window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={
"attachmentsReducer": {
"audio_0": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_0",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_1": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_1",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_2": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_2",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_3": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_3",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_4": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_4",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"
}
}
},
"placeholder": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "placeholder",
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"height": 512,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
}
},
"news_118324": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_118324",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "118324",
"found": true
},
"parent": 0,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 419
}
},
"publishDate": 1384481172,
"modified": 1384481172,
"caption": "From left, Minard and Vivian Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)",
"description": null,
"title": "RichardBrown11",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_118370": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_118370",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "118370",
"found": true
},
"parent": 118343,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 427
}
},
"publishDate": 1384500664,
"modified": 1384500664,
"caption": "Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under California's 1994 Three Strikes law. (Adithya Sambamurthy/KQED)",
"description": null,
"title": "RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_118328": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_118328",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "118328",
"found": true
},
"parent": 118302,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS2769_Download090427-054-scr-e1384481455201.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 480
}
},
"publishDate": 1384481383,
"modified": 1384481383,
"caption": "(Craig Miller / KQED)",
"description": "(Craig Miller / KQED)",
"title": "RS2769_Download090427 054-scr",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_89425": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_89425",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "89425",
"found": true
},
"parent": 89423,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/PhotoWeek130215flyingbooks.gif",
"width": 640,
"height": 450
}
},
"publishDate": 1360962411,
"modified": 1360962411,
"caption": "(Photo: Kaia Diringer/Berkeleyside)",
"description": null,
"title": "PhotoWeek130215flyingbooks",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_115842": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_115842",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "115842",
"found": true
},
"title": "Guns",
"publishDate": 1382551810,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 115840,
"modified": 1730230265,
"caption": "Are California gun laws strict enough? Or are there already too many restrictions? (Joe Klamar/AFP-Getty Images)",
"credit": "Joe Klamar/AFP-Getty Images",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS4496_gunbuyback20130412-scr-e1382551851729.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 470
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_117673": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_117673",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "117673",
"found": true
},
"parent": 117669,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Lopez-Memorial.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 449
}
},
"publishDate": 1383930185,
"modified": 1383930185,
"caption": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Lopez Memorial",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_117599": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_117599",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "117599",
"found": true
},
"parent": 117534,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS739_muni051311-scr-1-e1383869691379.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 445
}
},
"publishDate": 1383869666,
"modified": 1383869666,
"caption": "Boarding Muni's 5-Fulton on Market Street. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)",
"description": "Boarding Muni's 5-Fulton on Market Street. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)",
"title": "Muni-Street",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_117412": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_117412",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "117412",
"found": true
},
"parent": 117390,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/CIR-face.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 360
}
},
"publishDate": 1383775613,
"modified": 1383775613,
"caption": "Officer Rob Halverson, with the Chula Vista Police Department in California, uses a Samsung Galaxy tablet to identify a woman as part of a pilot program in San Diego County, testing facial recognition software. (Roque Hernandez/Univision)",
"description": null,
"title": "CIR-face",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_117429": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_117429",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "117429",
"found": true
},
"parent": 117427,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/sashafleischman-e1383777809115.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 360
}
},
"publishDate": 1383777774,
"modified": 1383777774,
"caption": "Sasha Fleischman, Berkeley high school student whose clothing was set on fire while riding on a bus in Oakland. (Fundly)",
"description": null,
"title": "sashafleischman",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_115995": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_115995",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "115995",
"found": true
},
"parent": 115991,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/andylopez-e1383847811999.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 360
}
},
"publishDate": 1382677808,
"modified": 1382677808,
"caption": "Andy Lopez, shot and killed by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy in October 2013.",
"description": "Andy Lopez, shot and killed by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy in October 2013.",
"title": "Andy Lopez",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_110461": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_110461",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "110461",
"found": true
},
"parent": 110455,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS50_ChinoStatePrisonInmates20130108-scr-e1424225060713.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 460
}
},
"publishDate": 1378754853,
"modified": 1424225028,
"caption": "FILE PHOTO: Prisoners at Chino State Prison, one of many California correctional institutions with a history of severe overcrowding. ",
"description": null,
"title": "California Prisons",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false,
"liveAudioPlayStartedAt": 0,
"liveAudioPlayContext": ""
},
"authorsReducer": {
"dclyde": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "104",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "104",
"found": true
},
"name": "Don Clyde",
"firstName": "Don",
"lastName": "Clyde",
"slug": "dclyde",
"email": "dclyde@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "Don Clyde is an online producer, reporter and copy editor for KQED News. Before venturing into journalism, he worked as a medical device engineer and scientist for nearly a decade after earning a degree in physics from UC Berkeley. He loves travel, reading, living in Oakland, and most importantly, a good walk. Email him at dclyde@kqed.org or follow him @clydedon.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/decd3e640c3eedbd0a574275aebb2d19?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "clydedon",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "artschool",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "about",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "mindshift",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "bayareabites",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "lowdown",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "spark",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "trulyca",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "imagemakers",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": []
},
{
"site": "education",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "quest",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "checkplease",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "perspectives",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Don Clyde | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/decd3e640c3eedbd0a574275aebb2d19?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/decd3e640c3eedbd0a574275aebb2d19?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/dclyde"
},
"bgoebel": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "214",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "214",
"found": true
},
"name": "Bryan Goebel",
"firstName": "Bryan",
"lastName": "Goebel",
"slug": "bgoebel",
"email": "bgoebel@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": "Bryan Goebel is a reporter focused on transportation and housing issues. He was previously the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco, and an anchor/editor at KCBS Radio. He's a lifelong Californian and has also worked at radio stations in Barstow, Redding and Sacramento.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7fdd6b065bfe9a23a71bcfa80848df88?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "velobry",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Bryan Goebel | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7fdd6b065bfe9a23a71bcfa80848df88?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7fdd6b065bfe9a23a71bcfa80848df88?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/bgoebel"
},
"danbrekke": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "222",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "222",
"found": true
},
"name": "Dan Brekke",
"firstName": "Dan",
"lastName": "Brekke",
"slug": "danbrekke",
"email": "dbrekke@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news",
"science"
],
"title": "KQED Editor and Reporter",
"bio": "Dan Brekke is a reporter and editor for KQED News, responsible for coverage of topics ranging from California water issues to the Bay Area's transportation challenges. In a newsroom career that began in Chicago in 1972, Dan has worked for \u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner,\u003c/em> Wired and TechTV and has been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Business 2.0, Salon and elsewhere.\r\n\r\nSince joining KQED in 2007, Dan has reported, edited and produced both radio and online features and breaking news pieces. He has shared as both editor and reporter in four Society of Professional Journalists Norcal Excellence in Journalism awards and one Edward R. Murrow regional award. He was chosen for a spring 2017 residency at the Mesa Refuge to advance his research on California salmon.\r\n\r\nEmail Dan at: \u003ca href=\"mailto:dbrekke@kqed.org\">dbrekke@kqed.org\u003c/a>\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twitter.com/danbrekke\u003c/a>\r\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com/danbrekke\u003c/a>\r\n\u003cstrong>LinkedIn:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke\u003c/a>",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f1f0d2a978fb3b23426c922c7e2af558fa36905b49c4ce76a97dc3c72d27226?s=600&d=mm&r=g",
"twitter": "danbrekke",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/dan.brekke/",
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke/",
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"administrator",
"create_posts"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "quest",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "food",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "elections",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Dan Brekke | KQED",
"description": "KQED Editor and Reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f1f0d2a978fb3b23426c922c7e2af558fa36905b49c4ce76a97dc3c72d27226?s=600&d=mm&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f1f0d2a978fb3b23426c922c7e2af558fa36905b49c4ce76a97dc3c72d27226?s=600&d=mm&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/danbrekke"
},
"davidweir": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "223",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "223",
"found": true
},
"name": "David Weir",
"firstName": "David",
"lastName": "Weir",
"slug": "davidweir",
"email": "dweir@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "David Weir is KQED's senior editor for digital news. He previously worked at \u003cem>Rolling Stone,\u003c/em> Salon, Wired Digital, Excite@Home,\u003cem> Mother Jones,\u003c/em> and as a co-founder and executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting.\r\n\r\nOver the past 40 years, he and his teams have won dozens of awards, including a National Magazine Award, an IRE Award and a Webby. He has authored or co-authored four books, including (with Mark Schapiro) \u003cem>Circle of Poison.\u003c/em>\r\n\r\nHe has a ba\u003cspan class=\"example\">chelor's degree\u003c/span> in journalism from the University of Michigan, and has taught journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford and San Francisco State.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c6642c16c4d2d2de5e6f067edf92b9c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "lowdown",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "David Weir | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c6642c16c4d2d2de5e6f067edf92b9c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c6642c16c4d2d2de5e6f067edf92b9c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/davidweir"
},
"katrinaschwartz": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "234",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "234",
"found": true
},
"name": "Katrina Schwartz",
"firstName": "Katrina",
"lastName": "Schwartz",
"slug": "katrinaschwartz",
"email": "kschwartz@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Producer",
"bio": "Katrina Schwartz is a journalist based in San Francisco. She's worked at KPCC public radio in LA and has reported on air and online for KQED since 2010. She covered how teaching and learning is changing for MindShift between 2012 and 2020. She is the co-host of the MindShift podcast and now produces KQED's Bay Curious podcast.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edb4ee79070447a018538c9aae6eeecf28786515b8a0c30e43b6b7dce5aa44c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "kschwart",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "mindshift",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Katrina Schwartz | KQED",
"description": "Producer",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edb4ee79070447a018538c9aae6eeecf28786515b8a0c30e43b6b7dce5aa44c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edb4ee79070447a018538c9aae6eeecf28786515b8a0c30e43b6b7dce5aa44c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/katrinaschwartz"
},
"kqed": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "236",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "236",
"found": true
},
"name": "KQED News Staff",
"firstName": "KQED News Staff",
"lastName": null,
"slug": "kqed",
"email": "faq@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": null,
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef0e801a68c4c54afa9180db14084167?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "KQED News Staff | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef0e801a68c4c54afa9180db14084167?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef0e801a68c4c54afa9180db14084167?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/kqed"
},
"kqednewsstaffandwires": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "237",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "237",
"found": true
},
"name": "KQED News Staff and Wires",
"firstName": "KQED News Staff and Wires",
"lastName": null,
"slug": "kqednewsstaffandwires",
"email": "onlinenewsstaff@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": null,
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/72295af8ebbfbd19a4948f5271285664?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "lowdown",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "food",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "KQED News Staff and Wires | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/72295af8ebbfbd19a4948f5271285664?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/72295af8ebbfbd19a4948f5271285664?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/kqednewsstaffandwires"
},
"mmontgomery": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "245",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "245",
"found": true
},
"name": "Michael Montgomery",
"firstName": "Michael",
"lastName": "Montgomery",
"slug": "mmontgomery",
"email": "t4monk@gmail.com",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": null,
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/79a5f79d5aa798ddff903c26834bb398?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Michael Montgomery | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/79a5f79d5aa798ddff903c26834bb398?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/79a5f79d5aa798ddff903c26834bb398?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/mmontgomery"
},
"racheldornhelm": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "252",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "252",
"found": true
},
"name": "Rachel Dornhelm",
"firstName": "Rachel",
"lastName": "Dornhelm",
"slug": "racheldornhelm",
"email": "rdornhelm@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": "\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Rachel Dornhelm has worked as a reporter, editor and producer in public radio for the last twelve years. She got her start in New York City at WNYC and went on to work with the national business program Marketplace, WBUR’s “On Point” and KQED News in San Francisco. Her work has been honored by the LA Press Club and the SF-Peninsula Press Club.\u003c/p>\r\n\r\nRachel has a BA with honors in anthropology from Rice University and did graduate work at NYU.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7eee8d9bf9f919dcc4573841641db363?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "quest",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Rachel Dornhelm | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7eee8d9bf9f919dcc4573841641db363?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7eee8d9bf9f919dcc4573841641db363?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/racheldornhelm"
},
"sdetrow": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "256",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "256",
"found": true
},
"name": "Scott Detrow",
"firstName": "Scott",
"lastName": "Detrow",
"slug": "sdetrow",
"email": "sdetrow@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": "Sacramento bureau chief Scott Detrow covers state government, politics and policy for KQED News and its statewide news program, The California Report.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3271d0c151ba26452e3417f5ac251c30?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Scott Detrow | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3271d0c151ba26452e3417f5ac251c30?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3271d0c151ba26452e3417f5ac251c30?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/sdetrow"
}
},
"pagesReducer": {
"news_category_law-and-justice": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6188",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6188",
"score": 13.561613
},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Law and Justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Law and Justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6212,
"slug": "law-and-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"title": "Law and Justice",
"pageMeta": {
"site": "news",
"WpPageTemplate": "page-topic-editorial",
"currentPage": 428
},
"blocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/post-list",
"attrs": {
"layout": "cardArticle2",
"query": "posts/news?category=law-and-justice",
"seeMore": false,
"paginated": true,
"page": 428
}
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/ad"
}
]
}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"postsReducer": {
"stream_live": {
"type": "live",
"id": "stream_live",
"audioUrl": "https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio",
"title": "Live Stream",
"excerpt": "Live Stream information currently unavailable.",
"link": "/radio",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "KQED Live",
"link": "/"
}
},
"stream_kqedNewscast": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stream_kqedNewscast",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1",
"title": "KQED Newscast",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "88.5 FM",
"link": "/"
}
},
"news_118343": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_118343",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "118343",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1384540806000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "california-third-strikers-have-to-find-their-own-path-to-freedom",
"title": "California Three Strikers Have to Find Their Own Path to Freedom",
"publishDate": 1384540806,
"format": "aside",
"headTitle": "California Three Strikers Have to Find Their Own Path to Freedom | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 6944,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Michael Montgomery, Lisa Pickoff-White and Suzie Racho\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little more than a year ago, Californians voted to allow the release of third strikers convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/a-year-after-three-strikes-california/\">Since then, about 1,000 people have been released.\u003c/a> KQED followed three men from prison to their new lives outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Brown\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Minard and Vivian Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Minard and Viviane Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richard Brown, 61, was sentenced to 25 years to life in 1995 after he was arrested while stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store in Stockton. Brown, a former heroin addict, served prison time for assault in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203629\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who are released have served so much extra time that they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means they don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing. Brown, who served 17 years for a 5-year sentence, finds the lack of assistance insulting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just get the regular $200 that everyone else gets, with no transitional programs. No type of assistance, no consideration of families being lost, families being separated, people dying, things happening in our lives over the years, or getting older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have any type of transitional programs for people that are getting released that have served a lot of extra time for the crimes that were committed. So it is unfair, the way we’re being treated. I’m… blessed because of the support system that I have and the people that’s been right there for me throughout the course of these 18 years that I was in prison. Everyone doesn’t have this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\" alt=\"Brown, at home, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who's still in San Quentin, out loud to Roorda. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown, at home in Ripon with Roorda, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who’s still in San Quentin. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown met Minard and Vivian Roorda in 1995 after his conviction. They became friends, and the Roordas visited Brown regularly in prison. They visited Brown one night after church. Brown saw their visit as a sign:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went back to my cell and cried like a baby and thanked the Lord because he answered a prayer that I asked. I said, ‘Lord, I’m going to prison with 25 years to life for this petty theft offense and I don’t want to go in there with an attitude, rambunctious. I want to go in there to serve you. So let me know if you’re real in my life and that you hear this prayer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Brown’s release, the Roordas helped him settle in Ripon, where they own a farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\" alt=\"Brown operates a forklift, moving almond harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown operates a forklift, moving almond-harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A longtime singer, Brown formed a gospel group, Neu Dae, while serving time in San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got together with two other prisoners, Rico and Shorty, and we formed this gospel group. …All we had, basically, was a keyboard that we operated with, that had a drum machine set in and all, but for the most part our voices would complement one another when we sang, and we knew that it had to be a gift, which it was a gift, and is a gift, from God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert Watts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Watts, 41, was sentenced to life under California’s Three Strikes law for possession of stolen property. He had been in and out of prison on assault and robbery charges. He was released from San Quentin and currently is enrolled in a re-entry program in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120204283\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors can challenge Prop. 36 petitions, arguing that the inmates pose an unacceptable public-safety risk. Watts felt his hearing had gone poorly, and was shocked when a parole officer took him to the bus station instead of San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[They took me to the] Greyhound bus station, and the cop asked me when he opened the door, he goes ‘You’re from Kern County?’ and I said ‘Yeah.’ He goes ‘You just walk.’ He walked off. I just went to the phone and called my dad and my dad freaked out. It was kind of weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know if it was real or not. They dropped me off, but I’m standing there, and he walks away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118354\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"813\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts' son, Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts’ son Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Watts’ parents have been raising his 13-year-old son, Nicky, in Bakersfield. Since his release, Watts has moved to Berkeley and into a re-entry program, but he is still having a hard time readjusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody owes me anything. I don’t want to put that off on anybody, but I wish there was some kind of structure. … Like ‘Here, just get out. Here’s $200, leave.’ If you’re on parole, you have somebody looking over you, and if you don’t have no place to stay, parole is going to find you an address because they need an address for you to stay, so you’ve got some place to stay. Right now, you’re done. You’re over it. So in the back of my mind, if I could get a 16-month term, half-time, I’d probably go back real quick so I could be on parole. Just so I could come back and be on parole and I’d have all this funding. Eight months wouldn’t be anything in prison, and I’d be on parole then, and then I’d have this funding to help me through basic needs, I guess, without trying to bother my family for other things that I don’t really want to bother them for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pete Marin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118369\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under Three Strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203941\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin says that some inmates feel that their Three Strikes sentences helped them live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What would happen to us if we didn’t get this life sentence? There’s a saying that God rescued us. He sent a black-and-white, and that’s how God rescued us… A police car. I probably would have either OD’d or maybe died, got killed… The lifestyle that we had, I used to do drugs. If I had more money, I’d do more drugs, and keep doing it and doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re facing a life sentence, that really is a rude awakening. It awakens you, and it’s for real.\u003cbr>\nWhen I got busted, and I was in jail, and they told me that I was a Three Strike candidate, it really shook me. It broke me; it really broke me. A lot of things developed that night that I got busted, in my life. It was part of my testimony, how God revealed himself to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Marin at his sister's home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marin at his sister’s home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since his release, Marin spends time helping other former third strikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got out, my mind was running so fast. It was kind of hard to explain. When I was trying to read, I couldn’t read. I caught myself thinking; my mind was running, and it was hard for me to concentrate, because there were so many things happening. I was a little shy and reserved, being amazed at a lot of things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For instance, when we got off the freeway, the area where I grew up at, I didn’t even recognize it. They did sidewalks and trees; I couldn’t believe where I was at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cell phone thing; I would be in my cell, and we would see TV, and we would see people, everyone texting and using the cell phone. I would think in my mind, ‘I would never do that. I’ll be out there, and I’ll be talking to people, and have conversations one-on-one with people.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Marin’s nieces and nephews are teaching him how to text. While Marin’s family is supportive, he says his prison time makes many people uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was talking to a gentleman the other day, and he realized that I was in prison. His demeanor changed. I knew what it was. He was uncomfortable. It kind of hurt a little bit. I could understand his not feeling comfortable. I could understand it. I know, every time I was in prison, I realized that a lot of people who are on the streets, they believe that we’re the scum of the earth. That’s one of the reasons why I am sitting here in this interview. There are a lot of good people that had addictions, and that have come out; that have changed their life, and the system did do its job. There’s men that have changed, that have came out, and they’ve changed their life. I would like to be a representative, so to speak, to let them know that there are men that have changed their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”b486dc817180f8c947cbadcbec3ee55c”]\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "After long prison sentences, third strikers who are released must readjust with little assistance.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1738778480,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": true,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 36,
"wordCount": 1625
},
"headData": {
"title": "California Three Strikers Have to Find Their Own Path to Freedom | KQED",
"description": "After long prison sentences, third strikers who are released must readjust with little assistance.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "California Three Strikers Have to Find Their Own Path to Freedom",
"datePublished": "2013-11-15T10:40:06-08:00",
"dateModified": "2025-02-05T10:01:20-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"customPermalink": "2013/11/14/california-third-strikers-find-their-own-path-to-freedom/",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/118343/california-third-strikers-have-to-find-their-own-path-to-freedom",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Michael Montgomery, Lisa Pickoff-White and Suzie Racho\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little more than a year ago, Californians voted to allow the release of third strikers convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/a-year-after-three-strikes-california/\">Since then, about 1,000 people have been released.\u003c/a> KQED followed three men from prison to their new lives outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Richard Brown\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RichardBrown11.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Minard and Vivian Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Minard and Viviane Roorda, with Richard Brown. (Sarah Rice/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richard Brown, 61, was sentenced to 25 years to life in 1995 after he was arrested while stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store in Stockton. Brown, a former heroin addict, served prison time for assault in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203629\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who are released have served so much extra time that they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means they don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing. Brown, who served 17 years for a 5-year sentence, finds the lack of assistance insulting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just get the regular $200 that everyone else gets, with no transitional programs. No type of assistance, no consideration of families being lost, families being separated, people dying, things happening in our lives over the years, or getting older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have any type of transitional programs for people that are getting released that have served a lot of extra time for the crimes that were committed. So it is unfair, the way we’re being treated. I’m… blessed because of the support system that I have and the people that’s been right there for me throughout the course of these 18 years that I was in prison. Everyone doesn’t have this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownfather.jpg\" alt=\"Brown, at home, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who's still in San Quentin, out loud to Roorda. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown, at home in Ripon with Roorda, reads a letter from his friend Shorty, who’s still in San Quentin. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown met Minard and Vivian Roorda in 1995 after his conviction. They became friends, and the Roordas visited Brown regularly in prison. They visited Brown one night after church. Brown saw their visit as a sign:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went back to my cell and cried like a baby and thanked the Lord because he answered a prayer that I asked. I said, ‘Lord, I’m going to prison with 25 years to life for this petty theft offense and I don’t want to go in there with an attitude, rambunctious. I want to go in there to serve you. So let me know if you’re real in my life and that you hear this prayer.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Brown’s release, the Roordas helped him settle in Ripon, where they own a farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118323\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/brownweld.jpg\" alt=\"Brown operates a forklift, moving almond harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown operates a forklift, moving almond-harvesting equipment. He also welds and paints. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A longtime singer, Brown formed a gospel group, Neu Dae, while serving time in San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got together with two other prisoners, Rico and Shorty, and we formed this gospel group. …All we had, basically, was a keyboard that we operated with, that had a drum machine set in and all, but for the most part our voices would complement one another when we sang, and we knew that it had to be a gift, which it was a gift, and is a gift, from God.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert Watts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7607_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Berkeley. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Robert Watts, 41, was sentenced to life under California’s Three Strikes law for possession of stolen property. He had been in and out of prison on assault and robbery charges. He was released from San Quentin and currently is enrolled in a re-entry program in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120204283\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors can challenge Prop. 36 petitions, arguing that the inmates pose an unacceptable public-safety risk. Watts felt his hearing had gone poorly, and was shocked when a parole officer took him to the bus station instead of San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[They took me to the] Greyhound bus station, and the cop asked me when he opened the door, he goes ‘You’re from Kern County?’ and I said ‘Yeah.’ He goes ‘You just walk.’ He walked off. I just went to the phone and called my dad and my dad freaked out. It was kind of weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know if it was real or not. They dropped me off, but I’m standing there, and he walks away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118354\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/watts03.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"813\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts in Kern County Prison. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/wattsfam.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Watts' son, Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory Cook/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Watts’ son Nicky, and father, Tom, wait before his hearing. (Gregory D. Cook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Watts’ parents have been raising his 13-year-old son, Nicky, in Bakersfield. Since his release, Watts has moved to Berkeley and into a re-entry program, but he is still having a hard time readjusting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think anybody owes me anything. I don’t want to put that off on anybody, but I wish there was some kind of structure. … Like ‘Here, just get out. Here’s $200, leave.’ If you’re on parole, you have somebody looking over you, and if you don’t have no place to stay, parole is going to find you an address because they need an address for you to stay, so you’ve got some place to stay. Right now, you’re done. You’re over it. So in the back of my mind, if I could get a 16-month term, half-time, I’d probably go back real quick so I could be on parole. Just so I could come back and be on parole and I’d have all this funding. Eight months wouldn’t be anything in prison, and I’d be on parole then, and then I’d have this funding to help me through basic needs, I guess, without trying to bother my family for other things that I don’t really want to bother them for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pete Marin\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118369\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/7603_transform.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Marin served 18 years for petty theft. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under Three Strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120203941\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin says that some inmates feel that their Three Strikes sentences helped them live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What would happen to us if we didn’t get this life sentence? There’s a saying that God rescued us. He sent a black-and-white, and that’s how God rescued us… A police car. I probably would have either OD’d or maybe died, got killed… The lifestyle that we had, I used to do drugs. If I had more money, I’d do more drugs, and keep doing it and doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re facing a life sentence, that really is a rude awakening. It awakens you, and it’s for real.\u003cbr>\nWhen I got busted, and I was in jail, and they told me that I was a Three Strike candidate, it really shook me. It broke me; it really broke me. A lot of things developed that night that I got busted, in my life. It was part of my testimony, how God revealed himself to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Marin at his sister's home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marin at his sister’s home. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since his release, Marin spends time helping other former third strikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I got out, my mind was running so fast. It was kind of hard to explain. When I was trying to read, I couldn’t read. I caught myself thinking; my mind was running, and it was hard for me to concentrate, because there were so many things happening. I was a little shy and reserved, being amazed at a lot of things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For instance, when we got off the freeway, the area where I grew up at, I didn’t even recognize it. They did sidewalks and trees; I couldn’t believe where I was at.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cell phone thing; I would be in my cell, and we would see TV, and we would see people, everyone texting and using the cell phone. I would think in my mind, ‘I would never do that. I’ll be out there, and I’ll be talking to people, and have conversations one-on-one with people.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Marin’s nieces and nephews are teaching him how to text. While Marin’s family is supportive, he says his prison time makes many people uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was talking to a gentleman the other day, and he realized that I was in prison. His demeanor changed. I knew what it was. He was uncomfortable. It kind of hurt a little bit. I could understand his not feeling comfortable. I could understand it. I know, every time I was in prison, I realized that a lot of people who are on the streets, they believe that we’re the scum of the earth. That’s one of the reasons why I am sitting here in this interview. There are a lot of good people that had addictions, and that have come out; that have changed their life, and the system did do its job. There’s men that have changed, that have came out, and they’ve changed their life. I would like to be a representative, so to speak, to let them know that there are men that have changed their life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/118343/california-third-strikers-have-to-find-their-own-path-to-freedom",
"authors": [
"236"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_34167",
"news_6188"
],
"tags": [
"news_1629",
"news_17725",
"news_6327",
"news_1471",
"news_3611",
"news_38"
],
"featImg": "news_118324",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_118282": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_118282",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "118282",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1384539846000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "a-year-after-release-only-2-percent-of-three-strikers-have-committed-new-crimes",
"title": "A Year After Release, Only 2 Percent of Three Strikers Charged With New Crimes",
"publishDate": 1384539846,
"format": "aside",
"headTitle": "A Year After Release, Only 2 Percent of Three Strikers Charged With New Crimes | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 6944,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under California's 1994 Three Strikes law. (Adithya Sambamurthy/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under California’s 1994 Three Strikes law. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A little more than a year ago, Californians voted for Proposition 36, allowing the release of three-strikers convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. Since then, about 1,000 people have been released. \u003cstrong>KQED’s Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong> followed three men as they left prison and adapted to their new lives outside, and interviewed multiple experts and stakeholders about the state’s criminal justice system.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120493008\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>onvicted of stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store, Richard Brown spent 18 years in prison under California’s notorious Three Strikes law. Then, quite suddenly, he was standing outside the gates of San Quentin earlier this year, a free man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told me to get off the property,” he says. “I asked if there was a phone booth or something. They said no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Robert Watts, who served 13 years for receiving stolen property, getting out of prison involved an emotional legal tangle with local prosecutors who insisted he was an unredeemed career criminal and should remain behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was unpleasant,” he says. “But at least it’s over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The measure does not appear to be endangering public safety.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For both men, freedom came as the result of Proposition 36, the ballot initiative approved last year by voters in every county in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure changed the 1994 law that had allowed judges to impose life sentences for low-level felonies such as petty theft and drug possession. The new law focuses on serious and violent crimes. It’s also retroactive, allowing current inmates whose third strike was non-violent and non-serious to petition the courts for resentencing and possible release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the measure have argued that the original Three Strikes law worked well and contributed to a dramatic fall in violent crime over the past two decades. Granting some inmates early release, they said, would lead to a spike in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guarantee that a significant percentage of them are going to re-offend, and re-offend in serious ways,” said Ed Jagels, the former District Attorney for Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents also said prosecutors today are using the law judiciously, pointing out that more than 80 percent of three strikers were sentenced prior to 2000. Changing the law, they said, would remove an important tool from the prosecutorial toolbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, Prop. 36 does not appear to be endangering public safety, according to a recent report by Stanford Law School and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing state data, the report concluded that of the more than 1,000 inmates released from prison under the measure, fewer than 2 percent have been charged with new crimes. By comparison, the average recidivism rate over a similar time period for non-Prop. 36 inmates is 16 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents’ prediction of the measure unleashing “blood in the streets” was hyperbole, said David Mills, a Stanford law professor who helped fund the initiative. “Millions of dollars have been saved and many lives changed, hopefully for the better,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Like their adopted son\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a blessing,” says Richard Brown, a 61-year-old former drug addict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of his arrest in 1995, Brown says he was unaware that the Three Strikes law had been implemented the previous year. “I heard about it but I didn’t think they’d be that out of control with the sentencing guidelines,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his release, Brown moved to Ripon, a small farming community south of Stockton, where he found a job with a company that assembles agricultural machinery. An aspiring gospel musician, he also sings in a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was drawn to Ripon by Minard and Vivian Roorda, local farmers who learned of his case from a neighbor 18 years ago. The Roordas supported Brown like an adopted son, visiting him regularly in prisons around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minard Roorda says he voted for the original Three Strikes law but realized it cast too wide a net and left men like Brown languishing in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they not deserved a second chance?” he said. “Are they not deserving our help? Are they not deserving our love?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”65205eb25f5e5994cdf081bee3ffdbd1″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While prosecutors have challenged some Prop. 36 petitions, arguing that the inmates pose an unacceptable public safety risk, few of those efforts have been successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Robert Watts’ case, Kern County prosecutors sought to block his release, citing evidence of marijuana use in prison and his prior convictions for robbery and assault. But the effort failed and the judge ordered Watts’ release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, after a flurry of releases earlier this year, the pace has slowed to a trickle. In Los Angeles and some other counties, inmate petitions are getting stuck in the courts, creating a backlog of inmates who are still in prison even though they are eligible for resentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a steady decline in the number of petitions that have been reviewed,” said Bonnie Dumanis, district attorney for San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial round of Prop. 36 reviews mainly involved low-risk inmates who were being fast-tracked for release. Now, courts are facing “hard, challenging cases where people have mental health issues or have some issues that need to be dealt with,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye met with officials from several large counties to discuss ways to make the petition process “more efficient and effective,” Dumanis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 2,000 inmates eligible for resentencing under Prop. 36 remain in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘They give you $200 and kick you out’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former three strikers say their challenge has been coping with life on the streets without the structure of prison and support normally provided to newly released felons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who qualify for release have served so much extra time they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means that don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They give you $200 and kick you out, and they don’t give you any type of papers to indicate that you can go down to this program or (that) program,” said Brown. He considers himself lucky to have a job, home and support network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people coming out, it’s a nightmare,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Most three strikers have served so much time they aren’t placed on parole or probation when released.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In some counties, prosecutors, public defenders and legal aid groups are starting to develop support networks for three strikers coming out of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former inmates are also supporting each other. Twice each week Pete Marin of Bakersfield checks in on his friend Eddie Alwell. Marin and Alwell served 18 years behind bars, one for petty theft, the other for drug possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alwell, 65, is frail and was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Much of his day is spent looking after six grandchildren. He met them for the first time after leaving prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin says he helps out Alwell around his house and drives him to the store and to church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of men who were sentenced under three strikes…have realized that their life before was bad,” he said. “So a lot of them want to change. I think some kind of program to help them get on their feet and lead them in the right way…would be very important.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "More than 1,000 three strikers have been released since voters passed Prop. 36, softening the law.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1738778487,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": true,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 41,
"wordCount": 1323
},
"headData": {
"title": "A Year After Release, Only 2 Percent of Three Strikers Charged With New Crimes | KQED",
"description": "More than 1,000 three strikers have been released since voters passed Prop. 36, softening the law.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "A Year After Release, Only 2 Percent of Three Strikers Charged With New Crimes",
"datePublished": "2013-11-15T10:24:06-08:00",
"dateModified": "2025-02-05T10:01:27-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"customPermalink": "2013/11/14/a-year-after-three-strikes-california/",
"path": "/news/118282/a-year-after-release-only-2-percent-of-three-strikers-have-committed-new-crimes",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118370\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7602_threestrikers03_adi-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under California's 1994 Three Strikes law. (Adithya Sambamurthy/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Marin, 52, served 18 years for petty theft under California’s 1994 Three Strikes law. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A little more than a year ago, Californians voted for Proposition 36, allowing the release of three-strikers convicted of non-violent, non-serious crimes. Since then, about 1,000 people have been released. \u003cstrong>KQED’s Michael Montgomery\u003c/strong> followed three men as they left prison and adapted to their new lives outside, and interviewed multiple experts and stakeholders about the state’s criminal justice system.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/120493008\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>onvicted of stealing two car alarms from a Walgreens store, Richard Brown spent 18 years in prison under California’s notorious Three Strikes law. Then, quite suddenly, he was standing outside the gates of San Quentin earlier this year, a free man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They told me to get off the property,” he says. “I asked if there was a phone booth or something. They said no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Robert Watts, who served 13 years for receiving stolen property, getting out of prison involved an emotional legal tangle with local prosecutors who insisted he was an unredeemed career criminal and should remain behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was unpleasant,” he says. “But at least it’s over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The measure does not appear to be endangering public safety.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For both men, freedom came as the result of Proposition 36, the ballot initiative approved last year by voters in every county in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure changed the 1994 law that had allowed judges to impose life sentences for low-level felonies such as petty theft and drug possession. The new law focuses on serious and violent crimes. It’s also retroactive, allowing current inmates whose third strike was non-violent and non-serious to petition the courts for resentencing and possible release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the measure have argued that the original Three Strikes law worked well and contributed to a dramatic fall in violent crime over the past two decades. Granting some inmates early release, they said, would lead to a spike in crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guarantee that a significant percentage of them are going to re-offend, and re-offend in serious ways,” said Ed Jagels, the former District Attorney for Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents also said prosecutors today are using the law judiciously, pointing out that more than 80 percent of three strikers were sentenced prior to 2000. Changing the law, they said, would remove an important tool from the prosecutorial toolbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, Prop. 36 does not appear to be endangering public safety, according to a recent report by Stanford Law School and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing state data, the report concluded that of the more than 1,000 inmates released from prison under the measure, fewer than 2 percent have been charged with new crimes. By comparison, the average recidivism rate over a similar time period for non-Prop. 36 inmates is 16 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 242px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7606_RichardBrown17-hpf-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Minard Roorda, Richard Brown and Vivian Roorda\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Opponents’ prediction of the measure unleashing “blood in the streets” was hyperbole, said David Mills, a Stanford law professor who helped fund the initiative. “Millions of dollars have been saved and many lives changed, hopefully for the better,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Like their adopted son\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a blessing,” says Richard Brown, a 61-year-old former drug addict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of his arrest in 1995, Brown says he was unaware that the Three Strikes law had been implemented the previous year. “I heard about it but I didn’t think they’d be that out of control with the sentencing guidelines,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his release, Brown moved to Ripon, a small farming community south of Stockton, where he found a job with a company that assembles agricultural machinery. An aspiring gospel musician, he also sings in a local church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown was drawn to Ripon by Minard and Vivian Roorda, local farmers who learned of his case from a neighbor 18 years ago. The Roordas supported Brown like an adopted son, visiting him regularly in prisons around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minard Roorda says he voted for the original Three Strikes law but realized it cast too wide a net and left men like Brown languishing in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are they not deserved a second chance?” he said. “Are they not deserving our help? Are they not deserving our love?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While prosecutors have challenged some Prop. 36 petitions, arguing that the inmates pose an unacceptable public safety risk, few of those efforts have been successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Robert Watts’ case, Kern County prosecutors sought to block his release, citing evidence of marijuana use in prison and his prior convictions for robbery and assault. But the effort failed and the judge ordered Watts’ release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, after a flurry of releases earlier this year, the pace has slowed to a trickle. In Los Angeles and some other counties, inmate petitions are getting stuck in the courts, creating a backlog of inmates who are still in prison even though they are eligible for resentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a steady decline in the number of petitions that have been reviewed,” said Bonnie Dumanis, district attorney for San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial round of Prop. 36 reviews mainly involved low-risk inmates who were being fast-tracked for release. Now, courts are facing “hard, challenging cases where people have mental health issues or have some issues that need to be dealt with,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye met with officials from several large counties to discuss ways to make the petition process “more efficient and effective,” Dumanis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 2,000 inmates eligible for resentencing under Prop. 36 remain in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘They give you $200 and kick you out’\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several former three strikers say their challenge has been coping with life on the streets without the structure of prison and support normally provided to newly released felons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most three strikers who qualify for release have served so much extra time they’re not placed on parole or probation. Often that means that don’t have access to substance abuse, mental health and other re-entry programs as well as housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They give you $200 and kick you out, and they don’t give you any type of papers to indicate that you can go down to this program or (that) program,” said Brown. He considers himself lucky to have a job, home and support network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For many people coming out, it’s a nightmare,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Most three strikers have served so much time they aren’t placed on parole or probation when released.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In some counties, prosecutors, public defenders and legal aid groups are starting to develop support networks for three strikers coming out of prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former inmates are also supporting each other. Twice each week Pete Marin of Bakersfield checks in on his friend Eddie Alwell. Marin and Alwell served 18 years behind bars, one for petty theft, the other for drug possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alwell, 65, is frail and was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Much of his day is spent looking after six grandchildren. He met them for the first time after leaving prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin says he helps out Alwell around his house and drives him to the store and to church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of men who were sentenced under three strikes…have realized that their life before was bad,” he said. “So a lot of them want to change. I think some kind of program to help them get on their feet and lead them in the right way…would be very important.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/118282/a-year-after-release-only-2-percent-of-three-strikers-have-committed-new-crimes",
"authors": [
"245"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_34167",
"news_6188"
],
"tags": [
"news_1629",
"news_17725",
"news_152",
"news_1471",
"news_3611"
],
"featImg": "news_118370",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_118302": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_118302",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "118302",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1384481778000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1384481778,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "Court Rejects Challenge to California's Cap-and-Trade System",
"title": "Court Rejects Challenge to California's Cap-and-Trade System",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118328\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/118302/cap-and-trade-California/rs2769_download090427-054-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118328\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118328\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS2769_Download090427-054-scr-e1384481455201.jpg\" alt=\"(Craig Miller / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Craig Miller / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California's year-old cap-and-trade system lives on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Superior Court judge has dismissed two lawsuits that challenged cap-and-trade — the \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/cap-and-trade-101-how-californias-carbon-market-works/\">state's sale of \"allowances,\"\u003c/a> or permits that allow companies to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The decision was dated Tuesday but made public Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling means that California maintains its authority to limit greenhouse gases from power plants, factories and other businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Chamber of Commerce and the Pacific Legal Foundation filed the lawsuits, arguing that California’s global warming law, AB32, didn’t give state officials the authority to sell the allowances. They also said the allowances were an illegal new tax, since the state legislature approved AB32 by a simple majority vote. (Under California law, new taxes require the approval of two thirds of state legislators.) \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The ruling means that California maintains its authority to limit greenhouse gases from power plants, factories and other businesses.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But in his written opinion, Judge Timothy Frawley of the Superior Court of California rejected both arguments. As the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/energy/2013/11/14/cap-and-trade-survives-california-court-challenge/\">San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/a>noted, \"The California Air Resources Board, which organized the cap and trade system, was well within its rights to sell the allowances, he wrote in his decision. And while he agreed that the allowances had similarities to a tax, he decided they were more comparable to regulatory fees, which don’t require a supermajority vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists praised the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court sent a strong signal today, thoroughly affirming California's innovative climate protection program — including the vital safeguards to ensure that polluters are held accountable for their harmful emissions,\" said Erica Morehouse, an attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv>\u003cstrong>Here is the Associated Press story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>SACRAMENTO — A judge dismissed two lawsuits Thursday challenging the state's cap-and-trade system that limits greenhouse gases from industrial sources by putting a price on carbon.\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley rejected arguments by the California Chamber of Commerce and Pacific Legal Foundation that the system amounted to an illegal tax. As a tax, cap and trade would require a two-thirds vote in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups also argued that the California Air Resources Board lacked the proper authority to sell carbon permits to the regulated businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cap-and-trade program places a limit, or cap, on emissions from individual polluters. Businesses are required to cut emissions to cap levels or buy extra pollution allowances from other companies to make up for their overages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cap, or number of allowances, will decline over time in an effort to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge rejected both groups' arguments and ruled that money collected by cap and trade allowance sales fluctuates with the market, and resembles regulatory fees more than a tax. Plus, he said, the price put on carbon is meant to reduce emissions, not increase revenue for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``The charges have some traditional attributes of a tax and some traditional attributes of a regulatory fee but, on balance, the court finds the charges to be more like a regulatory fee ... than a traditional tax,'' the judge wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Ted Hadzi-Antich of the Pacific Legal Foundation said the group ardently disagrees and plans to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``Not only are the billions of dollars to be generated at CARB's auctions unconstitutional taxes, but the revenue-raising auctions themselves were not authorized by the California Legislature,'' Hadzi-Antich said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "118302 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=118302",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/court-rejects-challenge-to-californias-cap-and-trade-system/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 590,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 17
},
"modified": 1398733186,
"excerpt": "State's auction of permits to power plants, factories and businesses limits greenhouse gas emissions. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "State's auction of permits to power plants, factories and businesses limits greenhouse gas emissions. ",
"title": "Court Rejects Challenge to California's Cap-and-Trade System | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Court Rejects Challenge to California's Cap-and-Trade System",
"datePublished": "2013-11-14T18:16:18-08:00",
"dateModified": "2014-04-28T17:59:46-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "court-rejects-challenge-to-californias-cap-and-trade-system",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2013/11/14/118302/cap-and-trade-California/",
"path": "/news/118302/court-rejects-challenge-to-californias-cap-and-trade-system",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118328\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/118302/cap-and-trade-California/rs2769_download090427-054-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118328\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-118328\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS2769_Download090427-054-scr-e1384481455201.jpg\" alt=\"(Craig Miller / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Craig Miller / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California's year-old cap-and-trade system lives on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Superior Court judge has dismissed two lawsuits that challenged cap-and-trade — the \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/cap-and-trade-101-how-californias-carbon-market-works/\">state's sale of \"allowances,\"\u003c/a> or permits that allow companies to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The decision was dated Tuesday but made public Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling means that California maintains its authority to limit greenhouse gases from power plants, factories and other businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Chamber of Commerce and the Pacific Legal Foundation filed the lawsuits, arguing that California’s global warming law, AB32, didn’t give state officials the authority to sell the allowances. They also said the allowances were an illegal new tax, since the state legislature approved AB32 by a simple majority vote. (Under California law, new taxes require the approval of two thirds of state legislators.) \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The ruling means that California maintains its authority to limit greenhouse gases from power plants, factories and other businesses.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But in his written opinion, Judge Timothy Frawley of the Superior Court of California rejected both arguments. As the \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/energy/2013/11/14/cap-and-trade-survives-california-court-challenge/\">San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/a>noted, \"The California Air Resources Board, which organized the cap and trade system, was well within its rights to sell the allowances, he wrote in his decision. And while he agreed that the allowances had similarities to a tax, he decided they were more comparable to regulatory fees, which don’t require a supermajority vote.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists praised the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court sent a strong signal today, thoroughly affirming California's innovative climate protection program — including the vital safeguards to ensure that polluters are held accountable for their harmful emissions,\" said Erica Morehouse, an attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cdiv>\u003cstrong>Here is the Associated Press story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>SACRAMENTO — A judge dismissed two lawsuits Thursday challenging the state's cap-and-trade system that limits greenhouse gases from industrial sources by putting a price on carbon.\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley rejected arguments by the California Chamber of Commerce and Pacific Legal Foundation that the system amounted to an illegal tax. As a tax, cap and trade would require a two-thirds vote in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups also argued that the California Air Resources Board lacked the proper authority to sell carbon permits to the regulated businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cap-and-trade program places a limit, or cap, on emissions from individual polluters. Businesses are required to cut emissions to cap levels or buy extra pollution allowances from other companies to make up for their overages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cap, or number of allowances, will decline over time in an effort to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge rejected both groups' arguments and ruled that money collected by cap and trade allowance sales fluctuates with the market, and resembles regulatory fees more than a tax. Plus, he said, the price put on carbon is meant to reduce emissions, not increase revenue for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``The charges have some traditional attributes of a tax and some traditional attributes of a regulatory fee but, on balance, the court finds the charges to be more like a regulatory fee ... than a traditional tax,'' the judge wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Ted Hadzi-Antich of the Pacific Legal Foundation said the group ardently disagrees and plans to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``Not only are the billions of dollars to be generated at CARB's auctions unconstitutional taxes, but the revenue-raising auctions themselves were not authorized by the California Legislature,'' Hadzi-Antich said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/118302/court-rejects-challenge-to-californias-cap-and-trade-system",
"authors": [
"237"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_19906",
"news_6188",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_782"
],
"featImg": "news_118328",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_118190": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_118190",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "118190",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1384462996000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1384462996,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "Google Scores 'Fair Use' Victory in Massive Book-Scanning Project",
"title": "Google Scores 'Fair Use' Victory in Massive Book-Scanning Project",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89425\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/15/news-pix-san-francisco-valentines-day-protest-riverside-police-vigil-berkeley-library-showcases-flying-books/photoweek130215flyingbooks/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89425\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-89425\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/PhotoWeek130215flyingbooks.gif\" alt=\"(Photo: Kaia Diringer/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Kaia Diringer/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Google won an important \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/14/us-google-books-idUSBRE9AD0TT20131114\">victory\u003c/a> today in its long-standing legal battle with some publishers and authors over the search giant’s book-scanning project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York granted Google’s motion for summary judgment dismissing a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/google-book-scanning-fair-use\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> brought by the Author’s Guild, among others, including several authors, one of whom is former Yankees’ pitcher Jim Bouton, author of “Ball Four.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs, who say they will appeal the decision, argued that Google infringed upon their copyrights by scanning these books without their permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Google made unauthorized digital editions of nearly all of the world's valuable, copyright-protected literature and profits from displaying those works,\" Author’s Guild Executive Director Paul Aiken told ars technica. \"In our view, such mass digitization and exploitation far exceeds the bounds of the fair use defense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has not only scanned the books, which now number over 20 million titles, according to court documents, but has converted the scanned copies into searchable documents, including “snippets” that are displayed under the company’s assertion of “fair use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Judge: Five Benefits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was this interpretation of fair use that the court affirmed in today’s decision. In his opinion, Chin listed five main benefits of Google’s “library project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>First, Google Books provides a new and efficient way for readers and researchers to find books. It makes tens of millions of books searchable by words and phrases. It provides a searchable index linking each word in any book to all books in which that word appears. ... Indeed, Google Books has become such an important tool for researchers and librarians that it has been integrated into the educational system — it is taught as part of the information literacy curriculum to students at all levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Digitization facilitates the conversion of books to audio and tactile formats, increasing access for individuals with disabilities.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Second, in addition to being an important reference tool, Google Books greatly promotes a type of research referred to as \"data mining\" or \"text mining.\" Google Books permits humanities scholars to analyze massive amounts of data — the literary record created by a collection of tens of millions of books. Researchers can examine word frequencies, syntactic patterns, and thematic markers to consider how literary style has changed over time…. The ability to determine how often different words or phrases appear in books at different times \"can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, Google Books expands access to books. In particular, traditionally underserved populations will benefit as they gain knowledge of and access to far more books. Google Books provides print-disabled individuals with the potential to search for books and read them in a format that is compatible with text enlargement software, text-to-speech screen access software, and Braille devices. Digitization facilitates the conversion of books to audio and tactile formats, increasing access for individuals with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourth, Google Books helps to preserve books and give them new life. Older books, many of which are out-of-print books that are falling apart buried in library stacks, are being scanned and saved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, by helping readers and researchers identify books, Google Books benefits authors and publishers. When a user clicks on a search result and is directed to an \"About the Book\" page, the page will offer links to sellers of the book and/or libraries listing the book as part of their collections. The About the Book page for \"Ball Four,\" for example, provides links to Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, Books-A-Million, and IndieBound.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110845\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/11/google-street-view-wiretapping-appeals-court-ruling/rs378_google_082411-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110845\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110845 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS378_Google_082411-scr-e1378918079421-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Google's headquarters, and many of its office buildings, are in Mountain View.\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google's headquarters, and many of its office buildings, are in Mountain View.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Google Utilizes \"Snippets\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ruling, Chin provides an extended explanation for how Google's book-scanning process works. This includes a detailed look at how Google provides numerous \"snippets\" from a book while preventing an \"attacker\" from assembling a complete book from the snippets:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In scanning books…Google uses optical character recognition technology to generate machine-readable text, compiling a digital copy of each book. Google analyzes each scan and creates an overall index of all scanned books. The index links each word or phrase appearing in each book with all of the locations in all of the books in which that word or phrase is found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The index allows a search for a particular word or phrase to return a result that includes the most relevant books in which the word or phrase is found. Because the full texts of books are digitized, a user can search the full text of all the books in the Google Books corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users of Google's search engine may conduct searches, using queries of their own design. In response to inquiries, Google returns a list of books in which the search term appears. A user can click on a particular result to be directed to an \"About the Book\" page, which will provide the user with information about the book in question. The page includes links to sellers of the books and/or libraries that list the book as part of their collections. No advertisements have ever appeared on any About the Book page that is part of the Library Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For books in \"snippet view\" (in contrast to \"full view\" books), Google divides each page into eighths -- each of which is a \"snippet,\" a verbatim excerpt. Each search generates three snippets, but by performing multiple searches using different search terms, a single user may view far more than three snippets, as different searches can return different snippets. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">An \"attacker\" who tries to obtain an entire book by using a physical copy of the book to string together words appearing in successive passages would be able to obtain at best a patchwork of snippets that would be missing at least one snippet from every page and 10% of all pages.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For example, by making a series of consecutive, slightly different searches of the book\u003cbr>\n“Ball Four,” a single user can view many different snippets from the book. Google takes security measures to prevent users from viewing a complete copy of a snippet-view book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(A) user cannot cause the system to return different sets of snippets for the same search query; the position of each snippet is fixed within the page and does not \"slide\" around the search term; only the first responsive snippet available on any given page will be for the same search query; the position of each snippet is fixed within the page and does not \"slide\" around the search term; only the first responsive snippet available on any given page will be returned in response to a query; one of the snippets on each page is \"black-listed,\" meaning it will not be shown; and at least one out of ten entire pages in each book is black-listed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \"attacker\" who tries to obtain an entire book by using a physical copy of the book to string together words appearing in successive passages would be able to obtain at best a patchwork of snippets that would be missing at least one snippet from every page and 10% of all pages. In addition, works with text organized in short \"chunks,\" such as dictionaries, cookbooks, and books of haiku, are excluded from snippet view.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Google Prevails Over Authors In Digital Book Case on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/184236538/Google-Prevails-Over-Authors-In-Digital-Book-Case\">Google Prevails Over Authors In Digital Book Case\u003c/a> by \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View KQED News's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/KQED_News\">KQED News\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_10057\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/184236538/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-27qtfqn2z3iryd4bnzyb&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "118190 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=118190",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/google-wins-fair-use-victory-in-massive-book-scanning-project/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1282,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 24
},
"modified": 1384479519,
"excerpt": "Federal judge rules that scans are legal because Google only displays \"snippets\" in search results.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Federal judge rules that scans are legal because Google only displays "snippets" in search results.",
"title": "Google Scores 'Fair Use' Victory in Massive Book-Scanning Project | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Google Scores 'Fair Use' Victory in Massive Book-Scanning Project",
"datePublished": "2013-11-14T13:03:16-08:00",
"dateModified": "2013-11-14T17:38:39-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "google-wins-fair-use-victory-in-massive-book-scanning-project",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2013/11/14/google-wins-fair-use-legal-battle-over-book-scanning/",
"path": "/news/118190/google-wins-fair-use-victory-in-massive-book-scanning-project",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89425\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/15/news-pix-san-francisco-valentines-day-protest-riverside-police-vigil-berkeley-library-showcases-flying-books/photoweek130215flyingbooks/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89425\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-89425\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/PhotoWeek130215flyingbooks.gif\" alt=\"(Photo: Kaia Diringer/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Kaia Diringer/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Google won an important \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/14/us-google-books-idUSBRE9AD0TT20131114\">victory\u003c/a> today in its long-standing legal battle with some publishers and authors over the search giant’s book-scanning project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York granted Google’s motion for summary judgment dismissing a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/google-book-scanning-fair-use\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> brought by the Author’s Guild, among others, including several authors, one of whom is former Yankees’ pitcher Jim Bouton, author of “Ball Four.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs, who say they will appeal the decision, argued that Google infringed upon their copyrights by scanning these books without their permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Google made unauthorized digital editions of nearly all of the world's valuable, copyright-protected literature and profits from displaying those works,\" Author’s Guild Executive Director Paul Aiken told ars technica. \"In our view, such mass digitization and exploitation far exceeds the bounds of the fair use defense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google has not only scanned the books, which now number over 20 million titles, according to court documents, but has converted the scanned copies into searchable documents, including “snippets” that are displayed under the company’s assertion of “fair use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Judge: Five Benefits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was this interpretation of fair use that the court affirmed in today’s decision. In his opinion, Chin listed five main benefits of Google’s “library project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>First, Google Books provides a new and efficient way for readers and researchers to find books. It makes tens of millions of books searchable by words and phrases. It provides a searchable index linking each word in any book to all books in which that word appears. ... Indeed, Google Books has become such an important tool for researchers and librarians that it has been integrated into the educational system — it is taught as part of the information literacy curriculum to students at all levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Digitization facilitates the conversion of books to audio and tactile formats, increasing access for individuals with disabilities.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Second, in addition to being an important reference tool, Google Books greatly promotes a type of research referred to as \"data mining\" or \"text mining.\" Google Books permits humanities scholars to analyze massive amounts of data — the literary record created by a collection of tens of millions of books. Researchers can examine word frequencies, syntactic patterns, and thematic markers to consider how literary style has changed over time…. The ability to determine how often different words or phrases appear in books at different times \"can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, Google Books expands access to books. In particular, traditionally underserved populations will benefit as they gain knowledge of and access to far more books. Google Books provides print-disabled individuals with the potential to search for books and read them in a format that is compatible with text enlargement software, text-to-speech screen access software, and Braille devices. Digitization facilitates the conversion of books to audio and tactile formats, increasing access for individuals with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourth, Google Books helps to preserve books and give them new life. Older books, many of which are out-of-print books that are falling apart buried in library stacks, are being scanned and saved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, by helping readers and researchers identify books, Google Books benefits authors and publishers. When a user clicks on a search result and is directed to an \"About the Book\" page, the page will offer links to sellers of the book and/or libraries listing the book as part of their collections. The About the Book page for \"Ball Four,\" for example, provides links to Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, Books-A-Million, and IndieBound.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110845\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/11/google-street-view-wiretapping-appeals-court-ruling/rs378_google_082411-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110845\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110845 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS378_Google_082411-scr-e1378918079421-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Google's headquarters, and many of its office buildings, are in Mountain View.\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google's headquarters, and many of its office buildings, are in Mountain View.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Google Utilizes \"Snippets\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ruling, Chin provides an extended explanation for how Google's book-scanning process works. This includes a detailed look at how Google provides numerous \"snippets\" from a book while preventing an \"attacker\" from assembling a complete book from the snippets:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In scanning books…Google uses optical character recognition technology to generate machine-readable text, compiling a digital copy of each book. Google analyzes each scan and creates an overall index of all scanned books. The index links each word or phrase appearing in each book with all of the locations in all of the books in which that word or phrase is found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The index allows a search for a particular word or phrase to return a result that includes the most relevant books in which the word or phrase is found. Because the full texts of books are digitized, a user can search the full text of all the books in the Google Books corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users of Google's search engine may conduct searches, using queries of their own design. In response to inquiries, Google returns a list of books in which the search term appears. A user can click on a particular result to be directed to an \"About the Book\" page, which will provide the user with information about the book in question. The page includes links to sellers of the books and/or libraries that list the book as part of their collections. No advertisements have ever appeared on any About the Book page that is part of the Library Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For books in \"snippet view\" (in contrast to \"full view\" books), Google divides each page into eighths -- each of which is a \"snippet,\" a verbatim excerpt. Each search generates three snippets, but by performing multiple searches using different search terms, a single user may view far more than three snippets, as different searches can return different snippets. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">An \"attacker\" who tries to obtain an entire book by using a physical copy of the book to string together words appearing in successive passages would be able to obtain at best a patchwork of snippets that would be missing at least one snippet from every page and 10% of all pages.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For example, by making a series of consecutive, slightly different searches of the book\u003cbr>\n“Ball Four,” a single user can view many different snippets from the book. Google takes security measures to prevent users from viewing a complete copy of a snippet-view book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(A) user cannot cause the system to return different sets of snippets for the same search query; the position of each snippet is fixed within the page and does not \"slide\" around the search term; only the first responsive snippet available on any given page will be for the same search query; the position of each snippet is fixed within the page and does not \"slide\" around the search term; only the first responsive snippet available on any given page will be returned in response to a query; one of the snippets on each page is \"black-listed,\" meaning it will not be shown; and at least one out of ten entire pages in each book is black-listed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \"attacker\" who tries to obtain an entire book by using a physical copy of the book to string together words appearing in successive passages would be able to obtain at best a patchwork of snippets that would be missing at least one snippet from every page and 10% of all pages. In addition, works with text organized in short \"chunks,\" such as dictionaries, cookbooks, and books of haiku, are excluded from snippet view.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Google Prevails Over Authors In Digital Book Case on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/184236538/Google-Prevails-Over-Authors-In-Digital-Book-Case\">Google Prevails Over Authors In Digital Book Case\u003c/a> by \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View KQED News's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/KQED_News\">KQED News\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_10057\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/184236538/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-27qtfqn2z3iryd4bnzyb&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/118190/google-wins-fair-use-victory-in-massive-book-scanning-project",
"authors": [
"223"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_5085",
"news_5083"
],
"featImg": "news_89425",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_117880": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_117880",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "117880",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1384280656000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 7052
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1384280656,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "Sunnyvale Mayor: 'We Won't Back Down' in Gun Control Fight",
"title": "Sunnyvale Mayor: 'We Won't Back Down' in Gun Control Fight",
"headTitle": "KQED Newsroom | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/-TzTG7iVrC8\" width=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunnyvale is a town outsiders know for its many corporate headquarters (including Yahoo!), the approximate location of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_15624641\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cube\u003c/a> (a former military satellite tracking station) and, well, for being sunny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last week, Sunnyvale got \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/07/why-sunnyvale-calif-could-be-the-next-front-in-the-national-gun-control-fight/\" target=\"_blank\">nationwide attention\u003c/a> for something else, becoming the latest focus in the debate over how to regulate firearms. Sunnyvale voters approved \u003ca href=\"http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/Portals/0/Sunnyvale/OCM/Clerk/Election2013/Measure%20C-Full%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Measure C\u003c/a>, which requires reporting of ammunition sales and bars ownership of ammo magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds. It also requires gun owners to keep their guns under lock and key and to report the theft or loss of firearms within 48 hours.\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-117396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/newsroom-115x65.jpg\" alt=\"newsroom-115x65\" width=\"115\" height=\"65\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunnyvale Mayor Tony Spitaleri pushed for Measure C, and says he was motivated by a desire to prevent a repeat of last December's grade-school massacre in Newtown, Conn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That made me angry,\" Spitaleri told KQED Newsroom's Scott Shafer (see the video above), and made him determined to do something about it. He says he's certain Sunnyvale can make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I liken it to the ban on plastic bags,\" he said. \"It started with one town, then it went to another town, and then it went to another town, and now in Santa Clara County we have no more plastic bags. It has to start somewhere, and no city, no entity, is immune from any of this at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Rifle Association has served notice that it will go to court to block Measure C. Spitaleri says Sunnyvale is ready for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not backing down. We cannot afford to back down,” Spitaleri said. “We cannot lose any more children. We cannot have any more children taking weapons to school and hurting other children. It has to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED NEWSROOM\u003c/a> is a weekly news magazine program on television, radio and online. Watch Fridays at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9, listen on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM and watch on demand \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "117880 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=117880",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/12/sunnyvale-mayor-we-wont-back-down-in-gun-control-fight/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": true,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 336,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 11
},
"modified": 1429903461,
"excerpt": "Town faces threat of NRA lawsuit after voters pass measure responding to last year's Newtown massacre. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Town faces threat of NRA lawsuit after voters pass measure responding to last year's Newtown massacre. ",
"title": "Sunnyvale Mayor: 'We Won't Back Down' in Gun Control Fight | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Sunnyvale Mayor: 'We Won't Back Down' in Gun Control Fight",
"datePublished": "2013-11-12T10:24:16-08:00",
"dateModified": "2015-04-24T12:24:21-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "sunnyvale-mayor-we-wont-back-down-in-gun-control-fight",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2013/11/12/sunnyvale-mayor-tom-spitaleri-measure-c-gun-control/",
"path": "/news/117880/sunnyvale-mayor-we-wont-back-down-in-gun-control-fight",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/-TzTG7iVrC8\" width=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunnyvale is a town outsiders know for its many corporate headquarters (including Yahoo!), the approximate location of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_15624641\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Cube\u003c/a> (a former military satellite tracking station) and, well, for being sunny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last week, Sunnyvale got \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/07/why-sunnyvale-calif-could-be-the-next-front-in-the-national-gun-control-fight/\" target=\"_blank\">nationwide attention\u003c/a> for something else, becoming the latest focus in the debate over how to regulate firearms. Sunnyvale voters approved \u003ca href=\"http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/Portals/0/Sunnyvale/OCM/Clerk/Election2013/Measure%20C-Full%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Measure C\u003c/a>, which requires reporting of ammunition sales and bars ownership of ammo magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds. It also requires gun owners to keep their guns under lock and key and to report the theft or loss of firearms within 48 hours.\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-117396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/newsroom-115x65.jpg\" alt=\"newsroom-115x65\" width=\"115\" height=\"65\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunnyvale Mayor Tony Spitaleri pushed for Measure C, and says he was motivated by a desire to prevent a repeat of last December's grade-school massacre in Newtown, Conn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That made me angry,\" Spitaleri told KQED Newsroom's Scott Shafer (see the video above), and made him determined to do something about it. He says he's certain Sunnyvale can make a difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I liken it to the ban on plastic bags,\" he said. \"It started with one town, then it went to another town, and then it went to another town, and now in Santa Clara County we have no more plastic bags. It has to start somewhere, and no city, no entity, is immune from any of this at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Rifle Association has served notice that it will go to court to block Measure C. Spitaleri says Sunnyvale is ready for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not backing down. We cannot afford to back down,” Spitaleri said. “We cannot lose any more children. We cannot have any more children taking weapons to school and hurting other children. It has to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED NEWSROOM\u003c/a> is a weekly news magazine program on television, radio and online. Watch Fridays at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9, listen on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM and watch on demand \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/117880/sunnyvale-mayor-we-wont-back-down-in-gun-control-fight",
"authors": [
"104"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944",
"news_7052"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_2795",
"news_2865",
"news_4593"
],
"featImg": "news_115842",
"label": "news_7052"
},
"news_117669": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_117669",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "117669",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1383955546000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1383955546,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "News Pix: Twitter IPO, S.F. Votes, Santa Rosa Grapples with Teen's Death",
"title": "News Pix: Twitter IPO, S.F. Votes, Santa Rosa Grapples with Teen's Death",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117670\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Twitter-IPO.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter Goes Public On The New York Stock Exchange\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nTwitter's IPO launched on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. The stock opened at $45 a share, 80 percent above the initial offering price set the night before. The stock \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/twitter-ipo-stock-debuts-on-NYSE\">held steady\u003c/a> throughout the day, indicating to some market watchers that people felt it was fairly priced. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Twitter-Protest.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter Protest\" width=\"649\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nBack in San Francisco, a small crowd marked the IPO by protesting corporate tax breaks in front of Twitter headquarters on Market Street. Some see Twitter's arrival in the neighborhood, a move accompanied by tax relief from the city, as part of a tech invasion displacing lower-income residents. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117673\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Lopez-Memorial.jpg\" alt=\"Lopez Memorial\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\">\u003cbr>\nSanta Rosa residents have held \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/05/andy-lopez-protests-continue-with-appeal-to-district-attorney\">march after march\u003c/a> in the two weeks since a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed eighth-grader Andy Lopez. One theme that’s emerged during the protests is what many say is a deep gulf between Sonoma County’s Latino residents and the rest of the community. (Rachel Dornhelm/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117674\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/AndyLopez.jpg\" alt=\"AndyLopez\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\">\u003cbr>\nAt the field where Lopez died, residents have built a giant Day of the Dead altar draped in white. Some neighbors hope the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117505/\">tragedy will bring more services\u003c/a>, including playgrounds for neighborhood kids, into the city's west side, where many of its Latino residents live. (Rachel Dornhelm/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117675\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/election.jpg\" alt=\"election\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nVoter turnout was low for Tuesday's off-year election, but some important measures were decided in San Francscio. Voters rejected \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/06/election-2013-sf-waterfront-development-measures-lose\">Propositions B and C\u003c/a>, proposals that would have allowed a waterfront development to move forward. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117676\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/calaveras.jpg\" alt=\"calaveras\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nTraditional sugar skulls and candles, along with other goods such as T-shirts and figurines, were sold near 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco. The city celebrated Dia de Los Muertos with a parade down 24th Street and beautiful altars built in Garfield Square. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117672\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/alter.jpg\" alt=\"Dia de los Muertos, Nov. 2, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif.\" width=\"639\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nFor Dia de Los Muertos, San Francisco residents built elaborate altars in Garfield Square celebrating their loved ones and the things they enjoyed. Hundreds of people visited the altars, many holding candles, in an event that was both somber and celebratory. (Sara Bloomberg / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "117669 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=117669",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/08/news-pix-twitter-ipo-s-f-votes-santa-rosa-grapples-with-teens-death/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 349,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 9
},
"modified": 1399490431,
"excerpt": "And while news was happening all over the place, San Francisco residents celebrate Dia de Los Muertos. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "And while news was happening all over the place, San Francisco residents celebrate Dia de Los Muertos. ",
"title": "News Pix: Twitter IPO, S.F. Votes, Santa Rosa Grapples with Teen's Death | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "News Pix: Twitter IPO, S.F. Votes, Santa Rosa Grapples with Teen's Death",
"datePublished": "2013-11-08T16:05:46-08:00",
"dateModified": "2014-05-07T12:20:31-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "news-pix-twitter-ipo-s-f-votes-santa-rosa-grapples-with-teens-death",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2013/11/08/news-pix-twitter-ipo-and-protest-santa-rosa-grapples-with-andy-lopez-death/",
"path": "/news/117669/news-pix-twitter-ipo-s-f-votes-santa-rosa-grapples-with-teens-death",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117670\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Twitter-IPO.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter Goes Public On The New York Stock Exchange\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nTwitter's IPO launched on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. The stock opened at $45 a share, 80 percent above the initial offering price set the night before. The stock \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/twitter-ipo-stock-debuts-on-NYSE\">held steady\u003c/a> throughout the day, indicating to some market watchers that people felt it was fairly priced. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117671\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Twitter-Protest.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter Protest\" width=\"649\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nBack in San Francisco, a small crowd marked the IPO by protesting corporate tax breaks in front of Twitter headquarters on Market Street. Some see Twitter's arrival in the neighborhood, a move accompanied by tax relief from the city, as part of a tech invasion displacing lower-income residents. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117673\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Lopez-Memorial.jpg\" alt=\"Lopez Memorial\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\">\u003cbr>\nSanta Rosa residents have held \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/05/andy-lopez-protests-continue-with-appeal-to-district-attorney\">march after march\u003c/a> in the two weeks since a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed eighth-grader Andy Lopez. One theme that’s emerged during the protests is what many say is a deep gulf between Sonoma County’s Latino residents and the rest of the community. (Rachel Dornhelm/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117674\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/AndyLopez.jpg\" alt=\"AndyLopez\" width=\"640\" height=\"449\">\u003cbr>\nAt the field where Lopez died, residents have built a giant Day of the Dead altar draped in white. Some neighbors hope the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117505/\">tragedy will bring more services\u003c/a>, including playgrounds for neighborhood kids, into the city's west side, where many of its Latino residents live. (Rachel Dornhelm/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117675\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/election.jpg\" alt=\"election\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nVoter turnout was low for Tuesday's off-year election, but some important measures were decided in San Francscio. Voters rejected \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/06/election-2013-sf-waterfront-development-measures-lose\">Propositions B and C\u003c/a>, proposals that would have allowed a waterfront development to move forward. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117676\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/calaveras.jpg\" alt=\"calaveras\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nTraditional sugar skulls and candles, along with other goods such as T-shirts and figurines, were sold near 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco. The city celebrated Dia de Los Muertos with a parade down 24th Street and beautiful altars built in Garfield Square. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117672\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/alter.jpg\" alt=\"Dia de los Muertos, Nov. 2, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif.\" width=\"639\" height=\"450\">\u003cbr>\nFor Dia de Los Muertos, San Francisco residents built elaborate altars in Garfield Square celebrating their loved ones and the things they enjoyed. Hundreds of people visited the altars, many holding candles, in an event that was both somber and celebratory. (Sara Bloomberg / KQED)\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/117669/news-pix-twitter-ipo-s-f-votes-santa-rosa-grapples-with-teens-death",
"authors": [
"234"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6266",
"news_6188",
"news_13",
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_4983",
"news_3094",
"news_74",
"news_38",
"news_474",
"news_4981",
"news_346"
],
"featImg": "news_117673",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_117534": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_117534",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "117534",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1383869772000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1383869772,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "San Francisco Looks to Curb Crime, Phone Thefts on Muni ",
"title": "San Francisco Looks to Curb Crime, Phone Thefts on Muni ",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-wBAULHWWE]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing an overall spike in smart-phone robberies and a high-profile shooting on Muni, San Francisco city officials launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/eyesup\">a multilingual campaign\u003c/a> Thursday to encourage transit riders to get off their phones and pay attention to their surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think we can get to zero crime on Muni,\" said Mayor Ed Lee. \"I know that sounds almost impossible to do, but we need to have a goal like that in order to challenge everybody to pay attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Nobody's stealing books. If people would read a book while they're on Muni instead of looking at their electronic device, we could get our robberies down to nothing.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->During an Embarcadero press conference, Lee, Police Chief Greg Suhr and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Director Ed Reiskin announced a new anti-crime awareness campaign called \"Eyes Up, Phones Down.\" It includes adding more officers on buses and trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody's stealing books. If people would read a book while they're on Muni instead of looking at their electronic device, we could get our robberies down to nothing,\" said Suhr. \"Be smart, don't make it available.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98917\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/06/verizon-nsa-phone-records/cellphone/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98917\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-98917\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/cellphone-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suhr wouldn't confirm how many additional officers are being deployed, only that \"they'll be everywhere.\" A KTVU reporter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DStevensonKTVU/status/398536546275454977\">tweeted\u003c/a> that the detail will amount to about a dozen officers, or roughly 10,000 hours, according to a Muni spokeswoman. The extra patrols are being funded through a $1 million federal homeland security grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said SFPD officers already have a very visible presence on Muni. Every SFPD officer is required to ride a Muni vehicle twice a shift, and there are uniformed and plainclothes officers who are assigned to Muni full time. Suhr says the heightened police presence has led to a dip in robberies on Muni over the past two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have better than a thousand officers assigned to patrol,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA officials say fare inspectors will launch a special outreach program, handing out safety tip cards, especially to \"customers that appear vulnerable to these crimes of opportunity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Embarcadero station, Muni rider Audrey Le said the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Muni-slaying-suspect-had-cache-of-guns-police-say-4847478.php\">September murder\u003c/a> of 20-yeear-old Justin Valdez, who was shot while exiting a train, has made her more self-conscious about using her smartphone on transit. Surveillance video shows riders glued to their phones while the suspect was brandishing a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I always look up, especially near the doorway of a train because I know that's when people can grab my phone and run out the door,\" said Le. \"I'm definitely more aware, but it's really hard not to look at your phone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple and other companies have launched anti-theft programs, and \"bricking\" technology that locks phones to prevent anyone from using them. Suhr said it was too early to tell whether that had contributed to the recent decline in smartphone thefts on Muni.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "117534 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=117534",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/san-francisco-looks-to-curb-crime-phone-thefts-on-muni/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": true,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 495,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 14
},
"modified": 1398626290,
"excerpt": "Muni launches 'Eyes Up, Phones Down,' a campaign to make riders safer from crime on buses and trains. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Muni launches 'Eyes Up, Phones Down,' a campaign to make riders safer from crime on buses and trains. ",
"title": "San Francisco Looks to Curb Crime, Phone Thefts on Muni | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "San Francisco Looks to Curb Crime, Phone Thefts on Muni ",
"datePublished": "2013-11-07T16:16:12-08:00",
"dateModified": "2014-04-27T12:18:10-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "san-francisco-looks-to-curb-crime-phone-thefts-on-muni",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2013/11/07/more-cops-Muni/",
"path": "/news/117534/san-francisco-looks-to-curb-crime-phone-thefts-on-muni",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/9-wBAULHWWE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/9-wBAULHWWE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing an overall spike in smart-phone robberies and a high-profile shooting on Muni, San Francisco city officials launched \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/eyesup\">a multilingual campaign\u003c/a> Thursday to encourage transit riders to get off their phones and pay attention to their surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think we can get to zero crime on Muni,\" said Mayor Ed Lee. \"I know that sounds almost impossible to do, but we need to have a goal like that in order to challenge everybody to pay attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Nobody's stealing books. If people would read a book while they're on Muni instead of looking at their electronic device, we could get our robberies down to nothing.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->During an Embarcadero press conference, Lee, Police Chief Greg Suhr and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Director Ed Reiskin announced a new anti-crime awareness campaign called \"Eyes Up, Phones Down.\" It includes adding more officers on buses and trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody's stealing books. If people would read a book while they're on Muni instead of looking at their electronic device, we could get our robberies down to nothing,\" said Suhr. \"Be smart, don't make it available.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98917\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/06/verizon-nsa-phone-records/cellphone/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98917\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-98917\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/cellphone-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suhr wouldn't confirm how many additional officers are being deployed, only that \"they'll be everywhere.\" A KTVU reporter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DStevensonKTVU/status/398536546275454977\">tweeted\u003c/a> that the detail will amount to about a dozen officers, or roughly 10,000 hours, according to a Muni spokeswoman. The extra patrols are being funded through a $1 million federal homeland security grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said SFPD officers already have a very visible presence on Muni. Every SFPD officer is required to ride a Muni vehicle twice a shift, and there are uniformed and plainclothes officers who are assigned to Muni full time. Suhr says the heightened police presence has led to a dip in robberies on Muni over the past two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have better than a thousand officers assigned to patrol,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA officials say fare inspectors will launch a special outreach program, handing out safety tip cards, especially to \"customers that appear vulnerable to these crimes of opportunity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Embarcadero station, Muni rider Audrey Le said the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Muni-slaying-suspect-had-cache-of-guns-police-say-4847478.php\">September murder\u003c/a> of 20-yeear-old Justin Valdez, who was shot while exiting a train, has made her more self-conscious about using her smartphone on transit. Surveillance video shows riders glued to their phones while the suspect was brandishing a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I always look up, especially near the doorway of a train because I know that's when people can grab my phone and run out the door,\" said Le. \"I'm definitely more aware, but it's really hard not to look at your phone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple and other companies have launched anti-theft programs, and \"bricking\" technology that locks phones to prevent anyone from using them. Suhr said it was too early to tell whether that had contributed to the recent decline in smartphone thefts on Muni.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/117534/san-francisco-looks-to-curb-crime-phone-thefts-on-muni",
"authors": [
"214"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_320",
"news_4950",
"news_4500",
"news_2684"
],
"featImg": "news_117599",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_117390": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_117390",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "117390",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1383867053000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1383867053,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "San Diego Cops Roll Out Facial ID System -- and Stir Privacy Concerns",
"title": "San Diego Cops Roll Out Facial ID System -- and Stir Privacy Concerns",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ali Winston\u003cbr>\nThe Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/CIR-face.jpg\" alt=\"Officer Rob Halverson, with the Chula Vista Police Department in California, uses a Samsung Galaxy tablet to identify a woman as part of a pilot program in San Diego County, testing facial recognition software. (Roque Hernandez/Univision)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Rob Halverson, with the Chula Vista Police Department, uses a Samsung Galaxy tablet to identify a woman as part of a pilot program in San Diego County, testing facial recognition software. (Roque Hernandez/Univision)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a residential street in San Diego County, Chula Vista police had just arrested a young woman, still in her pajamas, for possession of narcotics. Before taking her away, Officer Rob Halverson paused in the front yard, held a Samsung Galaxy tablet up to the woman’s face and snapped a photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halverson fiddled with the tablet with his index finger a few times, and – without needing to ask the woman’s name or check her identification – her mug shot from a previous arrest, address, criminal history and other personal information appeared on the screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halverson had run the woman's photograph through the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/collections/4379389/San-Diego-Tactical-Identification-System\" target=\"_blank\">Tactical Identification System\u003c/a>, a new mobile facial recognition technology now in the hands of San Diego-area law enforcement. In an instant, the system matches images taken in the field with databases of about 348,000 San Diego County arrestees. The system itself has nearly 1.4 million booking photos because many people have multiple mug shots on record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The little-known program could become the largest expansion of facial recognition technology by U.S. law enforcement. Amid an international debate over collecting huge amounts of data on the public and sharing the information, the pilot program is putting that metadata to use in the field in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'What we're seeing now is much more surveillance-oriented, and it's in the guise of preventative policing.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The use of this technology was rolled out without any public hearings or notice. The secrecy of the program has alarmed privacy experts and raised questions about whether San Diego is the leading edge of an alarming future – one in which few people escape cataloging in a government database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five local, state and federal law enforcement agencies — including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Border Patrol, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and San Diego State University police — participate in the system. The project is coordinated by the San Diego Association of Governments and relies on a vast data-sharing program called the Automated Regional Justice Information System, or ARJIS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, the use of biometric technology by police represents a radical milestone in the militarization of American law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, technology that was developed on the battlefield has been migrating into domestic law enforcement. Since 9/11, America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have sped up that transfer. Facial recognition technology, which has been widely used by the military, is the next frontier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we're seeing now is much more surveillance-oriented, and it's in the guise of preventative policing,” said Kevin Keenan, former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties. “It's really this aspiration of prevention and social control through the monitoring of everyone's every action and storage in perpetuity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is this practice legal?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legality of law enforcement using facial recognition technology has not been tested in the courts. But a Privacy Impact Assessment, which the Automated Regional Justice Information System helped write, claims that photos of everyday people can be taken during \"traditional police-civilian encounters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego-area law enforcement agencies have used the facial recognition system since the beginning of this year, when 133 Galaxy tablets and smartphones were distributed to 25 law enforcement agencies around the region, according to documents obtained through a public records request by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>, a San Francisco nonprofit that studies surveillance and privacy issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with the number of arrests throughout the San Diego region, which has about 3.2 million residents, the system is rolling out with relatively modest numbers. In the first 10 months of 2013, officers ran 5,629 queries through the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the sheriff’s department and San Diego Association of Governments declined requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials said the pilot program is a valuable tool to help them identify people who refuse to give their names or use fake identification. Immigration officials said they have used the system to help them when they encounter immigrants who don’t have authorization to be in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Photographs are neutral – you can't say it's racist when a camera is taking a neutral picture of someone,” said Halverson, the Chula Vista officer. “It’s hitting on certain points of contact. It's doing a neutral analysis of a person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The software works by capturing a freeze frame of a live video feed, which then focuses on the face and uses the distance between the eyes as a baseline. An algorithm then analyzes unique textures and patterns on the face, cross-referencing the freeze frame at the rate of a million comparisons per second against the police mug-shot database that also has been processed by the software.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'Photographs are neutral – you can't say it's racist when a camera is taking a neutral picture of someone.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials said the facial recognition software has built-in privacy safeguards. After an image taken in the field is run through the system, it is discarded by the central database, they said. They say it does not create a database of photos of people who are stopped by police and questioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, during field tests with Chula Vista police, images taken by field officers were stored within individual tablets. It’s up to officers to delete those photos on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This technology is not infallible\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers who have used the system rave about its precision in identifying people. But facial recognition technology remains imperfect. Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, show that the FBI’s facial recognition program could fail to identify the right person in 1 out of 5 encounters – potentially ensnaring innocent people in investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Development of the San Diego program goes as far back as 2007, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. That’s when the federal government’s National Institute of Justice awarded a $418,000 information-led policing grant to ARJIS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the San Diego Association of Governments selected \u003ca href=\"http://www.facefirst.com/\">FaceFirst LLC\u003c/a>, a privately held facial recognition firm in Camarillo, as the technology vendor. A $475,000 Department of Homeland Security grant covered the cost of purchasing FaceFirst's license and the hardware required to roll out the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 2007, FaceFirst is a spinoff of military contractor Airborne Technologies and is backed by the $18 billion private equity firm Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. FaceFirst’s main product is facial recognition software that, according to CEO Joe Rosenkrantz, has the capability to “identify everyone in a football stadium in five seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Air Force Gen. Victor Renuart, the Pentagon's homeland security commander, advocated for the increased use of biometrics within the U.S. Among domestic law enforcement, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona and the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office in Florida have devoted considerable time and resources to developing biometric technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, expressed alarm at the normalization of military-grade technology in daily police activity. She said she believes the San Diego regional government’s lack of transparency around the facial recognition program is designed to minimize opposition and public debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It becomes accepted and is much harder to push back when an agency has purchased 150 devices and deployed them in the field,\" Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "117390 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=117390",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/san-diego-law-enforcement-rolls-out-controversial-facial-recognition-technology/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1315,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 30
},
"modified": 1383874533,
"excerpt": "San Diego's use of facial recognition software is raising privacy questions.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "San Diego's use of facial recognition software is raising privacy questions.",
"title": "San Diego Cops Roll Out Facial ID System -- and Stir Privacy Concerns | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "San Diego Cops Roll Out Facial ID System -- and Stir Privacy Concerns",
"datePublished": "2013-11-07T15:30:53-08:00",
"dateModified": "2013-11-07T17:35:33-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "san-diego-law-enforcement-rolls-out-controversial-facial-recognition-technology",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2013/11/06/san-diego-facial-recognition-technology/",
"path": "/news/117390/san-diego-law-enforcement-rolls-out-controversial-facial-recognition-technology",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ali Winston\u003cbr>\nThe Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/CIR-face.jpg\" alt=\"Officer Rob Halverson, with the Chula Vista Police Department in California, uses a Samsung Galaxy tablet to identify a woman as part of a pilot program in San Diego County, testing facial recognition software. (Roque Hernandez/Univision)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Rob Halverson, with the Chula Vista Police Department, uses a Samsung Galaxy tablet to identify a woman as part of a pilot program in San Diego County, testing facial recognition software. (Roque Hernandez/Univision)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a residential street in San Diego County, Chula Vista police had just arrested a young woman, still in her pajamas, for possession of narcotics. Before taking her away, Officer Rob Halverson paused in the front yard, held a Samsung Galaxy tablet up to the woman’s face and snapped a photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halverson fiddled with the tablet with his index finger a few times, and – without needing to ask the woman’s name or check her identification – her mug shot from a previous arrest, address, criminal history and other personal information appeared on the screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halverson had run the woman's photograph through the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/collections/4379389/San-Diego-Tactical-Identification-System\" target=\"_blank\">Tactical Identification System\u003c/a>, a new mobile facial recognition technology now in the hands of San Diego-area law enforcement. In an instant, the system matches images taken in the field with databases of about 348,000 San Diego County arrestees. The system itself has nearly 1.4 million booking photos because many people have multiple mug shots on record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The little-known program could become the largest expansion of facial recognition technology by U.S. law enforcement. Amid an international debate over collecting huge amounts of data on the public and sharing the information, the pilot program is putting that metadata to use in the field in real time.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'What we're seeing now is much more surveillance-oriented, and it's in the guise of preventative policing.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The use of this technology was rolled out without any public hearings or notice. The secrecy of the program has alarmed privacy experts and raised questions about whether San Diego is the leading edge of an alarming future – one in which few people escape cataloging in a government database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five local, state and federal law enforcement agencies — including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Border Patrol, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and San Diego State University police — participate in the system. The project is coordinated by the San Diego Association of Governments and relies on a vast data-sharing program called the Automated Regional Justice Information System, or ARJIS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, the use of biometric technology by police represents a radical milestone in the militarization of American law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, technology that was developed on the battlefield has been migrating into domestic law enforcement. Since 9/11, America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have sped up that transfer. Facial recognition technology, which has been widely used by the military, is the next frontier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we're seeing now is much more surveillance-oriented, and it's in the guise of preventative policing,” said Kevin Keenan, former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties. “It's really this aspiration of prevention and social control through the monitoring of everyone's every action and storage in perpetuity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is this practice legal?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legality of law enforcement using facial recognition technology has not been tested in the courts. But a Privacy Impact Assessment, which the Automated Regional Justice Information System helped write, claims that photos of everyday people can be taken during \"traditional police-civilian encounters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego-area law enforcement agencies have used the facial recognition system since the beginning of this year, when 133 Galaxy tablets and smartphones were distributed to 25 law enforcement agencies around the region, according to documents obtained through a public records request by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>, a San Francisco nonprofit that studies surveillance and privacy issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with the number of arrests throughout the San Diego region, which has about 3.2 million residents, the system is rolling out with relatively modest numbers. In the first 10 months of 2013, officers ran 5,629 queries through the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the sheriff’s department and San Diego Association of Governments declined requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials said the pilot program is a valuable tool to help them identify people who refuse to give their names or use fake identification. Immigration officials said they have used the system to help them when they encounter immigrants who don’t have authorization to be in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Photographs are neutral – you can't say it's racist when a camera is taking a neutral picture of someone,” said Halverson, the Chula Vista officer. “It’s hitting on certain points of contact. It's doing a neutral analysis of a person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The software works by capturing a freeze frame of a live video feed, which then focuses on the face and uses the distance between the eyes as a baseline. An algorithm then analyzes unique textures and patterns on the face, cross-referencing the freeze frame at the rate of a million comparisons per second against the police mug-shot database that also has been processed by the software.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> 'Photographs are neutral – you can't say it's racist when a camera is taking a neutral picture of someone.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials said the facial recognition software has built-in privacy safeguards. After an image taken in the field is run through the system, it is discarded by the central database, they said. They say it does not create a database of photos of people who are stopped by police and questioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, during field tests with Chula Vista police, images taken by field officers were stored within individual tablets. It’s up to officers to delete those photos on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This technology is not infallible\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers who have used the system rave about its precision in identifying people. But facial recognition technology remains imperfect. Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, show that the FBI’s facial recognition program could fail to identify the right person in 1 out of 5 encounters – potentially ensnaring innocent people in investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Development of the San Diego program goes as far back as 2007, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. That’s when the federal government’s National Institute of Justice awarded a $418,000 information-led policing grant to ARJIS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the San Diego Association of Governments selected \u003ca href=\"http://www.facefirst.com/\">FaceFirst LLC\u003c/a>, a privately held facial recognition firm in Camarillo, as the technology vendor. A $475,000 Department of Homeland Security grant covered the cost of purchasing FaceFirst's license and the hardware required to roll out the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 2007, FaceFirst is a spinoff of military contractor Airborne Technologies and is backed by the $18 billion private equity firm Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. FaceFirst’s main product is facial recognition software that, according to CEO Joe Rosenkrantz, has the capability to “identify everyone in a football stadium in five seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Air Force Gen. Victor Renuart, the Pentagon's homeland security commander, advocated for the increased use of biometrics within the U.S. Among domestic law enforcement, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona and the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office in Florida have devoted considerable time and resources to developing biometric technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, expressed alarm at the normalization of military-grade technology in daily police activity. She said she believes the San Diego regional government’s lack of transparency around the facial recognition program is designed to minimize opposition and public debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It becomes accepted and is much harder to push back when an agency has purchased 150 devices and deployed them in the field,\" Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/117390/san-diego-law-enforcement-rolls-out-controversial-facial-recognition-technology",
"authors": [
"236"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_18544"
],
"featImg": "news_117412",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_117427": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_117427",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "117427",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1383867014000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1383867014,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "Oakland Police Say Homophobia Was Motive for Attack on Bus Passenger",
"title": "Oakland Police Say Homophobia Was Motive for Attack on Bus Passenger",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/sashafleischman.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/sashafleischman-e1383777809115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luke \"Sasha\" Fleischman, high school student whose clothing was set on fire while riding on a bus in Oakland. (Fundly)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Oakland police say a 16-year-old boy charged with lighting a fellow bus passenger on fire has told them he committed the attack because he's homophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County prosecutors say the suspect, Richard Thomas, a student at Oakland High School, will be tried as an adult. He faces charges of aggravated mayhem and felony assault resulting in serious bodily injury in the Monday evening attack on Luke \"Sasha\" Fleischman, 18, of Berkeley. Fleischman, who was wearing a skirt, had fallen asleep at the rear of a bus traveling through East Oakland when the attack occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The intentional and callous nature of the crime is shocking and will not be tolerated in our community.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said today that Thomas will face hate-crime enhancements on both charges. Fleischman suffered second- and third-degree burns and is being treated in a San Francisco hospital burn unit.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nFrom the Oakland Tribune \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_24477162\" target=\"_blank\">this afternoon\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Thomas' \"violent and senseless criminal conduct resulted in severe and traumatic injuries to a young and entirely innocent victim,\" said Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The intentional and callous nature of the crime is shocking and will not be tolerated in our community,\" O'Malley said. \"Our thoughts remain with the victim and the victim's family in wishing for a full recovery from the extensive burns suffered as a result of this crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felony aggravated assault carries a maximum prison sentence of life with the possibility of parole, the sentence for the assault charge is a maximum of eight years in prison, and each of the two hate crime enhancements carries one year each in prison, a spokeswoman for the Alameda County District Attorney said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"During (the) suspect interview, the suspect stated he did it because he was homophobic,\" lead police investigator Officer Anwawn Jones said in the probable cause statement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's our earlier account of the case, from KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/author/tracey/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracey Taylor\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nBerkeleyside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support and funds are pouring in for an 18-year-old Berkeley student who was set on fire while riding an AC Transit bus in Oakland Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luke “Sasha” Fleischman, a senior at Berkeley’s Maybeck High School, was sleeping in the rear of a bus heading toward East Oakland. Fleischman’s skirt was set on fire, according to a report in the Oakland Tribune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested a 16-year-old male Oakland High School student on Tuesday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and mayhem. He could face other charges, according to the Tribune, which said he was identified through surveillance video on the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"This has been devastating for all the community.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fleischman, with the help of other riders, was able to extinguish the flames but suffered second- and third-degree burns to the legs that will require significant skin grafting. The student is in stable condition at St. Francis Memorial Hospital’s Bothin Burn Center in San Francisco and has a good prognosis for recovery, according to an email sent out to the Maybeck community by the school’s director, Trevor Cralle, Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fleischman does not identify as male or female but rather as “agender,” and feels comfortable wearing a skirt, his mother, Debbie Fleischman, told the Tribune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Kahn, operations and finance manager at Maybeck High School, a private, multicultural high school on College Avenue in south Berkeley, said today that Fleischman is a “remarkable kid” and an “excellent student” who is a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been devastating for all the community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fleischman prefers to be referred to as “they” rather than “he” or “she,” Kahn added. \"Sasha worked out the gender issues on their own and we try to respect the wish to be referred to as ‘they.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends and acquaintances have been quick to rally around to support the Berkeley student. At the time of writing, nearly $16,000 has been raised from 283 people through a campaign set up on the Fundly website by Fleischman’s cousin, Joshua Allan. Nearly 200 comments expressing support have also been left on the site. The fundraising goal is currently set at $20,000, with funds earmarked for medical bills. [\u003cstrong>Update: \u003c/strong>As of 2:45 p.m., less than two hours after Berkeleyside's post was published, the number of donors was more than 400 and the amount pledged has increased to about $21,000.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Maybeck office is accepting cards and gifts for Sasha, but note that flowers are not permitted in the burn unit of the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "117427 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=117427",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/supporters-rally-for-berkeley-student-set-on-fire-on-ac-transit-bus/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 806,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 21
},
"modified": 1398475002,
"excerpt": "Suspect, a student at Oakland High School, faces hate-crime charges and will be tried as an adult. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Suspect, a student at Oakland High School, faces hate-crime charges and will be tried as an adult. ",
"title": "Oakland Police Say Homophobia Was Motive for Attack on Bus Passenger | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Oakland Police Say Homophobia Was Motive for Attack on Bus Passenger",
"datePublished": "2013-11-07T15:30:14-08:00",
"dateModified": "2014-04-25T18:16:42-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "supporters-rally-for-berkeley-student-set-on-fire-on-ac-transit-bus",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2013/11/06/supporters-rally-for-berkeley-student/",
"path": "/news/117427/supporters-rally-for-berkeley-student-set-on-fire-on-ac-transit-bus",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/sashafleischman.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/sashafleischman-e1383777809115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luke \"Sasha\" Fleischman, high school student whose clothing was set on fire while riding on a bus in Oakland. (Fundly)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Oakland police say a 16-year-old boy charged with lighting a fellow bus passenger on fire has told them he committed the attack because he's homophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County prosecutors say the suspect, Richard Thomas, a student at Oakland High School, will be tried as an adult. He faces charges of aggravated mayhem and felony assault resulting in serious bodily injury in the Monday evening attack on Luke \"Sasha\" Fleischman, 18, of Berkeley. Fleischman, who was wearing a skirt, had fallen asleep at the rear of a bus traveling through East Oakland when the attack occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'The intentional and callous nature of the crime is shocking and will not be tolerated in our community.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said today that Thomas will face hate-crime enhancements on both charges. Fleischman suffered second- and third-degree burns and is being treated in a San Francisco hospital burn unit.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nFrom the Oakland Tribune \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_24477162\" target=\"_blank\">this afternoon\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Thomas' \"violent and senseless criminal conduct resulted in severe and traumatic injuries to a young and entirely innocent victim,\" said Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The intentional and callous nature of the crime is shocking and will not be tolerated in our community,\" O'Malley said. \"Our thoughts remain with the victim and the victim's family in wishing for a full recovery from the extensive burns suffered as a result of this crime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felony aggravated assault carries a maximum prison sentence of life with the possibility of parole, the sentence for the assault charge is a maximum of eight years in prison, and each of the two hate crime enhancements carries one year each in prison, a spokeswoman for the Alameda County District Attorney said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"During (the) suspect interview, the suspect stated he did it because he was homophobic,\" lead police investigator Officer Anwawn Jones said in the probable cause statement.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's our earlier account of the case, from KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/author/tracey/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracey Taylor\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nBerkeleyside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support and funds are pouring in for an 18-year-old Berkeley student who was set on fire while riding an AC Transit bus in Oakland Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luke “Sasha” Fleischman, a senior at Berkeley’s Maybeck High School, was sleeping in the rear of a bus heading toward East Oakland. Fleischman’s skirt was set on fire, according to a report in the Oakland Tribune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested a 16-year-old male Oakland High School student on Tuesday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and mayhem. He could face other charges, according to the Tribune, which said he was identified through surveillance video on the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"This has been devastating for all the community.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Fleischman, with the help of other riders, was able to extinguish the flames but suffered second- and third-degree burns to the legs that will require significant skin grafting. The student is in stable condition at St. Francis Memorial Hospital’s Bothin Burn Center in San Francisco and has a good prognosis for recovery, according to an email sent out to the Maybeck community by the school’s director, Trevor Cralle, Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fleischman does not identify as male or female but rather as “agender,” and feels comfortable wearing a skirt, his mother, Debbie Fleischman, told the Tribune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurie Kahn, operations and finance manager at Maybeck High School, a private, multicultural high school on College Avenue in south Berkeley, said today that Fleischman is a “remarkable kid” and an “excellent student” who is a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been devastating for all the community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fleischman prefers to be referred to as “they” rather than “he” or “she,” Kahn added. \"Sasha worked out the gender issues on their own and we try to respect the wish to be referred to as ‘they.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends and acquaintances have been quick to rally around to support the Berkeley student. At the time of writing, nearly $16,000 has been raised from 283 people through a campaign set up on the Fundly website by Fleischman’s cousin, Joshua Allan. Nearly 200 comments expressing support have also been left on the site. The fundraising goal is currently set at $20,000, with funds earmarked for medical bills. [\u003cstrong>Update: \u003c/strong>As of 2:45 p.m., less than two hours after Berkeleyside's post was published, the number of donors was more than 400 and the amount pledged has increased to about $21,000.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Maybeck office is accepting cards and gifts for Sasha, but note that flowers are not permitted in the burn unit of the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/117427/supporters-rally-for-berkeley-student-set-on-fire-on-ac-transit-bus",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188"
],
"tags": [
"news_2505",
"news_4273",
"news_5038"
],
"featImg": "news_117429",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_117505": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_117505",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "117505",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1383851211000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1383851211,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "Andy Lopez Killing Exposes Rift in Sonoma County Community",
"title": "Andy Lopez Killing Exposes Rift in Sonoma County Community",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117505/photo-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117523\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117523\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/photo-1-e1383857635223.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the memorial set up to honor Andy Lopez, shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy. (Rachel Dornhelm/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the memorial set up to honor Andy Lopez, shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy. (Rachel Dornhelm/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People in Santa Rosa have held march after march in the two weeks since a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy shot and killed Santa Rosa eighth-grader Andy Lopez. One theme that's emerged during the protests is what many say is a deep gulf between Sonoma County's Latino residents and the rest of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Francisco Vazquez, a historian at Sonoma State University, says he knows why the Lopez killing has sparked anger among Latino residents. Vasquez has lived in the county for 30 years, some of that in the largely Latino Roseland neighborhood where the boy was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you live day in and day out a lot of violations to your own human dignity and there’s really no outlets, then when an incident like this shooting happens, then all hell breaks loose,\" he says. \"And then people from the outside who don’t take part of this experience are surprised and shocked.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nVazquez says those indignities can be personal, like getting poor customer service at stores when he’s not dressed professionally. But they can also be systemic. Latinos in Sonoma County are half as likely as those in the rest of the state to graduate with necessary courses to go on to a four-year university. And Latinos are three times more likely to be living in poverty compared to other county residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"When you live day in and day out a lot of violations to your own human dignity and there’s really no outlets, then when an incident like this shooting happens, then all hell breaks loose.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Politically, despite making up a quarter of Santa Rosa’s population, there was no Latino representative on the City Council until 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of Latino leaders are working to change issues around representation. Los Cien is a local group that is working within the community to help groom future leaders and build unity, says the group’s founder, Herman Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One member of Los Cien is Wanda Tapia. She showed me around Roseland, the neighborhood where she raised her kids. It’s where most of Santa Rosa Latinos live, on the city’s west side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know some of the mindset of walking into a store and people looking at you because they think you’re going to steal something,\" she says. \"I’m not going to steal anything, I have enough money, you know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tapia sits on several community boards, like the Chamber of Commerce, and is the cofounder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.latinoserviceproviders.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Latino Service Providers\u003c/a>. She attended one of the marches to protest Andy Lopez's killing, the first time she was moved to go to a political rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tapia says some changes need to come from institutions: educating law enforcement about the community, addressing inequities in the school system. And some changes are needed to improve basic infrastructure in the Roseland district. She points out the lack of lighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As you can see, there is only one side you can walk on this road,\" Tapia says. \"There are young people walking through here all the time and we really need to make it a safer place for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Ortiz has lived in Sonoma County since 1964, when he took a job as a social worker to field laborers. Soon after, Ortiz founded the community group \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahumandevelopment.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Human Development\u003c/a>. He says the Lopez killing \"breached the peace\" for Latino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know there are very good people and leaders on the white community side, there’s no question,\" Ortiz says. \"But we’re a very big segment of the population, we speak Spanish, our culture is different, our viewpoints are not quite the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz says by and large he’s been very happy in Sonoma County. But he says the Lopez shooting is a reminder of the problems Latinos face: \"We are not looked upon as people who are bona fide residents and citizen of this community, which I take great exception to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa Mayor Scott Bartley says he doesn’t perceive racial tensions in the city. But he says he wants to hear from residents in a series of community forums organized after the Lopez shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are probably 100 issues tied into this,\" he says. \"And we need to hear what those issues are and then we need to decide how does government address them, how does government interact with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds: “You want to say, well, it’s not me. Well, it is all of us, as a community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the field where Lopez died, residents have built a giant Day of the Dead altar draped in white. The fragrance of votive candles hangs in the air. Nearby are a small plastic slide and playhouse, set up so kids could play at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliseo Avalos watches his 2-year-old daughter play on the slide, and points out there are no parks in his neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a park here within walking distance — you have to drive,\" he says. \"I think the kids can use a park here especially if their parents are working or can’t drive them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos is helping keep the candles lit for Andy Lopez. And he’s been heartened by the outpouring of support. He says he hopes something good, whether it’s a playground or greater understanding in the community, comes out of the tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119036591\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "117505 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=117505",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/andy-lopez-killing-exposes-rift-in-sonoma-county-community/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": true,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 943,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 23
},
"modified": 1383872171,
"excerpt": "Last month's police shooting has raised issues of exclusion, disrespect for Latinos in North Bay. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Last month's police shooting has raised issues of exclusion, disrespect for Latinos in North Bay. ",
"title": "Andy Lopez Killing Exposes Rift in Sonoma County Community | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Andy Lopez Killing Exposes Rift in Sonoma County Community",
"datePublished": "2013-11-07T11:06:51-08:00",
"dateModified": "2013-11-07T16:56:11-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "andy-lopez-killing-exposes-rift-in-sonoma-county-community",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2013/11/07/117505/",
"path": "/news/117505/andy-lopez-killing-exposes-rift-in-sonoma-county-community",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117505/photo-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117523\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117523\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/photo-1-e1383857635223.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the memorial set up to honor Andy Lopez, shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy. (Rachel Dornhelm/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the memorial set up to honor Andy Lopez, shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy. (Rachel Dornhelm/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People in Santa Rosa have held march after march in the two weeks since a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy shot and killed Santa Rosa eighth-grader Andy Lopez. One theme that's emerged during the protests is what many say is a deep gulf between Sonoma County's Latino residents and the rest of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Francisco Vazquez, a historian at Sonoma State University, says he knows why the Lopez killing has sparked anger among Latino residents. Vasquez has lived in the county for 30 years, some of that in the largely Latino Roseland neighborhood where the boy was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you live day in and day out a lot of violations to your own human dignity and there’s really no outlets, then when an incident like this shooting happens, then all hell breaks loose,\" he says. \"And then people from the outside who don’t take part of this experience are surprised and shocked.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nVazquez says those indignities can be personal, like getting poor customer service at stores when he’s not dressed professionally. But they can also be systemic. Latinos in Sonoma County are half as likely as those in the rest of the state to graduate with necessary courses to go on to a four-year university. And Latinos are three times more likely to be living in poverty compared to other county residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"When you live day in and day out a lot of violations to your own human dignity and there’s really no outlets, then when an incident like this shooting happens, then all hell breaks loose.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Politically, despite making up a quarter of Santa Rosa’s population, there was no Latino representative on the City Council until 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of Latino leaders are working to change issues around representation. Los Cien is a local group that is working within the community to help groom future leaders and build unity, says the group’s founder, Herman Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One member of Los Cien is Wanda Tapia. She showed me around Roseland, the neighborhood where she raised her kids. It’s where most of Santa Rosa Latinos live, on the city’s west side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know some of the mindset of walking into a store and people looking at you because they think you’re going to steal something,\" she says. \"I’m not going to steal anything, I have enough money, you know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tapia sits on several community boards, like the Chamber of Commerce, and is the cofounder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.latinoserviceproviders.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Latino Service Providers\u003c/a>. She attended one of the marches to protest Andy Lopez's killing, the first time she was moved to go to a political rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tapia says some changes need to come from institutions: educating law enforcement about the community, addressing inequities in the school system. And some changes are needed to improve basic infrastructure in the Roseland district. She points out the lack of lighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As you can see, there is only one side you can walk on this road,\" Tapia says. \"There are young people walking through here all the time and we really need to make it a safer place for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Ortiz has lived in Sonoma County since 1964, when he took a job as a social worker to field laborers. Soon after, Ortiz founded the community group \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahumandevelopment.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Human Development\u003c/a>. He says the Lopez killing \"breached the peace\" for Latino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know there are very good people and leaders on the white community side, there’s no question,\" Ortiz says. \"But we’re a very big segment of the population, we speak Spanish, our culture is different, our viewpoints are not quite the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz says by and large he’s been very happy in Sonoma County. But he says the Lopez shooting is a reminder of the problems Latinos face: \"We are not looked upon as people who are bona fide residents and citizen of this community, which I take great exception to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa Mayor Scott Bartley says he doesn’t perceive racial tensions in the city. But he says he wants to hear from residents in a series of community forums organized after the Lopez shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are probably 100 issues tied into this,\" he says. \"And we need to hear what those issues are and then we need to decide how does government address them, how does government interact with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds: “You want to say, well, it’s not me. Well, it is all of us, as a community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the field where Lopez died, residents have built a giant Day of the Dead altar draped in white. The fragrance of votive candles hangs in the air. Nearby are a small plastic slide and playhouse, set up so kids could play at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliseo Avalos watches his 2-year-old daughter play on the slide, and points out there are no parks in his neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There isn’t a park here within walking distance — you have to drive,\" he says. \"I think the kids can use a park here especially if their parents are working or can’t drive them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos is helping keep the candles lit for Andy Lopez. And he’s been heartened by the outpouring of support. He says he hopes something good, whether it’s a playground or greater understanding in the community, comes out of the tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/119036591\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/117505/andy-lopez-killing-exposes-rift-in-sonoma-county-community",
"authors": [
"252"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_4983",
"news_19903",
"news_474",
"news_4981"
],
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_117309": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_117309",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "117309",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1383696080000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1383696080,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "Andy Lopez Protests Continue in Santa Rosa With Appeal to D.A.",
"title": "Andy Lopez Protests Continue in Santa Rosa With Appeal to D.A.",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/24/sonoma-county-deputy-shot-santa-rosa-teenager-seven-times/andylopez-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115995\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115995\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/andylopez-e1382677982562.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Lopez, shot and killed by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy earlier this week. \" width=\"640\" height=\"473\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Lopez, shot and killed by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy two weeks ago.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today was another day of protests in Santa Rosa over the fatal shooting two weeks ago of eighth-grader Andy Lopez by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy. About 100 people showed up this morning to address the regular meeting of the county Board of Supervisors about the killing. Afterward, a crowd of about 200 marched to the nearby Hall of Justice to demand a grand jury investigate the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputy who shot Lopez, Erick Gelhaus, spotted the 13-year-old on Oct. 22 carrying what turned out to be a pellet-gun replica of an AK-47 assault rifle. Gelhaus opened fire when Lopez didn't immediately comply with an order to put the gun down and instead began turning toward the deputy. Gelhaus, a 24-year department veteran with extensive experience as a police weapons trainer, fired eight shots, hitting Lopez seven times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa police investigators have emphasized the similarity between the toy gun Lopez was carrying and an actual AK-47. Critics of the shooting have focused on the brief span — apparently less than 10 seconds — between the moment Gelhaus and his partner spotted the teenager and when Gelhaus opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa resident Alfredo Sanchez dramatized that issue at this morning's three-hour Board of Supervisors meeting, saying he was convinced Lopez's ethnicity played a part in the decision to shoot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mississippi one, Mississippi two, Mississippi three, Mississippi four, Mississippi five, Mississippi six, Mississippi seven, Mississippi eight, Mississippi nine, Mississippi ten. Boom! A life was taken in 10 seconds,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in the audience raised questions about community policing and citizen oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vince Harper of Community Action Partnership, a Santa Rosa-based anti-poverty organization, said the Latino families he works with are asking a difficult question: \"How can I trust that when I call the police this won’t happen to my family — to my kids?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Rosa Press Democrat \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20131105/articles/131109790?title=Marchers-protest-Andy-Lopez-killing-in-Santa-Rosa#page=2\" target=\"_blank\">reported \u003c/a>that leaders of the march would be meeting with Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch to discuss the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez's family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit (see document below) on Monday against Gelhaus and Sonoma County, saying the killing was \"a senseless and unwarranted act of police abuse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other details that depart from the current police account of the shooting, the suit alleges that only three seconds elapsed between the deputies' first shouted warning to Lopez and the time Gelhaus began shooting. The suit also says the deputies never identified themselves as police officers and that Gelhaus continued firing even after the mortally wounded Lopez fell to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Andy Lopez lawsuit on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/181864105/Andy-Lopez-lawsuit\">Andy Lopez lawsuit\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_79393\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/181864105/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Alex Emslie contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "117309 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=117309",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/05/andy-lopez-protests-continue-in-santa-rosa-with-appeal-to-d-a/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 468,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 14
},
"modified": 1383699131,
"excerpt": "Demonstrators denounce killing of teenager and demand a grand jury investigation into the case. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Demonstrators denounce killing of teenager and demand a grand jury investigation into the case. ",
"title": "Andy Lopez Protests Continue in Santa Rosa With Appeal to D.A. | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Andy Lopez Protests Continue in Santa Rosa With Appeal to D.A.",
"datePublished": "2013-11-05T16:01:20-08:00",
"dateModified": "2013-11-05T16:52:11-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "andy-lopez-protests-continue-in-santa-rosa-with-appeal-to-d-a",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2013/11/05/andy-lopez-protests-continue-with-appeal-to-district-attorney/",
"path": "/news/117309/andy-lopez-protests-continue-in-santa-rosa-with-appeal-to-d-a",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/24/sonoma-county-deputy-shot-santa-rosa-teenager-seven-times/andylopez-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115995\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115995\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/andylopez-e1382677982562.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Lopez, shot and killed by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy earlier this week. \" width=\"640\" height=\"473\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Lopez, shot and killed by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy two weeks ago.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today was another day of protests in Santa Rosa over the fatal shooting two weeks ago of eighth-grader Andy Lopez by a Sonoma County sheriff's deputy. About 100 people showed up this morning to address the regular meeting of the county Board of Supervisors about the killing. Afterward, a crowd of about 200 marched to the nearby Hall of Justice to demand a grand jury investigate the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputy who shot Lopez, Erick Gelhaus, spotted the 13-year-old on Oct. 22 carrying what turned out to be a pellet-gun replica of an AK-47 assault rifle. Gelhaus opened fire when Lopez didn't immediately comply with an order to put the gun down and instead began turning toward the deputy. Gelhaus, a 24-year department veteran with extensive experience as a police weapons trainer, fired eight shots, hitting Lopez seven times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa police investigators have emphasized the similarity between the toy gun Lopez was carrying and an actual AK-47. Critics of the shooting have focused on the brief span — apparently less than 10 seconds — between the moment Gelhaus and his partner spotted the teenager and when Gelhaus opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa resident Alfredo Sanchez dramatized that issue at this morning's three-hour Board of Supervisors meeting, saying he was convinced Lopez's ethnicity played a part in the decision to shoot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mississippi one, Mississippi two, Mississippi three, Mississippi four, Mississippi five, Mississippi six, Mississippi seven, Mississippi eight, Mississippi nine, Mississippi ten. Boom! A life was taken in 10 seconds,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in the audience raised questions about community policing and citizen oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vince Harper of Community Action Partnership, a Santa Rosa-based anti-poverty organization, said the Latino families he works with are asking a difficult question: \"How can I trust that when I call the police this won’t happen to my family — to my kids?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Rosa Press Democrat \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20131105/articles/131109790?title=Marchers-protest-Andy-Lopez-killing-in-Santa-Rosa#page=2\" target=\"_blank\">reported \u003c/a>that leaders of the march would be meeting with Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch to discuss the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez's family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit (see document below) on Monday against Gelhaus and Sonoma County, saying the killing was \"a senseless and unwarranted act of police abuse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other details that depart from the current police account of the shooting, the suit alleges that only three seconds elapsed between the deputies' first shouted warning to Lopez and the time Gelhaus began shooting. The suit also says the deputies never identified themselves as police officers and that Gelhaus continued firing even after the mortally wounded Lopez fell to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Andy Lopez lawsuit on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/181864105/Andy-Lopez-lawsuit\">Andy Lopez lawsuit\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_79393\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/181864105/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Alex Emslie contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/117309/andy-lopez-protests-continue-in-santa-rosa-with-appeal-to-d-a",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_4983",
"news_5017",
"news_116",
"news_4981"
],
"featImg": "news_115995",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_116951": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_116951",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "116951",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1383571838000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1383571838,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "California's Corrections Secretary Faces Steep Challenges",
"title": "California's Corrections Secretary Faces Steep Challenges",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>It wouldn’t be a stretch to say Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard has the toughest job in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117027\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117027\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard-stockton-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Beard unveiled a new medical prison in Stockton this summer (Scott Detrow / KQED News)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard unveiled a new medical prison in Stockton this summer (Scott Detrow / KQED News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/05/110028/california-prison-hunger-strike-ends\">a widespread\u003c/a> hunger \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/30/105074/\">strike\u003c/a> to a never-ending battle with federal judges over control of health care in California’s prisons, Beard has faced crisis after crisis since he joined the Brown Administration late last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all those problems, you’d forgive Beard for having second thoughts about his new job. But the secretary’s response is pretty understated. “You know, I think they make the job just – very interesting,” he told KQED during a lengthy interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a typical response from Beard, who developed a reputation as a policy-obsessed, always-serious technocrat over his four-decade career in corrections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard has been on the job in California since last December. But before that, he spent a decade running Pennsylvania’s prison system. There, he fought many of the same battles he’s fighting in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cleaning up after a riot\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard’s first big test came in October 1989. That’s when \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/28/us/rioters-destroy-nearly-half-the-buildings-in-a-pennsylvania-prison.html\">inmates seized control of an overcrowded suburban Harrisburg prison during two days of vicious riots\u003c/a>. Inmates burned down more than half the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill. They took five hostages. The riot shocked Pennsylvania, and forced Governor Bob Casey to launch a blue-ribbon commission aimed at uncovering where things went wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116966\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 272px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-116966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard93-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beard in 1993, when he was rebuilding Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison after a riot. (Carlisle Sentinel)\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard in 1993, when he was rebuilding Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison after a riot. (Carlisle Sentinel)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But before the commission even got started, Beard was charged with cleaning up the mess. He was plucked from an assignment running a Western Pennsylvania prison and named Camp Hill’s acting warden. “I had hostile inmates, I had staff who were very traumatized, and I had a broken institution,” recalled Beard. “So I had to balance all of that and do things to psychologically support the staff, to calm the inmates down, while we were also at the same time rebuilding the facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a near-impossible task, but a job Beard did well. He rebuilt and reorganized the prison. He was soon promoted to a regional management job, and by 2001 he was running Pennsylvania’s entire corrections system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter Don Gilliland, who covers corrections for the Harrisburg Patriot-News, said Beard got high marks from the corrections community. “Beard consistently was saying the right things,” he said. “He maintained a top-flight data department in the state prison. He really had a good sense of what was happening in the prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An uphill fight against prison overcrowding\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard used his position to push for sentencing reforms – less hard time and more treatment for drug offenders. He\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>was one of the first Pennsylvania corrections secretaries to say the state needed less mandatory sentencing and more treatment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennsylvania’s prisons were too packed. That’s a lesson Beard learned when he was rebuilding after the Camp Hill riots, which had been largely caused by overcrowding. Three years after the fact, Camp Hill was still above capacity. Beard told a local reporter at the time that the $60 million rebuilding dollar effort wouldn’t work unless the state scaled back mandatory prison sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “We can’t afford to keep locking everybody up.” That’s a battle Beard fought – and for the most part lost – for most of his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1980 and 2010, the state’s prison population went from about 8,000 inmates to more than 50,000. Beard blamed “tough on crime” sentencing trends, and spent his time as corrections secretary lobbying lawmakers to undo them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliland doesn’t blame Beard for the spike. “Prisons are like a bucket of water,” he explained. “Where you have a couple of hoses feeding water into the top, you have a variety of spigots letting water out. The problem is the people who control the water coming in are a completely different bureaucracy than [those who] control the spigot coming out. And the secretary of corrections has no control over either bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard did play a major role in passing a slate of sentencing reforms in 2008 – the first Pennsylvania had seen in decades. But they didn’t quite work. During his last year, Pennsylvania had to export 2 thousand prisoners to other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Historically, we have overused segregation”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard, of course, is facing much larger population problems in California. He and Gov. Jerry Brown spent most of the year \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/12/court-ruling-on-prisons-a-setback-for-gov-brown/\">losing a series of legal challenges\u003c/a> over federal control of California prisons’ health care. The state now has until mid-February to move more than 8,000 people out of California’s prisons in order to reduce overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113826\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113826\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS1076_PelicanBaySHU-scr1-e1380903557958-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"A 2011 view of Pelican Bay State Prisons Security Housing Unit. (SHU). August 17, 2011. (Michael Montgomery/KQED) \" width=\"300\" height=\"172\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2011 view of Pelican Bay State Prisons Security Housing Unit. (SHU). August 17, 2011. (Michael Montgomery/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while Beard and Brown fought with judges this summer, thousands of inmates launched a system-wide hunger strike. The protest was aimed at ending California’s practice of locking up suspected prison gang leaders in segregated housing – sometimes for decades at a time. Critics call it torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard said he understands why segregated confinement stirs up so much anger. He defended the practice as necessary, to protect other inmates and to control gangs. But in our interview, Beard did make an admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that probably historically we have overused segregation a little too much everywhere,” he said. “I think we did back in Pennsylvania. I think there’s other states that have done it, perhaps in the past in California. And that’s why California now has the new gang management policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the new plan the state rolled out that re-evaluates who’s being kept in security housing, and provides a years’-long path out of isolation for inmates who cooperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caring for mentally-ill inmates\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117029\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117029\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard-stockton-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Beard facing questions from reporters in June (Scott Detrow / KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard facing questions from reporters in June (Scott Detrow / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hunger strike is now long over, but controversies are still dogging the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. A Sacramento trial is shining a light on how the state treats mentally ill inmates. \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201310020850/a\">Graphic videos aired in court recently\u003c/a>, showing guards dousing screaming prisoners with pepper spray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, Beard faced similar controversy in Pennsylvania. Bob Meek is an attorney with the Disability Rights Network. He spent years investigating how Pennsylvania dealt with mentally-ill inmates. \u003ca href=\"https://www.drnpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RHUFinalComplaint.pdf\">In a lawsuit\u003c/a>, the group alleged the state simply locked many of them up in segregated housing, rather than treat them. “They would just continue to act out and continue to act up, and they would never get out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard disputed the charge and pointed to programs he launched aimed at treating mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adjusting to California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard is approaching one year on the job here in California. And with all the crises on his plate, he’s yet to really put his stamp on department policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/print/2013/jan/30/local/la-me-ff-prisons-20130129\">Beard came to the job as an outsider and a critic\u003c/a>. He was a key witness in the 2008 trial ordering California to lower its prison population. At the time he blasted the state’s prisons as overcrowded and dangerous — conditions \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/ca-corrections-chief-new-medical-center-proves-federal-judges-wrong/\">he now insists the state has since turned around\u003c/a>. After retiring from his Pennsylvania post in 2010, Beard began working with California as a consultant. (The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation denied KQED's public records request for copies of memos Beard produced during this period.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard admitted it’s hard to figure out a new state after 38 years somewhere else. For one thing, he says he doesn’t know the longtime staffers like he did in Pennsylvania. And the rules are different. “A lot of times when something comes up about a policy or something, I have to ask somebody or I have to go and look it up. Whereas in Pennsylvania, I wrote a lot of the policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s the unique experience of working with Jerry Brown. Beard served under two high-profile Pennsylvania governors: Republican Tom Ridge and Democrat Ed Rendell. But he said Brown is different – much more hands-on. “He’s interested in what I do,” Beard said. “And doesn’t just say, hey do the job and keep things quiet. I see him as being more actively engaged. But it’s not just with me. It’s with every facet of government. And I think that’s a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two of them share the same goal: ending federal control of California’s prisons as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Listen to the California Report audio:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\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/118549230\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "116951 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=116951",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/04/californias-corrections-secretary-faces-steep-challenges/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": true,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1525,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 38
},
"modified": 1383589448,
"excerpt": "Jeffrey Beard may have the toughest job in state politics, facing multiple crises since taking the job.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Jeffrey Beard may have the toughest job in state politics, facing multiple crises since taking the job.",
"title": "California's Corrections Secretary Faces Steep Challenges | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "California's Corrections Secretary Faces Steep Challenges",
"datePublished": "2013-11-04T05:30:38-08:00",
"dateModified": "2013-11-04T10:24:08-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "californias-corrections-secretary-faces-steep-challenges",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2013/11/01/116951/California-Corrections-Secretary-Jeffrey-Beard/",
"path": "/news/116951/californias-corrections-secretary-faces-steep-challenges",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It wouldn’t be a stretch to say Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard has the toughest job in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117027\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117027\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard-stockton-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Beard unveiled a new medical prison in Stockton this summer (Scott Detrow / KQED News)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard unveiled a new medical prison in Stockton this summer (Scott Detrow / KQED News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/05/110028/california-prison-hunger-strike-ends\">a widespread\u003c/a> hunger \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/30/105074/\">strike\u003c/a> to a never-ending battle with federal judges over control of health care in California’s prisons, Beard has faced crisis after crisis since he joined the Brown Administration late last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all those problems, you’d forgive Beard for having second thoughts about his new job. But the secretary’s response is pretty understated. “You know, I think they make the job just – very interesting,” he told KQED during a lengthy interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a typical response from Beard, who developed a reputation as a policy-obsessed, always-serious technocrat over his four-decade career in corrections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard has been on the job in California since last December. But before that, he spent a decade running Pennsylvania’s prison system. There, he fought many of the same battles he’s fighting in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cleaning up after a riot\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard’s first big test came in October 1989. That’s when \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/28/us/rioters-destroy-nearly-half-the-buildings-in-a-pennsylvania-prison.html\">inmates seized control of an overcrowded suburban Harrisburg prison during two days of vicious riots\u003c/a>. Inmates burned down more than half the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill. They took five hostages. The riot shocked Pennsylvania, and forced Governor Bob Casey to launch a blue-ribbon commission aimed at uncovering where things went wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116966\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 272px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-116966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard93-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beard in 1993, when he was rebuilding Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison after a riot. (Carlisle Sentinel)\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard in 1993, when he was rebuilding Pennsylvania's Camp Hill prison after a riot. (Carlisle Sentinel)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But before the commission even got started, Beard was charged with cleaning up the mess. He was plucked from an assignment running a Western Pennsylvania prison and named Camp Hill’s acting warden. “I had hostile inmates, I had staff who were very traumatized, and I had a broken institution,” recalled Beard. “So I had to balance all of that and do things to psychologically support the staff, to calm the inmates down, while we were also at the same time rebuilding the facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a near-impossible task, but a job Beard did well. He rebuilt and reorganized the prison. He was soon promoted to a regional management job, and by 2001 he was running Pennsylvania’s entire corrections system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter Don Gilliland, who covers corrections for the Harrisburg Patriot-News, said Beard got high marks from the corrections community. “Beard consistently was saying the right things,” he said. “He maintained a top-flight data department in the state prison. He really had a good sense of what was happening in the prisons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An uphill fight against prison overcrowding\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard used his position to push for sentencing reforms – less hard time and more treatment for drug offenders. He\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>was one of the first Pennsylvania corrections secretaries to say the state needed less mandatory sentencing and more treatment options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennsylvania’s prisons were too packed. That’s a lesson Beard learned when he was rebuilding after the Camp Hill riots, which had been largely caused by overcrowding. Three years after the fact, Camp Hill was still above capacity. Beard told a local reporter at the time that the $60 million rebuilding dollar effort wouldn’t work unless the state scaled back mandatory prison sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “We can’t afford to keep locking everybody up.” That’s a battle Beard fought – and for the most part lost – for most of his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1980 and 2010, the state’s prison population went from about 8,000 inmates to more than 50,000. Beard blamed “tough on crime” sentencing trends, and spent his time as corrections secretary lobbying lawmakers to undo them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliland doesn’t blame Beard for the spike. “Prisons are like a bucket of water,” he explained. “Where you have a couple of hoses feeding water into the top, you have a variety of spigots letting water out. The problem is the people who control the water coming in are a completely different bureaucracy than [those who] control the spigot coming out. And the secretary of corrections has no control over either bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard did play a major role in passing a slate of sentencing reforms in 2008 – the first Pennsylvania had seen in decades. But they didn’t quite work. During his last year, Pennsylvania had to export 2 thousand prisoners to other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“Historically, we have overused segregation”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard, of course, is facing much larger population problems in California. He and Gov. Jerry Brown spent most of the year \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/12/court-ruling-on-prisons-a-setback-for-gov-brown/\">losing a series of legal challenges\u003c/a> over federal control of California prisons’ health care. The state now has until mid-February to move more than 8,000 people out of California’s prisons in order to reduce overcrowding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_113826\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-113826\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/10/RS1076_PelicanBaySHU-scr1-e1380903557958-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"A 2011 view of Pelican Bay State Prisons Security Housing Unit. (SHU). August 17, 2011. (Michael Montgomery/KQED) \" width=\"300\" height=\"172\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2011 view of Pelican Bay State Prisons Security Housing Unit. (SHU). August 17, 2011. (Michael Montgomery/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while Beard and Brown fought with judges this summer, thousands of inmates launched a system-wide hunger strike. The protest was aimed at ending California’s practice of locking up suspected prison gang leaders in segregated housing – sometimes for decades at a time. Critics call it torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard said he understands why segregated confinement stirs up so much anger. He defended the practice as necessary, to protect other inmates and to control gangs. But in our interview, Beard did make an admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that probably historically we have overused segregation a little too much everywhere,” he said. “I think we did back in Pennsylvania. I think there’s other states that have done it, perhaps in the past in California. And that’s why California now has the new gang management policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the new plan the state rolled out that re-evaluates who’s being kept in security housing, and provides a years’-long path out of isolation for inmates who cooperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caring for mentally-ill inmates\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117029\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117029\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/beard-stockton-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Beard facing questions from reporters in June (Scott Detrow / KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard facing questions from reporters in June (Scott Detrow / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hunger strike is now long over, but controversies are still dogging the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. A Sacramento trial is shining a light on how the state treats mentally ill inmates. \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201310020850/a\">Graphic videos aired in court recently\u003c/a>, showing guards dousing screaming prisoners with pepper spray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, Beard faced similar controversy in Pennsylvania. Bob Meek is an attorney with the Disability Rights Network. He spent years investigating how Pennsylvania dealt with mentally-ill inmates. \u003ca href=\"https://www.drnpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RHUFinalComplaint.pdf\">In a lawsuit\u003c/a>, the group alleged the state simply locked many of them up in segregated housing, rather than treat them. “They would just continue to act out and continue to act up, and they would never get out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard disputed the charge and pointed to programs he launched aimed at treating mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adjusting to California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard is approaching one year on the job here in California. And with all the crises on his plate, he’s yet to really put his stamp on department policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/print/2013/jan/30/local/la-me-ff-prisons-20130129\">Beard came to the job as an outsider and a critic\u003c/a>. He was a key witness in the 2008 trial ordering California to lower its prison population. At the time he blasted the state’s prisons as overcrowded and dangerous — conditions \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/25/ca-corrections-chief-new-medical-center-proves-federal-judges-wrong/\">he now insists the state has since turned around\u003c/a>. After retiring from his Pennsylvania post in 2010, Beard began working with California as a consultant. (The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation denied KQED's public records request for copies of memos Beard produced during this period.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard admitted it’s hard to figure out a new state after 38 years somewhere else. For one thing, he says he doesn’t know the longtime staffers like he did in Pennsylvania. And the rules are different. “A lot of times when something comes up about a policy or something, I have to ask somebody or I have to go and look it up. Whereas in Pennsylvania, I wrote a lot of the policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s the unique experience of working with Jerry Brown. Beard served under two high-profile Pennsylvania governors: Republican Tom Ridge and Democrat Ed Rendell. But he said Brown is different – much more hands-on. “He’s interested in what I do,” Beard said. “And doesn’t just say, hey do the job and keep things quiet. I see him as being more actively engaged. But it’s not just with me. It’s with every facet of government. And I think that’s a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two of them share the same goal: ending federal control of California’s prisons as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Listen to the California Report audio:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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/118549230\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/116951/californias-corrections-secretary-faces-steep-challenges",
"authors": [
"256"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_8",
"news_13"
],
"tags": [
"news_616",
"news_152",
"news_95"
],
"featImg": "news_110461",
"label": "news_6944"
}
},
"podcastsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"podcasts": {}
},
"radioProgramsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"radioPrograms": {}
},
"radioSearchSegmentsReducer": {},
"programsReducer": {
"all-things-considered": {
"id": "all-things-considered",
"title": "All Things Considered",
"info": "Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/all-things-considered"
},
"american-suburb-podcast": {
"id": "american-suburb-podcast",
"title": "American Suburb: The Podcast",
"tagline": "The flip side of gentrification, told through one town",
"info": "Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 19
},
"link": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"
}
},
"baycurious": {
"id": "baycurious",
"title": "Bay Curious",
"tagline": "Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time",
"info": "KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Bay Curious",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/baycurious",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 3
},
"link": "/podcasts/baycurious",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9a90d476-aa04-455d-9a4c-0871ed6216d4/bay-curious",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"
}
},
"bbc-world-service": {
"id": "bbc-world-service",
"title": "BBC World Service",
"info": "The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "BBC World Service"
},
"link": "/radio/program/bbc-world-service",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/",
"rss": "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"
}
},
"californiareport": {
"id": "californiareport",
"title": "The California Report",
"tagline": "California, day by day",
"info": "KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareport",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 8
},
"link": "/californiareport",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/26099305-72af-4542-9dde-ac1807fe36d5/kqed-s-the-california-report",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"
}
},
"californiareportmagazine": {
"id": "californiareportmagazine",
"title": "The California Report Magazine",
"tagline": "Your state, your stories",
"info": "Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.",
"airtime": "FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report Magazine",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareportmagazine",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 10
},
"link": "/californiareportmagazine",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"
}
},
"city-arts": {
"id": "city-arts",
"title": "City Arts & Lectures",
"info": "A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.cityarts.net/",
"airtime": "SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "City Arts & Lectures"
},
"link": "https://www.cityarts.net",
"subscribe": {
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/",
"rss": "https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"
}
},
"closealltabs": {
"id": "closealltabs",
"title": "Close All Tabs",
"tagline": "Your irreverent guide to the trends redefining our world",
"info": "Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CAT_2_Tile-scaled.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Close All Tabs",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 1
},
"link": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-all-tabs/id214663465",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC6993880386",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/92d9d4ac-67a3-4eed-b10a-fb45d45b1ef2/close-all-tabs",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6LAJFHnGK1pYXYzv6SIol6?si=deb0cae19813417c"
}
},
"code-switch-life-kit": {
"id": "code-switch-life-kit",
"title": "Code Switch / Life Kit",
"info": "\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />",
"airtime": "SUN 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"
}
},
"commonwealth-club": {
"id": "commonwealth-club",
"title": "Commonwealth Club of California Podcast",
"info": "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.",
"airtime": "THU 10pm, FRI 1am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Commonwealth Club of California"
},
"link": "/radio/program/commonwealth-club",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"
}
},
"forum": {
"id": "forum",
"title": "Forum",
"tagline": "The conversation starts here",
"info": "KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/forum",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 9
},
"link": "/forum",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"
}
},
"freakonomics-radio": {
"id": "freakonomics-radio",
"title": "Freakonomics Radio",
"info": "Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://freakonomics.com/",
"airtime": "SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/freakonomics-radio",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"
}
},
"fresh-air": {
"id": "fresh-air",
"title": "Fresh Air",
"info": "Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/fresh-air",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"
}
},
"here-and-now": {
"id": "here-and-now",
"title": "Here & Now",
"info": "A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/here-and-now",
"subsdcribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hidden-brain": {
"id": "hidden-brain",
"title": "Hidden Brain",
"info": "Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain",
"airtime": "SUN 7pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "NPR"
},
"link": "/radio/program/hidden-brain",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"
}
},
"how-i-built-this": {
"id": "how-i-built-this",
"title": "How I Built This with Guy Raz",
"info": "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this",
"airtime": "SUN 7:30pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/how-i-built-this",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hyphenacion": {
"id": "hyphenacion",
"title": "Hyphenación",
"tagline": "Where conversation and cultura meet",
"info": "What kind of no sabo word is Hyphenación? For us, it’s about living within a hyphenation. Like being a third-gen Mexican-American from the Texas border now living that Bay Area Chicano life. Like Xorje! Each week we bring together a couple of hyphenated Latinos to talk all about personal life choices: family, careers, relationships, belonging … everything is on the table. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hyphenacion_FinalAssets_PodcastTile.png",
"imageAlt": "KQED Hyphenación",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 15
},
"link": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hyphenaci%C3%B3n/id1191591838",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2p3Fifq96nw9BPcmFdIq0o?si=39209f7b25774f38",
"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/c/kqedarts",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6c3dd23c-93fb-4aab-97ba-1725fa6315f1/hyphenaci%C3%B3n",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC2275451163"
}
},
"jerrybrown": {
"id": "jerrybrown",
"title": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"tagline": "Lessons from a lifetime in politics",
"info": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 18
},
"link": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/",
"tuneIn": "http://tun.in/pjGcK",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/44420f75-3b0e-4301-ab3b-16da6b09e543/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown"
}
},
"latino-usa": {
"id": "latino-usa",
"title": "Latino USA",
"airtime": "MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm",
"info": "Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://latinousa.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/latino-usa",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"
}
},
"marketplace": {
"id": "marketplace",
"title": "Marketplace",
"info": "Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.marketplace.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "American Public Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/marketplace",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"
}
},
"masters-of-scale": {
"id": "masters-of-scale",
"title": "Masters of Scale",
"info": "Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.",
"airtime": "Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://mastersofscale.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WaitWhat"
},
"link": "/radio/program/masters-of-scale",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "http://mastersofscale.app.link/",
"rss": "https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"
}
},
"mindshift": {
"id": "mindshift",
"title": "MindShift",
"tagline": "A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids",
"info": "The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/mindshift/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 12
},
"link": "/podcasts/mindshift",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"
}
},
"morning-edition": {
"id": "morning-edition",
"title": "Morning Edition",
"info": "\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3am-9am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/morning-edition"
},
"onourwatch": {
"id": "onourwatch",
"title": "On Our Watch",
"tagline": "Deeply-reported investigative journalism",
"info": "For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "On Our Watch from NPR and KQED",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 11
},
"link": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw",
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"
}
},
"on-the-media": {
"id": "on-the-media",
"title": "On The Media",
"info": "Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wnyc"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-the-media",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"
}
},
"pbs-newshour": {
"id": "pbs-newshour",
"title": "PBS NewsHour",
"info": "Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pbs-newshour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/",
"rss": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"
}
},
"perspectives": {
"id": "perspectives",
"title": "Perspectives",
"tagline": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991",
"info": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Perspectives_Tile_Final.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Perspectives",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/perspectives/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 14
},
"link": "/perspectives",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"
}
},
"planet-money": {
"id": "planet-money",
"title": "Planet Money",
"info": "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/planet-money",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
}
},
"politicalbreakdown": {
"id": "politicalbreakdown",
"title": "Political Breakdown",
"tagline": "Politics from a personal perspective",
"info": "Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.",
"airtime": "THU 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Political Breakdown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 5
},
"link": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e0c2d153-ad36-4c8d-901d-f1da6a724824/political-breakdown",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"
}
},
"possible": {
"id": "possible",
"title": "Possible",
"info": "Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.possible.fm/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Possible"
},
"link": "/radio/program/possible",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"
}
},
"pri-the-world": {
"id": "pri-the-world",
"title": "PRI's The World: Latest Edition",
"info": "Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "PRI"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pri-the-world",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/",
"rss": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"
}
},
"radiolab": {
"id": "radiolab",
"title": "Radiolab",
"info": "A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.",
"airtime": "SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/radiolab",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/",
"rss": "https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"
}
},
"reveal": {
"id": "reveal",
"title": "Reveal",
"info": "Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.",
"airtime": "SAT 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/reveal",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/",
"rss": "http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"
}
},
"rightnowish": {
"id": "rightnowish",
"title": "Rightnowish",
"tagline": "Art is where you find it",
"info": "Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 16
},
"link": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"
}
},
"science-friday": {
"id": "science-friday",
"title": "Science Friday",
"info": "Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.",
"airtime": "FRI 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/science-friday",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"
}
},
"snap-judgment": {
"id": "snap-judgment",
"title": "Snap Judgment",
"tagline": "Real stories with killer beats",
"info": "The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap's musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling... with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by KQED & PRX.",
"airtime": "SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Snap-Judgment-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Snap Judgment",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 4
},
"link": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-judgment/id283657561",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/449018144/snap-judgment",
"stitcher": "https://www.pandora.com/podcast/snap-judgment/PC:241?source=stitcher-sunset",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cct7ZWmxHNAtLgBTqjC5v",
"rss": "https://snap.feed.snapjudgment.org/"
}
},
"soldout": {
"id": "soldout",
"title": "SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America",
"tagline": "A new future for housing",
"info": "Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/soldout",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 13
},
"link": "/podcasts/soldout",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america",
"tunein": "https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/"
}
},
"spooked": {
"id": "spooked",
"title": "Spooked",
"tagline": "True-life supernatural stories",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spooked-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Spooked",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 7
},
"link": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spooked/id1279361017",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/549547848/snap-judgment-presents-spooked",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/76571Rfl3m7PLJQZKQIGCT",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/TBotaapn"
}
},
"tech-nation": {
"id": "tech-nation",
"title": "Tech Nation Radio Podcast",
"info": "Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.",
"airtime": "FRI 10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://technation.podomatic.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "Tech Nation Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tech-nation",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"
}
},
"ted-radio-hour": {
"id": "ted-radio-hour",
"title": "TED Radio Hour",
"info": "The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/ted-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"
}
},
"thebay": {
"id": "thebay",
"title": "The Bay",
"tagline": "Local news to keep you rooted",
"info": "Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Bay",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/thebay",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 2
},
"link": "/podcasts/thebay",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d800ea4c-7a2c-42f2-b861-edaf78a5db0b/the-bay",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"
}
},
"thelatest": {
"id": "thelatest",
"title": "The Latest",
"tagline": "Trusted local news in real time",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Latest-2025-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Latest",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/thelatest",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 6
},
"link": "/thelatest",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latest-from-kqed/id1197721799",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1257949365/the-latest-from-k-q-e-d",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5KIIXMgM9GTi5AepwOYvIZ?si=bd3053fec7244dba",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9137121918"
}
},
"theleap": {
"id": "theleap",
"title": "The Leap",
"tagline": "What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?",
"info": "Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Leap",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/theleap",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 17
},
"link": "/podcasts/theleap",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"
}
},
"the-moth-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-moth-radio-hour",
"title": "The Moth Radio Hour",
"info": "Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://themoth.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "prx"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/",
"rss": "http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"
}
},
"the-new-yorker-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour",
"info": "The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.",
"airtime": "SAT 10am-11am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"
}
},
"the-sam-sanders-show": {
"id": "the-sam-sanders-show",
"title": "The Sam Sanders Show",
"info": "One of public radio's most dynamic voices, Sam Sanders helped launch The NPR Politics Podcast and hosted NPR's hit show It's Been A Minute. Now, the award-winning host returns with something brand new, The Sam Sanders Show. Every week, Sam Sanders and friends dig into the culture that shapes our lives: what's driving the biggest trends, how artists really think, and even the memes you can't stop scrolling past. Sam is beloved for his way of unpacking the world and bringing you up close to fresh currents and engaging conversations. The Sam Sanders Show is smart, funny and always a good time.",
"airtime": "FRI 12-1pm AND SAT 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Sam-Sanders-Show-Podcast-Tile-400x400-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "KCRW"
},
"link": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feed.cdnstream1.com/zjb/feed/download/ac/28/59/ac28594c-e1d0-4231-8728-61865cdc80e8.xml"
}
},
"the-splendid-table": {
"id": "the-splendid-table",
"title": "The Splendid Table",
"info": "\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.splendidtable.org/",
"airtime": "SUN 10-11 pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-splendid-table"
},
"this-american-life": {
"id": "this-american-life",
"title": "This American Life",
"info": "This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.",
"airtime": "SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wbez"
},
"link": "/radio/program/this-american-life",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"rss": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"
}
},
"tinydeskradio": {
"id": "tinydeskradio",
"title": "Tiny Desk Radio",
"info": "We're bringing the best of Tiny Desk to the airwaves, only on public radio.",
"airtime": "SUN 8pm and SAT 9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/300x300-For-Member-Station-Logo-Tiny-Desk-Radio-@2x.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-52030/tiny-desk-radio",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tinydeskradio",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-52030/rss.xml"
}
},
"wait-wait-dont-tell-me": {
"id": "wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"title": "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!",
"info": "Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.",
"airtime": "SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"
}
},
"weekend-edition-saturday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-saturday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Saturday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.",
"airtime": "SAT 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"
},
"weekend-edition-sunday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-sunday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Sunday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.",
"airtime": "SUN 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"
}
},
"racesReducer": {},
"racesGenElectionReducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026Reducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026PresidentialReducer": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts/news?category=law-and-justice": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 5124,
"size": 12
},
"vitalsOnly": false,
"totalRequested": 12,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 6266,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"news_118343",
"news_118282",
"news_118302",
"news_118190",
"news_117880",
"news_117669",
"news_117534",
"news_117390",
"news_117427",
"news_117505",
"news_117309",
"news_116951"
],
"complete": true
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"newslettersReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"newsletters": {},
"isSubscribing": false,
"isUnsubscribing": false,
"subscribedNewsletters": {}
},
"termsReducer": {
"about": {
"name": "About",
"type": "terms",
"id": "about",
"slug": "about",
"link": "/about",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts": {
"name": "Arts & Culture",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"description": "KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts",
"slug": "arts",
"link": "/arts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"artschool": {
"name": "Art School",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "artschool",
"slug": "artschool",
"link": "/artschool",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareabites": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareabites",
"slug": "bayareabites",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareahiphop": {
"name": "Bay Area Hiphop",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareahiphop",
"slug": "bayareahiphop",
"link": "/bayareahiphop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"campaign21": {
"name": "Campaign 21",
"type": "terms",
"id": "campaign21",
"slug": "campaign21",
"link": "/campaign21",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"careers": {
"name": "Careers",
"type": "terms",
"id": "careers",
"slug": "careers",
"link": "/careers",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"checkplease": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "checkplease",
"slug": "checkplease",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"education": {
"name": "Education",
"grouping": [
"education"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "education",
"slug": "education",
"link": "/education",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"elections": {
"name": "Elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "elections",
"slug": "elections",
"link": "/elections",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"events": {
"name": "Events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "events",
"slug": "events",
"link": "/events",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"event": {
"name": "Event",
"alias": "events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "event",
"slug": "event",
"link": "/event",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"filmschoolshorts": {
"name": "Film School Shorts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "filmschoolshorts",
"slug": "filmschoolshorts",
"link": "/filmschoolshorts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"food": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "food",
"slug": "food",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"forum": {
"name": "Forum",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/forum?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "forum",
"slug": "forum",
"link": "/forum",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"futureofyou": {
"name": "Future of You",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "futureofyou",
"slug": "futureofyou",
"link": "/futureofyou",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"jpepinheart": {
"name": "KQED food",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/food,bayareabites,checkplease",
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "jpepinheart",
"slug": "jpepinheart",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"liveblog": {
"name": "Live Blog",
"type": "terms",
"id": "liveblog",
"slug": "liveblog",
"link": "/liveblog",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"livetv": {
"name": "Live TV",
"parent": "tv",
"type": "terms",
"id": "livetv",
"slug": "livetv",
"link": "/livetv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"lowdown": {
"name": "The Lowdown",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/lowdown?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "lowdown",
"slug": "lowdown",
"link": "/lowdown",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"mindshift": {
"name": "Mindshift",
"parent": "news",
"description": "MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "mindshift",
"slug": "mindshift",
"link": "/mindshift",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news": {
"name": "News",
"grouping": [
"news",
"forum"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "news",
"slug": "news",
"link": "/news",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"newsletters": {
"name": "newsletters",
"type": "terms",
"id": "newsletters",
"slug": "newsletters",
"link": "/newsletters",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"perspectives": {
"name": "Perspectives",
"parent": "radio",
"type": "terms",
"id": "perspectives",
"slug": "perspectives",
"link": "/perspectives",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"podcasts": {
"name": "Podcasts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "podcasts",
"slug": "podcasts",
"link": "/podcasts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop": {
"name": "Pop",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop",
"slug": "pop",
"link": "/pop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pressroom": {
"name": "Pressroom",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pressroom",
"slug": "pressroom",
"link": "/pressroom",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"quest": {
"name": "Quest",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "quest",
"slug": "quest",
"link": "/quest",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"radio": {
"name": "Radio",
"grouping": [
"forum",
"perspectives"
],
"description": "Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "radio",
"slug": "radio",
"link": "/radio",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"root": {
"name": "KQED",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"imageWidth": 1200,
"imageHeight": 630,
"headData": {
"title": "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California",
"description": "KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."
},
"type": "terms",
"id": "root",
"slug": "root",
"link": "/root",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science": {
"name": "Science",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"description": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "science",
"slug": "science",
"link": "/science",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"stateofhealth": {
"name": "State of Health",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth",
"slug": "stateofhealth",
"link": "/stateofhealth",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"support": {
"name": "Support",
"type": "terms",
"id": "support",
"slug": "support",
"link": "/support",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"thedolist": {
"name": "The Do List",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "thedolist",
"slug": "thedolist",
"link": "/thedolist",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"trulyca": {
"name": "Truly CA",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "trulyca",
"slug": "trulyca",
"link": "/trulyca",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"tv": {
"name": "TV",
"type": "terms",
"id": "tv",
"slug": "tv",
"link": "/tv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"voterguide": {
"name": "Voter Guide",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "voterguide",
"slug": "voterguide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"guiaelectoral": {
"name": "Guia Electoral",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "guiaelectoral",
"slug": "guiaelectoral",
"link": "/guiaelectoral",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news_category_law-and-justice": {
"isLoading": true
},
"news_6188": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6188",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6188",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Law and Justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Law and Justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6212,
"slug": "law-and-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/law-and-justice"
},
"news_6944": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6944",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6944",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/News-Fix-Logo-Web-Banners-04.png",
"name": "News Fix",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "The News Fix is a daily news podcast from KQED that breaks down the latest headlines and provides in-depth analysis of the stories that matter to the Bay Area.",
"title": "News Fix - Daily Dose of Bay Area News | KQED",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6968,
"slug": "news-fix",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/news-fix"
},
"news_34167": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_34167",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "34167",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Criminal Justice",
"slug": "criminal-justice",
"taxonomy": "category",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Criminal Justice Archives | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 34184,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/criminal-justice"
},
"news_1629": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1629",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1629",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "CDCR",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "CDCR Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1641,
"slug": "cdcr",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/cdcr"
},
"news_17725": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17725",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17725",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "criminal justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "criminal justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17759,
"slug": "criminal-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/criminal-justice"
},
"news_6327": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6327",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6327",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Lifers",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Lifers Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6351,
"slug": "lifers",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/lifers"
},
"news_1471": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1471",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1471",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "prisons",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "prisons Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1483,
"slug": "prisons",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/prisons"
},
"news_3611": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3611",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3611",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Proposition 36",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Proposition 36 Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3629,
"slug": "proposition-36",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/proposition-36"
},
"news_38": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_38",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "38",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 58,
"slug": "san-francisco",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco"
},
"news_152": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_152",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "152",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Government",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Government Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 159,
"slug": "government",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/government"
},
"news_19906": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19906",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19906",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Environment",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Environment Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19923,
"slug": "environment",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/environment"
},
"news_8": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_8",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "8",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 8,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/news"
},
"news_782": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_782",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "782",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "cap and trade",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "cap and trade Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 791,
"slug": "cap-and-trade",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/cap-and-trade"
},
"news_248": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_248",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "248",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Technology",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Technology Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 256,
"slug": "technology",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/technology"
},
"news_5085": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_5085",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "5085",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Author's Guild",
"slug": "authors-guild",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Author's Guild | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "noindex"
},
"ttid": 5106,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/authors-guild"
},
"news_5083": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_5083",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "5083",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Google book scanning",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Google book scanning Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5104,
"slug": "google-book-scanning",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/google-book-scanning"
},
"news_7052": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_7052",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "7052",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {
"ogImgId": {
"data": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_117396"
}
}
},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/KQED-Newsroom-Logo-Web-Banners-051.png",
"name": "KQED Newsroom",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": "KQED Newsroom",
"ogImgId": "news_117396",
"twDescription": null,
"description": "KQED Newsroom airs every Friday on KQED-9",
"title": "KQED Newsroom | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": "KQED Newsroom is our weekly show highlighting the issues that matter most to the people of Northern California."
},
"ttid": 7078,
"slug": "kqed-newsroom",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/kqed-newsroom"
},
"news_2795": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2795",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2795",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "gun control",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "gun control Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2813,
"slug": "gun-control",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/gun-control"
},
"news_2865": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2865",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2865",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Gun Issues",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Gun Issues Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2883,
"slug": "gun-issues",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/gun-issues"
},
"news_4593": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4593",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4593",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "KQED newsroom",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "KQED newsroom Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4612,
"slug": "newsroom-kqed",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/newsroom-kqed"
},
"news_6266": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6266",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6266",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Housing",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Housing Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6290,
"slug": "housing",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/housing"
},
"news_13": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_13",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "13",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Politics",
"slug": "politics",
"taxonomy": "category",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Politics | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 13,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/politics"
},
"news_4983": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4983",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4983",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Andy Lopez",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Andy Lopez Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5002,
"slug": "andy-lopez",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/andy-lopez"
},
"news_3094": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3094",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3094",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News Pix",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Pix Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3112,
"slug": "news-pix",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/news-pix"
},
"news_74": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_74",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "74",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Proposition B",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Proposition B Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 75,
"slug": "proposition-b",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/proposition-b"
},
"news_474": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_474",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "474",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Santa Rosa",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Santa Rosa Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 483,
"slug": "santa-rosa",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/santa-rosa"
},
"news_4981": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4981",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4981",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Sonoma County",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Sonoma County Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5000,
"slug": "sonoma-county",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/sonoma-county"
},
"news_346": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_346",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "346",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Twitter",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Twitter Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 354,
"slug": "twitter",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/twitter"
},
"news_1397": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1397",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1397",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Transportation",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Transportation Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1409,
"slug": "transportation",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/transportation"
},
"news_320": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_320",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "320",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Muni",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Muni Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 328,
"slug": "muni",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/muni"
},
"news_4950": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4950",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4950",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "smartphones",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "smartphones Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4969,
"slug": "smartphones",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/smartphones"
},
"news_4500": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4500",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4500",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "theft",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "theft Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4519,
"slug": "theft",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/theft"
},
"news_2684": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2684",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2684",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "transit",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "transit Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2701,
"slug": "transit",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/transit"
},
"news_18544": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18544",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18544",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Center for Investigative Reporting",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Center for Investigative Reporting Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1679,
"slug": "center-for-investigative-reporting",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/center-for-investigative-reporting"
},
"news_2505": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2505",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2505",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "AC Transit",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "AC Transit Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2520,
"slug": "ac-transit",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/ac-transit"
},
"news_4273": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4273",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4273",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "hate crimes",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "hate crimes Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4292,
"slug": "hate-crimes",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/hate-crimes"
},
"news_5038": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_5038",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "5038",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Sasha Fleischman",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Sasha Fleischman Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5057,
"slug": "sasha-fleischman",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/sasha-fleischman"
},
"news_19903": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19903",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19903",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "law enforcement",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "law enforcement Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19920,
"slug": "law-enforcement",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/law-enforcement"
},
"news_5017": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_5017",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "5017",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Erick Gelhaus",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Erick Gelhaus Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5036,
"slug": "erick-gelhaus",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/erick-gelhaus"
},
"news_116": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_116",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "116",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "police",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "police Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 120,
"slug": "police",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/police"
},
"news_616": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_616",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "616",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California prisons",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California prisons Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 625,
"slug": "california-prisons",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/california-prisons"
},
"news_95": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_95",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "95",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Sacramento",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Sacramento Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 411,
"slug": "sacramento",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/sacramento"
}
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"eventsReducer": {},
"fssReducer": {},
"tvDailyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer": {},
"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer": {},
"userAccountReducer": {
"user": {
"email": null,
"emailStatus": "EMAIL_UNVALIDATED",
"loggedStatus": "LOGGED_OUT",
"loggingChecked": false,
"articles": [],
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"phoneNumber": null,
"fetchingMembership": false,
"membershipError": false,
"memberships": [
{
"id": null,
"startDate": null,
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"familyNumber": null,
"memberNumber": null,
"memberSince": null,
"expirationDate": null,
"pfsEligible": false,
"isSustaining": false,
"membershipLevel": "Prospect",
"membershipStatus": "Non Member",
"lastGiftDate": null,
"renewalDate": null,
"lastDonationAmount": null
}
]
},
"authModal": {
"isOpen": false,
"view": "LANDING_VIEW"
},
"error": null
},
"youthMediaReducer": {},
"checkPleaseReducer": {
"filterData": {
"region": {
"key": "Restaurant Region",
"filters": [
"Any Region"
]
},
"cuisine": {
"key": "Restaurant Cuisine",
"filters": [
"Any Cuisine"
]
}
},
"restaurantDataById": {},
"restaurantIdsSorted": [],
"error": null
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
},
"requestOutcomesReducer": {
"notFound": []
},
"navPromosReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": true,
"promos": {
"news": {
"name": "2026 Voter Guide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"imageURL": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Nav-News-Nov2026ElectionCoverage@2x-7bd4aad4.png",
"description": "Get informed in minutes with our Voter Guide for California’s November 3 election."
},
"podcasts-radio": {},
"video-tv": {},
"events": {},
"support": {}
}
}
}