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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/04/131648/vallejo-police-killing-mystery/j-moore-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131828\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-131828\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/J-Moore-2-640x362.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremiah Moore. (Courtesy, Eugene and Lisa Moore)\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Moore. (Courtesy, Eugene and Lisa Moore)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Official documents trickling into public view present conflicting versions of the fatal Vallejo police shooting in 2012 that left 29-year-old Jeremiah Moore dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solano County District Attorney's Office \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/21/da-vallejo-officer-involved-shooting-lawful-jeremiah-moore/\" target=\"_blank\">completed its review\u003c/a> of the shooting earlier this month, concluding: \"The input of the officers, as well as civilian witness accounts, together with the crime reports and the dispatch records, clearly indicate that the officer was legally justified in the use of deadly force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/vallejo-police-officer-named-in-three-fatal-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">third fatal shooting\u003c/a> by Vallejo police Officer Sean Kenney over about a five-month period in 2012. The district attorney has now found that two of those shootings were lawful. The third case remains under review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criminal justice experts say the district attorney's findings are not a surprise. They note that prosecutions for on-duty shootings by police are rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those prosecutors rely on law enforcement to make their cases,\" said Jim Fisher, a former FBI agent and criminal justice professor emeritus at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. \"They can’t antagonize them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/235101230/Jeremiah-Moore-Coroner-Report\" target=\"_blank\">Read the coroner's report:\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=235101230 key=key-osMSc6WASeXc0F2AbIAy mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/235101559/Solano-County-District-Attorney-Summary-Investigation-Jeremiah-Moore\" target=\"_blank\">Solano County District Attorney Summary Investigation\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n• \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/235101844/Vallejo-Police-Press-Release-Officer-Involved-Shooting-Jeremiah-Moore-2500-Block-of-Alameda-Dr-10-21-2012\" target=\"_blank\">Initial Vallejo Police Dept. 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Despite the July 8 completion of the district attorney's review, Vallejo police did not release the coroner's report on Jeremiah Moore until July 22, after KQED inquiries to both the Solano County coroner and the Vallejo Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department spokesman Sgt. James O'Connell declined to say why the release of the coroner's report was delayed for two weeks. He said he could not answer questions raised by the district attorney's summary because the case is the subject of ongoing litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland civil rights attorney Michael Haddad is representing Moore's parents in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-filed-in-vallejo-police-killing-of-jeremiah-moore\" target=\"_blank\">wrongful death lawsuit\u003c/a> against Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The elected DA won’t bring criminal charges in a very suspicious shooting, but Jeremiah Moore’s parents are acting as private attorneys general on behalf of themselves and the public to make sure that justice is done,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner's report and autopsy raise a number of questions, perhaps the most glaring of which is the type of gun Jeremiah Moore was alleged to have pointed at an officer as Vallejo police approached his home at 2504 Alameda St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police were responding to multiple calls from neighbors about a disturbance on the generally quiet street. It's undisputed that Moore and his partner, Jason Jessie, were acting strangely, running naked around their home and smashing car windows. Neighbor Marvin Clouse, who videotaped much of the incident, ran into his adjacent house to call 911 when he heard the men discussing setting their home on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to see much in Clouse's darkened video, which he provided to KQED, especially after police arrived and he was pushed back across the street. But he captured audio of the shooting, including an initial barrage of about 13 shots followed several seconds later by two more shots. Moore died of two gunshot wounds to the front of his torso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the sounds of the shooting below. This audio is graphic. KQED has made no internal edits to this sound clip.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143585887\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inconsistent Police Versions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=31056\" target=\"_blank\">statement released the day of the shooting\u003c/a>, police said a naked Moore had \"placed the barrel of a rifle directly against an officer's stomach\" as police approached the open doorway of the house, after they had commanded Jessie to get on the ground and show his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Another officer saw this and fearing for his life and the life of his fellow officer, immediately discharged his firearm at the man with the rifle,\" the release says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But about the same time that release was being drafted, sometime after 7:53 a.m. on Oct. 21, 2012, Vallejo Police Department evidence technician Stephanie Boursaw was telling the coroner that Moore had pointed a handgun at officers, not a rifle. No handgun was recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obviously there was some great un-clarity among the Police Department after the shooting on issues that should have been really clear if they were true,\" Haddad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A witness who lived across the street, Jaime Alvarado, told KQED that Moore was naked and unarmed when he was shot from several feet away by an officer standing at the base of stairs leading to the home's porch. Trajectory analysis of the two bullet wounds in Moore's torso show the rounds were traveling upward, which is consistent with Alvarado's account of events. Alvarado said he also watched police retrieve a long-barrel rifle from inside the house long after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado said he saw \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/04/131648/vallejo-police-killing-mystery\" target=\"_blank\">Moore's hands flailing in the air right before he was shot\u003c/a>, a movement Moore's parents said could be attributed to their son's autism spectrum disorder. Lisa Moore said her son would often wave his hands when he was nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> If either of the final two shots Kenney fired were among the ones that struck Moore, he would have had to be on his back because his wounds were in the front of his torso. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>KQED tracked down Jason Jessie in Arizona, where he now lives. He said the shooting was traumatic and he has \"blocked out\" much of what happened that night. But he did recall owning what he described as \"a .22 rifle from the '20s.\" It was an antique, he said, that he collected as part of his eBay buying and selling business. The Police Department's initial statement says detectives recovered a round that was chambered in the rifle, but that detail is not repeated in the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent forensic pathologist consulted by KQED on background said the upward trajectory is possible in both Alvarado's scenario and the very different one outlined in the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the DA's summary:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Sgt. Clark announced the presence of the police and asked the occupants of the residence to 'come out' or words to that effect. Officer Kenney was positioned to the side and was covering Sgt. Clark who was at the door of the residence. Officer Kenney saw a white male who was completely naked walking quickly towards Sgt. Clark. The officers yelled commands to the naked male who was behaving erratically. The white male slowly complied with the commands and got on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once that male was on the ground, Officer Kenney reached for his handcuffs. He then saw a barrel of a rifle pointing at Sgt. Clark. Officer Kenney drew his weapon and stepped back but he could not see the person who was actually holding the rifle. He yelled commands and fired several shots where he believed the subject with the rifle would be standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Kenney requested that Sgt. Clark step back from the door area. At this point, it was unclear whether Sgt. Clark had been shot. Officer Kenney saw that there was a second white male lying on the ground. Officers gave commands for the subjects on the ground to show their hands. The first white male complied; however, the second male was seen reaching for the rifle. The second male did not comply with the commands that Officer Kenney was giving, so Officer Kenney fired his weapon two more times.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If either of the final two shots Kenney fired were among the ones that struck Moore, he would have had to be on his back because his wounds were in the front of his torso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medical examiner found \"no evidence of close range discharge of a firearm\" on Moore, suggesting he was shot from several feet away. Two toxicology screenings of Moore's blood turned up marijuana in his system, contrary to police statements quoted in news reports shortly after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s notable that toxicology came back and he did not have bath salts or other drugs that the police were rampantly speculating about,\" Haddad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some details of the shooting remain obscure, including any forensic analysis presumably conducted on the rifle to check for Moore's fingerprints. 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He said he could not answer questions raised by the district attorney's summary because the case is the subject of ongoing litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland civil rights attorney Michael Haddad is representing Moore's parents in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/federal-civil-rights-lawsuit-filed-in-vallejo-police-killing-of-jeremiah-moore\" target=\"_blank\">wrongful death lawsuit\u003c/a> against Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The elected DA won’t bring criminal charges in a very suspicious shooting, but Jeremiah Moore’s parents are acting as private attorneys general on behalf of themselves and the public to make sure that justice is done,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner's report and autopsy raise a number of questions, perhaps the most glaring of which is the type of gun Jeremiah Moore was alleged to have pointed at an officer as Vallejo police approached his home at 2504 Alameda St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police were responding to multiple calls from neighbors about a disturbance on the generally quiet street. It's undisputed that Moore and his partner, Jason Jessie, were acting strangely, running naked around their home and smashing car windows. Neighbor Marvin Clouse, who videotaped much of the incident, ran into his adjacent house to call 911 when he heard the men discussing setting their home on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to see much in Clouse's darkened video, which he provided to KQED, especially after police arrived and he was pushed back across the street. But he captured audio of the shooting, including an initial barrage of about 13 shots followed several seconds later by two more shots. Moore died of two gunshot wounds to the front of his torso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to the sounds of the shooting below. This audio is graphic. KQED has made no internal edits to this sound clip.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='20'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143585887&visual=true&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143585887'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inconsistent Police Versions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=31056\" target=\"_blank\">statement released the day of the shooting\u003c/a>, police said a naked Moore had \"placed the barrel of a rifle directly against an officer's stomach\" as police approached the open doorway of the house, after they had commanded Jessie to get on the ground and show his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Another officer saw this and fearing for his life and the life of his fellow officer, immediately discharged his firearm at the man with the rifle,\" the release says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But about the same time that release was being drafted, sometime after 7:53 a.m. on Oct. 21, 2012, Vallejo Police Department evidence technician Stephanie Boursaw was telling the coroner that Moore had pointed a handgun at officers, not a rifle. No handgun was recovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Obviously there was some great un-clarity among the Police Department after the shooting on issues that should have been really clear if they were true,\" Haddad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A witness who lived across the street, Jaime Alvarado, told KQED that Moore was naked and unarmed when he was shot from several feet away by an officer standing at the base of stairs leading to the home's porch. Trajectory analysis of the two bullet wounds in Moore's torso show the rounds were traveling upward, which is consistent with Alvarado's account of events. Alvarado said he also watched police retrieve a long-barrel rifle from inside the house long after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado said he saw \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/04/131648/vallejo-police-killing-mystery\" target=\"_blank\">Moore's hands flailing in the air right before he was shot\u003c/a>, a movement Moore's parents said could be attributed to their son's autism spectrum disorder. Lisa Moore said her son would often wave his hands when he was nervous.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> If either of the final two shots Kenney fired were among the ones that struck Moore, he would have had to be on his back because his wounds were in the front of his torso. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>KQED tracked down Jason Jessie in Arizona, where he now lives. He said the shooting was traumatic and he has \"blocked out\" much of what happened that night. But he did recall owning what he described as \"a .22 rifle from the '20s.\" It was an antique, he said, that he collected as part of his eBay buying and selling business. The Police Department's initial statement says detectives recovered a round that was chambered in the rifle, but that detail is not repeated in the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent forensic pathologist consulted by KQED on background said the upward trajectory is possible in both Alvarado's scenario and the very different one outlined in the district attorney's summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the DA's summary:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Sgt. Clark announced the presence of the police and asked the occupants of the residence to 'come out' or words to that effect. Officer Kenney was positioned to the side and was covering Sgt. Clark who was at the door of the residence. Officer Kenney saw a white male who was completely naked walking quickly towards Sgt. Clark. The officers yelled commands to the naked male who was behaving erratically. The white male slowly complied with the commands and got on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once that male was on the ground, Officer Kenney reached for his handcuffs. He then saw a barrel of a rifle pointing at Sgt. Clark. Officer Kenney drew his weapon and stepped back but he could not see the person who was actually holding the rifle. He yelled commands and fired several shots where he believed the subject with the rifle would be standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Kenney requested that Sgt. Clark step back from the door area. At this point, it was unclear whether Sgt. Clark had been shot. Officer Kenney saw that there was a second white male lying on the ground. Officers gave commands for the subjects on the ground to show their hands. The first white male complied; however, the second male was seen reaching for the rifle. The second male did not comply with the commands that Officer Kenney was giving, so Officer Kenney fired his weapon two more times.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If either of the final two shots Kenney fired were among the ones that struck Moore, he would have had to be on his back because his wounds were in the front of his torso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medical examiner found \"no evidence of close range discharge of a firearm\" on Moore, suggesting he was shot from several feet away. Two toxicology screenings of Moore's blood turned up marijuana in his system, contrary to police statements quoted in news reports shortly after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s notable that toxicology came back and he did not have bath salts or other drugs that the police were rampantly speculating about,\" Haddad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some details of the shooting remain obscure, including any forensic analysis presumably conducted on the rifle to check for Moore's fingerprints. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LeelandYee-e1396641660590.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LeelandYee-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leland Yee. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130744\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland Yee. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A federal grand jury in San Francisco has issued a revised indictment against state Sen. Leland Yee, who was first charged in March with corruption and arms-trafficking. Among the new allegations: Yee and an accomplice attempted to extort money from an unnamed National Football League team owner in exchange for a vote on pending legislation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised indictment (\u003ca href=\"#yeeindictment\">embedded below\u003c/a>) recasts the case against the veteran legislator as a conspiracy in which he and San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson allegedly used the senator's political committees as a racketeering operation that engaged in bribery, extortion and money-laundering. The document refers to the alleged Yee-Jackson operation as \"The Campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment includes \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/reports-state-senator-leland-yee-under-arrest-for-corruption\" target=\"_blank\">the federal charges announced March 26\u003c/a>, the day Yee was arrested in connection with an FBI investigation targeting reputed Chinatown gang leader Raymond Chow. Yee pleaded not guilty to the charges, which accused him of trading favors for donations to his 2011 campaign for mayor of San Francisco and 2014 campaign for California and also alleged he had agreed to facilitate arms purchases by an undercover FBI employee. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new charges also allege that Yee and Jackson conspired to extract a payment from the owner of \"NFL Team A\" in exchange for supporting \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1309\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1309, a worker's compensation bill\u003c/a> that would benefit pro sports franchises. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised indictment says that Yee and Jackson conspired to extort a payment after an undercover FBI employee identifed as \"UCE 4180\" told them he knew the owner of the unidentified Team A. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a meeting with the undercover employee, the indictment says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yee explained that the owners of professional football had an interest in AB 1309, it was in the financial interest of AB 1309 to pass, and Yee held a key position on the Senate Committee that would considering AB 1309 because Yee controlled two votes on the committee. Yee also stated that the players on professional football teams opposed AB 1309. Yee told UCE 4180 that UCE 4180 should convey this information to the owner of NFL Team A and the owner of NFL Team A should contact Yee with an offer to help Yee. When UCE 4180 asked how much Yee's vote would cost, Yee responded, \"Oh no ... we gotta drag it out, man. We gotta juice this thing.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The indictment also alleges that Yee and Jackson privately discussed approaching other teams and players' representative to see who would pay the most for Yee's vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment also says that When UCE 4180 told Jackson that the NFL owner was willing to pay $60,000 for Yee's support for AB 1309, Jackson contacted Yee, then texted the FBI employee, \"Hey [UCE 4180], where [sic] all good on our end ... kj.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment says UCE 4180 did not pay any money to Jackson or Yee in connection with the bill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nfl-claims-20140201-dto-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">which eventually passed\u003c/a>. 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Yee said he told Individual A that Yee intended to shut down the CSAC, but Individual A should hire Jackson to lobby Yee to vote to extend the CSAC. Jackson subsquently spoke to Individual A, who said he was fearful that Yee was going to vote against extending the life of the CSAC. Jackson told Individual A that he was willing to help, but would have to be paid. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The indictment does not indicate whether Individual A or a second athletic commission supporter, Individual B, actually paid Yee or Jackson for the senators vote. 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For updates follow \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DefineAmerican\">@DefineAmerican\u003c/a> & \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MAC_UTPA\">@MAC_UTPA\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/joseiswriting/statuses/489037711878017025\">July 15, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>The only IDs I have for security: Philippine passport and my pocketbook US Constitution \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DefineAmerican\">@DefineAmerican\u003c/a> & \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MAC_UTPA\">@MAC_UTPA\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/IFH0Vb4oX7\">pic.twitter.com/IFH0Vb4oX7\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Jose Antonio Vargas (@joseiswriting) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/joseiswriting/statuses/489038192616542209\">July 15, 2014\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here is \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYJ28AZPxZE\" target=\"_blank\">Vargas talking to KQED Newsroom host Thuy Vu\u003c/a> in May...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYJ28AZPxZE&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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On his way to L.A., Harol was detained by immigration agents at a checkpoint on the Arizona-California border. But because he was still a child, authorities released him to his mother’s custody with a pledge that he appear at a deportation hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He came fearing gang violence and persecution by the gangs in Honduras,” says Harol’s Los Angeles attorney Alma Rosa Nieto. “So of course we presented that evidence in those claims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says Harol’s best option to avoid deportation was to petition for asylum. But the burden of proof is high. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, show us that you would be killed, maimed, kidnapped or disappeared for us to grant you an asylum,” explains Nieto. “And of course very few people can show that high level of evidence when you’re fleeing, and he came as a child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After losing several appeals, Harol applied for temporary residency under 2012’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. 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Children don’t know the legal process of this foreign nation, they only know that coming to the U.S. means an opportunity to live another day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inability to understand their precarious legal situation is precisely why immigration lawyers need to reach them, says Kristen Jackson, a staff attorney with Public Counsel, a nonprofit legal aid group that sued the federal government with other groups last week on behalf of young immigrant detainees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many, many cases the child is there alone, they have no lawyer to advocate for them,\" Jackson says. \"They don’t understand the immigration laws, and so that’s what our lawsuit is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/158837744&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit aims to get the government to provide undocumented minors a court-appointed attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have not recognized the children’s right to legal representation,” Jackson says. “So you have children appearing in immigration court in front of a judge and a trained attorney for the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But John Feere says the government providing legal aid to undocumented minors or adults sends the wrong message. 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(Scott Pacaldo/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tara Siler\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 1947 California became the first state to require sex offenders to register with law enforcement after being released from prison. Now there are just under 100,000 sex offenders on the state's lifetime registry -- most of whom can be found on the state's public website. But here's what a lot of people don't know: California is one of just four states requiring all sex offenders to register for the rest of their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The reality is that for most of them the offense happened years ago.' \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The state board that oversees the registry believes it's time to overhaul the registry to make it smaller and easier to spot those at high risk of reoffending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"K\" -- as he wants to be identified -- is a case in point. He was added to the registry last year when he was released from prison. In 2009, he was convicted of multiple felony charges, including lewd and lascivious conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While K claims the touching was consensual, the woman said it wasn’t. In any case, the woman was developmentally disabled and K was her caregiver.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bottom line,\" K told me, \"is I believe in law, and if I made a mistake I’ll pay for it, which I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K spent more than three years in prison. He says he had no prior criminal record, and that the state considers him a very low risk to reoffend. He's not, he says, a hard-core sexual predator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, not all of us are the same way,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Sex Offender Management Board agrees with that statement. The board wants to prioritize sex offenders on the registry, based on the type of crime committed and their risk of re-offending. Under a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cce.csus.edu/portal/admin/handouts/Tiering%20Background%20Paper%20FINAL%20FINAL%204-2-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">recent proposal\u003c/a>, some would have to register for 10 years, some for 20 and some for life. K, for example, would probably be dropped from the registry after 20 years -- when he would be in his 80s -- if he doesn't reoffend. This \"tiered system\" is already in use by many other states, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.nvsexoffenders.gov/definitions.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Nevada\u003c/a>, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/157685134&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Tobin is a clinical psychologist who works with sex offenders and is vice chair of the California Sex Offender Management Board, which oversees the registry. He supports the proposed overhaul, saying that the term \"sex offenders\" suggests that the likelihood of reoffending is always high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the reality is that, for most of them, the offense happened years ago,\" Tobin says, \"sometimes many years ago, and they have not reoffended. So to call them 'sex offenders' is not a very accurate use of language, and one I think makes us distort reality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Tobin says, 95 percent of solved sex crimes are not committed by people on the registry, and most sex offenses are perpetrated by someone the victim knows -- not a stranger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some law enforcement officials are questioning the value of the lifetime registry. Bradley McCartt is a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney with the sex crimes division. He says the current registry isn't helping keep the public safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let’s say you have a kidnapped child,\" McCartt says. \"Going to that registry has all but become meaningless because when people look at it, you basically have 98,000 people to look at, as opposed to better focus on who your suspect might be, to quickly act to try and save that child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCartt says that by creating a tiered registry, more attention and resources could be trained on monitoring high-risk offenders, and a lot less time could be taken up with less risky offenders, including young men who had consensual sex with their minor girlfriends or men who merely urinated in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Gambling with Lives'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marc Klaas argues that the tiered approach is risky. Klaas is the founder of KlaasKids Foundation, named after his daughter, Polly, who was kidnapped and murdered in 1993. He says he'll fight any major changes to the registry. \"This is a small subset that can be dealt with without a sweeping overhaul of the entire system,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klass has a strong ally in Nina Salerno with California Crime Victims United. \"I think a tiered system is gambling with lives,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Salerno and Klaas don't trust how the state says it would decide who is likely to reoffend. \"The risk assessment tools deserve a lot of scrutiny themselves,\" Klaas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cites the case of John Gardner, a registered sex offender who, while on parole, was considered a low-to-moderate risk. Then in 2010 he was convicted of raping and murdering two teenage girls near San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tom Tobin of the California Sex Offender Management Board defends the state’s risk assessment tool. He says it's similar to that used by the insurance industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are the first to admit,\" Tobin says, \"they cannot predict with perfect accuracy whether or not someone will have a future automobile accident or someone is going to die at a certain age. On the other hand, they can come very, very close.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main assessment tool used by the state spots those likely to reoffend about 75 percent of the time. That number increases when combined with other risk factors. But the margin of error has scared many lawmakers away from backing a bill to change the registry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblymember Tom Ammiano has twice tried and failed to \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB702\" target=\"_blank\">pass legislation\u003c/a> creating a tiered sex offender registry, but he hasn't had a lot of success. \"This isn’t a demographic that people feel warm and fuzzy about,\" he notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ammiano is termed out of office this year and says he doesn’t have time to try again to pass the reform. Supporters are hoping another lawmaker will step forward, but it's likely to be tough -- especially in an election year when no one wants to be seen as going easy on sex offenders.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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