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Her family claimed she was held for 19 hours in a sobering cell while jail staff ignored her worsening health condition and only released her to a nearby hospital to avoid the public reporting and accountability that comes following an in-custody death. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Because they quickly released her, technically, she was not in their custody,” Barry said in an interview with KQED. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098692\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tammy Manzanilla’s sister, Amy Barry, right, and son, Angel Miniaci, second from right, sit with family members who also lost a loved one after they were in police custody during the Sept. 8, 2026, meeting of the Marin County Board of Supervisors. Barry told supervisors her family plans to file a formal lawsuit regarding Manzanilla’s April 11, 2026, death. (Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Manzanilla was in her mid-50s when she died. Her family said she struggled with addiction and had been homeless in Marin County for the last 15 years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barry believes that the sheriff’s office chose to cite and release Manzanilla to a hospital only after they realized she was dying to avoid having to classify it as an in-custody death. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, law enforcement agencies have to disclose certain information about in-custody deaths, such as the time and place of the incident and the person’s age and race. 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The city of Antioch \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986351/family-of-man-suffocated-by-antioch-police-restraint-to-get-7-5-million-settlement\">settled the Quinto family’s lawsuit\u003c/a> for $7.5 million in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Marin County has not publicly released any information regarding Manzanilla’s death. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Responding to a request from KQED, Roger Fielding, chief deputy of Marin County’s coroner division, said the county’s counsel would review what could be shared publicly “due to the sensitive nature of this death investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to a redacted incident report obtained by KQED, Manzanilla was booked into the Marin County Jail at 1:30 p.m. on April 8 on suspicion of public intoxication and other misdemeanors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deputy Keira Oliver noted in her report that the inmate — whom the family said is Manzanilla — was “very intoxicated” and placed into a cell for observation where she “had been yelling and making nonsensical statements.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The next day at 8:15 a.m., Oliver and Deputy Taylor Del Santo got Manzanilla out of her cell. According to the report, she was able to walk out of the cell on her own, but soon had difficulty standing on her own during the fingerprinting and mugshot process. Deputies noted she “dropped her weight and fell to the floor” and needed a wheelchair. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098691\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Family members of Tammy Manzanilla held a press conference outside the Marin County Civic Center on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. They were joined by family members of other Bay Area residents who have died after being in police custody. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The family of Tammy Annette Manzanilla, a woman who died after recently being held in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/marin-county\">Marin County\u003c/a> Jail, said they’re proceeding with a wrongful death lawsuit against the county. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The lawsuit will be filed,” said Manzanilla’s sister Amy Barry of Oakhurst, addressing the county’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. “You’ll be hearing a lot from me.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barry isn’t hopeful she’ll hear back from the county’s counsel, who she said has not addressed the tort claim — a precursor to a lawsuit — that an attorney filed on behalf of her family in July. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On April 8, the Central Marin Police Authority arrested Manzanilla and booked her into the Marin County Jail. Her family claimed she was held for 19 hours in a sobering cell while jail staff ignored her worsening health condition and only released her to a nearby hospital to avoid the public reporting and accountability that comes following an in-custody death. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Because they quickly released her, technically, she was not in their custody,” Barry said in an interview with KQED. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098692\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla5-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tammy Manzanilla’s sister, Amy Barry, right, and son, Angel Miniaci, second from right, sit with family members who also lost a loved one after they were in police custody during the Sept. 8, 2026, meeting of the Marin County Board of Supervisors. Barry told supervisors her family plans to file a formal lawsuit regarding Manzanilla’s April 11, 2026, death. (Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Manzanilla was in her mid-50s when she died. Her family said she struggled with addiction and had been homeless in Marin County for the last 15 years. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barry believes that the sheriff’s office chose to cite and release Manzanilla to a hospital only after they realized she was dying to avoid having to classify it as an in-custody death. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, law enforcement agencies have to disclose certain information about in-custody deaths, such as the time and place of the incident and the person’s age and race. (For example, Marin County did that for an in-custody death of a 66-year-old white man on June 12, but not in Manzanilla’s case.) \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barry was joined at the meeting by family members whose loved ones died under similar circumstances in Bay Area jails and interactions with law enforcement agencies. They say they’re “part of the club that no one wants to be a part of” as they seek justice for their families. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What happened to Tammy is similar in so many ways because basic respect and basic policies were not followed,” said Robert Collins, the father of Angelo Quinto, who was killed by Antioch police in December 2020, during the news conference outside the jail on Tuesday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In Quinto’s case, officers responded to a mental health call and knelt on Quinto’s neck for nearly five minutes, according to a civil rights lawsuit his family filed after his death. Quinto died at a hospital three days later. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Antioch did not make a public statement following Quinto’s death, as required by state law for in-custody deaths. The city of Antioch \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986351/family-of-man-suffocated-by-antioch-police-restraint-to-get-7-5-million-settlement\">settled the Quinto family’s lawsuit\u003c/a> for $7.5 million in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Marin County has not publicly released any information regarding Manzanilla’s death. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Responding to a request from KQED, Roger Fielding, chief deputy of Marin County’s coroner division, said the county’s counsel would review what could be shared publicly “due to the sensitive nature of this death investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to a redacted incident report obtained by KQED, Manzanilla was booked into the Marin County Jail at 1:30 p.m. on April 8 on suspicion of public intoxication and other misdemeanors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deputy Keira Oliver noted in her report that the inmate — whom the family said is Manzanilla — was “very intoxicated” and placed into a cell for observation where she “had been yelling and making nonsensical statements.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The next day at 8:15 a.m., Oliver and Deputy Taylor Del Santo got Manzanilla out of her cell. According to the report, she was able to walk out of the cell on her own, but soon had difficulty standing on her own during the fingerprinting and mugshot process. Deputies noted she “dropped her weight and fell to the floor” and needed a wheelchair. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098691\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/TammyManzanilla3-KQED-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Family members of Tammy Manzanilla held a press conference outside the Marin County Civic Center on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. They were joined by family members of other Bay Area residents who have died after being in police custody. (Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Within 15 minutes, a nurse checked Manzanilla’s eyes and indicated that she needed medical attention, according to the report. It goes on to show that deputies placed her on the ground on her side and gave her oxygen while waiting for the fire department to respond and address her medical issues. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“She was sitting in that jail cell, dying,” Barry said. “There was a cascade of events occurring inside of her body that there was no coming back from. It was that point of no return by the time she got to the hospital.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The report states that Manzanilla was cited and released to MarinHealth Medical Center in Greenbrae at 8:30 a.m. on April 9. Her family said that Manzanilla died on April 11 after her liver and her kidneys shut down.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Court records show that the Marin County District Attorney’s Office filed charges of disorderly conduct, possession of drug paraphernalia and probation violation against Manzanilla four days after she died. A judge dismissed her case on May 1. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Like most of California’s counties, Marin County’s elected sheriff is also its coroner. This system has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/04/608511061/in-california-critics-say-sheriff-coroner-gig-is-a-conflict-of-interest\">been under scrutiny for years\u003c/a>, especially with in-custody or officer-involved deaths, as the sheriff operates the jails and then oversees investigations into those deaths. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In this case, Marin County did the investigation, which is definitely a conflict of interest, because I don’t feel like they’re doing an honest job,” Barry said. “They can say whatever. They said her death was accidental.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>County leaders have previously offered condolences to the family but have said they won’t comment on anticipated litigation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I just want them to say, ‘Hey, yeah, we screwed up. We really screwed up, and we’re going to make the changes so that this doesn’t happen anymore,’” Barry said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Angel Miniachi, Manzanilla’s son, said he plans to bury his mother’s ashes so she can grow into a blossom tree, as she told him years ago that’s what she wanted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’m gonna make that happen for her,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>Michael Perillo spent nearly two years insisting he was in jail for a murder he didn’t commit before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> prosecutors dropped the charges and released him last week. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, Perillo’s family and supporters say investigators charged and prosecuted him for the brutal 2024 death of Edson Perez on the streets of Oakland’s Chinatown based on faulty and insufficient evidence. In a press release the family says they are considering legal action. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Perillo’s mother, Christy White, said the period of incarceration traumatized her 47-year-old son, who was unhoused and struggling with mental illness at the time of his arrest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I cannot tell you the relief that I had,” White said. “All the trauma that my son has gone through, and that he stuck with it, and I always knew he was innocent.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Oakland police arrested Perillo in September 2024, alleging that he was one of two people who chased Perez and then beat him to death with a bike and a mallet. Police told \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/09/11/oakland-man-charged-in-fatal-beating-where-bicycle-was-used-as-a-weapon/\">local news outlets\u003c/a> at the time that surveillance footage and eyewitnesses helped them identify Perillo.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01516-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098638\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01516-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01516-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01516-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Christy White shows a photo of her son Michael Perillo, at Castle Oaks Club House in Ione, California, on Sept. 5, 2026. Perillo was released from jail last week, two years after he was charged with a murder in Oakland’s Chinatown. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Perillo’s lawyer, Tamani Taylor, said the prosecution’s case rested largely on the testimony of one man, Earl Pratt. Pratt, who was a part of the same unhoused community as Perillo, identified him to police using stills from the surveillance video. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>During a February preliminary hearing, Superior Court Judge Thomas E. Stevens noted Pratt was “all over the map,” as the witness went off on tangents and gave confusing answers on the stand, records show. Pratt also provided conflicting information when asked to identify photos from the crime. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“To me, he made absolutely no sense at all, and he lacked all credibility,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Taylor suggested that the same footage could have cleared Perillo: A man in completely different clothes from the attackers could be seen on a yellow bike, which Perillo was known to ride, minutes before and after the attack on nearby streets. Clothes found with Perillo at the time of his arrest also matched the outfit of the person on the yellow bike, Taylor said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Having joined the case in July after a previous lawyer declared a conflict of interest, Taylor said she pointed out these issues in a meeting with Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Edward Vieira-Ducey. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prosecutors in return offered Perillo a plea deal of felony assault and credit for time served, Taylor said, meaning his incarceration could end if he pleaded guilty to a less severe charge. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It would only make sense for them to make that kind of offer if they had a clue that they could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt,” Taylor said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office repeated their offer numerous times, Taylor said, including on Aug. 31 — the day that both sides were in court to begin scheduling the trial. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Taylor declined, and they dismissed the case the same day, she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, district attorney’s offices are like a dog with a bone,” Taylor said. “Even if the bone is rotten and poisonous, they hang onto the bone because they don’t know anything else. … They’re still banking on getting something from an innocent person to wrap up a case.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>White said her son was released from Santa Rita Jail that same night, two years and a day after Perez’s death. He went home with his parents to their home in Ione, in Amador County.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The first night he slept out on our patio; he just felt like he couldn’t be in a bedroom,” White said. “It made me really sad because he’s been traumatized. He wanted to be out and breathe fresh air.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01498-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098637\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01498-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01498-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01498-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Christy White (left), Michael Perillo’s mother, and Brandon Owen (right), a friend of the family, pose for a portrait together at Castle Oaks Club House in Ione, California, on Sept. 5, 2026. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>White spoke to KQED on Perillo’s behalf, citing his mental illness challenges and recent hardships. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>White said her son was assaulted numerous times while in jail. She recalled visiting him and seeing bruises and cuts around his face or blood coming out of his ear. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In June of 2025, he asked me to no longer come to visit him because I would sit there and cry the entire time because I saw what was happening to him physically,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Desperate for help, White reached out to Brandon Owen, a friend and Republican candidate for state Assembly with a law enforcement background as a game warden for the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As part of an independent investigation, Owen and two others traveled to Oakland in June 2026 to talk to people near the encampment where Perillo stayed. Within three hours, they met and spoke with several residents, including Pratt, the key witness for the prosecution who had identified Perillo in the footage. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland, California, on March 19, 2025. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a recorded interview reviewed by KQED, Owen showed Pratt pictures of people from security footage and asked him to identify them. Pratt complained that he couldn’t because of the quality of the images. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You can’t identify none of them,” Pratt says in the interview. “You can’t even see none of them.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One picture included Pratt himself, who was present on the night of the killing. When asked, Pratt denied that it was him in the photo. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I know this much: That man right there who was in court, right? Innocent,” Pratt said in the interview. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Owen said he and his fellow investigators brought the results of their search to the Oakland police officer who originally investigated Perez’s slaying. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Sgt. Kevin Godchaux was highly offended that we were present,” Owen said. “He was, in my opinion, disturbed that we were doing the investigation. … At one point he almost refused to take the information from us.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Oakland police did not respond to a request for comment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Police records shared in court show that police had another suspect in the killing: a man named Anthony Otenbriet, who was identified based on similarities between his motorcycle and one in security footage showing it being ridden by the person who attacked and chased Perez. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Otenbriet died in a motorcycle accident just five days after Perez died, according to police records. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether police have any other active suspects, or whether they plan to make any more arrests for the killing of Edson Perez. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Both White and Taylor said they felt like Perillo was being prosecuted to bring closure to an otherwise unsolved murder. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think that they may have viewed him as an easy brownie point. ‘We’ll score, he’ll be convicted and go to prison,’” White said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>White said her family’s experience has changed her “whole sense” of the criminal justice system. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any of us should be discarded,” she said. “And I was treated that way by the district attorney in the homicide unit in Oakland … They didn’t care. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Michael Perillo spent nearly two years insisting he was in jail for a murder he didn’t commit before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> prosecutors dropped the charges and released him last week. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, Perillo’s family and supporters say investigators charged and prosecuted him for the brutal 2024 death of Edson Perez on the streets of Oakland’s Chinatown based on faulty and insufficient evidence. In a press release the family says they are considering legal action. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Perillo’s mother, Christy White, said the period of incarceration traumatized her 47-year-old son, who was unhoused and struggling with mental illness at the time of his arrest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I cannot tell you the relief that I had,” White said. “All the trauma that my son has gone through, and that he stuck with it, and I always knew he was innocent.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Oakland police arrested Perillo in September 2024, alleging that he was one of two people who chased Perez and then beat him to death with a bike and a mallet. Police told \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/09/11/oakland-man-charged-in-fatal-beating-where-bicycle-was-used-as-a-weapon/\">local news outlets\u003c/a> at the time that surveillance footage and eyewitnesses helped them identify Perillo.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01516-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098638\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01516-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01516-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01516-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Christy White shows a photo of her son Michael Perillo, at Castle Oaks Club House in Ione, California, on Sept. 5, 2026. Perillo was released from jail last week, two years after he was charged with a murder in Oakland’s Chinatown. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Perillo’s lawyer, Tamani Taylor, said the prosecution’s case rested largely on the testimony of one man, Earl Pratt. Pratt, who was a part of the same unhoused community as Perillo, identified him to police using stills from the surveillance video. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>During a February preliminary hearing, Superior Court Judge Thomas E. Stevens noted Pratt was “all over the map,” as the witness went off on tangents and gave confusing answers on the stand, records show. Pratt also provided conflicting information when asked to identify photos from the crime. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“To me, he made absolutely no sense at all, and he lacked all credibility,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Taylor suggested that the same footage could have cleared Perillo: A man in completely different clothes from the attackers could be seen on a yellow bike, which Perillo was known to ride, minutes before and after the attack on nearby streets. Clothes found with Perillo at the time of his arrest also matched the outfit of the person on the yellow bike, Taylor said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Having joined the case in July after a previous lawyer declared a conflict of interest, Taylor said she pointed out these issues in a meeting with Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Edward Vieira-Ducey. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prosecutors in return offered Perillo a plea deal of felony assault and credit for time served, Taylor said, meaning his incarceration could end if he pleaded guilty to a less severe charge. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It would only make sense for them to make that kind of offer if they had a clue that they could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt,” Taylor said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office repeated their offer numerous times, Taylor said, including on Aug. 31 — the day that both sides were in court to begin scheduling the trial. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Taylor declined, and they dismissed the case the same day, she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, district attorney’s offices are like a dog with a bone,” Taylor said. “Even if the bone is rotten and poisonous, they hang onto the bone because they don’t know anything else. … They’re still banking on getting something from an innocent person to wrap up a case.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>White said her son was released from Santa Rita Jail that same night, two years and a day after Perez’s death. He went home with his parents to their home in Ione, in Amador County.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The first night he slept out on our patio; he just felt like he couldn’t be in a bedroom,” White said. “It made me really sad because he’s been traumatized. He wanted to be out and breathe fresh air.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01498-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098637\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01498-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01498-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260905-insufficientevidence-TV01498-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Christy White (left), Michael Perillo’s mother, and Brandon Owen (right), a friend of the family, pose for a portrait together at Castle Oaks Club House in Ione, California, on Sept. 5, 2026. (Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>White spoke to KQED on Perillo’s behalf, citing his mental illness challenges and recent hardships. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>White said her son was assaulted numerous times while in jail. She recalled visiting him and seeing bruises and cuts around his face or blood coming out of his ear. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In June of 2025, he asked me to no longer come to visit him because I would sit there and cry the entire time because I saw what was happening to him physically,” White said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Desperate for help, White reached out to Brandon Owen, a friend and Republican candidate for state Assembly with a law enforcement background as a game warden for the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As part of an independent investigation, Owen and two others traveled to Oakland in June 2026 to talk to people near the encampment where Perillo stayed. Within three hours, they met and spoke with several residents, including Pratt, the key witness for the prosecution who had identified Perillo in the footage. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/20250319_AlamedaCourthouse_GC-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland, California, on March 19, 2025. (Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a recorded interview reviewed by KQED, Owen showed Pratt pictures of people from security footage and asked him to identify them. Pratt complained that he couldn’t because of the quality of the images. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You can’t identify none of them,” Pratt says in the interview. “You can’t even see none of them.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One picture included Pratt himself, who was present on the night of the killing. When asked, Pratt denied that it was him in the photo. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I know this much: That man right there who was in court, right? Innocent,” Pratt said in the interview. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Owen said he and his fellow investigators brought the results of their search to the Oakland police officer who originally investigated Perez’s slaying. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Sgt. 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(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As the legal fight over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5508948/trump-voter-list-mail-ballots-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump’s mail-in voting order\u003c/a> continues, here’s what to know about the state of voting by mail for the midterms:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Has the USPS plan directly changed mail-in voting for the midterms?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>No, key parts of the plan, including requirements for states, are currently blocked by a court order. Voting by mail is still available to all voters who are eligible for it in their states, and USPS is expected to deliver mail-in ballots for the midterm election as usual.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How could the USPS plan change mail-in voting?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>State election officials would be required to turn over lists of mail-in voters’ names and addresses to USPS and have certain barcodes on their mail ballot envelopes, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2026-17238/ballot-mail-for-federal-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revised rule\u003c/a> for federal ballot mail the Postal Service issued in August. USPS says it would not deliver ballots to voters for election officials that don’t meet those requirements.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When does mail-in voting start for the midterms?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>North Carolina has to start mailing out its absentee ballots on Friday, which officially kicks off the voting season for this year’s midterms. Many \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-7-when-states-mail-out-absentee-mail-ballots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">other states\u003c/a> are set to begin sending out their mail-in ballots later this month.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is it possible for the USPS plan to be carried out for the midterms?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Many election experts say it is too late for USPS to carry out this plan without causing major disruptions. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/09/01/nx-s1-5950869/trump-mail-in-voting-usps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whistleblower report\u003c/a> claims USPS has not properly tested the online portal system that would collect mail-in voters’ information. The report also alleges the agency has set up a policy for verifying ballot envelopes that could result in many voters not getting their ballots in time for the midterm election or at all.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the legal arguments for and against the USPS plan?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>USPS came up with this plan in response to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5508948/trump-voter-list-mail-ballots-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March executive order\u003c/a> by President Trump, who said he issued the directives to USPS to stop illegal voting by non-U.S. citizens. Many studies and audits show, however, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/nx-s1-5462836/noncitizen-voting-trump-ceir-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that problem is incredibly rare\u003c/a>. While USPS claims its revised rule is an effort to regulate mail, challengers of the USPS plan argue it is illegal because the mailing agency has no authority to control voting by mail.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hasn’t the Supreme Court already ruled on Trump’s mail-in voting order?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yes, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/24/nx-s1-5909592/trump-mail-voting-order-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruled in August on a procedural question\u003c/a> about one of the lawsuits. 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Both figures broke records dating back to at least the Obama era, analysts say. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE is currently holding nearly 66,000 people in custody. Fewer than 30% of them have a criminal record. \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">More than 6,800\u003c/a> people are housed in detention centers in California. Three corrections companies — GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management & Training Corp. — operate all eight ICE facilities in California, most of them former prisons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yazdan Panah highlighted one bill that would create a “bill of rights,” setting basic standards for humane treatment for all people in civil detention in California and empowering the attorney general power to enforce it with penalties and legal action.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration says that conditions in detention are already humane. In an emailed statement, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who did not identify themself said “California sanctuary politicians” are unfairly villainizing federal law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“All detainees are provided with proper meals, quality water, blankets, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bonta called that “an outright lie,” and said state inspections have found conditions that are both cruel and unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12046564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The CoreCivic detention facility in California City, California, on June 28, 2025. (Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s why these bills are important because we know what the reality is,” he said. “We know what immigrants who are in detention centers are experiencing because we went in there and talked to them. … And we know that they need a bill of rights to keep them safe.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When asked for comment on the legislation, CoreCivic’s public affairs director Ryan Gustin said his company is aware of the bills and is reviewing them. Management & Training Corp. declined to comment, saying ICE wanted to handle media inquiries. GEO Group did not respond to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Here are some of the bills:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1399\">\u003cstrong>SB 1399\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Facility Oversight\u003c/strong>, from Los Angeles Sen. 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For other civilly detained people in the state, it would extend protections that are already recognized, including the rights to dignity, privacy, prompt medical and mental health treatment, freedom from unnecessary restraint and isolation, access to religious practice, exercise, clean water and sanitary facilities, and good-quality food. The attorney general would be authorized to investigate and enforce violations through civil legal actions and penalties. Bonta is a co-sponsor.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12060144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Protesters stand outside the James A. Musick Facility, a detention center that houses unauthorized immigrants, to protest President Trump’s immigration policies and demand children be reunited with their families in Irvine, California, on June 30, 2018. (Kevin Sullivan/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Caballero pointed to the mounting deaths in detention and the fact that immigrants can be held for months or years as their cases play out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I oppose mass detention, and no amount of oversight makes family separation and incarceration for civil violations justifiable,” she said. “These people are our neighbors, workers, parents, grandparents, coaches, churchgoers and volunteers. They deserve better.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB941\">\u003cstrong>SB 941\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Commissary Protection, \u003c/strong>from San Diego Sen. Steve Padilla, would bar for-profit detention facilities from marking up commissary items by more than 35% above the vendor price. That would mirror the cap that applies in state-run correctional facilities. Advocates say it would address what they consider price gouging on essential goods like sanitary items and supplemental food. It has Bonta’s backing.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB957\">\u003cstrong>SB 957\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Protecting Vulnerable Immigrant Detainees\u003c/strong>, from Pasadena Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, would require the California attorney general to submit an annual health and safety oversight plan for private civil detention facilities. It would align oversight of private detention with the state’s existing authority to monitor health and safety at state and local facilities.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB423\">\u003cstrong>SB 423\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Facility Transparency, \u003c/strong>from Long Beach Sen. Lena Gonzalez, would require state and local agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">disclose records related to 911 calls\u003c/a> from private detention facilities. She said increasing public access to emergency call records would improve accountability, in the face of concerns over medical neglect and violence inside detention centers. The bill is supported by press-freedom groups, including the First Amendment Coalition. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-450371215-scaled-e1769711263847.jpg\" alt=\"On a modern, low-slung building with no windows, a big sign reading 'GEO' hangs on an exterior wall.\" class=\"wp-image-11891235\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This U.S. immigration processing center in Adelanto, California, is operated by GEO Group, a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections. (John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several other bills seek to restrict ICE’s operations in California in other ways.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1633\">\u003cstrong>AB 1633\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Private Detention Facility Tax\u003c/strong>, from San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney, would impose an annual 25% tax on the gross income of private detention facility operators in California. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some analysts question whether the courts would consider such a tax legal or an “undue burden” on the federal government, which contracts with the companies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“States do have autonomy to tax what’s going on in their borders. But states can’t tax the federal government,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar who is dean at UC Berkeley Law School. “It’ll certainly get challenged. The question is, is it unduly interfering with federal activity?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1801\">\u003cstrong>AB 1801\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Public Agency Detention Permitting\u003c/strong>, from South Bay Assemblymember Alex Lee, would stiffen the requirements in an existing California law, called SB 29, that requires notice and public hearings before local governments can permit a private detention facility or transfer land for one. Advocates say it would strengthen transparency in the permitting process.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1367\">\u003cstrong>SB 1367\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Planning and Zoning\u003c/strong>, from Inland Empire Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, would prohibit cities and counties from approving new land uses that allow constructing detention facilities or converting existing buildings into detention centers. It would target structures not built for human habitation, such as warehouses and industrial buildings.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In addition, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1194\">bill\u003c/a> from Sen. 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That comes in response to recent news that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097332/california-democrats-race-to-ban-electric-shock-gloves-before-ice-buys-them\">ICE was planning to buy thousands\u003c/a> of Taser-like gloves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The governor has until the end of September to sign or veto the bills on his desk.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bonta said he had not spoken directly with the governor about the bills he has sponsored, but was optimistic that Newsom would sign them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If the bills become law, Chemerinsky said he expects swift legal challenges by the Trump administration and the private prison companies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>California’s Legislature this week sent a slew of bills to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk that aim to increase \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">oversight\u003c/a> of federal immigration detention in the state. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The legislation comes as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097313/northern-california-ice-arrests-surged-this-summer\">record number of Californians\u003c/a>, and six people have died at ICE facilities in the state — among at least \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting\">56 nationwide\u003c/a> — since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The bills, all authored by Democrats, include measures to increase transparency into the conditions inside immigration jails, expand the state’s power to enforce detention standards and restrict construction of new detention facilities. One bill would impose a tax on for-profit detention companies. Another would cap the profits companies can make from marking up items sold in commissaries.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Four of the bills have the backing of California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who said the measures are a response to the Trump administration’s push for mass detention and deportation of immigrants. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/GettyImages-2290506003-1-scaled-e1787755545663.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096824\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks to reporters at a press conference after opening arguments took place in the Meta trial over a lawsuit brought by U.S. states about social media addiction, at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, California, on Aug. 18, 2026. (Godofredo A. Vasquez/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“These all help address the cruel and inhumane approach, and sometimes the unlawful conduct in terms of treatment, that’s been directed toward immigrants in California,” Bonta said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new legislation builds on a series of laws California lawmakers passed during the first Trump administration, said Hamid Yazdan Panah, co-director of the Sacramento-based Immigrant Defense Advocates, which helped craft several of the bills.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California has really led the nation now for more than a decade with respect to providing meaningful avenues to try to push back on the expansion of immigration detention and also to try to find ways to support immigrant communities that are targeted by ICE enforcement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In July, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">arrested nearly 50,000 immigrants\u003c/a> across the country, including close to 4,300 in California, according to ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project at UC Berkeley. Both figures broke records dating back to at least the Obama era, analysts say. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE is currently holding nearly 66,000 people in custody. Fewer than 30% of them have a criminal record. \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">More than 6,800\u003c/a> people are housed in detention centers in California. Three corrections companies — GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management & Training Corp. — operate all eight ICE facilities in California, most of them former prisons. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Yazdan Panah highlighted one bill that would create a “bill of rights,” setting basic standards for humane treatment for all people in civil detention in California and empowering the attorney general power to enforce it with penalties and legal action.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Trump administration says that conditions in detention are already humane. In an emailed statement, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who did not identify themself said “California sanctuary politicians” are unfairly villainizing federal law enforcement. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“All detainees are provided with proper meals, quality water, blankets, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bonta called that “an outright lie,” and said state inspections have found conditions that are both cruel and unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12046564\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CORECIVICCALCITY1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The CoreCivic detention facility in California City, California, on June 28, 2025. (Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s why these bills are important because we know what the reality is,” he said. “We know what immigrants who are in detention centers are experiencing because we went in there and talked to them. … And we know that they need a bill of rights to keep them safe.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When asked for comment on the legislation, CoreCivic’s public affairs director Ryan Gustin said his company is aware of the bills and is reviewing them. Management & Training Corp. declined to comment, saying ICE wanted to handle media inquiries. GEO Group did not respond to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Here are some of the bills:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1399\">\u003cstrong>SB 1399\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Facility Oversight\u003c/strong>, from Los Angeles Sen. María Elena Durazo, would extend the existing power of the state Department of Justice to inspect immigration detention facilities in California beyond 2027, when the inspection program established by an earlier law, AB 103, was due to sunset. The bill is co-sponsored by Attorney General Bonta.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB942\">\u003cstrong>SB 942\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Civil Detainees’ Bill of Rights\u003c/strong>, from Central Valley Sen. Anna Caballero, would establish a bill of rights for people held for civil immigration proceedings in any state, local or private detention facility in California. For other civilly detained people in the state, it would extend protections that are already recognized, including the rights to dignity, privacy, prompt medical and mental health treatment, freedom from unnecessary restraint and isolation, access to religious practice, exercise, clean water and sanitary facilities, and good-quality food. The attorney general would be authorized to investigate and enforce violations through civil legal actions and penalties. Bonta is a co-sponsor.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12060144\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/FamilySeparationGetty2-1536x1078.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Protesters stand outside the James A. Musick Facility, a detention center that houses unauthorized immigrants, to protest President Trump’s immigration policies and demand children be reunited with their families in Irvine, California, on June 30, 2018. (Kevin Sullivan/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Caballero pointed to the mounting deaths in detention and the fact that immigrants can be held for months or years as their cases play out. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I oppose mass detention, and no amount of oversight makes family separation and incarceration for civil violations justifiable,” she said. “These people are our neighbors, workers, parents, grandparents, coaches, churchgoers and volunteers. They deserve better.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB941\">\u003cstrong>SB 941\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Commissary Protection, \u003c/strong>from San Diego Sen. Steve Padilla, would bar for-profit detention facilities from marking up commissary items by more than 35% above the vendor price. That would mirror the cap that applies in state-run correctional facilities. Advocates say it would address what they consider price gouging on essential goods like sanitary items and supplemental food. It has Bonta’s backing.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB957\">\u003cstrong>SB 957\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Protecting Vulnerable Immigrant Detainees\u003c/strong>, from Pasadena Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez, would require the California attorney general to submit an annual health and safety oversight plan for private civil detention facilities. It would align oversight of private detention with the state’s existing authority to monitor health and safety at state and local facilities.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB423\">\u003cstrong>SB 423\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Facility Transparency, \u003c/strong>from Long Beach Sen. Lena Gonzalez, would require state and local agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">disclose records related to 911 calls\u003c/a> from private detention facilities. She said increasing public access to emergency call records would improve accountability, in the face of concerns over medical neglect and violence inside detention centers. The bill is supported by press-freedom groups, including the First Amendment Coalition. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-450371215-scaled-e1769711263847.jpg\" alt=\"On a modern, low-slung building with no windows, a big sign reading 'GEO' hangs on an exterior wall.\" class=\"wp-image-11891235\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This U.S. immigration processing center in Adelanto, California, is operated by GEO Group, a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections. (John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Several other bills seek to restrict ICE’s operations in California in other ways.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1633\">\u003cstrong>AB 1633\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Private Detention Facility Tax\u003c/strong>, from San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney, would impose an annual 25% tax on the gross income of private detention facility operators in California. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some analysts question whether the courts would consider such a tax legal or an “undue burden” on the federal government, which contracts with the companies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“States do have autonomy to tax what’s going on in their borders. But states can’t tax the federal government,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar who is dean at UC Berkeley Law School. “It’ll certainly get challenged. The question is, is it unduly interfering with federal activity?” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1801\">\u003cstrong>AB 1801\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Public Agency Detention Permitting\u003c/strong>, from South Bay Assemblymember Alex Lee, would stiffen the requirements in an existing California law, called SB 29, that requires notice and public hearings before local governments can permit a private detention facility or transfer land for one. Advocates say it would strengthen transparency in the permitting process.\u003cbr>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1367\">\u003cstrong>SB 1367\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>Detention Planning and Zoning\u003c/strong>, from Inland Empire Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, would prohibit cities and counties from approving new land uses that allow constructing detention facilities or converting existing buildings into detention centers. It would target structures not built for human habitation, such as warehouses and industrial buildings.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In addition, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1194\">bill\u003c/a> from Sen. Caballero would build on a legal fellowship program that trains new attorneys in immigration law and places them in nonprofits located in rural areas of the state that lack sufficient immigration legal services. Attorney General Bonta is a co-sponsor.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sen. 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It’s just not true,” Bonta said. “That’s why these bills are important because we know what the reality is. We know what immigrants who are in detention centers are experiencing because we went in there and talked to them, and we know that they need a bill of rights to keep them safe.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state has a right to apply its laws to federal facilities the same way they apply to state and local ones, as long as they don’t place an undue burden on the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s according to UC Berkeley Law School Dean, \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/erwin-chemerinsky/#tab_profile\">Erwin Chemerinsky.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But he expects if these bills become law, they’ll be challenged in court by the Trump administration and the private prison companies. 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And then, if they’re not taking the allegation seriously, of course, the paperwork is not going to be done properly. The right investigation is not going to done properly.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>BOLAÑOS: Something that’s come up a lot in this conference is retaliation, not just from staff but from other prisoners. What is retaliations like and can you just describe for people who don’t have an understanding like how that can affect people’s ability to report or to want to report?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>WASHINGTON: I think one of them could be like people ostracizing them, like you’re a snitch and you’re this and this and that, and not looking at them as someone who’s a victim.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>BOLAÑOS: Yeah, it’s interesting, the report also mentions that there’s the social element of reporting rape and, you know, there are stigmas around that in men’s prisons. 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He hurt people along the way,” Chhabria added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In January, a San Francisco jury found Ding, then 38, guilty of seven counts of theft of proprietary information related to Google’s artificial intelligence efforts and economic espionage, based on charges that he intended to use that information to benefit China.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2259952730.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12079890\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2259952730.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2259952730-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2259952730-1536x1066.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A sign is posted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Feb. 4, 2026. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Chhabria vacated the espionage conviction in August, finding that a reasonable jury would have had insufficient evidence to find Ding guilty. Ding came to the U.S. to pursue a master’s degree in 2010. He worked at multiple tech companies in the Silicon Valley before Google hired him as a software engineer in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He became a lawful permanent resident in 2021. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At trial in January, the prosecution showed that Ding uploaded more than 500 confidential files over a course of a year from Google’s network to a personal Google Cloud account.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said the files included trade secrets related to Google’s hardware infrastructure and software for supercomputing data centers to train large AI models. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also laid out Ding’s ties to multiple technology companies in China purportedly working on related AI efforts amid the U.S. and China’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c145enxln0go\">race\u003c/a> to dominate the industry. 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(Courtesy of Google Quantum AI)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In late 2023, Ding also applied to a Chinese government program that aimed to attract technological talent to China with funding and investments, according to the court documents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ding never told Google about his affiliation with either company, prosecutors said, and he had an intern swipe his Google identification card multiple times when he was in China pitching Zhisuan, “to make it appear as though he was working from his office.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While Ding was initially found guilty of both the trade-secrets and espionage counts, Chhabria made the rare move to overturn the latter in August.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In his order to partially acquit Ding, Chhabria wrote: “The evidence was insufficient for a rational jury to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Ding knew or intended during the May 2022–April 2023 timeframe that his actions would benefit the Chinese government.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Defense attorneys requested a more lenient sentence of three months in home confinement so that Ding could continue to be the primary caregiver for his 8-year-old son, and, they argued, because he had already been punished by the case and conviction.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Mr. Ding will never again hold a position of trust at a technology company,” the sentencing memo states. “His convictions and the publicity surrounding them have foreclosed the career he went to school for, enjoyed, and at which he thrived. Zhisuan is defunct, and Mr. Ding faces possible removal from the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2266645921.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12079043\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2266645921.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2266645921-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-2266645921-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Close-up of Google Gemini logo branding on shared bike basket in San Francisco on March 12, 2026. (Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ding’s defense also argued that his circumstances — including widespread press coverage and professional, personal and financial “ruin” — were also sufficient to deter others from taking similar actions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But Chhabria said that a sentence between zero and six months didn’t capture the crime that Ding committed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you think about it from the standpoint of the seriousness of his offense … whether you think about it from standpoint of general deterrence or specific deterrence — the idea of a noncustodial sentence is hard to swallow for me,” Chhabria said, before handing down the sentence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ding will also be subject to two years of supervised release after his prison term, and he owes restitution of more than $189,000, plus a $25,000 fine.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/nvoynovskaya\">\u003cem>Nastia Voynovskaya\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-highway-patrol\">California Highway Patrol\u003c/a> officer and sergeant must pay $5 million to a Sonoma County man for violating his constitutional rights in an unlawful arrest, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097290/oakland-jury-to-decide-if-california-highway-patrol-officers-committed-unlawful-arrest\">Oakland federal jury \u003c/a>decided Monday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The jury found that CHP Officer Jayce Ray and Sgt. John Snider acted with “malice, recklessness, oppression or a conscious or reckless disregard” for the rights of Nicholas La Motte when they arrested him without probable cause in April 2023 for driving under the influence.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>La Motte testified last week that around 1:30 a.m. on April 25, 2023, he was driving home from visiting his grandmother in San Francisco. While driving northbound on U.S. 101, he noticed he was being followed by a car — it was Ray in his cruiser. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ray pulled him over, and La Motte began filming the encounter, footage that proved to key in his case against CHP. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ray impounded La Motte’s Mercedes and arrested him, claiming he showed signs of intoxication, including red eyes. He then took La Motte to a nearby hospital to have his blood drawn. La Motte argued in his lawsuit that this violated his constitutional rights against unnecessary search and seizure because Ray lacked probable cause for the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2329\" height=\"1308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097803\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1.jpg 2329w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1-2000x1123.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1-2048x1150.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2329px) 100vw, 2329px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sonoma County resident Nicholas La Motte (left) poses for a photo with his attorney, Izaak Schwaiger. A jury found LaMotte’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated during a 2023 unlawful arrest by two California Highway Patrol officers. (Courtesy of Nicholas La Motte)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>CHP further justified La Motte’s arrest with a set of field sobriety tests that Snider administered at the Santa Rosa station. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Six months later, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office formally dropped charges against La Motte.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The jury’s verdict is significant because law enforcement and other government officials are generally protected from liability while on the job, under a legal framework known as qualified immunity. They lose that protection, however, if they violate someone’s rights while performing their duties. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s what the jury found happened here. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Izaak Schwaiger, La Motte’s attorney, said that, had his client not recorded the incident, there wouldn’t have been any evidence to combat the police’s version of events because CHP doesn’t require its officers to wear body cameras. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I would say this is probably the 20th case that we received calls about, the CHP in and around the Sonoma County area making false arrests, but there was never any evidence,” Schwaiger said. “And what can you do when it’s the word of the individual against the word of the cops?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Schwaiger said he took La Motte’s case because he was “waiting for the right one to come, where somebody had done something to preserve some kind of evidence, so that we could prove that this was going on, because it happens a lot.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“But without proof,” the lawyer continued, “what can you do? Nick had that video, and the video showed that these cops were lying, and that’s what carried the case.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Schwaiger said La Motte’s case was unique because it was simply about a wrongful arrest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The DA rejected this case because there wasn’t enough evidence that he had committed a crime,” Schwaiger said, adding that La Motte wasn’t prosecuted, nor held in jail for a significant time, nor physically beaten by the officers. “None of those things.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It was super important to Nick what happened. It profoundly affected his life, and he did a really good job of explaining that to the jury, such that when it came time to ask the jury for a verdict, we just said, ‘Do what you feel is right,’” Schwaiger said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The jury’s verdict awarded La Motte $3 million in punitive damages — an amount for which Snider and Ray will not likely be personally liable, Schwaiger said — and $2 million in compensatory damages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"alignleft size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1380\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_2-KQED.jpg 1380w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_2-KQED-160x232.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_2-KQED-1060x1536.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1380px) 100vw, 1380px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sonoma County resident Nicholas La Motte (right) poses for a photo with his daughter. 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And the police unions are quite powerful.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>CHP and the California Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/robert-weisberg/\">Robert Weisberg\u003c/a>, a Stanford law professor, said a case like La Motte’s doesn’t usually unfold with a jury award because an unlawful arrest is usually challenged in the middle of criminal proceedings, not in a civil case. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s rare that people have the legal resources or the incentive to challenge an arrest in a civil suit like this, and they are very hard to win,” Weisberg said. “Because the most obvious fact is an arrest isn’t illegal simply because it turns out that, in retrospect, there wasn’t probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The plaintiff has to prove that, in effect, no reasonable officer in that situation could have surmised that there was probable cause,” Weisberg continued. “And that’s a hard standard to meet.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In defending the officers, the state called Capt. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-highway-patrol\">California Highway Patrol\u003c/a> officer and sergeant must pay $5 million to a Sonoma County man for violating his constitutional rights in an unlawful arrest, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12097290/oakland-jury-to-decide-if-california-highway-patrol-officers-committed-unlawful-arrest\">Oakland federal jury \u003c/a>decided Monday. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The jury found that CHP Officer Jayce Ray and Sgt. John Snider acted with “malice, recklessness, oppression or a conscious or reckless disregard” for the rights of Nicholas La Motte when they arrested him without probable cause in April 2023 for driving under the influence.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>La Motte testified last week that around 1:30 a.m. on April 25, 2023, he was driving home from visiting his grandmother in San Francisco. While driving northbound on U.S. 101, he noticed he was being followed by a car — it was Ray in his cruiser. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ray pulled him over, and La Motte began filming the encounter, footage that proved to key in his case against CHP. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Ray impounded La Motte’s Mercedes and arrested him, claiming he showed signs of intoxication, including red eyes. He then took La Motte to a nearby hospital to have his blood drawn. La Motte argued in his lawsuit that this violated his constitutional rights against unnecessary search and seizure because Ray lacked probable cause for the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2329\" height=\"1308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097803\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1.jpg 2329w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1-2000x1123.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1-2048x1150.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_horizontal-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2329px) 100vw, 2329px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sonoma County resident Nicholas La Motte (left) poses for a photo with his attorney, Izaak Schwaiger. A jury found LaMotte’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated during a 2023 unlawful arrest by two California Highway Patrol officers. (Courtesy of Nicholas La Motte)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>CHP further justified La Motte’s arrest with a set of field sobriety tests that Snider administered at the Santa Rosa station. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Six months later, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office formally dropped charges against La Motte.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The jury’s verdict is significant because law enforcement and other government officials are generally protected from liability while on the job, under a legal framework known as qualified immunity. They lose that protection, however, if they violate someone’s rights while performing their duties. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That’s what the jury found happened here. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Izaak Schwaiger, La Motte’s attorney, said that, had his client not recorded the incident, there wouldn’t have been any evidence to combat the police’s version of events because CHP doesn’t require its officers to wear body cameras. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I would say this is probably the 20th case that we received calls about, the CHP in and around the Sonoma County area making false arrests, but there was never any evidence,” Schwaiger said. “And what can you do when it’s the word of the individual against the word of the cops?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Schwaiger said he took La Motte’s case because he was “waiting for the right one to come, where somebody had done something to preserve some kind of evidence, so that we could prove that this was going on, because it happens a lot.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“But without proof,” the lawyer continued, “what can you do? Nick had that video, and the video showed that these cops were lying, and that’s what carried the case.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Schwaiger said La Motte’s case was unique because it was simply about a wrongful arrest. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The DA rejected this case because there wasn’t enough evidence that he had committed a crime,” Schwaiger said, adding that La Motte wasn’t prosecuted, nor held in jail for a significant time, nor physically beaten by the officers. “None of those things.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It was super important to Nick what happened. It profoundly affected his life, and he did a really good job of explaining that to the jury, such that when it came time to ask the jury for a verdict, we just said, ‘Do what you feel is right,’” Schwaiger said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The jury’s verdict awarded La Motte $3 million in punitive damages — an amount for which Snider and Ray will not likely be personally liable, Schwaiger said — and $2 million in compensatory damages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"alignleft size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1380\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097799\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_2-KQED.jpg 1380w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_2-KQED-160x232.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/CHPVerdict_2-KQED-1060x1536.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1380px) 100vw, 1380px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sonoma County resident Nicholas La Motte (right) poses for a photo with his daughter. A jury found LaMotte’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated during a 2023 unlawful arrest by two California Highway Patrol officers. (Courtesy of Nicholas La Motte)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“The law says California doesn’t have to cover them,” Schwaiger said. “In practice, it’s highly likely that the state will cover them because there will be a lot of pressure from the police unions and whatnot to do that. And the police unions are quite powerful.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>CHP and the California Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/robert-weisberg/\">Robert Weisberg\u003c/a>, a Stanford law professor, said a case like La Motte’s doesn’t usually unfold with a jury award because an unlawful arrest is usually challenged in the middle of criminal proceedings, not in a civil case. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s rare that people have the legal resources or the incentive to challenge an arrest in a civil suit like this, and they are very hard to win,” Weisberg said. “Because the most obvious fact is an arrest isn’t illegal simply because it turns out that, in retrospect, there wasn’t probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The plaintiff has to prove that, in effect, no reasonable officer in that situation could have surmised that there was probable cause,” Weisberg continued. “And that’s a hard standard to meet.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In defending the officers, the state called Capt. Lorenzo Glenn of the Anaheim Police Department, who testified that he reviewed the case file and found the officer’s actions to be reasonable. But when questioned by Schwaiger, Glenn admitted he wasn’t an expert in DUI or drug recognition.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I find it just bizarre that they put on a so-called expert witness who acknowledged that he wasn’t an expert,” Weisberg said. “It’s not that hard to find experts who will testify for the government in this regard.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The government lawyering in this case was less than impressive, let’s put it that way,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Weisberg said the case was unusual because the government’s evidence supporting the arrest was weak, La Motte recorded his arrest, and the police weren’t afforded qualified immunity. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is like the perfect case for a plaintiff,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the California Justice Department, in defense of Ray and Snider, moved to have the case thrown out on the basis of qualified immunity. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>Over the past 10 years, Joanna Hernandez has learned that even a small thing can become a challenge when a loved one is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/jails\">behind bars\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her son has been held in San Francisco County Jail since July 2016 and is set for trial in September. A tooth ached without dental care. Lunch trays served cold. Deputies ridiculed him, he told his mother.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And for her 9-year-old grandson, seeing his father has meant months of emails to command staff and visits canceled without warning.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They’re still human beings,” Hernandez said. “They deserve compassionate medical care and mental health support. And I mean, dignity for crying out loud.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A new San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/SF_Jail_Survey_2026_Report.pdf\">report suggests Hernandez’s son’s experience is far from isolated.\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1231\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Carolyn Sufrin reads to female inmates at San Francisco Jail from her book, 'Jailcare.'\" class=\"wp-image-11591983\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-800x513.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-1020x654.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-1180x757.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-960x616.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-240x154.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-375x240.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/ReadingtoInmates-520x333.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Carolyn Sufrin reads to female inmates at San Francisco County Jail from her book, ‘Jailcare.’ (Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The survey of the city’s jail population, conducted by the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability, reported poor conditions across nearly every aspect of daily life, including nutrition, safety, access to sunlight, family visitation, medical care and contact with attorneys. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nearly one-third reported being seriously injured while held in custody.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The survey was offered on jail tablets from March 18 to April 24. Nearly 500 people completed the survey of the roughly 1,200 people incarcerated at the time. DPA designed the 78-question survey in collaboration with the Sheriff’s Office and other city departments.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I hope that this sheds light and provides an avenue for a lot of other neighboring counties and states to review and look at what’s happening inside of their county jails,” said Paul Briley, who spent about two months in a San Francisco county jail and now leads nonprofit Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. “So that the conditions of confinement are not depriving people of their basic humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the survey, about 31% said they had been seriously injured in the jails, and 36% said the jail does not adequately protect people from violence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Of the 151 people who reported an injury, 64 identified a physical altercation with Sheriff’s Office deputies as the source, compared with 40 who named other incarcerated people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said following up on the injury reports is his highest priority, and noted the responses are self-reported and were not independently verified. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We want people to be safe, and we don’t want to think that our system is not protecting people,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>His office logged 226 fights between incarcerated people and 125 incidents of violence toward staff last fiscal year, he said, plus 36 excessive force complaints, one sustained after an outside investigation by DPA. But he said the survey’s anonymity makes individual claims nearly impossible to trace.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than half of women surveyed said they felt unprotected. This followed calls from advocates earlier this year to investigate reports that more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065232/advocates-demand-investigation-after-women-say-sf-jail-deputies-recorded-strip-searches\">a dozen women incarcerated\u003c/a> at a San Francisco jail were strip-searched in front of male deputies and recorded on body-worn cameras.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Briley said he became an advocate after seeing the conditions in county jails: 4 a.m. cold showers, wearing other people’s dirty clothing and an intake unit where meals are cold and no one goes outside.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sheriff in uniform speaks from a podium.\" class=\"wp-image-11968000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sheriff Paul Miyamoto speaks during a news conference in Civic Center in San Francisco on June 8, 2023. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It sparked a fire inside of me to have to address this from the outside,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Food was the lowest-rated section in the survey. Nearly two-thirds said meals do not meet their nutritional needs at all. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Angela Chan, assistant chief attorney at the Public Defender’s Office, said she watched a client receive a lunch of two small pieces of bread, a ball of unidentifiable meat and a few dried baby carrots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s supposed to keep that adult individual full and healthy for half a day,” Chan said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said clients have left custody with high blood pressure and other conditions they did not arrive with. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Miyamoto said the menu is vetted against state standards and reviewed by a nutritionist. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It may not seem tasty or healthy at some times, but we definitely have guardrails,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roughly one in three said they could not reach their attorney by phone, video or in person, and 40% said lockdowns interfered with legal visits. Chan said her staff sometimes wait hours to see a client and are told no one is available to bring them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a matter of priority,” she said, adding that lockdowns are not a lawful basis to deny a legal visit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Miyamoto said delays happen but denied intentionally “preventing people from seeing their attorneys.” He cited the difficulty of moving people between San Bruno and downtown courts and the mismatch between jail phone hours and public defenders’ court calendars.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12085080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaks during a rally outside of San Francisco County Jail 2 on May 22, 2026, one year after women incarcerated at the jail alleged they were subjected to illegal strip searches by sheriff’s deputies in a women’s housing unit. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Briley said he was most surprised by how long some people have been inside. The survey found 39 respondents had spent five to 10 years in the jails and 15 for more than a decade. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In a county jail,” he said. “This is not a prison.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a next step, the Sheriff’s Office has asked the Jail Justice Coalition for recommendations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I don’t think this is just a list of complaints,” said Anne Stuhldreher, senior adviser in the city’s office of the Treasurer, which helped develop the survey. “It’s really a list that lays out, OK, these are the challenges that we really need to work on — to fix.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Asked what she would change right now, Hernandez said she wants to be able to hold her son. 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DPA designed the 78-question survey in collaboration with the Sheriff’s Office and other city departments.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I hope that this sheds light and provides an avenue for a lot of other neighboring counties and states to review and look at what’s happening inside of their county jails,” said Paul Briley, who spent about two months in a San Francisco county jail and now leads nonprofit Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. “So that the conditions of confinement are not depriving people of their basic humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the survey, about 31% said they had been seriously injured in the jails, and 36% said the jail does not adequately protect people from violence. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Of the 151 people who reported an injury, 64 identified a physical altercation with Sheriff’s Office deputies as the source, compared with 40 who named other incarcerated people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said following up on the injury reports is his highest priority, and noted the responses are self-reported and were not independently verified. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We want people to be safe, and we don’t want to think that our system is not protecting people,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>His office logged 226 fights between incarcerated people and 125 incidents of violence toward staff last fiscal year, he said, plus 36 excessive force complaints, one sustained after an outside investigation by DPA. But he said the survey’s anonymity makes individual claims nearly impossible to trace.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than half of women surveyed said they felt unprotected. This followed calls from advocates earlier this year to investigate reports that more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065232/advocates-demand-investigation-after-women-say-sf-jail-deputies-recorded-strip-searches\">a dozen women incarcerated\u003c/a> at a San Francisco jail were strip-searched in front of male deputies and recorded on body-worn cameras.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Briley said he became an advocate after seeing the conditions in county jails: 4 a.m. cold showers, wearing other people’s dirty clothing and an intake unit where meals are cold and no one goes outside.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sheriff in uniform speaks from a podium.\" class=\"wp-image-11968000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/009_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sheriff Paul Miyamoto speaks during a news conference in Civic Center in San Francisco on June 8, 2023. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It sparked a fire inside of me to have to address this from the outside,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Food was the lowest-rated section in the survey. Nearly two-thirds said meals do not meet their nutritional needs at all. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Angela Chan, assistant chief attorney at the Public Defender’s Office, said she watched a client receive a lunch of two small pieces of bread, a ball of unidentifiable meat and a few dried baby carrots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That’s supposed to keep that adult individual full and healthy for half a day,” Chan said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said clients have left custody with high blood pressure and other conditions they did not arrive with. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Miyamoto said the menu is vetted against state standards and reviewed by a nutritionist. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It may not seem tasty or healthy at some times, but we definitely have guardrails,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roughly one in three said they could not reach their attorney by phone, video or in person, and 40% said lockdowns interfered with legal visits. Chan said her staff sometimes wait hours to see a client and are told no one is available to bring them. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a matter of priority,” she said, adding that lockdowns are not a lawful basis to deny a legal visit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Miyamoto said delays happen but denied intentionally “preventing people from seeing their attorneys.” He cited the difficulty of moving people between San Bruno and downtown courts and the mismatch between jail phone hours and public defenders’ court calendars.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12085080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260522-JAILSEARCHSUIT-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaks during a rally outside of San Francisco County Jail 2 on May 22, 2026, one year after women incarcerated at the jail alleged they were subjected to illegal strip searches by sheriff’s deputies in a women’s housing unit. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Briley said he was most surprised by how long some people have been inside. The survey found 39 respondents had spent five to 10 years in the jails and 15 for more than a decade. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In a county jail,” he said. “This is not a prison.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a next step, the Sheriff’s Office has asked the Jail Justice Coalition for recommendations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I don’t think this is just a list of complaints,” said Anne Stuhldreher, senior adviser in the city’s office of the Treasurer, which helped develop the survey. “It’s really a list that lays out, OK, these are the challenges that we really need to work on — to fix.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Asked what she would change right now, Hernandez said she wants to be able to hold her son. 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