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"content": "\u003cp>In an unprecedented move that may have implications beyond the Bay Area,\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcityattorney.org/2016/11/01/herrera-says-state-bail-schedule-unconstitutional-announces-wont-defend-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\"> San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced\u003c/a> he will not defend the use of the county’s monetary bail system in a federal class-action lawsuit that claims it is unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Tuesday court filing, Herrera argued that the current bail system, mandated by state law and set by individual counties, unfairly affects poor people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press conference, Herrera said monetary bail \"creates a two-tiered system, one for those with money and another for those without. It doesn't make anybody safer, it's not right, and it’s not in keeping with the constitution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/blog_detail.asp?i=1957\" target=\"_blank\">the Public Policy Institute of California cited data\u003c/a> from State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) showing California’s median bail amount in 2015 was $50,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Washington, D.C.-based organization \u003ca href=\"http://equaljusticeunderlaw.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Equal Justice Under Law\u003c/a> filed the lawsuit last year against San Francisco and California on behalf of two low-income women who were arrested and held on large bails, but never charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Telfeyan, executive director of Equal Justice Under Law, said that one of the plaintiffs, Riana Buffin, had never been arrested before she was accused of stealing merchandise from a department store and given a bail of $30,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, which is seeking an injunction to the county’s bail system, eventually dropped San Francisco and California as defendants and is currently against only San Francisco Sheriff Vicki Hennessy, who sets the bail schedule in her official capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his court filing, Herrera writes, “The Sheriff is required to enforce the State’s law, and she will, unless and until its unconstitutionality is established in the courts. But she is not required to defend it, and she will not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Telfeyan says his organization has filed 11 lawsuits around the country in a national effort to reform the “money bail system,” but the San Francisco case is pivotal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens in California will be looked at across the country by courts and state legislators, so the San Francisco case is monumental,” Telfeyan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization also has bail-related litigation pending in Sacramento. California Attorney General Kamala Harris is a defendant in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera said that the California Attorney General’s Office may step in to defend the San Francisco bail system. A spokeswoman said that for now the office is only reviewing the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The litigation threatens a national multibillion-dollar bail bond industry, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbaa.com/\" target=\"_blank\">California Bail Agents Association\u003c/a> (CBAA) is seeking to have the case dismissed. Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney representing the CBAA, said she plans to file a motion to intervene in the case, and one to have it thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harmeet said San Francisco's bail system is consistent with both state and federal constitutions, and claims that suggest otherwise have \"no merit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi offered support for Herrera’s stance. Adachi wrote, “The practice of jailing the poor and people of color simply because they cannot afford bail is indefensible and violates the presumption of innocence and our country’s commitment to equal justice for all.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"disqusTitle": "Will Passage of Proposition 64 Shake Up 'Mendocino Shakedown'?",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next week, California voters may decide to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in the state. And if \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/politics-and-government/11138357/explaining-proposition-64-how-california-would-legalize-marijuana\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proposition 64\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> passes, California’s justice system will face a number of unexpected impacts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in many parts of the state, including Mendocino County along the northern coast, widespread marijuana cultivation and its side effects are already a fact of life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Top Prosecutor Develops a ‘Restitution’ Plan in Mendocino \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in 2011, the county's newly elected district attorney, David Eyster, found himself facing a huge backlog of marijuana cases. It’s not unusual for this small county of about 90,000 people to rack up more than 300 marijuana cases in a single year, ranging from smaller grows of less than 50 plants to massive grows that can involve misuse of public lands and environmental degradation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyster found a unique and \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/grandjury/pdf/DA.restitution.final.5.13.16.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">controversial\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> way to start moving some of these cases through the courts. Under the authority of a California\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://law.justia.com/codes/california/2015/code-hsc/division-10/chapter-8/section-11470.2\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">law\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that’s part of the state’s health and safety code, he began offering certain marijuana defendants misdemeanor plea deals if they paid what’s called \"restitution\" for the costs of seizing and destroying their pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After looking at law enforcement costs, Eyster came up with a formula: “$50 a plant, and it doesn’t matter if it’s a little plant or a big plant, we just keep it $50 a plant, or $500 a processed pound.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But only first-time defendants, and those who aren’t causing environmental damage or growing on public lands, get the opportunity to take this deal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It's a person with a little medical marijuana need, but they have a huge greed,” he said. “And so there's a little bit of medical marijuana mixed in with it. But it's just so little compared to what they're doing that it can't be overlooked.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291113481\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The district attorney's office says it’s a way to distinguish between career criminals and those who may have misinterpreted the legal limits of medical marijuana cultivation and sale.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The big emphasis is trying to be consistent,” Eyster said. “You know, if you talk about marijuana litigation prosecution in the state of California, the word consistent is not something that's often used.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, about a third of all cases are settled through restitution. It has freed up resources in the DA's office and brought in resources to local law enforcement. The county sheriff’s department sees the lion’s share of this revenue, about $7.2 million to date.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"600\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ju8txceJCayu8iCF9ZWgi3_wsTQ0K819vT115KmjBBk/pubchart?oid=1088128012&format=interactive\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Critics Call it the ‘Mendocino Shakedown’\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many in the county call the restitution program by another name: the \"Mendocino Shakedown.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heidi Larson is an attorney who prosecuted sex crimes in the Mendocino County DA's office for about 10 years and worked in the county public defender’s office for a year.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She said that while the program is certainly innovative, it has some troubling aspects.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The big question is: What about people who can't pay these numbers?” she said. “Are they being treated the same as people who can pay?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Larson said she’s talked to people who told her they build restitution into their business plan, “and that’s when you’re dealing with massive growers, because they come in every scale.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, she said, on the other end of the scale are those who simply can’t afford to pay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Geniella in the DA’s office doesn’t buy this argument. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We’ve never seen a poor marijuana grower in Mendocino County,” he said. “So the notion that someone is losing their home in debt -- no, it simply has not happened.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But multiple sources told KQED that defendants have gone deep into debt due to restitution. And some people ended up paying, even though they insist they were legally growing medical marijuana. These sources didn’t want to go on the record because they’re worried they’d face retribution if they went public.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“People need to understand you’re not shielded at all,” Larson said. “It’s an\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Affirmative+Defense\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">affirmative defense.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You can be arrested. You can go to the jail. You can be charged. You can end up having to go all the way through before the decision is made whether or not it truly is medicinal. And that’s going to cost some money.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"District Attorney David Eyster launched the marijuana restitution program in 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District Attorney David Eyster launched the marijuana restitution program in 2011. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eyster said before he brings charges, he does let marijuana defendants bring in any medical paperwork they might have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If you're legal, you walk away and we say have a good day,\" he said. \"If you're not legal then, we tell you what your options are.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Sebastopol-based defense attorney\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.omarfigueroa.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omar Figueroa\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who specializes in medical marijuana, said part of the problem is that medical marijuana laws are still very gray. And local and state laws are still at odds with federal law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“People are basically making a rational choice to buy a misdemeanor instead of suffer the potential of a felony conviction,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you don’t make that choice, the consequences can be severe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Case of Richard Bolton\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richard Bolton, 34, is facing those consequences. The lifelong Mendocino resident owns a two-bedroom house tucked under the redwood trees in the town of Willits. He runs a logging and construction company, and in October he and his 20-year-old fiancee, Ashley Baldwin, welcomed a baby girl. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But their life will soon change. Bolton will be heading to jail for six months, starting in January. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One afternoon in October, the two walked around their backyard, checking on their raised garden beds of grapes, tomatoes and peppers, all starting to get a little moldy from the fall rains that have just begun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in 2014, the county’s marijuana eradication task force busted the place and found about 70 marijuana plants growing in these same beds. They also found 15 plants in the garage, around 20 pounds of dried pot, five guns and more than $100,000 cash in Bolton’s safe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bolton was arrested.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His lawyer approached him with the district attorney’s offer to pay around $20,000 in restitution and plead to a misdemeanor.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I thought it was more extortion than anything,” Bolton said. “You know they want to take my money for something I didn't do, and then they want to get you for a felony crime, but they want to let you walk for a misdemeanor to pay him money.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Months before the raid, Bolton said, he’d leased the house to a parolee named James Horn. According to Bolton, Horn was growing marijuana without his knowledge.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bolton opted not to take the deal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, he went to trial and got a hung jury. The district attorney then charged him with perjury in a connected civil case and moved to retry the criminal case. Bolton said at that point he was out of money to fight and was struggling to get partial custody of his 4-year-old son with a former partner.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He pleaded no contest to maintaining a property for unlawful sale of marijuana.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155298\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Bolton, 34, and his fiancée Ashley Baldwin, 20, in the garden where law enforcement found around 70 marijuana plants.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Bolton, 34, and his fiancee, Ashley Baldwin, 20, in the garden where law enforcement found around 70 marijuana plants. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In three years with good behavior, then I get the felony dropped to misdemeanor. That way I can still coach my children’s football teams and baseball, whatever, so that’s the reason I pled to it at that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judge postponed his sentence, so he could be home for the birth of his daughter. Beginning in January, he will serve six months in jail.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His fiancee's voice cracked as she said she doesn’t know how she’ll cope without him for that time. But then she got angry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I think it's bogus,” she said. \"Just because he could have bought his way out of it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DA spokesman Geniella points out it was Bolton’s decision to pass on restitution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“He chose to hire an attorney, pay $25,000 and go to trial. He did,” Geniella said. “He ended up with a hung jury in favor of conviction, and again on the morning of the second trial he entered a guilty plea. All those are Mr. Bolton's choices.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Law Enforcement Priorities\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Underlying the resentment many Mendocino residents have about restitution is the sense that enforcement of marijuana laws is arbitrary and unfair.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We went in a helicopter ride on airport day a month ago and you can look out the window and you see crops all over town of marijuana,” Baldwin said. “And I don't see how they can charge one person and not get everybody, because everybody here is doing it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the Mendocino County sheriff, Thomas Allman, said it’s not arbitrary at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He laid out his department’s five enforcement priorities:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Profiteering (medical marijuana is supposed to be nonprofit)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public lands (growing in state or national parks)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trespass grows (growing on property owned by someone else)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water diversion (stealing water from streams or lakes)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environmental damage (killing wildlife and disrupting ecosystems)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get busted you need to meet one of the five, Allman said, but the last two are really the most important.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If you really want to get a deputy sheriff interested in a commercial operation, you tell him or her that there was environmental degradation or illegal water diversion,” Allman said. And he said he’s tired of people flooding into his county from all over the world -- not to appreciate the scenery, but to take what they can from the land and then leave.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Allman was elected Sheriff in 2006. He said he supports medical marijuana but does not support recreational use of marijuana. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mendocino County Sheriff Thomas Allman was elected sheriff in 2006. He said he supports medical marijuana but does not support recreational use of marijuana. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Allman said his department busts only 15 percent of the marijuana that they know about. He said he simply doesn’t have the resources to go after the other 85 percent. And he said his team often will eradicate a marijuana grow and not find anyone there to arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We certainly would like to arrest the investor but the amount of time an investigation like that would cost us would prevent us from doing other investigations,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Future?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A county grand jury\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/grandjury/pdf/DA.restitution.final.5.13.16.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reviewed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the program earlier this year. Its primary findings were that the program increased court efficiency and eased jail overcrowding. But it also recommended that the district attorney institute a public program to assist those who can’t pay restitution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eyster\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/grandjury/pdf/DA.response.restitution.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">responded\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the grand jury’s recommendation by reiterating that his office’s restitution process is sufficient to allow for defendants to claim and prove their poverty.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, the grand jury recommended that the program continue.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But if voters legalize recreational marijuana in November, the restitution program in its current form could be gutted or at least significantly altered. Proposition 64 would make cultivation for first-time offenders an automatic misdemeanor. So, the DA could lose some of his prosecutorial leverage.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Mike Geniella said restitution has been so effective that he’s confident it can evolve, along with the new law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s a big plus for the defendants, our office and the courts,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next week, California voters may decide to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in the state. And if \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/article/politics-and-government/11138357/explaining-proposition-64-how-california-would-legalize-marijuana\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proposition 64\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> passes, California’s justice system will face a number of unexpected impacts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in many parts of the state, including Mendocino County along the northern coast, widespread marijuana cultivation and its side effects are already a fact of life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Top Prosecutor Develops a ‘Restitution’ Plan in Mendocino \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in 2011, the county's newly elected district attorney, David Eyster, found himself facing a huge backlog of marijuana cases. It’s not unusual for this small county of about 90,000 people to rack up more than 300 marijuana cases in a single year, ranging from smaller grows of less than 50 plants to massive grows that can involve misuse of public lands and environmental degradation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eyster found a unique and \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/grandjury/pdf/DA.restitution.final.5.13.16.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">controversial\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> way to start moving some of these cases through the courts. Under the authority of a California\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://law.justia.com/codes/california/2015/code-hsc/division-10/chapter-8/section-11470.2\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">law\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that’s part of the state’s health and safety code, he began offering certain marijuana defendants misdemeanor plea deals if they paid what’s called \"restitution\" for the costs of seizing and destroying their pot.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After looking at law enforcement costs, Eyster came up with a formula: “$50 a plant, and it doesn’t matter if it’s a little plant or a big plant, we just keep it $50 a plant, or $500 a processed pound.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But only first-time defendants, and those who aren’t causing environmental damage or growing on public lands, get the opportunity to take this deal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It's a person with a little medical marijuana need, but they have a huge greed,” he said. “And so there's a little bit of medical marijuana mixed in with it. But it's just so little compared to what they're doing that it can't be overlooked.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291113481&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291113481'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The district attorney's office says it’s a way to distinguish between career criminals and those who may have misinterpreted the legal limits of medical marijuana cultivation and sale.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The big emphasis is trying to be consistent,” Eyster said. “You know, if you talk about marijuana litigation prosecution in the state of California, the word consistent is not something that's often used.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, about a third of all cases are settled through restitution. It has freed up resources in the DA's office and brought in resources to local law enforcement. The county sheriff’s department sees the lion’s share of this revenue, about $7.2 million to date.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"600\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ju8txceJCayu8iCF9ZWgi3_wsTQ0K819vT115KmjBBk/pubchart?oid=1088128012&format=interactive\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Critics Call it the ‘Mendocino Shakedown’\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many in the county call the restitution program by another name: the \"Mendocino Shakedown.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heidi Larson is an attorney who prosecuted sex crimes in the Mendocino County DA's office for about 10 years and worked in the county public defender’s office for a year.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She said that while the program is certainly innovative, it has some troubling aspects.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The big question is: What about people who can't pay these numbers?” she said. “Are they being treated the same as people who can pay?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Larson said she’s talked to people who told her they build restitution into their business plan, “and that’s when you’re dealing with massive growers, because they come in every scale.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, she said, on the other end of the scale are those who simply can’t afford to pay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Geniella in the DA’s office doesn’t buy this argument. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We’ve never seen a poor marijuana grower in Mendocino County,” he said. “So the notion that someone is losing their home in debt -- no, it simply has not happened.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But multiple sources told KQED that defendants have gone deep into debt due to restitution. And some people ended up paying, even though they insist they were legally growing medical marijuana. These sources didn’t want to go on the record because they’re worried they’d face retribution if they went public.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“People need to understand you’re not shielded at all,” Larson said. “It’s an\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Affirmative+Defense\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">affirmative defense.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You can be arrested. You can go to the jail. You can be charged. You can end up having to go all the way through before the decision is made whether or not it truly is medicinal. And that’s going to cost some money.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155376\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"District Attorney David Eyster launched the marijuana restitution program in 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21700_IMG_5466-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District Attorney David Eyster launched the marijuana restitution program in 2011. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eyster said before he brings charges, he does let marijuana defendants bring in any medical paperwork they might have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If you're legal, you walk away and we say have a good day,\" he said. \"If you're not legal then, we tell you what your options are.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Sebastopol-based defense attorney\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.omarfigueroa.com/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omar Figueroa\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who specializes in medical marijuana, said part of the problem is that medical marijuana laws are still very gray. And local and state laws are still at odds with federal law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“People are basically making a rational choice to buy a misdemeanor instead of suffer the potential of a felony conviction,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you don’t make that choice, the consequences can be severe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Case of Richard Bolton\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richard Bolton, 34, is facing those consequences. The lifelong Mendocino resident owns a two-bedroom house tucked under the redwood trees in the town of Willits. He runs a logging and construction company, and in October he and his 20-year-old fiancee, Ashley Baldwin, welcomed a baby girl. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But their life will soon change. Bolton will be heading to jail for six months, starting in January. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One afternoon in October, the two walked around their backyard, checking on their raised garden beds of grapes, tomatoes and peppers, all starting to get a little moldy from the fall rains that have just begun.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in 2014, the county’s marijuana eradication task force busted the place and found about 70 marijuana plants growing in these same beds. They also found 15 plants in the garage, around 20 pounds of dried pot, five guns and more than $100,000 cash in Bolton’s safe.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bolton was arrested.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His lawyer approached him with the district attorney’s offer to pay around $20,000 in restitution and plead to a misdemeanor.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I thought it was more extortion than anything,” Bolton said. “You know they want to take my money for something I didn't do, and then they want to get you for a felony crime, but they want to let you walk for a misdemeanor to pay him money.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Months before the raid, Bolton said, he’d leased the house to a parolee named James Horn. According to Bolton, Horn was growing marijuana without his knowledge.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bolton opted not to take the deal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, he went to trial and got a hung jury. The district attorney then charged him with perjury in a connected civil case and moved to retry the criminal case. Bolton said at that point he was out of money to fight and was struggling to get partial custody of his 4-year-old son with a former partner.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He pleaded no contest to maintaining a property for unlawful sale of marijuana.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155298\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Bolton, 34, and his fiancée Ashley Baldwin, 20, in the garden where law enforcement found around 70 marijuana plants.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21698_File_003-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Bolton, 34, and his fiancee, Ashley Baldwin, 20, in the garden where law enforcement found around 70 marijuana plants. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In three years with good behavior, then I get the felony dropped to misdemeanor. That way I can still coach my children’s football teams and baseball, whatever, so that’s the reason I pled to it at that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judge postponed his sentence, so he could be home for the birth of his daughter. Beginning in January, he will serve six months in jail.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His fiancee's voice cracked as she said she doesn’t know how she’ll cope without him for that time. But then she got angry.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I think it's bogus,” she said. \"Just because he could have bought his way out of it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DA spokesman Geniella points out it was Bolton’s decision to pass on restitution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“He chose to hire an attorney, pay $25,000 and go to trial. He did,” Geniella said. “He ended up with a hung jury in favor of conviction, and again on the morning of the second trial he entered a guilty plea. All those are Mr. Bolton's choices.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Law Enforcement Priorities\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Underlying the resentment many Mendocino residents have about restitution is the sense that enforcement of marijuana laws is arbitrary and unfair.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We went in a helicopter ride on airport day a month ago and you can look out the window and you see crops all over town of marijuana,” Baldwin said. “And I don't see how they can charge one person and not get everybody, because everybody here is doing it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the Mendocino County sheriff, Thomas Allman, said it’s not arbitrary at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He laid out his department’s five enforcement priorities:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Profiteering (medical marijuana is supposed to be nonprofit)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public lands (growing in state or national parks)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trespass grows (growing on property owned by someone else)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water diversion (stealing water from streams or lakes)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environmental damage (killing wildlife and disrupting ecosystems)\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get busted you need to meet one of the five, Allman said, but the last two are really the most important.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If you really want to get a deputy sheriff interested in a commercial operation, you tell him or her that there was environmental degradation or illegal water diversion,” Allman said. And he said he’s tired of people flooding into his county from all over the world -- not to appreciate the scenery, but to take what they can from the land and then leave.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11155377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11155377\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Allman was elected Sheriff in 2006. He said he supports medical marijuana but does not support recreational use of marijuana. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/RS21701_IMG_5467-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mendocino County Sheriff Thomas Allman was elected sheriff in 2006. He said he supports medical marijuana but does not support recreational use of marijuana. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Allman said his department busts only 15 percent of the marijuana that they know about. He said he simply doesn’t have the resources to go after the other 85 percent. And he said his team often will eradicate a marijuana grow and not find anyone there to arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We certainly would like to arrest the investor but the amount of time an investigation like that would cost us would prevent us from doing other investigations,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Future?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A county grand jury\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/grandjury/pdf/DA.restitution.final.5.13.16.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reviewed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the program earlier this year. Its primary findings were that the program increased court efficiency and eased jail overcrowding. But it also recommended that the district attorney institute a public program to assist those who can’t pay restitution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eyster\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/grandjury/pdf/DA.response.restitution.pdf\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">responded\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the grand jury’s recommendation by reiterating that his office’s restitution process is sufficient to allow for defendants to claim and prove their poverty.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, the grand jury recommended that the program continue.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But if voters legalize recreational marijuana in November, the restitution program in its current form could be gutted or at least significantly altered. Proposition 64 would make cultivation for first-time offenders an automatic misdemeanor. So, the DA could lose some of his prosecutorial leverage.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Mike Geniella said restitution has been so effective that he’s confident it can evolve, along with the new law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\"I'm just tired of being made out to be the bad guy,\" former Oakland homicide investigator Mike Gantt said softly as he arranged several grocery bags full of awards from the Police Department on a conference table in his attorney's office Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was there to talk to reporters about his decision to pursue legal action against the OPD and tell his side of a 2014 death investigation in which he suspected a fellow officer of murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm kinda torn here this morning,\" the 27-year member of the OPD said. \"I love my job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he's been off the job since April -- on indefinite administrative leave following a domestic dispute with his wife, according to the legal claim he filed Tuesday. He said the drawn-out investigation that's kept him away from work is one of many examples of OPD leadership's attempts to harm him for filing internal affairs complaints and zeroing in on a fellow officer during a homicide investigation two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gantt was initially assigned to investigate the June 2014 death of Irma Huerta-Lopez and said Tuesday that physical evidence at the scene \"didn't jive\" with former OPD Officer Brendan O'Brien's story about his wife's death. O'Brien told Gantt and OPD Sgt. Caesar Basa that he had left the apartment to buy a pack of cigarettes when Lopez shot herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His story didn’t match up based on what I saw -- physical evidence at the scene -- and based on the story that he told me,\" Gantt said. \"The mere fact that he was living in East Oakland and said he walked to the store without his gun, without his badge, barefoot, when he doesn’t smoke -- it just doesn’t make sense to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he wouldn't have much opportunity to pursue his suspicion. He said former homicide Lt. John Lois removed him from the case in the middle of questioning O'Brien, who joined the OPD in 2013, and after Basa said he was pressuring the rookie officer too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I saw Sgt. Basa inside John Lois' office speaking with him,\" Gantt said. \"Lois called me into his office and he said 'Hey, I'm taking you off the case,' and I said, 'Why? What did I do?' He said 'I just don't want you to work the case anymore.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without Gantt's involvement, the department determined Huerta-Lopez had killed herself, a finding recently \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/%3Fp%3D11031041\" target=\"_blank\">bolstered\u003c/a> by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gantt went on to work other cases but, he said, OPD's homicide section was suddenly a lot less friendly to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The thin blue line is alive and well, and once you step over that line then you become an outcast,\" Gantt said. He filed a complaint after several homicide inspectors viewed his personnel file -- which is generally confidential. But there were no repercussions. Gantt transferred out of the homicide section less than two months after Huerta Lopez's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then brought another complaint to internal affairs, this time for receiving what he described as racist text messages from a superior officer. Again, his complaint had no impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They said that the investigation was unfounded,\" Gantt said. \"So, unfounded about people looking in my personnel file, which I have proof that they did, but OPD said it didn’t occur. I have proof that I received racist text messages. They said that it didn’t occur. And as far as a hostile work environment, now-Deputy Chief John Lois created a hostile work environment for me while I was in the homicide section.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a year after Gantt transferred from homicide, Brendan O'Brien killed himself in the same apartment where Huerta-Lopez died. He reportedly left a suicide note indicating inappropriate relationships between other \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\">officers and the teenage\u003c/a> daughter of an OPD police dispatcher. At the time the teenager, Jasmine Abuslin, went by the name Celeste Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD's investigation into potential crimes or misconduct stayed quiet until summer, when it led to a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">series of police chief resignations\u003c/a>. Five current and former Oakland officers face criminal charges related to their relationships with the now 19-year-old woman, including some felonies for engaging in sex acts with her before she turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people knew about that, but the only people you see getting in trouble are officers and a sergeant,\" Gantt said. \"There’s a lot of people way above them that knew and didn’t say something, and we’re all mandatory reporters. So I don’t see why one sergeant and these officers are in trouble and everybody else gets to skate, so to speak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gantt's attorney, Dan Siegel, said he hopes his client's claim will lead to the release of information still obscured about the investigation, including O'Brien's suicide note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main issue here is a case that will clear Sgt. Gantt’s name and hopefully bring light on what’s going on in the department,\" said Siegel, a longtime critic of the OPD who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's claim isn't Gantt's first tussle with OPD. He was fired after the department found he impeded a 2004 rape investigation, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/01/oakland-police-sergeant-files-claim-against-city-alleging-retaliation/\" target=\"_blank\">the Mercury News\u003c/a>. But he challenged the decision and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.poracldf.org/news/detail/166\" target=\"_blank\">reinstated\u003c/a> by 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department deferred questions about Gantt's allegations to city officials. A spokeswoman for Mayor Libby Schaaf responded in a written statement Tuesday that the city is \"legally prohibited from disclosing personnel information about any police officer and we do not comment on pending litigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a clearly defined legal process for handling these claims and we welcome the opportunity to present the full set of facts,\" the statement says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gantt's problems with the OPD didn't end when he left the homicide section. He was publicly accused in June of improperly sharing information from at least one homicide investigation, which the Alameda District Attorney's Office investigated and found no criminal wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They damaged me by putting out all those false allegations about me,\" Gantt said. \"They know I’m getting ready to retire. They know I’m ready to go. This is, I think, because I filed those complaints. This is a way for them to get me on my way out the door.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Julie Small of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There were 499 reported cases of human trafficking in San Francisco last year, according to a report by the Mayor’s Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking released Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Human trafficking is happening here in San Francisco,” said Minouche Kandel, the director of women’s policy at the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women. “A lot of people think of human trafficking as a problem that happens in other countries and developing countries, but it’s happening right here in our backyard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/dosw/sites/default/files/2016%20Human%20Trafficking%20in%20San%20Francisco%20Report_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The report\u003c/a> collected data from 15 government and community-based agencies that provide services to victims of human trafficking. In order to maintain the privacy of the survivors, no names were included, which means the data likely contain duplicates where the same victim was recorded by multiple agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Human trafficking is really hidden,” Kandel said. “So by doing this report, we’re starting to shine a light. We still have a lot more work to do, but it’s a good first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, 237 of the cases involved a victim under 25-years old, and 122 had victims \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/09/program-uses-empathy-to-combat-teen-sex-trafficking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18-years old or younger\u003c/a>. The vast majority of those were involved in commercial sexual exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been seeing this need for a long time, and it’s nice to see it backed up by data,” said Carly Devlin, the intervention services coordinator for Huckleberry Youth Programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devlin said the experience of youth who have been trafficked for sex varies for each individual and situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be really attentive to youth needs and what do individualized services look like for young people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kandel said most of these children are U.S. residents and not from other countries, and are often a part of the foster and/or juvenile justice systems. According to Kandel, the vast majority of the young people identified in the report as having been trafficked for sex were African-Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also sheds light on some of the strides that have been made in the past year in the area of youth sex trafficking, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-california-decriminalizes-prostitution-1474918476-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decriminalizing prostitution for minors\u003c/a>, a 24-hour crisis hotline and services for sexually exploited youth, and an increase in focus and training on human trafficking by the San Francisco Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Devlin said that finding a way to house youth who have been trafficked is crucial to helping them move on. She said there are very few housing options in the child welfare system for youth in the city where many want to be, and that also take into account the specific needs of this population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What would it take to have responsive housing that meets youth where they’re at?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other accomplishments highlighted by the report include stronger licensing and enforcement of \u003ca href=\"http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/new-restrictions-target-illicit-sf-massage-parlors/Content?oid=2933054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massage establishments\u003c/a> in San Francisco, funding for bilingual outreach to workers in vulnerable industries and support for the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/super-bowl-week-puts-spotlight-on-increased-human-trafficking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Traffick Ahead\u003c/a> Campaign to encourage hotels and restaurants to address human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women, including transgender women, accounted for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/14/in-secretive-marijuana-industry-whispers-of-abuse-and-trafficking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80 percent of the cases\u003c/a> where the victim’s gender was known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that women and girls are over-represented in trafficking victims,” Kandel said, as are LGBT youth. “It was very important for us to try to the extent that we could collect information on gender and including transgender youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kandel admits that the are many imperfections with the data in this report and all data concerning human trafficking, but that it can help establish a baseline to better understand the issue in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are very few other cities that are doing this kind of data collection,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said improving data collection by removing duplicates will be an important next step as well as using this data to increase services for survivors.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has been under federal oversight \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/13/oakland-police-in-13th-year-of-federal-oversight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for 13 years\u003c/a>. It was a mandate intended to help reform the OPD after the 2000 Riders case in which officers beat and framed Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the Police Department is in the middle of a widespread \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual exploitation scandal\u003c/a> involving several of its officers. The scandal led to the resignation of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three police chiefs over the course of eight days\u003c/a> in June 2016. City Administrator Sabrina Landreth is currently in charge of police “administrative and personnel decisions,” while acting Assistant Chief David Downing is in charge of “tactical and operational decisions” until a permanent chief can be found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scandals have given backing to Oaklanders who have long advocated for a civilian-led police commission. And now voters will have a chance to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s Measure LL, which would change the city charter and establish citizen oversight of the OPD, is on the November ballot. The new commission would have the ability to hire and fire the police chief, as well as subpoena and discipline officers. Supporters say it would create one of the strongest commissions in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289185119″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council has given Measure LL its unanimous stamp of approval, and Mayor Libby Schaaf has also expressed support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the stars and planets are lining up for this type of thing,” says Rockne “Rocky” Lucia, a lawyer with Rains Lucia Stern. He’s been representing police officers, including Oakland officers, for 30 years. He acknowledges that the conversation around policing has swept the country after a number of high-profile killing of black men by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These factors have created a sort of perfect storm of support for the police commission. But it wasn’t always that way, according to Rashida Grinage. \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/oakland-city-administrator-says-civilian-oversight-police-faces-roadblocks#stream/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She’s been pushing \u003c/a>for civilian oversight for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grinage looks a bit like a sweet grandmother, but she’s proved herself to be a relentless fighter, spurred to action by a terrible tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s the way most activists begin,” she says. Her fight started with a personal loss. “In 1993, I lost my husband and one of my four sons to the Oakland Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An animal nuisance call ended in a shootout between Grinage’s son and police. Her husband was killed in the crossfire. An OPD officer also died. OPD’s investigation found her son opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Grinage says she fought for years to try and learn \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Chilling-Account-of-Tragedy-Recording-of-93-2934207.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what happened that day\u003c/a>. She felt the OPD’s account was lacking, and whatever the details were, she is sure race played a role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband is African-American, my son obviously mixed. If I had been home to answer the door as a Caucasian, I think things would have ended very differently. I think everyone would still be alive today,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that, at heart, Measure LL is about accountability. Activists like her believe investigations into officer-involved shootings are biased and that officers cover for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been hard to get an \u003ca href=\"http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/In-Texas-and-California-police-fail-to-report-9958631.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accurate official count\u003c/a> of police shootings across the country. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/law-enforcement-killed-90-oakland-residents-since-2000-and-74-percent-were-black/Content?oid=4940357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay Express investigation\u003c/a> earlier this year used data from\u003ca href=\"http://www.fatalencounters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Fatal Encounters\u003c/a>, a journalist-run website, to calculate police shootings in Oakland. They found that between 2000 and 2015, local law enforcement killed 90 people in Oakland, 74 percent of whom were black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s Police Department has already had a fair amount of scrutiny. After the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OAKLAND-Riders-lied-brutalized-man-2629441.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riders Case\u003c/a> in which officers bribed, framed and set up citizens — mostly African-Americans — \u003ca href=\"http://www.jimchanin.com/civilrightscases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> led to a federal judge to impose a monitor to watch over the department and ensure that reforms laid out in a negotiated settlement were implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/05/oakland-police-avoid-federal-takeover-give-up-control-of-department/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a rocky road\u003c/a>, it was working, according to police and city officials. Things were getting better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city was lauded by the Obama administration as an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Obama-official-says-Oakland-s-police-department-6483838.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">example of 21st century policing\u003c/a>. Oakland police opened themselves up to be studied by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-jennifer-eberhardt-genius-20140917-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MacArthur “genius grant” award winner Jennifer Eberhardt\u003c/a>, whose stark report found that officers were more likely to \u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/2016/06/15/stanford-big-data-study-finds-racial-disparities-oakland-calif-police-behavior-offers-solutions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stop, search and handcuff\u003c/a> people of color, especially African-American men. Oakland police shared their data with Eberhardt and were open about the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could have been a turning point for the department. Except the week Eberhardt’s research was released, news of the sexual exploitation scandal also broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Dan Kalb worked with Grinage to draft the legislation for the police commission. He says that 13 years of federal oversight have helped the department, but he believes strong civilian oversight is ultimately needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a civilian commission that is going to look at things on a permanent basis, and on a full-time basis,” Kalb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Kalb and City Councilman Noel Gallo co-sponsored the Police Commission measure. At city council meetings there was \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/07/25/town-business-did-opoa-gut-the-police-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrangling over the amount of power the commission would have\u003c/a> and how commissioners would be appointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb says the final product was a compromise, but one that didn’t sacrifice the ultimate goal of civilian oversight with teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final draft, the mayor will be allowed to appoint three of the seven commissioners. Some activists were furious about this, but Kalb says the measure still creates a fundamentally independent body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In council meetings, the Oakland Police Officer’s Association expressed concern about the commission. Particularly worrisome to them was the section that revoked binding arbitration for police officers. Other \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/06/14/city-of-oakland-unions-united-against-police-reform-proposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city unions also balked\u003c/a> at that. They feared doing away with binding arbitration for police could create a slippery slope in other employee discipline cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Binding arbitration is out, but much of what activists wanted remains in the final plan. The OPOA did not respond to requests for comment on Measure LL from KQED. They are also, as of late October, not actively campaigning against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they are campaigning against Gallo and Kalb. Both councilmen are running for re-election to their city council seats and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/10/17/town-business-police-union-attacks-kalb-and-gallo-oakland-claims-garbage-contracts-no-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OPOA has spent almost $35,000\u003c/a> to unseat them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police officer’s union has sent out hit pieces on us,” Kalb says. He says objectively, he can’t understand why. “Both Noel and I have been supportive of growing our department, paying them well. I took the lead on hiring more investigators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb is adamant that being pro-police and pro-police commission are not in opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rockne Lucia, the lawyer who represents police, says the Oakland Police Department is already under the microscope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably the department in the country with the most oversight, the most accountability of any police department in the country,” Lucia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he understands the calls for transparency, and he says police have no problem with citizen oversight, but in this heightened political climate, they’re worried about the way it may work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people with political agendas get involved with police oversight, civilian review, then they are going to bring those prejudices, those biases with them, as part of the review process,” Lucia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But civil rights lawyer John Burris says especially given the fractured relationship between the police and the community, the commission could create a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will offer an opportunity for the public to be more involved,” Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris is no stranger to police oversight. He’s one of the lawyers that sued Oakland in the Rider’s case, leading to the federal monitor. Like Lucia, Burris also warns of what could happen if the police commission plays politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The danger of course when you have a police commission is whether or not it becomes politicized,” Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his concerns go in the opposite direction. To be truly independent a commission can’t be influenced by politicians who want to protect the city’s reputation and pocketbook, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows the federal monitor won’t be there forever. But if voters approve Measure LL, the police commission will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris says civilian oversight will only be successful if the newly created commission gets the support of OPD, from the top brass to the rank-and-file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful that there will be sufficient buy-in by the police officers within the department, that’s a function of the chief, and the command staff, and how it’s communicated to the officers,” Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is currently without a permanent police chief, but the city is engaged in\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/29/oakland-has-plum-job-for-reform-minded-leader-as-opd-seeks-new-chief/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> search for the position\u003c/a>, and expects to have it filled in the beginning of 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Measure LL passes, it will present an experiment in policing the police. Whether it will add another layer of bureaucracy or whether it will help Oakland on it’s journey to create real lasting police reform is impossible to predict, Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has been under federal oversight \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/13/oakland-police-in-13th-year-of-federal-oversight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for 13 years\u003c/a>. It was a mandate intended to help reform the OPD after the 2000 Riders case in which officers beat and framed Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the Police Department is in the middle of a widespread \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual exploitation scandal\u003c/a> involving several of its officers. The scandal led to the resignation of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three police chiefs over the course of eight days\u003c/a> in June 2016. City Administrator Sabrina Landreth is currently in charge of police “administrative and personnel decisions,” while acting Assistant Chief David Downing is in charge of “tactical and operational decisions” until a permanent chief can be found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scandals have given backing to Oaklanders who have long advocated for a civilian-led police commission. And now voters will have a chance to weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s Measure LL, which would change the city charter and establish citizen oversight of the OPD, is on the November ballot. The new commission would have the ability to hire and fire the police chief, as well as subpoena and discipline officers. Supporters say it would create one of the strongest commissions in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289185119″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289185119″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council has given Measure LL its unanimous stamp of approval, and Mayor Libby Schaaf has also expressed support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the stars and planets are lining up for this type of thing,” says Rockne “Rocky” Lucia, a lawyer with Rains Lucia Stern. He’s been representing police officers, including Oakland officers, for 30 years. He acknowledges that the conversation around policing has swept the country after a number of high-profile killing of black men by officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These factors have created a sort of perfect storm of support for the police commission. But it wasn’t always that way, according to Rashida Grinage. \u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/oakland-city-administrator-says-civilian-oversight-police-faces-roadblocks#stream/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She’s been pushing \u003c/a>for civilian oversight for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grinage looks a bit like a sweet grandmother, but she’s proved herself to be a relentless fighter, spurred to action by a terrible tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s the way most activists begin,” she says. Her fight started with a personal loss. “In 1993, I lost my husband and one of my four sons to the Oakland Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An animal nuisance call ended in a shootout between Grinage’s son and police. Her husband was killed in the crossfire. An OPD officer also died. OPD’s investigation found her son opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Grinage says she fought for years to try and learn \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Chilling-Account-of-Tragedy-Recording-of-93-2934207.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what happened that day\u003c/a>. She felt the OPD’s account was lacking, and whatever the details were, she is sure race played a role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband is African-American, my son obviously mixed. If I had been home to answer the door as a Caucasian, I think things would have ended very differently. I think everyone would still be alive today,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that, at heart, Measure LL is about accountability. Activists like her believe investigations into officer-involved shootings are biased and that officers cover for each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been hard to get an \u003ca href=\"http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/In-Texas-and-California-police-fail-to-report-9958631.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accurate official count\u003c/a> of police shootings across the country. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/law-enforcement-killed-90-oakland-residents-since-2000-and-74-percent-were-black/Content?oid=4940357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Bay Express investigation\u003c/a> earlier this year used data from\u003ca href=\"http://www.fatalencounters.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Fatal Encounters\u003c/a>, a journalist-run website, to calculate police shootings in Oakland. They found that between 2000 and 2015, local law enforcement killed 90 people in Oakland, 74 percent of whom were black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s Police Department has already had a fair amount of scrutiny. After the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/OAKLAND-Riders-lied-brutalized-man-2629441.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riders Case\u003c/a> in which officers bribed, framed and set up citizens — mostly African-Americans — \u003ca href=\"http://www.jimchanin.com/civilrightscases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> led to a federal judge to impose a monitor to watch over the department and ensure that reforms laid out in a negotiated settlement were implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/05/oakland-police-avoid-federal-takeover-give-up-control-of-department/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a rocky road\u003c/a>, it was working, according to police and city officials. Things were getting better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city was lauded by the Obama administration as an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Obama-official-says-Oakland-s-police-department-6483838.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">example of 21st century policing\u003c/a>. Oakland police opened themselves up to be studied by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-jennifer-eberhardt-genius-20140917-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MacArthur “genius grant” award winner Jennifer Eberhardt\u003c/a>, whose stark report found that officers were more likely to \u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/2016/06/15/stanford-big-data-study-finds-racial-disparities-oakland-calif-police-behavior-offers-solutions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stop, search and handcuff\u003c/a> people of color, especially African-American men. Oakland police shared their data with Eberhardt and were open about the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could have been a turning point for the department. Except the week Eberhardt’s research was released, news of the sexual exploitation scandal also broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Dan Kalb worked with Grinage to draft the legislation for the police commission. He says that 13 years of federal oversight have helped the department, but he believes strong civilian oversight is ultimately needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a civilian commission that is going to look at things on a permanent basis, and on a full-time basis,” Kalb says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Kalb and City Councilman Noel Gallo co-sponsored the Police Commission measure. At city council meetings there was \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/07/25/town-business-did-opoa-gut-the-police-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrangling over the amount of power the commission would have\u003c/a> and how commissioners would be appointed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb says the final product was a compromise, but one that didn’t sacrifice the ultimate goal of civilian oversight with teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final draft, the mayor will be allowed to appoint three of the seven commissioners. Some activists were furious about this, but Kalb says the measure still creates a fundamentally independent body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In council meetings, the Oakland Police Officer’s Association expressed concern about the commission. Particularly worrisome to them was the section that revoked binding arbitration for police officers. Other \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/06/14/city-of-oakland-unions-united-against-police-reform-proposal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city unions also balked\u003c/a> at that. They feared doing away with binding arbitration for police could create a slippery slope in other employee discipline cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Binding arbitration is out, but much of what activists wanted remains in the final plan. The OPOA did not respond to requests for comment on Measure LL from KQED. They are also, as of late October, not actively campaigning against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they are campaigning against Gallo and Kalb. Both councilmen are running for re-election to their city council seats and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/10/17/town-business-police-union-attacks-kalb-and-gallo-oakland-claims-garbage-contracts-no-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OPOA has spent almost $35,000\u003c/a> to unseat them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police officer’s union has sent out hit pieces on us,” Kalb says. He says objectively, he can’t understand why. “Both Noel and I have been supportive of growing our department, paying them well. I took the lead on hiring more investigators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb is adamant that being pro-police and pro-police commission are not in opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rockne Lucia, the lawyer who represents police, says the Oakland Police Department is already under the microscope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s probably the department in the country with the most oversight, the most accountability of any police department in the country,” Lucia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he understands the calls for transparency, and he says police have no problem with citizen oversight, but in this heightened political climate, they’re worried about the way it may work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people with political agendas get involved with police oversight, civilian review, then they are going to bring those prejudices, those biases with them, as part of the review process,” Lucia says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But civil rights lawyer John Burris says especially given the fractured relationship between the police and the community, the commission could create a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will offer an opportunity for the public to be more involved,” Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris is no stranger to police oversight. He’s one of the lawyers that sued Oakland in the Rider’s case, leading to the federal monitor. Like Lucia, Burris also warns of what could happen if the police commission plays politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The danger of course when you have a police commission is whether or not it becomes politicized,” Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his concerns go in the opposite direction. To be truly independent a commission can’t be influenced by politicians who want to protect the city’s reputation and pocketbook, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knows the federal monitor won’t be there forever. But if voters approve Measure LL, the police commission will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burris says civilian oversight will only be successful if the newly created commission gets the support of OPD, from the top brass to the rank-and-file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful that there will be sufficient buy-in by the police officers within the department, that’s a function of the chief, and the command staff, and how it’s communicated to the officers,” Burris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is currently without a permanent police chief, but the city is engaged in\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/29/oakland-has-plum-job-for-reform-minded-leader-as-opd-seeks-new-chief/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> search for the position\u003c/a>, and expects to have it filled in the beginning of 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the dusty, wind-swept city of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.adelanto.ca.us/\" target=\"_blank\">Adelanto\u003c/a>, officials are predicting big changes on the horizon. City Councilman Johnny \"Bug\" Woodard Jr. is standing in front of a chain-link fence surrounding a vacant lot in the city’s Green Zone, the industrial area where Adelanto allows medical marijuana cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you’re looking at here is the first property to actually break ground to build a new building,\" Woodard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/290067613\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It doesn’t look like much, but Woodard says this business and others like it will lead to a new future for Adelanto, a worn-down city of about 32,000 in the high desert of San Bernardino County. 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We’re driving this car home,\" Woodard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> passes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Policy-Advocacy-Section/Hot-Issues/Adult-Use-of-Marijuana-Act/AUMA-Memo_Final.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">local governments would have a big role\u003c/a> in determining how -- or if -- cannabis-related businesses may operate within their borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, some cities are taking very different approaches to the possibility of recreational marijuana. 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We're driving this car home.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Adelanto City Councilman Johnny 'Bug' Woodward Jr.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been close to a year and a half working on this project,\" he says. \"And now the prices are high, and our competitive edge is that we did start over a year ago and we secured our property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woodard says the investments by Shakta and others are having a ripple effect throughout the town, which was on the verge of bankruptcy not too long ago. There are plans to build more commercial structures and homes. And investors must pledge to hire local workers when their projects are approved. Woodard says all this movement puts Adelanto in a good position in the event California voters approve Proposition 64 and legalize recreational marijuana\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in the driver’s seat right now. We’re driving this car home,\" Woodard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If \u003ca href=\"http://elections.kqed.org/measure/2027/info/proposition-64\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> passes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cacities.org/Resources-Documents/Policy-Advocacy-Section/Hot-Issues/Adult-Use-of-Marijuana-Act/AUMA-Memo_Final.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">local governments would have a big role\u003c/a> in determining how -- or if -- cannabis-related businesses may operate within their borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, some cities are taking very different approaches to the possibility of recreational marijuana. And not all local governments are embracing the possibility of legal marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11144404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11144404\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A fountain at Broadway Plaza shopping center in Walnut Creek, CA.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Fountain-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fountain at Broadway Plaza shopping center in Walnut Creek. \u003ccite>(Mac Fotog/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The upscale Bay Area city of \u003ca href=\"http://www.walnut-creek.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Walnut Creek\u003c/a> is full of posh boutiques and high-end department stores. And the City Council doesn’t see a need to bring marijuana into the mix. It voted 4-1 on a \u003ca href=\"http://walnutcreek.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=12&clip_id=2861\" target=\"_blank\">resolution opposing the passage of Proposition 64\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I'm afraid this is going to add a dynamic that isn't comfortable for everyone.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Walnut Creek Mayor Loella Haskew\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.walnut-creek.org/government/city-council/loella-haskew\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Loella Haskew\u003c/a> takes the view that recreational marijuana won’t fit well in her town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walnut Creek is a really solid, tight, well-respected, respectful community,\" she says. \"And I’m afraid this is going to add a dynamic that isn’t comfortable for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Tom Chaplin agrees. He is concerned about drugged driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have an agreed level of impairment,\" Chaplin says. \"So if we put more drugged drivers on the road and that leads to more fatalities, the air of inevitability is not a valid argument for this, what I would describe as, poorly constructed measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever their approach, a lot of cities are just trying to figure out what Proposition 64 could mean for them. The measure would give cities and counties the power to regulate marijuana-related activities. They could establish zoning and permitting rules. 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"content": "\u003cp>A federal judge in San Francisco has approved Volkswagen's $14.7 billion settlement over the carmaker's vehicle emissions scandal. The process of compensating affected U.S. car owners is beginning now, with the first buybacks expected to happen within the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms of the deal, Volkswagen agrees to either buy back or repair vehicles involved in the scandal. That means paying as much as $10.033 billion to owners. In addition, the carmaker has come to an agreement with the United States under which it will pay nearly $5 billion in environmental remediation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tentative deal was \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/28/483785166/volkswagen-will-pay-u-s-diesel-car-owners-up-to-10-billion\">announced in June\u003c/a>. On Tuesday, it was approved by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, who found it was \"fair, adequate, and reasonable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the largest civil settlement in automaker history, and the largest false advertising case the Federal Trade Commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/volkswagen-settlement\">has ever seen\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the terms of the agreement, the court notes, funds to compensate owners have to be made available within 10 days of this final approval, and the buyback program must begin immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"lq9bzWHDrBolSOXj8QpJ011W73WEvBbX\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volkswagen says the claims process for arranging buybacks or modifications has already started. Documents already submitted by owners are being reviewed, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vwcourtsettlement.com/en/\">settlement website\u003c/a>, and once approved, buybacks or repairs will be scheduled within 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the carmaker says the company expects the first transactions to take place around mid-November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affected owners have until Sept. 1, 2018, to submit a claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cars in question were sold as being \"green\" diesel vehicles with low emissions, but in fact had been set up to drive differently during emissions tests — so they appeared to have lower emissions than they really had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/28/483785166/volkswagen-will-pay-u-s-diesel-car-owners-up-to-10-billion\">previously reported\u003c/a>, the emissions scandal involves some Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles, in both 2.0- and 3.0-liter diesel engine sizes, that were released from 2009 to 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This settlement covers only 2.0-liter engines in VW and Audi cars owned in the U.S. Legal proceedings on behalf of owners of 3.0-liter engines are ongoing, according to the lead counsel in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VW faces a number of other legal challenges related to the emissions-cheating debacle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are lawsuits against the German carmaker in other countries; in the U.S., there remains a possibility of criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, several states have filed lawsuits accusing VW of violating \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/19/486621489/states-lawsuits-say-vw-execs-ran-a-cover-up-of-diesel-emissions-cheating\">state environmental laws\u003c/a> by cheating on emissions tests, and this summer the company announced a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/25/491400452/volkswagen-has-tentative-deal-to-compensate-u-s-dealers-in-emissions-scandal\">proposed settlement with dealers\u003c/a> who claim losses caused by the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, October 26th, 9:00 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your kid gets arrested and locked up, it turns out you (the parent) might end up footing the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This might seem strange — after all, the state doesn't charge adults for the cost of incarcerating them — but there is a little-known law that allows counties to collect money from parents for the cost of upkeep while their kids are in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such parent is M.C., an Antioch resident who didn't want her full name used because she worries for her and her son's safety. Her 16-year-old son was charged with homicide in 2013 and was locked up in Contra Costa County's juvenile hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told the detective that my son didn’t commit that crime,” M.C. said in Spanish, through a translator. “But that if he was sure, then I’d trust the police to prove that my son was guilty. And if my son did do it, then he should be responsible and he should pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day he turned 18, he was transferred to adult detention in Martinez, and M.C. was sent a bill for 313 days in juvenile custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa, like many other counties, has been collecting money from parents for the cost of upkeep while their kids are in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recent \u003ca href=\"http://jlc.org/news-room/press-releases/new-national-report-shows-rise-debtors%E2%80%99-prison-kids-implications-racial-dis\">research\u003c/a> shows that kids from low-income families are likelier than kids from wealthier families to end up in the justice system, and advocates say these fees are unfair and bad policy. On Tuesday, the county’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to place a moratorium on these fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, Contra Costa has had some of the \u003ca href=\"https://prezi.com/ae3zbi66u0ve/rsg-june-28-2016-juvenile-fees/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy\">highest fees\u003c/a> in the state — up to $30 per day for juvenile hall detention and $17 per day for ankle monitoring. That means M.C. could have been billed more than $9,000 for the cost of holding her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She works as a house cleaner and was already struggling to make ends meet. M.C. told the probation department she couldn’t pay the full amount, and they reduced her bill to $939.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>M.C. started paying it off when she could, about $50 a month, but she says the fees felt like an injustice. It made her “angry to see these letters arrive charging me money, and my son was locked up, and still they wanted to blame him for something he never did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than two years, all charges against her son were dropped, and he came home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But M.C. still had to pay the probation department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, the county had every right to do this. The \u003ca href=\"http://law.onecle.com/california/welfare/903.html\">California Welfare and Institutions Code\u003c/a> holds parents financially responsible for their kids even while in custody. The logic goes that if M.C.’s son were at home she would have to pay for the cost of clothing him and feeding him, so she should have to reimburse the county for those same costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main idea is to kind of create a sense of shared responsibility between the parents and the probation department,” said John Keene, chair of the legislative committee for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpoc.org/\">Chief Probation Officers of California\u003c/a>, and chief probation officer for San Mateo County. “Because when we step in, in most instances, we are stepping into that capacity as a parent when the kid become wards of the court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candace Andersen, chair of Contra Costa County's \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/193/Board-of-Supervisors\">Board of Supervisors\u003c/a>, said her hope was that the fees would encourage parents to do a better job keeping their kids out of trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what I’m finding is the studies are not supporting that,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/policy-advocacy-clinic/\">group\u003c/a> of students at the UC Berkeley School of Law have been studying these fees for the past three years. Their research, which was presented to the county on Tuesday, includes an analysis of Contra Costa in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t think there are many compelling arguments to support these fees,” said Tim Kline, one of the Berkeley law students studying the fines. “Counties don’t make money. They’re bad for families. They don’t help kids rehabilitate and get back on track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the more startling statistics Kline's group found is the disproportionate racial aspect of these fees. For example, African-American kids are 23 times more likely than their white counterparts to be locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Macallair, executive director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/index.html\">Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice\u003c/a>, said disproportionate impacts are present statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who ends up in the juvenile justice system?” he said. “It’s kids from poverty, who grew up in poverty, who grow up in the margins of society, who come from fractured families, often disproportionately African-American, or in California, Latino. So yes, it [juvenile fees] falls heavily on the kids whose families can least afford it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Keene, of the Chief Probation Officers union, said the fees aren’t meant to target any particular group or be a burden on struggling families, and points out that counties do take into account a parent’s “ability to pay” when determining how much to charge them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We care about what happens to our young people. 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Even legally, the state can lock up only kids who are suspected of criminal behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Billeci said, it will mean a loss of revenue. Without juvenile fees, his department stands to lose around $200,000 in net revenue. But an \u003ca href=\"http://64.166.146.245/agenda_publish.cfm?id=&mt=ALL&get_month=9&get_year=2016&dsp=agm&seq=27183&rev=0&ag=861&ln=53284&nseq=27130&nrev=0&pseq=27182&prev=0#ReturnTo53284\">analysis\u003c/a> of how much it costs to collect these fees shows that the cost is actually greater than the revenue they bring in. And the fees do little to offset the total cost of running the county's juvenile hall, which is more than $19 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s part of the problem statewide. The money that juvenile administrative fees bring in varies from county to county, and some counties don’t collect these fees at all. Macallair says county probation departments who are used to getting this revenue don’t want to see it go away, even if it is just a case of bureaucracy maintaining itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Keene says counties need the flexibility to charge these fees, and that they are used to provide kids with recreation programs and educational opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0901-0950/sb_941_cfa_20160523_100925_sen_comm.html\">a bill\u003c/a> sponsored by state Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) would have banned counties from collecting these fees, but it stalled in the appropriations committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, some counties are moving forward with reform on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reviewing the practice, both Alameda and Santa Clara counties have repealed these fees. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the day he turned 18, he was transferred to adult detention in Martinez, and M.C. was sent a bill for 313 days in juvenile custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa, like many other counties, has been collecting money from parents for the cost of upkeep while their kids are in custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But recent \u003ca href=\"http://jlc.org/news-room/press-releases/new-national-report-shows-rise-debtors%E2%80%99-prison-kids-implications-racial-dis\">research\u003c/a> shows that kids from low-income families are likelier than kids from wealthier families to end up in the justice system, and advocates say these fees are unfair and bad policy. On Tuesday, the county’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to place a moratorium on these fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, Contra Costa has had some of the \u003ca href=\"https://prezi.com/ae3zbi66u0ve/rsg-june-28-2016-juvenile-fees/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy\">highest fees\u003c/a> in the state — up to $30 per day for juvenile hall detention and $17 per day for ankle monitoring. That means M.C. could have been billed more than $9,000 for the cost of holding her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She works as a house cleaner and was already struggling to make ends meet. M.C. told the probation department she couldn’t pay the full amount, and they reduced her bill to $939.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>M.C. started paying it off when she could, about $50 a month, but she says the fees felt like an injustice. It made her “angry to see these letters arrive charging me money, and my son was locked up, and still they wanted to blame him for something he never did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than two years, all charges against her son were dropped, and he came home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But M.C. still had to pay the probation department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, the county had every right to do this. The \u003ca href=\"http://law.onecle.com/california/welfare/903.html\">California Welfare and Institutions Code\u003c/a> holds parents financially responsible for their kids even while in custody. The logic goes that if M.C.’s son were at home she would have to pay for the cost of clothing him and feeding him, so she should have to reimburse the county for those same costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main idea is to kind of create a sense of shared responsibility between the parents and the probation department,” said John Keene, chair of the legislative committee for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpoc.org/\">Chief Probation Officers of California\u003c/a>, and chief probation officer for San Mateo County. “Because when we step in, in most instances, we are stepping into that capacity as a parent when the kid become wards of the court.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candace Andersen, chair of Contra Costa County's \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/193/Board-of-Supervisors\">Board of Supervisors\u003c/a>, said her hope was that the fees would encourage parents to do a better job keeping their kids out of trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But what I’m finding is the studies are not supporting that,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/policy-advocacy-clinic/\">group\u003c/a> of students at the UC Berkeley School of Law have been studying these fees for the past three years. Their research, which was presented to the county on Tuesday, includes an analysis of Contra Costa in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t think there are many compelling arguments to support these fees,” said Tim Kline, one of the Berkeley law students studying the fines. “Counties don’t make money. They’re bad for families. They don’t help kids rehabilitate and get back on track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the more startling statistics Kline's group found is the disproportionate racial aspect of these fees. For example, African-American kids are 23 times more likely than their white counterparts to be locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Macallair, executive director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjcj.org/index.html\">Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice\u003c/a>, said disproportionate impacts are present statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who ends up in the juvenile justice system?” he said. “It’s kids from poverty, who grew up in poverty, who grow up in the margins of society, who come from fractured families, often disproportionately African-American, or in California, Latino. 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Even legally, the state can lock up only kids who are suspected of criminal behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Billeci said, it will mean a loss of revenue. Without juvenile fees, his department stands to lose around $200,000 in net revenue. But an \u003ca href=\"http://64.166.146.245/agenda_publish.cfm?id=&mt=ALL&get_month=9&get_year=2016&dsp=agm&seq=27183&rev=0&ag=861&ln=53284&nseq=27130&nrev=0&pseq=27182&prev=0#ReturnTo53284\">analysis\u003c/a> of how much it costs to collect these fees shows that the cost is actually greater than the revenue they bring in. And the fees do little to offset the total cost of running the county's juvenile hall, which is more than $19 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s part of the problem statewide. The money that juvenile administrative fees bring in varies from county to county, and some counties don’t collect these fees at all. 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