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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer on Thursday denied a motion by defense attorneys for Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow that sought to determine why federal authorities pursued a multiyear investigation of their client but seemed to turn a blind eye to crimes they allege were committed by prominent San Francisco politicians, including Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense attorneys, Tony Serra and Curtis Briggs, asked the court to dismiss charges against Chow on the grounds their client was selectively prosecuted and, alternatively, for Breyer to force federal prosecutors and the FBI to turn over memos that could indicate why Lee \"suddenly vanished\" from the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see no evidence whatsoever of any crime or wrongdoing by the mayor,\" Breyer told Briggs and Serra from the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's hearing followed Chow's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/04/shrimp-boy-defense-ed-lee-other-officials-implicated-in-fbi-probe\" target=\"_blank\">explosive Aug. 4 motion\u003c/a> that included transcripts from FBI phone taps, body-worn wire recordings and other notes that appear to implicate several political players in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connection to Lee comes from recorded statements from former Human Rights Commissioner Nazly Mohajer and commission staffer Zula Jones. 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It’s incumbent upon the media to pay at least half as much attention to the exoneration as they paid to the scurrilous accusations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's Ethics Commission, district attorney and city attorney have \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/da-city-attorney-investigating-illegal-campaign-contributions-to-mayor-lee/\" target=\"_blank\">launched investigations\u003c/a> into the alleged improper campaign donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's defense team said it didn't expect the case to be dismissed but had hoped the court would force the government to reveal how the decision was made to stop investigating Lee. With that discovery, the lawyers argued, they could likely make a better case that Chow was unfairly targeted while federal prosecutors turned a blind eye to Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're in a Catch-22 unless the court intervenes,\" Serra told Breyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Badger argued the legal burden is on the defense to provide evidence of a selective prosecution, which they failed to do in this case. 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Proposition 47 reduced many nonviolent felonies -- such as drug possession and theft charges -- to misdemeanors, and it allows people previously convicted of those crimes to petition a court to wipe those felonies from their record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jackson, it’s an opportunity to literally wipe the slate clean, something that could allow her to pursue career opportunities once out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s hoping to get a master’s degree in social work, and says a record free of felonies could be key to making career moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10652375\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10652375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sholonda Jackson's degrees are displayed in her Hayward home. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sholonda Jackson's degrees are displayed in her Hayward home. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Even though right now it’s not affecting me as far as work, when I get my master’s degree, what if I want to go work for the VA or for Kaiser?” she said. “I’m sure it would come up … I think if I got it all off my record … then I would be free to move around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco resident Sofala Mayfield also got a second chance, thanks to Prop. 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His life began to fall apart in his teens, after his grandmother suffered a stroke and his mother fell back into drug addiction. 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Proposition 47 reduced many nonviolent felonies -- such as drug possession and theft charges -- to misdemeanors, and it allows people previously convicted of those crimes to petition a court to wipe those felonies from their record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jackson, it’s an opportunity to literally wipe the slate clean, something that could allow her to pursue career opportunities once out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s hoping to get a master’s degree in social work, and says a record free of felonies could be key to making career moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10652375\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10652375\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Sholonda Jackson's degrees are displayed in her Hayward home. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/16452_transform-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sholonda Jackson's degrees are displayed in her Hayward home. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Even though right now it’s not affecting me as far as work, when I get my master’s degree, what if I want to go work for the VA or for Kaiser?” she said. “I’m sure it would come up … I think if I got it all off my record … then I would be free to move around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco resident Sofala Mayfield also got a second chance, thanks to Prop. 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His life began to fall apart in his teens, after his grandmother suffered a stroke and his mother fell back into drug addiction. 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But he said when he got out of jail, he couldn’t find a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t get any calls back, I would call them back -- our hiring manager’s not in, you know. I just had a feeling that's what it was, just me having the felony on my record and stuff,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the urging of his probation officer, Mayfield called the public defender’s office and asked if he would qualify to reduce his felony to a misdemeanor under Prop. 47. Within a month, a court had approved the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He now has two jobs, is helping support his family and hopes to go to culinary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was just very grateful,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'What does it lead you to not seek out? ... It really takes away a person’s initiative if they don't think they have a future.' \u003cem>\u003ccite>Chief Deputy Public Defender Vincent Andrade\u003c/cite>\u003c/em>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Stories like these are familiar to Vincent Andrade. He’s chief deputy public defender in Merced County. His office holds a legal clinic every Monday morning for offenders curious about Prop. 47 relief. There’s so much interest, he said, that they have to cap attendance at 10 people a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrade says an old felony can stigmatize people for the rest of their lives -- preventing them from getting jobs, financial aid and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does it lead you to not seek out because you don't think you’ll even accomplish what you are trying to do, because you’ll be cut off because of your felony conviction, so why bother even seeking better employment or improving yourself some other way?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really takes away a person’s initiative if they don't think they have a future.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>License plate readers in police cars are already scanning vehicles throughout San Jose, but a new proposal would expand their use to the fleet of privately owned garbage trucks plying the city's streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think about it: Trucks operated by contractor \u003ca href=\"http://site.republicservices.com/site/santa-clara-ca/en/pages/city-of-san-jose.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Republic Services\u003c/a> cover the entire city once a week. That's something the San Jose Police Department can't necessarily say, as they \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/04/san-jose-city-council-police/\" target=\"_blank\">struggle\u003c/a> to recruit and retain police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilman Johnny Khamis says there's been an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjpd.org/CrimeStats/crimestats.html\" target=\"_blank\">uptick in auto thefts\u003c/a>, and mounting license plate readers on garbage trucks will allow the entire city to be swept for stolen cars every week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"hXsSVjyv4mHAO7eyv4gCfyHXGv3Pt5gx\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The truck drivers have no access to the information. It all gets automatically uploaded into the cloud and will ping the Police Department once a stolen car license plate has been spotted,\" Khamis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This may be the first instance of a city using garbage trucks to fight crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a June 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/license-plate-readers-let-police-collect-millions-records-drivers-4883\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a>, the Center for Investigative Reporting found 32 Bay Area law enforcement agencies were using license plate readers. Many are stationary, like those used along the city limits of Piedmont and Tiburon. San Francisco has mounted them on Muni buses, and they're used to notify authorities of traffic problems, like if a vehicle is blocking a bus lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using technology to look only for specific vehicles would have minimal privacy impact on the public, says policy attorney Chris Conley with the ACLU of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The concern arises if license plate readers are used to collect information on every car they see and then store that in a database somewhere,\" says Conley. \"Questions arise about who has access to the information, how long is it being kept, what purposes is it being used for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the city needs a written policy to avoid expanding the scope of the license plate readers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen in the past that once this technology gets acquired, it's very easy for someone to have a great new idea about this other thing you can do with license plate readers,\" says Conley. \"That can very quickly spiral out of control, without checks and balances from community leaders and local government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council’s Rules and Open Government Committee approved the plan Wednesday in a 4-1 vote, and its feasibility is now being studied by city staff. It was placed on the Sept. 1 City Council agenda.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The fate of a proposed \u003ca href=\"http://64.166.146.245/agenda_publish.cfm?id=&mt=ALL&get_month=8&get_year=2015&dsp=agm&seq=22915&rev=0&ag=627&ln=44949&nseq=22913&nrev=0&pseq=&prev=#ReturnTo44949\">$90 million expansion\u003c/a> of Richmond’s West County Detention Facility will move on to state officials next week after a 3-1 vote in favor by the Contra Costa Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Gioia’s lone vote against the project, however, may prove fatal for a proposal that has faced opposition from the Richmond City Council, the faith community and immigrant rights activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston put his case to the board on Tuesday, saying that he needs 400 new beds at West County and a state-of-the-art facility to humanely house and treat inmates currently held at the overcrowded Martinez Detention Facility. Martinez, which opened in 1981, was built for single-cell occupancy, but inmates there are double-bunked and, according to the sheriff, not receiving mental health treatment or services for re-entering the community, such as job training or education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politics aside and philosophical jail rhetoric aside,” Livingston said, “this plan makes sense, leverages our existing facilities already in place, provides much needed re-entry and treatment services, and ultimately makes our county safer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with inadequate services in the Martinez facility, the sheriff pointed to the increased number of inmates as a result of state prison \"realignment.\" Livingston said there are about 96 realignment inmates currently in the county's facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote in favor of the plan allows the sheriff to apply for $80 million in construction funding from the Board of State and Community Corrections -- but the proposal still needs four of the five members of the county board to approve about $10 million in matching funds. Supervisor Federal Glover, who could be the deciding vote, was absent Tuesday after undergoing heart and kidney transplant surgery. In addition to the $10 million in construction funds, the new jail is projected to cost the county around $4.4 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting was packed, with about 70 speakers voicing strong opinions both for and against the jail project. Local activist groups like Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community and Safe Return Project were joined by representatives from the National Nurses United union holding signs saying, “Health care, not jails!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in Contra Costa County -- not just West County -- we don’t need another jail,” said Kathryn Wade, an ex-Contra Costa mental health care worker, who was echoed by many when she asked where the funding was for health care and outside of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents said the board should be putting money toward new health care services following the April closure of Doctors Medical Center in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yet we see a sheriff’s department wants to come with this fabulous plan,” Wade said. “Once again you’re looking at the tears of a black woman. I say no to the jail expansion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with many Richmond residents and activists, both Richmond Police Chief \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/963/Chiefs-Message\">Chris Magnus\u003c/a> and the Richmond City Council \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/richmond/ci_28562333/richmond-council-rejects-west-county-jail-expansion-supervisors\">oppose\u003c/a> the jail expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is now the third time the sheriff’s office has attempted to expand the West County Detention Facility,” said Terrance Cheung, an aide to Richmond Mayor Tom Butt. “In 2012 they wanted to expand the West County Detention Facility by 150 beds, in 2013 they wanted to expand the West County Detention Facility by 240 beds, and now the sheriff wants to expand the West County Detention Facility by 416 beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa resident Teresa Pasquini offered one of the most impassioned pleas in favor of the new facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I speak today as the proud mom of an adult child with schizophrenic disorder; he is also inmate 201202796. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The fate of a proposed \u003ca href=\"http://64.166.146.245/agenda_publish.cfm?id=&mt=ALL&get_month=8&get_year=2015&dsp=agm&seq=22915&rev=0&ag=627&ln=44949&nseq=22913&nrev=0&pseq=&prev=#ReturnTo44949\">$90 million expansion\u003c/a> of Richmond’s West County Detention Facility will move on to state officials next week after a 3-1 vote in favor by the Contra Costa Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Gioia’s lone vote against the project, however, may prove fatal for a proposal that has faced opposition from the Richmond City Council, the faith community and immigrant rights activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston put his case to the board on Tuesday, saying that he needs 400 new beds at West County and a state-of-the-art facility to humanely house and treat inmates currently held at the overcrowded Martinez Detention Facility. Martinez, which opened in 1981, was built for single-cell occupancy, but inmates there are double-bunked and, according to the sheriff, not receiving mental health treatment or services for re-entering the community, such as job training or education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politics aside and philosophical jail rhetoric aside,” Livingston said, “this plan makes sense, leverages our existing facilities already in place, provides much needed re-entry and treatment services, and ultimately makes our county safer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with inadequate services in the Martinez facility, the sheriff pointed to the increased number of inmates as a result of state prison \"realignment.\" Livingston said there are about 96 realignment inmates currently in the county's facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote in favor of the plan allows the sheriff to apply for $80 million in construction funding from the Board of State and Community Corrections -- but the proposal still needs four of the five members of the county board to approve about $10 million in matching funds. Supervisor Federal Glover, who could be the deciding vote, was absent Tuesday after undergoing heart and kidney transplant surgery. In addition to the $10 million in construction funds, the new jail is projected to cost the county around $4.4 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting was packed, with about 70 speakers voicing strong opinions both for and against the jail project. Local activist groups like Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community and Safe Return Project were joined by representatives from the National Nurses United union holding signs saying, “Health care, not jails!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in Contra Costa County -- not just West County -- we don’t need another jail,” said Kathryn Wade, an ex-Contra Costa mental health care worker, who was echoed by many when she asked where the funding was for health care and outside of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents said the board should be putting money toward new health care services following the April closure of Doctors Medical Center in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yet we see a sheriff’s department wants to come with this fabulous plan,” Wade said. “Once again you’re looking at the tears of a black woman. I say no to the jail expansion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with many Richmond residents and activists, both Richmond Police Chief \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/963/Chiefs-Message\">Chris Magnus\u003c/a> and the Richmond City Council \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/richmond/ci_28562333/richmond-council-rejects-west-county-jail-expansion-supervisors\">oppose\u003c/a> the jail expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is now the third time the sheriff’s office has attempted to expand the West County Detention Facility,” said Terrance Cheung, an aide to Richmond Mayor Tom Butt. “In 2012 they wanted to expand the West County Detention Facility by 150 beds, in 2013 they wanted to expand the West County Detention Facility by 240 beds, and now the sheriff wants to expand the West County Detention Facility by 416 beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa resident Teresa Pasquini offered one of the most impassioned pleas in favor of the new facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I speak today as the proud mom of an adult child with schizophrenic disorder; he is also inmate 201202796. However, he is more than an illness and a number. His name is Danny, and he is my son,” she said, adding that she has relied on sheriff’s deputies to help her deal with her son’s mental illness. “I support this proposal because it is a step up from our current state, which is grossly inhumane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Candace Andersen and Karen Mitchoff, who voted in favor of the project, said that it was in line with the county’s re-entry strategy and would better help inmates begin the process of returning to their communities. Gioia, whose district includes Richmond, said he would not support the plan because it wasn't the best use of county funds. He said $2.5 million in treatment services projected for the new facility might be the first to be cut in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When other law enforcement departments come before us and say, 'We need more money for law enforcement,' frankly the money for re-entry always ends up being secondary,\" Gioia said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/kAYGizJ4vEg\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police say they're looking for more video of an incident in which a group of officers struggled to subdue a disabled and apparently homeless man on a downtown sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Aug. 4 incident -- in which officers stepped on and knelt on the man's prosthetic leg and had him lie partially naked on the sidewalk for about 10 minutes -- was apparently first disclosed in a Monday post on Medium titled: \"\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/matter/i-watched-14-police-officers-take-down-a-one-legged-homeless-black-man-outside-twitter-hq-1b3a9bf10e0f\" target=\"_blank\">I Watched 14 Police Officers Take Down a One-Legged Homeless Black Man Outside Twitter HQ\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That post, accompanied by an 11-minute video (embedded above) by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chaedria\" target=\"_blank\">Chaédria LaBouvier\u003c/a>, has gone viral, attracted \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/SFPD-probes-videotaped-detention-of-man-with-6451186.php\" target=\"_blank\">wider media interest\u003c/a> and forced the Police Department to try to explain why so many officers needed to restrain and arrest a single subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident is reportedly under investigation by both the department and the \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/occ/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Citizen Complaints\u003c/a>, an independent city agency set up to investigate complaints against the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Grace Gatpandan, a San Francisco Police Department spokeswoman, told KQED's Sukey Lewis on Wednesday that LaBouvier's video failed to show the episode in its entirety. To give a more complete picture of what happened, she said, the department is seeking video that shows the events leading up to the sequence that LaBouvier made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In explaining the police response, Gatpandan said that around noon on Aug. 4, officers on patrol near U.N. Plaza -- at Eighth and Market streets -- \"observed a subject who was waving sticks around.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officers decided to exit their vehicle and contact the person, just due to the fact he possibly demonstrated a danger to other people who were in the vicinity of him,\" Gatpandan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the officers asked the man to drop the sticks, which LaBouvier and other witnesses say were actually the man's crutches. The man refused and walked away, ventured out into Market Street and told officers he didn't care if he was hit by a vehicle, Gatpandan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this case, because he has demonstrated that he is a danger to himself and others, he fits the criteria for a mental health detention,\" Gatpandan said. That's a 72-hour hold in a local hospital to conduct a medical and psychiatric evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believed he was in an altered mental state, and so we wanted him to get the medical attention he needed,\" Gatpandan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gatpandan said she didn't know whether any of the dozen-plus officers who eventually responded to the scene had received formal crisis intervention training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for such training has been highlighted by a series of high-profile incidents in the past decade. Those include \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/18/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-s-f-cops-in-shooting-of-mentally-ill-woman\" target=\"_blank\">a 2008 case\u003c/a> in which two officers shot a mentally ill woman and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/05/video-sf-police-shoot-man-in-wheelchair\" target=\"_blank\">a 2011 episode captured on video\u003c/a> in which officers shot a wheelchair-bound man on a South of Market street after he threw a knife. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\">review of San Francisco police shooting\u003c/a>s by KQED colleagues Alex Emslie and Rachael Bale found that 11 of the 19 people who officers shot and killed between 2005 and 2013 were mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos is among those demanding that the department explain how it handled the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is, where was the crisis intervention team?\" Avalos said Wednesday. \"Did they use the crisis intervention team on this arrest? Did they actually follow the procedures? Those are the questions I think that should be in place, and there should be an investigation to see what happened, where things broke down. Because things clearly broke down. This man’s dignity was taken away from him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaBouvier's post on Medium focuses on both that dignity question and on what she describes as the commonplace nature of police abuse:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This isn’t a video of a man getting killed. Some might watch this and think in that general, indemnifying way, that this video is an exceptional case of an isolated case of poor policing. I’d have to disagree — and not respectfully — with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These incidents are so quotidian, so mundane, that they do not merit a mention in even passing on the local news. Which is to say, this is everyday harassment. Which is to say, that we’ve normalized and habitualized the kind of policing in San Francisco and the rest of America that brutalizes the most vulnerable people, which strips them of their human dignity, the agency to their bodies — to walk with crutches when physically disabled, to have this body unviolated — when in actuality, they are whom the police are especially supposed to be protecting.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll note in passing that there is no police body-camera video of the Aug. 4 encounter -- because San Francisco police \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/the-story-behind-the-sfpd-body-cam-programs-many-delays\" target=\"_blank\">still aren't wearing the devices\u003c/a>. But maybe videos like LaBouvier's -- and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnDSC2QnLWw\" target=\"_blank\">this one\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/ccZjGRUEuL0\" target=\"_blank\">this one\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/23/video-of-sfpd-officer-trying-to-push-man-off-curb-prompts-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">this one\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/hXVMtEpvwEE\" target=\"_blank\">this one\u003c/a> -- will speed up the process of adopting them.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The man refused and walked away, ventured out into Market Street and told officers he didn't care if he was hit by a vehicle, Gatpandan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this case, because he has demonstrated that he is a danger to himself and others, he fits the criteria for a mental health detention,\" Gatpandan said. That's a 72-hour hold in a local hospital to conduct a medical and psychiatric evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believed he was in an altered mental state, and so we wanted him to get the medical attention he needed,\" Gatpandan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gatpandan said she didn't know whether any of the dozen-plus officers who eventually responded to the scene had received formal crisis intervention training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for such training has been highlighted by a series of high-profile incidents in the past decade. 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A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\">review of San Francisco police shooting\u003c/a>s by KQED colleagues Alex Emslie and Rachael Bale found that 11 of the 19 people who officers shot and killed between 2005 and 2013 were mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos is among those demanding that the department explain how it handled the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is, where was the crisis intervention team?\" Avalos said Wednesday. \"Did they use the crisis intervention team on this arrest? Did they actually follow the procedures? Those are the questions I think that should be in place, and there should be an investigation to see what happened, where things broke down. Because things clearly broke down. 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"content": "\u003cp>In what appears to be an abrupt reversal, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have released a Berkeley recycling program director from detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Maher, a convicted felon who has lived under threat of deportation to China for nearly 15 years, was released from ICE custody Friday morning after spending over two months in various immigrant detention facilities around California, according to his attorney, Anoop Prasad with the Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE detained Maher in early June as part of a broader crackdown on Chinese nationals subject to deportation, and undocumented immigrants with prior serious criminal convictions. Maher, who immigrated legally to the United States from his native Macau when he was just 3 years old, fit both descriptions and was suddenly faced with the possibility that he'd be sent to a country he's never known. He speaks neither Mandarin nor Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Maher's case is not unique -- Prasad says he's aware of more than 50 Chinese nationals swept up in early summer raids as ICE prepared for a renewed deportation agreement between the U.S. and China -- his \u003ca href=\"http://ecologycenter.org/blog/ecology-centers-recycling-director-daniel-maher-faces-unjust-deportation/\" target=\"_blank\">reputation\u003c/a> in Berkeley made him a good candidate to highlight the international issue, an immigrant advocate who coordinated protests over Maher's detention said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KatrinaManubay/status/618669757986770944\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The attorneys at the Asian Law Caucus had interviewed quite a few detainees, Chinese detainees, who were in a similar situation as Daniel,\" said Annette Wong with the San Francisco-based group Chinese for Affirmative Action. \"We talked about it, and we identified Daniel as somebody that we wanted to begin a campaign for, because he had so much community support.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher's recent incarceration wasn't the first stretch he'd spent in an immigration detention cell. He was detained for about a year in 2000 after serving a 5-year state prison sentence for armed robbery, kidnapping and a firearms offense. Those convictions made him a priority for removal when he got out of prison, but Chinese officials wouldn't agree to take Maher or many other Chinese nationals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For months, deportation officers with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service sought to obtain a travel document from the Chinese government to carry out the removal order,\" ICE spokeswoman Virgina Kice wrote in response to KQED's questions about Maher's case. \"However, Chinese authorities declined to provide the necessary documentation and a federal judge ultimately ordered the former INS to release Mr. Maher on a writ of \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/habeas_corpus\" target=\"_blank\">habeas corpus\u003c/a>. He was freed by the INS in August 2001 under an order of supervision, requiring him to report in regularly to a deportation officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a convicted aggravated felon, Maher remains an \u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/14_1120_memo_prosecutorial_discretion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">enforcement priority\u003c/a>, Kice wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Historically, the U.S. and China have not had a repatriation agreement,\" Prasad said. \"The result’s been for decades now, the U.S. has had difficulty deporting Chinese citizens back to China. Recently that has started to change as the U.S. and China have entered into negotiations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to ICE, those negotiations came to a memorandum of understanding between the agency and the Chinese government, signed in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The MOU outlines the process by which Chinese experts travel to the U.S. to interview Chinese nationals (who are under final orders of removal) to verify their identity and citizenship,\" Kice wrote. \"In late June 2015, the first team of experts traveled from Beijing to the United States to implement the MOU and are currently interviewing Chinese nationals who are ICE priorities for removal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong said the latest MOU -- similar to an agreement signed in 2006 -- coincides with deportation priorities announced by the Obama administration in November, specifically the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/pep\" target=\"_blank\">Priority Enforcement Program\u003c/a>, the successor to ICE's old Secure Communities initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"President Obama is putting as a priority for deportation people that have past criminal convictions,\" Wong said. \"The priorities laid out in [PEP] kind of flow into this agreement that’s happened between the United States and China.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she added, \"When we look at people with past criminal history, people are more than the worst 15 minutes of their life, and people shouldn’t be labeled criminals for the rest of their lives because they made one mistake. Clearly, there are people out there who have rehabilitated themselves. They’ve integrated themselves into a community. They’re contributing members of society.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EcologyCenter/status/622105754053427200\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prasad said the expectation of a working deportation process and the administration's focus on deporting \"felons not families\" led to stepped-up immigration enforcement against Chinese nationals in early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if Maher's case provides any indication, the process is not working smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After another 70 days of incarceration waiting to be deported, ICE was forced to release Maher again \"after it became apparent the agency would not be able to obtain a travel document from the Chinese government in the foreseeable future to carry out his repatriation,\" Kice wrote. \"Mr. Maher was released under an order of supervision, which will require him to report to ICE periodically to ensure he is complying with the conditions of his release.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency did not respond to questions about other Chinese nationals detained under circumstances similar to those of Maher -- including how many had been detained since March, whether any had been released because ICE was unable to attain travel documents from China, and whether any had been deported or repatriated to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we do know is that there hasn’t been a repatriation agreement signed,\" Prasad said. \"Of the group that we’ve been watching of people picked up in these raids, ICE has not been able to deport anyone, and we’re closing in on three months now of these people sitting in detention. ICE has not been able to secure a travel document for anyone yet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prasad said he believes Maher was released because of the community pressure the agency faced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had just concluded a rally outside of ICE’s offices on Wednesday,\" he said. \"There was a petition which had received over 3,000 signatures. They were getting phone calls on a daily basis about Daniel’s case, and we’d also just filed a lawsuit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone ICE detained gets that kind of attention, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many people -- not just folks from China but from all over the world -- that are in immigration detention in really deplorable conditions as well,\" Wong said. \"It’s really unfortunate that we’re not able to do campaigns for every single person in detention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher is expected to address news media on Thursday, Wong and Prasad said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>At most, there are only 20 days of official business left at the state Capitol. By the time it’s over, huge policy and political fights will have been waged, some of which may set the stage for debates left for the voters to settle in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators return on Monday to Sacramento for the final sprint to the end of this year’s duties, the halfway mark of the two-year legislative session that began in January. Hundreds of bills are left to be debated, covering topics from environmental policy to privacy rights and long-term funding for roads and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are our top picks for the battles worth watching:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Biggie: Climate Clash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s reputation on the international stage as a leader on climate change regulations has been front and center in recent months, and legislators may be on the verge of doubling down on that effort. Most notable are two bills to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and separate legislation to cut the state’s reliance on fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The greenhouse gas bills (\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_32_cfa_20150710_120306_asm_comm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 32\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1251-1300/ab_1288_cfa_20150713_150625_sen_comm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1288\u003c/a>) push beyond the state’s 2006 landmark law, which seeks to shrink emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. AB 1288, by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), would extend the state’s use of cap-and-trade as a tool to limit greenhouse gas emissions. SB 32, by state Sen. Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills), would ratchet down emission levels by mid-century to 80 percent below 1990 levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643312\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10643312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León is the author of SB 350.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León is the author of SB 350. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hard to believe, but those bills may spark debate that seems tepid compared to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_350&sess=CUR&house=B&author=de_le%F3n_%3Cde_leon%3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 350\u003c/a> by Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles). This bill is an attempt to pull off the equivalent of a climate change hat trick: More renewable energy, more energy efficient buildings, and a 50 percent reduction in the use of petroleum by cars and trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last element — a big downsizing of gasoline use — is the one the oil industry has vowed to kill, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiadriversalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an aggressive PR campaign over the last few weeks\u003c/a> and a list of business-leaning Democrats in the Assembly who they hope will lead the charge to weaken the Senate leader’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, a bill authored by a legislative leader can be hard to stop. And de León holds some powerful cards in his hand — namely, the bills of assemblymembers that have made it to the Senate, bills he could amend or kill to get his way with SB 350.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the biggest of the final legislative battles. And keep your eye on Gov. Jerry Brown, who may play a key role behind the scenes on an issue which he seems to increasingly view as a big part of his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Money Talks: Health Care and Tobacco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers will be working both on regular-session issues and, concurrently, on two special legislative sessions — dealing with health care and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/6.16.15_Health_Care_Special_Session.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">While Brown’s call for a special health care session\u003c/a> is mostly aimed at finding a way to fund Medi-Cal, it seems a new round of tobacco wars will be taking front and center in the debate as well.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10643161\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-400x286.jpg\" alt=\"RS3292_NoSmokingSign\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-400x286.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-960x686.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Democratic lawmakers have already introduced legislation as part of the special session that would define e-cigarettes as tobacco products and bring them under the state’s existing anti-smoking laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Senate Bill xx5 by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Assembly Bill xx6 by Assemblymember Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) are essentially do-overs of Leno’s SB 140, which was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Assembly-amendments-kill-bill-to-regulate-6374014.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unceremoniously gutted in July by Assemblyman Adam Gray \u003c/a>(D-Merced), chair of the lower house’s powerful governmental organization committee. So it seems that legislation, combined with other bills, could set up an interesting battle in the Assembly, whose more moderate members have recently been loath to expand anti-tobacco laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(By the way, the “x” in the bill numbers refers to the fact that these were introduced in the \u003cem>special session\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on the tobacco docket: \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx2_10_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill xx10\u003c/a> by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), which would allow counties to impose their own tobacco taxes; \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx2_7_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill xx7\u003c/a> by Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-San Gabriel Valley) and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx2_8_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill xx8\u003c/a> by Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg), which would both raise the smoking age to 21; \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx2_6_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill xx6\u003c/a> by Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel), which would close some loopholes in the state’s workplace smoking laws; and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx2_8_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill xx8\u003c/a> by Sen. Carol Liu (D-La Cañada Flintridge), which would expand tobacco-free programs to charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health care session, of course, is actually aimed at finding a way to backfill \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/06/22/california-must-change-tax-or-face-losing-billions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.1 billion in funding for Medi-Cal that will dry up next June\u003c/a>, when the federal government starts enforcing new rules around how the low-income health insurance is funded. Democrats and Republicans also want to increase reimbursement rates for doctors who serve Medi-Cal patients and to increase funding for developmental disability services; Democratic lawmakers are pushing, too for more funding for the state’s In-Home Supportive Services program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) has proposed a flat tax on all managed care organizations in the state of $7.88 per patient, per month. He said the tax would raise the $1.1 billion for Medi-Cal, as well as money for the other programs. Republicans say that tax is unnecessary, and they would like to see the state instead dedicate any new general fund revenues above and beyond 2015 budget levels to developmental disability services and Medi-Cal rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transportation’s Tax Troubles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other big special session debate over the final month will be over new dollars for California’s aging roads, highways and bridges. Getting consensus on the seriousness of the issue was the easy part; finding a way to pay for it — given that most revenue remedies will require a supermajority, bipartisan vote of each house — is the hard part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much money? An \u003ca href=\"https://cafwd.app.box.com/s/cmibxng0bc6m345umly51adylv3zpu2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-star coalition of local governments, business, and transportation groups\u003c/a> says it needs to be at least $6 billion. Annually. That’s a heavy lift in the political world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key debates will include how much to earmark for things like roads and bridges, and how much some urban legislators may demand for public transit; how many different fees or taxes can or should be raised, from gas taxes to vehicle registration fees; how much of the ever-growing pot of cash from cap-and-trade’s auction of emission allowances should be tapped; and the idea of moving away from per gallon taxes and towards “\u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/road_charge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">road charging\u003c/a>,” where drivers pay based on how many miles they drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crime … and Accountability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two controversial criminal justice bills will also be up for debate this month, both of them \u003ca href=\"/Users/mlagos/Downloads/201520160AB953_Senate%20Public%20Safety-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposed\u003c/a> by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a>, by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), is billed by supporters, including the ACLU, as the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/AB953_fact_sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015.”\u003c/a> It would mandate a system for law enforcement to collect information on each stop they make, data that would have to be reported to the attorney general each year. AB 953 would also expand the state’s definition of profiling beyond race to include things such as gender, national origin, religion and sexual orientation. It’s supported by a long list of civil rights groups and opposed by most of the state’s large police organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643241\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10643241\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Police protests around the nation, including this one in San Francisco, helped spur AB953.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police protests around the nation, including this one in San Francisco, helped spur AB953. \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leno is again attempting to curb warrantless searches of phones, computers and other electronic devices with \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 178\u003c/a>. It’s his fourth run at the issue, which has repeatedly been embraced by lawmakers but vetoed by Brown in the face of law enforcement opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would require law enforcement to secure a court order before they compel service providers to give them personal communications, or before they search an electronic device. It has some exceptions for emergency situations. It’s supported by tech companies, consumer organizations and civil liberties groups, but opposed by prosecutors, police and sheriffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elections and Disclosure Laws\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of notable bills in the final month may make important changes in the conducting of elections and campaigns, starting as soon as next year’s contest. The most talked about of these is \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1451-1500/ab_1461_bill_20150623_amended_sen_v94.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1461\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), requiring DMV and state elections officials to automatically register to vote those who are eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other bills that will be worth watching include a state-funded recount for razor-thin statewide candidate or ballot measure elections, and new donor disclosure rules on campaign mailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of disclosure: Keep an eye on \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1151-1200/ab_1200_cfa_20150706_131902_sen_comm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1200\u003c/a>, the effort by Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park) to apply lobbying reports for those who seek government contracts — an area, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/13/240-million-education-contract-illustrates-state-lobbying-loopholes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as we reported last week, that’s virtually opaque when it comes to seeing who’s influencing what\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Affordability Issues\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are also attempting to change a handful of state laws that they argue will make life easier for working families and individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643242\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10643242\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Efforts to raise the minimum wage are also happening at the local level. \" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-400x299.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-1440x1076.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-960x717.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Efforts to raise the minimum wage are also happening at the local level. \u003ccite>(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 908\u003c/a>, by Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles) would \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2015/06/26/bill-to-expand-paid-family-leave-gains-traction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand paid family leave in California\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 406\u003c/a>, by Sen. Hannah Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) would also \u003ca href=\"http://sd19.senate.ca.gov/news/2015-04-07-jackson-bill-would-provide-job-protection-paid-family-leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand job protections for Californians\u003c/a> that take paid family leave; Jackson’s Senate Bill 358 would\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/Time-to-require-equal-pay-for-similar-work-6405957.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> strengthen California’s gender pay protections\u003c/a>; and Leno’s \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 3\u003c/a> would raise the state’s minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2017, with automatic future increases based on the rate of inflation — the same kind of inflation “indexing” that’s been opposed in previous incarnations by Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ripped From The Headlines?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, there will be legislative debates that, even more than some of the bills mentioned above, are largely driven by the state or national news cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://ad67.assemblygop.com/featured-news/melendez-calls-full-state-audit-planned-parenthood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are vowing to fight for more information on Planned Parenthood’s use of state tax dollars\u003c/a>, after the summertime controversy over a hidden video and accusations of selling fetal tissue for medical research. While \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/hhs-warns-states-of-possible-violation-in-ending-medicaid-funds-for-planned-parenthood-1439392786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOP-dominant legislatures in other states are provoking a fight with the feds on the issue\u003c/a>, a debate in the heavily Democratic statehouse in Sacramento would be mostly symbolic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer’s tragic headline of a San Francisco murder, allegedly carried out by an undocumented felon who was released from custody just days earlier, may also make its way to the Legislature. Republican state Sen. Jeff Stone (R-Murrieta) \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-california-senator-proposes-immigration-holds-on-felons-in-the-country-illegally-20150813-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans to introduce a bill \u003c/a>to require that local law enforcement notify federal immigrations officials before releasing a convicted felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less sensational, but also part of a national narrative, is \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0101-0150/sb_142_cfa_20150715_173328_asm_floor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 142\u003c/a> by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) to ban drone aircraft within a 350-foot zone of privacy over private property. Jackson and other legislators also are calling for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/20/firefighters-could-destroy-drones-under-proposed-california-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new laws regarding drones interfering with firefighting efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At most, there are only 20 days of official business left at the state Capitol. By the time it’s over, huge policy and political fights will have been waged, some of which may set the stage for debates left for the voters to settle in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators return on Monday to Sacramento for the final sprint to the end of this year’s duties, the halfway mark of the two-year legislative session that began in January. Hundreds of bills are left to be debated, covering topics from environmental policy to privacy rights and long-term funding for roads and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are our top picks for the battles worth watching:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Biggie: Climate Clash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s reputation on the international stage as a leader on climate change regulations has been front and center in recent months, and legislators may be on the verge of doubling down on that effort. Most notable are two bills to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and separate legislation to cut the state’s reliance on fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The greenhouse gas bills (\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_32_cfa_20150710_120306_asm_comm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 32\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1251-1300/ab_1288_cfa_20150713_150625_sen_comm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1288\u003c/a>) push beyond the state’s 2006 landmark law, which seeks to shrink emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. AB 1288, by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), would extend the state’s use of cap-and-trade as a tool to limit greenhouse gas emissions. SB 32, by state Sen. Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills), would ratchet down emission levels by mid-century to 80 percent below 1990 levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643312\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10643312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León is the author of SB 350.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS15578_BUDGET_34-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León is the author of SB 350. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hard to believe, but those bills may spark debate that seems tepid compared to \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_350&sess=CUR&house=B&author=de_le%F3n_%3Cde_leon%3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 350\u003c/a> by Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles). This bill is an attempt to pull off the equivalent of a climate change hat trick: More renewable energy, more energy efficient buildings, and a 50 percent reduction in the use of petroleum by cars and trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last element — a big downsizing of gasoline use — is the one the oil industry has vowed to kill, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiadriversalliance.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an aggressive PR campaign over the last few weeks\u003c/a> and a list of business-leaning Democrats in the Assembly who they hope will lead the charge to weaken the Senate leader’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, a bill authored by a legislative leader can be hard to stop. And de León holds some powerful cards in his hand — namely, the bills of assemblymembers that have made it to the Senate, bills he could amend or kill to get his way with SB 350.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the biggest of the final legislative battles. And keep your eye on Gov. Jerry Brown, who may play a key role behind the scenes on an issue which he seems to increasingly view as a big part of his legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Money Talks: Health Care and Tobacco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers will be working both on regular-session issues and, concurrently, on two special legislative sessions — dealing with health care and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/6.16.15_Health_Care_Special_Session.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">While Brown’s call for a special health care session\u003c/a> is mostly aimed at finding a way to fund Medi-Cal, it seems a new round of tobacco wars will be taking front and center in the debate as well.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10643161\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-400x286.jpg\" alt=\"RS3292_NoSmokingSign\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-400x286.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign-960x686.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS3292_NoSmokingSign.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Democratic lawmakers have already introduced legislation as part of the special session that would define e-cigarettes as tobacco products and bring them under the state’s existing anti-smoking laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Senate Bill xx5 by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Assembly Bill xx6 by Assemblymember Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) are essentially do-overs of Leno’s SB 140, which was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Assembly-amendments-kill-bill-to-regulate-6374014.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unceremoniously gutted in July by Assemblyman Adam Gray \u003c/a>(D-Merced), chair of the lower house’s powerful governmental organization committee. So it seems that legislation, combined with other bills, could set up an interesting battle in the Assembly, whose more moderate members have recently been loath to expand anti-tobacco laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(By the way, the “x” in the bill numbers refers to the fact that these were introduced in the \u003cem>special session\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on the tobacco docket: \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx2_10_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill xx10\u003c/a> by Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), which would allow counties to impose their own tobacco taxes; \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx2_7_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill xx7\u003c/a> by Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-San Gabriel Valley) and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx2_8_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill xx8\u003c/a> by Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg), which would both raise the smoking age to 21; \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx2_6_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill xx6\u003c/a> by Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel), which would close some loopholes in the state’s workplace smoking laws; and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sbx2_8_bill_20150716_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill xx8\u003c/a> by Sen. Carol Liu (D-La Cañada Flintridge), which would expand tobacco-free programs to charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health care session, of course, is actually aimed at finding a way to backfill \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/06/22/california-must-change-tax-or-face-losing-billions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.1 billion in funding for Medi-Cal that will dry up next June\u003c/a>, when the federal government starts enforcing new rules around how the low-income health insurance is funded. Democrats and Republicans also want to increase reimbursement rates for doctors who serve Medi-Cal patients and to increase funding for developmental disability services; Democratic lawmakers are pushing, too for more funding for the state’s In-Home Supportive Services program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) has proposed a flat tax on all managed care organizations in the state of $7.88 per patient, per month. He said the tax would raise the $1.1 billion for Medi-Cal, as well as money for the other programs. Republicans say that tax is unnecessary, and they would like to see the state instead dedicate any new general fund revenues above and beyond 2015 budget levels to developmental disability services and Medi-Cal rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Transportation’s Tax Troubles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other big special session debate over the final month will be over new dollars for California’s aging roads, highways and bridges. Getting consensus on the seriousness of the issue was the easy part; finding a way to pay for it — given that most revenue remedies will require a supermajority, bipartisan vote of each house — is the hard part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much money? An \u003ca href=\"https://cafwd.app.box.com/s/cmibxng0bc6m345umly51adylv3zpu2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-star coalition of local governments, business, and transportation groups\u003c/a> says it needs to be at least $6 billion. Annually. That’s a heavy lift in the political world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key debates will include how much to earmark for things like roads and bridges, and how much some urban legislators may demand for public transit; how many different fees or taxes can or should be raised, from gas taxes to vehicle registration fees; how much of the ever-growing pot of cash from cap-and-trade’s auction of emission allowances should be tapped; and the idea of moving away from per gallon taxes and towards “\u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/road_charge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">road charging\u003c/a>,” where drivers pay based on how many miles they drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crime … and Accountability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two controversial criminal justice bills will also be up for debate this month, both of them \u003ca href=\"/Users/mlagos/Downloads/201520160AB953_Senate%20Public%20Safety-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposed\u003c/a> by law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 953\u003c/a>, by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), is billed by supporters, including the ACLU, as the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/AB953_fact_sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015.”\u003c/a> It would mandate a system for law enforcement to collect information on each stop they make, data that would have to be reported to the attorney general each year. AB 953 would also expand the state’s definition of profiling beyond race to include things such as gender, national origin, religion and sexual orientation. It’s supported by a long list of civil rights groups and opposed by most of the state’s large police organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643241\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10643241\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Police protests around the nation, including this one in San Francisco, helped spur AB953.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS11767_IMG_1723-copy.jpg-alt_318-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police protests around the nation, including this one in San Francisco, helped spur AB953. \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leno is again attempting to curb warrantless searches of phones, computers and other electronic devices with \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 178\u003c/a>. It’s his fourth run at the issue, which has repeatedly been embraced by lawmakers but vetoed by Brown in the face of law enforcement opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would require law enforcement to secure a court order before they compel service providers to give them personal communications, or before they search an electronic device. It has some exceptions for emergency situations. It’s supported by tech companies, consumer organizations and civil liberties groups, but opposed by prosecutors, police and sheriffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elections and Disclosure Laws\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of notable bills in the final month may make important changes in the conducting of elections and campaigns, starting as soon as next year’s contest. The most talked about of these is \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1451-1500/ab_1461_bill_20150623_amended_sen_v94.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1461\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), requiring DMV and state elections officials to automatically register to vote those who are eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other bills that will be worth watching include a state-funded recount for razor-thin statewide candidate or ballot measure elections, and new donor disclosure rules on campaign mailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of disclosure: Keep an eye on \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1151-1200/ab_1200_cfa_20150706_131902_sen_comm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 1200\u003c/a>, the effort by Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park) to apply lobbying reports for those who seek government contracts — an area, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/13/240-million-education-contract-illustrates-state-lobbying-loopholes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as we reported last week, that’s virtually opaque when it comes to seeing who’s influencing what\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Affordability Issues\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats are also attempting to change a handful of state laws that they argue will make life easier for working families and individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10643242\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10643242\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Efforts to raise the minimum wage are also happening at the local level. \" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-400x299.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-1440x1076.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/1093_transform-960x717.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Efforts to raise the minimum wage are also happening at the local level. \u003ccite>(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 908\u003c/a>, by Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (D-Los Angeles) would \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2015/06/26/bill-to-expand-paid-family-leave-gains-traction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand paid family leave in California\u003c/a>; \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 406\u003c/a>, by Sen. Hannah Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) would also \u003ca href=\"http://sd19.senate.ca.gov/news/2015-04-07-jackson-bill-would-provide-job-protection-paid-family-leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand job protections for Californians\u003c/a> that take paid family leave; Jackson’s Senate Bill 358 would\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/Time-to-require-equal-pay-for-similar-work-6405957.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> strengthen California’s gender pay protections\u003c/a>; and Leno’s \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 3\u003c/a> would raise the state’s minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2017, with automatic future increases based on the rate of inflation — the same kind of inflation “indexing” that’s been opposed in previous incarnations by Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ripped From The Headlines?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, there will be legislative debates that, even more than some of the bills mentioned above, are largely driven by the state or national news cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://ad67.assemblygop.com/featured-news/melendez-calls-full-state-audit-planned-parenthood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are vowing to fight for more information on Planned Parenthood’s use of state tax dollars\u003c/a>, after the summertime controversy over a hidden video and accusations of selling fetal tissue for medical research. While \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/hhs-warns-states-of-possible-violation-in-ending-medicaid-funds-for-planned-parenthood-1439392786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOP-dominant legislatures in other states are provoking a fight with the feds on the issue\u003c/a>, a debate in the heavily Democratic statehouse in Sacramento would be mostly symbolic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer’s tragic headline of a San Francisco murder, allegedly carried out by an undocumented felon who was released from custody just days earlier, may also make its way to the Legislature. Republican state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>ProPublica and The New York Times published a report Sunday that sheds new light on the vast reach of the National Security Agency’s Internet surveillance efforts following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack on the United States — and on the apparently enthusiastic cooperation of telecom giant AT&T in the intelligence effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times headlines the report, based on information mined from the trove of documents released by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale\u003c/a>.” ProPublica’s apparently identical story, published online, carries the headline “\u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-spying-relies-on-atts-extreme-willingness-to-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NSA Spying Relies on AT&T’s ‘Extreme Willingness to Help\u003c/a>.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the NSA documents do not identify AT&T or another prominent cooperator, Verizon, by name, the news organizations said they found a wealth of evidence that linked the companies to NSA spying programs. The report says the companies’ identities were confirmed by unnamed former intelligence officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story also says that AT&T has apparently handed over data from other Internet service providers and telecoms that use its networks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how the report summarizes how the companies’ cooperation fits into the NSA’s surveillance efforts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The companies’ sorting of data has allowed the N.S.A. to bring different surveillance powers to bear. Targeting someone on American soil requires a court order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. When a foreigner abroad is communicating with an American, that law permits the government to target that foreigner without a warrant. When foreigners are messaging other foreigners, that law does not apply and the government can collect such emails in bulk without targeting anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AT&T’s provision of foreign-to-foreign traffic has been particularly important to the N.S.A. because large amounts of the world’s Internet communications travel across American cables. AT&T provided access to the contents of transiting email traffic for years before Verizon began doing so in March 2013, the documents show. They say AT&T gave the N.S.A. access to “massive amounts of data,” and by 2013 the program was processing 60 million foreign-to-foreign emails a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because domestic wiretapping laws do not cover foreign-to-foreign emails, the companies have provided them voluntarily, not in response to court orders, intelligence officials said. But it is not clear whether that remains the case after the post-Snowden upheavals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not voluntarily provide information to any investigating authorities other than if a person’s life is in danger and time is of the essence,” Brad Burns, an AT&T spokesman, said. He declined to elaborate.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here’s the Associated Press distillation of the Times/ProPublica report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WASHINGTON — Under a decades-old program with the government, telecom giant AT&T in 2003 led the way on a new collection capability that the National Security Agency said amounted to a “‘live’ presence on the global net” and would forward 400 billion Internet metadata records in one of its first months of operation, The New York Times reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fairview program was forwarding more than 1 million emails a day to the NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, the newspaper reported. Meanwhile, the separate Stormbrew program, linked to Verizon and the former company MCI, was still gearing up to use the new technology, which appeared to process foreign-to-foreign traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, AT&T began handing over 1.1 billion domestic cellphone calling records a day to the NSA after “a push to get this flow operational prior to the 10th anniversary of 9/11,” according to an internal agency newsletter cited by the Times. Intelligence officials have told reporters in the past that, for technical reasons, the effort consisted mostly of landline phone records, the newspaper reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NSA spent $188.9 million on the Fairview program, twice the amount spent on Stormbrew, its second-largest corporate program, the newspaper reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such details from the decades-long partnership between the government and AT&T emerged from NSA documents provided by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden, the Times reported in a story posted Saturday on its website. The Times and ProPublica jointly reviewed the documents, which date from 2003 to 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, the newspaper reported, the documents show that the government’s relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as “highly collaborative,” while another lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help,” the newspaper reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents show that AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad range of classified activities, according to the Times. AT&T has given the NSA access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also has provided technical assistance in carrying out a secret court order permitting the wiretapping of all Internet communications at U.N. headquarters, a customer of AT&T, the Times reported. While NSA spying on U.N. diplomats had been previously reported, the newspaper said Saturday that neither the court order nor AT&T’s involvement had been disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents also reveal that AT&T installed surveillance equipment in at least 17 of its Internet hubs on American soil, the Times reported, far more than similarly sized competitor Verizon. AT&T engineers were the first to try out new surveillance technologies invented by the NSA, the newspaper reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NSA, AT&T and Verizon declined to discuss the findings from the files, according to the Times. It is not clear if the programs still operate in the same way today, the newspaper reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the documents provided by Snowden reminds NSA officials to be polite when visiting AT&T facilities, the Times reported, and notes, “This is a partnership, not a contractual relationship.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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