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"content": "\u003cp>Last July, San Bernardino police shot and killed a 23-year-old Black man as he ran from them while allegedly holding a gun. The police killing of Rob Adams drew protests and demands for accountability — and is the subject of a $100 million lawsuit filed on behalf of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, nine months after Adams was killed, San Bernardino city officials have confirmed to KVCR and The California Newsroom the identities of the officers involved: Michael Yeun and Sgt. Imran Ahmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for police transparency say state laws make it clear the public has a right to know the circumstances and details when serious force is used — which raises questions about what took so long for the names to be available in this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1881px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Lead-Image.png\" alt=\"A still shot from police dash cam footage shows a police vehicle with red and blue lights flashing as it answers a call in a neighborhood in Southern California.\" width=\"1881\" height=\"1006\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Lead-Image.png 1881w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Lead-Image-800x428.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Lead-Image-1020x546.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Lead-Image-160x86.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Lead-Image-1536x821.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1881px) 100vw, 1881px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Bernardino police respond to the shooting of Rob Marquise Adams on July 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Bernardino Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yeun fired the shots that killed Adams, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaULaHDvxic&t=30s\">body camera footage\u003c/a> released by the San Bernardino Police Department. The footage shows that the shots were fired seconds after the officers arrived in an unmarked car. Both officers were uniformed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Bernardino County coroner’s office has not released a report on Adams’ death, but an independent autopsy commissioned by the victim’s family revealed that he was shot seven times. One shot entered Adams’ back, and four entered the backs of his legs, right arm and left shoulder, according to a diagram provided to KVCR and The California Newsroom by Bradley Gage, an attorney who has filed a $100 million federal lawsuit on behalf of the Adams family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gage said a sixth bullet entered the side of Adams’ left leg and a seventh grazed the front of his right thigh. Gage is working as co-counsel with national civil rights attorney Ben Crump; Crump’s clients include the families of George Floyd and Tyre Nichols, who were killed by police in Minneapolis and Nashville, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Ahmed, who was holding another man at gunpoint, did not fire his weapon, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjGO6nREmOs&t=2s\">body camera footage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers were responding to a call from a “citizen informant” about a Black man with a gun “in the parking lot of an illegal online gambling business,” according to the San Bernardino Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statements issued by SBPD did not say whether the man had committed a crime before officers received the tip, or did so when they arrived at the scene in the unmarked vehicle. According to an SBPD statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As officers arrived, they spotted two males. One of the males, later identified as 23-year-old Rob Marquise Adams of San Bernardino, pulled a gun from his waistband, and began walking towards the officers’ vehicle. The officers exited their vehicle and attempted to give Adams verbal commands, but Adams ran away, towards two cars, still carrying the gun. Officers briefly chased Adams, but seeing that he had no outlet, they believed he intended to use the vehicles as cover to shoot at them. The officer saw Adams look over his left shoulder with the gun still in his right hand. Fearing that bystanders’ or the officers’ lives were in danger, one of the officers fired his gun, striking Adams.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It is unclear whether Adams knew they were police officers before they exited the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947605\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-7.jpg\" alt=\"A mother stands center with her grown son and daughter on either side of her as they smile for the camera.\" width=\"1125\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-7.jpg 1125w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-7-800x880.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-7-1020x1122.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-7-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Marquise Adams with his mother, Tamika DeAvila King, and his sister, Renisha Adams. Adams was shot while running away from San Bernardino police on July 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Renisha Adams)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yeun and Ahmed could not be directly reached for comment. Attorneys for the officers either declined to comment or did not respond to calls and emails. SBPD declined to make Yeun or Ahmed available and did not answer a long list of questions sent by email about their work histories and other matters related to this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When contacted by KVCR and The California Newsroom with information about the officers’ identities, Rob Adams’ father, Robert Adams, said that he and his family had been unable to learn the names of the officers involved until reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me they’re trying to throw everything up under the rug,” he said. “We’ve been trying to get the officers’ names. We’ve been on the city’s webpages, social pages — nothing. It’s been excuse after excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Robert Adams, Rob Adams’ father\"]‘To me they’re trying to throw everything up under the rug. We’ve been trying to get the officers’ names. We’ve been on the city’s webpages, social pages — nothing. It’s been excuse after excuse.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gage also expressed frustration with what he believed to be a lack of transparency by SBPD. Like Adams, he had been unable to confirm the officers’ identities, despite submitting multiple public records requests, until reached by reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One has to ask, ‘Why would the department do that?'” Gage said. “I am confident that as we dive into the backgrounds of these officers, we will find that they were either involved in other questionable shootings, other complaints of excessive force, cover-ups of that force or all three.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police records obtained by The California Reporting Project, a collaboration of news organizations that has spent years fighting for public records on police misconduct and use of force, show that Gage’s concerns may be well-founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Before Rob Adams shooting, Yeun chased and shot 15-year-old\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Around 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 18, 2020, Yeun shot an unnamed minor who had fled from a vehicle that SBPD officers pulled over for a traffic violation, according to statements made by officials after the shooting. In body camera footage, Yeun got out of the passenger side of a police vehicle and began chasing the minor through the grounds of an apartment complex where several pedestrians were present. Yeun radioed to fellow officers that the suspect was “still grabbing his waistband.” Yeun yelled, “Get on the ground or I’ll fuckin’ shoot you, dude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeun closed in and yelled, “Get on the ground,” two more times, according to his bodycam footage. The minor appeared to trip or kneel next to a bush, facing away from Yeun. He then looked over his shoulder toward Yeun, his hand obscured by the bush, when Yeun fired. It is unclear, based on the bodycam footage, whether he was holding a gun at the moment he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In police files, the minor, who survived, is quoted as saying, “I didn’t point my gun at the cop, I was going to throw it in the bushes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The minor “suffered multiple gunshot wounds, including to the lower back, leg, and arm,” according to a civil suit filed by his family in U.S. District Court against the city of San Bernardino, Yeun and nine unnamed officers. Police files confirm the minor was shot three times, and noted that he required surgery to remove a projectile from his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeun and his fellow officers also “failed to summon medical assistance” as the minor “lay bleeding on the ground,” according to the lawsuit. Police dispatch audio shows that medical assistance did not arrive for at least 15 minutes. Yeun’s bodycam footage shows several other officers arriving at the scene moments after the shooting. The minor was turned onto his stomach and handcuffed. Two officers can be seen wearing or putting on latex gloves, but the redacted video makes it unclear whether they were providing aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case has been investigated by SBPD and is now under review with the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Bernardino City Council member Ben Reynoso\"]‘We’re tired of having to use taxpayer money for police misconduct. It feels like we’re just bleeding dry.’[/pullquote]Dale Galipo, attorney for the minor, did not respond to calls and emails requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was settled in March 2023, for $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re tired of having to use taxpayer money for police misconduct. It feels like we’re just bleeding dry,” said San Bernardino City Council member Ben Reynoso. “It’s clear to me we haven’t done enough internally to weed out the bad apples.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeun has been with SBPD since 2015, according to data available from the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or POST. On the Dec. 7, 2021, episode of \u003ca href=\"https://sanbernardinopdbriefingroom.buzzsprout.com/1740482/9677046-the-san-bernardino-swat-team\">the department’s podcast, San Bernardino PD Briefing Room\u003c/a>, Yeun told the hosts he’d been with the elite SWAT team for almost three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947600\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-scaled.jpg\" alt='A group of people gathered with signs that read, \"Justice 4 Rob.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A press conference held by national civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Los Angeles attorney Bradley Gage, held on Aug. 19, 2022, showing results of an independent autopsy commissioned by Adams’ family. The family has filed a $100 million federal lawsuit. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jonathan Linden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Sgt. Ahmed’s history of use of force and lawsuits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2009, six months after Ahmed joined the San Bernardino Police Department, he and at least one other officer responded to a call from a woman experiencing mental illness. She alleged her husband, who is Black, was verbally, although not physically, abusing her, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit the man filed against Ahmed, other SBPD officers and the city of San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit claims that police denied the woman a ride to the hospital for her “mental condition.” Court documents say that moments later, despite following police commands to exit the home, the unarmed husband was thrown to the ground by Ahmed and another officer and beaten “with closed fists about the head, face, chest, back and applied pressure by knees to [his] elbow, legs and back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident was among no fewer than seven federal lawsuits in which Ahmed has been named as a defendant for numerous allegations, including assault, battery, conspiracy to violate civil rights, denial of medical care, excessive force, false arrest, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, racial bias and unreasonable search and seizure, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of allegations in the other federal lawsuits in which Ahmed has been a defendant include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Supervising and participating in the beating of a man who had run from police but was face down on the ground following orders, and later pressuring the suspect to lie about how he sustained his injuries, which required surgery. Police files reviewed by KVCR and The California Newsroom do not indicate the man had a weapon.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pulling his patrol car over and beating a recently arrested suspect, who was handcuffed in the back seat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tasering and beating a suspect who had fled on foot during a traffic stop and hidden in a trash can. As a result of the beating, the suspect suffered “multiple fractures to his face and right hand, as well as bruising, taser burns, and lacerations” and had to undergo facial surgery.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Participating in the beating of a car-theft suspect who claims to have not been resisting. The lawsuit alleges that officers dislocated his elbow, kicked him in the back and dragged his face across a driveway.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Five cases were settled, costing the city of San Bernardino $539,000. Two cases are still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSanBernardinoPD%2Fvideos%2F361352575795177%2F&show_text=false&width=476&t=0\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed joined the department after four years with the nearby Upland Police Department, according to data available from POST. Appearing on the same 2021 podcast episode as Yeun, Ahmed told the hosts that he had been a member of SWAT for nine years and was in his second year as “one of the team leaders.” Previously, Ahmed was with the gang unit, and worked as an officer, a robbery detective and a field trainer, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to being named as a defendant in the federal lawsuits, Ahmed has been the subject of no fewer than nine use-of-force incidents since 2016, according to records obtained by The California Reporting Project. The use-of-force cases include three officer-involved shootings, which were ruled as justified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the non-shooting incidents released to CPR involving Ahmed include suspects being beaten, having their bones broken and sometimes landing in the hospital, requiring surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former law enforcement officers and legal experts are quick to point out that looking at the number of use-of-force cases and lawsuits alone sometimes misses the nuance needed to assess an officer’s record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Intuitively it sounds like a lot,” said Greg Meyer, a retired captain with the Los Angeles Police Department who now works as an expert witness. “But it depends on what assignment the person has and what part of town: high crime area, dealing with gang members, etcetera.” Ahmed has spent significant time working as a gang officer, according to officer-involved-shooting investigation interviews and witness testimony he has given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Ahmed-SWAT.jpg\" alt=\"A police SWAT team poses in front of an Army green armored vehicle holding weapons.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Ahmed-SWAT.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Ahmed-SWAT-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Ahmed-SWAT-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Ahmed-SWAT-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Imran Ahmed (center right), pictured on May 1, 2022, with fellow San Bernardino Police Department SWAT members. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SBPD Facebook page)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meyer said that in addition to risks posed by an officer’s assignments, it’s crucial to understand how one officer’s use-of-force history compares to others in the department who performed similar roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Drooyan, a former member of the Los Angeles Police Commission and court-appointed monitor for LA County jails, which are staffed by the LA County Sheriff’s Department, agreed. “You’re always going to have some officers who are going to accumulate more of these instances,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nevertheless,” he continued, when told about the number of lawsuits against, and use-of-force cases involving, Ahmed, “I think that the number you’re talking about seems to be very, very high. I don’t recall experiencing that — in my review of the Los Angeles Police Department or the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department — where a particular officer or officers [have] accumulated that number of complaints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers are also concerning to local advocates and community members. Mary Texeira, sociology professor at California State University, San Bernardino, has helped facilitate conversations with students, faculty and residents in the region around race and policing over the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go into a community and you act like a storm trooper, that just doesn’t work,” said Texeira. “You cannot be an enemy in a community that you’re supposedly protecting and serving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fighting for police transparency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Yeun shot and killed Rob Adams, San Bernardino city officials spent months concealing his and Ahmed’s names. In response to multiple public records requests, they cited privacy concerns and an ongoing investigation. That’s despite a 2014 California \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/long-beach-police-officers-assn-v-city-of-long-beach-1\">Supreme Court decision\u003c/a> that found that, with limited exceptions, “the balance tips strongly in favor of identity disclosure and against the personal privacy interests of the officers involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Bibring, senior counsel at the ACLU of Southern California, noted two California laws, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1421\">SB 1421\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB16\">SB 16\u003c/a>, which were written to increase police transparency. “The Legislature has been very clear that absent a very strong reason to withhold information, the public has a right to know about serious uses of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing officers’ identities, he said, helps the public “understand how officers use the power we give them to employ deadly force and to understand how departments deal with and manage issues around force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also provides a clearer picture for departments — and the public — of possible patterns of misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you hide the individual identity of an officer, you lose that element of accountability that connects this incident potentially to other incidents,” said Seth Stoughton, law professor at the University of South Carolina and a former officer with the Tallahassee Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SBPD spokesperson Lt. Jennifer Kohrell disputed the idea that the department has not been forthcoming with Yeun’s and Ahmed’s names. “We made it public,” she said. Kohrell then forwarded an email she claims to have sent to media contacts going into the Christmas weekend, time-stamped Friday, Dec. 23, 2022, at 8:50 p.m. The email’s subject line, “Press Release Update,” did not mention the Adams shooting. Yeun’s and Ahmed’s names were at the bottom of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23787507-press-release-update?responsive=1&title=1\">attached PDF\u003c/a>, with no specific details about who shot Adams. Kohrell refused to provide a list of who received the email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sending an email the Friday before Christmas in the dark of night — that is not public disclosure,” Bibring said. “Giving it to a small handful of people is not releasing it to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/23787648-screenshot-sbpd-email/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\" title=\"Screenshot SBPD Email (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" width=\"700\" height=\"905\" style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 100%; height: 800px; height: calc(100vh - 100px);\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press release included links to Yeun’s and Ahmed’s body camera footage, which were both posted to YouTube the same night. Titles and descriptions of the footage did not indicate that the videos were related to the Adams shooting. The footage was heavily redacted and did not reveal their full names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is still unclear whether Yeun’s or Ahmed’s names were ever put online. From the time of the shooting until as recently as April 24, the updated press release could not be found on the city’s website. When questioned, Kohrell said, “I think we did,” but added that “some things got lost” due to technical issues “and that [press] release might have been one of them.” When asked to provide a definitive answer, Kohrell refused. “I’m not going to jump through hoops for you,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It starts to look like every single one of those steps is probably an intentional effort to minimize the access to information rather than facilitate the access to information,” Stoughton said. “And that’s not the way this government is supposed to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stoughton said that releasing an officer’s name within 72 hours — or up to a few weeks after — an incident is standard across most police departments. “I would have a hard time justifying their delay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Reynoso said he — like Rob Adams’ family and the family’s attorneys — was unaware of Yeun’s and Ahmed’s identities, or their use-of-force histories, until reached for comment.” As a council, we’ve faced the same walls as you have, as reporters,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynoso added that a lack of transparency “cements distrust” in the police among community members. “The community has a right to know who is policing them,” he said. “When an officer is on the street, armed, in a patrol car, I want to know if they have a record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The California Newsroom, a collaboration of public radio stations, and The California Reporting Project, a coalition of 40 news organizations across the state. Bella Arnold of UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program, Leila Barghouty of Stanford Journalism’s Big Local News and Lisa Pickoff-White of Big Local News and KQED contributed to this report. Former KVCR reporter Jonathan Linden also contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last July, San Bernardino police shot and killed a 23-year-old Black man as he ran from them while allegedly holding a gun. The police killing of Rob Adams drew protests and demands for accountability — and is the subject of a $100 million lawsuit filed on behalf of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, nine months after Adams was killed, San Bernardino city officials have confirmed to KVCR and The California Newsroom the identities of the officers involved: Michael Yeun and Sgt. Imran Ahmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for police transparency say state laws make it clear the public has a right to know the circumstances and details when serious force is used — which raises questions about what took so long for the names to be available in this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1881px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947601\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Lead-Image.png\" alt=\"A still shot from police dash cam footage shows a police vehicle with red and blue lights flashing as it answers a call in a neighborhood in Southern California.\" width=\"1881\" height=\"1006\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Lead-Image.png 1881w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Lead-Image-800x428.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Lead-Image-1020x546.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Lead-Image-160x86.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Lead-Image-1536x821.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1881px) 100vw, 1881px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Bernardino police respond to the shooting of Rob Marquise Adams on July 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Bernardino Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yeun fired the shots that killed Adams, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaULaHDvxic&t=30s\">body camera footage\u003c/a> released by the San Bernardino Police Department. The footage shows that the shots were fired seconds after the officers arrived in an unmarked car. Both officers were uniformed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Bernardino County coroner’s office has not released a report on Adams’ death, but an independent autopsy commissioned by the victim’s family revealed that he was shot seven times. One shot entered Adams’ back, and four entered the backs of his legs, right arm and left shoulder, according to a diagram provided to KVCR and The California Newsroom by Bradley Gage, an attorney who has filed a $100 million federal lawsuit on behalf of the Adams family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gage said a sixth bullet entered the side of Adams’ left leg and a seventh grazed the front of his right thigh. Gage is working as co-counsel with national civil rights attorney Ben Crump; Crump’s clients include the families of George Floyd and Tyre Nichols, who were killed by police in Minneapolis and Nashville, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Ahmed, who was holding another man at gunpoint, did not fire his weapon, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjGO6nREmOs&t=2s\">body camera footage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers were responding to a call from a “citizen informant” about a Black man with a gun “in the parking lot of an illegal online gambling business,” according to the San Bernardino Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statements issued by SBPD did not say whether the man had committed a crime before officers received the tip, or did so when they arrived at the scene in the unmarked vehicle. According to an SBPD statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As officers arrived, they spotted two males. One of the males, later identified as 23-year-old Rob Marquise Adams of San Bernardino, pulled a gun from his waistband, and began walking towards the officers’ vehicle. The officers exited their vehicle and attempted to give Adams verbal commands, but Adams ran away, towards two cars, still carrying the gun. Officers briefly chased Adams, but seeing that he had no outlet, they believed he intended to use the vehicles as cover to shoot at them. The officer saw Adams look over his left shoulder with the gun still in his right hand. Fearing that bystanders’ or the officers’ lives were in danger, one of the officers fired his gun, striking Adams.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It is unclear whether Adams knew they were police officers before they exited the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947605\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-7.jpg\" alt=\"A mother stands center with her grown son and daughter on either side of her as they smile for the camera.\" width=\"1125\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-7.jpg 1125w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-7-800x880.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-7-1020x1122.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-7-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Marquise Adams with his mother, Tamika DeAvila King, and his sister, Renisha Adams. Adams was shot while running away from San Bernardino police on July 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Renisha Adams)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yeun and Ahmed could not be directly reached for comment. Attorneys for the officers either declined to comment or did not respond to calls and emails. SBPD declined to make Yeun or Ahmed available and did not answer a long list of questions sent by email about their work histories and other matters related to this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When contacted by KVCR and The California Newsroom with information about the officers’ identities, Rob Adams’ father, Robert Adams, said that he and his family had been unable to learn the names of the officers involved until reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gage also expressed frustration with what he believed to be a lack of transparency by SBPD. Like Adams, he had been unable to confirm the officers’ identities, despite submitting multiple public records requests, until reached by reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One has to ask, ‘Why would the department do that?'” Gage said. “I am confident that as we dive into the backgrounds of these officers, we will find that they were either involved in other questionable shootings, other complaints of excessive force, cover-ups of that force or all three.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police records obtained by The California Reporting Project, a collaboration of news organizations that has spent years fighting for public records on police misconduct and use of force, show that Gage’s concerns may be well-founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Before Rob Adams shooting, Yeun chased and shot 15-year-old\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Around 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 18, 2020, Yeun shot an unnamed minor who had fled from a vehicle that SBPD officers pulled over for a traffic violation, according to statements made by officials after the shooting. In body camera footage, Yeun got out of the passenger side of a police vehicle and began chasing the minor through the grounds of an apartment complex where several pedestrians were present. Yeun radioed to fellow officers that the suspect was “still grabbing his waistband.” Yeun yelled, “Get on the ground or I’ll fuckin’ shoot you, dude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeun closed in and yelled, “Get on the ground,” two more times, according to his bodycam footage. The minor appeared to trip or kneel next to a bush, facing away from Yeun. He then looked over his shoulder toward Yeun, his hand obscured by the bush, when Yeun fired. It is unclear, based on the bodycam footage, whether he was holding a gun at the moment he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In police files, the minor, who survived, is quoted as saying, “I didn’t point my gun at the cop, I was going to throw it in the bushes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The minor “suffered multiple gunshot wounds, including to the lower back, leg, and arm,” according to a civil suit filed by his family in U.S. District Court against the city of San Bernardino, Yeun and nine unnamed officers. Police files confirm the minor was shot three times, and noted that he required surgery to remove a projectile from his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeun and his fellow officers also “failed to summon medical assistance” as the minor “lay bleeding on the ground,” according to the lawsuit. Police dispatch audio shows that medical assistance did not arrive for at least 15 minutes. Yeun’s bodycam footage shows several other officers arriving at the scene moments after the shooting. The minor was turned onto his stomach and handcuffed. Two officers can be seen wearing or putting on latex gloves, but the redacted video makes it unclear whether they were providing aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case has been investigated by SBPD and is now under review with the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dale Galipo, attorney for the minor, did not respond to calls and emails requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was settled in March 2023, for $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re tired of having to use taxpayer money for police misconduct. It feels like we’re just bleeding dry,” said San Bernardino City Council member Ben Reynoso. “It’s clear to me we haven’t done enough internally to weed out the bad apples.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeun has been with SBPD since 2015, according to data available from the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or POST. On the Dec. 7, 2021, episode of \u003ca href=\"https://sanbernardinopdbriefingroom.buzzsprout.com/1740482/9677046-the-san-bernardino-swat-team\">the department’s podcast, San Bernardino PD Briefing Room\u003c/a>, Yeun told the hosts he’d been with the elite SWAT team for almost three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947600\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-scaled.jpg\" alt='A group of people gathered with signs that read, \"Justice 4 Rob.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Rob-Adams-Autopsy-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A press conference held by national civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Los Angeles attorney Bradley Gage, held on Aug. 19, 2022, showing results of an independent autopsy commissioned by Adams’ family. The family has filed a $100 million federal lawsuit. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jonathan Linden)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Sgt. Ahmed’s history of use of force and lawsuits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2009, six months after Ahmed joined the San Bernardino Police Department, he and at least one other officer responded to a call from a woman experiencing mental illness. She alleged her husband, who is Black, was verbally, although not physically, abusing her, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit the man filed against Ahmed, other SBPD officers and the city of San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit claims that police denied the woman a ride to the hospital for her “mental condition.” Court documents say that moments later, despite following police commands to exit the home, the unarmed husband was thrown to the ground by Ahmed and another officer and beaten “with closed fists about the head, face, chest, back and applied pressure by knees to [his] elbow, legs and back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident was among no fewer than seven federal lawsuits in which Ahmed has been named as a defendant for numerous allegations, including assault, battery, conspiracy to violate civil rights, denial of medical care, excessive force, false arrest, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, racial bias and unreasonable search and seizure, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details of allegations in the other federal lawsuits in which Ahmed has been a defendant include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Supervising and participating in the beating of a man who had run from police but was face down on the ground following orders, and later pressuring the suspect to lie about how he sustained his injuries, which required surgery. Police files reviewed by KVCR and The California Newsroom do not indicate the man had a weapon.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pulling his patrol car over and beating a recently arrested suspect, who was handcuffed in the back seat.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tasering and beating a suspect who had fled on foot during a traffic stop and hidden in a trash can. As a result of the beating, the suspect suffered “multiple fractures to his face and right hand, as well as bruising, taser burns, and lacerations” and had to undergo facial surgery.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Participating in the beating of a car-theft suspect who claims to have not been resisting. The lawsuit alleges that officers dislocated his elbow, kicked him in the back and dragged his face across a driveway.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Five cases were settled, costing the city of San Bernardino $539,000. Two cases are still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSanBernardinoPD%2Fvideos%2F361352575795177%2F&show_text=false&width=476&t=0\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed joined the department after four years with the nearby Upland Police Department, according to data available from POST. Appearing on the same 2021 podcast episode as Yeun, Ahmed told the hosts that he had been a member of SWAT for nine years and was in his second year as “one of the team leaders.” Previously, Ahmed was with the gang unit, and worked as an officer, a robbery detective and a field trainer, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to being named as a defendant in the federal lawsuits, Ahmed has been the subject of no fewer than nine use-of-force incidents since 2016, according to records obtained by The California Reporting Project. The use-of-force cases include three officer-involved shootings, which were ruled as justified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the non-shooting incidents released to CPR involving Ahmed include suspects being beaten, having their bones broken and sometimes landing in the hospital, requiring surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former law enforcement officers and legal experts are quick to point out that looking at the number of use-of-force cases and lawsuits alone sometimes misses the nuance needed to assess an officer’s record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Intuitively it sounds like a lot,” said Greg Meyer, a retired captain with the Los Angeles Police Department who now works as an expert witness. “But it depends on what assignment the person has and what part of town: high crime area, dealing with gang members, etcetera.” Ahmed has spent significant time working as a gang officer, according to officer-involved-shooting investigation interviews and witness testimony he has given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Ahmed-SWAT.jpg\" alt=\"A police SWAT team poses in front of an Army green armored vehicle holding weapons.\" width=\"1350\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Ahmed-SWAT.jpg 1350w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Ahmed-SWAT-800x640.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Ahmed-SWAT-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/Ahmed-SWAT-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Imran Ahmed (center right), pictured on May 1, 2022, with fellow San Bernardino Police Department SWAT members. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SBPD Facebook page)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meyer said that in addition to risks posed by an officer’s assignments, it’s crucial to understand how one officer’s use-of-force history compares to others in the department who performed similar roles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Drooyan, a former member of the Los Angeles Police Commission and court-appointed monitor for LA County jails, which are staffed by the LA County Sheriff’s Department, agreed. “You’re always going to have some officers who are going to accumulate more of these instances,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nevertheless,” he continued, when told about the number of lawsuits against, and use-of-force cases involving, Ahmed, “I think that the number you’re talking about seems to be very, very high. I don’t recall experiencing that — in my review of the Los Angeles Police Department or the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department — where a particular officer or officers [have] accumulated that number of complaints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers are also concerning to local advocates and community members. Mary Texeira, sociology professor at California State University, San Bernardino, has helped facilitate conversations with students, faculty and residents in the region around race and policing over the last three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go into a community and you act like a storm trooper, that just doesn’t work,” said Texeira. “You cannot be an enemy in a community that you’re supposedly protecting and serving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Fighting for police transparency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Yeun shot and killed Rob Adams, San Bernardino city officials spent months concealing his and Ahmed’s names. In response to multiple public records requests, they cited privacy concerns and an ongoing investigation. That’s despite a 2014 California \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/long-beach-police-officers-assn-v-city-of-long-beach-1\">Supreme Court decision\u003c/a> that found that, with limited exceptions, “the balance tips strongly in favor of identity disclosure and against the personal privacy interests of the officers involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Bibring, senior counsel at the ACLU of Southern California, noted two California laws, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1421\">SB 1421\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB16\">SB 16\u003c/a>, which were written to increase police transparency. “The Legislature has been very clear that absent a very strong reason to withhold information, the public has a right to know about serious uses of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing officers’ identities, he said, helps the public “understand how officers use the power we give them to employ deadly force and to understand how departments deal with and manage issues around force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also provides a clearer picture for departments — and the public — of possible patterns of misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you hide the individual identity of an officer, you lose that element of accountability that connects this incident potentially to other incidents,” said Seth Stoughton, law professor at the University of South Carolina and a former officer with the Tallahassee Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SBPD spokesperson Lt. Jennifer Kohrell disputed the idea that the department has not been forthcoming with Yeun’s and Ahmed’s names. “We made it public,” she said. Kohrell then forwarded an email she claims to have sent to media contacts going into the Christmas weekend, time-stamped Friday, Dec. 23, 2022, at 8:50 p.m. The email’s subject line, “Press Release Update,” did not mention the Adams shooting. Yeun’s and Ahmed’s names were at the bottom of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23787507-press-release-update?responsive=1&title=1\">attached PDF\u003c/a>, with no specific details about who shot Adams. Kohrell refused to provide a list of who received the email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sending an email the Friday before Christmas in the dark of night — that is not public disclosure,” Bibring said. “Giving it to a small handful of people is not releasing it to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/23787648-screenshot-sbpd-email/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\" title=\"Screenshot SBPD Email (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" width=\"700\" height=\"905\" style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 100%; height: 800px; height: calc(100vh - 100px);\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press release included links to Yeun’s and Ahmed’s body camera footage, which were both posted to YouTube the same night. Titles and descriptions of the footage did not indicate that the videos were related to the Adams shooting. The footage was heavily redacted and did not reveal their full names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is still unclear whether Yeun’s or Ahmed’s names were ever put online. From the time of the shooting until as recently as April 24, the updated press release could not be found on the city’s website. When questioned, Kohrell said, “I think we did,” but added that “some things got lost” due to technical issues “and that [press] release might have been one of them.” When asked to provide a definitive answer, Kohrell refused. “I’m not going to jump through hoops for you,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It starts to look like every single one of those steps is probably an intentional effort to minimize the access to information rather than facilitate the access to information,” Stoughton said. “And that’s not the way this government is supposed to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stoughton said that releasing an officer’s name within 72 hours — or up to a few weeks after — an incident is standard across most police departments. “I would have a hard time justifying their delay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Reynoso said he — like Rob Adams’ family and the family’s attorneys — was unaware of Yeun’s and Ahmed’s identities, or their use-of-force histories, until reached for comment.” As a council, we’ve faced the same walls as you have, as reporters,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reynoso added that a lack of transparency “cements distrust” in the police among community members. “The community has a right to know who is policing them,” he said. “When an officer is on the street, armed, in a patrol car, I want to know if they have a record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The California Newsroom, a collaboration of public radio stations, and The California Reporting Project, a coalition of 40 news organizations across the state. Bella Arnold of UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program, Leila Barghouty of Stanford Journalism’s Big Local News and Lisa Pickoff-White of Big Local News and KQED contributed to this report. Former KVCR reporter Jonathan Linden also contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Supreme Court issued an order Friday that temporarily stays any changes to federal rules for use of an abortion drug, while it takes time to more fully consider the issues raised in a court challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order, signed by Justice Samuel Alito, put a five-day pause on the fast-moving case so the justices can decide whether lower court rulings restricting the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug, mifepristone, should be allowed to take effect in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices are being asked at this point only to determine what parts of an April 7 ruling by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas, as modified by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/texas-abortion-pill-appeal-fe13d36218f1fb43590aff29b5ba4e9c\">an appellate ruling Wednesday\u003c/a>, can be enforced while the case continues. 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Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who is co-chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus, said that while Alito’s decision Friday meant that mifepristone is still accessible, she warned that this access is still “under threat” pending the high court’s decision, and urged continued vigilance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to realize that this is another step toward Republicans trying to put into law a national ban on abortion,” said Lee in an interview with KQED. “My constituents are saying they’re worried, because some of these broad, really backwards types of decisions could turn the clock back on scientifically approved drugs nationwide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Congressmember added that she and her colleagues were prepared to act if legislation was needed to strengthen the FDA’s authority and prevent court decisions from undermining that authority, warning of the implications such decisions may have down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The] FDA approves the safety and efficacy of drugs for all types of medical conditions, including Alzheimer’s,” Lee said. “So what does this say about a process that could hinder other kinds of scientific research for other types of medical conditions? That is very dangerous and people are concerned about that, in terms of the precedent setting with these decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court finds itself immersed in a new fight involving abortion less than a year after\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-supreme-court-decision-854f60302f21c2c35129e58cf8d8a7b0\"> conservative justices reversed Roe v. 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Wade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for the anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations suing over mifepristone said the court’s action Friday was “standard operating procedure” and urged the justices to allow the appeals court-ordered changes to take effect by the middle of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The type of order issued by the court Friday, an administrative stay, ordinarily is not an indication of what the justices will do going forward. It was signed by Alito because he handles emergency filings from Texas. Alito also is the author of last year’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department and Danco both warned of “regulatory chaos” and harm to women if the high court doesn’t block the lower-court rulings that had the effect of tightening FDA rules under which the drug, mifepristone, can be prescribed and dispensed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946813\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353.jpg\" alt='Protesters march holding signs that read \"Abortion Is Health Care\" with the U.S. Capitol in the backdrop.' width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new limits would have taken effect Saturday if the court hadn’t acted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This application concerns unprecedented lower court orders countermanding FDA’s scientific judgment and unleashing regulatory chaos by suspending the existing FDA-approved conditions of use for mifepristone,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, wrote Friday, less than two days after the appellate ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration and Danco now want a more lasting order that would keep the current rules in place as long as the legal fight over mifepristone continues. As a fallback, they asked the court to take up the issue, hear arguments and decide by early summer a legal challenge to mifepristone that anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations filed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court rarely acts so quickly to grant full review of cases before at least one appeals court has thoroughly examined the legal issues involved.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11946073,news_11946193,news_11938516\"]A ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Wednesday would prevent the pill, used in the most common abortion method, from being mailed or prescribed without an in-person visit to a doctor. It also would withdraw the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone for use beyond the seventh week of pregnancy. 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He gave the administration a week to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the government’s knowledge, this is the first time any court has abrogated FDA’s conditions on a drug’s approval based on a disagreement with the agency’s judgment about safety — much less done so after those conditions have been in effect for years,” Prelogar wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Hawley, lawyer for the challengers, said in a statement that the FDA has put politics ahead of health concerns in its actions on medication abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 5th Circuit rightly required the agency to prioritize women’s health by restoring critical safeguards, and we’ll urge the Supreme Court to keep that accountability in place,” said Hawley, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group that also argued to overturn Roe v. 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If it stands, no medicine approved by the FDA would be safe from these attacks.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Elizabeth Prelogar, US solicitor general\"]‘[T]his is the first time any court has abrogated FDA’s conditions on a drug’s approval based on a disagreement with the agency’s judgment about safety — much less done so after those conditions have been in effect for years.’[/pullquote]Use of medication abortion jumped significantly after the FDA’s 2016 rule expansion, according to data gathered by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. In 2017, medication abortion accounted for 39% percent of abortions, but by 2020 it had increased to become the most common method, accounting for 53% of all abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts have said the use of medication abortion has increased since the court overturned Roe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the drug was initially approved, the FDA limited its use to up to seven weeks of pregnancy. It also required three in-person office visits: the first to administer mifepristone, the next to administer the second drug, misoprostol, and the third to address any complications. It also required a doctor’s supervision and a reporting system for any serious consequences of the drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the appeals court’s action stands, those would again be the terms under which mifepristone could be dispensed for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the core of the Texas lawsuit is the allegation that the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone was flawed because the agency did not adequately review safety risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mifepristone has been used by millions of women over the past 23 years. While less drastic than completely overturning the drug’s approval, the latest ruling still represents a stark challenge to the FDA’s authority overseeing how prescription drugs are used in the U.S. The ruling late Wednesday overturned multiple decisions made by FDA regulators after years of scientific review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common side effects with mifepristone include cramping, bleeding, nausea, headache and diarrhea. 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Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who is co-chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus, said that while Alito’s decision Friday meant that mifepristone is still accessible, she warned that this access is still “under threat” pending the high court’s decision, and urged continued vigilance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to realize that this is another step toward Republicans trying to put into law a national ban on abortion,” said Lee in an interview with KQED. “My constituents are saying they’re worried, because some of these broad, really backwards types of decisions could turn the clock back on scientifically approved drugs nationwide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Congressmember added that she and her colleagues were prepared to act if legislation was needed to strengthen the FDA’s authority and prevent court decisions from undermining that authority, warning of the implications such decisions may have down the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The] FDA approves the safety and efficacy of drugs for all types of medical conditions, including Alzheimer’s,” Lee said. “So what does this say about a process that could hinder other kinds of scientific research for other types of medical conditions? That is very dangerous and people are concerned about that, in terms of the precedent setting with these decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court finds itself immersed in a new fight involving abortion less than a year after\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/abortion-supreme-court-decision-854f60302f21c2c35129e58cf8d8a7b0\"> conservative justices reversed Roe v. Wade\u003c/a> and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden’s administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the pill, asked the justices to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Friday evening that the administration continues “to stand by FDA’s evidence-based approval of mifepristone, and we will continue to support the FDA’s independent, expert authority to review, approve, and regulate a wide range of prescription drugs.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She added, “The stakes of this fight could not be higher in the face of ongoing attacks on women’s health, and we will continue to fight to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for the anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations suing over mifepristone said the court’s action Friday was “standard operating procedure” and urged the justices to allow the appeals court-ordered changes to take effect by the middle of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The type of order issued by the court Friday, an administrative stay, ordinarily is not an indication of what the justices will do going forward. It was signed by Alito because he handles emergency filings from Texas. Alito also is the author of last year’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department and Danco both warned of “regulatory chaos” and harm to women if the high court doesn’t block the lower-court rulings that had the effect of tightening FDA rules under which the drug, mifepristone, can be prescribed and dispensed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946813\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353.jpg\" alt='Protesters march holding signs that read \"Abortion Is Health Care\" with the U.S. Capitol in the backdrop.' width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1251856353-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new limits would have taken effect Saturday if the court hadn’t acted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This application concerns unprecedented lower court orders countermanding FDA’s scientific judgment and unleashing regulatory chaos by suspending the existing FDA-approved conditions of use for mifepristone,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer, wrote Friday, less than two days after the appellate ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration and Danco now want a more lasting order that would keep the current rules in place as long as the legal fight over mifepristone continues. As a fallback, they asked the court to take up the issue, hear arguments and decide by early summer a legal challenge to mifepristone that anti-abortion doctors and medical organizations filed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court rarely acts so quickly to grant full review of cases before at least one appeals court has thoroughly examined the legal issues involved.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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At least 14 officers — sergeants, detectives and supervisors — allegedly sent and received racist memes and text messages for four years, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelation arrives on top of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Latest-Oakland-police-chief-is-out-after-two-days-8310286.php\">numerous racist text scandals that have rocked police departments\u003c/a> and communities across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our clients are more seriously charged than similarly situated defendants of other races, non-Black defendants,” said Evan Kuluk, deputy public defender with the Alternate Defender Office for Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case surrounds four alleged members of an East Oakland-based gang who were charged in August 2021 with conspiracy to murder rival gang members and attempted murder in connection with a March 2021 homicide in Antioch.[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Evan Kuluk, deputy public defender, Alternate Defender Office for Contra Costa County\"]‘Our clients are more seriously charged than similarly situated defendants of other races, non-Black defendants.’[/pullquote]Attorneys have been in litigation for the last six months over alleged racial disparities in gang charges in homicide cases, Kuluk said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/04/11/exclusive-inside-the-antioch-police-departments-secret-racist-texting-group/\">The East Bay Times first reported on the horrific text messages.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20% of APD’s officers are currently suspended, and the text messages are likely to compromise many more Contra Costa criminal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the texts, officers bragged about falsifying confessions and assaulting Black residents, and rampantly used racist stereotypes about the communities they were sworn to protect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2020, Sgt. 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In 2020, John Ramirez sent a text to fellow APD officers saying he would “buy someone a prime rib dinner” if they shot at Thorpe with a rubber-bullet 40 mm launcher at a protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t say those things unless there’s an institution or a culture that says that’s OK. And so we have to fix that,” Thorpe said in response to the messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946168/racist-text-messages-lead-antioch-mayor-to-call-for-independent-audit-of-police-department\">Thorpe called for an audit of internal affairs complaints\u003c/a>. The mayor, who said that the audit should include all complaints made against police officers over the last six to eight years, also requested a study of demographic data on arrests and use of force.[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe\"]‘You can’t say those things unless there’s an institution or a culture that says that’s OK. And so we have to fix that.’[/pullquote]The Antioch Police Department did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caramagno said she plans to file a motion to dismiss all the charges against her client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the text messages, you’ve got at least 20 officers, whether they’re sending texts or receiving texts,” she said. “So far, I’m not aware of a single officer coming forward to call out this behavior, stop the behavior or intercede on the defendant’s behalf. 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"content": "\u003cp>A bill that would restrict California prisons from handing certain people over to immigration authorities upon their release gets its first hearing in the state Assembly this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1306\">HOME Act\u003c/a>, takes a more targeted approach than its predecessor, the VISION Act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924388/effort-to-block-prison-to-ice-transfers-in-california-fails-in-final-hours-of-legislative-session\">which narrowly failed in the state Legislature\u003c/a> last August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than block all transfers from prison to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the HOME Act would protect noncitizens from being turned over to federal authorities \u003cem>if \u003c/em>the governor has granted them clemency, or they’ve been released from prison due to any of several criminal justice reform laws recently enacted in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (D-Echo Park), says that when the Legislature passed those reforms — aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\">reducing over-incarceration and racial disparities\u003c/a> in the criminal justice system, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/08/governor-newsom-signs-criminal-justice-bills-to-support-reentry-victims-of-crime-and-sentencing-reform/\">offering second chances\u003c/a> — she doesn’t believe lawmakers meant to exclude immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946264\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1229455864-800x555.jpg\" alt='A Latina woman speaks into a microphone behind a dais with a sign that reads \"Los Angeles County Democratic Party.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"555\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo speaks during the Los Angeles County Democratic Party election night drive-in watch party at the Los Angeles Zoo parking lot on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yet the state of California has created a dual system of justice, which treats immigrants differently after they have paid their debt to society and have been paroled. They are not given the opportunity to restart their lives and go home,” she said. “It is a complete injustice in our judicial system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal immigration law, even legal permanent residents with green cards can lose their status and be deported if they have committed certain crimes. Undocumented immigrants who lack legal status are also deportable, though in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/24/governor-newsom-signs-suite-of-legislation-to-support-californias-immigrant-communities-and-remove-outdated-term-alien-from-state-codes/\">California has enacted a range of policies to support all immigrants\u003c/a>, including those who are unauthorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legal tug-of-war\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One person who could have benefited from the HOME Act is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938736/the-state-overturned-her-murder-conviction-but-ice-still-wants-to-deport-her-this-california-woman-is-caught-in-a-legal-tug-of-war\">Sandra Castañeda, a Los Angeles woman who was released from prison in 2021, after 19 years behind bars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda had been convicted of second-degree murder in 2002 after a teenager was killed when a man fired from the window of Castañeda’s van as she drove acquaintances to Taco Bell. The shooter was never arrested, and, though she had no criminal record, Castañeda was sent away for 40 years-to-life for the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946279\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 477px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498.jpg\" alt=\"A white van seen behind a prison fence at the prison entrance as people stand beside it.\" width=\"477\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498.jpg 477w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Castañeda is loaded into a van from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement inside the gates of the California Institution for Women on the day of her release from prison, July 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Colby Lenz/California Coalition for Women Prisoners)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in 2018 the state Legislature narrowed the “felony murder” law, which allowed for murder charges for people like Castañeda, who were present at a murder but did not themselves kill anyone. And a state judge vacated her conviction and ordered her freed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet rather than let Castañeda go home to her family, prison officials arranged for ICE to take her into custody on the day of her release. She spent another year incarcerated at an ICE detention center in rural Georgia, fighting deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Castañeda has been a legal U.S. resident since age 9, she had never become a citizen, and ICE officials argued that her conviction — even though it had been overturned — was grounds to remove her from the country. An immigration judge has since ruled she’s not deportable because she now has only a misdemeanor on her record, but ICE is appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mending the heartbreak\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Castañeda, now 41, will testify at this morning’s state Assembly hearing, calling on lawmakers to pass the HOME Act and to allow people like herself, who’ve earned their release, to be able to return to their loved ones. (She not only had her conviction overturned, based on the change in the felony murder law, but also had her sentence commuted by Gov. Gavin Newsom and won early parole based on her rehabilitation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want them to see what they do to our families and to ourselves,” she said. “I want them to see the heartbreak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latina woman with a black shirt sits on a couch and smiles to the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-1536x1098.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Castañeda at home in Hawthorne, Los Angeles County, on Aug. 9, 2022, shortly after she was released from a year in immigration detention. Castañeda plans to testify to the state Assembly in favor of the HOME Act, a bill that would allow certain immigrants like herself to be protected from transfer to ICE upon their release from prison. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Castañeda recalled her own sense of fear and powerlessness when, after a years-long effort to be released and the uncertainty over how to build a new life as a free woman, she learned that she faced an immigration hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re already dealing with the roller coaster emotions of coming home. And then they tell you, ‘Oh, never mind, you’re going to go to ICE.’ So now I’ve got to go sit at this place wondering if I’m going to get deported,” she recalled. “That really puts more stress on people. And being in the detention center, you hear about these people committing suicide because they don’t want to go back to their country. It’s a scary situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HOME Act, AB 1306, would bar prisons from handing over to ICE those noncitizens who are being released as a result of several recent criminal justice reform laws passed by the Legislature and signed by Newsom or his predecessor, Jerry Brown. They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>People eligible for compassionate release or parole because they are older or suffering severe medical conditions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People eligible for early parole after serving a set amount of time because their crimes were committed in their youth.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People whose crimes were a direct result of having been victims of sexual assault or domestic violence.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People eligible for release because they demonstrate that racial bias affected their case.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>People, like Castañeda, eligible for resentencing because they were originally convicted under the felony murder rule but did not kill anyone.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The bill would also protect people whose sentences were commuted by the governor. And, where the unsuccessful \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923465/immigrant-advocates-make-final-push-to-pass-bill-ending-prison-to-ice-transfers-in-california\">VISION Act also would have banned transfers from local jails to ICE\u003c/a>, the HOME Act only focuses on restricting transfers by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration agents could still track people down once they are back in their communities, take them into custody and initiate deportation proceedings. But California authorities would be limiting their participation in the process. Illinois, Oregon and Washington, D.C., have already ended prison-to-ICE transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Law enforcement concerns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for ICE said the agency does not comment on pending legislation. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A bill that would restrict California prisons from handing certain people over to immigration authorities upon their release gets its first hearing in the state Assembly this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, known as the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1306\">HOME Act\u003c/a>, takes a more targeted approach than its predecessor, the VISION Act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11924388/effort-to-block-prison-to-ice-transfers-in-california-fails-in-final-hours-of-legislative-session\">which narrowly failed in the state Legislature\u003c/a> last August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rather than block all transfers from prison to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the HOME Act would protect noncitizens from being turned over to federal authorities \u003cem>if \u003c/em>the governor has granted them clemency, or they’ve been released from prison due to any of several criminal justice reform laws recently enacted in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (D-Echo Park), says that when the Legislature passed those reforms — aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689707/in-shift-california-lawmakers-embrace-some-ambitious-criminal-justice-reforms\">reducing over-incarceration and racial disparities\u003c/a> in the criminal justice system, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/10/08/governor-newsom-signs-criminal-justice-bills-to-support-reentry-victims-of-crime-and-sentencing-reform/\">offering second chances\u003c/a> — she doesn’t believe lawmakers meant to exclude immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946264\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946264\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1229455864-800x555.jpg\" alt='A Latina woman speaks into a microphone behind a dais with a sign that reads \"Los Angeles County Democratic Party.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"555\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo speaks during the Los Angeles County Democratic Party election night drive-in watch party at the Los Angeles Zoo parking lot on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. \u003ccite>(Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yet the state of California has created a dual system of justice, which treats immigrants differently after they have paid their debt to society and have been paroled. They are not given the opportunity to restart their lives and go home,” she said. “It is a complete injustice in our judicial system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal immigration law, even legal permanent residents with green cards can lose their status and be deported if they have committed certain crimes. Undocumented immigrants who lack legal status are also deportable, though in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/09/24/governor-newsom-signs-suite-of-legislation-to-support-californias-immigrant-communities-and-remove-outdated-term-alien-from-state-codes/\">California has enacted a range of policies to support all immigrants\u003c/a>, including those who are unauthorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Legal tug-of-war\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One person who could have benefited from the HOME Act is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938736/the-state-overturned-her-murder-conviction-but-ice-still-wants-to-deport-her-this-california-woman-is-caught-in-a-legal-tug-of-war\">Sandra Castañeda, a Los Angeles woman who was released from prison in 2021, after 19 years behind bars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda had been convicted of second-degree murder in 2002 after a teenager was killed when a man fired from the window of Castañeda’s van as she drove acquaintances to Taco Bell. The shooter was never arrested, and, though she had no criminal record, Castañeda was sent away for 40 years-to-life for the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946279\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 477px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498.jpg\" alt=\"A white van seen behind a prison fence at the prison entrance as people stand beside it.\" width=\"477\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498.jpg 477w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64467_003_SandraCastaneda_IMG_1498-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Castañeda is loaded into a van from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement inside the gates of the California Institution for Women on the day of her release from prison, July 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Colby Lenz/California Coalition for Women Prisoners)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in 2018 the state Legislature narrowed the “felony murder” law, which allowed for murder charges for people like Castañeda, who were present at a murder but did not themselves kill anyone. And a state judge vacated her conviction and ordered her freed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet rather than let Castañeda go home to her family, prison officials arranged for ICE to take her into custody on the day of her release. She spent another year incarcerated at an ICE detention center in rural Georgia, fighting deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Castañeda has been a legal U.S. resident since age 9, she had never become a citizen, and ICE officials argued that her conviction — even though it had been overturned — was grounds to remove her from the country. An immigration judge has since ruled she’s not deportable because she now has only a misdemeanor on her record, but ICE is appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mending the heartbreak\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Castañeda, now 41, will testify at this morning’s state Assembly hearing, calling on lawmakers to pass the HOME Act and to allow people like herself, who’ve earned their release, to be able to return to their loved ones. (She not only had her conviction overturned, based on the change in the felony murder law, but also had her sentence commuted by Gov. Gavin Newsom and won early parole based on her rehabilitation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want them to see what they do to our families and to ourselves,” she said. “I want them to see the heartbreak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11946280\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latina woman with a black shirt sits on a couch and smiles to the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut-1536x1098.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64472_006_SandraCastaneda_IMG_7079-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Castañeda at home in Hawthorne, Los Angeles County, on Aug. 9, 2022, shortly after she was released from a year in immigration detention. Castañeda plans to testify to the state Assembly in favor of the HOME Act, a bill that would allow certain immigrants like herself to be protected from transfer to ICE upon their release from prison. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Castañeda recalled her own sense of fear and powerlessness when, after a years-long effort to be released and the uncertainty over how to build a new life as a free woman, she learned that she faced an immigration hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re already dealing with the roller coaster emotions of coming home. And then they tell you, ‘Oh, never mind, you’re going to go to ICE.’ So now I’ve got to go sit at this place wondering if I’m going to get deported,” she recalled. “That really puts more stress on people. And being in the detention center, you hear about these people committing suicide because they don’t want to go back to their country. It’s a scary situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HOME Act, AB 1306, would bar prisons from handing over to ICE those noncitizens who are being released as a result of several recent criminal justice reform laws passed by the Legislature and signed by Newsom or his predecessor, Jerry Brown. 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Mifepristone is one of two drugs used for medication abortion in the United States, along with misoprostol, which is also used to treat other medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kacsmaryk signed an injunction directing the FDA to stay mifepristone’s approval while a lawsuit challenging the safety and approval of the drug continues. His 67-page order gave the government seven days to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinics and doctors that prescribe the two-drug combination have said that if mifepristone were pulled from the market, they would switch to using only the second drug, misoprostol. 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But the agency’s authority faces new challenges in a post-Roe legal environment in which abortions are banned or unavailable in 14 states, while 16 states have laws specifically targeting abortion medications.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Greer Donley, professor specializing in reproductive health care, University of Pittsburgh Law School\"]‘This has never happened before in history — it’s a huge deal … You have a federal judge who has zero scientific background second-guessing every scientific decision that the FDA made.’[/pullquote]Since the Texas lawsuit was filed in November, legal experts have warned of questionable arguments and factual inaccuracies in the Christian group’s filing. 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It has now been more than a month since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-student-16-fatally-stabbed-in-montgomery-high-school-classroom/\">fatal stabbing in an art classroom at Santa Rosa’s Montgomery High School\u003c/a>, and differing approaches to police presence and overall supervision are being heard in school board meetings, student organizing groups and a new school safety advisory group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many parents and teachers look toward reinstating safety resource officers (SROs), students are emphasizing a need for expanded mental health resources, deescalation training and increased funding for restorative justice programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SROs — armed officers with the Santa Rosa Police Department who patrolled high school campuses and had the power to make arrests — were removed from all campuses by the Santa Rosa City Schools District in 2020, in the wake of nationwide protests over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think that [SROs] are the best method of creating a safer campus,” Montgomery junior Vianna Laham told KQED. “I would rather there be more therapists and campus supervisors because there already isn’t enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 1, Montgomery freshman Daniel Pulido, 15, stabbed 16-year-old junior Jayden Pienta during a classroom fight. Pulido, who has been in juvenile detention since the killing, was expected to be arraigned on charges of voluntary manslaughter on March 30, but that hearing has been postponed until May 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the school week after the incident was canceled, and the following week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942769/school-safety-talks-planned-day-after-santa-rosa-student-walkout-over-fatal-campus-stabbing\">hundreds of students participated in walkouts, marches and demands for action\u003c/a> at every major high school within the district. Hundreds of students, parents and staff \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-students-parents-school-staff-plead-for-stronger-response-to-s/\">also came together at an evening listening session\u003c/a>, where they pleaded with district officials to do more to safeguard schools against violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11942769 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63500__DSC4814-qut-1020x766.jpg']North Bay Organizing Project organizer Joy Ayodele has been working with students from the start to help them organize walkouts and solidify their demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather than investment in SROs, they were thinking that they need further investment in mental health services on campus,” said Ayodele, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sonomamag.com/meet-18-year-old-community-organizer-joy-ayodele/\">organized her first demonstration in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, when she was just 18\u003c/a>. “Not just the typical school counselors that they have but actual mental health professionals that are able to offer them that assistance on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each high school in the district has what Superintendent Anna Trunnell calls a “multitiered system of support” counselor, a college and career counselor, one school-based therapist and one mental health counselor specifically to help with academic anxieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laham says to her knowledge there is only one permanent therapist for Montgomery High’s campus of 1,600 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I am fully in support of police on campus’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DCyxqmDueU\">board meeting March 29\u003c/a>, many parents showed their support for officers on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am fully in support of police on campus and embedded in the school setting starting in kindergarten,” said parent Sarah Jenkins during public comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montgomery High teacher Margret Buhn told the school board about how a student in one of her classes was worried they were going to get jumped by their fellow classmates two weeks after the stabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buhn and the student’s family wrote emails to the administration and superintendent Trunnell, yet said they were told little could be done. On March 27, the student was attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a teacher, I want to protect my students, and I tried to do just that,” Buhn said at the board meeting. “As teachers collectively, we feel desperation to address this. I asked in my email last night if we had learned anything from the tragedy that had just happened. In light of this incident, I feel we have not learned enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I’m not hearing students root for SROs’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Rosa students district-wide share a similar sentiment, and in their \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/11VOsXzwV5U-ivt1ebuWXftIXBcg7aWDc1HPs578vTXY/edit?pli=1\">list of demands\u003c/a> say their district has failed them. But Ayodele says the students aren’t asking for quick fixes or police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not hearing students root for SROs or anything along those lines. 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She says these programs are underfunded and students are on waitlists district-wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had the power, I would add trained [administrators] to the campus who have the capability to assess a situation quickly or prevent it,” Montgomery sophomore Lyla Snyder told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11946067\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A group of students who appear to be high school aged stand together outside with trees in the background and one visible sign on white paper with red ink, reading 'we will get jutice'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1441\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63508__DSC4787-qut-1536x1153.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students participate in a walkout at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa on March 6, in the wake of the fatal March 1 stabbing of 16-year-old Jayden Pienta in an art classroom. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the weeks following the stabbing, Superintendent Trunnell issued a series of action items, including temporary counseling services and the introduction of a safety advisory group, which held its first meeting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Safety Advisory Roundtable (SART), a 30-member body made up of students, parents, teachers, school staff and community members and facilitated by Trunnell, will discuss solutions and action related to the four pillars the district lists on its website: safety and security, mental health and counseling, communication and transparency, and facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SROs will be a pressing item on the group’s agenda, and Trunnell said decisions made about their potential return will be up to the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not see SROs come back in the way they were previously,” Trunnell told KQED. “I believe that from this work, we will more than likely place a recommendation before the school board on a type of position more focused on safety and security.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trunnell is still unsure about what that will look like, but said SART is working toward making recommendations ahead of school board meetings, with the next one on April 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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It’s also good for rehabilitation and reentry. A huge part of rehabilitation is keeping people connected to loved ones outside.’[/pullquote]Officials with CDCR, the state prison system, say they don’t comment on pending legislation. 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And at least in Salinas Valley, her husband is closer than he was before the pandemic, when he was at Calipatria State Prison, nearly 600 miles away, near the Mexican border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rogers family is not alone with this struggle. The vast majority — \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23736788/file_0973.pdf\">75% — of California’s incarcerated people are incarcerated 100 miles or more from their home communities\u003c/a>, according to 2019 data from CDCR (PDF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/prisonvisits.html\">the further from home a person is locked up, the less likely they are to get regular visitors\u003c/a>, according to a report by the Prison Policy Initiative, a prison reform research organization. Nationwide, half of those incarcerated in prisons less than 50 miles from home had received a visit in the past month, whereas only 15% of people housed more than 500 miles from home had received a visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kids benefit when parents are closer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Nico Arzate, 16, the distance from his father has had a direct influence on how often they can visit — and on Nico’s well-being, according to his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kari Arzate was pregnant when Nico’s father, David, was arrested. For the first 10 years of Nico’s life, his dad was living in prisons that were hundreds of miles away, and they rarely saw each other, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2016, David was transferred to a prison just two hours from their home in Modesto, and Arzate took her son to see him every weekend. That lasted about five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nico would spend time with Mom and Dad as a family,” she said, “and then still be able to go out like a normal teenager, when he got home from a visit, and go to the movies with his friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945341\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11945341\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64077_001_DavidArzote_IMG_9635-1-800x783.jpg\" alt=\"A montage of four photos, top left with woman, boy and man smiling; top right with man and boy smiling at camera; bottom left with boy and man smiling; bottom right with a woman holding a baby as a man from behind a window with a phone receiver to his ear looks on.\" width=\"800\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64077_001_DavidArzote_IMG_9635-1-800x783.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64077_001_DavidArzote_IMG_9635-1-1020x998.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64077_001_DavidArzote_IMG_9635-1-160x157.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS64077_001_DavidArzote_IMG_9635-1.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nico Arzate got to visit every weekend when his father was housed in prisons near their Modesto home. 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Instead it would apply when a person is newly incarcerated or being transferred for another reason, such as a change in their security level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is good for the kids. It’s also good for rehabilitation and reentry,” Haney said. “A huge part of rehabilitation is keeping people connected to loved ones outside.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kari Arzate\"]‘Nico looks forward to taking pictures every time he goes to visit Dad because that’s all he has as a memory.’[/pullquote]He said the Keep Families Close Act is modeled on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/in-the-news/velmanette-montgomery/ny-law-requires-parents-prison-be-housed-closest-kids\">2020 law in New York state\u003c/a>, believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney is a Democrat, but the bill is co-authored by Assemblymember Marie Waldron, a Republican, and it passed out of the Assembly Public Safety Committee on Monday, March 27, with unanimous bipartisan support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it’s time to leave her father after their monthly visit, Ameerah Rogers says she and her sister typically cry on the ride home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we barely get to see him,” she said. “And he was gone all my life. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ameerah Rogers is 9. Her father, Deandre, has been incarcerated for most of her life. So every chance she has to spend time with him feels like a special treat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Saturday a month, her mother drives Ameerah and her siblings from their home in Sacramento to visit their dad at Salinas Valley State Prison. Ameerah says she’s excited on the ride there, thinking about what they’ll do together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We like to read, we color, we play games. I normally win Uno,” she said. “And every time we go, I tell him everything about school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ameerah is one of nearly 200,000 California children who have a parent in state prison, advocates estimate. And in a state the size of California, those parents are often hundreds of miles from their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1226\">bill\u003c/a> introduced this week in the state Assembly would require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house incarcerated people with minor children as close to their child’s home as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco), says long distances can lead to long separations, and that can have a devastating impact on children’s psychological health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But he’s 200 miles away, which means it’s a seven-hour round-trip drive — for a couple of hours in the visiting room. 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And at least in Salinas Valley, her husband is closer than he was before the pandemic, when he was at Calipatria State Prison, nearly 600 miles away, near the Mexican border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rogers family is not alone with this struggle. The vast majority — \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23736788/file_0973.pdf\">75% — of California’s incarcerated people are incarcerated 100 miles or more from their home communities\u003c/a>, according to 2019 data from CDCR (PDF).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/prisonvisits.html\">the further from home a person is locked up, the less likely they are to get regular visitors\u003c/a>, according to a report by the Prison Policy Initiative, a prison reform research organization. Nationwide, half of those incarcerated in prisons less than 50 miles from home had received a visit in the past month, whereas only 15% of people housed more than 500 miles from home had received a visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Kids benefit when parents are closer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Nico Arzate, 16, the distance from his father has had a direct influence on how often they can visit — and on Nico’s well-being, according to his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kari Arzate was pregnant when Nico’s father, David, was arrested. For the first 10 years of Nico’s life, his dad was living in prisons that were hundreds of miles away, and they rarely saw each other, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2016, David was transferred to a prison just two hours from their home in Modesto, and Arzate took her son to see him every weekend. 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But such policies remain divisive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Aisha Wahab, state Senator, (D-Hayward)\"]'People came to this country so they can be free and can pursue their American dream without any disruption to their lives.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab said caste discrimination is \"a social justice and civil rights issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People came to this country so they can be free and can pursue their American dream without any disruption to their lives,\" Wahab said, adding that she heard about this form of discrimination growing up in Fremont and living in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some groups such as the Hindu American Foundation and the Coalition of Hindus of North America oppose such policies. They argue these measures will hurt a community that already faces hate and discrimination, and will specifically target Hindus and Indian Americans who are commonly associated with the caste system. 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