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In burst a group of men and women with their guns drawn. They grabbed a surprised 19-year-old college student named Patty Hearst, beat up her fiancé, threw her in the trunk of their car and drove off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus began one of the strangest cases in FBI history.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Hearst's kidnappers, it turned out, were part of a small group of self-styled revolutionaries called the Symbionese Liberation Army. The group distinguished itself with what, from a safe distance, sounds like comically overblown rhetoric, with slogans like \"death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the group was no joke. In November 1973, members \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/FORGOTTEN-FOOTNOTE-Before-Hearst-SLA-killed-2754621.php\" target=\"_blank\">had ambushed and murdered\u003c/a> Oakland school superintendent \u003ca href=\"http://marcusfoster.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Foster\u003c/a>, the district's first African-American chief. Foster's \"crime\"? The SLA branded him \"fascist\" because it mistakenly believed he had backed a plan to require ID cards for all Oakland high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hearst kidnapping transfixed the nation as it took \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/guerrilla/timeline/timeline2.html\" target=\"_blank\">one strange, scarcely believable turn after another\u003c/a>. Shortly after Hearst's disappearance, the SLA demanded that her wealthy family distribute food to the poor. Done. In a series of taped communiques issued after the abduction, Hearst criticized her family's response and \u003ca href=\"http://youtu.be/NXnrtOvvpac\" target=\"_blank\">eventually declared\u003c/a> she had joined the revolution and that \"I would never choose to live the rest of my life surrounded by pigs like the Hearsts.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Asked her occupation when she was being booked, Hearst answered 'urban guerrilla.' \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In mid-April, Hearst surfaced, joining SLA members in \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/guerrilla/gallery/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">robbing a bank in San Francisco\u003c/a>. Hearst and her SLA comrades left San Francisco for Southern California, and on May 16, she shot up a Los Angeles sporting goods store after what was described as a bungled shoplifting attempt by two companions, Bill and Emily Harris. The next day, police tracked one SLA contingent — Hearst and the Harrises not among them — to a house in South Central Los Angeles. The resulting two-hour shootout was televised live. Police teargas canisters set the house on fire, and all six SLA members at the residence died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearst and the Harrises escaped, but all were captured 16 months later in San Francisco. Asked her occupation when she was being booked, Hearst answered \"urban guerrilla.\" She was tried and convicted of bank robbery; she served 21 months before her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter. She later \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/us/bernard-l-shaw-bodyguard-and-husband-of-patty-hearst-dies-at-68.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">married and had two daughters by Bernard Shaw\u003c/a>, a former San Francisco police officer who served as one of her bodyguards during her legal proceedings. 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(Brooke Binkowski/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 19-year-old girl has a baby face covered in pancake makeup, and her bracelets jangle when she gestures. She tells her story tonelessly and hesitantly, but she wants people to know what she went through, she says in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An old friend showed up in her life again, she says. He said he needed her help, asking her again and again. She finally agreed to help him. That's when he kidnapped her and took her to Mexico City from her native Guadalajara, keeping her in a hotel and forcing her to work as a prostitute. She was trapped for seven months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived under beatings, rapes and offenses,” she said. “I had sex with 20 to 25 men a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She means rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuria, not her real name, finally managed to escape last year with the help of a friend. She now lives in Tijuana, at a safe house for trafficked girls called La Casa del Jardin, or The Garden House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Casa del Jardin is run by Alma Tucker, 50. She calls her home “The Garden House” because she sees each young victim of human trafficking as a flower that she wants to see grow and bloom.\u003cbr>\nTucker's effort is one of only two in Mexico. It's the only one in Baja California, home of the San Ysidro-San Diego border crossing, the most crossed land border in the world. Tijuana has long had a reputation for being a playground for the shadowy underbelly of both Mexican and American society. But despite substantial increases in border security, people -- especially young women -- continue to be bought, sold and forced into labor or the sex trade. Human trafficking in both countries continues to be a very real, and growing, problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico is called a “Tier 2” country by the U.S. State Department, which means that the country is stepping up efforts to fight trafficking but lacks sufficient coordination between state and federal departments. People fall through the cracks. Then there's the issue of what to do about the victims -- sometimes they get sent home to the very people who originally sold them, and sometimes they have nowhere to go at all. Until last June, when Alma Tucker opened La Casa del Jardin, it meant that many victims simply ended up in jail or on the streets, caught up in a spiral of prostitution and often addiction and perpetuating the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucker sees it as her mission to stop this spiral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If those girls are not treated right, as adults sometimes they can turn to be victimizers. Then it's one circle,\" Tucker said. \"Then we, as a community, as authorities, we need to stop that circle. We need to give the opportunity to heal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342339\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/alma.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/alma-400x503.jpg\" alt=\"A girl who lives at La Casa del Jardin draws on the whiteboard. (Brooke Binkowski/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/alma-400x503.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/alma.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A girl who lives at La Casa del Jardin draws on the whiteboard. 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He helps her put together events to raise awareness and funds for new beds and additions that La Casa del Jardin desperately needs. It's a large building, but there's always demand for more room. Ramirez says that heightening awareness is particularly important because the issue of human trafficking is difficult to grasp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not the sort of thing that you expect happens anymore, right?\" he says. \"You think this happens somewhere else, some other continent somewhere, so it is surprising to hear that it happens here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez also says that \"human trafficking\" can mean many things, and its scope is so vast that it becomes difficult to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean it happens in lots of ways where, in some cases because of issues in the home, these young ladies will leave their home, and as a result be taken in by somebody who just wants to exploit them, basically, and enslave them,\" he said. \"And they do, in the sex trade or in other work, domestic work -- there are all kinds of different cases that you hear about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People might keep slaves in their homes as maids, preventing them from escaping by threatening to tell the authorities that they have no papers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuria, not her real name, finally managed to escape last year with the help of a friend. She now lives in Tijuana, at a safe house for trafficked girls called La Casa del Jardin, or The Garden House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Casa del Jardin is run by Alma Tucker, 50. She calls her home “The Garden House” because she sees each young victim of human trafficking as a flower that she wants to see grow and bloom.\u003cbr>\nTucker's effort is one of only two in Mexico. It's the only one in Baja California, home of the San Ysidro-San Diego border crossing, the most crossed land border in the world. Tijuana has long had a reputation for being a playground for the shadowy underbelly of both Mexican and American society. But despite substantial increases in border security, people -- especially young women -- continue to be bought, sold and forced into labor or the sex trade. Human trafficking in both countries continues to be a very real, and growing, problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexico is called a “Tier 2” country by the U.S. State Department, which means that the country is stepping up efforts to fight trafficking but lacks sufficient coordination between state and federal departments. People fall through the cracks. Then there's the issue of what to do about the victims -- sometimes they get sent home to the very people who originally sold them, and sometimes they have nowhere to go at all. Until last June, when Alma Tucker opened La Casa del Jardin, it meant that many victims simply ended up in jail or on the streets, caught up in a spiral of prostitution and often addiction and perpetuating the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucker sees it as her mission to stop this spiral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If those girls are not treated right, as adults sometimes they can turn to be victimizers. Then it's one circle,\" Tucker said. \"Then we, as a community, as authorities, we need to stop that circle. We need to give the opportunity to heal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342339\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/alma.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/alma-400x503.jpg\" alt=\"A girl who lives at La Casa del Jardin draws on the whiteboard. (Brooke Binkowski/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10342339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/alma-400x503.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/alma.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A girl who lives at La Casa del Jardin draws on the whiteboard. 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He helps her put together events to raise awareness and funds for new beds and additions that La Casa del Jardin desperately needs. It's a large building, but there's always demand for more room. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Katharine Mieszkowski, The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/daycare07.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-124905\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/daycare07-640x361.jpg\" alt=\"Denise Davis, shown in her daughter’s bedroom in her San Jose, Calif., home, used to send her children to a day care in Stephanie Newbrough’s home in Milpitas. The day care was shut down last year after a long history of breaking state rules,including a lack of supervision of children. Davis says she would not have sent her children there if she had known about its record. (Noah Berger/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Davis, shown in her daughter’s bedroom in her San Jose home, used to send her children to day care in Stephanie Newbrough’s home in Milpitas. The day care was shut down last year after a long history of breaking state rules, including a lack of supervision of children. Davis says she would not have sent her children there if she had known about its record. (Noah Berger/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The infant boy had been left alone in a closet. He was strapped into a car seat, facing a wall on the second floor of a Milpitas day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state inspector discovered the isolated boy when she visited in April and shut down the day care that Stephanie Newbrough had run out of her home for more than 18 years. Newbrough had been a respected member of the local community. Many parents who left children in her care lived nearby or learned about her day care through word of mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But behind that neighborly image, the day care had a long history of breaking state rules, including a lack of supervision of children in its care. Parents like Denise Davis knew nothing of the problems. “It’s your worst nightmare,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violations were so severe that Newbrough ultimately lost her license and was banned for life from operating a day care in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California doesn’t make it easy for parents to find out what’s going on at the places that care for their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state keeps a vast archive of inspection and complaint reports against nearly 48,000 state-licensed day care, preschool and after-school programs. But for the most part, these records remain stored away in obscure government offices, making access difficult for busy parents of the 1.1 million children who attend these programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of states already make public reports available online. California has no plans to do so, despite years of pressure from state and now federal officials who want to give parents a complete picture of what the state knows about the care of their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis, who’d known Newbrough since she was a teen, said she would not have sent her three children to the day care if she had known about its record. She did not know the records existed, much less what they said about Newbrough’s day care when she sent her children there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center of Investigative Reporting is trying to get electronic copies from the state under the California Public Records Act with the hopes of putting them online. The state Department of Social Services says it will\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>cost more than $20,000 and take more than two years for CIR to get the public data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the request should take minimal time and money because databases are designed to be able to export information easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The majority of states already make public reports available online.\n\u003cp>California has no plans to do so.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“That’s just embarrassing. Do they really want to be known as the dumbest, most backward government agency in California?” said \u003ca href=\"http://journalism.arizona.edu/david-cuillier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Cuillier\u003c/a>, an expert on public records who directs the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism. “Because if they cannot export data quickly, then they’ve got problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrast California with other large states, like Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google “Texas child care,” and the first search result that comes up is the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services’ \u003ca href=\"http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/Child_Care/Search_Texas_Child_Care/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">site\u003c/a> for day care records. “Don’t be in the dark about child care!” the website warns. “Before entrusting your child to a day care, check its state record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a top official at the Department of Social Services admitted the problem and called its technology “old and outdated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all expect that any information that we want to know, we just Google it, and we should be able to pull up everything,” said Pat Leary, chief deputy director. “And it’s frustrating for parents, I know, when they can’t just get easy access to information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that putting the reports online improves the quality of child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one reason that the federal government is finalizing regulations that will require states to put records online in order to receive subsidies for low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the nation’s largest recipient from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Child Care and Development Fund, pulling in more than half a billion dollars a year. It’s the only one of the four largest states that doesn’t already make investigation and inspection information available on the Web.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Health and Human Services Department considers the records an essential tool for parents choosing child care. “Limiting access to this information creates a burden for parents,” its \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/05/20/2013-11673/child-care-and-development-fund-ccdf-program#/h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed new rule\u003c/a> says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Dryden Witte, an economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w10227.pdf\">found\u003c/a> in 2004 that providers’ quality of care for children of low-income families\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>went up when the reports went online in Broward County, Fla. The mean assessment score of local providers went from 89 to 91, on par with education efforts to improve classroom environment or curriculum. Inspectors also were more productive, completing an average of 14 more inspections a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result, they cleaned up their act,” Witte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, parents can contact \u003ca href=\"http://www.rrnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">child care resource and referral agencies\u003c/a> to find out which child care providers are licensed. But these agencies don’t have access to the state’s inspection and complaint records. The agencies tell the parents they must get in touch with one of the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccld.ca.gov/res/pdf/cclistingMaster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regional licensing offices\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling or visiting such a little-known office is too high a barrier for busy parents of young children, the state auditor concluded in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2005-129.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2006 report\u003c/a>. The offices are open only during typical work hours, and most parents who send their children to child care do so because they’re at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/132396178&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than seven years, the Department of Social Services has been pledging to get the records online. In 2006, the department assured the state auditor that it was working on it but warned that it needed money to do so. More than five years later, it told the auditor that it planned to use stimulus money to get the job done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the state auditor gave up on the department, saying it had no confidence the state would put the records online. The Department of Social Services ended up getting $1 million in education stimulus money, but it’s being spent on other things. Leary said that money didn’t cover the costs for the project. The department still doesn’t have a plan to get the records online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For CIR’s request, the department estimates that extracting the data from its database would require more than 500 hours of staff time at a cost of $41 an hour, totaling at least $20,500. The agency also says it can devote only four hours per week to this project, so it would take more than two years to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say that estimate strains credulity. “If it takes someone working full time for 12½ weeks to export data, that is probably one of the worst government computer systems I’ve ever heard of,” Cuillier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Milpitas, Davis and her husband abruptly pulled their children out of the Newbrough’s day care in 2010 when they learned from a worker at the day care that their infant daughter was put down for naps in her car seat, which may \u003ca href=\"http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/GeneralPediatrics/15652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inhibit the child’s breathing\u003c/a>. Newbrough subsequently sued the parents for breach of contract in small claims court and won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspector who found the infant in the closet and shut down the facility also discovered that there weren’t enough caregivers\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>providing supervision, a violation that Newbrough had received before. In years prior, inspectors cited the day care seven times for threatening the health, safety or rights of children, its most serious violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newbrough, who didn’t respond to requests for comment, is no longer operating a day care. But that doesn’t mean she’s entirely out of the child care business in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newbrough still is listed as the president and founder of \u003ca href=\"http://pandpsitters.com\">Prince and Princess Sitters\u003c/a> on the company’s website. 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She did not know the records existed, much less what they said about Newbrough’s day care when she sent her children there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center of Investigative Reporting is trying to get electronic copies from the state under the California Public Records Act with the hopes of putting them online. The state Department of Social Services says it will\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>cost more than $20,000 and take more than two years for CIR to get the public data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say the request should take minimal time and money because databases are designed to be able to export information easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The majority of states already make public reports available online.\n\u003cp>California has no plans to do so.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“That’s just embarrassing. Do they really want to be known as the dumbest, most backward government agency in California?” said \u003ca href=\"http://journalism.arizona.edu/david-cuillier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Cuillier\u003c/a>, an expert on public records who directs the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism. “Because if they cannot export data quickly, then they’ve got problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrast California with other large states, like Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google “Texas child care,” and the first search result that comes up is the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services’ \u003ca href=\"http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/Child_Care/Search_Texas_Child_Care/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">site\u003c/a> for day care records. “Don’t be in the dark about child care!” the website warns. “Before entrusting your child to a day care, check its state record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a top official at the Department of Social Services admitted the problem and called its technology “old and outdated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all expect that any information that we want to know, we just Google it, and we should be able to pull up everything,” said Pat Leary, chief deputy director. “And it’s frustrating for parents, I know, when they can’t just get easy access to information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that putting the reports online improves the quality of child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one reason that the federal government is finalizing regulations that will require states to put records online in order to receive subsidies for low-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the nation’s largest recipient from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Child Care and Development Fund, pulling in more than half a billion dollars a year. It’s the only one of the four largest states that doesn’t already make investigation and inspection information available on the Web.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Health and Human Services Department considers the records an essential tool for parents choosing child care. “Limiting access to this information creates a burden for parents,” its \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/05/20/2013-11673/child-care-and-development-fund-ccdf-program#/h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed new rule\u003c/a> says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Dryden Witte, an economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w10227.pdf\">found\u003c/a> in 2004 that providers’ quality of care for children of low-income families\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>went up when the reports went online in Broward County, Fla. The mean assessment score of local providers went from 89 to 91, on par with education efforts to improve classroom environment or curriculum. Inspectors also were more productive, completing an average of 14 more inspections a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result, they cleaned up their act,” Witte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, parents can contact \u003ca href=\"http://www.rrnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">child care resource and referral agencies\u003c/a> to find out which child care providers are licensed. But these agencies don’t have access to the state’s inspection and complaint records. The agencies tell the parents they must get in touch with one of the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccld.ca.gov/res/pdf/cclistingMaster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regional licensing offices\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling or visiting such a little-known office is too high a barrier for busy parents of young children, the state auditor concluded in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bsa.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2005-129.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2006 report\u003c/a>. The offices are open only during typical work hours, and most parents who send their children to child care do so because they’re at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/132396178&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than seven years, the Department of Social Services has been pledging to get the records online. In 2006, the department assured the state auditor that it was working on it but warned that it needed money to do so. More than five years later, it told the auditor that it planned to use stimulus money to get the job done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the state auditor gave up on the department, saying it had no confidence the state would put the records online. 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A toy should not get a child killed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De León, a Los Angeles Democrat, unsuccessfully introduced a similar bill in 2011 after another \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/12/lapd-24-million-verdict-teen-paralyzed.html\" target=\"_blank\">13-year-old, Rohayent Gomez, was shot and paralyzed\u003c/a> when Los Angeles police thought his replica firearm was a real weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De León's new bill would require that BB, pellet and airsoft guns sold in the state be painted bright colors or be made transparent to distinguish them from real weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Law enforcement officers have extreme difficulty — extreme difficulty — in distinguishing between the real thing and what is fake ... especially when officers must make a split-second decision in a very dangerous situation,\" de Le&ocaute;n said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added later, \"This is about saving lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 200 such tragedies occur each year across the country, he said, citing \u003ca href=\"http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/tg-icep.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a 1990 U.S. Department of Justice study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Republicans objected that the bill could endanger police officers because some real guns are now manufactured in different colors and are partly marketed toward children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith & Wesson, for instance, makes several handguns with pink hand grips to appeal to women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another manufacturer, Milton, Pa.-based Keystone Sporting Arms, makes rifles designed for use by children that are colored hot pink, royal blue and with multicolor swirls. One of those weapons was involved in a shooting last year in Kentucky, when a 5-year-old boy fatally shot his 2-year-old sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, said officers could hesitate for a fatal moment if they see a brightly colored real weapon pointed their way, thinking it is a harmless toy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To say that I can make that distinction within a split second and say that that is a toy gun, I know it, all they can do is shoot me with an airsoft and I'm OK — that's ridiculous,\" said Knight, who served 18 years as a Los Angeles police officer before his election to the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Joel Anderson, R-Alpine, also opposed the bill. 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