área de la Bahía\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049126 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/ice-agents-on-horses.jpg\" alt=\"Una persona lleva puesta una bandera de Estados Unidos y enfrente de ella aparecen varios agentes de policía montados en caballo.\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/ice-agents-on-horses.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/ice-agents-on-horses-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La policía se enfrenta a manifestantes frente al Ayuntamiento de Los Ángeles durante las protestas por las redadas federales contra inmigrantes indocumentados el miércoles 11 de junio de 2025 en Los Ángeles. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Utilice el sistema en línea de ICE\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si la persona es adulta, puede utilizar el \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">Sistema de Localización de Detenidos en Línea de ICE\u003c/a> para buscarla, o puede llamar al \u003ca href=\"https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1706?language=es\">(866) 347-2423\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Necesitará tener lista \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-27/what-to-do-if-relative-detained-immigration-officials\">la información de la persona\u003c/a>, como:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Su “número de registro de extranjero” (o número A), asignado por el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional. Este número se encuentra en la tarjeta de residencia, el permiso de trabajo u otros documentos de inmigración, y suele tener \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/es/glossary-term/50684\">siete o nueve dígitos\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su nombre completo\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su país de nacimiento\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Su fecha de nacimiento\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Según el \u003ca href=\"https://asaptogether.org/es/preguntas-frecuentes-otros-temas/\">Proyecto de Defensa de los Solicitantes de Asilo\u003c/a> (o ASAP por sus siglas en inglés), pueden pasar varios días hasta que una persona aparezca en la base de datos de ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si el nombre que busca no aparece en el sistema de ICE, o si le preocupa su seguridad y su posible deportación, puede solicitar ayuda a organizaciones de defensa como \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/\">Freedom for Immigrants\u003c/a> a través de \u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/reunite\">un formulario en línea\u003c/a> o llamando al 209-757-3733. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Consulte la herramienta de búsqueda de la Oficina de Prisiones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Según el Centro Nacional de Leyes de Inmigración (NILC por sus siglas en inglés), \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-12/trump-administration-immigrants-dublin-federal-prison\">este año\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">“ICE comenzó a utilizar prisiones gestionadas por la Oficina de Prisiones para retener a personas por casos de inmigración”\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puede utilizar \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/\">la herramienta de búsqueda de la Oficina de Prisiones\u003c/a> (BOP por sus siglas en inglés) para buscar a una persona. El NILC afirma que las personas que están detenidas por BOP también deberían aparecer en el \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">sistema de localización en línea de ICE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si conoce alguien que fue detenido cerca de una de estas prisiones, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/locations/map.jsp?region=WXR\">puede intentar llamar directamente al centro\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12049127 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/little-girl-with-Mexican-flag.jpg\" alt=\"Un adulto abraza a una niña que lleva en la mano una bandera mexicana.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/little-girl-with-Mexican-flag.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/little-girl-with-Mexican-flag-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/little-girl-with-Mexican-flag-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Una joven asiste a una manifestación por los derechos de los inmigrantes frente al Ayuntamiento de Los Ángeles el 5 de febrero de 2025. \u003ccite>(Qian Weizhong/VCG vía Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>¿Busca a un menor?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si trata de encontrar a un menor que sospecha que ha sido detenido, puede llamar a ICE al 800-203-7001. También puede enviar un correo electrónico a la \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2018-Jun/next-steps-for-families.pdf\">Oficina de Reasentamiento de Refugiados\u003c/a> al correo \u003ca href=\"mailto:information@ORRNCC.com\">information@ORRNCC.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Póngase en contacto con una oficina local de ICE\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>La oficina local de Operaciones de Control y Deportación de ICE en San Francisco supervisa un área que incluye el \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/es\">norte de California, Hawái, Guam y Saipán\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puede ponerse en contacto con la oficina local de SF, situada en 630 Sansome St., por teléfono al 415-365-8800 o por correo electrónico a SanFrancisco.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenga en cuenta que el NILC advierte que si llama o envía un correo electrónico a una oficina local, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">“no proporcione a los agentes más información de la necesaria”\u003c/a> y “solo facilite el número A o la información básica, como el nombre y el país de nacimiento, que utilizaría en el localizador en línea”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si no puede comunicarse con nadie en la oficina local, San Francisco cuenta con un oficial de relaciones comunitarias de ICE y puede escribirle un correo a: \u003ca href=\"mailto:CommunityRelations.SanFrancisco@ice.dhs.gov\">CommunityRelations.SanFrancisco@ice.dhs.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Llame a un centro de detención\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>El sitio web de ICE enumera \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/es\">cinco centros de detención\u003c/a> asociados con la oficina local de San Francisco, aunque no todos se encuentran en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si conoce alguien que \u003ca href=\"https://www.usa.gov/es/localizar-persona-detenida-ice\">se encuentra detenido en un centro de detención\u003c/a>, puede llamar para intentar obtener más información.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/golden-state-annex\">Golden State Annex\u003c/a> en McFarland. El número es (661) 792-2731 y puede llamar de 8 a.m. a 3:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/mesa-verde-ice-processing-facility\">El centro de procesamiento de ICE Mesa Verde\u003c/a> en Bakersfield. Puede llamar al (661) 859-1028 de 8 a.m. a 3:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/federal-detention-center-honolulu-fdc-honolulu\">Centro federal de detención Honolulu\u003c/a> en Hawái. Puede llamar al (808) 529-1970 de 8 a.m. a 3 p.m. Recuerde que Hawái tiene tres horas menos que San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/guam-department-corrections-hagatna-detention-facility\">El centro de detención Hagatna del departamento correccional de Guam\u003c/a>. Puede llamar al (671) 777-2976 de 7:30 a.m. a 3:30 p.m. Recuerde que Guam tiene 17 horas más que San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/cnmi-department-corrections\">El departamento correccional CNMI\u003c/a> en las Islas Marianas del Norte. Puede llamar al 670-237-6000 de 8 a. m. a 4 p. m. Recuerde que las Islas Marianas del Norte tienen 17 horas más que San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Según el sitio web de ICE, las personas detenidas no pueden recibir llamadas. Debe dejar un mensaje en el centro con el nombre completo del detenido, su número de registro de extranjero (su “número A”), así como su nombre y número de teléfono donde se le puede localizar.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Póngase en contacto con el consulado de la persona\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Según el \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">NILC\u003c/a>, “Todos los inmigrantes en las cárceles de ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management/national-detainee-handbook\">tienen derecho\u003c/a> a ponerse en contacto con el consulado de su país”. También puede intentar ponerse en contacto con esta oficina usted mismo para tratar de localizar a la persona. Sin embargo, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">el NILC recomienda encarecidamente\u003c/a> que no lo haga si la persona está solicitando asilo o teme por su vida en su país de origen.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Averigüe la posible fecha de su audiencia judicial\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Si le preocupa que alguien sea deportado por el proceso de “deportación acelerada”, primero confirme si esta persona tiene una audiencia judicial. “Si alguien tiene una fecha pendiente para comparecer ante un tribunal, eso significa que todavía no enfrentan un proceso de deportación acelerada”, afirma Jordan Weiner, director jurídico en La Raza Centro Legal en San Francisco. “Pero una vez que inicie el proceso de deportación acelerada, la posibilidad de una audiencia con la corte desaparece”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Puede buscar la próxima fecha de audiencia de una persona utilizando su número A en el \u003ca href=\"https://acis.eoir.justice.gov/es/\">sitio web de la Oficina ejecutiva de revisión de inmigración\u003c/a> (EOIR por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las personas especialmente vulnerables a la deportación acelerada son aquellas que están detenidas y no tienen información que aparezca en el sitio web de la EOIR, porque nunca se les otorgó una notificación para comparecer ante la corte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si el caso de alguien ha sido desestimado o no aparece en el sistema pero luego aparece con una fecha de comparecencia ante el tribunal, esto “probablemente significa que ha superado \u003ca href=\"http://their%20credible%20fear%20interview\">la entrevista de temor creíble\u003c/a> y ha vuelto a ser procesado ante un juez de inmigración”, explicó Weiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo cual es bueno, porque significa que puede defender su caso”, agregó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>La periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/a> de KQED contribuyó a este reportaje.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 1 p.m. Saturday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in seven California counties, including Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-lawsuit-trump-administration-immigration-raids-d981e5026af6cf73e8f6600a8ed24bad\">Immigrant advocacy groups filed the lawsuit last week\u003c/a> accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of systematically targeting brown-skinned people in Southern California during its ongoing immigration crackdown. The plaintiffs include three detained immigrants and two U.S. citizens, one of whom was held despite showing agents his identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing in U.S. District Court asked a judge to block the administration from using what they call unconstitutional tactics in immigration raids. Immigrant advocates accuse immigration officials of detaining someone based on their race, carrying out warrantless arrests, and denying detainees access to legal counsel at a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/ice-immigration-raids-detainee-families-los-angeles-651d8bba4752553a67eb53db084677b2\">holding facility in downtown L.A\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said “justice prevailed today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court’s decision puts a temporary stop to federal immigration officials violating people’s rights and racial profiling,” read the statement. “Instead of targeting the most dangerous people, federal officials have been arbitrarily detaining Americans and hardworking people, ripping families apart, and disappearing people into cruel detention to meet outrageous arrest quotas without regard to due process and constitutional rights that protect all of us from cruelty and injustice. That should stop now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Rob Bonta stated Friday that he “celebrates” the court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump Administration is using federal immigration agents as a tool to instill fear and division in Los Angeles communities,” read the statement from the attorney general’s office. “Their sweeping stops of Angelenos, based not on any evidence of wrongdoing but instead on racial profiling, is flagrantly unconstitutional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Maame E. Frimpong also issued a separate order barring the federal government from restricting attorney access at a Los Angeles immigration detention facility in response to a request from nonprofit law firm Public Counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frimpong issued the emergency orders, which are a temporary measure while the lawsuit proceeds, the day after a hearing during which advocacy groups argued that the government was violating the Fourth and Fifth amendments of the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wrote in the order there was a “mountain of evidence” presented in the case that the federal government was committing the violations they were being accused of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House responded quickly to the ruling late Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No federal judge has the authority to dictate immigration policy — that authority rests with Congress and the President,” spokesperson Abigail Jackson said. “Enforcement operations require careful planning and execution; skills far beyond the purview (or) jurisdiction of any judge. We expect this gross overstep of judicial authority to be corrected on appeal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Communities on edge as administration steps up arrests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Immigrants and Latino communities across Southern California have been on edge for weeks since the Trump administration stepped up arrests at car washes, Home Depot parking lots, immigration courts and a range of businesses. Tens of thousands of people have participated in rallies in the region over the raids and the subsequent \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/insurrection-act-trump-troops-newsom-military-national-guard-a842f79e1c0e244039be274a6f266a7a\">deployment of the National Guard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-raids-national-guard-lawsuit-los-angeles-f4809c7f39d09e4fdfa01982f44ec995\">Marines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order also applies to Ventura County, where busloads of workers were detained Thursday while the court hearing was underway after federal agents \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-farm-immigration-raid-d58bb572cd1638c2c4b8d3ef26c2b430\">descended on a cannabis farm\u003c/a>, leading to clashes with protesters and multiple injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12047018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the American Civil Liberties Union, the recent wave of immigration enforcement has been driven by an “arbitrary arrest quota” and based on “broad stereotypes based on race or ethnicity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When detaining the three day laborers who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit, all immigration agents knew about them is that they were Latino and were dressed in construction work clothes, the filing in the lawsuit said. It goes on to describe raids at swap meets and Home Depots where witnesses say federal agents grabbed anyone who “looked Hispanic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said in an email that “any claims that individuals have been ‘targeted’ by law enforcement because of their skin color are disgusting and categorically FALSE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin said “enforcement operations are highly targeted, and officers do their due diligence” before making arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ruling, she said “a district judge is undermining the will of the American people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU attorney Mohammad Tajsar said Brian Gavidia, one of the U.S. citizens who was detained, was “physically assaulted … for no other reason than he was Latino and working at a tow yard in a predominantly Latin American neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tajsar asked why immigration agents detained everyone at a car wash except two white workers, according to a declaration by a car wash worker, if race wasn’t involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tajsar also said advocates in the Bay Area should take note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If ICE and Border Patrol engage in these practices, say in Alameda County or in San Francisco, there is a really good legal footing for communities to actually go to court to prevent this from happening,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-05-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-05-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-05-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SF-IMMIGRATION-PROTESTS-MD-05-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jess P. waves an upside-down flag at a rally against the Trump administration’s travel bans in front of City Hall in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Representing the government, attorney Sean Skedzielewski said there was no evidence that federal immigration agents considered race in their arrests, and that they only considered appearance as part of the “totality of the circumstances,” including prior surveillance and interactions with people in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, they also operated off “targeted, individualized packages,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department of Homeland Security has policy and training to ensure compliance with the Fourth Amendment,” Skedzielewski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Order opens facility to lawyer visits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lawyers from Immigrant Defenders Law Center and other groups say they also have been denied access to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in downtown LA known as “B-18” on several occasions since June, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Counsel lawyer Mark Rosenbaum said in one incident on June 7 attorneys “attempted to shout out basic rights” at a bus of people detained by immigration agents in downtown L.A. when the government drivers honked their horns to drown them out and chemical munitions akin to tear gas were deployed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skedzielewski said access was only restricted to “protect the employees and the detainees” during violent protests and it has since been restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenbaum said lawyers were denied access even on days without any demonstrations nearby, and that the people detained are also not given sufficient access to phones or informed that lawyers were available to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the facility lacks adequate food and beds, which he called “coercive” to getting people to sign papers to agree to leave the country before consulting an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s order will temporarily prevent the government from solely using apparent race or ethnicity, speaking Spanish or English with an accent, presence at a location such as a tow yard or car wash, or someone’s occupation as the basis for reasonable suspicion to stop someone. 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"content": "\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship is once again frozen by a federal judge’s nationwide injunction, preventing the administration from enforcing the policy in any of the 50 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044886/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-ruling-limits-nationwide-injunctions\">previously ruled\u003c/a> that the federal government could only enforce the order in the 28 states that have not challenged it in court, while it remains blocked in the other 22 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s decision from the U.S. District Court for New Hampshire allows civil rights groups to move forward \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/barbara-v-donald-j-trump?document=PI-Order\">with a class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> on behalf of newborn babies affected by executive order. While the Supreme Court has limited the power of district judges to stop executive orders nationwide, it still allows this type of injunction in class action cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#parents\">\u003cstrong>Jump to: Expecting a baby? What you should know now\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Having a patchwork system of birthright citizenship would be totally unworkable,” said Aarti Kohli, executive director of the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus, one of the organizations that presented the lawsuit. “It would turn doctors and nurses into immigration agents. It would be really expensive to administer. It would create a lot of confusion and fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive order would deny U.S. citizenship to babies born in the country to parents without permanent legal status, but the Supreme Court’s June 27 ruling created a split: a baby born to undocumented parents in California — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">which sued the federal government over the policy\u003c/a> — would be entitled to citizenship, while a baby born to a family with similar circumstances in Texas — which has not challenged the executive order — could be denied citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this latest injunction blocks the executive order from taking effect in any state, guaranteeing birthright citizenship for now to babies born to immigrant parents without permanent legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What parents need to know is that they are protected for now,” said Kohli, who added that she expects another legal battle that could end up in the Supreme Court. “We’re in this for the long haul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to understand the latest rules on U.S. birthright citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Who does Trump’s birthright citizenship order affect now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 20, Trump signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/\">an executive order\u003c/a> declaring that the federal government will no longer grant documents that confirm citizenship, like a Social Security Number or passport, to children born on or after Feb. 19, 2025, who are in the following situations:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother is “unlawfully present” (with no legal status) in the U.S. and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>At the time of birth, the baby’s biological mother was in the U.S. with a temporary visa or permit, and the biological father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The text of the executive order is written in legal language that can be difficult for the general public to understand. But based on the circumstances the order describes, these are families that could be affected by Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents have no legal immigration documents at the time of their baby’s birth.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Families where both parents only have a temporary legal status, which could include: Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole. Their baby would not have birthright citizenship.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If one parent has no legal status and the other only has a temporary legal status, which could include: TPS, DACA, H1-B holders, a student J-1 visa or an H-2A visa for agricultural workers, another temporary visa or humanitarian parole. Their baby would not have birthright citizenship.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>On June 27, the Supreme Court ruled the executive order cannot be enforced in the following 22 states, along with the District of Columbia:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>California\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Arizona\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Colorado\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Connecticut\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Delaware\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hawaii\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Illinois\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Maine\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Massachusetts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Maryland\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Michigan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Minnesota\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nevada\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>New Jersey\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>New Mexico\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>New York\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>North Carolina\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Oregon\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rhode Island\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Vermont\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Washington\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Wisconsin\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>While in the remaining 28 states, the new birthright citizenship rules were set to begin on July 27. 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The order is now blocked nationwide as the case moves through the judicial system, with legal experts predicting the fight will make it to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this moment, the federal government will still recognize your baby as a U.S. citizen, regardless of your immigration status or what state the child was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Would anyone be stripped of their existing American citizenship with this order?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive order says nothing about taking away the citizenship of people born in the U.S. before Feb. 19, regardless of the immigration status of their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>I’m currently expecting a baby. Will they still become a US citizen automatically?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This one’s complicated, as this depends on the future of the class-action lawsuit brought by civil rights groups on behalf of babies impacted by the executive order. Thanks to the July 10 ruling from the New Hampshire district court, the Trump administration must continue to recognize the U.S. citizenship of babies born to immigrant parents without a permanent legal status, regardless of their state of residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the White House challenges the ruling, the case would next go to a federal appeals court and, potentially, to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, there are still multiple lawsuits against the government over the constitutionality of Trump’s executive order that are making their way through the judicial system. Once those cases reach the Supreme Court, the justices will have the final word on whether the executive order is overturned entirely or enforced nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep in mind, however, that the Supreme Court is currently in recess and will resume hearing cases in October. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship is once again frozen by a federal judge’s nationwide injunction, preventing the administration from enforcing the policy in any of the 50 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044886/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-ruling-limits-nationwide-injunctions\">previously ruled\u003c/a> that the federal government could only enforce the order in the 28 states that have not challenged it in court, while it remains blocked in the other 22 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s decision from the U.S. District Court for New Hampshire allows civil rights groups to move forward \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/barbara-v-donald-j-trump?document=PI-Order\">with a class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> on behalf of newborn babies affected by executive order. While the Supreme Court has limited the power of district judges to stop executive orders nationwide, it still allows this type of injunction in class action cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#parents\">\u003cstrong>Jump to: Expecting a baby? What you should know now\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Having a patchwork system of birthright citizenship would be totally unworkable,” said Aarti Kohli, executive director of the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus, one of the organizations that presented the lawsuit. “It would turn doctors and nurses into immigration agents. It would be really expensive to administer. It would create a lot of confusion and fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s executive order would deny U.S. citizenship to babies born in the country to parents without permanent legal status, but the Supreme Court’s June 27 ruling created a split: a baby born to undocumented parents in California — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">which sued the federal government over the policy\u003c/a> — would be entitled to citizenship, while a baby born to a family with similar circumstances in Texas — which has not challenged the executive order — could be denied citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this latest injunction blocks the executive order from taking effect in any state, guaranteeing birthright citizenship for now to babies born to immigrant parents without permanent legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What parents need to know is that they are protected for now,” said Kohli, who added that she expects another legal battle that could end up in the Supreme Court. “We’re in this for the long haul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading to understand the latest rules on U.S. birthright citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They arrested immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally, and there were also at least 10 immigrant children on site, the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four U.S. citizens were arrested for “assaulting or resisting officers,” the department said. Authorities were offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of one person suspected of firing a gun at federal agents. At least one worker was hospitalized with grave injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the raid, crowds of people gathered outside Glass House Farms at the Camarillo location to demand information about their relatives and protest immigration enforcement. A chaotic scene emerged outside the farm that grows tomatoes, cucumbers and cannabis as authorities clad in military-style helmets and uniforms faced off with the demonstrators. Acrid green and white billowing smoke then forced community members to retreat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glass House, a licensed California cannabis grower, said in a statement that immigration agents had valid warrants. The company said workers were detained, and it is helping provide them with legal representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Glass House has never knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has never employed minors,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is legal to grow and sell cannabis in California with proper licensing. State records show the company has multiple active licenses to cultivate cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Worker hospitalized after fall\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At least 12 people were injured during the raid and protest at the farm in Camarillo, said Andrew Dowd, a spokesperson for the Ventura County Fire Department. Eight were taken to Saint John’s St. John’s Regional Medical Center and the Ventura County Medical Center, and four were treated at the scene and released. Dowd said he did not have information on the extent of the injuries of those hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12043346 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-14-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, about two dozen people waited outside the Camarillo farm to retrieve the cars of loved ones and speak to managers about what happened. 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A doctor at Ventura County Medical Center told the family that those who brought Alanis to the hospital said he had fallen from the roof of a building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alanis had a broken neck, fractured skull and a rupture in an artery that pumps blood to the brain, said his niece Yesenia, who didn’t want to share her last name for fear of reprisal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told us he won’t make it and to say goodbye,” Yesenia said, crying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Confrontation with authorities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After immigration agents arrived at Glass House’s farm in Camarillo on Thursday morning, workers called family members to let them know authorities were there. Relatives and advocates headed to the farm some 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of downtown Los Angeles to try to find out what was going on, and began protesting outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal authorities formed a line blocking the road leading through farm fields to the company’s greenhouses. Protesters were seen shouting at agents wearing camouflage gear, helmets and gas masks. The billowing smoke drove protesters to retreat. It wasn’t clear why authorities threw the canisters or if they released chemicals such as tear gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ventura County fire authorities responding to a 911 call of people having trouble breathing said three people were taken to nearby hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the farm, agents arrested workers and removed them by bus. 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No further details of the allegations were provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said hundreds of demonstrators attempted to disrupt the operations, leading to the arrest of four Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who assaults or doxes federal law enforcement,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection were both part of the operation, the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Family members search for answers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Relatives of other workers said they got similar calls Thursday. The mother of an American worker said her son was held at the worksite for 11 hours and told her agents took workers’ cellphones to prevent them from calling family or filming and forced them to erase cellphone video of agents at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said her son told her agents marked the men’s hands with ink to distinguish their immigration status. She spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because she feared reprisals from the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Farm Workers said in statement that some U.S. citizens are not yet accounted for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Servin, 68, said her son has worked at the farm for 18 years and was helping to build a greenhouse. She said she spoke to her son, who is undocumented, after hearing of the raid and offered to pick him up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said not to come because they were surrounded and there was even a helicopter. That was the last time I spoke to him,” Servin, a U.S. citizen, said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she went to the farm anyway but federal agents were shooting tear gas and rubber bullets and she decided it was not safe to stay. She and her daughter returned to the farm Friday and were told her son had been arrested Thursday. They still don’t know where he is being held.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I regret 1,000 times that I didn’t help him get his documents,” Servin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Taxin reported from Orange County, California, and Rodriguez reported from San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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A doctor at Ventura County Medical Center told the family that those who brought Alanis to the hospital said he had fallen from the roof of a building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alanis had a broken neck, fractured skull and a rupture in an artery that pumps blood to the brain, said his niece Yesenia, who didn’t want to share her last name for fear of reprisal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told us he won’t make it and to say goodbye,” Yesenia said, crying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Confrontation with authorities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After immigration agents arrived at Glass House’s farm in Camarillo on Thursday morning, workers called family members to let them know authorities were there. Relatives and advocates headed to the farm some 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of downtown Los Angeles to try to find out what was going on, and began protesting outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal authorities formed a line blocking the road leading through farm fields to the company’s greenhouses. Protesters were seen shouting at agents wearing camouflage gear, helmets and gas masks. The billowing smoke drove protesters to retreat. It wasn’t clear why authorities threw the canisters or if they released chemicals such as tear gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ventura County fire authorities responding to a 911 call of people having trouble breathing said three people were taken to nearby hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the farm, agents arrested workers and removed them by bus. Others, including U.S. citizens, were detained at the site for hours while agents investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident came as federal immigration agents have ramped up arrests in Southern California at car washes, \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/immigration-raids-california-farmworkers-1301639766f55c8d4e8e15ff2fd45687\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">farms\u003c/a>\u003c/span> and Home Depot parking lots, stoking \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-ice-immigration-raids-sweeps-fear-d87e36664a8c5938865aad5520345348\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">widespread fear\u003c/a>\u003c/span> among immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047756\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25192726071193-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25192726071193-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25192726071193-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25192726071193-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25192726071193-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25192726071193-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People embrace outside of Glass House Farms, a day after an immigration raid on the facility, on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Camarillo, Calif. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Federal investigations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Friday that the investigation into immigration and potential child labor violations at the farm is ongoing. No further details of the allegations were provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said hundreds of demonstrators attempted to disrupt the operations, leading to the arrest of four Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who assaults or doxes federal law enforcement,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection were both part of the operation, the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Family members search for answers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Relatives of other workers said they got similar calls Thursday. The mother of an American worker said her son was held at the worksite for 11 hours and told her agents took workers’ cellphones to prevent them from calling family or filming and forced them to erase cellphone video of agents at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said her son told her agents marked the men’s hands with ink to distinguish their immigration status. She spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because she feared reprisals from the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Farm Workers said in statement that some U.S. citizens are not yet accounted for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Servin, 68, said her son has worked at the farm for 18 years and was helping to build a greenhouse. She said she spoke to her son, who is undocumented, after hearing of the raid and offered to pick him up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said not to come because they were surrounded and there was even a helicopter. 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"content": "\u003cp>Former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/rohnert-park\">Rohnert Park\u003c/a> police officer Joseph Huffaker was found guilty on Friday in San Francisco federal court of six counts, including conspiracy, extortion, falsifying records and impersonating a federal officer to seize marijuana from motorists on Highway 101, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury deliberated for about 90 minutes before reaching a unanimous verdict. During closing arguments on Friday, prosecutors focused on phone records that placed Huffaker — who illegally stopped motorists to steal their marijuana as part of a conspiracy with other officers — at the scene of one of the suspicious stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense strategy was to blame Brendon “Jacy” Tatum, Huffaker’s former partner, who testified during the trial, among others. The jury was not swayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the verdict, Huedell Freeman, one of the victims of the seizure scheme, said he had goosebumps. Huffaker is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel like there’s a small measure of justice,” he said. “And I’m gratified that the jury was able to sort through the facts, because there was a lot of obfuscation put up by the defense, which is their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really gratified and feel happy that — finally — justice for the unfairly much-maligned cannabis farmer is finally being served. I mean, they made us out to be rich people that needed to be robbed, and we are not that. We are anything but that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Ceballos, Huffaker’s attorney, declined to comment, as did Assistant U.S. Attorney Abraham Fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years ago, KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\">first reported on a string of allegations\u003c/a> from drivers who said Rohnert Park cops, operating far outside the city’s limits, had unlawfully seized hundreds of pounds of cannabis during pretextual traffic stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recreational marijuana became legal in 2018, growers who had operated in the grey area of the medical cannabis market finally felt safe to come forward. Huffaker’s trial promises a rare window into how local and federal officials responded to long-silenced complaints of police corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a long time coming, and it is a very important case,” said Izaak Schwaiger, a defense and civil rights attorney who filed a lawsuit over the unlawful seizure scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said taking the case to trial demonstrates “the government’s willingness to start holding people accountable in a real sense — people who were given a free pass for so long precisely because they were cops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11897846 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_8039-scaled-e1737145446662.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a face mask and business suit walks into a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Brendon “Jacy” Tatum walks into the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly after KQED published its investigation in 2018, Tatum resigned. The city moved to terminate Huffaker but later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735983/probe-into-rohnert-park-cannabis-and-cash-seizures-will-stay-secret-despite-transparency-law\">agreed to a settlement\u003c/a>, ensuring that an internal affairs investigation into the interdiction team would remain secret, despite a new police transparency law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\">paid out more than $1.8 million\u003c/a> to settle civil lawsuits over the seizures. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889861/ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures\">federal grand jury indicted\u003c/a> Huffaker and Tatum in September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, Tatum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897845/ex-rohnert-park-cop-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-commit-extortion\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to conspiracy to commit extortion under “color of law,” falsifying records in a federal investigation and tax evasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Tatum, Huffaker chose to fight the charges, backed by the police union’s legal defense fund, according to court filings and documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, Huffaker has gone through at least seven different lawyers, including Chris Shea of Marin, who died unexpectedly just two weeks before Huffaker was set for trial in October 2023. Huffaker’s latest defense attorney, Richard Ceballos of Ferrone Law Group, said he can not comment on his client’s case until after the trial is over. The U.S. attorney’s office also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always been this gnawing feeling that these guys are still walking free,” said Freeman, who received a settlement from Rohnert Park. “They’ve never done any time for the crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with extensive public scrutiny, the lawsuits and a federal indictment, this case continues to present surprises. In February, KQED discovered that Sonoma County Code Enforcement had busted Tatum for a large indoor marijuana grow on his Santa Rosa property. In March, prosecutors dropped one of the charges against Huffaker. And then in May, a new witness — a coconspirator who said he sold stolen weed on the officers’ behalf — was added to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Brady’ cop\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the key witnesses expected to take the stand is Tatum, whose plea deal includes an agreement to testify against his former partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum was the sergeant in charge of Rohnert Park’s interdiction team, which oversaw the seizure of $3.6 million under civil asset forfeiture laws and at least 2.5 tons of marijuana between 2013 and 2018, according to documents obtained and analyzed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Rohnert Park’s mayor formally recognized Tatum for his drug suppression efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rohnert Park police officers Brendon Jacy Tatum and Joseph Huffaker are facing federal charges tied to alleged illegal stops and seizures of cash and marijuana along Highway 101. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But alongside the apparent success of the interdiction team, complaints about Tatum’s tactics and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\">credibility began to mount\u003c/a>. By 2016, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s office had placed him on its “Brady list” — a list of officers with known integrity issues. When Tatum takes the stand, Ceballos will likely introduce materials from his record to impeach his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a habitual liar,” said Schwaiger, who gave the DA evidence of Tatum’s dishonesty, which led to his placement on the list of problem cops. But Schwaiger said that in this case, Tatum’s testimony will be backed up by hard evidence. “So, I don’t think that the case is made or lost on the testimony of any given witness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum has spent the past four years out of custody awaiting sentencing, which is currently scheduled for September. While under pretrial supervision, KQED discovered that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022803/exclusive-ex-rohnert-park-cop-faces-few-consequences-illegal-cannabis-grow\">Tatum was fined by Sonoma County code enforcement\u003c/a> in 2024 for a large indoor cannabis grow on his property. Federal officials declined to comment on whether this violated the terms of Tatum’s $100,000 bond agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proffer admissions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In February 2022, court documents show that Huffaker sat down with the FBI and admitted that he and Tatum had “agreed to extort drivers under color of official right for marijuana in December of 2017, that they committed multiple such extortions, that Defendant expected to receive money from these extortions, and that he knew his acts were criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Rohnert Park on Commerce Boulevard in Rohnert Park on July 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huffaker made these admissions during a proffer interview — part of a plea process in which defendants offer information to the government in exchange for leniency. But in this case, the negotiations “fell apart,” court records show, and Huffaker walked away from the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior District Judge Maxine Chesney has allowed the government to use Huffaker’s statements during the proffer interview and to internal affairs as rebuttal evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear yet if Huffaker will take the stand, but if he does, Schwaiger said these “prior statements” are likely to be introduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A last-minute witness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the final month leading up to trial, prosecutors also introduced a new witness in their case against Huffaker: a man named William Timmins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timmins told the FBI that he saw Huffaker with Tatum around Dec. 4, 2017, and that he’d “assisted in unloading and loading of approximately 100 to 200 pounds of marijuana on the side of the highway,” according to court filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046768 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rohnert Park police officer Joseph Huffaker is on trial in San Francisco federal court, where prosecutors say he admitted to the FBI that he conspired to extort marijuana from drivers during traffic stops on Highway 101. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Barros/Nur Photo via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Timmins also said it was his job to sell the stolen cannabis and that he’d split the proceeds with Tatum, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense filed a motion to exclude Timmins’s testimony, noting that the FBI interviewed Timmins at least four times in the past two years and that his story has changed. It wasn’t until May 2025 that Timmins admitted his involvement in the scheme and told the FBI that he’d seen Huffaker on the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge will allow Timmins to testify. Court filings indicate he has been granted immunity in exchange for his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dropped charge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another witness long expected to testify for the prosecution is Texas resident Zeke Flatten. Flatten was the first driver to come forward and tell independent journalist Kym Kemp that on Dec. 5, 2017, officers claiming to work for the ATF — the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — stole three pounds of cannabis from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kemp began to ask around, court records show that Tatum and Huffaker met at Huffaker’s house and used his wife’s computer to draft a press release claiming responsibility for the Dec. 5, 2017, traffic stop. But the incident report details were all wrong: the make and model of the car, the amount of cannabis and even the presence of Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press release, written to cover up one incident, actually contained the accurate details of a different seizure and traffic stop that took place on Dec. 18, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ They issued a press release after the fact regarding the seizure, but got all of the details wrong because they were unlawfully seizing too many people to keep track of everyone,” Schwaiger said. “It’s like these cops — nobody questioned them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, Flatten has said that Tatum was not one of the officers who pulled him over. He has said Huffaker was there along with another older white man, both wearing green uniforms without name tags and large “POLICE” insignias. That man has never been identified and Huffaker later claimed he was not a part of Flatten’s stop.[aside postID=news_11673412 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut-672x372.jpg']Flatten’s complaints, filed with local, state and federal law enforcement, sparked public scrutiny and the FBI investigation that ultimately led to Tatum and Huffaker’s indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flatten’s case is hard to boil down into a tidy story. In March, prosecutors dropped Flatten as a witness and dropped one of the extortion charges initially filed against Huffaker related to the Dec. 5, 2017, stop. At the time, Flatten said he was disappointed he wouldn’t get the chance to face Huffaker in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After this many years and this much time put into it and very much life altering,” Flatten said. “And it’s not like I created something out of the air that didn’t happen. These guys were really doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in another twist, the defense added Flatten to\u003cem> its \u003c/em>witness list in June. In court filings, Ceballos argued that excluding Flatten from the case would confuse the jury. He also claimed that federal prosecutors dropped Flatten because he was a “paid FBI informant,” which hadn’t been disclosed. Flatten said he did work as an undercover informant for the FBI many years ago, but was not working as an informant on Dec. 5, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Chesney has yet to rule on whether or not Flatten can take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Brothers in blue?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Court filings show that the federal prosecution plans to focus on a single traffic stop — the one on Dec. 18, 2017, that Huffaker and Tatum conflated with Flatten’s stop on Dec. 5, 2017. However, more than two tons of cannabis were seized during the years that Tatum ran Rohnert Park’s interdiction task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffaker and Tatum pulled over Freeman on Dec. 29, 2016, and took 47 pounds of cannabis that he had grown legally in Mendocino County, for which he had documentation. The day after the stop, Freeman said he called Rohnert Park and spoke to Sgt. Eric Matzen, who assured him that he’d be able to get his property back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046903\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Rohnert Park Police Station on July 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few days later, Freeman’s attorney also contacted the city, but the department never returned his property, and his complaints were never investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived in terror for two years after that,” Freeman said. “They bankrupted me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matzen is listed as a witness for the prosecution, along with a handful of other command staff and records personnel from the Rohnert Park Public Safety Department, including former chief Brian Masterson, who retired in the wake of the scandal.[aside postID=news_12022803 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/5452-HALL-RD-RETURN-W-PIC_Page_4-1020x680.jpg']Four other officers took part in cannabis seizures alongside Tatum: Matthew Snodgrass, Nicholas Miller, Chris Snyder and Chris Medina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snodgrass is now a lieutenant for Rohnert Park. Snyder and Miller are deputies with the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. Medina worked for the Burlingame Police Department before returning to Rohnert Park, where he worked until 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, when Huffaker was set to go to trial in 2023, these men were on the prosecution’s witness list, court filings show. Now, if called, they will be witnesses for the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger said he hopes the outcome of this case sends the message “ to people who wear the uniform and the badge, that this is not a license to rob, to steal, to kill, to hurt people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he will be attending the trial and hopes for a guilty verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I feel bad about anybody that has to do time, but sometimes people deserve it,” he said. “I mean, they, really, really did incredible damage to a lot of people’s faith in law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the verdict, Huedell Freeman, one of the victims of the seizure scheme, said he had goosebumps. Huffaker is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel like there’s a small measure of justice,” he said. “And I’m gratified that the jury was able to sort through the facts, because there was a lot of obfuscation put up by the defense, which is their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really gratified and feel happy that — finally — justice for the unfairly much-maligned cannabis farmer is finally being served. I mean, they made us out to be rich people that needed to be robbed, and we are not that. We are anything but that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Ceballos, Huffaker’s attorney, declined to comment, as did Assistant U.S. Attorney Abraham Fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years ago, KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\">first reported on a string of allegations\u003c/a> from drivers who said Rohnert Park cops, operating far outside the city’s limits, had unlawfully seized hundreds of pounds of cannabis during pretextual traffic stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recreational marijuana became legal in 2018, growers who had operated in the grey area of the medical cannabis market finally felt safe to come forward. Huffaker’s trial promises a rare window into how local and federal officials responded to long-silenced complaints of police corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a long time coming, and it is a very important case,” said Izaak Schwaiger, a defense and civil rights attorney who filed a lawsuit over the unlawful seizure scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said taking the case to trial demonstrates “the government’s willingness to start holding people accountable in a real sense — people who were given a free pass for so long precisely because they were cops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11897846 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_8039-scaled-e1737145446662.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a face mask and business suit walks into a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Brendon “Jacy” Tatum walks into the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly after KQED published its investigation in 2018, Tatum resigned. The city moved to terminate Huffaker but later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735983/probe-into-rohnert-park-cannabis-and-cash-seizures-will-stay-secret-despite-transparency-law\">agreed to a settlement\u003c/a>, ensuring that an internal affairs investigation into the interdiction team would remain secret, despite a new police transparency law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\">paid out more than $1.8 million\u003c/a> to settle civil lawsuits over the seizures. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889861/ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures\">federal grand jury indicted\u003c/a> Huffaker and Tatum in September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, Tatum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897845/ex-rohnert-park-cop-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-commit-extortion\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to conspiracy to commit extortion under “color of law,” falsifying records in a federal investigation and tax evasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Tatum, Huffaker chose to fight the charges, backed by the police union’s legal defense fund, according to court filings and documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, Huffaker has gone through at least seven different lawyers, including Chris Shea of Marin, who died unexpectedly just two weeks before Huffaker was set for trial in October 2023. Huffaker’s latest defense attorney, Richard Ceballos of Ferrone Law Group, said he can not comment on his client’s case until after the trial is over. The U.S. attorney’s office also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always been this gnawing feeling that these guys are still walking free,” said Freeman, who received a settlement from Rohnert Park. “They’ve never done any time for the crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with extensive public scrutiny, the lawsuits and a federal indictment, this case continues to present surprises. In February, KQED discovered that Sonoma County Code Enforcement had busted Tatum for a large indoor marijuana grow on his Santa Rosa property. In March, prosecutors dropped one of the charges against Huffaker. And then in May, a new witness — a coconspirator who said he sold stolen weed on the officers’ behalf — was added to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Brady’ cop\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the key witnesses expected to take the stand is Tatum, whose plea deal includes an agreement to testify against his former partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum was the sergeant in charge of Rohnert Park’s interdiction team, which oversaw the seizure of $3.6 million under civil asset forfeiture laws and at least 2.5 tons of marijuana between 2013 and 2018, according to documents obtained and analyzed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Rohnert Park’s mayor formally recognized Tatum for his drug suppression efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rohnert Park police officers Brendon Jacy Tatum and Joseph Huffaker are facing federal charges tied to alleged illegal stops and seizures of cash and marijuana along Highway 101. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But alongside the apparent success of the interdiction team, complaints about Tatum’s tactics and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\">credibility began to mount\u003c/a>. By 2016, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s office had placed him on its “Brady list” — a list of officers with known integrity issues. When Tatum takes the stand, Ceballos will likely introduce materials from his record to impeach his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a habitual liar,” said Schwaiger, who gave the DA evidence of Tatum’s dishonesty, which led to his placement on the list of problem cops. But Schwaiger said that in this case, Tatum’s testimony will be backed up by hard evidence. “So, I don’t think that the case is made or lost on the testimony of any given witness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum has spent the past four years out of custody awaiting sentencing, which is currently scheduled for September. 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But in this case, the negotiations “fell apart,” court records show, and Huffaker walked away from the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior District Judge Maxine Chesney has allowed the government to use Huffaker’s statements during the proffer interview and to internal affairs as rebuttal evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear yet if Huffaker will take the stand, but if he does, Schwaiger said these “prior statements” are likely to be introduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A last-minute witness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the final month leading up to trial, prosecutors also introduced a new witness in their case against Huffaker: a man named William Timmins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timmins told the FBI that he saw Huffaker with Tatum around Dec. 4, 2017, and that he’d “assisted in unloading and loading of approximately 100 to 200 pounds of marijuana on the side of the highway,” according to court filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046768 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rohnert Park police officer Joseph Huffaker is on trial in San Francisco federal court, where prosecutors say he admitted to the FBI that he conspired to extort marijuana from drivers during traffic stops on Highway 101. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Barros/Nur Photo via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Timmins also said it was his job to sell the stolen cannabis and that he’d split the proceeds with Tatum, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense filed a motion to exclude Timmins’s testimony, noting that the FBI interviewed Timmins at least four times in the past two years and that his story has changed. 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But the incident report details were all wrong: the make and model of the car, the amount of cannabis and even the presence of Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press release, written to cover up one incident, actually contained the accurate details of a different seizure and traffic stop that took place on Dec. 18, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ They issued a press release after the fact regarding the seizure, but got all of the details wrong because they were unlawfully seizing too many people to keep track of everyone,” Schwaiger said. “It’s like these cops — nobody questioned them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, Flatten has said that Tatum was not one of the officers who pulled him over. He has said Huffaker was there along with another older white man, both wearing green uniforms without name tags and large “POLICE” insignias. That man has never been identified and Huffaker later claimed he was not a part of Flatten’s stop.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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