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(Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elsie Fossum’s nieces and nephews say she was the aunt you wanted to have. “She gave us our first car!” said Janet Flynn, Fossum’s niece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A ’59 Ford Galaxy with massive fins on it,” Fossum’s nephew, Jim Fossum, recalled. “It was two-tone paint — pink or coral, whatever you want to call it — and white with gold hubcaps and stuff. It was just something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in the sun-dappled backroom of a lakeside home in Walker, Minn., the Fossums remembered their aunt. Elsie Fossum was a teacher who never married or had kids. After moving to Southern California in the 1940s, she worked mostly as a librarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110505\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 228px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Elsie-Fossum.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110505 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Elsie-Fossum-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elsie Fossum travelled widely, say her family members, and New Zealand was one of her favorite countries. (Photo courtesy of the Fossum family)\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsie Fossum traveled widely, say her family members, and New Zealand was one of her favorite countries. (Photo courtesy of the Fossum family)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She would come for the summer with this tiny Samsonite suitcase,” Flynn said. “She would be impeccably dressed, mixing and matching, and her hair was always done. She always looked wonderful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the morning of July 3, 2006, Elsie Fossum lay in a pool of blood on her bedroom floor at Claremont Place, a Los Angeles-area assisted living facility where the 95-year-old woman had lived for two years. Her eyes were bruising black, her lip and upper palate were badly cut, and her right arm was broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She looked like she went four or five rounds with Muhammad Ali,” Beverlee McPherson recalled when Fossum returned from the hospital. McPherson, a registered nurse, supervised the nurse assistants at Claremont Place.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurse assistants provide intimate care. They bathe, feed and dress the elderly, ill or disabled. The lone caregiver on Fossum’s floor that night reported Fossum fell, but McPherson and other Claremont Place staff suspected abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than three weeks later, Fossum died. Her 109-pound frame succumbed to her wounds and to dehydration. Fossum was unable to take much food or water through her swollen mouth. A Los Angeles County coroner could not rule out assault and called the manner of Fossum’s death undetermined. McPherson is resolute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m 100 percent convinced she didn’t fall out of bed, 100 percent. If you saw this woman’s face, I mean her entire face was beaten to a pulp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency room nurses who treated Fossum at the hospital also suspected abuse, according to official records. The hospital quickly notified the California Department of Public Health, the agency responsible for de-certifying nurse assistants and home health aides who violate standards of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Public-Health-noaction.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-110511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Public-Health-noaction-258x300.png\" alt=\"Public Health - noaction\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>Internal documents obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting show department investigators shelved Fossum’s case for 6½ years. In February of this year, department investigators closed the case and determined no action was warranted against Fossum’s caregiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her aunt’s funeral, Janet Flynn said Claremont Place staff alerted the family that Elsie Fossum may have been a victim of elder abuse. Seven years later, the family is no closer to understanding what happened to their aunt. Their calls and emails to state agencies and local police turned up little information. They have never heard from California’s Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would think that this would be very chilling to anyone who has loved ones in a facility, especially if they’re not immediately local like we weren’t,” Flynn said. “And you think safeguards are in place and you think that staff are qualified and that this is being regulated, and this I find chilling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has decided Fossum’s case warrants further review. A detective there said they opened a homicide investigation into her death this year. Fossum’s caregiver is the sole person of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A sprawling backlog of cases\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fossum’s case is not the only one where department investigators were slow to act after allegations of physical or sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2007, nurse assistant Ricky Diocampo molested a 59-year-old female patient at Del Rio Sanitarium in Los Angeles County. This was not the first time Diocampo had assaulted this woman, court records would later show. In 2009, Diocampo pled guilty to patient abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not until two years after his conviction that officials with California’s Department of Public Health revoked Diocampo’s certification as a nurse assistant. Diocampo did not respond to phone calls, notes or visits to his Long Beach home. It is unknown whether Diocampo worked at other care facilities in the years before state regulators acted against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110510\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Ron-Chapman-02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110510 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Ron-Chapman-02-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Chapman, head of the California Department of Public Health, says he doesn't understand the reason for the decline in case referrals to the Attorney General's office. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Chapman, head of the California Department of Public Health, says he doesn’t understand the reason for the decline in case referrals to the attorney general’s office. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would tell anybody: Do not count on the government taking care of you,” said Brian Woods, who oversaw the department’s Southern California investigations office in 2006. “They are overworked. They can’t get in there. Your case might get looked at 10 years later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods said cases languished during his tenure because of a sprawling backlog of hundreds of complaints. He said his investigators lacked the training to handle complex cases, and he had too few investigators to begin with. Woods left his position in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2004 to 2008, public health regulators piled up more than 900 cases in Southern California — cases that involved severe injuries and suspicious deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a number of reasons for that backlog, including poor management decisions during that time in terms of how to use the resources that were available,” said Ron Chapman, who heads California’s Department of Public Health. “A backlog for investigating complaints is inexcusable; it should not have occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapman said a plan was implemented in 2009 to address the backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the two years that I’ve been in the job, there’s now new management from top to bottom,” he said. “We’re staying on top of all the complaints as they come in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since Chapman’s been on the job, the number of nurse assistants who have lost their certifications has dropped dramatically. In fiscal year 2008, the department revoked or denied certifications in 27 percent of cases. In fiscal years 2011 and 2012, that number dropped to 9 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapman said he sees no evidence that addressing the backlog has undermined the quality of the department’s investigations. But Marc Parker, who led the investigations section for nine years, said he was forced to cut corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Public-Health-vanishingbacklog.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-110513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Public-Health-vanishingbacklog-238x300.png\" alt=\"Public Health - vanishingbacklog\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>“Hundreds of cases were closed, hundreds, with nothing but a phone call,” Parker said. “The directions were to reduce this backlog, get these cases done. Staff was prohibited from traveling, restricted to sitting at their desk … except only in the most dire cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker said without facility visits, investigators are unable to see the layout of a room, conduct impromptu interviews, or assess a person’s body language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You lose all the basic cues, all the ‘tells’ that people have,” he said. “Their facial expression, eye movements, their body posture, their legs are crossed, they’re turning away from you, they look you in the eye, they don’t. If you’re doing it on the telephone, all of that is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According the Parker, the practice of shortchanging investigations continues today. “I get emails; I get phone calls from folks who tell me what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker, who retired in December of 2011, said he left earlier than planned. “I could not protect the public any longer,” Parker said. “There was just a failure to protect the most vulnerable people in our state from abuse and neglect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fewer cases sent to prosecutors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health regulators are legally bound to report all suspected criminal wrongdoing to the state attorney general’s office. Over the three years before the department addressed the backlog, it referred 88 deaths for criminal prosecution. But that number has plummeted. In 2011, the department referred two deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Public-Health-patientdeaths.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-110512\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Public-Health-patientdeaths-243x300.png\" alt=\"Public Health - patientdeaths\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>Paul Greenwood, who has been prosecuting elder abuse cases for nearly two decades as head of the San Diego district attorney’s elder abuse unit, finds that baffling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how many nursing homes there are in California or how many deaths a year there are in the facilities, but the number is going to be huge,” Greenwood said. “And to think there are only two suspicious deaths? No, I just frankly cannot believe that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapman said his staff is drafting agreements with the attorney general’s office to improve communication and work better with them as a partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t understand that decline in numbers,” he said. “It’s very concerning to me and we are looking into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapman said while he’s confident no complaints have been mishandled, he is open to the possibility of reviewing closed cases, including the death of Elsie Fossum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds absolutely horrible,” Chapman said. “We should be doing investigations on all complaints. If that’s not happening that’s a problem and we need to address it, and I’ll be looking into that case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was co-reported with Ryan Gabrielson of the Center for Investigative Reporting. \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/quick-dismissal-caregiver-abuse-cases-puts-calif-patients-risk-5158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read his story, \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/quick-dismissal-caregiver-abuse-cases-puts-calif-patients-risk-5158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quick dismissal of caregiver abuse cases puts California patients at risk.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F105786096%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-lRcYE\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://embed.verite.co/timeline/?source=0Ai_7jS90j6v-dF95M2NCUXFJZmVrNXZyQnJ5OVNaZGc&font=Bevan-PotanoSans&maptype=toner&lang=en&height=650\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"650\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She looked like she went four or five rounds with Muhammad Ali,” Beverlee McPherson recalled when Fossum returned from the hospital. McPherson, a registered nurse, supervised the nurse assistants at Claremont Place.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurse assistants provide intimate care. They bathe, feed and dress the elderly, ill or disabled. The lone caregiver on Fossum’s floor that night reported Fossum fell, but McPherson and other Claremont Place staff suspected abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than three weeks later, Fossum died. Her 109-pound frame succumbed to her wounds and to dehydration. Fossum was unable to take much food or water through her swollen mouth. A Los Angeles County coroner could not rule out assault and called the manner of Fossum’s death undetermined. McPherson is resolute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m 100 percent convinced she didn’t fall out of bed, 100 percent. If you saw this woman’s face, I mean her entire face was beaten to a pulp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency room nurses who treated Fossum at the hospital also suspected abuse, according to official records. The hospital quickly notified the California Department of Public Health, the agency responsible for de-certifying nurse assistants and home health aides who violate standards of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Public-Health-noaction.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-110511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Public-Health-noaction-258x300.png\" alt=\"Public Health - noaction\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>Internal documents obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting show department investigators shelved Fossum’s case for 6½ years. In February of this year, department investigators closed the case and determined no action was warranted against Fossum’s caregiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her aunt’s funeral, Janet Flynn said Claremont Place staff alerted the family that Elsie Fossum may have been a victim of elder abuse. Seven years later, the family is no closer to understanding what happened to their aunt. Their calls and emails to state agencies and local police turned up little information. They have never heard from California’s Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would think that this would be very chilling to anyone who has loved ones in a facility, especially if they’re not immediately local like we weren’t,” Flynn said. “And you think safeguards are in place and you think that staff are qualified and that this is being regulated, and this I find chilling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has decided Fossum’s case warrants further review. A detective there said they opened a homicide investigation into her death this year. Fossum’s caregiver is the sole person of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A sprawling backlog of cases\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fossum’s case is not the only one where department investigators were slow to act after allegations of physical or sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2007, nurse assistant Ricky Diocampo molested a 59-year-old female patient at Del Rio Sanitarium in Los Angeles County. This was not the first time Diocampo had assaulted this woman, court records would later show. In 2009, Diocampo pled guilty to patient abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not until two years after his conviction that officials with California’s Department of Public Health revoked Diocampo’s certification as a nurse assistant. Diocampo did not respond to phone calls, notes or visits to his Long Beach home. It is unknown whether Diocampo worked at other care facilities in the years before state regulators acted against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110510\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Ron-Chapman-02.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110510 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Ron-Chapman-02-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Chapman, head of the California Department of Public Health, says he doesn't understand the reason for the decline in case referrals to the Attorney General's office. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Chapman, head of the California Department of Public Health, says he doesn’t understand the reason for the decline in case referrals to the attorney general’s office. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would tell anybody: Do not count on the government taking care of you,” said Brian Woods, who oversaw the department’s Southern California investigations office in 2006. “They are overworked. They can’t get in there. Your case might get looked at 10 years later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woods said cases languished during his tenure because of a sprawling backlog of hundreds of complaints. He said his investigators lacked the training to handle complex cases, and he had too few investigators to begin with. Woods left his position in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2004 to 2008, public health regulators piled up more than 900 cases in Southern California — cases that involved severe injuries and suspicious deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a number of reasons for that backlog, including poor management decisions during that time in terms of how to use the resources that were available,” said Ron Chapman, who heads California’s Department of Public Health. “A backlog for investigating complaints is inexcusable; it should not have occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapman said a plan was implemented in 2009 to address the backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the two years that I’ve been in the job, there’s now new management from top to bottom,” he said. “We’re staying on top of all the complaints as they come in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since Chapman’s been on the job, the number of nurse assistants who have lost their certifications has dropped dramatically. In fiscal year 2008, the department revoked or denied certifications in 27 percent of cases. In fiscal years 2011 and 2012, that number dropped to 9 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapman said he sees no evidence that addressing the backlog has undermined the quality of the department’s investigations. But Marc Parker, who led the investigations section for nine years, said he was forced to cut corners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Public-Health-vanishingbacklog.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-110513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Public-Health-vanishingbacklog-238x300.png\" alt=\"Public Health - vanishingbacklog\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>“Hundreds of cases were closed, hundreds, with nothing but a phone call,” Parker said. “The directions were to reduce this backlog, get these cases done. Staff was prohibited from traveling, restricted to sitting at their desk … except only in the most dire cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker said without facility visits, investigators are unable to see the layout of a room, conduct impromptu interviews, or assess a person’s body language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You lose all the basic cues, all the ‘tells’ that people have,” he said. “Their facial expression, eye movements, their body posture, their legs are crossed, they’re turning away from you, they look you in the eye, they don’t. If you’re doing it on the telephone, all of that is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According the Parker, the practice of shortchanging investigations continues today. “I get emails; I get phone calls from folks who tell me what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker, who retired in December of 2011, said he left earlier than planned. “I could not protect the public any longer,” Parker said. “There was just a failure to protect the most vulnerable people in our state from abuse and neglect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fewer cases sent to prosecutors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health regulators are legally bound to report all suspected criminal wrongdoing to the state attorney general’s office. Over the three years before the department addressed the backlog, it referred 88 deaths for criminal prosecution. But that number has plummeted. 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From the Merc …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The San Jose officers’ union, which has argued the city must restore the 10 percent pay cuts over the next year to keep cops from fleeing to higher-paying departments elsewhere, remained unimpressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Unland, president of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association, called the proposal “nothing more than convoluted rhetoric” from a mayor and council he accuses of “dismantling of our public safety infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These two politicians have zero credibility when it comes to public safety and their latest plan is full of empty promises,” Unland said. “Reed and Liccardo gambled with our residents’ safety and lost, resulting in skyrocketing crime, unsafe neighborhoods and officers leaving in droves.” \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_23976394/san-jose-mayor-councilman-air-ideas-more-cops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several years now, San Jose has been losing officers at an alarming rate, many leaving for better-paying jobs after the city cut pay and pensions during a budget crisis. So far this year, the department has lost 75 officers, two-thirds of whom left after resigning their positions, Acting Police Chief Larry Esquivel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, San Jose police \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23644988/san-jose-officers-lose-wage-arbitration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost an arbitration case\u003c/a> in which they had asked for a 10 percent raise, “raising the specter of even more officers fleeing the already lean force,” as the Merc wrote. Police and other unions have also \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23697675/san-jose-pension-reform-goes-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenged the city’s pension reform plan\u003c/a>, Measure B, in court. The measure, overwhelmingly passed by voters in June 2012, gives city workers a choice between a less generous pension or paying more for their current benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of last week, the San Jose Police Department had 996 sworn officers, with about 43 police cadets nearing graduation from the police academy, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How to pay \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is now $20 million short of the money it would cost to restore the 10 percent salary cuts to city workers, and would need $35 million to restore police, fire, libraries and community centers to what they received in January 2011, Reed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed and Liccardo, in a joint memo to the council, reported that the money may be raised in a variety of ways, such as reducing police overtime pay, eliminating sick leave pay to officers at retirement and using $15 million the city set aside during labor negotiations with the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed said at the meeting that the city should also consider asking city voters to pass a new tax measure, preferably on the ballot in November 2014, to raise additional funds. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose also needs to find $70 million to $80 million in funding for needed repairs to city streets, Reed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we are a lot of money short from where we’d like to be, both to restore pay and to restore services,” Reed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, we are talking really about prioritizing the work as we go forward in anticipation of being able to both restore services and to restore pay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiring the 141 new police officers, at a cost of $153,000 in compensation plus $13,000 in equipment and other costs for each one, would alone require $23.4 million the city does not have, according to Reed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Reed-Liccardo plan would pay San Jose police officers an incentive bonus equal to 4 percent of their salaries to convince them to stay with the force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed described the proposed strategy as a balance between reviving city services and pay and “making the Police Department the highest priority for restoring services and the highest priority for restoring pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Police Chief Esquivel, who attended the meeting, commended the council for proposing the 4 percent retention incentive for current officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inducement would help “to keep our people here, from fleeing” to better-paying jobs in other cities, Esquivel said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Bernice Yeung and Grace Rubenstein,\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer heat had not yet hit its suffocating peak in the Central Valley’s tomato fields when Olivia Tamayo’s supervisor approached her during the midmorning break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109761\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109761 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Fields_115-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Fields_115\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nearly 40 percent of California female farmworkers surveyed in a UC Santa Cruz study said they had been sexual harassed. 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And Rodriguez repeatedly denied the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in what would become a landmark case, the federal government filed a civil sexual harassment lawsuit against Tamayo’s employer, Harris Farms, one of the country’s largest agribusinesses and owner of a popular restaurant along Interstate 5. In 2004, Tamayo’s case was the first federal sexual harassment lawsuit against a grower to reach a trial. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury found that the company failed to curb the sexual abuse and then retaliated against Tamayo for complaining. It awarded Tamayo nearly $800,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>From The California Report ...\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306280850/a\" target=\"_blank\">Farmworkers Face Rape - And a System That Doesn't Aid Them\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306281630/d\">Farmworker's Sexual Harassment Claim Leads to Trial, But Odds Are Long in Criminal Cases\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306281630/e\" target=\"_blank\">Determined Farmworker Helps Others Confront Sexual Harassment in the Fields\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201307010850/a\" target=\"_blank\">ALRB Provides Unique Way to Resolve Disputes between Growers and Farmworkers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since then, there have been few signs that conditions have gotten better for farmworkers in California – or elsewhere across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women working in the country's fields and food-processing plants continue to face the persistent peril of sexual violence and harassment, according to an investigation by The Center for Investigative Reporting and the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In partnership with FRONTLINE and television network Univision, reporters spent nearly a year reviewing thousands of pages of documents and crisscrossing the nation to hear workers’ stories of sexual assault. The reporting was the subject of a documentary that aired this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the exact scope of sexual violence and harassment against agricultural workers is impossible to pinpoint, reports by agricultural workers span the nation and particularly California, home to the nation's most productive agricultural regions and largest population of farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, which enforces state labor laws for farmworkers, filed its first case related to sexual harassment, deciding to make the issue a priority because it wasn’t being adequately addressed. In that case, a woman harvesting sweet potatoes in Stanislaus County filed claims that she was fired after accusing a supervisor of sexually assaulting her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most women don't come forward like Tamayo did. Many low-wage migrant laborers remain silent about workplace sexual abuse out of shame, fear of deportation or worries they'll be fired. They face intimidating language barriers and an ignorance of workplace laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tamayo won her case, her lawyer, William J. Smith, thought it would change the landscape for agricultural workers. Today, he’s not so sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though Olivia Tamayo stood up for her rights, people are still afraid,” he said. “I don’t think it caught on the way we thought it would because the fear is still out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR and IRP conducted the first systematic analysis of the 41 lawsuits filed by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission against agricultural businesses in the last 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In virtually all of the lawsuits, the alleged perpetrators held positions of power in the company; in more than half of the lawsuits, the superiors were accused of targeting multiple victims. In cases in which sexual assault and rape are alleged, these supervisors remained on the job for years without fear of arrest, and law enforcement has done almost nothing to prosecute potential crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than four out of five workers who reported the problem to their employers say they were demoted, fired or subjected to further abuse, the analysis shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits emerged from 1,106 sexual harassment complaints filed by agricultural workers with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission since 1998. The majority of the complaints are dismissed by the federal commission or settle out of court, and the details remain secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sexual violence doesn’t happen unless there’s an imbalance of power,” said William R. Tamayo, the San Francisco regional attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 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Her five children are grown – she no longer rises at 4:30 a.m. to make tortillas for their lunch – and she spends her days tending to her ailing husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Rodriguez retired from Harris Farms in 1999. During an interview at his home in South Texas, Rodriguez insisted that he and Olivia Tamayo had dated. 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It awarded Tamayo nearly $800,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>From The California Report ...\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306280850/a\" target=\"_blank\">Farmworkers Face Rape - And a System That Doesn't Aid Them\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306281630/d\">Farmworker's Sexual Harassment Claim Leads to Trial, But Odds Are Long in Criminal Cases\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306281630/e\" target=\"_blank\">Determined Farmworker Helps Others Confront Sexual Harassment in the Fields\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201307010850/a\" target=\"_blank\">ALRB Provides Unique Way to Resolve Disputes between Growers and Farmworkers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since then, there have been few signs that conditions have gotten better for farmworkers in California – or elsewhere across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women working in the country's fields and food-processing plants continue to face the persistent peril of sexual violence and harassment, according to an investigation by The Center for Investigative Reporting and the Investigative Reporting Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In partnership with FRONTLINE and television network Univision, reporters spent nearly a year reviewing thousands of pages of documents and crisscrossing the nation to hear workers’ stories of sexual assault. The reporting was the subject of a documentary that aired this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the exact scope of sexual violence and harassment against agricultural workers is impossible to pinpoint, reports by agricultural workers span the nation and particularly California, home to the nation's most productive agricultural regions and largest population of farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board, which enforces state labor laws for farmworkers, filed its first case related to sexual harassment, deciding to make the issue a priority because it wasn’t being adequately addressed. In that case, a woman harvesting sweet potatoes in Stanislaus County filed claims that she was fired after accusing a supervisor of sexually assaulting her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most women don't come forward like Tamayo did. Many low-wage migrant laborers remain silent about workplace sexual abuse out of shame, fear of deportation or worries they'll be fired. They face intimidating language barriers and an ignorance of workplace laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tamayo won her case, her lawyer, William J. Smith, thought it would change the landscape for agricultural workers. Today, he’s not so sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though Olivia Tamayo stood up for her rights, people are still afraid,” he said. “I don’t think it caught on the way we thought it would because the fear is still out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CIR and IRP conducted the first systematic analysis of the 41 lawsuits filed by the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission against agricultural businesses in the last 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In virtually all of the lawsuits, the alleged perpetrators held positions of power in the company; in more than half of the lawsuits, the superiors were accused of targeting multiple victims. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108651\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/27/108647/amelie-le-moullac/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108651\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-108651\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/Amelie-Le-Moullac-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Amelie Le Moullac was killed while riding her bicycle on Folsom Street. Photo from Voce Communications via Streetsblog SF\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amelie Le Moullac was killed while riding her bicycle on Folsom Street. Photo from Voce Communications via Streetsblog SF \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Voce Communications )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bicycle advocates are accusing the San Francisco Police Department of shoddy evidence-gathering in the case of a bicyclist who was killed by a big-rig driver on a SoMa street earlier this month. They say it might be part of a troubling pattern of police bias against bike riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 14, Amelie Le Moullac, 24, was on her way to work, traveling east in the bike lane on Folsom Street, when she was struck and killed by a truck making a right turn onto Sixth Street. It was the third death of a bicyclist hit by a vehicle this year. All of the crashes have happened in or near SoMa and have involved trucks. None of the drivers has been cited or charged, according to bike advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after the crash that killed Le Moullac, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) held a memorial and safety event near the crash site. They gathered signatures for a petition to Mayor Ed Lee to make “some much needed and overdue changes” to SoMa streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the event, San Francisco police \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzLInp_Hs9g\">Sgt. 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He reportedly made no mention of \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/08/16/cbs-5-exacerbates-deadly-confusion-about-bike-lane-right-of-way/\">widespread violations by drivers who turn across bike lanes\u003c/a> instead of merging fully into them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it was his “right” to be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SFBC Executive Director Leah Shahum, Ernst blamed all three victims who were killed by truck drivers in SoMa and the Mission this year, and refused to leave until she “understood that it was the bicyclist’s fault.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Bike advocates are disturbed that many fatal collisions caused by drivers are written off as “tragic accidents.\"\u003c/strong> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco police wouldn’t comment directly on Ernst’s behavior, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Chuck Nevius \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Discord-growing-between-bicyclists-police-4757178.php\">talked to SFPD brass\u003c/a> who privately “confirmed that not only was he acting on his own, they considered his actions an embarrassment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same day of the event, a staffer from the SFBC decided to canvass the neighborhood for any surveillance video that might have captured the crash. He surveyed five businesses, and found an auto shop that had footage of the collision from a camera pointed directly at the intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was so upsetting and distressing to find out is that the police had told us at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition on three separate occasions they looked for video footage and that none could be found,” said Kristin Smith, communications director for the SFBC. “It was in a 15-minute quick check that our staffer was able to find this. It was really just basic police work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said they found the footage in the nick of time because the auto shop had planned to erase it the next morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for Le Moullac’s family, Micha Star Liberty, said the video confirms her client did not cause the collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s most important is that it reveals to me that she was a true victim with respect to this collision and did nothing wrong,” said Liberty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, the police initially refused to give Liberty a copy of the police report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s crystal clear that the family of Amelie Le Moullac and me as their attorney should be given information contained in the report,” Liberty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after media calls that police finally indicated they were going to release it\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Police-response-to-cyclist-s-death-offtrack-4762740.php\">, according to Nevius\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>By Monday, the department had changed its tune, probably after the intervention of Police Chief \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea%2Fnevius&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Greg+Suhr%22\">Greg Suhr\u003c/a>, who responded quickly to a text questioning the delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Normally we do not release accident reports that result in death,\" Suhr replied. \"That said, we're working on getting a copy of the report to the family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberty said she had been told to expect an e-mail copy of the report that afternoon.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Nevius described the SFPD’s response to the crash as “tone-deaf.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates say they're disturbed that many collisions caused by drivers that end in the deaths of bicyclists \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds-4420\">and pedestrians\u003c/a> are written off as “tragic accidents,\" with no citations or charges except in drunken driving and hit-and-run cases. 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