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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130926\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107-640x439.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Family and friends of a 28-year-old San Francisco man shot and killed by police are questioning the official story of the shooting that reverberates with multiple controversies raging in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights&sa=U&ei=Eu84U5bLAvKO2gX_7IDgDA&ved=0CAYQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFmwnZkJVgMqB0O7YHSwyuSpLyxfA\" target=\"_blank\">Police Chief Greg Suhr said\u003c/a> Alejandro Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers responding to reports of a man with a gun in Bernal Heights Park as the sun was setting on March 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends say Nieto carried the Taser for his job as a nightclub security guard, and he stopped at his neighborhood park to eat a burrito on his way to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-eviction activists say the shooting spotlights a culture clash in the Mission and other San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a real wake-up call the other day to realize that evictions and gentrification don’t just mean losing your home but really losing your life as well,\" said Erin McElroy with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Eviction Mapping Project\u003c/a>. She addressed about 500 people filling the streets of the Mission District Saturday before the crowd marched to Bernal Heights Park, where police shot Nieto. \"It’s really sad that we have to be here because we are losing people from this community to gun violence by the police. We are losing people due to evictions, and we are being replaced by people who are scared of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130924\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130924 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Catherine Marroquin lifted a sign that said \"Gentrification = Police Brutality,\" as she marched through drizzling rain toward the Bernal Heights panoramic view of San Francisco's skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police have much more of a presence in the neighborhood now,\" she said, adding the Mission district youth she works with, some City College students, look just like Nieto. \"They're scared for their lives,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguella represents Mission District business owners with the merchants association \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcalle24sf.org%2F&ei=du84U7qOIqecyQG_6IDoCw&usg=AFQjCNELzPzMOkxnR-7ogl5Q26I_573OYA&sig2=J6aFEze7FMn1U_lQE0eWkg&bvm=bv.63808443,d.aWc\" target=\"_blank\">Calle 24 SF\u003c/a>. He said Latino ownership of storefronts along 24th Street had dropped to 69 of 130, the lowest ratio in 15 years. Longtime local shops are being pressured by speculators looking to buy, Arguella said, and if they refuse, they get a lot more attention from authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen realtors, we’ve seen speculators, we’ve seen individual folks hitting these businesses relentlessly for the last two years,\" he said. \"We’ve seen a pattern of Department of Public Health showing up, the Police Department showing up, different inspectors showing up in an attempt to force them to sell. A lot of times they would have to close if they find some infractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130923 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The march was flanked by several dozen police officers with riot gear, but there were no confrontations between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad they were here,\" said Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra. He said police should hear the marchers' message: \"We’re at a new stage, we have a very positive momentum. We’re not trying to hurt anyone, we just want the truth. We want justice for Alex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was well-known in the Mission and Bernal Heights, where he lived. He was active in the fight to keep \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/city-college-of-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> accredited as he studied criminal justice there. He planned to become a probation officer and completed an internship with the city's juvenile probation department about a year ago, said his mentor and city probation officer, Carlos Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing that he knew a little bit about criminal justice, knowing that he was an intern with us, it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would be that dumb,\" Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was a Buddhist and volunteered with Mission District youth organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130927\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130927 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"3/29/2014 March for Alejandro Nieto Security 1\" width=\"307\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Del Villar mourned the death of his co-worker, Alejandro Nieto, on Saturday, March 29. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow security guards at El Toro nightclub attended the march Saturday and paid respects to Nieto's father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a real nice guy,\" Luis Del Villar said. \"The first time I met him, he gave me his hand and a hug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's life was reportedly not without conflict. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-was-inspiration-but-5344159.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> former friend Arthur Vega filed a restraining order against him after Nieto allegedly shocked him with a stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr described elements of a shooting that could point to a \"suicide-by-cop,\" although authorities haven't yet made an official determination on the shooting. Suhr told an angry crowd at a town hall meeting to discuss the shooting last week that Nieto was prohibited from owning a gun for \"mental health reasons.\" He said Nieto acting erratically, then drew a Taser when police confronted him in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They asked Nieto to show his hands, to which he responded, ‘You need to show your hands,’ and then he drew his firearm,” Suhr said, then corrected himself, “the weapon that he drew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Suhr's remarks on the shooting at a town hall meeting on March 25 are below. Some interruptions have been edited out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's friends don't buy it. Bac Sierra responded to the possibility of Nieto committing \"suicide-by-cop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Bac Sierra said gentrification played a role in the shooting of his friend, with new neighbors quick to call police and officers quick to shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"But I don’t really say that with spite -- it’s just they had a different life,\" he said, adding that the diverse crowd that marched Saturday was \"beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Alejandro would love unity,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130929 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890-640x408.jpg\" alt=\"Mexica dancers Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before.\" width=\"448\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers at Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Nieto's family, and his many supporters in the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, are mourning him this week. A public rosary is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Driscoll’s Valencia Street Serra Mortuary in the Mission. His funeral is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Saint Kevin Catholic Church in Bernal Heights. Supporters are taking donations for Nieto's family, with more information available on the \"Justice for Alex Nieto\" Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Meanwhile, police and San Francisco's Office of Citizens Complaints and Police Commission will review the shooting, part of which will likely happen Wednesday in a closed-session meeting. The commission will review the chief's decision to \"return or not return officers to duty following an officer-involved shooting.\" Suhr said involved officers were put on administrative leave after the shooting per police department protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\n\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police have much more of a presence in the neighborhood now,\" she said, adding the Mission district youth she works with, some City College students, look just like Nieto. \"They're scared for their lives,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguella represents Mission District business owners with the merchants association \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcalle24sf.org%2F&ei=du84U7qOIqecyQG_6IDoCw&usg=AFQjCNELzPzMOkxnR-7ogl5Q26I_573OYA&sig2=J6aFEze7FMn1U_lQE0eWkg&bvm=bv.63808443,d.aWc\" target=\"_blank\">Calle 24 SF\u003c/a>. He said Latino ownership of storefronts along 24th Street had dropped to 69 of 130, the lowest ratio in 15 years. Longtime local shops are being pressured by speculators looking to buy, Arguella said, and if they refuse, they get a lot more attention from authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen realtors, we’ve seen speculators, we’ve seen individual folks hitting these businesses relentlessly for the last two years,\" he said. \"We’ve seen a pattern of Department of Public Health showing up, the Police Department showing up, different inspectors showing up in an attempt to force them to sell. A lot of times they would have to close if they find some infractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130923 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The march was flanked by several dozen police officers with riot gear, but there were no confrontations between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad they were here,\" said Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra. He said police should hear the marchers' message: \"We’re at a new stage, we have a very positive momentum. We’re not trying to hurt anyone, we just want the truth. We want justice for Alex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was well-known in the Mission and Bernal Heights, where he lived. He was active in the fight to keep \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/city-college-of-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> accredited as he studied criminal justice there. He planned to become a probation officer and completed an internship with the city's juvenile probation department about a year ago, said his mentor and city probation officer, Carlos Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing that he knew a little bit about criminal justice, knowing that he was an intern with us, it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would be that dumb,\" Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was a Buddhist and volunteered with Mission District youth organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130927\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130927 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"3/29/2014 March for Alejandro Nieto Security 1\" width=\"307\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Del Villar mourned the death of his co-worker, Alejandro Nieto, on Saturday, March 29. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow security guards at El Toro nightclub attended the march Saturday and paid respects to Nieto's father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a real nice guy,\" Luis Del Villar said. \"The first time I met him, he gave me his hand and a hug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's life was reportedly not without conflict. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-was-inspiration-but-5344159.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> former friend Arthur Vega filed a restraining order against him after Nieto allegedly shocked him with a stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr described elements of a shooting that could point to a \"suicide-by-cop,\" although authorities haven't yet made an official determination on the shooting. Suhr told an angry crowd at a town hall meeting to discuss the shooting last week that Nieto was prohibited from owning a gun for \"mental health reasons.\" He said Nieto acting erratically, then drew a Taser when police confronted him in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They asked Nieto to show his hands, to which he responded, ‘You need to show your hands,’ and then he drew his firearm,” Suhr said, then corrected himself, “the weapon that he drew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Suhr's remarks on the shooting at a town hall meeting on March 25 are below. Some interruptions have been edited out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's friends don't buy it. Bac Sierra responded to the possibility of Nieto committing \"suicide-by-cop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Bac Sierra said gentrification played a role in the shooting of his friend, with new neighbors quick to call police and officers quick to shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"But I don’t really say that with spite -- it’s just they had a different life,\" he said, adding that the diverse crowd that marched Saturday was \"beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Alejandro would love unity,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130929 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890-640x408.jpg\" alt=\"Mexica dancers Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before.\" width=\"448\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers at Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Nieto's family, and his many supporters in the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, are mourning him this week. A public rosary is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Driscoll’s Valencia Street Serra Mortuary in the Mission. His funeral is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Saint Kevin Catholic Church in Bernal Heights. Supporters are taking donations for Nieto's family, with more information available on the \"Justice for Alex Nieto\" Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Meanwhile, police and San Francisco's Office of Citizens Complaints and Police Commission will review the shooting, part of which will likely happen Wednesday in a closed-session meeting. The commission will review the chief's decision to \"return or not return officers to duty following an officer-involved shooting.\" Suhr said involved officers were put on administrative leave after the shooting per police department protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The final three weeks of Walter Roches' life last September were, like much of his previous decade, violent and chaotic, complicated by mental illness and repeated encounters with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches, 32, had completed a state prison sentence for domestic violence. Afterward, he was placed in the Evans Lane Wellness and Recovery Center, a San Jose facility that, among other things, treats mentally ill parolees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 5, over Labor Day weekend, Roches was arrested and charged with battery after a \"physical and sexual altercation\" at Evans Lane. He was sent to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he reportedly assaulted two staff members, according to arrest records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches spent the next two weeks in the jail's general population, where he reportedly refused to take a drug prescribed to treat him for psychotic behavior. Jail staff initially noted him to be \"clean and exhibiting good speech.\" But he rapidly deteriorated, and on Sept. 16 was described as \"poorly groomed and disheveled,\" according to the coroner's report on his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after that observation, Roches was released. He wasn't on the street for long, though. Milpitas police arrested him the next day for assault and battery, and public drunkenness.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Correctional officers fired pepper spray, tear gas and plastic projectiles at Walter Roches, who remained mute and did not struggle.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Back at Santa Clara County Jail, staff found Roches had deteriorated further. After noting his refusal to talk, shower or cooperate with other requests -- later reports described Roches as \"catatonic\" -- the staff decided to move him to the jail's psychiatric ward. The officers commanded him to come out of his cell, but he didn’t respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of his psychosis, Roches may not have understood the commands or been able to respond, said Dr. Michelle Jorden, an assistant medical examiner in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the officers tried pepper spray. Roches did not respond. Next, they threw a canister of tear gas through the food slot in the cell door. No response. Then using an FN303 “less lethal” firearm, the officers shot three times through the food slot, hitting Roches with plastic projectiles. He still didn’t respond. Finally, the officers opened the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches remained mute and did not struggle during the cell extraction or when the officers escorted him out, Jorden said. As part of her investigation she saw a video of the incident, which is not publicly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches died in the jail a week later. While conducting an autopsy, Jorden found Roches had suffered head trauma and had dozens of bruises on his torso and arms, ranging in size from less than an inch to a 12-by-7.5-inch bruise on his abdomen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jorden said Roches did not die from those injuries. He died from an “untreated mental illness” and sepsis from an untreated urinary tract infection, according to her report. Roches had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in the past. Jorden said he became acutely manic while at the jail, which raised his heart rate and blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912403\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/medicalexaminer-e1459207115277.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912403\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10912403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/medicalexaminer-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden conducted Roches autopsy. She says he died from untreated mental illness, complicated by sepsis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden conducted an autopsy on Roches. She says he died from untreated mental illness, complicated by sepsis. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Over time the body can take so much,\" she said, \"and then you can enter into an exhaustive stage and exhibit circulatory collapse.” Being subject to force would have “heightened and accelerated” the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is now investigating the deaths of Roches, another mentally ill inmate and additional complaints about Santa Clara jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of Roches' death, Santa Clara County had the equivalent of one and a half psychiatrists for between about 3,500 and 4,000 inmates. Judges, lawyers, correctional officers and advocates agree that it could take weeks or months for an inmate to see a psychiatrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Knapp, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://prisonlaw.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Prison Law Office\u003c/a>, filed a class action lawsuit in November against Santa Clara County for inhumane conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some serious questions about whether [Roches] was capable of refusing care or whether he should have been involuntarily medicated,” Knapp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches' death occurred just a month after another mentally ill man died in the same jail following what investigators say was a brutal beating at the hands of three guards. That case led to murder charges and unprecedented scrutiny of how the jail handles mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/255788391\" 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>\u003cstrong>The Death of Michael Tyree\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That other inmate, 31-year-old Michael Tyree, was sentenced to five days in jail for violating probation on a minor drug charge in August. Judge Stephen Manley presides over Santa Clara County’s mental health court and sentenced Tyree, who struggled with bipolar disorder and addiction. Manley said he wanted to send Tyree to a treatment center, but there were no beds available at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner’s report shows that Tyree died of blunt force trauma, including severe internal bleeding. During a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/03/three-santa-clara-jail-guards-arrested-in-inmates-death\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary hearing\u003c/a>, Dr. Joseph O’Hara of the county Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office testified that the most brutal of Tyree’s injuries were equivalent to being hit with a truck. O’Hara testified that Tyree could not have caused his own fatal injuries, which the deputies' defense attorneys argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912297\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Michael-Head-Shot-Pic.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912297\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10912297 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Michael-Head-Shot-Pic-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Michael Tyree several years before his death.\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Michael Tyree several years before his death. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Tyree family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, Tyree's sister Elizabeth Ott reacted to seeing photographs of her brother lying naked on the cell floor and covered with feces, vomit and bruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really horrible,\" she said through tears outside the courthouse. \"I don’t know what would possess somebody to do such a horrible thing to anybody. He was a person, he was valued, he was loved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Tyree’s death, Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith responded, “You’re asking me how it could have happened? It was a crime. It’s being prosecuted. We did a thorough investigation, we made arrests within a week. It’s a horrible crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/Pages/brc.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">independent commission\u003c/a> was created to investigate the jail. Attorneys for that body recently interviewed nearly a thousand inmates, dozens of jail staff and one inmate’s family. In their report, attorneys said numerous inmates complained that correctional officers beat mentally ill inmates to set an example for other prisoners about what behavior they will and won’t tolerate. Those prisoners are targeted, fellow inmates say, because guards do not think mentally ill inmates will report the abuse. Some guards continue to abuse mentally ill offenders, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says her department is investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting additional grievances,\" she said. \"We’re getting additional allegations. We’ve added staff to our internal affairs unit, to our detective unit, and we’re committed to following up everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correctional officers said at commission meetings that mentally ill inmates housed in general population dormitories often suffer violence at the hands of fellow prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Allen, a correctional officer suing the sheriff’s office for workplace discrimination, is concerned that mentally ill inmates are routinely housed with the general population. He says mentally ill inmates will “kick the doors sometimes -- in some cases all night -- disrupting a dorm of 60 to 90 people. So when you open the doors you’ll find violence because these people will attack this person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen says that when correctional officers try to move mentally ill inmates to the jail’s psychiatric unit, they’re often told there’s no room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll write these mental health referrals, multiple on one particular person, and mental health will go, ‘Eh, we don’t have the space upstairs,'” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Manley is also concerned about the psychiatric ward's capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The waiting list to place people in treatment outside of the jail is roughly the same now as it was six months ago,\" he said. \"It’s anywhere from 90 to 150 people that I’ve ordered released into custody, from custody into treatment, who are not released because there is no treatment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912302\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912302\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10912302\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The FBI and two independent commissions are investigating the operations of Santa Clara County's Main Jail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The FBI and two independent commissions are investigating the operations of Santa Clara County's Main Jail. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, the psychiatric ward can serve 139 inmates. In February, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted to double the number of beds for mentally ill inmates in a planned new jail facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent commission, including Manley, called on Saturday for the Board of Supervisors to take immediate steps to change the jail leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Blue Ribbon Commission has learned that the myriad problems in the operation of the jails are not recent, but have been ongoing for some time. The problems range from, but are not limited to, mismanagement of the Inmate Welfare Fund, a broken grievance/complaint process, a flawed classification system, a broken medical and mental health system for inmates, a problematic custody input report process, a fear of retaliation by both correctional officers and inmates, a stunning lack of transparency in the jail operations and the murder of Michael Tyree. The Board of Supervisors should acknowledge that the operation of the jails under the current leadership has been a failure for the inmates, for the correctional officers and for the Taxpayers,” the commissioners wrote in a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Growing Statewide Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s jails were built to hold inmates for relatively short sentences -- usually just a few months. But a change in state law five years ago, known as realignment, shifted more felons to local jails and out of the overcrowded state prisons. In May 2011, the average daily population of jails was 69,406; in May 2015, it was 73,301. Since realignment, the state has provided more than $2.2 billion to counties to help build new correctional facilities, hire staff or create programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">No one knows how many of the roughly 73,300 people in California's jails on a daily basis are suffering from mental illness or how many of them are receiving treatment.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But one of the biggest changes that local law enforcement is grappling with is holding offenders for long periods of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not just dealing with somebody for 90 days. I’m dealing with somebody for possibly two years,” says Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean, who chairs a state committee to revise jail regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s had an impact on mentally ill inmates. Dean says that there’s a big difference between holding someone who is mentally ill for several months and holding that person for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You look at more of a long-term treatment program, maybe a different application of medication that might help them, and then what kind of long-term programming to provide,” Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one knows how many of the roughly 73,300 people in California's jails on a daily basis are suffering from mental illness or how many of them are receiving treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Board of State and Community Corrections\u003c/a> oversees county jails from the statewide level. It collects data using a voluntary survey, including information on mental health cases and psychotropic medications. However, the agency’s staff say that some counties have interpreted what constitutes a mental health case differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010 an average of 247 county jail inmates received mental health care on a daily basis statewide, compared with 343 in 2014. During the same time period, 166 inmates received psychotropic medications on a daily basis in 2010, compared with 238 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912312\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10912312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-800x450.png\" alt=\"Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the information has gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of almost five full years of data from the voluntary BSCC survey, counties did not report how many inmates they treated for mental illness almost one quarter of the time, and also did not report on how many inmates received psychotropic medications 16 percent of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More inmates are also dying in jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, 153 inmates died in custody of county jails, compared to 120 in 2010, according to \u003ca href=\"http://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data\" target=\"_blank\">state Department of Justice\u003c/a> data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics suggest that inmates commit suicide at a higher rate in jails. In 2014, 38 inmates committed suicide while in custody of county jails, accounting for nearly 25 percent of deaths, compared to the 23 inmates who committed suicide while in custody of state prisons, accounting for 7 percent of deaths. There are seven deaths that occurred in 2014 in state jails the cause of which are still being investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912360\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10912360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-800x346.png\" alt=\"In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder\" width=\"800\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-800x346.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-400x173.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-1180x511.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-960x416.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special Assistant Attorney General Justin Erlich oversees the state Department of Justice open data project. He says mental illness could be a contributing factor in the increase of in-custody deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a lot of work to do around the mental health and physical health of inmates in county jails,” he said. “When you know something is happening, but you don’t know the extent of the problem, it can inhibit progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/s_adulttitle15&24regulationsrevision2015.php\" target=\"_blank\">committee\u003c/a> will discuss some of the first proposed changes to Title 15, the state law that sets minimum standards for jails, since realignment. Sheriff Dean of Ventura County chairs the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposal is to mandate training for all correctional staff who screen incoming inmates for mental illness. This would be part of an eight-hour training session that would include reviewing minimum jail standards and operations within the first six months of employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manley says that training all correctional staff is imperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anywhere in California they are receiving the appropriate training, and that has to change,” Manley said. “The culture has to change to understand that mentally ill offenders are very difficult to work with. They are not easy to work with and they take a lot of time, a lot of patience, and they take some compassion. And these are all things that can be taught and can be learned. But you have to be willing to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee also proposed expanding efforts to prevent suicide. However, no changes have been proposed to restrict the use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for mentally ill inmates want the Board of State and Community Corrections to make far more dramatic changes in how the jails are run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The BSCC is rejecting or failing to implement substantive changes that would ensure people with mental illness receive adequate mental health care and are not at risk of harm from suicide, solitary confinement, lengthy use of restraints and disciplinary actions for behaviors they cannot control,” says Knapp of the Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Manley says that making jails safer for mentally ill inmates is not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jails are for punishment. After punishment you have to look at rehabilitation and treatment,” he said. “When mentally ill offenders have served their punishment time and there is no treatment for them, they simply recycle back through the jail. So we are not doing anything to promote public safety and we are not doing anything to improve the mental health of those individuals who are incarcerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Don Clyde, Alex Cwalinski, Amy Mostafa, Peter Jon Shuler and Nicole West of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced as a project for the California Data Fellowship, a program of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The final three weeks of Walter Roches' life last September were, like much of his previous decade, violent and chaotic, complicated by mental illness and repeated encounters with law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches, 32, had completed a state prison sentence for domestic violence. Afterward, he was placed in the Evans Lane Wellness and Recovery Center, a San Jose facility that, among other things, treats mentally ill parolees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 5, over Labor Day weekend, Roches was arrested and charged with battery after a \"physical and sexual altercation\" at Evans Lane. He was sent to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he reportedly assaulted two staff members, according to arrest records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches spent the next two weeks in the jail's general population, where he reportedly refused to take a drug prescribed to treat him for psychotic behavior. Jail staff initially noted him to be \"clean and exhibiting good speech.\" But he rapidly deteriorated, and on Sept. 16 was described as \"poorly groomed and disheveled,\" according to the coroner's report on his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after that observation, Roches was released. He wasn't on the street for long, though. Milpitas police arrested him the next day for assault and battery, and public drunkenness.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Correctional officers fired pepper spray, tear gas and plastic projectiles at Walter Roches, who remained mute and did not struggle.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Back at Santa Clara County Jail, staff found Roches had deteriorated further. After noting his refusal to talk, shower or cooperate with other requests -- later reports described Roches as \"catatonic\" -- the staff decided to move him to the jail's psychiatric ward. The officers commanded him to come out of his cell, but he didn’t respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of his psychosis, Roches may not have understood the commands or been able to respond, said Dr. Michelle Jorden, an assistant medical examiner in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the officers tried pepper spray. Roches did not respond. Next, they threw a canister of tear gas through the food slot in the cell door. No response. Then using an FN303 “less lethal” firearm, the officers shot three times through the food slot, hitting Roches with plastic projectiles. He still didn’t respond. Finally, the officers opened the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches remained mute and did not struggle during the cell extraction or when the officers escorted him out, Jorden said. As part of her investigation she saw a video of the incident, which is not publicly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches died in the jail a week later. While conducting an autopsy, Jorden found Roches had suffered head trauma and had dozens of bruises on his torso and arms, ranging in size from less than an inch to a 12-by-7.5-inch bruise on his abdomen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jorden said Roches did not die from those injuries. He died from an “untreated mental illness” and sepsis from an untreated urinary tract infection, according to her report. Roches had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in the past. Jorden said he became acutely manic while at the jail, which raised his heart rate and blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912403\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/medicalexaminer-e1459207115277.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912403\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10912403\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/medicalexaminer-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden conducted Roches autopsy. She says he died from untreated mental illness, complicated by sepsis.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Michelle Jorden conducted an autopsy on Roches. She says he died from untreated mental illness, complicated by sepsis. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Over time the body can take so much,\" she said, \"and then you can enter into an exhaustive stage and exhibit circulatory collapse.” Being subject to force would have “heightened and accelerated” the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is now investigating the deaths of Roches, another mentally ill inmate and additional complaints about Santa Clara jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of Roches' death, Santa Clara County had the equivalent of one and a half psychiatrists for between about 3,500 and 4,000 inmates. Judges, lawyers, correctional officers and advocates agree that it could take weeks or months for an inmate to see a psychiatrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Knapp, an attorney with the \u003ca href=\"http://prisonlaw.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Prison Law Office\u003c/a>, filed a class action lawsuit in November against Santa Clara County for inhumane conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some serious questions about whether [Roches] was capable of refusing care or whether he should have been involuntarily medicated,” Knapp said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roches' death occurred just a month after another mentally ill man died in the same jail following what investigators say was a brutal beating at the hands of three guards. That case led to murder charges and unprecedented scrutiny of how the jail handles mentally ill inmates.\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/255788391&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/255788391'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Death of Michael Tyree\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That other inmate, 31-year-old Michael Tyree, was sentenced to five days in jail for violating probation on a minor drug charge in August. Judge Stephen Manley presides over Santa Clara County’s mental health court and sentenced Tyree, who struggled with bipolar disorder and addiction. Manley said he wanted to send Tyree to a treatment center, but there were no beds available at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner’s report shows that Tyree died of blunt force trauma, including severe internal bleeding. During a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/03/three-santa-clara-jail-guards-arrested-in-inmates-death\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary hearing\u003c/a>, Dr. Joseph O’Hara of the county Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office testified that the most brutal of Tyree’s injuries were equivalent to being hit with a truck. O’Hara testified that Tyree could not have caused his own fatal injuries, which the deputies' defense attorneys argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912297\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Michael-Head-Shot-Pic.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912297\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10912297 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Michael-Head-Shot-Pic-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Michael Tyree several years before his death.\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Michael Tyree several years before his death. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Tyree family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, Tyree's sister Elizabeth Ott reacted to seeing photographs of her brother lying naked on the cell floor and covered with feces, vomit and bruises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really horrible,\" she said through tears outside the courthouse. \"I don’t know what would possess somebody to do such a horrible thing to anybody. He was a person, he was valued, he was loved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Tyree’s death, Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith responded, “You’re asking me how it could have happened? It was a crime. It’s being prosecuted. We did a thorough investigation, we made arrests within a week. It’s a horrible crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/scc/Pages/brc.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">independent commission\u003c/a> was created to investigate the jail. Attorneys for that body recently interviewed nearly a thousand inmates, dozens of jail staff and one inmate’s family. In their report, attorneys said numerous inmates complained that correctional officers beat mentally ill inmates to set an example for other prisoners about what behavior they will and won’t tolerate. Those prisoners are targeted, fellow inmates say, because guards do not think mentally ill inmates will report the abuse. Some guards continue to abuse mentally ill offenders, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says her department is investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting additional grievances,\" she said. \"We’re getting additional allegations. We’ve added staff to our internal affairs unit, to our detective unit, and we’re committed to following up everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correctional officers said at commission meetings that mentally ill inmates housed in general population dormitories often suffer violence at the hands of fellow prisoners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Allen, a correctional officer suing the sheriff’s office for workplace discrimination, is concerned that mentally ill inmates are routinely housed with the general population. He says mentally ill inmates will “kick the doors sometimes -- in some cases all night -- disrupting a dorm of 60 to 90 people. So when you open the doors you’ll find violence because these people will attack this person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen says that when correctional officers try to move mentally ill inmates to the jail’s psychiatric unit, they’re often told there’s no room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll write these mental health referrals, multiple on one particular person, and mental health will go, ‘Eh, we don’t have the space upstairs,'” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Manley is also concerned about the psychiatric ward's capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The waiting list to place people in treatment outside of the jail is roughly the same now as it was six months ago,\" he said. \"It’s anywhere from 90 to 150 people that I’ve ordered released into custody, from custody into treatment, who are not released because there is no treatment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10912302\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912302\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10912302\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The FBI and two independent commissions are investigating the operations of Santa Clara County's Main Jail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS18880_main-jail-sc-vert-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The FBI and two independent commissions are investigating the operations of Santa Clara County's Main Jail. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently, the psychiatric ward can serve 139 inmates. In February, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted to double the number of beds for mentally ill inmates in a planned new jail facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent commission, including Manley, called on Saturday for the Board of Supervisors to take immediate steps to change the jail leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Blue Ribbon Commission has learned that the myriad problems in the operation of the jails are not recent, but have been ongoing for some time. The problems range from, but are not limited to, mismanagement of the Inmate Welfare Fund, a broken grievance/complaint process, a flawed classification system, a broken medical and mental health system for inmates, a problematic custody input report process, a fear of retaliation by both correctional officers and inmates, a stunning lack of transparency in the jail operations and the murder of Michael Tyree. The Board of Supervisors should acknowledge that the operation of the jails under the current leadership has been a failure for the inmates, for the correctional officers and for the Taxpayers,” the commissioners wrote in a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Growing Statewide Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s jails were built to hold inmates for relatively short sentences -- usually just a few months. But a change in state law five years ago, known as realignment, shifted more felons to local jails and out of the overcrowded state prisons. In May 2011, the average daily population of jails was 69,406; in May 2015, it was 73,301. Since realignment, the state has provided more than $2.2 billion to counties to help build new correctional facilities, hire staff or create programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">No one knows how many of the roughly 73,300 people in California's jails on a daily basis are suffering from mental illness or how many of them are receiving treatment.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But one of the biggest changes that local law enforcement is grappling with is holding offenders for long periods of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not just dealing with somebody for 90 days. I’m dealing with somebody for possibly two years,” says Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean, who chairs a state committee to revise jail regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s had an impact on mentally ill inmates. Dean says that there’s a big difference between holding someone who is mentally ill for several months and holding that person for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You look at more of a long-term treatment program, maybe a different application of medication that might help them, and then what kind of long-term programming to provide,” Dean said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one knows how many of the roughly 73,300 people in California's jails on a daily basis are suffering from mental illness or how many of them are receiving treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Board of State and Community Corrections\u003c/a> oversees county jails from the statewide level. It collects data using a voluntary survey, including information on mental health cases and psychotropic medications. However, the agency’s staff say that some counties have interpreted what constitutes a mental health case differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010 an average of 247 county jail inmates received mental health care on a daily basis statewide, compared with 343 in 2014. During the same time period, 166 inmates received psychotropic medications on a daily basis in 2010, compared with 238 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912312\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10912312\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-800x450.png\" alt=\"Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Daily_Average_of_Inmates_Receiving_Care_for_Mental_Illness_in_California_Inmates_Receiving_Mental_Health_Treatment_Inmates_Receiving_Psychotropic_Medications_chartbuilder.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the information has gaps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of almost five full years of data from the voluntary BSCC survey, counties did not report how many inmates they treated for mental illness almost one quarter of the time, and also did not report on how many inmates received psychotropic medications 16 percent of the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More inmates are also dying in jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, 153 inmates died in custody of county jails, compared to 120 in 2010, according to \u003ca href=\"http://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data\" target=\"_blank\">state Department of Justice\u003c/a> data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics suggest that inmates commit suicide at a higher rate in jails. In 2014, 38 inmates committed suicide while in custody of county jails, accounting for nearly 25 percent of deaths, compared to the 23 inmates who committed suicide while in custody of state prisons, accounting for 7 percent of deaths. There are seven deaths that occurred in 2014 in state jails the cause of which are still being investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10912360\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10912360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-800x346.png\" alt=\"In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder\" width=\"800\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-800x346.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-400x173.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-1180x511.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder-960x416.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/In-Custody_Deaths_in_County_Jails_in_2014__County_Jail_chartbuilder.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special Assistant Attorney General Justin Erlich oversees the state Department of Justice open data project. He says mental illness could be a contributing factor in the increase of in-custody deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a lot of work to do around the mental health and physical health of inmates in county jails,” he said. “When you know something is happening, but you don’t know the extent of the problem, it can inhibit progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/s_adulttitle15&24regulationsrevision2015.php\" target=\"_blank\">committee\u003c/a> will discuss some of the first proposed changes to Title 15, the state law that sets minimum standards for jails, since realignment. Sheriff Dean of Ventura County chairs the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposal is to mandate training for all correctional staff who screen incoming inmates for mental illness. This would be part of an eight-hour training session that would include reviewing minimum jail standards and operations within the first six months of employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manley says that training all correctional staff is imperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know anywhere in California they are receiving the appropriate training, and that has to change,” Manley said. “The culture has to change to understand that mentally ill offenders are very difficult to work with. They are not easy to work with and they take a lot of time, a lot of patience, and they take some compassion. And these are all things that can be taught and can be learned. But you have to be willing to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee also proposed expanding efforts to prevent suicide. However, no changes have been proposed to restrict the use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for mentally ill inmates want the Board of State and Community Corrections to make far more dramatic changes in how the jails are run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The BSCC is rejecting or failing to implement substantive changes that would ensure people with mental illness receive adequate mental health care and are not at risk of harm from suicide, solitary confinement, lengthy use of restraints and disciplinary actions for behaviors they cannot control,” says Knapp of the Prison Law Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Manley says that making jails safer for mentally ill inmates is not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jails are for punishment. After punishment you have to look at rehabilitation and treatment,” he said. “When mentally ill offenders have served their punishment time and there is no treatment for them, they simply recycle back through the jail. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action comes two days after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/u/Leland-Yee-Firearms-Trafficking-FBI\">federal agents arrested Yee\u003c/a> in connection with an investigation into corruption and firearms trafficking. Yee had refused a call from Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg to step down. Calderon \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/21/fbi-charges-california-lawmaker-in-widespread-corruption-case/\">faces federal corruption charges\u003c/a>, while Wright \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/06/125527/state-senator-roderick-wright-convicted-felon\">was convicted\u003c/a> of voter fraud and perjury earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘One is an anomaly. Two is a coincidence. Three?’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The suspension prevents Calderon, Yee and Wright from exercising any power of office until the pending criminal cases against them have been resolved. Even so, they will continue receiving their $95,000 annual salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg acknowledged the seriousness of the series of corruption charges against members. “One is an anomaly,” he said. “Two is a coincidence. Three?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg said it would be satisfying to simply kick out members who are in legal trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I reluctantly conclude that what would be satisfying and popular would also run afoul of the most basic American principles of due process, and the idea that people are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty,” Steinberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate president also announced the unprecedented step of canceling a floor session in April for a mandatory ethics review, with Senate officials going office by office to emphasize ethical conduct and ask staffers to come forward if they are aware of any potentially criminal activity by lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only senator to vote “no” on suspension was San Diego Republican Joel Anderson. He wants to see all three Democrats expelled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You propose to give them a Roman holiday by suspending all their ability to work for the people, but continue to pay them the people’s money?” Anderson asked. “You’re going down the wrong path. You’re wrong. You still believe that senators are above the law, and you’re wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Yee’s lawyer released a brief statement on the Senate’s vote. “Suspension is the right step for now,” attorney Paul DeMeester said, “and is appropriate in a system that presumes the innocence of the accused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also Friday, 18 of 25 defendants charged with Yee earlier this week appeared in federal court for detention hearings and assignment of attorneys. Those scheduled to appear included Keith Jackson, a former school board member and Yee political consultant accused of arms trafficking, participating in a murder-for-hire scheme and corruption. Also appearing today: Raymond Chow, the purported leader of a suspected Chinatown gang infiltrated by the FBI. Yee is scheduled to be back in court Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9446_photo-lpr-e1395851647607.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130461\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/RS9446_photo-lpr-e1395851647607-640x580.jpg\" alt=\"A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials outside Sen. Leland Yee's Sacramento office Wednesday. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"580\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials outside Sen. Leland Yee's Sacramento office Wednesday. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:45 a.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>KQED's Scott Detrow reports that the s\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/state-senate-suspends-leland-yee-ron-calderon-roderick-wright/\">tate Senate has voted 28-1\u003c/a> to suspend Democratic Sens. Leland Yee, Ron Calderon and Roderick Wright, due to a variety of criminal charges. Yee's attorney, Paul F. DeMeester, issued a statement that said, \"Suspension is the right step for now, and is appropriate in a system that presumes the innocence of the accused.\"\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 a.m. Friday: \u003c/strong>Eighteen of 26 defendants named in a federal criminal complaint, which includes allegations of corruption and weapons trafficking against state Sen. Leland Yee, will appear in federal court this morning for detention hearings and assignment of attorneys. The defendants scheduled to appear this morning include former San Francisco school board president Keith Jackson, implicated in a murder-for-hire scheme, and Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow, the purported leader of a San Francisco gang whose organization was infiltrated by the FBI. Yee is not scheduled to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>----\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI raids are on their way to becoming a state Capitol ritual. On Wednesday morning, FBI agents carted boxes of documents out of state Sen. Leland Yee’s offices. Hours later, the San Francisco Democrat sat in federal court, hearing the seven corruption and weapons-trafficking charges he faces. (C\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/a-reporters-guide-to-affidavit-on-leland-yee/\">lick here to read\u003c/a> an annotated copy of the federal charges.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, federal prosecutors announced charges against Sen. Ron Calderon, a Democrat from the Los Angeles area. The FBI raided his office last June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When public officials choose to callously betray the trust of the people they serve, and selfishly line their pockets, then it’s up to us to take the steps responsible to make sure we hold these individuals accountable,” said U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte when he announced Calderon’s indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And federal agents have certainly been taking a lot of those steps lately. The two cases feature numerous agents going undercover, posing as shady businessmen and movie producers and bribing lawmakers for official favors. Yee allegedly delivered Senate proclamations, set up meetings with other legislators and made calls to state agencies on behalf of the undercover agents — in addition to allegedly participating in a scheme to help an undercover agent buy weapons. 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threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$25,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1/15/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Payment to Calderon-tied nonprofit\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>15 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon hires undercover agent\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,900\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1/15/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon campaign contribution\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>75 (affad.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Calderon hires undercover agent\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>2/2/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit threshold\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>$3,000\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3/2/2013\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Ghost job paycheck for Calderon's daughter\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>10 (indict.)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Lowering film tax credit 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operations can generate criticism — that the FBI is setting lawmakers up or even wasting taxpayer dollars. Former agent James Wedick said Thursday he disagrees with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without those operations you’re not going to find out that you’ve got corrupt individuals doing bad things — stealing money from the public,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedick ran \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-11/magazine/tm-24021_1_undercover-agent\" target=\"_blank\">the “Shrimp Scam” investigation\u003c/a> in the 1980s. FBI agents bribed state lawmakers into carving out tax breaks for their phony shrimp company and creating legislation that actually made it to Gov. George Deukmejian’s desk. “At that time we needed to inform him that the two measures were bogus and it was an FBI operation,” Wedick recalled. “He … could not believe it.” Deukmejian vetoed both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>False fronts and FBI-initiated bribes are necessary, Wedick argues, because there’s typically little or no evidence when actual bribes take place. “The conversations, if there are conversations about payments of monies, are usually one-on-one. And so without the kind of evidence where a conversation is heard, it’s one person’s word against another’s,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as for scrutiny, he says these public corruption investigations don’t move forward without scores of meetings with higher-ups at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. The stakes are high — the agents are tinkering with public policy and can ruin careers even if they never bring any charges. On top of that, Wedick says the bureau is mindful that legislative sting operations boil down to “one branch of government, the executive branch, messing with, as you say, another branch of government. The executive branch naturally does not want to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee’s arrest came on the same day the FBI raided a New York legislator’s office and arrested the mayor of Charlotte, N.C. Wedick says the agency may be giving more attention to corruption issues, after a decade focused on terrorism threats. Stanford Law School Professor Robert Weisberg agrees. “It may well be that the FBI now feels it needs to get back to more of its conventional law enforcement, and can do so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg adds the FBI may have other motivations in going after lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something attractive, and I don’t mean this in any critical way, about political corruption cases,” he said. “They get great visibility. 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Calderon allegedly pushed to lower a film tax credit threshold he thought would help an agent posing as an independent film producer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day agents raided Calderon's office, Yee warned an associate to “be really, real careful. Got to double check, triple check everything.” Unfortunately for Yee, federal agents were listening in on that conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to court documents, the FBI spent nearly $70,000 bribing Yee. And the FBI says it delivered nearly $90,000 to Calderon. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/F180097365.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/F180097365-640x453.jpg\" alt=\"California's Department of Public Health has been under scrutiny for overlooking obvious cases of abuse at the state's five developmental centers. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"453\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130703\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California's Department of Public Health has been under scrutiny for overlooking obvious cases of abuse at the state's five developmental centers. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Rachael Bale\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is known in public records as Client 98, a disabled woman living at the Lanterman Developmental Center, a state-run board-and-care facility in Los Angeles County that houses roughly 100 men and women with disorders such as cerebral palsy and severe autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the morning of Nov. 6, 2012, an aide was helping Client 98 from the shower to the bed when the aide noticed drops of blood on the floor. A health services specialist found that the woman had a tear in her genital area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An on-site physician examined Client 98, whose age was not included in public records, and concluded that someone might have sexually assaulted her. She was taken to the hospital for a full examination. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was some type of blunt force trauma, but I cannot tell what,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p121/a150083\">said a nurse\u003c/a> who examined her, according to public records. The nurse confirmed an assault had occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unsolved case of Client 98 was in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/LnC/Pages/DevelopmentalCenterActions.aspx\">reports\u003c/a> by the California Department of Public Health documenting life inside Lanterman Developmental Center and another state board-and-care facility, the Fairview Developmental Center in Orange County. Totaling more than 500 pages, these reports offer a dispiriting glimpse into alleged violence and other misconduct harming severely developmentally disabled residents in these two facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The facility’s emergency notification system went off: code blue -- patient in need of resuscitation.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The violations include suspicious deaths, poor treatment and improper supervision. Inspectors visiting Lanterman in September, for example, recorded incidents of staff giving \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p86/a9\">unnecessary drugs\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p93/a5\">providing incontinence care in view of others\u003c/a> and inadequately supervising residents, during which times one person \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p111/a8\">assaulted another with a wooden stick\u003c/a> and another was suspected of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p109/a7\">ingesting foreign objects\u003c/a>, among other incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state inspectors, who complete the compliance surveys on behalf of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, focused on about 30 residents at the facilities, which together house more than 400 residents. Although the reports are public, the names and other identifying information about patients were kept confidential for privacy reasons. The surveys occur no more than 15.9 months apart, according to federal guidelines. On average, they occur 12 months apart, according to a state Department of Public Health spokesman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Department of Public Health, which inspects the state’s five developmental centers, and the state Department of Developmental Services, which runs them, have been under intense scrutiny for overlooking obvious cases of abuse at the facilities, which collectively house more than 1,300 men and women. A \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/broken-shield\">series of reports\u003c/a> from The Center for Investigative Reporting found the developmental centers’ on-site police force, the Office of Protective Services, has failed to conduct thorough investigations into claims of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that they're finding all of these problems at all of these facilities now really suggests they have not been doing thorough survey investigations over a number of years at these facilities,” said Leslie Morrison, director of the investigations unit at Disability Rights California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, a spokesman for the health department said all surveys are conducted according to a process laid out by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. “Each survey is dynamic, and findings from surveys stand independently,” Corey Egel said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since December 2012, federal regulators have penalized all four of California's large developmental centers, located in Sonoma, Orange, Los Angeles and Tulare counties. A fifth, smaller developmental center in Riverside County was found to have compliance violations in 2012, but it faced no state or federal penalties. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the health department began removing Medicaid funding for Fairview, Lanterman and the Porterville Developmental Center in the Central Valley for failing the compliance surveys, but recent agreements between the Department of Developmental Services and the California Department of Public Health to improve conditions halted the decertification process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Lungren, a spokeswoman for the Department of Developmental Services, said in a written statement that the facilities “responded to each incident noted and developed plans of correction immediately to provide the necessary care and services, and to address any system issues.” In addition, Lungren said independent reviewers are expected to start visiting the facilities in April to “examine the root cause of the deficiencies” and offer an improvement plan. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Client 12 'refused to move her legs' for two days. It turned out that she had a broken neck.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The state has eight enforcement actions pending against Lanterman and Fairview, but neither facility paid any fines in 2013. And after agreeing to the plans of correction, neither faced sanctions for failing the surveys. Had the Medicare decertification actions for Lanterman, Fairview and Porterville gone through, California taxpayers would have been on the hook for about $4.1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Client 98, the investigation was handed over the day after the assault to the California Highway Patrol, which has jurisdiction over potentially criminal cases that occur at Lanterman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CHP investigator interviewed all four staff members who had contact with the client the night of the incident. But after DNA tests returned negative, the highway patrol concluded the investigation nine months after the assault occurred. The primary suspect, an aide who was in charge of the shift on the night the client was injured, died of an unspecified medical condition during the course of the investigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors also found little evidence that the Office of Protective Services had followed up with its own internal investigation as required. It was unclear whether it had tracked down other clients with whom the suspected aide had contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The OPS Commander was unable to provide a clear and concise answer, stating that it might have been documented in the report,” the inspectors \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p149/a4\">wrote\u003c/a>. The commander \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p148/a3\">suggested\u003c/a> at one point that the injury could have been a result of a loose arm on a chair, according to the compliance survey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to failing to protect a client from sexual assault, Lanterman was \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p58/a150079\">cited\u003c/a> for neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 4:30 p.m. Jan. 5, 2013 – about two months after the suspected sexual assault – another Lanterman resident, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p58/a4\">Client 97\u003c/a>, lay down for a nap. The afternoon nap was out of character, but the aide assigned to monitor this resident at all times nonetheless left the room after a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 minutes later, the facility’s emergency notification system went off: code blue – patient in need of resuscitation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aide returned to the room and began CPR. More staff arrived to help. Paramedics came soon after. But by 5:15 p.m., the code was canceled. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Client 97 was dead. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coincidentally, a surveyor from the Department of Public Health was on-site that day to conduct a compliance inspection. The surveyor noticed that Client 97 was supposed to be on enhanced supervision, so the surveyor and another employee went to check on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found Client 97 in his bed, laying on his side,” the surveyor \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p59/a150080\">wrote\u003c/a> in the inspection report. He had no pulse. “I called a code and 911.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight months later, the health department found that this incident – and several others relating to lack of supervision – put the Lanterman Developmental Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p58/a5\">on track\u003c/a> to lose its Medicaid funding. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors also found serious problems at the Fairview Developmental Center in Costa Mesa. In fact, they noted Fairview had accumulated more violations between surveys in May and August of 2013, ranging from \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068161-fairview-developmental-center-survey-2-of-3.html#document/p6/a2\">verbal abuse\u003c/a> to restricting \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p38/a3\">access to the telephone\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p39/a4\">recreational activities\u003c/a> to not being alert about \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068161-fairview-developmental-center-survey-2-of-3.html#document/p8/a150147\">unexplained injuries\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one illustrative case, Client 12 “refused to move her legs” for two days. It turned out that she had a broken neck and needed surgery. Doctors also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p96/a9\">found\u003c/a> a broken rib, a bruise on her neck and a blood clot under her scalp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surgery was the culmination of about a month of unexplained bruises and a hard fall after a seizure. It is unclear or unknown exactly what caused the neck fracture, but inspectors noted her \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p91/a150138\">worn-out\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p92/a150139\">cracked\u003c/a> helmet and heard from staff members who \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p96/a150116\">said\u003c/a> she had complained of back pain at least a week before the paralysis began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the resident first “refused to move,” several sets of X-rays failed to reveal any injuries. However, as the radiologist later \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p93/a150114\">told\u003c/a> inspectors, several vertebrae in her neck could not be scanned because of the placement of her shoulder. He recommended a CT scan, but Client 12 returned to Fairview without one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two days of being unable to move her legs, she received a CT scan. It showed her broken neck, as well as a broken right rib. Client 12 needed surgery. She is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p29/a151211\">paralyzed and requires a breathing tube\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lanterman and Fairview continue to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporter Ryan Gabrielson contributed to this story. It was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This story was produced by the independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, the country’s largest investigative reporting team. For more, visit cironline.org. Bale can be reached at rbale@cironline.org.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unsolved case of Client 98 was in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/LnC/Pages/DevelopmentalCenterActions.aspx\">reports\u003c/a> by the California Department of Public Health documenting life inside Lanterman Developmental Center and another state board-and-care facility, the Fairview Developmental Center in Orange County. Totaling more than 500 pages, these reports offer a dispiriting glimpse into alleged violence and other misconduct harming severely developmentally disabled residents in these two facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The facility’s emergency notification system went off: code blue -- patient in need of resuscitation.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The violations include suspicious deaths, poor treatment and improper supervision. Inspectors visiting Lanterman in September, for example, recorded incidents of staff giving \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p86/a9\">unnecessary drugs\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p93/a5\">providing incontinence care in view of others\u003c/a> and inadequately supervising residents, during which times one person \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p111/a8\">assaulted another with a wooden stick\u003c/a> and another was suspected of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p109/a7\">ingesting foreign objects\u003c/a>, among other incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state inspectors, who complete the compliance surveys on behalf of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, focused on about 30 residents at the facilities, which together house more than 400 residents. Although the reports are public, the names and other identifying information about patients were kept confidential for privacy reasons. The surveys occur no more than 15.9 months apart, according to federal guidelines. On average, they occur 12 months apart, according to a state Department of Public Health spokesman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Department of Public Health, which inspects the state’s five developmental centers, and the state Department of Developmental Services, which runs them, have been under intense scrutiny for overlooking obvious cases of abuse at the facilities, which collectively house more than 1,300 men and women. A \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/broken-shield\">series of reports\u003c/a> from The Center for Investigative Reporting found the developmental centers’ on-site police force, the Office of Protective Services, has failed to conduct thorough investigations into claims of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that they're finding all of these problems at all of these facilities now really suggests they have not been doing thorough survey investigations over a number of years at these facilities,” said Leslie Morrison, director of the investigations unit at Disability Rights California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, a spokesman for the health department said all surveys are conducted according to a process laid out by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. “Each survey is dynamic, and findings from surveys stand independently,” Corey Egel said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since December 2012, federal regulators have penalized all four of California's large developmental centers, located in Sonoma, Orange, Los Angeles and Tulare counties. A fifth, smaller developmental center in Riverside County was found to have compliance violations in 2012, but it faced no state or federal penalties. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the health department began removing Medicaid funding for Fairview, Lanterman and the Porterville Developmental Center in the Central Valley for failing the compliance surveys, but recent agreements between the Department of Developmental Services and the California Department of Public Health to improve conditions halted the decertification process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Lungren, a spokeswoman for the Department of Developmental Services, said in a written statement that the facilities “responded to each incident noted and developed plans of correction immediately to provide the necessary care and services, and to address any system issues.” In addition, Lungren said independent reviewers are expected to start visiting the facilities in April to “examine the root cause of the deficiencies” and offer an improvement plan. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Client 12 'refused to move her legs' for two days. It turned out that she had a broken neck.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The state has eight enforcement actions pending against Lanterman and Fairview, but neither facility paid any fines in 2013. And after agreeing to the plans of correction, neither faced sanctions for failing the surveys. Had the Medicare decertification actions for Lanterman, Fairview and Porterville gone through, California taxpayers would have been on the hook for about $4.1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Client 98, the investigation was handed over the day after the assault to the California Highway Patrol, which has jurisdiction over potentially criminal cases that occur at Lanterman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CHP investigator interviewed all four staff members who had contact with the client the night of the incident. But after DNA tests returned negative, the highway patrol concluded the investigation nine months after the assault occurred. The primary suspect, an aide who was in charge of the shift on the night the client was injured, died of an unspecified medical condition during the course of the investigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors also found little evidence that the Office of Protective Services had followed up with its own internal investigation as required. It was unclear whether it had tracked down other clients with whom the suspected aide had contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The OPS Commander was unable to provide a clear and concise answer, stating that it might have been documented in the report,” the inspectors \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p149/a4\">wrote\u003c/a>. The commander \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p148/a3\">suggested\u003c/a> at one point that the injury could have been a result of a loose arm on a chair, according to the compliance survey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to failing to protect a client from sexual assault, Lanterman was \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p58/a150079\">cited\u003c/a> for neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 4:30 p.m. Jan. 5, 2013 – about two months after the suspected sexual assault – another Lanterman resident, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p58/a4\">Client 97\u003c/a>, lay down for a nap. The afternoon nap was out of character, but the aide assigned to monitor this resident at all times nonetheless left the room after a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 minutes later, the facility’s emergency notification system went off: code blue – patient in need of resuscitation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aide returned to the room and began CPR. More staff arrived to help. Paramedics came soon after. But by 5:15 p.m., the code was canceled. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Client 97 was dead. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coincidentally, a surveyor from the Department of Public Health was on-site that day to conduct a compliance inspection. The surveyor noticed that Client 97 was supposed to be on enhanced supervision, so the surveyor and another employee went to check on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found Client 97 in his bed, laying on his side,” the surveyor \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p59/a150080\">wrote\u003c/a> in the inspection report. He had no pulse. “I called a code and 911.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight months later, the health department found that this incident – and several others relating to lack of supervision – put the Lanterman Developmental Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p58/a5\">on track\u003c/a> to lose its Medicaid funding. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors also found serious problems at the Fairview Developmental Center in Costa Mesa. In fact, they noted Fairview had accumulated more violations between surveys in May and August of 2013, ranging from \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068161-fairview-developmental-center-survey-2-of-3.html#document/p6/a2\">verbal abuse\u003c/a> to restricting \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p38/a3\">access to the telephone\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p39/a4\">recreational activities\u003c/a> to not being alert about \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068161-fairview-developmental-center-survey-2-of-3.html#document/p8/a150147\">unexplained injuries\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one illustrative case, Client 12 “refused to move her legs” for two days. It turned out that she had a broken neck and needed surgery. Doctors also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p96/a9\">found\u003c/a> a broken rib, a bruise on her neck and a blood clot under her scalp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surgery was the culmination of about a month of unexplained bruises and a hard fall after a seizure. It is unclear or unknown exactly what caused the neck fracture, but inspectors noted her \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p91/a150138\">worn-out\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p92/a150139\">cracked\u003c/a> helmet and heard from staff members who \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p96/a150116\">said\u003c/a> she had complained of back pain at least a week before the paralysis began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the resident first “refused to move,” several sets of X-rays failed to reveal any injuries. However, as the radiologist later \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p93/a150114\">told\u003c/a> inspectors, several vertebrae in her neck could not be scanned because of the placement of her shoulder. He recommended a CT scan, but Client 12 returned to Fairview without one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two days of being unable to move her legs, she received a CT scan. It showed her broken neck, as well as a broken right rib. Client 12 needed surgery. She is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p29/a151211\">paralyzed and requires a breathing tube\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lanterman and Fairview continue to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporter Ryan Gabrielson contributed to this story. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130508\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LelandYee640.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Leland Yee (Adithya Sambamurthy/ The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Leland Yee (Adithya Sambamurthy/ The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Dan Brekke and David Marks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:15 p.m. Thursday (AP\u003c/strong>): Gun-control groups said Thursday they were trying to find a new legislative leader to champion firearms restrictions after one of their most outspoken supporters was charged in a federal gun-trafficking case. People on both sides of the gun control issue said the charges against state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, may slow consideration of gun legislation this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ironically, while he's being charged with gun trafficking, next to (U.S. Sen.) Dianne Feinstein he was probably the second most outspoken gun control advocate. This really leaves us scrambling for someone to pick up that mantle,'' said Paul Song, executive chairman of CourageCampaign.org. \"If it wasn't so sad it would be comical. But what we're really worried about is that this will further destroy the momentum for gun control here in California.''\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:30 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>U.S.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) released the following statement on California State Senator Leland Yee:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>The allegations against Senator Yee are shocking. It has become clear he has lost the confidence of his colleagues and for the good of his constituents should step down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:00 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today released the following statement on the indictment of California State Senator Leland Yee on public corruption and other charges:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree with State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg that Leland Yee should immediately step down. If these allegations are true, they are beyond outrageous. I support the Justice Department’s crackdown on corruption, which sends an unequivocal message that there is absolutely no place in public life for criminals who violate the public trust and demean public service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:10 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Sen. Leland Yee's defense attorney, Paul DeMeester, announced at a press conference in San Francisco that Yee has \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1098056-leland-yee-letter-of-withdrawal-from-california.html\" target=\"_blank\">withdrawn from the Democratic race for Secretary of State\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after he was charged with five counts related to alleged influence peddling and one count of arms trafficking, Yee notified the outgoing Secretary of State Debra Bowen that he was quitting the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMeester declined to discuss whether Yee intends to comply with a resignation demand from state Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee is due back in court at 9:30 a.m. Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:00 pm Wednesday: \u003c/strong>California state Sen. Leland Yee was formally charged in federal court in San Francisco Wednesday with six counts of depriving the public of honest services and one count of conspiracy to traffic in guns without a license. Each of the six counts of depriving the public of honest services carries a potential 20-year prison term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Peter Jon Shuler reports that Yee has been released on a $500,000 unsecured bond after being forced to give up his passport and ordered not to leave California. Yee is next expected in court for a 9:30 am hearing on Monday, March 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:00 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>: State Senate leader Darrell Steinberg \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-steinberg-yee-resign-20140326,0,3217104.story#ixzz2x7SgavTz\">called\u003c/a> for Sen. Leland Yee to resign from the Senate or face swift suspension by his colleagues, after the San Francisco senator was indicted on arms trafficking and public corruption charges\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3:20 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>KQED reporter Peter Jon Shuler is in the courtroom for today's arraignment proceedings. He says state Sen. Leland Yee has yet to be charged, but that of the 12 defendants charged so far, five have been released on bail. Suspected Chinatown gang leader Raymond Chow has been charged -- but the presiding judge has ordered him detained at least until a bail hearing scheduled for April 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/141618001&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/214735483/FBI-s-Criminal-Complaint-Against-Laland-Yee\">affidavit of FBI Special Agent Emmanuel Pascua has been unsealed\u003c/a> in support of a criminal complaint against Yee, Chow, San Francisco political consultant \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/130537/keith-jackson-among-laland-yees-top-political-contributors/\">Keith Jackson\u003c/a> and 23 others. Among other things, the affidavit alleges that Yee was involved in a conspiracy to \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/usao/can/news/2014/2014_03_26_ckt.charged.press.html\">traffic firearms\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/130537/keith-jackson-among-laland-yees-top-political-contributors/\">Jackson\u003c/a>. The legislator is known as a strong advocate of gun control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Sacramento Bureau Chief \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scottdetrow\">Scott Detrow has been poring over\u003c/a> the 137-page affidavit in which Jackson and Yee are reported to have agreed to introduce an undercover federal agent to a weapons dealer in exchange for cash. The affidavit also alleges Yee took payments in exchange for helping another undercover agent with proposed legislation to legalize marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:45 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>The Associated Press reports the FBI has confirmed state Sen. Leland Yee's arrest:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI spokesman Peter Lee said State Sen. Leland Yee was arrested Wednesday morning. He declined to discuss the charges, citing an ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"35ee411999e813a3a418286999d06d03\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said a second man, Raymond Chow, was also arrested. Chow was reportedly the head of Ghee Kung Tong, one of several fraternal organizations in San Francisco's Chinatown. Chow had returned to Chinatown after serving time in prison on gun charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle, citing unnamed sources, reports \"the predawn, multiagency raids involving hundreds of federal agents and local cops stemmed from a fatal shooting about five years ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials have told KQED that Yee, Chow and others will be arraigned in San Francisco federal court at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 9:12 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> State Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco, a veteran legislator known for his fight against violent video games and for championing the cause of domestic violence victims, has reportedly been indicted and arrested on charges of public corruption in a case that may involve Chinatown gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee's arrest and an apparently associated series of raids were reported early Wednesday by KNTV-NBC Bay Area, San Francisco's ABC7, Oakland's KTVU-Channel 2 and others. Federal agents reportedly are carrying out sweeps of Yee's offices and other locations with the aid of local and state law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, trained as a child psychologist, is a longtime San Francisco official who has served on the city's school board, Board of Supervisors and in the state Assembly and Senate. He is running for secretary of state this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130511\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/YeeOffice300.jpg\" alt=\"A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials stand outside Sen. Leland Yee’s Sacramento office Wednesday. \" width=\"300\" height=\"244\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials stand outside Sen. Leland Yee’s Sacramento office Wednesday. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Calls by KQED News on Wednesday morning to confirm the reports, including to the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Northern California and three of Yee's offices, have not yet been answered. The San Francisco police did not confirm that an operation was underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pictures posted online by both NBC Bay Area and KPIX-Channel 5 showed Yee being led from his home in handcuffs and driven away. ABC7 and KTVU report that Yee was taken to San Francisco's Federal Building. KQED's Scott Detrow visited Yee's Sacramento office and found police and other officials stationed in the hallway outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/California-State-Senator-Leland-Yee-Arrested-on-Bribery-And-Corruption-Charges-252452181.html\" target=\"_blank\">KNTV's initial online four-paragraph report\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Senator Leland Yee has been arrested on bribery and corruption charges as part of several arrests made by the FBI Wednesday morning during a sting, sources have told NBC Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee represents District 8, which comprises of a large portion of east central California. Before redistricting in 2011, Yee represented District 8 in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Sources told NBC Bay Area that the FBI investigation dates back years. NBC Bay Area has learned that the FBI is making a number of arrests connected to the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_francisco&id=9480515\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Lee reports\u003c/a> Yee's arrest is connected to a law enforcement sweep targeting gangs — though it offers no details of what the connection might be:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of search warrants are being executed by the FBI across the Bay Area this morning. ABC7 News has learned they are making numerous arrests in a widespread sweep involving suspected gang members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the searches is taking place at the San Francisco Chinatown office of the Ghee Kung Tong Free Masons. It is linked to the arrest this morning of Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcra.com/news/fbi-conducting-multiple-raids-in-norcal/25172542\" target=\"_blank\">KCRA-Channel 3 shows law enforcement agents outside Yee's Sacramento office and says\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... FBI agents were raiding Yee's office at the state Capitol, taking computers and other documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI confirmed that it conducted raids at homes and businesses in the Bay Area and Sacramento Wednesday morning, where multiple search warrants were issued and arrests were made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Highway Patrol officers and the Sergeant at Arms are currently stationed outside Yee's office at the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Reporter's Guide: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/a-reporters-guide-to-affidavit-on-leland-yee/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Detrow's take on the FBI Affidavit on State Sen. Leland Yee\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Video from KPIX:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/9987085-who-is-raymond-chow-kpix-5-report-from-2006/\" target=\"_blank\">2006 profile of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>'Enter the Dragon Head': \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-08-01/news/enter-the-dragon-head/\" target=\"_blank\">SFWeekly's 2007 profile of Raymond Chow\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Audio from KQED's 'Forum': \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"#soundcloud\">Scott Detrow on Leland Yee's arrest\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee is running for Secretary of State, one of a half-dozen Democrats competing in the race. During a candidates' forum in Southern California earlier this month, Yee talked about the challenges of succeeding as an immigrant and focused on voter legislation he's gotten passed. One bill, enacted last year, makes it possible for voters to \u003ca href=\"http://sd08.senate.ca.gov/news/2013-09-19-yee-celebrates-online-voter-registration-day\" target=\"_blank\">register online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Los Angeles Times, Yee told the forum voters should judge the Secretary of State candidates on their records. \"That's the best assessment you can make,\" Yee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sd08.senate.ca.gov/biography\" target=\"_blank\">Yee's Senate biography \u003c/a>lists scores of bills he's passed on subjects ranging from plug-in hybrid vehicles to mental health to domestic violence. He won national recognition for his campaign to ban the sale or rental of violent videogame to those under 18 years old. One of Yee's bills was enacted but overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court as a violation of First Amendment free-speech rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the Associated Press summary of some of Lee's legislative highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, 65, is best known publicly for his efforts to strengthen open records, government transparency and whistleblower protection laws, including legislation to close a loophole in state public records laws after the CSU Stanislaus Foundation refused to release its $75,000 speaking contract with former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his efforts to uphold the California Public Records Act, Yee was honored last week by the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, which awarded him its public official citation for his efforts last year to maintain the requirements of the California Public Records Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee has at times clashed with fellow Democrats for casting votes of conscience, refusing to support the Democratic budget proposal in 2011 because of its deep cuts to education, social services and education. He also opposed legislation by a fellow Democrat, Assemblyman Paul Fong of Cupertino, that banned the sale of shark fins used for Chinese shark fin soup, saying that it unfairly targeted the Chinese-American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Leland-Yee-reportedly-arrested-in-corruption-case-5350602.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle notes\u003c/a> that Wednesday's arrest is not Yee's first encounter with the law:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn't Yee's first brush with the law. In 2000, Yee was arrested in Hawaii on suspicion of boosting an $8.09 bottle of suntan oil by putting it in the front of his shorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year earlier, Lee was pulled over twice by San Francisco police officer who suspected him of cruising the Mission District in search of prostitutes. In both cases, police questioned Yee at the scene of the stops on South Van Ness Avenue and let him go on his way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, who championed putting a lid on massage parlors around the city, confirmed the stops, but said that in both cases he was the victim of mistaken identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee is the third Democratic member of the state Senate currently facing serious legal trouble. Sen. Rod Wright of Los Angeles is on leave \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-sen-wright-is-frustrated-by-conviction-defends-accepting-pay-on-leave-20140303,0,7487106.story#axzz2x5aX6Heb\" target=\"_blank\">as he appeals felony convictions\u003c/a> for perjury and voter fraud. Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:00 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today released the following statement on the indictment of California State Senator Leland Yee on public corruption and other charges:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree with State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg that Leland Yee should immediately step down. If these allegations are true, they are beyond outrageous. I support the Justice Department’s crackdown on corruption, which sends an unequivocal message that there is absolutely no place in public life for criminals who violate the public trust and demean public service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:10 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Sen. Leland Yee's defense attorney, Paul DeMeester, announced at a press conference in San Francisco that Yee has \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1098056-leland-yee-letter-of-withdrawal-from-california.html\" target=\"_blank\">withdrawn from the Democratic race for Secretary of State\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after he was charged with five counts related to alleged influence peddling and one count of arms trafficking, Yee notified the outgoing Secretary of State Debra Bowen that he was quitting the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMeester declined to discuss whether Yee intends to comply with a resignation demand from state Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee is due back in court at 9:30 a.m. Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:00 pm Wednesday: \u003c/strong>California state Sen. Leland Yee was formally charged in federal court in San Francisco Wednesday with six counts of depriving the public of honest services and one count of conspiracy to traffic in guns without a license. Each of the six counts of depriving the public of honest services carries a potential 20-year prison term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Peter Jon Shuler reports that Yee has been released on a $500,000 unsecured bond after being forced to give up his passport and ordered not to leave California. Yee is next expected in court for a 9:30 am hearing on Monday, March 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:00 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>: State Senate leader Darrell Steinberg \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-steinberg-yee-resign-20140326,0,3217104.story#ixzz2x7SgavTz\">called\u003c/a> for Sen. Leland Yee to resign from the Senate or face swift suspension by his colleagues, after the San Francisco senator was indicted on arms trafficking and public corruption charges\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3:20 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>KQED reporter Peter Jon Shuler is in the courtroom for today's arraignment proceedings. He says state Sen. Leland Yee has yet to be charged, but that of the 12 defendants charged so far, five have been released on bail. Suspected Chinatown gang leader Raymond Chow has been charged -- but the presiding judge has ordered him detained at least until a bail hearing scheduled for April 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/141618001&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/214735483/FBI-s-Criminal-Complaint-Against-Laland-Yee\">affidavit of FBI Special Agent Emmanuel Pascua has been unsealed\u003c/a> in support of a criminal complaint against Yee, Chow, San Francisco political consultant \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/130537/keith-jackson-among-laland-yees-top-political-contributors/\">Keith Jackson\u003c/a> and 23 others. Among other things, the affidavit alleges that Yee was involved in a conspiracy to \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/usao/can/news/2014/2014_03_26_ckt.charged.press.html\">traffic firearms\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/130537/keith-jackson-among-laland-yees-top-political-contributors/\">Jackson\u003c/a>. The legislator is known as a strong advocate of gun control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Sacramento Bureau Chief \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scottdetrow\">Scott Detrow has been poring over\u003c/a> the 137-page affidavit in which Jackson and Yee are reported to have agreed to introduce an undercover federal agent to a weapons dealer in exchange for cash. The affidavit also alleges Yee took payments in exchange for helping another undercover agent with proposed legislation to legalize marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:45 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>The Associated Press reports the FBI has confirmed state Sen. Leland Yee's arrest:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI spokesman Peter Lee said State Sen. Leland Yee was arrested Wednesday morning. He declined to discuss the charges, citing an ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said a second man, Raymond Chow, was also arrested. Chow was reportedly the head of Ghee Kung Tong, one of several fraternal organizations in San Francisco's Chinatown. Chow had returned to Chinatown after serving time in prison on gun charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle, citing unnamed sources, reports \"the predawn, multiagency raids involving hundreds of federal agents and local cops stemmed from a fatal shooting about five years ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials have told KQED that Yee, Chow and others will be arraigned in San Francisco federal court at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 9:12 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> State Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco, a veteran legislator known for his fight against violent video games and for championing the cause of domestic violence victims, has reportedly been indicted and arrested on charges of public corruption in a case that may involve Chinatown gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee's arrest and an apparently associated series of raids were reported early Wednesday by KNTV-NBC Bay Area, San Francisco's ABC7, Oakland's KTVU-Channel 2 and others. Federal agents reportedly are carrying out sweeps of Yee's offices and other locations with the aid of local and state law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, trained as a child psychologist, is a longtime San Francisco official who has served on the city's school board, Board of Supervisors and in the state Assembly and Senate. He is running for secretary of state this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130511\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/YeeOffice300.jpg\" alt=\"A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials stand outside Sen. Leland Yee’s Sacramento office Wednesday. \" width=\"300\" height=\"244\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials stand outside Sen. Leland Yee’s Sacramento office Wednesday. (Scott Detrow/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Calls by KQED News on Wednesday morning to confirm the reports, including to the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's Office for Northern California and three of Yee's offices, have not yet been answered. The San Francisco police did not confirm that an operation was underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pictures posted online by both NBC Bay Area and KPIX-Channel 5 showed Yee being led from his home in handcuffs and driven away. ABC7 and KTVU report that Yee was taken to San Francisco's Federal Building. KQED's Scott Detrow visited Yee's Sacramento office and found police and other officials stationed in the hallway outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/California-State-Senator-Leland-Yee-Arrested-on-Bribery-And-Corruption-Charges-252452181.html\" target=\"_blank\">KNTV's initial online four-paragraph report\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State Senator Leland Yee has been arrested on bribery and corruption charges as part of several arrests made by the FBI Wednesday morning during a sting, sources have told NBC Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee represents District 8, which comprises of a large portion of east central California. Before redistricting in 2011, Yee represented District 8 in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Sources told NBC Bay Area that the FBI investigation dates back years. NBC Bay Area has learned that the FBI is making a number of arrests connected to the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_francisco&id=9480515\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Lee reports\u003c/a> Yee's arrest is connected to a law enforcement sweep targeting gangs — though it offers no details of what the connection might be:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A series of search warrants are being executed by the FBI across the Bay Area this morning. ABC7 News has learned they are making numerous arrests in a widespread sweep involving suspected gang members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the searches is taking place at the San Francisco Chinatown office of the Ghee Kung Tong Free Masons. It is linked to the arrest this morning of Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kcra.com/news/fbi-conducting-multiple-raids-in-norcal/25172542\" target=\"_blank\">KCRA-Channel 3 shows law enforcement agents outside Yee's Sacramento office and says\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... FBI agents were raiding Yee's office at the state Capitol, taking computers and other documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI confirmed that it conducted raids at homes and businesses in the Bay Area and Sacramento Wednesday morning, where multiple search warrants were issued and arrests were made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Highway Patrol officers and the Sergeant at Arms are currently stationed outside Yee's office at the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Reporter's Guide: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/a-reporters-guide-to-affidavit-on-leland-yee/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Detrow's take on the FBI Affidavit on State Sen. Leland Yee\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Video from KPIX:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/9987085-who-is-raymond-chow-kpix-5-report-from-2006/\" target=\"_blank\">2006 profile of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>'Enter the Dragon Head': \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-08-01/news/enter-the-dragon-head/\" target=\"_blank\">SFWeekly's 2007 profile of Raymond Chow\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Audio from KQED's 'Forum': \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"#soundcloud\">Scott Detrow on Leland Yee's arrest\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee is running for Secretary of State, one of a half-dozen Democrats competing in the race. During a candidates' forum in Southern California earlier this month, Yee talked about the challenges of succeeding as an immigrant and focused on voter legislation he's gotten passed. One bill, enacted last year, makes it possible for voters to \u003ca href=\"http://sd08.senate.ca.gov/news/2013-09-19-yee-celebrates-online-voter-registration-day\" target=\"_blank\">register online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Los Angeles Times, Yee told the forum voters should judge the Secretary of State candidates on their records. \"That's the best assessment you can make,\" Yee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sd08.senate.ca.gov/biography\" target=\"_blank\">Yee's Senate biography \u003c/a>lists scores of bills he's passed on subjects ranging from plug-in hybrid vehicles to mental health to domestic violence. He won national recognition for his campaign to ban the sale or rental of violent videogame to those under 18 years old. One of Yee's bills was enacted but overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court as a violation of First Amendment free-speech rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the Associated Press summary of some of Lee's legislative highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, 65, is best known publicly for his efforts to strengthen open records, government transparency and whistleblower protection laws, including legislation to close a loophole in state public records laws after the CSU Stanislaus Foundation refused to release its $75,000 speaking contract with former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his efforts to uphold the California Public Records Act, Yee was honored last week by the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, which awarded him its public official citation for his efforts last year to maintain the requirements of the California Public Records Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee has at times clashed with fellow Democrats for casting votes of conscience, refusing to support the Democratic budget proposal in 2011 because of its deep cuts to education, social services and education. He also opposed legislation by a fellow Democrat, Assemblyman Paul Fong of Cupertino, that banned the sale of shark fins used for Chinese shark fin soup, saying that it unfairly targeted the Chinese-American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Leland-Yee-reportedly-arrested-in-corruption-case-5350602.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle notes\u003c/a> that Wednesday's arrest is not Yee's first encounter with the law:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn't Yee's first brush with the law. In 2000, Yee was arrested in Hawaii on suspicion of boosting an $8.09 bottle of suntan oil by putting it in the front of his shorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year earlier, Lee was pulled over twice by San Francisco police officer who suspected him of cruising the Mission District in search of prostitutes. 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