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The Legislative Latino Caucus moved into new offices earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both offices that are subject to the sealed search warrants are the offices of Senator Calderon; one in the Capitol building and the other in the Legislative Office Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This correction illustrates the limited information available to the Legislature. We have and will continue to fully cooperate with the agents.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>by Don Thompson and Tom Verdin, Associated Press\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nSACRAMENTO, Calif. 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Ron Calderon, a Democrat from the Los Angeles County city of Montebello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a federal search warrant served on Sen. Calderon's office. It's a sealed search warrant. I don't know what it relates to,\" Beard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Calderon was not present during the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon did not return a message left on his cell phone. His spokesman, Rocky Rushing, said he could not comment and referred calls to Los Angeles attorney Mark Geragos. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/05/5471945/fbi-raids-offices-of-sen-ron-calderon.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacramento Bee \u003c/a>reports that FBI agents have been investigating the way contracts are awarded by the Central Basin Municipal Water District where Calderon's brother, Tom Calderon, is on the board of directors.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/california/legislator/1262-ron-calderon\" target=\"_blank\">MapLight\u003c/a> reports that Ron Calderon has raised most of his campaign money outside his district.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/05/5473539/sen-ron-calderon-took-40000-in.html\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> reports that Ron Calderon received twice as many gifts as any other legislator since 2000. \u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I have a sense that they're on a witch hunt,\" Geragos said in a telephone interview. \"My client refused to read their script and so this is what resulted. ... My client has done absolutely nothing wrong.\" He said he does not know what the FBI is investigating or if others also are targets of the investigation.He contended the Justice Department is targeting his client, a Democrat, as \"a bait and switch\" to mute congressional Republicans' outcry over recent disclosures, including that the department obtained telephone records from AP reporters and editors and private emails from a Fox News correspondent.Beard told reporters who gathered outside Calderon's office Tuesday night that the office of the Latino Legislative Caucus, which is across the street from the Capitol in the Legislative Office Building, also was searched. A spokeswoman for the caucus, Lizette Mata, did not return telephone and email messages.Sacramento defense attorney William Portanova entered and left the Capitol office during the search. He told the AP he was retained to represent the interests of the Senate as a whole, not any particular lawmaker.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're 100 percent cooperative with any investigation,\" Portanova said late Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warrants were being served as lawmakers who are part of the 23-member Latino caucus held an event with reporters at the Capitol to discuss the group's legislative priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's raid at the Capitol recalled the so-called \"Shrimpscam\" investigation in 1985, in which federal agents went undercover and posed as representatives of a phony shrimp-processing company. Five lawmakers went to prison for taking bribes in the FBI sting operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eimiller said the current investigation is being led by federal authorities in Southern California, where Calderon is based, but the search warrants were issued in U.S. District Court in Sacramento and are under seal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the search was conducted to investigate \"allegations of criminal activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is an ongoing investigation,\" she said. \"Searches are typically done in the early stages of an investigation, so it would be premature to say that charges will be filed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, the state's political watchdog agency, the Fair Political Practices Commission, closed an investigation into Calderon's three Assembly campaign committees without sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission opened an investigation after receiving allegations that Calderon had used campaign money for personal purposes while seeking re-election to the Assembly in 2003 and 2004, according to agency records. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Shoshana Walter, the \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/calif-agencies-often-fail-protect-confidential-information-data-shows-4621\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/28/in-california-incarcerated-students-fall-through-gaps-in-special-education-laws/cir-logo-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98222\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-98222\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/CIR-logo-300x72.png\" alt=\"CIR logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\">\u003c/a>When a thief rang up $2,000 in charges at Victoria’s Secret, Gymboree and Gap on Rosa Franco’s credit card, she quickly surmised the reason – the state of California had mistakenly left her credit card and Social Security numbers exposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Developmental Services, which serves Franco’s 5-year-old daughter and thousands of others with disabilities, had in March 2012 left stacks of billing and patient records in an abandoned, unsecured office. In another case, an employee in November left his unencrypted computer in his unlocked car overnight. The computer and more than 18,100 patient records disappeared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98275\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/30/california-agencies-may-not-protect-confidential-data/computer-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98275\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-98275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/computer-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"computer\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They send you a letter saying, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, oops, your information is lost!’ ” said Franco, 46, who lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter, who has Down syndrome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of people got that letter,” she said. “It’s unfair. We already have enough stress with our kids being special needs. Now I have to watch my daughter’s Social Security number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The security breach was one of thousands reported by state agencies over the past decade, the result of hacking, employee carelessness and theft. In 2012 alone, 16 state agencies and affiliated nonprofits reported major data breaches, according to state data reviewed by The Center for Investigative Reporting.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite numerous laws and state policies aimed at protecting privacy, consumer information represents easy pickings for hackers and thieves. State agencies frequently fail to protect the confidentiality of patients and consumers, including those who are the most vulnerable to fraud and identity theft – children, the elderly and the disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>25 Percent Not Encrypted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 10 years of state-collected data on computer security incidents involving confidential and private information reveals state agencies do not always encrypt computers, even when they contain confidential information affecting thousands of people. Of the 283 computers and phones containing confidential information that were reported lost and stolen, 25 percent were not encrypted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, employee carelessness, not hacking, leads to security breaches. In 1,646 cases since 2003, confidential information was released after state employees lost equipment and documents or mailed and posted private information to the wrong place, according to a state database of preliminary reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About one-third of cyberbreaches are successful, according to the database. Agencies reported 49 out of 154 computer viruses, denial-of-service attacks and hacking attempts breached security. On several occasions, computers were disconnected from the network and destroyed after being infected with malware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michele Robinson, acting director of the state’s Office of Information Security, said the agency tries to continually train and instruct information technology staff across the state to protect and encrypt sensitive information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, we’ve seen incidents where they have not done that,” she said. “From our perspective, one of those is one too many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cases run the gamut, from employee error to hack attacks to poor information security practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In little more than two years, for example, the Department of Motor Vehicles has mailed the wrong driver’s license or vehicle registration to more than 1,000 people, according to internal records. Last year, a courier left the keys in the ignition as he delivered a package and 283 Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses were stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2012, a thief stole an unencrypted computer from a state Department of Public Health service provider in Palm Springs that contained confidential information on 4,400 patients with AIDS. A month later, a package containing Social Security numbers for 748,902 elderly home care recipients and their caretakers was stolen en route to a state insurance office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the Department of Health Care Services accidentally posted 14,000 Social Security numbers for in-home care workers online. Nine days later, employees realized their mistake and took down the list. But workers were alarmed to find the information easily on Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encryption has been a required state practice for years. A memo in 2008 from the Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection reminded state agencies to encrypt all devices containing confidential information, a requirement long outlined in the State Administrative Manual. Yet many agencies have not followed the procedure, allowing electronic information to fall into harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely need to find out how rampant this situation is and rectify the situation as soon as possible,” said Assemblyman Ed Chau, D-Monterey Park, chairman of the Assembly’s Select Committee on Privacy. “Building a firewall to safeguard information is crucial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without encryption, anyone can override a computer’s password and gain access to its confidential contents by removing the computer’s hard drive, using software or guessing. Technology experts say encryption is an easy procedure for any information technology department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t realize that passwords are quite trivial,” said Seth Schoen, a senior staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “They should encrypt their data storage on every device. In the absence of that, whoever gets the device will be able to read it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, the California Highway Patrol is required to take reports on each security incident and investigate crimes involving state computers or those that are on state property. But Sgt. Kelly Dixon, an investigator in the Computer Crimes Investigation Unit, said limited resources make it impossible for the unit to investigate every crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Theoretically speaking, we would be responsible,” he said. “Practically speaking, the local agency would come and take the report. We’re not going to investigate a vehicle burglary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Notification Lacking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show many agencies do not always send out notification letters immediately after security breaches, despite California’s first-in-the-nation law requiring businesses and state agencies to notify anyone whose unencrypted private information might have been accessed by outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaches involving theft of equipment are rarely investigated or lead to an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, a Highway Patrol officer was shopping at a Sacramento Barnes & Noble when a thief broke into the trunk of his personal car, according to a state property report. The loot included a Highway Patrol-issued.40-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol, three .40-caliber high-capacity magazines and the officer’s unencrypted laptop containing confidential information, according to the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer called the Sacramento Police Department to make a report; no arrest was made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the Department of Developmental Services records, a supervisor of a program for developmentally disabled infants and toddlers at the North Los Angeles County Regional Center had left his work laptop, personal laptop and iPhone in his car overnight on a street in Santa Monica, according to a police report. When he returned in the morning, the items were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the state supervisor reported the thefts to the Santa Monica Police Department, the case never was investigated. Santa Monica police Sgt. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Joanna Lin, \u003c/em>Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TEHACHAPI, Calif. – School ended for Michael Garcia with a routine transfer from juvenile hall to adult county jail. There was no fanfare, diploma or cap and gown. He hadn’t graduated or dropped out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/28/in-california-incarcerated-students-fall-through-gaps-in-special-education-laws/cir-logo-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98222\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-98222 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/CIR-logo-300x72.png\" alt=\"CIR logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\">\u003c/a>He’d simply turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the next 19 months, he was in limbo, unable to receive the high school diploma that he’ll need for most jobs and to attend college. Despite being eligible for special education under state and federal laws – Garcia has a learning disability, an auditory processing disorder and a speech and language impairment – in the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail, he was a student that no one wanted to teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and federal laws allow students with disabilities to receive special education services until age 22. But the laws are vague enough that deciding who should provide that education is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia has spent nearly five years in legal battles trying to hold someone accountable. This year, the California Supreme Court is expected to hear Garcia’s case to determine whether an incarcerated student’s local school district – the one in which his or her parents reside – is responsible for his or her special education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98224\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/28/in-california-incarcerated-students-fall-through-gaps-in-special-education-laws/incarcerated-students/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98224\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-98224\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/incarcerated-students.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Garcia (center in photograph), who was once a junior cadet in the Bell Police Department's junior explorer program, struggled to receive special education services as an inmate in the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail for 19 months. (Kelvin Kuo/ Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Garcia (center in photograph) struggled to receive special education services as an inmate in the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail. (Kelvin Kuo/ Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The case has implications for county inmates with disabilities and school districts across the state that could be required to send teachers into jails to instruct special education students. In L.A. County jails alone, attorneys for Garcia estimate, between 400 and 700 young adults are eligible for special education on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s decision will come too late for Garcia, who is incarcerated at a state prison – a system beyond the scope of his petition. Still, said Garcia, who turns 23 in June, “it’s the least I can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know other people are struggling to get education too but don’t have the courage to keep pushing,” he said. “I already went through that struggle. Why not keep going to help everyone else?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent interview in prison, Garcia recited the Lord’s Prayer quickly, unblinking, through the thick glass of a visiting booth. The words weren’t always this easy for him to recall. Garcia grew up with his mother, Yamileth Fuentes, and four siblings in Bell, a small city in an industrial corridor southeast of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After long hours of driving a county Metro bus, Fuentes would return home and teach Garcia angel prayers, first in Spanish and then in English, by having him repeat after her, line by line. Even after a month of saying the same prayers every night, Garcia would struggle to recite them on his own, Fuentes said. And because Garcia glossed over R’s and L’s, his words were garbled and difficult to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In second grade, Garcia was found to have a learning disability caused by an auditory processing disorder and a speech and language impairment. He was assigned weekly speech therapy and placed in a special education class. Garcia said he hated the class for separating him from his peers and because it made him feel stupid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in sixth grade, when he realized he had been mistakenly placed in a general education course, Garcia said nothing. He relished the chance to prove he was smart, that he did not need special education after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a conflict I had with myself because I knew I was smart enough,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He failed the class. With an F on his report card, Garcia was dropped from the Bell Police Department’s junior explorer program, in which he had been a proud junior cadet who hoped to someday be a police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said he got involved with the wrong crowd shortly after. By the time he finished middle school, he was a member of the Barrio Mojados gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One evening in January 2006, Garcia was acting as a lookout as his friends tagged a corner store wall in South Los Angeles when two men from a rival gang came up to them and started shooting. Garcia said he ran toward them, shooting back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then took cover behind a car in the driveway of a nearby house. The man and woman who lived there told Garcia to get out and tried to push him off their property. As the couple tussled with Garcia near the front yard, another teenage boy approached, pulling a gun from his waistband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple testified that Garcia told the other boy, a fellow gang member, to shoot the man – a claim Garcia denies. Still, the other boy fired, striking the man’s pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia was sentenced to 12 years in state prison for one count of attempted murder and two counts of vandalism. With time served, he’ll be released in 2016, when he’s 26 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia was a high school freshman when he was sent to Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar to await trial. The Los Angeles County Office of Education ran the special day class he attended and provided him each week with 45 minutes of speech therapy and 30 minutes of counseling, to help him manage frustrations he felt because of his learning disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was still a kid,” he said. “I was going to the classroom, hanging out, not doing my work, fighting. I got older and I was like, what am I doing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks after he turned 18, he was transferred to an L.A. County jail, and his special education services vanished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, county offices of education serve students in juvenile halls. For all other students, state law generally holds the school district where a parent resides responsible for special education. The district remains responsible for the student, who may receive special education services until age 22, as long as his or her parent lives within district boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An administrative law judge in 2009 found that the law extends to students incarcerated in county jails and ordered the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide special education services to Garcia, which the district did while also appealing the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A district court judge affirmed the decision, and L.A. Unified’s second appeal is now awaiting a hearing before the California Supreme Court. While the case is pending, a related class-action lawsuit – filed by Garcia and 10 other inmates against the district, state, county office of education and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, among others – is on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. Unified is “meeting legal requirements” to provide special education to inmates whose parents resided in district boundaries when the inmate turned 18, a district spokeswoman said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district currently provides special education services to one of L.A. County’s 18,520 inmates, said Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore. At most, he said, the county has had no more than five inmates receiving special education, all from L.A. Unified, at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court documents, L.A. Unified said that because there’s no law specifically assigning school districts to provide special education to inmates, the state Department of Education is responsible. The state, on the other hand, said it provides special education services only if it finds local agencies are “unwilling or unable to do so” – a circumstance that it said was not the case for students in Los Angeles County jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is “shirking their responsibility,” said Paula Pearlman, executive director of the Disability Rights Legal Center and an attorney for Garcia. When the local district and county education offices fail, the state is the “district of last resort,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Garcia’s transfer from county jail to state prison in September 2010, the special education services he received under court order from L.A. Unified have stopped. He’s currently housed in the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every Tuesday, Garcia attends a three-hour class in the prison to help him pass the General Educational Development test, which inmates can take once a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Practice exams have been challenging, he said, because he needs more time to comprehend each question than the test allows. The algebra in the test is difficult, too, especially because he can’t study with a calculator in his cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He plans to take the test as soon as he can receive additional time – an accommodation called for in his individualized education program, a legal document that outlines a special education student’s goals and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Garcia’s case before the California Supreme Court is limited to L.A. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia has spent nearly five years in legal battles trying to hold someone accountable. This year, the California Supreme Court is expected to hear Garcia’s case to determine whether an incarcerated student’s local school district – the one in which his or her parents reside – is responsible for his or her special education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98224\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/28/in-california-incarcerated-students-fall-through-gaps-in-special-education-laws/incarcerated-students/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98224\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-98224\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/incarcerated-students.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Garcia (center in photograph), who was once a junior cadet in the Bell Police Department's junior explorer program, struggled to receive special education services as an inmate in the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail for 19 months. (Kelvin Kuo/ Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Garcia (center in photograph) struggled to receive special education services as an inmate in the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail. (Kelvin Kuo/ Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The case has implications for county inmates with disabilities and school districts across the state that could be required to send teachers into jails to instruct special education students. In L.A. County jails alone, attorneys for Garcia estimate, between 400 and 700 young adults are eligible for special education on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s decision will come too late for Garcia, who is incarcerated at a state prison – a system beyond the scope of his petition. Still, said Garcia, who turns 23 in June, “it’s the least I can do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know other people are struggling to get education too but don’t have the courage to keep pushing,” he said. “I already went through that struggle. Why not keep going to help everyone else?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent interview in prison, Garcia recited the Lord’s Prayer quickly, unblinking, through the thick glass of a visiting booth. The words weren’t always this easy for him to recall. Garcia grew up with his mother, Yamileth Fuentes, and four siblings in Bell, a small city in an industrial corridor southeast of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After long hours of driving a county Metro bus, Fuentes would return home and teach Garcia angel prayers, first in Spanish and then in English, by having him repeat after her, line by line. Even after a month of saying the same prayers every night, Garcia would struggle to recite them on his own, Fuentes said. And because Garcia glossed over R’s and L’s, his words were garbled and difficult to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In second grade, Garcia was found to have a learning disability caused by an auditory processing disorder and a speech and language impairment. He was assigned weekly speech therapy and placed in a special education class. Garcia said he hated the class for separating him from his peers and because it made him feel stupid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in sixth grade, when he realized he had been mistakenly placed in a general education course, Garcia said nothing. He relished the chance to prove he was smart, that he did not need special education after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a conflict I had with myself because I knew I was smart enough,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He failed the class. With an F on his report card, Garcia was dropped from the Bell Police Department’s junior explorer program, in which he had been a proud junior cadet who hoped to someday be a police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said he got involved with the wrong crowd shortly after. By the time he finished middle school, he was a member of the Barrio Mojados gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One evening in January 2006, Garcia was acting as a lookout as his friends tagged a corner store wall in South Los Angeles when two men from a rival gang came up to them and started shooting. Garcia said he ran toward them, shooting back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then took cover behind a car in the driveway of a nearby house. The man and woman who lived there told Garcia to get out and tried to push him off their property. As the couple tussled with Garcia near the front yard, another teenage boy approached, pulling a gun from his waistband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple testified that Garcia told the other boy, a fellow gang member, to shoot the man – a claim Garcia denies. Still, the other boy fired, striking the man’s pants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia was sentenced to 12 years in state prison for one count of attempted murder and two counts of vandalism. With time served, he’ll be released in 2016, when he’s 26 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia was a high school freshman when he was sent to Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar to await trial. The Los Angeles County Office of Education ran the special day class he attended and provided him each week with 45 minutes of speech therapy and 30 minutes of counseling, to help him manage frustrations he felt because of his learning disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was still a kid,” he said. “I was going to the classroom, hanging out, not doing my work, fighting. I got older and I was like, what am I doing?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks after he turned 18, he was transferred to an L.A. County jail, and his special education services vanished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California law, county offices of education serve students in juvenile halls. For all other students, state law generally holds the school district where a parent resides responsible for special education. The district remains responsible for the student, who may receive special education services until age 22, as long as his or her parent lives within district boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An administrative law judge in 2009 found that the law extends to students incarcerated in county jails and ordered the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide special education services to Garcia, which the district did while also appealing the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A district court judge affirmed the decision, and L.A. Unified’s second appeal is now awaiting a hearing before the California Supreme Court. While the case is pending, a related class-action lawsuit – filed by Garcia and 10 other inmates against the district, state, county office of education and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, among others – is on hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. Unified is “meeting legal requirements” to provide special education to inmates whose parents resided in district boundaries when the inmate turned 18, a district spokeswoman said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district currently provides special education services to one of L.A. County’s 18,520 inmates, said Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore. At most, he said, the county has had no more than five inmates receiving special education, all from L.A. Unified, at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court documents, L.A. Unified said that because there’s no law specifically assigning school districts to provide special education to inmates, the state Department of Education is responsible. The state, on the other hand, said it provides special education services only if it finds local agencies are “unwilling or unable to do so” – a circumstance that it said was not the case for students in Los Angeles County jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is “shirking their responsibility,” said Paula Pearlman, executive director of the Disability Rights Legal Center and an attorney for Garcia. When the local district and county education offices fail, the state is the “district of last resort,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Garcia’s transfer from county jail to state prison in September 2010, the special education services he received under court order from L.A. Unified have stopped. 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"disqusTitle": "California Bills Aim to Protect Immigrant Workers from Retaliation",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>By Sasha Khokha and Rachel Estabrook\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98123\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-98123 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/venegas0528-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Candida Venegas (right) says she was fired from her job at Marquez Brothers cheese plant for speaking up about working conditions. The immigrant rights movement has rallied around her cause, cheering her at a recent rally in San Jose. (Rachel Estabrook/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candida Venegas (right) says she was fired from her job at Marquez Brothers cheese plant after speaking up about working conditions. The immigrant rights movement has rallied around her cause, cheering her at a recent rally in San Jose. (Rachel Estabrook/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Congress debates federal immigration reform in Washington, California lawmakers are pushing several bills to strengthen state protections for immigrant workers. The measures could shut down California companies when employers intimidate their workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the case of Jose Arias, who milked cows at a San Joaquin county dairy for nearly a decade, starting his shift at 5 a.m. and working until noon. He started again at 4 p.m. and milked cows until midnight. But he wasn’t paid overtime, given meals and rest breaks, or paid his wages on time. He finally left the dairy and filed a lawsuit that made its way to the California Supreme Court, which \u003ca href=\"http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/arias-v-super-ct-33002\" target=\"_blank\">validated his right to file a claim.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Arias and the dairy owners were in the middle of negotiations, and shortly before trial, he says he learned the attorney representing the dairy had emailed an immigration agent about Arias’ immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt nervous. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t even eat because I was thinking about what could happen,” says Arias in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possibility of getting deported to Mexico, separated from his wife and four children, terrified him. Even talking about his case still makes him nervous. Sitting in his attorney’s office, he speaks haltingly, softly, and shifts uncomfortably in his seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel, well, pretty defeated. But I’m pushing on,” he says. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, Arias filed a separate case claiming he was retaliated against when the dairy’s attorney, Anthony Raimondo, contacted immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to The California Report, Raimondo said “once all the evidence is presented, it will show that the retaliation claim is completely without merit,” though he wouldn’t comment on tape for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Arias says he’s pursuing the case because he knows he has rights, even as an undocumented worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Legislation against worker intimidation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now two bills working their way through the state legislature may encourage immigrant workers like Arias to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml#content_anchor\" target=\"_blank\">AB 263\u003c/a> (Hernandez-D West Covina) would raise penalties on employers who retaliate against workers to $10,000 per worker and make retaliation a misdemeanor punishable by jail time. 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But he said that it’s the police officers themselves who need to be convinced of that:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">If you talk to Oakland police officers, a number of them say they’re afraid to do some of these basic elements of policing because they’re afraid to get into the crosshairs of the compliance director.”\u003cbr>\n–Matthai Kuruvila, SF Chronicle\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“”If you talk to Oakland police officers, a number of them say they’re afraid to do some of these basic elements of policing because they’re afraid to get into the crosshairs of the compliance director. There’s clearly a lack of training and development of these officers — Bratton has identified it, Frazier has identified it — about how to do policing properly and not get in the crosshairs. 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