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Purdue is to pay $900 million. A portion of the money is also to go to victims of the opioid crisis or their survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s contribution will be higher than the $6 billion agreed to under the previous version. The Supreme Court blocked the agreement last year because it protected members of the wealthy family from civil lawsuits over OxyContin — even though the family members themselves were not in bankruptcy. The new agreement protects family members from lawsuits only from entities that agree to the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been mediation seeking a new deal since the court’s ruling was delivered. If one is not reached, it could open the floodgates to lawsuits against Sackler family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A court order blocking lawsuits against Sackler family members is set to expire Friday, but the parties are asking a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge to keep that in place through February to iron out the final details. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On the second day of the second Trump administration, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/search-results/index.html?query=abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">search\u003c/a> for the term “abortion” on the website of the federal Department of Health and Human Services brings up 166 results. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/guidance/document/hhs-issues-notice-violation-california-its-abortion-coverage-mandate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top hit\u003c/a> is from January 24, 2020, during President Trump’s first term, and is about how \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ca-notice-of-violation-abortion-insurance-cases-01-24-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California violated the rights\u003c/a> of two religious organizations that wanted to offer health plans that excluded coverage for abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to sort the results to see the most recent items first returns no links at all, and the message reads “search unreachable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A site the Biden administration launched after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ReproductiveRights.gov, is now a broken link. (An archived version of the site is \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250114100235/http://www.reproductiverights.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still viewable\u003c/a> through the Internet Archive.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The former executive director of the San José Police Officers’ Association will not face any time behind bars for illegally importing opioids, a judge ruled Tuesday, bringing to a close a nearly two-year-old criminal case that sent shockwaves through the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José federal court, U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee sentenced Joanne Segovia to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service, which falls largely in line with what prosecutors and her defense attorney had requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Segovia is very grateful that Judge Lee saw the case as the U.S. Attorney’s office and I saw the case,” Adam Gasner, Segovia’s attorney, told KQED after the sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008434/former-san-jose-police-union-director-pleads-guilty-to-smuggling-opioids\">plea deal with federal prosecutors\u003c/a> in October, Segovia, 66, confessed to illegally importing tapentadol, a potent painkiller listed as a Schedule II controlled substance. Although such a felony carries a maximum prison term of 20 years, it was widely expected that Segovia would receive a significantly lighter sentence, as her defense team and prosecutors both supported her narrative that she was motivated by an addiction to painkillers rather than by a goal to make a profit as a drug mover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story of Joanne Segovia is the story of years of heavy opioid addiction, drug importation, self-delusion, and some very poor choices. It is not, however, the story of a drug dealer,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Tartakovsky, the lead prosecutor on the case, wrote in a sentencing memo to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner noted in a separate court memo that his client was taking prescribed opioids under medical supervision for years due to “excruciating chronic back pain,” but her doctors eventually refused to renew them, at which point she turned to illicit drugs to help her cope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s apologetic for her actions. But most importantly, she’s healthy and sober and not likely to re-offend,” Gasner said. “I think this sends a message to the broader community that you will be punished for your actions, but that we also have compassion for who you are as an individual.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to community service, Segovia will be required to adhere to a list of conditions during probation that include ongoing drug testing, mandatory counseling and potential searches of her home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While working as the lead civilian administrator for the San José police union, Segovia had thousands of pills illegally shipped to her home over several years and redistributed some of those pills elsewhere in the U.S., authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also used the police union’s UPS account to ship drugs to other drug users in the U.S. on behalf of her supplier, “thus making the SJPOA subsidize foreign drug distribution,” Tartakovsky wrote in the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, she came to the attention of Homeland Security investigators who were investigating a criminal network based in India that shipped illicit drugs to U.S. customers. Federal agents were suspicious of Segovia due to the “immense quantities” of pills she was receiving, Tartakovsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A ‘good customer’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Investigators said Segovia ordered roughly 18,000 tapentadol pills over a 17-month period in 2021 and 2022, sharing “significant quantities” of pills with two people she knew but also consuming an “extraordinarily large amount” of them herself.[aside label=\"more on the Segovia case\" tag=\"joanne-segovia\"]She was a “good customer” of her supplier, spending between as much as $27,000 on the pills in 2022 alone, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She often coordinated the shipments and payments with her Indian supplier via WhatsApp and “pumped tens of thousands of dollars over the years into the coffers of these unscrupulous networks,” Tartakovsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court Tuesday, Tartakovsky noted that there are many people in America illicitly ordering drugs off the internet because of their addictions, and that the federal government doesn’t typically charge “pure users” with crimes. But Segovia went a step further, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She became a sort of auxiliary of this Indian network. She carried water for them,” Tartakovsky said. “She did things for their benefit, like moving pills for them. And this is not some peripheral thing. This is the core of how these schemes work. They rely on Americans to re-ship for them.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was not profiting off these actions, he said, but was instead “spending this massive fraction of her income” and “essentially almost bankrupting herself” to feed her addiction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/san-jose-police-union-executive-charged-attempted-illegal-importation-fentanyl\">arrested in March 2023\u003c/a>, initially on one count of illegally importing a form of fentanyl. Prosecutors, however, later removed the fentanyl charge after admitting that a lab test of the contents of one of the packages sent to her had produced a false positive result. The charge was subsequently changed to the illegal importation of tapentadol.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Expressing remorse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2024, Segovia, who had maintained her innocence until that point, indicated to the court she’d be willing to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000464/former-san-jose-police-union-director-expected-to-plead-guilty-to-smuggling-opioids-in-deal-with-feds\"> accept responsibility for her crime\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Dec. 18 personal written statement asking the judge for leniency, Segovia expressed remorse for her actions, saying she “would do anything to take it all back,” and noted that she is heavily involved in the lives of her grandchildren and is a caretaker for her 81-year-old husband, who is ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never realized the magnitude of what I had done until a gun was pointed at me. I have never been in trouble with the law. This was something I had only seen in movies. It was the most traumatic thing that has ever happened to me,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she has also stopped taking pills since her arrest and has passed 45 random drug tests while undergoing counseling and treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have this nice little life and it was all blown up in front of me,” Segovia said in court on Tuesday. “And being sober made me know how horrendous my conduct was. And I’ve never done anything but be for the law, and I’m really sorry.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other people, including her daughter, friends, neighbor and current and former San José police officers, wrote to the judge on her behalf, attesting that Segovia is a good person, loving family member and a reliable colleague who cares deeply for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was fired from her role as executive director of the police union shortly after her arrest in 2003. The union denied any involvement or knowledge of her actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the arrest sparked outrage among local elected officials, police critics and activists, prompting protests outside San José City Hall, with demonstrators calling for further investigations and demanding city leaders to stop taking donations from the powerful police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police union hired a private investigator to look into whether Segovia’s actions were connected to her work, releasing the results after her conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator concluded there was “no evidence whatsoever that any POA representative had any involvement, knowledge, or suspicions regarding Segovia’s alleged criminal activities” and that all the facts indicate she acted alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors agreed with that assessment but also criticized the union for interfering in the federal investigation following Segovia’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The SJPOA announced publicly after the search of Segovia’s office that it wished to cooperate with this investigation. Yet counsel for the SJPOA engaged in stonewalling, even threatening to ‘seek judicial intervention’ to stop the prosecution from reviewing Segovia’s SJPOA email contents, though the SJPOA never followed through on its threat,” Tartakovsky wrote in the court memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same week, the union walled off public access to major portions of its website, including pages that list its board members and staff — a change that its leadership said was aimed at protecting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Life upended’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Segovia was a civilian employee for her entire 20-year career with the police union, Tartakovsky wrote that “she held a position that should have instilled her with firmer respect for the law and for her obligation to be truthful with law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though she has since admitted her conduct was wrong and accepted responsibility for it, Tartakovsky noted that she initially lied to federal investigators, attempting to pin everything on her housekeeper, a move he called “reprehensible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was not just the normal blundering dissimulation blurted out when a target is first surprised and confronted by law enforcement,” Tartakovsky wrote. After being questioned by investigators, he said “Segovia took six weeks to ponder her predicament, concocted a story” in an unsuccessful attempt to dupe investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner, Segovia’s attorney, said in his memo to the court that Segovia initially denied her\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>crime “in a desperate attempt to preserve the secret of her addiction as the barrier between her normal and illicit life broke down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors ultimately concluded that Segovia’s actions were “not the behavior of a ‘mastermind,’ but a scared, confused, and addicted woman who saw the walls collapsing around her,” Tartakovsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Actions of an ‘addict,’ not a ‘dealer’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Judge Lee said Tuesday she had weighed all the facts of the case, and agreed Segovia’s actions appeared to be “those of an addict and not a dealer,” and she also commended Segovia on her sobriety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A conviction here is warranted. There was deception at the beginning of the investigation. There was an abuse of power in a law enforcement-adjacent position,” Lee said. “Ms Segovia held a position that should have instilled in her a firmer respect for law enforcement and a firmer respect for being truthful at the beginning of the investigation.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memo, Tartakovsky said Segovia, in losing her job and having her life upended by the criminal proceedings, has paid a steep price for her actions, and he credited her for overcoming her addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The government believes that her contrition is sincere and that she poses little risk of reoffending,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They rely on Americans to re-ship for them.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was not profiting off these actions, he said, but was instead “spending this massive fraction of her income” and “essentially almost bankrupting herself” to feed her addiction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/san-jose-police-union-executive-charged-attempted-illegal-importation-fentanyl\">arrested in March 2023\u003c/a>, initially on one count of illegally importing a form of fentanyl. Prosecutors, however, later removed the fentanyl charge after admitting that a lab test of the contents of one of the packages sent to her had produced a false positive result. The charge was subsequently changed to the illegal importation of tapentadol.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Expressing remorse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2024, Segovia, who had maintained her innocence until that point, indicated to the court she’d be willing to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000464/former-san-jose-police-union-director-expected-to-plead-guilty-to-smuggling-opioids-in-deal-with-feds\"> accept responsibility for her crime\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Dec. 18 personal written statement asking the judge for leniency, Segovia expressed remorse for her actions, saying she “would do anything to take it all back,” and noted that she is heavily involved in the lives of her grandchildren and is a caretaker for her 81-year-old husband, who is ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never realized the magnitude of what I had done until a gun was pointed at me. I have never been in trouble with the law. This was something I had only seen in movies. It was the most traumatic thing that has ever happened to me,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she has also stopped taking pills since her arrest and has passed 45 random drug tests while undergoing counseling and treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have this nice little life and it was all blown up in front of me,” Segovia said in court on Tuesday. “And being sober made me know how horrendous my conduct was. And I’ve never done anything but be for the law, and I’m really sorry.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other people, including her daughter, friends, neighbor and current and former San José police officers, wrote to the judge on her behalf, attesting that Segovia is a good person, loving family member and a reliable colleague who cares deeply for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was fired from her role as executive director of the police union shortly after her arrest in 2003. The union denied any involvement or knowledge of her actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the arrest sparked outrage among local elected officials, police critics and activists, prompting protests outside San José City Hall, with demonstrators calling for further investigations and demanding city leaders to stop taking donations from the powerful police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police union hired a private investigator to look into whether Segovia’s actions were connected to her work, releasing the results after her conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator concluded there was “no evidence whatsoever that any POA representative had any involvement, knowledge, or suspicions regarding Segovia’s alleged criminal activities” and that all the facts indicate she acted alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors agreed with that assessment but also criticized the union for interfering in the federal investigation following Segovia’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The SJPOA announced publicly after the search of Segovia’s office that it wished to cooperate with this investigation. Yet counsel for the SJPOA engaged in stonewalling, even threatening to ‘seek judicial intervention’ to stop the prosecution from reviewing Segovia’s SJPOA email contents, though the SJPOA never followed through on its threat,” Tartakovsky wrote in the court memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same week, the union walled off public access to major portions of its website, including pages that list its board members and staff — a change that its leadership said was aimed at protecting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Life upended’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Segovia was a civilian employee for her entire 20-year career with the police union, Tartakovsky wrote that “she held a position that should have instilled her with firmer respect for the law and for her obligation to be truthful with law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though she has since admitted her conduct was wrong and accepted responsibility for it, Tartakovsky noted that she initially lied to federal investigators, attempting to pin everything on her housekeeper, a move he called “reprehensible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was not just the normal blundering dissimulation blurted out when a target is first surprised and confronted by law enforcement,” Tartakovsky wrote. After being questioned by investigators, he said “Segovia took six weeks to ponder her predicament, concocted a story” in an unsuccessful attempt to dupe investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner, Segovia’s attorney, said in his memo to the court that Segovia initially denied her\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>crime “in a desperate attempt to preserve the secret of her addiction as the barrier between her normal and illicit life broke down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors ultimately concluded that Segovia’s actions were “not the behavior of a ‘mastermind,’ but a scared, confused, and addicted woman who saw the walls collapsing around her,” Tartakovsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Actions of an ‘addict,’ not a ‘dealer’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Judge Lee said Tuesday she had weighed all the facts of the case, and agreed Segovia’s actions appeared to be “those of an addict and not a dealer,” and she also commended Segovia on her sobriety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A conviction here is warranted. There was deception at the beginning of the investigation. There was an abuse of power in a law enforcement-adjacent position,” Lee said. “Ms Segovia held a position that should have instilled in her a firmer respect for law enforcement and a firmer respect for being truthful at the beginning of the investigation.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memo, Tartakovsky said Segovia, in losing her job and having her life upended by the criminal proceedings, has paid a steep price for her actions, and he credited her for overcoming her addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>That revving you hear from Sacramento is the sound of California’s Democratic leaders preparing to sue the tar out of the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen this all before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/03/becerra-v-trump-california-using-courts-fight-administration/\">California sued the Trump administration 123 times\u003c/a> between 2017 and 2021, according to Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office. It \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/01/california-cost-trump-lawsuits/\">spent about $10 million a year\u003c/a> in doing so. A majority of the lawsuits dealt with environment rules, immigration and health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal and policy expect those same issues to take center stage during Trump 2.0.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Bonta’s team started to prepare legal briefs months ahead of the election, it’s why Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/gavin-newsom-special-session-trump-resistance/\">called for a special legislative session\u003c/a> to “Trump-proof” California, and it’s why state Democrats have agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-trump-legal-fees-fund/\">allocate $50 million to fight Trump\u003c/a> in court — a move that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/J_GallagherAD3/status/1878599444003959053\">state Republicans denounced\u003c/a> as a “slush fund” for “hypothetical fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump lost more than two-thirds of the lawsuits filed against his rules in his first term. His win rate of 31% was lower than that of the three administrations prior, \u003ca href=\"https://policyintegrity.org/tracking-major-rules/presidential-win-rates\">according to an analysis\u003c/a> by the Institute of Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do California’s past legal skirmishes with the Trump administration 1.0 tell us about the policy battles to come? And how might this time be different?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many experts say the new Trump administration could be more strategic and wise this time. In his first round, his policy proposals were \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/trump-administrations-sloppy-work-has-led-to-supreme-court-losses-idUSKBN23P3M1/\">often rushed through\u003c/a> and failed to pass legal muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something we are certainly worried about this second time around, that they’ll make the same policy decisions that are bad from our perspective, but do it again in a smarter way that makes them harder to challenge,” said Eva Bitrán, director of immigrants’ rights and staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible difference: The rules have changed. At the end of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 term, the conservative majority issued a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/california-supreme-court-chevron/\">series of rulings\u003c/a> that, taken together, make it much easier for people, businesses and aggrieved state governments to challenge federal regulations. At the time, these rulings were seen as a historic victory for the conservative legal movement and big business. Now that Trump is back in office, it may actually make the California attorney general’s job of stymying the Trump agenda easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at California’s record in court against Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Environment: Wins on procedure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California prides itself on being a national leader on ecologically-minded rules and aggressive climate action. That brings it into natural conflict with any modern Republican White House, but especially the Trump administration.Roughly half of the lawsuits that the state filed against the Trump administration the first time around were related in some way to the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winning on administrative procedure. California’s Department of Justice racked up a lot of legal wins early on in Trump’s term. The vast majority of them were over important but relatively narrow policy debates around \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epa-states-settle-lawsuit-over-imported-asbestos-2021-06-08/\">asbestos oversight rules\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/397687-court-blocks-epa-policy-against-enforcing-truck-pollution-rule/\">big rigs\u003c/a> that use old engine components, energy efficiency requirements on freezers and ceiling fans (that was two cases), among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with many \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-real-reason-president-trump-is-constantly-losing-in-court/2019/03/19/f5ffb056-33a8-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html\">other areas of policy\u003c/a>, California was able to eke out these easy victories by persuading courts that the Trump administration had rushed rules through without explaining their rationale, providing sufficient evidence or giving the public the opportunity to weigh in. These are violations of the Administrative Procedure Act, which is the bureaucratic equivalent of failing to do your homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Trump 2.0 may be more careful this time, his \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-2024-government-regulations-democrats-6badc3b424b9eff3ba51e0ec35a8d824\">pledge to fire thousands\u003c/a> of career civil servants may also make the task of writing regulations that pass legal muster that much more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The waiver wars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of California’s most successful legal challenges ended with a victory outside the court, said Julia Stein, an environmental law professor at UCLA. After the Trump administration revoked California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-auto-emissions-standards-fight-with-donald-trump-explained/\">permission to set its own emission limits\u003c/a> on car exhaust — which comes from an Environmental Protection Agency waiver of the federal law’s preeminence over state rules — California sued. Then it sued again. Though the legal battle never quite reached a conclusion before Trump left office in 2021, the prolonged regulatory uncertainty was enough to convince some of the world’s biggest automakers to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/08/california-clean-car-emissions/\">cut a deal directly with California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein said she wouldn’t be surprised if that serves as a template for other regulated industries as California and the second Trump administration inevitably resume their legal battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think businesses are going to feel like, ‘well, I still need to make investment decisions and I still need to contend with different state regulatory environments and federal regulatory environments and so I might want to start entering into private agreements,’” said Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Threemile Slough in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Rio Vista on May 19, 2024. The Delta is formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers before their waters flow into San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Waters of the United States\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California and other blue states spent the bulk of Trump’s first term beefing in court over how to define a “waterway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a semantic debate with enormous implications. Since the 1970s, the Clean Water Act has been the main way that federal regulators have battled water pollution. In 2015, the Obama administration expanded the definition of waterways covered under the law to include many wetlands and streams that only pop up during rainstorms. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency suspended that rule, reintroduced an old one, then came up with a new rule of its own, getting sued at every step. California didn’t end up formally winning in court, but the state did run out the clock in time for President Joe Biden to take over in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story doesn’t end there. In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court backed a narrower definition of the Clean Water Act, effectively taking Trump’s side of things. But California remains its own regulatory bastion; its stringent water quality rules remain in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: There’s no shortage of ways that California might \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/11/california-trump-environmental-policies/\">disagree with the incoming Trump administration on environmental matters\u003c/a>, but the past is likely to be a pretty good guide. Expect the waiver wars to continue. California offered a taste of what’s to come before Biden was even out of office when it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/01/trump-california-withdraws-diesel-clean-air-rules/\">abandoned a proposed ban on diesel trucks\u003c/a>, anticipating an unwinnable battle with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other areas of possible disagreement abound. They include disputes over green infrastructure spending, offshore energy projects, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/09/biden-sends-more-fire-aid-california-00197436\">wildfire relief funds\u003c/a>, new \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-national-monuments-california-event-canceled-wildfires-2cdbdb8ee3af0214dee71b65892f2f14\">national monuments\u003c/a> created by Biden and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/climate/trump-epa-science.html\">limits on the use of academic research\u003c/a> to inform environmental policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration: Travel bans and sanctuary cities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people protested at airports in the first week of the previous Trump administration when he issued an executive order banning people from \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/protest-trump-travel-ban-muslims-airports\">seven Muslim-majority nations\u003c/a> from entering the United States. It kicked off years of battles over immigration enforcement, and California had a mixed record in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel bans\u003c/strong>. The Trump administration tried multiple times to enact his order restricting travel from those Muslim-majority nations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622854/california-revives-lawsuit-against-trump-travel-ban\">California and others sued\u003c/a>, arguing that not only was the policy discriminatory, but that it was also bound to harm the economy, businesses and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first two attempts were struck down, but in 2018 the Supreme Court upheld his third version of the ban. \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/\">Biden reversed the order\u003c/a> on his first day in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the cases where California lost, like this one, the fact that it took three rounds for the ban to be upheld, that’s helpful,” Bitrán at ACLU Southern California said. “Throwing sand in the gears and slowing them down has a protective effect on California’s immigrant communities, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Border Patrol agent leads a group of migrants seeking asylum towards a van to be transported and processed, near Dulzura on June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gregory Bull/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary funding\u003c/strong>. During the first Trump administration, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2017/12/californias-new-sanctuary-law-will-aid-immigrants-not/\">California passed a “sanctuary state” law\u003c/a> to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. That protection \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/11/immigrant-deportation-california-trump/\">does have exceptions\u003c/a> — it does not apply to people convicted of violent crimes or serious offenses, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump said he planned to withhold certain federal dollars \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2017/02/trump-suggests-yanking-fed-dollars-if-california-is-a-sanctuary-statecan-he-do-that/\">from “sanctuary jurisdictions”\u003c/a> unless they cooperated with federal immigration authorities, the state, along with San Francisco, sued. That funding included \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-sues-trump-administration-imposing-unlawful-new-grant\">about $28 million for the state of California\u003c/a> that supports recidivism prevention, at-risk youth and other law enforcement programs, former state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said at the time. A \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/410149-california-judge-rules-against-sessionss-effort-to-hit-sanctuary/\">federal judge sided with California\u003c/a>, calling Trump’s order unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Protecting DACA\u003c/strong>. In what some immigration attorneys call a landmark case, the state and the University of California Board of Regents participated in the defense of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which allows immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to stay and work in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the program does not grant people legal status, it does protect them from deportation. In June 2020, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/829858289/supreme-court-upholds-daca-in-blow-to-trump-administration\">Supreme Court ruled in favor\u003c/a> of the so-called DREAMers, blocking Trump’s plan to end the DACA program. This ruling shielded some 700,000 DREAMers, including about 200,000 residing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: Top of mind for immigration advocates is the promise of mass deportations, including Trump’s threat to use the military to carry out raids. A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/\">recent raid in Kern County\u003c/a>, made waves throughout the state as a preview of what is potentially to come. Axios first reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/trump-immigration-executive-orders-stephen-miller\">Trump plans to issue 100 executive orders\u003c/a> on his first day back in the Oval Office, many of which are reported to be centered on immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump could also \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/new-rule-casts-shadow-on-immigrants-use-of-government-benefits/\">reinstate a public charge policy\u003c/a> from his first term that sought to make it harder for immigrants to get green cards if they use, or were likely to use, safety net programs, such as Medicaid or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts also expect to see more fights around federal funding, restrictions for asylum seekers, and renewed efforts to end DACA or other temporary protected status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Health care: Obamacare and more\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In round 1, Trump tried just about everything to pick away and dismantle the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. And while he was successful in nixing provisions of it, the health law today continues to stand. Some advocates and experts credit in part California’s move to interfere and defend the law during Trump’s last term for the fact that millions continue to have health coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defending the Affordable Care Act\u003c/strong>. Trump’s main attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539907467/senate-careens-toward-high-drama-midnight-health-care-vote\">repeal the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a> failed when the Senate rejected a bill that would have undone former President Barack Obama’s signature law. A second challenge to the law followed when Texas filed a lawsuit contesting its constitutionality. Because the Trump administration did not move to defend the federal health law, 17 states led by California, intervened to make the case for keeping the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023100\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A booth for information on Covered California at the California Native Americans Day celebration at the state Capitol on Sept. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While this was not a challenge initiated by California, advocates say California played a unique and instrumental role in the law’s defense. California essentially “stepped in for a Justice Department that was no longer doing its job on behalf of the nation” and defended the law in court, said Anthony Wright, executive director at Families USA, a consumer health advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2021, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/06/court-again-leaves-affordable-care-act-in-place/\">Supreme Court ruled in California’s favor\u003c/a> to preserve the Affordable Care Act. Had the decision gone Texas’ way, approximately 20 million Americans, including 5 million Californians, could have lost their coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health care subsidies\u003c/strong>. California also went to bat for health care subsidies that help make Obamacare coverage more affordable. In 2017, Trump announced the federal government would stop paying insurers for cost-sharing subsidies that help offset out-of-pocket expenses, like deductibles and copays. Becerra and 17 other state attorney generals filed a lawsuit on behalf of the estimated 6 million Americans who would have been affected by this change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='donald-trump' label='More Trump Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/judge-dismisses-californias-lawsuit-over-halted-cost-sharing-payments\">placed its lawsuit on hold\u003c/a> when marketplaces and insurers found a workaround to offset those losses by increasing premiums on certain plans (but also premium aid), and the case was eventually closed. While this was not a court win, per say, Wright said California’s administrative response was still a win for consumers. “It was a way so that people’s copayments and deductibles didn’t spike to unaffordable levels,” Wright said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Title X ‘gag’ rule\u003c/strong>. Title X is a federal program created in the 1970s that provides free or low cost family planning services to people with low incomes. In 2018, Trump proposed a “gag rule” that prohibited clinics receiving Title X funding from performing or referring patients to abortion services. Home to about a fourth of all Title X patients, California along with others challenged the policy change, but a ruling by a federal appeals court judge ultimately allowed it to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the rule change, many clinics stopped participating in the Title X program. That meant that the program served \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/rebuilding-the-title-x-network-under-the-biden-administration/\">about 60% fewer patients\u003c/a> between 2018 and 2020, according to KFF, a health policy research center. The Biden administration eventually revoked Trump’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: Health advocates say they’ll be closely watching everything from reproductive choice and access to gender-affirming care to potential cuts or caps on Medicaid spending. Medicaid, better known as Medi-Cal in California, serves close to a third of the state population, and reductions in funding for this program would be deeply consequential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding is the key word. While the state can do a lot to protect Californian’s access to care — as the Legislature has attempted to do with a slate of laws over the last few years — it also depends greatly on federal funding to make that happen, said Amanda McAllister-Wallner, interim executive director at Health Access California, a consumer advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a big takeaway and a big lesson learned from this last time around is we can do a lot here in California to protect consumers, to uphold California values,” McAllister said. “But without the federal funding to guarantee access to health care for folks, it’s really hard to keep people enrolled and to keep people with coverage.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>That revving you hear from Sacramento is the sound of California’s Democratic leaders preparing to sue the tar out of the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen this all before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2018/03/becerra-v-trump-california-using-courts-fight-administration/\">California sued the Trump administration 123 times\u003c/a> between 2017 and 2021, according to Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office. It \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/01/california-cost-trump-lawsuits/\">spent about $10 million a year\u003c/a> in doing so. A majority of the lawsuits dealt with environment rules, immigration and health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal and policy expect those same issues to take center stage during Trump 2.0.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Bonta’s team started to prepare legal briefs months ahead of the election, it’s why Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/11/gavin-newsom-special-session-trump-resistance/\">called for a special legislative session\u003c/a> to “Trump-proof” California, and it’s why state Democrats have agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-trump-legal-fees-fund/\">allocate $50 million to fight Trump\u003c/a> in court — a move that \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/J_GallagherAD3/status/1878599444003959053\">state Republicans denounced\u003c/a> as a “slush fund” for “hypothetical fights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump lost more than two-thirds of the lawsuits filed against his rules in his first term. His win rate of 31% was lower than that of the three administrations prior, \u003ca href=\"https://policyintegrity.org/tracking-major-rules/presidential-win-rates\">according to an analysis\u003c/a> by the Institute of Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do California’s past legal skirmishes with the Trump administration 1.0 tell us about the policy battles to come? And how might this time be different?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many experts say the new Trump administration could be more strategic and wise this time. In his first round, his policy proposals were \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/trump-administrations-sloppy-work-has-led-to-supreme-court-losses-idUSKBN23P3M1/\">often rushed through\u003c/a> and failed to pass legal muster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something we are certainly worried about this second time around, that they’ll make the same policy decisions that are bad from our perspective, but do it again in a smarter way that makes them harder to challenge,” said Eva Bitrán, director of immigrants’ rights and staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possible difference: The rules have changed. At the end of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 term, the conservative majority issued a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/07/california-supreme-court-chevron/\">series of rulings\u003c/a> that, taken together, make it much easier for people, businesses and aggrieved state governments to challenge federal regulations. At the time, these rulings were seen as a historic victory for the conservative legal movement and big business. Now that Trump is back in office, it may actually make the California attorney general’s job of stymying the Trump agenda easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a look at California’s record in court against Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Environment: Wins on procedure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California prides itself on being a national leader on ecologically-minded rules and aggressive climate action. That brings it into natural conflict with any modern Republican White House, but especially the Trump administration.Roughly half of the lawsuits that the state filed against the Trump administration the first time around were related in some way to the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winning on administrative procedure. California’s Department of Justice racked up a lot of legal wins early on in Trump’s term. The vast majority of them were over important but relatively narrow policy debates around \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epa-states-settle-lawsuit-over-imported-asbestos-2021-06-08/\">asbestos oversight rules\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/397687-court-blocks-epa-policy-against-enforcing-truck-pollution-rule/\">big rigs\u003c/a> that use old engine components, energy efficiency requirements on freezers and ceiling fans (that was two cases), among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with many \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-real-reason-president-trump-is-constantly-losing-in-court/2019/03/19/f5ffb056-33a8-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html\">other areas of policy\u003c/a>, California was able to eke out these easy victories by persuading courts that the Trump administration had rushed rules through without explaining their rationale, providing sufficient evidence or giving the public the opportunity to weigh in. These are violations of the Administrative Procedure Act, which is the bureaucratic equivalent of failing to do your homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Trump 2.0 may be more careful this time, his \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-2024-government-regulations-democrats-6badc3b424b9eff3ba51e0ec35a8d824\">pledge to fire thousands\u003c/a> of career civil servants may also make the task of writing regulations that pass legal muster that much more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The waiver wars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of California’s most successful legal challenges ended with a victory outside the court, said Julia Stein, an environmental law professor at UCLA. After the Trump administration revoked California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-auto-emissions-standards-fight-with-donald-trump-explained/\">permission to set its own emission limits\u003c/a> on car exhaust — which comes from an Environmental Protection Agency waiver of the federal law’s preeminence over state rules — California sued. Then it sued again. Though the legal battle never quite reached a conclusion before Trump left office in 2021, the prolonged regulatory uncertainty was enough to convince some of the world’s biggest automakers to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/08/california-clean-car-emissions/\">cut a deal directly with California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stein said she wouldn’t be surprised if that serves as a template for other regulated industries as California and the second Trump administration inevitably resume their legal battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think businesses are going to feel like, ‘well, I still need to make investment decisions and I still need to contend with different state regulatory environments and federal regulatory environments and so I might want to start entering into private agreements,’” said Stein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023098\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Threemile Slough in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Rio Vista on May 19, 2024. The Delta is formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers before their waters flow into San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Loren Elliott/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Waters of the United States\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California and other blue states spent the bulk of Trump’s first term beefing in court over how to define a “waterway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a semantic debate with enormous implications. Since the 1970s, the Clean Water Act has been the main way that federal regulators have battled water pollution. In 2015, the Obama administration expanded the definition of waterways covered under the law to include many wetlands and streams that only pop up during rainstorms. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency suspended that rule, reintroduced an old one, then came up with a new rule of its own, getting sued at every step. California didn’t end up formally winning in court, but the state did run out the clock in time for President Joe Biden to take over in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story doesn’t end there. In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court backed a narrower definition of the Clean Water Act, effectively taking Trump’s side of things. But California remains its own regulatory bastion; its stringent water quality rules remain in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: There’s no shortage of ways that California might \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/11/california-trump-environmental-policies/\">disagree with the incoming Trump administration on environmental matters\u003c/a>, but the past is likely to be a pretty good guide. Expect the waiver wars to continue. California offered a taste of what’s to come before Biden was even out of office when it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/01/trump-california-withdraws-diesel-clean-air-rules/\">abandoned a proposed ban on diesel trucks\u003c/a>, anticipating an unwinnable battle with Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other areas of possible disagreement abound. They include disputes over green infrastructure spending, offshore energy projects, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/09/biden-sends-more-fire-aid-california-00197436\">wildfire relief funds\u003c/a>, new \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-national-monuments-california-event-canceled-wildfires-2cdbdb8ee3af0214dee71b65892f2f14\">national monuments\u003c/a> created by Biden and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/climate/trump-epa-science.html\">limits on the use of academic research\u003c/a> to inform environmental policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigration: Travel bans and sanctuary cities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thousands of people protested at airports in the first week of the previous Trump administration when he issued an executive order banning people from \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/protest-trump-travel-ban-muslims-airports\">seven Muslim-majority nations\u003c/a> from entering the United States. It kicked off years of battles over immigration enforcement, and California had a mixed record in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel bans\u003c/strong>. The Trump administration tried multiple times to enact his order restricting travel from those Muslim-majority nations. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622854/california-revives-lawsuit-against-trump-travel-ban\">California and others sued\u003c/a>, arguing that not only was the policy discriminatory, but that it was also bound to harm the economy, businesses and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s first two attempts were struck down, but in 2018 the Supreme Court upheld his third version of the ban. \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/\">Biden reversed the order\u003c/a> on his first day in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in the cases where California lost, like this one, the fact that it took three rounds for the ban to be upheld, that’s helpful,” Bitrán at ACLU Southern California said. “Throwing sand in the gears and slowing them down has a protective effect on California’s immigrant communities, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Border Patrol agent leads a group of migrants seeking asylum towards a van to be transported and processed, near Dulzura on June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gregory Bull/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sanctuary funding\u003c/strong>. During the first Trump administration, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2017/12/californias-new-sanctuary-law-will-aid-immigrants-not/\">California passed a “sanctuary state” law\u003c/a> to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation. That protection \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/11/immigrant-deportation-california-trump/\">does have exceptions\u003c/a> — it does not apply to people convicted of violent crimes or serious offenses, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Trump said he planned to withhold certain federal dollars \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2017/02/trump-suggests-yanking-fed-dollars-if-california-is-a-sanctuary-statecan-he-do-that/\">from “sanctuary jurisdictions”\u003c/a> unless they cooperated with federal immigration authorities, the state, along with San Francisco, sued. That funding included \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-sues-trump-administration-imposing-unlawful-new-grant\">about $28 million for the state of California\u003c/a> that supports recidivism prevention, at-risk youth and other law enforcement programs, former state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said at the time. A \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/410149-california-judge-rules-against-sessionss-effort-to-hit-sanctuary/\">federal judge sided with California\u003c/a>, calling Trump’s order unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Protecting DACA\u003c/strong>. In what some immigration attorneys call a landmark case, the state and the University of California Board of Regents participated in the defense of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which allows immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to stay and work in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the program does not grant people legal status, it does protect them from deportation. In June 2020, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/829858289/supreme-court-upholds-daca-in-blow-to-trump-administration\">Supreme Court ruled in favor\u003c/a> of the so-called DREAMers, blocking Trump’s plan to end the DACA program. This ruling shielded some 700,000 DREAMers, including about 200,000 residing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s coming\u003c/strong>: Top of mind for immigration advocates is the promise of mass deportations, including Trump’s threat to use the military to carry out raids. A \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/\">recent raid in Kern County\u003c/a>, made waves throughout the state as a preview of what is potentially to come. Axios first reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/trump-immigration-executive-orders-stephen-miller\">Trump plans to issue 100 executive orders\u003c/a> on his first day back in the Oval Office, many of which are reported to be centered on immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump could also \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/new-rule-casts-shadow-on-immigrants-use-of-government-benefits/\">reinstate a public charge policy\u003c/a> from his first term that sought to make it harder for immigrants to get green cards if they use, or were likely to use, safety net programs, such as Medicaid or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal experts also expect to see more fights around federal funding, restrictions for asylum seekers, and renewed efforts to end DACA or other temporary protected status.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Health care: Obamacare and more\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In round 1, Trump tried just about everything to pick away and dismantle the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. And while he was successful in nixing provisions of it, the health law today continues to stand. Some advocates and experts credit in part California’s move to interfere and defend the law during Trump’s last term for the fact that millions continue to have health coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defending the Affordable Care Act\u003c/strong>. Trump’s main attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539907467/senate-careens-toward-high-drama-midnight-health-care-vote\">repeal the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a> failed when the Senate rejected a bill that would have undone former President Barack Obama’s signature law. A second challenge to the law followed when Texas filed a lawsuit contesting its constitutionality. Because the Trump administration did not move to defend the federal health law, 17 states led by California, intervened to make the case for keeping the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023100\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023100\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250120CalMatters4-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A booth for information on Covered California at the California Native Americans Day celebration at the state Capitol on Sept. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While this was not a challenge initiated by California, advocates say California played a unique and instrumental role in the law’s defense. 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Proposition 6, which would have banned the use of forced prison labor, failed in November, with 53.8% of voters opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t turn and say the prison system is providing this labor that we need because there are so many wildfires, and so it must remain that way,” Lindsey Feldman, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Memphis, said. “Instead, we should be asking why are there so many fires and why have we as a society all agreed that prison labor is the effective way to stop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR’s firefighting program, in particular, has come under scrutiny due to the dangers associated with wildfires, which can quickly change direction. Incarcerated firefighters are more likely to get injured on the job compared to their professional counterparts, according to a report released by \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5457637/inmate-firefighters-injuries-death/\">\u003cem>Time\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman, who specializes in identity, labor and incarceration, said the use of incarcerated labor in California and in other states will always be exploitative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters work through dirt and dust as they frantically dig a containment line to hold off a fire.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmate firefighters dig a containment line as they battle the Palisades Fire on Jan. 10, 2025 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is no justification for the pay being as little as it is for the work that is being performed,” Feldman said. “There’s no question that this is risky work — dangerous — and people in prison tend to be more at risk of workplace injury than non-incarcerated people just because oversight in general is less than it is out of prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in CDCR’s program must meet certain security requirements before going through an extensive training program. The firefighters are stationed across 35 minimum-security facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew anything about wildland fires until I actually went to Fire Camp, and I grew to love it,” said Royal Ramey, cofounder and chief executive officer of The Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, a nonprofit that helps formerly incarcerated people find work as firefighters.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12017770,news_12021125,science_1965575\"]“It was a lot of camaraderie and we did gain the knowledge, skills and abilities to do it, but we didn’t know how we could move forward in terms of pursuing a career in it. It was definitely difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramey was 20 when he was sentenced to six years at the California Correctional Institution. Ramey decided to volunteer with the Fire Camp, a decision that changed his life, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said serving as a firefighter gave him and others a sense of purpose, as well as the skills that California needs in order to combat climate change-related disasters such as wildfires. But it is difficult for formerly incarcerated firefighters to find jobs in forestry and fire management because of their convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California officials have recently passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837644/newsom-signs-law-paving-way-for-former-inmates-to-become-professional-firefighters\">reforms\u003c/a> expanding opportunities for former inmates, Ramey noted that barriers to employment persist, a struggle which inspired his nonprofit. He argued that Fire Camp could be part of the solution, and said that many people who went through fire training are equipped to help in emergencies once their sentences are finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can contribute to the labor shortage we have here, and why not give them the opportunity to become wildland firefighters to support the state and to be able to get a family and a career,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California has relied on incarcerated firefighters to combat wildfires \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-history-of-californias-inmate-firefighter-program-180980662/\">since the mid-1900s\u003c/a>, especially during World War II when many professional firefighters and fire crew members were serving in the war. The state has received criticism in the past for taking advantage of cheap, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013392/californians-voted-against-outlawing-slavery-why-is-prop-6-failing\">incarcerated labor\u003c/a>. Proposition 6, which would have banned the use of forced prison labor, failed in November, with 53.8% of voters opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t turn and say the prison system is providing this labor that we need because there are so many wildfires, and so it must remain that way,” Lindsey Feldman, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Memphis, said. “Instead, we should be asking why are there so many fires and why have we as a society all agreed that prison labor is the effective way to stop it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR’s firefighting program, in particular, has come under scrutiny due to the dangers associated with wildfires, which can quickly change direction. Incarcerated firefighters are more likely to get injured on the job compared to their professional counterparts, according to a report released by \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5457637/inmate-firefighters-injuries-death/\">\u003cem>Time\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feldman, who specializes in identity, labor and incarceration, said the use of incarcerated labor in California and in other states will always be exploitative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12021733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters work through dirt and dust as they frantically dig a containment line to hold off a fire.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391-800x573.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2193449391-160x115.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmate firefighters dig a containment line as they battle the Palisades Fire on Jan. 10, 2025 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is no justification for the pay being as little as it is for the work that is being performed,” Feldman said. “There’s no question that this is risky work — dangerous — and people in prison tend to be more at risk of workplace injury than non-incarcerated people just because oversight in general is less than it is out of prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants in CDCR’s program must meet certain security requirements before going through an extensive training program. The firefighters are stationed across 35 minimum-security facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew anything about wildland fires until I actually went to Fire Camp, and I grew to love it,” said Royal Ramey, cofounder and chief executive officer of The Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, a nonprofit that helps formerly incarcerated people find work as firefighters.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9:20 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021150/where-to-donate-help-los-angeles-wildfire-eaton-fire-palisades-pasadena\">The devastating wildfires\u003c/a> continuing to rage through Los Angeles County have claimed at least 10 lives so far according to officials, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/live/pacific-palisades-fire-updates-los-angeles\">destroyed over 9,000 buildings\u003c/a> and forced around 180,000 people to flee their homes under mandatory \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan\">evacuation orders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as a huge number of people displaced by the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia and Sunset fires now try to meet their basic needs — including shelter, food and water, medical supplies and gasoline — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a reminder that price gouging during disasters like this remains illegal in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#price-gouging-definition\">What counts as price gouging?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#how-to-report-price-gouging\">How can I report price gouging during the L.A. fires?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>California defines price gouging as \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/pricegougingduringdisasters#1C\">when sellers try “to take unfair advantage of consumers\u003c/a> during an emergency or disaster by greatly increasing prices for essential consumer goods and services.” During the L.A. wildfires, this might look like hotels charging more than their usual rates for evacuees seeking a room or a grocery market, hugely increasing the price of bottled water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Department of Justice is now urging people to report any examples of price gouging they see and warns that sellers found to be violating this law can be prosecuted, fined and imprisoned. So if you’re an L.A. County resident who’s been forced to evacuate their home right now — or you have loved ones in the region you want to ensure aren’t being taken advantage of — keep reading for what you need to know about spotting price gouging, and how to report it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>When do price gouging laws come into effect?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state’s law against price gouging under Penal Code Section 396 kicks in when a statewide or local state of emergency is declared — \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/07/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-meets-with-first-responders-in-pacific-palisades-amid-dangerous-fire-weather/\">which happened on Tuesday\u003c/a>, as announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These protections can last well beyond the initial outbreak of a disaster situation: The Office of the Attorney General says that they \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/pricegougingduringdisasters#3C\">“generally apply for 30 days after a declaration of emergency\u003c/a>, although for reconstruction services and emergency cleanup services,\u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/office-of-the-director/policy-administration/legal-affairs/price-gouging/\"> protections apply for 180 days after a declaration of emergency.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://dcba.lacounty.gov/newsroom/during-emergency-report-suspected-price-gouging/\">L.A. County also has its own laws against price gouging\u003c/a>, which similarly remain in effect for 30 days until after an emergency declaration (in this case, Feb. 6) and 180 days for contractor-related services.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"price-gouging-definition\">\u003c/a>What kind of price rise is considered ‘gouging’ under the law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a nutshell, sellers don’t have to be outright doubling their prices to be regarded as participating in price gouging. In fact, “California law generally prohibits charging a price that exceeds, by more than 10%, the price a seller charged for an item before a state or local declaration of emergency,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021342\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12021342\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2189976029-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2189976029-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2189976029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2189976029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2189976029.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks to the press at the offices of Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Los Angeles on Dec. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That means if a local store owner was selling a case of bottled water for $10 before Jan. 7 but hiked the price to $13 on Jan. 8, that 30% price rise would generally be regarded as gouging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if a seller only began selling an item \u003cem>after \u003c/em>an emergency declaration, “the law generally prohibits charging a price that exceeds the seller’s cost of the item by more than 50%,” the Department of Justice said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://percentagecalculator.net\">use an online tool like PercentageCalculator.net\u003c/a> to calculate the percentage rise in the cost of an item.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do price gouging laws only apply to L.A. County right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Actually, no — despite the state’s price gouging law being brought into effect by \u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/office-of-the-director/policy-administration/legal-affairs/price-gouging/\">specific emergency declarations for individual disasters around California\u003c/a>, these protections aren’t restricted to the city or county where that emergency is taking place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As well as applying to L.A. County, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/pricegougingduringdisasters#7C\">the law “is intended to prevent price gouging elsewhere\u003c/a> in the state where there is increased consumer demand as a result of the declared emergency,” the Office of the Attorney General said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The specific example it gives: “If a fire in San Diego County causes residents to evacuate to neighboring Imperial County, hotels in Imperial County may not raise rates by more than 10% to take advantage of the increase in demand for lodging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What kinds of purchases do the price gouging laws apply to?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the Department of Justice, the price gouging law applies to people who sell food, emergency supplies, medical supplies, building materials, gasoline and hotel rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it also applies to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Repair or reconstruction services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Emergency cleanup services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Transportation.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Freight and storage services.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/pricegougingduringdisasters#5C\">see more examples of goods that are subject to the price gouging law\u003c/a>. There \u003cem>are \u003c/em>exceptions to the law, the Department of Justice said: “For example, [if] the price of labor, goods, or materials has increased for the business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do price gouging laws cover rental properties?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, and there are also \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/pricegougingduringdisasters#8C1\">specific protections around price gouging for rental housing\u003c/a>, which apply to services like Airbnb and VRBO. For example, the law also prohibits a landlord from evicting a tenant and “then re-renting the property at a rate that the landlord would have been prohibited from charging the evicted tenant under the price gouging statute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb is currently partnering with 211 LA to offer\u003ca href=\"https://news.airbnb.com/airbnb-org-offers-temporary-housing-to-people-impacted-by-the-los-angeles-wildfires/\"> free accommodation to people displaced by the fires in L.A\u003c/a>., although 211 LA warns that due to high demand, you could be waiting a while to get a response. \u003ca href=\"https://211la.org/LA-Wildfires\">Apply for free accommodation through Airbnb and 211 LA here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"how-to-report-price-gouging\">\u003c/a>If I think I’ve been a victim of price gouging during the L.A. wildfires — or if I spot it in the wild — what can I do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First, make sure you keep all your records and receipts — which may also include taking time-stamped photos of price labels if necessary. The Los Angeles County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs also recommends comparing those prices to pre-emergency declaration prices “and in areas not affected by the disaster.” You could \u003ca href=\"http://percentagecalculator.net\">use an online tool like PercentageCalculator.net\u003c/a> to calculate the percentage rise in the cost of an item to see if you may indeed have been a victim of price gouging.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12021150,news_12021107,news_12021203\"]Then, Bonta urged anyone who spots or experiences price gouging to “immediately” file a complaint with the Office of the Attorney General at \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/report\">oag.ca.gov/report\u003c/a> or by calling 800-952-5225. The online form requires giving your full contact details. You can also contact your local police department or sheriff’s office, Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sellers who are found to be violating California’s price gouging statute can be subject to criminal prosecution and could be imprisoned for one year in county jail — and/or a fine of up to $10,000. “Violators are also subject to civil enforcement actions, including civil penalties of up to $2,500 per violation, injunctive relief, and mandatory restitution,” the Department of Justice said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also \u003ca href=\"https://dcba.lacounty.gov/newsroom/during-emergency-report-suspected-price-gouging/\">file a complaint to the Los Angeles County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs (DCBA)\u003c/a> using their online complaint form or by phone at 800-593-8222.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear in mind that the attorney general’s office said it \u003cem>can’t \u003c/em>give you legal advice or represent individuals, although it may “on behalf of the public” investigate or prosecute a person who’s been price gouging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s office said that “if you believe that you might have a claim for price gouging, you might consider contacting an attorney to explore your options.” You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.calbar.ca.gov\">find a referral to a lawyer through the State Bar\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.lsc.gov\">find a free legal aid office near you\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Bonta’s office could not comment on whether the Department of Justice had already received any complaints from the public about price gouging during the L.A. fires due to the possibility of eventual investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9:20 a.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021150/where-to-donate-help-los-angeles-wildfire-eaton-fire-palisades-pasadena\">The devastating wildfires\u003c/a> continuing to rage through Los Angeles County have claimed at least 10 lives so far according to officials, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/live/pacific-palisades-fire-updates-los-angeles\">destroyed over 9,000 buildings\u003c/a> and forced around 180,000 people to flee their homes under mandatory \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan\">evacuation orders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as a huge number of people displaced by the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia and Sunset fires now try to meet their basic needs — including shelter, food and water, medical supplies and gasoline — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a reminder that price gouging during disasters like this remains illegal in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#price-gouging-definition\">What counts as price gouging?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#how-to-report-price-gouging\">How can I report price gouging during the L.A. fires?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>California defines price gouging as \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/pricegougingduringdisasters#1C\">when sellers try “to take unfair advantage of consumers\u003c/a> during an emergency or disaster by greatly increasing prices for essential consumer goods and services.” During the L.A. wildfires, this might look like hotels charging more than their usual rates for evacuees seeking a room or a grocery market, hugely increasing the price of bottled water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Department of Justice is now urging people to report any examples of price gouging they see and warns that sellers found to be violating this law can be prosecuted, fined and imprisoned. So if you’re an L.A. County resident who’s been forced to evacuate their home right now — or you have loved ones in the region you want to ensure aren’t being taken advantage of — keep reading for what you need to know about spotting price gouging, and how to report it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>When do price gouging laws come into effect?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state’s law against price gouging under Penal Code Section 396 kicks in when a statewide or local state of emergency is declared — \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/07/governor-newsom-proclaims-state-of-emergency-meets-with-first-responders-in-pacific-palisades-amid-dangerous-fire-weather/\">which happened on Tuesday\u003c/a>, as announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These protections can last well beyond the initial outbreak of a disaster situation: The Office of the Attorney General says that they \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/pricegougingduringdisasters#3C\">“generally apply for 30 days after a declaration of emergency\u003c/a>, although for reconstruction services and emergency cleanup services,\u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/office-of-the-director/policy-administration/legal-affairs/price-gouging/\"> protections apply for 180 days after a declaration of emergency.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://dcba.lacounty.gov/newsroom/during-emergency-report-suspected-price-gouging/\">L.A. County also has its own laws against price gouging\u003c/a>, which similarly remain in effect for 30 days until after an emergency declaration (in this case, Feb. 6) and 180 days for contractor-related services.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"price-gouging-definition\">\u003c/a>What kind of price rise is considered ‘gouging’ under the law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a nutshell, sellers don’t have to be outright doubling their prices to be regarded as participating in price gouging. In fact, “California law generally prohibits charging a price that exceeds, by more than 10%, the price a seller charged for an item before a state or local declaration of emergency,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021342\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12021342\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2189976029-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2189976029-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2189976029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2189976029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2189976029.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks to the press at the offices of Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Los Angeles on Dec. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That means if a local store owner was selling a case of bottled water for $10 before Jan. 7 but hiked the price to $13 on Jan. 8, that 30% price rise would generally be regarded as gouging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if a seller only began selling an item \u003cem>after \u003c/em>an emergency declaration, “the law generally prohibits charging a price that exceeds the seller’s cost of the item by more than 50%,” the Department of Justice said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://percentagecalculator.net\">use an online tool like PercentageCalculator.net\u003c/a> to calculate the percentage rise in the cost of an item.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Do price gouging laws only apply to L.A. County right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Actually, no — despite the state’s price gouging law being brought into effect by \u003ca href=\"https://www.caloes.ca.gov/office-of-the-director/policy-administration/legal-affairs/price-gouging/\">specific emergency declarations for individual disasters around California\u003c/a>, these protections aren’t restricted to the city or county where that emergency is taking place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As well as applying to L.A. County, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/pricegougingduringdisasters#7C\">the law “is intended to prevent price gouging elsewhere\u003c/a> in the state where there is increased consumer demand as a result of the declared emergency,” the Office of the Attorney General said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The specific example it gives: “If a fire in San Diego County causes residents to evacuate to neighboring Imperial County, hotels in Imperial County may not raise rates by more than 10% to take advantage of the increase in demand for lodging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What kinds of purchases do the price gouging laws apply to?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the Department of Justice, the price gouging law applies to people who sell food, emergency supplies, medical supplies, building materials, gasoline and hotel rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it also applies to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Repair or reconstruction services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Emergency cleanup services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Transportation.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Freight and storage services.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/pricegougingduringdisasters#5C\">see more examples of goods that are subject to the price gouging law\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a foggy morning in early December, Fresno police Sgt. Steven Jaquez scanned the city streets for tents, shopping carts, strewn belongings, and their owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From behind the wheel of his patrol car, he pointed out a small group of mostly men sitting on the sidewalk drinking beers with bags and carts around them. As soon as they spotted him, they scrambled to their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know there’s a good chance, ‘if I don’t get up and I don’t get moving, those cops are probably going to arrest me,'” said Jaquez, who supervises the department’s police team that responds to complaints about homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/28/nx-s1-4992010/supreme-court-homeless-punish-sleeping-encampments\">\u003cu>empowered local governments to crack down\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on homeless encampments in June, at least 40 jurisdictions around California have enacted new laws or toughened existing ones, according to the National Homelessness Law Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">\u003cu>The state is ground zero (PDF)\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for the nation’s homelessness crisis and NHLC says California’s new tally of camping bans is higher than any other state in the nation. Advocates for homeless people say that \u003ca href=\"https://librarystage.municode.com/ca/fresno/ordinances/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=1310244\">\u003cu>Fresno’s law\u003c/u>\u003c/a> is among the toughest in the state: banning camping, sitting or lying on public property anytime, anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Fresno Police Department’s Homeless Assistance Response Team (HART) speak with Shannon Thom, an unhoused resident, in Fresno on Dec. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials say the law is crafted to incentivize people to choose rehab by offering substance abuse treatment in lieu of arrest for violating the law — a misdemeanor punishable with up to a year in jail, a fine of up to $1,000 or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough,” Fresno City Councilmember Miguel Arias said in late September on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005898/fresno-rolls-out-one-of-californias-most-aggressive-camping-bans\">\u003cu>the day the law went into effect\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. “It’s time for them to get the help or expect to go through withdrawals in a county jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.hudexchange.info%2Freports%2Fpublished%2FCoC_PopSub_CoC_CA-514-2023_CA_2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Only a subset of\u003c/u>\u003c/a> unhoused people in the area report being chronic substance users, according to data collected by the federal government. And city officials say they’re also trying to provide housing and services to people who don’t use drugs – but resources are limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policies in Fresno and across the state mark a dramatic shift from the pandemic, when the \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/cdc-advises-against-clearing-homeless-encampments-if-alternate-housing-not-available\">\u003cu>CDC advised encampments should be left in place\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. And as the number of people experiencing homelessness has spiked in the state — growing to more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahar/2023-ahar-part-1-pit-estimates-of-homelessness-in-the-us.html\">\u003cu>181,000 at last count\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003cu> \u003c/u>— voters have \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/overwhelming-majorities-are-concerned-about-homelessness-support-many-policies-to-address-it/\">\u003cu>in turn become increasingly impatient\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-12-01/la-voters-are-frustrated-impatient-over-persistent-homelessness-crisis\">\u003cu>a change from the status quo\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. Now, the reality of this new paradigm in Fresno is beginning to take shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We really don’t know where to go’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The day after the law went into effect in September, a homeless man named Amado Real was sitting with his friends on the sidewalk in front of a boarded-up building near downtown Fresno when police officers with the Homeless Assistance Response Team rolled up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told Real and the others they had to leave because of the new law, and offered to take them to a homeless services provider downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real and his girlfriend refused — Real later said because they feel it’s chaotic and dangerous down there, and they felt safer staying where they were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really don’t know where to go,” Real said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017614\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Fresno Police Department’s Homeless Assistance Response Team (HART) stand near a group of unhoused residents after their camp was cleared in Fresno on Dec. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That same sentiment was echoed by a number of homeless people in Fresno, though others said they had positive experiences getting services. A spokesperson for the city said that they’ve cleaned up an encampment around the service-provider to make it safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real is exactly the kind of person city leaders say they’re targeting with the new law — a longtime heroin addict who has been living on the streets for over four years. Real said he grew up in Fresno and spends much of his time in the neighborhood where he was raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days into the crackdown, police had already told him to move along at least three times. He couldn’t sit in front of the boarded up building, in a gas station parking lot, or, just a couple minutes later, stand on the sidewalk around the corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like I don’t have any rights anymore,” the 59-year-old said. “I can’t even walk in my own neighborhood. I can’t even sit down. I can’t even be alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the kind of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article292931589.html\">\u003cu>tough love\u003c/u>\u003c/a>” leaders in Fresno have said they hope will force people to get off the streets. But three months after the law went into effect, Real wasn’t any closer to getting clean or housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other people living unsheltered in the city, he had found a way to camp out of public view and make do with fewer things, a change many business owners and residents welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017613\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unhoused person packs a cart of their belongings after Officer Omar Khan, a police officer with the Homeless Assistance Response Team (HART), speaks with them about clearing the area in Fresno on Dec. 3, 2024, while Public Utilities Department employees begin to discard of items. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Jerry Dyer said the law is making a difference. “Behavior is changing for the better,” he said. “We’re still utilizing compassion and being humane in the way we approach people, but now there’s the accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By mid-December, a police spokesperson said they’d arrested more than 300 people. They also said only 15 people had accepted the treatment offer so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real had predicted that kind of reluctant response. He said he’s been to rehab three times, and even started training as a drug counselor before he relapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t force somebody into rehab. It’s not going to work,” he said. “I know that from experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The true long-term solution is housing’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>People arrested under the law can be offered the option of completing a six-month drug treatment program to avoid the arrest appearing on their criminal record, according to police training documents. But \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.hudexchange.info%2Freports%2Fpublished%2FCoC_PopSub_CoC_CA-514-2023_CA_2023.pdf\">\u003cu>only about a third \u003c/u>\u003c/a>report being chronic substance users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/homelessness-california-causes-and-policy-considerations\">\u003cu>Research\u003c/u>\u003c/a> finds homelessness is caused by an interplay of both personal and structural factors; trauma, mental illness, discrimination and incarceration make people more vulnerable to ending up on the streets. Drug addiction can be a contributing factor, but experts say it’s the \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/our-impact/studies/california-statewide-study-people-experiencing-homelessness\">\u003cu>precarity caused by\u003c/u>\u003c/a> poverty and high housing costs that drives widespread homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2017 and last year, rents in Fresno County for a typical two-bedroom apartment increased more than 40%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2017_code/select_Geography.odn\">\u003cu>according to the federal government\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. During that time, the number of unhoused people in Fresno and the neighboring county \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/coc/coc-homeless-populations-and-subpopulations-reports/?filter_Year=2023&filter_Scope=CoC&filter_State=CA&filter_CoC=CA-514&program=CoC&group=PopSub\">\u003cu>more than doubled\u003c/u>.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017615\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Briggs, an unhoused resident in the Mayfair neighborhood of Fresno, moves a cart of items he was allowed to keep after the Homeless Assistance Response Team (HART) cleared his camp on Dec. 3, 2024, while carrying a kitten named Snowflake. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials emphasize that police and outreach workers regularly offer to connect people with housing and other services before they make an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Real’s case, he said it hasn’t led to actually being housed. Outreach workers have helped him sign up for a spot on the waitlist at an emergency shelter four times, he said, but he hasn’t followed up with them, and they haven’t followed up with him. He doesn’t have a phone, a watch, or a permanent address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite efforts to provide more shelter beds and services, the city struggles to match demand. Dyer said Fresno spends about $15 million on shelter services per year, which helped fund about 1,400 year-round emergency shelter and transitional housing beds. And there were \u003ca href=\"https://fresnomaderahomeless.org/point-in-time\">\u003cu>nearly as many people\u003c/u>\u003c/a> sleeping in them, \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_CoC_CA-514-2023_CA_2023.pdf\">\u003cu>according to federal data (PDF)\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, there were another 1,800 people \u003ca href=\"https://fresnomaderahomeless.org/point-in-time\">\u003cu>living unsheltered on Fresno’s streets\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on our outreach, 90% of the unhoused are already waiting for services,” said Fresno civil rights and criminal defense attorney Kevin Little. “So it’s really a meaningless law to give them a choice between being arrested and seeking services that they already are waiting for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of volunteers, Little said he has been interviewing unhoused people affected by the camping ban and preparing to file a lawsuit against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He argued the law is leaving unhoused people worse off without actually solving anything, warning these arrests can set off a cascade of negative consequences that only further entrench people into homelessness — an \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122419872671\">\u003cu>assertion\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13227-4\">\u003cu>supported\u003c/u>\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://housingmatters.urban.org/research-summary/criminalizing-homelessness-creates-instability-unhoused-people\">\u003cu>research\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_12005898,news_12009058,news_12005474,news_12018466\"]Jail booking logs in Fresno show the majority of people arrested on public camping charges are only held in custody for a matter of hours, just long enough to be processed. But advocates for the unhoused, and unhoused people themselves, say they can lose most of their belongings in the process and get separated from friends and pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the city, 51 people arrested on charges of public camping were prosecuted by the City Attorney’s Office by mid-December. Most of those cases were still working their way through the system; eight had been dismissed, and 17 defendants hadn’t shown up to court, likely earning them warrants for failing to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer dismissed concerns that the arrests are ineffectual, saying the camping ban is just one part of the city’s broader strategy to address homelessness, which includes investing in shelter and affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The true long-term solution is housing with services,” Dyer said, adding that he also sees a role for enforcement. “I do believe that it’s the necessary accountability that’s going to cause people to change behavior over the long run. And it is something that the people of Fresno expect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-element-implementation-and-apr-dashboard\">Housing and Community Development Department shows\u003c/a> that Fresno completed some 780 low-income housing units between 2019 and last year, and a spokesperson for the city said hundreds more are in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Rodriguez, an unhoused resident sits on G Street near the Poverello House in Fresno on Dec. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Mixed feelings among residents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In interviews, residents expressed mixed feelings about the law. Some business owners said they relied on unhoused people as customers, others said they were glad to see police respond more quickly to complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Sgt. Jaquez worked his way around the city, following reported complaints from alley to sidewalk to overpass, more than one person approached him to express their gratitude for his team’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them was Devonta Mayberry, who uses an electric wheelchair. He told Jaquez the clear sidewalks have transformed his ability to get around his neighborhood, and made his daughter feel safer walking around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y’all finally getting this stuff cleaned up,” he said. “They’re doing drugs out here and then it’s babies right here. All we can do is call for help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You hit me up on 311 if you have problems,” Jaquez said, referring to Fresno’s non-emergency phone number that connects residents to city services. “We’re trying to return neighborhoods back to people who live in the neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the roughly 25 years since he began work as a police officer in Fresno, Sgt. Jaquez said he has watched tent encampments take over parts of the city. After three years working with the department’s homelessness response team, he said he’s proud of his work cleaning up some of the larger camps. But even he doesn’t see this as a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just moving them right now does not solve this problem,” he said. “But it gives a couple of hours, and then we’ll come back another time and deal with it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a foggy morning in early December, Fresno police Sgt. Steven Jaquez scanned the city streets for tents, shopping carts, strewn belongings, and their owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From behind the wheel of his patrol car, he pointed out a small group of mostly men sitting on the sidewalk drinking beers with bags and carts around them. As soon as they spotted him, they scrambled to their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know there’s a good chance, ‘if I don’t get up and I don’t get moving, those cops are probably going to arrest me,'” said Jaquez, who supervises the department’s police team that responds to complaints about homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/06/28/nx-s1-4992010/supreme-court-homeless-punish-sleeping-encampments\">\u003cu>empowered local governments to crack down\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on homeless encampments in June, at least 40 jurisdictions around California have enacted new laws or toughened existing ones, according to the National Homelessness Law Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">\u003cu>The state is ground zero (PDF)\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for the nation’s homelessness crisis and NHLC says California’s new tally of camping bans is higher than any other state in the nation. Advocates for homeless people say that \u003ca href=\"https://librarystage.municode.com/ca/fresno/ordinances/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=1310244\">\u003cu>Fresno’s law\u003c/u>\u003c/a> is among the toughest in the state: banning camping, sitting or lying on public property anytime, anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-39-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Fresno Police Department’s Homeless Assistance Response Team (HART) speak with Shannon Thom, an unhoused resident, in Fresno on Dec. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials say the law is crafted to incentivize people to choose rehab by offering substance abuse treatment in lieu of arrest for violating the law — a misdemeanor punishable with up to a year in jail, a fine of up to $1,000 or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough,” Fresno City Councilmember Miguel Arias said in late September on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005898/fresno-rolls-out-one-of-californias-most-aggressive-camping-bans\">\u003cu>the day the law went into effect\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. “It’s time for them to get the help or expect to go through withdrawals in a county jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.hudexchange.info%2Freports%2Fpublished%2FCoC_PopSub_CoC_CA-514-2023_CA_2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Only a subset of\u003c/u>\u003c/a> unhoused people in the area report being chronic substance users, according to data collected by the federal government. And city officials say they’re also trying to provide housing and services to people who don’t use drugs – but resources are limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new policies in Fresno and across the state mark a dramatic shift from the pandemic, when the \u003ca href=\"https://nlihc.org/resource/cdc-advises-against-clearing-homeless-encampments-if-alternate-housing-not-available\">\u003cu>CDC advised encampments should be left in place\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We really don’t know where to go’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The day after the law went into effect in September, a homeless man named Amado Real was sitting with his friends on the sidewalk in front of a boarded-up building near downtown Fresno when police officers with the Homeless Assistance Response Team rolled up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told Real and the others they had to leave because of the new law, and offered to take them to a homeless services provider downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real and his girlfriend refused — Real later said because they feel it’s chaotic and dangerous down there, and they felt safer staying where they were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really don’t know where to go,” Real said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017614\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-27-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Fresno Police Department’s Homeless Assistance Response Team (HART) stand near a group of unhoused residents after their camp was cleared in Fresno on Dec. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That same sentiment was echoed by a number of homeless people in Fresno, though others said they had positive experiences getting services. A spokesperson for the city said that they’ve cleaned up an encampment around the service-provider to make it safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real is exactly the kind of person city leaders say they’re targeting with the new law — a longtime heroin addict who has been living on the streets for over four years. Real said he grew up in Fresno and spends much of his time in the neighborhood where he was raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days into the crackdown, police had already told him to move along at least three times. He couldn’t sit in front of the boarded up building, in a gas station parking lot, or, just a couple minutes later, stand on the sidewalk around the corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like I don’t have any rights anymore,” the 59-year-old said. “I can’t even walk in my own neighborhood. I can’t even sit down. I can’t even be alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the kind of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article292931589.html\">\u003cu>tough love\u003c/u>\u003c/a>” leaders in Fresno have said they hope will force people to get off the streets. But three months after the law went into effect, Real wasn’t any closer to getting clean or housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other people living unsheltered in the city, he had found a way to camp out of public view and make do with fewer things, a change many business owners and residents welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017613\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-23-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unhoused person packs a cart of their belongings after Officer Omar Khan, a police officer with the Homeless Assistance Response Team (HART), speaks with them about clearing the area in Fresno on Dec. 3, 2024, while Public Utilities Department employees begin to discard of items. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Jerry Dyer said the law is making a difference. “Behavior is changing for the better,” he said. “We’re still utilizing compassion and being humane in the way we approach people, but now there’s the accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By mid-December, a police spokesperson said they’d arrested more than 300 people. They also said only 15 people had accepted the treatment offer so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Real had predicted that kind of reluctant response. He said he’s been to rehab three times, and even started training as a drug counselor before he relapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t force somebody into rehab. It’s not going to work,” he said. “I know that from experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The true long-term solution is housing’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>People arrested under the law can be offered the option of completing a six-month drug treatment program to avoid the arrest appearing on their criminal record, according to police training documents. But \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.hudexchange.info%2Freports%2Fpublished%2FCoC_PopSub_CoC_CA-514-2023_CA_2023.pdf\">\u003cu>only about a third \u003c/u>\u003c/a>report being chronic substance users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/homelessness-california-causes-and-policy-considerations\">\u003cu>Research\u003c/u>\u003c/a> finds homelessness is caused by an interplay of both personal and structural factors; trauma, mental illness, discrimination and incarceration make people more vulnerable to ending up on the streets. Drug addiction can be a contributing factor, but experts say it’s the \u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/our-impact/studies/california-statewide-study-people-experiencing-homelessness\">\u003cu>precarity caused by\u003c/u>\u003c/a> poverty and high housing costs that drives widespread homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2017 and last year, rents in Fresno County for a typical two-bedroom apartment increased more than 40%, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2017_code/select_Geography.odn\">\u003cu>according to the federal government\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. During that time, the number of unhoused people in Fresno and the neighboring county \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/coc/coc-homeless-populations-and-subpopulations-reports/?filter_Year=2023&filter_Scope=CoC&filter_State=CA&filter_CoC=CA-514&program=CoC&group=PopSub\">\u003cu>more than doubled\u003c/u>.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017615\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-56-BL-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Briggs, an unhoused resident in the Mayfair neighborhood of Fresno, moves a cart of items he was allowed to keep after the Homeless Assistance Response Team (HART) cleared his camp on Dec. 3, 2024, while carrying a kitten named Snowflake. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials emphasize that police and outreach workers regularly offer to connect people with housing and other services before they make an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Real’s case, he said it hasn’t led to actually being housed. Outreach workers have helped him sign up for a spot on the waitlist at an emergency shelter four times, he said, but he hasn’t followed up with them, and they haven’t followed up with him. He doesn’t have a phone, a watch, or a permanent address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite efforts to provide more shelter beds and services, the city struggles to match demand. Dyer said Fresno spends about $15 million on shelter services per year, which helped fund about 1,400 year-round emergency shelter and transitional housing beds. And there were \u003ca href=\"https://fresnomaderahomeless.org/point-in-time\">\u003cu>nearly as many people\u003c/u>\u003c/a> sleeping in them, \u003ca href=\"https://files.hudexchange.info/reports/published/CoC_HIC_CoC_CA-514-2023_CA_2023.pdf\">\u003cu>according to federal data (PDF)\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, there were another 1,800 people \u003ca href=\"https://fresnomaderahomeless.org/point-in-time\">\u003cu>living unsheltered on Fresno’s streets\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on our outreach, 90% of the unhoused are already waiting for services,” said Fresno civil rights and criminal defense attorney Kevin Little. “So it’s really a meaningless law to give them a choice between being arrested and seeking services that they already are waiting for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of volunteers, Little said he has been interviewing unhoused people affected by the camping ban and preparing to file a lawsuit against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He argued the law is leaving unhoused people worse off without actually solving anything, warning these arrests can set off a cascade of negative consequences that only further entrench people into homelessness — an \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122419872671\">\u003cu>assertion\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13227-4\">\u003cu>supported\u003c/u>\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://housingmatters.urban.org/research-summary/criminalizing-homelessness-creates-instability-unhoused-people\">\u003cu>research\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Jail booking logs in Fresno show the majority of people arrested on public camping charges are only held in custody for a matter of hours, just long enough to be processed. But advocates for the unhoused, and unhoused people themselves, say they can lose most of their belongings in the process and get separated from friends and pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the city, 51 people arrested on charges of public camping were prosecuted by the City Attorney’s Office by mid-December. Most of those cases were still working their way through the system; eight had been dismissed, and 17 defendants hadn’t shown up to court, likely earning them warrants for failing to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer dismissed concerns that the arrests are ineffectual, saying the camping ban is just one part of the city’s broader strategy to address homelessness, which includes investing in shelter and affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The true long-term solution is housing with services,” Dyer said, adding that he also sees a role for enforcement. “I do believe that it’s the necessary accountability that’s going to cause people to change behavior over the long run. And it is something that the people of Fresno expect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-community-development/housing-element-implementation-and-apr-dashboard\">Housing and Community Development Department shows\u003c/a> that Fresno completed some 780 low-income housing units between 2019 and last year, and a spokesperson for the city said hundreds more are in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-FresnoCampingBan-85-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juan Rodriguez, an unhoused resident sits on G Street near the Poverello House in Fresno on Dec. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Mixed feelings among residents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In interviews, residents expressed mixed feelings about the law. Some business owners said they relied on unhoused people as customers, others said they were glad to see police respond more quickly to complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Sgt. Jaquez worked his way around the city, following reported complaints from alley to sidewalk to overpass, more than one person approached him to express their gratitude for his team’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them was Devonta Mayberry, who uses an electric wheelchair. He told Jaquez the clear sidewalks have transformed his ability to get around his neighborhood, and made his daughter feel safer walking around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y’all finally getting this stuff cleaned up,” he said. “They’re doing drugs out here and then it’s babies right here. All we can do is call for help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You hit me up on 311 if you have problems,” Jaquez said, referring to Fresno’s non-emergency phone number that connects residents to city services. “We’re trying to return neighborhoods back to people who live in the neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the roughly 25 years since he began work as a police officer in Fresno, Sgt. Jaquez said he has watched tent encampments take over parts of the city. After three years working with the department’s homelessness response team, he said he’s proud of his work cleaning up some of the larger camps. But even he doesn’t see this as a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just moving them right now does not solve this problem,” he said. “But it gives a couple of hours, and then we’ll come back another time and deal with it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On their first opportunity since a new law took effect Jan. 1, seven casino-owning Native American tribes filed suit in Sacramento County Thursday against dozens of California card rooms, opening a new front in one of last year’s most expensive political battles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, millions of dollars of tax revenues that pay for city services such as police and road repairs could be in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tribes’ suit alleges that the gambling halls scattered across California are illegally offering card games such as blackjack and pai gow poker that cut into the tribes’ gambling revenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants brazenly profit from illegal gambling,” the tribes said in the opening line of their lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a card room industry representative said the card rooms are “in full compliance with the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This attempt by tribal casinos to shut down lawful competition by tax-paying California businesses will fail,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit would not have been possible if Gov. Gavin Newsom hadn’t \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/09/california-casinos-gambling-cities-newsom/\">signed Senate Bill 549 in September\u003c/a>. Tribes say California voters years ago gave them the exclusive rights to host the disputed table games, which they use to benefit historically disenfranchised tribal communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, because the tribes are sovereign governments, they lacked legal standing to sue the state’s 80 or so privately owned gambling halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill gave tribes a three-month window to sue card rooms starting Jan. 1. They filed the lawsuit on the first day California courts opened for business in the new year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the bill, tribes cannot receive any money or attorneys’ fees from the lawsuit. Instead, judges will only decide whether card rooms can continue to offer the disputed games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high since some cities receive nearly half of their budgets from taxes on card rooms, meaning a tribal victory in court could jeopardize money for police, firefighters and other local services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, nearly two-thirds of the budget for the small city of Hawaiian Gardens and almost half for the city of Commerce, both in Los Angeles County, come from local card rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose City Councilmember Sergio Jimenez told lawmakers in July that the city receives $30 million each year from card rooms, enough to fund 150 police officers or 133 firefighters. Jimenez said that money’s in jeopardy if the tribes end up prevailing in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The card room industry claims the games are legal and that the attorney general’s office has approved each of them over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='tribes' label='More Tribal News']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit comes after tribes persuaded lawmakers last year to pass \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb549?slug=CA_202320240SB549&_gl=1*1jz7mmg*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNTkyOTQ4My4zNS4xLjE3MzU5MzEzMzQuNTcuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNTkyOTQ4My4zNS4xLjE3MzU5MzA2NDkuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNTkyOTQ4My4zNS4xLjE3MzU5MzA2NDkuMC4wLjA.\">SB 549\u003c/a> in what was one of the most costly political fights of the two-year legislative session that concluded last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers, many of them with large tribal casinos in their districts, pushed for the gambling measure, while a smaller group of lawmakers with card rooms in their districts opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It followed a failed 2022 sports betting initiative that the tribes spent millions of dollars to sponsor and that included a similar provision that would have let the tribes sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opposing gambling interests donated at least $4.3 million to the 120 members of the Legislature since January 2023, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/?_gl=1*1jz7mmg*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNTkyOTQ4My4zNS4xLjE3MzU5MzEzMzQuNTcuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNTkyOTQ4My4zNS4xLjE3MzU5MzA2NDkuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNTkyOTQ4My4zNS4xLjE3MzU5MzA2NDkuMC4wLjA.\">Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing what they saw as an existential threat, card rooms responded to SB 549’s introduction with a massive lobbying blitz. 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