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Even though it's been 12 years since our ruling, we know the fight for marriage equality and many other basic civil rights is still essential and this video shows the evidence for why.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2009 lawsuit filed by supporters of same-sex marriage against Proposition 8 was considered risky by some progressive legal groups, which worried that a setback in federal court could take decades to undo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial gained national attention, in part because the legal team seeking to have Proposition 8 struck down was led by conservative Theodore Olson and liberal David Boies, who were on \u003cem>opposite\u003c/em> sides of the infamous Bush v. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People in Oakland are hurting. They’ve lost loved ones. They’ve seen people shot and killed. After a decade where homicides were down to a half-century low in the 2010s, the pandemic hit, and the whole Bay Area has seen an increase in violence. In Oakland, homicides were up more than 50% in 2021, with more than 100 murders for the first time in a decade. This year’s even worse.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-police-100-homicide/3020139/\">a 60-year-old man was gunned down\u003c/a> near DeFremery Park in West Oakland, marking the city’s 100th homicide of the year. The shooting comes amid a surge of shocking, violent incidents in recent weeks, including \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927541/humble-and-joyous-berkeley-high-community-mourns-teenage-brothers-killed-in-weekend-house-party-shooting-oakcrime\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">two Berkeley High School students — and brothers — killed at a birthday party\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927080/six-people-wounded-at-high-school-shooting-in-oakland-oakcrime\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">six adults shot at an Oakland school\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/oakland-violence-muslim-community-shaken-fatal-shooting-near-islamic-center-mosque/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">two men killed in front of their mosque\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/oakland-shooting-city-hall-broadway-14th-street/12244256/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">one person killed, and another injured, during a midday shooting outside City Hall\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where a City Council meeting was in session.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homicide']\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What we’re facing is … an ugly, perfect storm of conditions that all of urban America is facing,” said Guillermo Cespedes, Oakland’s violence prevention chief, who joined Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong on KQED’s Forum this week.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf, who ends her tenure as mayor this year after serving two terms, lamented the alarming increase in bloodshed in her city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s just heartbreaking, because it really felt like Oakland had turned the corner by utilizing Ceasefire,” said Schaaf, referring to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/operation-ceasefire-and-safe-community-partnership\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Operation Ceasefire\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a multipronged approach to reducing street violence through direct interventions and access to city services. “That very comprehensive kind of carrot-and-stick approach of Ceasefire had really created what many people called the Oakland Miracle. We were recognized nationally as having one of the most dramatic and sustained reductions in gun violence that any city (has) ever achieved. And that all went out the window with COVID.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wave of violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In fact, homicides were at a 50-year low in the Bay Area throughout much of the 2010s. But the pandemic ushered in a new wave of violence across the region and the country, one that has hit Oakland particularly hard and has yet to recede. Homicides in the city were \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2021/09/03/oakland-police-chief-releases-soaring-new-crime-stats-asks-the-public-for-help/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">up more than 50% in 2021\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, when the number of murders peaked at 100 for the first time in a decade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schaaf attributed the alarming rise to various factors, including the slowdown of the court system; gang recruitment of “younger and younger juveniles who \u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p14-0\"}]'>get treated quite differently in our court system,” which, she adds “has not yet adjusted to our new reality”;\u003c/span> and the dramatic decrease in police staffing as a result of “exhaustion over COVID and the defund sentiment in Oakland” that, she said, has affected the enforcement of Ceasefire.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“And I think we also have to address the fact that all of us are left a little bit vulnerable mental health-wise since the pandemic,” added Cespedes. “Arguments that before would be settled with words now may take a fistfight or even a gunfight.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the Oakland residents who called in to Forum conveyed a sense of fear and exasperation, some angrily accusing city leaders and law enforcement of failing to stem the violence. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Sick and tired of being sick and tired’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m calling because I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired,” said one caller, who introduced herself as Dee, urging officials to turn their words into actions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’m a taxpaying citizen in Oakland. My kid, I can’t even let her go outside. How can I be in a city where I can’t even drive down the street without the fear of somebody putting a gun to my head?” Dee said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Libby Schaaf, mayor of Oakland\"]‘The grief and trauma that people are experiencing right now is at an all-time high … We can talk about what we’ve done. We can also even talk about data that shows impact, but that does not in any way take away from the importance of that sentiment of how people are feeling right now.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Armstrong, the police chief, said much of the violence could be attributed to “homegrown groups and gangs from Oakland.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“But we have, as of late, experienced a lot of violence related to San Francisco gangs and groups — from as far as Antioch, Vallejo — that have come over to Oakland and committed several violent acts,” he said. Armstrong also noted the influence of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/stop-sex-trafficking-in-oakland\">human trafficking\u003c/a>, adding that his department was working closely with the district attorney and the FBI on dealing with the issue. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Human trafficking not only impacts Oakland but the entire Western region,” said Armstrong. “We know that there are those that come to Oakland specifically to traffic.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human trafficking — the buying and selling of people for sex or labor — has been one of the drivers of gang violence that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oakgov.com/health/partnerships/humantrafficking/Pages/default.aspx\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland has been trying to combat with various initiatives\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Too many guns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the biggest issue that all three city leaders touched on was the proliferation of guns.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The number of households that bought guns increased by 18% during the pandemic. … More people, more guns,” said Cespedes. “This is a battle that Oakland is waging, and we need help.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Armstrong also noted the increase in “ghost guns,” a term for firearms that can be easily constructed from kits, and that are untraceable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I mean, just yesterday, we recovered four of those guns from one individual,” he said, adding that the OPD has “already recovered over 1,150 firearms so far this year, which is a 34% increase compared to last year,” saying that a significant number of these firearms have been ghost guns.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“While this spike in Oakland has been historic for us, believe it or not, it matches the national average,” Schaaf said, faulting federal leaders for failing to stop the proliferation of firearms. “We have never seen so many illegal guns on our streets and the failure of the federal government to ban assault weapons, as well as the equipment that turns regular guns into assault weapons, (and) to invest adequately in mental health, conflict resolution, the mental state of people, especially our young people. … These are failures at the federal level.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An emergency medicine resident physician named Henry at Highland Hospital in Oakland wrote in, “I’ve seen a shocking increase in nonfatal violence, gunshot wounds, stabbings, assaults. 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Armstrong also noted the influence of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/stop-sex-trafficking-in-oakland\">human trafficking\u003c/a>, adding that his department was working closely with the district attorney and the FBI on dealing with the issue. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Human trafficking not only impacts Oakland but the entire Western region,” said Armstrong. “We know that there are those that come to Oakland specifically to traffic.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human trafficking — the buying and selling of people for sex or labor — has been one of the drivers of gang violence that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oakgov.com/health/partnerships/humantrafficking/Pages/default.aspx\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oakland has been trying to combat with various initiatives\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Too many guns\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the biggest issue that all three city leaders touched on was the proliferation of guns.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The number of households that bought guns increased by 18% during the pandemic. … More people, more guns,” said Cespedes. “This is a battle that Oakland is waging, and we need help.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Armstrong also noted the increase in “ghost guns,” a term for firearms that can be easily constructed from kits, and that are untraceable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I mean, just yesterday, we recovered four of those guns from one individual,” he said, adding that the OPD has “already recovered over 1,150 firearms so far this year, which is a 34% increase compared to last year,” saying that a significant number of these firearms have been ghost guns.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“While this spike in Oakland has been historic for us, believe it or not, it matches the national average,” Schaaf said, faulting federal leaders for failing to stop the proliferation of firearms. “We have never seen so many illegal guns on our streets and the failure of the federal government to ban assault weapons, as well as the equipment that turns regular guns into assault weapons, (and) to invest adequately in mental health, conflict resolution, the mental state of people, especially our young people. … These are failures at the federal level.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An emergency medicine resident physician named Henry at Highland Hospital in Oakland wrote in, “I’ve seen a shocking increase in nonfatal violence, gunshot wounds, stabbings, assaults. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">During her junior year at Berkeley High last fall, Ava Murakami overheard a classmate make vulgar, sexual comments about a teacher.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Murakami was disturbed, and said the student had also made derogatory and offensive comments about women and their physical appearances. She decided to file a formal complaint through Title IX, the federal law that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The intention was that I would file the report on behalf of my community, be the person who stepped up and didn’t let it keep going on forever,” she said. “I thought it would be one and done. I sign the paper, it’s done with.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that’s not what happened. Instead, she said the process was drawn out and cryptic, and involved dozens of email exchanges. She said it was difficult to get answers on the status of her complaint, which she was told would be confidential. Then, months into the process, she learned that her name could be shared if students’ parents asked for that information. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was confused,” she said. “So I withdrew (the complaint), despite already feeling exposed.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, as the commissioner of Women’s Rights and Equity at Berkeley High, Murakami aims to help other students avoid that experience. She hopes a newly created role in the district, called a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1656192\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Title IX Student Support Counselor\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, could make a difference. The district is still hiring for the position, but whoever takes on the job will provide counseling and guidance for students going through the complicated and arduous process of filing Title IX complaints. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an interview with KQED, Berkeley Superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel said she could not comment on the specifics of what occurred in that case. But she said the district is committed to making sure students and staff know what their rights are, which is part of the reason this new role was created. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s not just about the investigation itself and the outcome, it’s about, ‘How do I help you heal? How do I help you navigate while you’re in real time experiencing the fallout?,’” Ford Morthel said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The proposal for the position was initially drafted “out of pure rage” by Genevieve Mage, a yearbook advisor at Berkeley High. Mage is the same teacher who helped uncover sexual assault allegations against Matt Bissell, a former chemistry teacher at Berkeley High. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/11/23/berkeley-high-knew-about-matthew-bissell-sexual-misconduct-allegations\">Berkeleyside investigation\u003c/a> found Berkeley High knew of allegations that he sexually harassed students before he was allowed to quietly resign in 2021. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mage said students turn to her for help because they trust her, but she is not paid to be a therapist, an investigator and a teacher at the same time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11928108\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11928108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419.jpg\" alt=\"The white facade of Berkeley High School, with the name of the school written above the entrance.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS2790_berkeleyhighschool20120419-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The commissioner of Women’s Rights and Equity at Berkeley High School hopes the newly created role of Title IX Student Support Counselor will make a difference in helping both students and staff navigate the process of reporting sexual abuse and misconduct. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also saw firsthand last school year how agonizing the Title IX process can be. She says a student had threatened to rape and kill her, and the student stayed in her class for about a week after she asked for him to be removed for her safety. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When his behavior continued outside of her class, she filed a Title IX complaint, which she also expected to be kept confidential. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I inadvertently outed students that had come to me in confidence and told me what had happened,” she said. “You also have to imagine that I have power. I have tenure. I have a union to support me legally. 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What do you want to happen?’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mage is optimistic, but also worries that the district will struggle to hire someone for the position while the school year is already underway, especially when interviewing for the job has yet to begin. The district has grappled with high turnover and low resources in the Title IX office for years. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On top of the student advocate role, the district will need to hire a new investigator after the previous person in that post stepped down in September. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The federal rules governing how schools respond to Title IX complaints are also expected to change by the next school year, a move many advocates for victims and survivors are eager to see. The Biden administration is in the process of overturning Title IX regulations adopted by former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, which offered greater protections for people accused of misconduct and significantly narrowed the definition of sexual harassment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As for Ava Murakami, she says a few weeks ago she met with the district’s Title IX coordinator and compliance officer, Jasmina Viteskic, who started the job in November. 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And I don't think that's the right balance,” he said. “We can do better.” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proponents of Proposition 1 have said the intention of the amendment was only to preserve the status quo. But in various committee hearings, the bill’s supporters seemed confused by the language of their own bill at times and scrambled to answer questions definitively about whether the amendment would preserve the viability limit or discard it. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But doctors who were involved in drafting the law, like Dr. Pratima Gupta, say that was no mistake. 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The term has become so politicized that it barely has any medical meaning anymore, the group said, and deciding whether and when to have an abortion should be left to the patient and doctor.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The demise of Roe v. Wade, in a strange way, is what has freed doctors of the vagaries of the viability framework as it was outlined in Roe. If the Supreme Court could put an end to 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion, doctors seem to be saying, the court could take all the flaws of their decision with it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“In a world where there is no Roe, I think you're seeing California legislators trying to write into law a kind of blank slate, a better idea of what reproductive autonomy could be that isn't just Roe Part Two,” Ziegler said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Why women get abortions later in pregnancy\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent years, at least three other states have removed viability and gestational age limits from their abortion laws. Colorado, New Jersey, Vermont and Washington, D.C., now allow abortion throughout pregnancy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abortion opponents argue that if California follows suit by passing Proposition 1, it will be a free-for-all, with women lining up for abortions when they’re eight months pregnant, for no reason at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We already currently have abortion up to 24 weeks. 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It is primarily because of medical complications, where a pregnancy is desired, but the mother finds out late about a complication that puts her own life at risk, or a fetal abnormality that will make it impossible for the baby to survive after birth. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Increasingly, women face legal and logistical barriers that make it difficult for them to access abortion care as early as they want to, said Elizabeth Nash, policy analyst at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guttmacher Institute\u003c/a>, a research organization focused on reproductive rights. As more states ban the procedure in the wake of the Supreme Court eviscerating Roe, fewer clinics offer it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The timing is not always up to the patient, particularly now\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Nash said. “It may be that they're delayed because there are lots of restrictions they have to comply with. It may be because they need to travel for an abortion. It may be that they can't get time off of work.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Women may have trouble raising the money they need to pay for the procedure, or they may have an abusive partner who exerts control over their decisions and movements. “It may be that they don't recognize that they're pregnant,” Nash said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, even in a state like California that champions abortion rights and is even positioning itself as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914440/california-wants-to-be-the-nations-abortion-haven\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">an abortion sanctuary\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, voters are more uncomfortable with the procedure the later it gets in pregnancy. An \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">August poll\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> showed \u003ca href=\"https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/most_california_voters_support_limits_on_abortion\">only 13% of voters said they were OK with abortion through the third trimester\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But when it comes to securing abortion rights in general through Proposition 1, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3rx1h9cv\">71% of Californians say they’re going to vote for it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The politics of viability have changed,” said law professor Ziegler.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the Supreme Court toppling the federal right to abortion, and more than half the states banning or trying to ban the procedure, Ziegler said, “these viability arguments — that had obviously been compelling for decades — don’t land the same way.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The polls indicate voters are not inclined to nitpick right now. Ziegler predicts that they’ll accept the ambiguity in Proposition 1 and let the courts sort out the details later.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was made possible as part of The California Newsroom – a collaboration of California’s public radio stations, NPR and CalMatters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California law generally bars the performance of an abortion past the point of fetal viability,” he said. “Would this constitutional amendment change that?”\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The floor went quiet. For a full 30 seconds, no one said anything. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon whispered with colleagues, asked to have the question repeated, then promised to answer later. He never did.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Viability has long been a controversial concept, plaguing ethicists on both sides of the abortion debate since it was embedded in the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. The Supreme Court justices wrote that a woman’s rights to bodily autonomy and privacy were protected only up to viability — \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the point when a fetus is capable of “meaningful life outside the mother’s womb,” which the court said occurs between \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/113/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">24 and 28 weeks after conception\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since then, many doctors have bemoaned the legal and political bastardization of the medical concept, arguing viability is much more complex than gestational age alone. But the public has clung to it, with abortion-rights opponents and supporters both looking favorably on restricting access to the procedure later in pregnancy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Current California law incorporates the viability limit from Roe, allowing abortion for any reason through the second trimester, and after that only if the mother or fetus’s health is in danger. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the constitutional amendment outlined in Proposition 1 doesn’t mention the word \"viability\" anywhere. Even among legal scholars, there is no consensus as to whether that means the viability standard will remain if Proposition 1 is approved, or if time limits on abortion will be eradicated in California.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It at least opens the door,” said UC Davis law professor Mary Ziegler, noting that courts are likely to make the final interpretation of Proposition 1 after the election, if it’s approved.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>The V-word debate revived\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Assemblymember James Gallagher, R-Chico, spoke during the final floor debate in June, his voice wavered with emotion. He could not support the state constitutional amendment on abortion “because of what’s missing from it,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He even choked up at one point talking about his twin boys, who were born two-and-a-half months premature and almost needed heart surgery in utero. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They were alive and they were people,” he repeated throughout his speech, pointing at the lectern for emphasis each time he mentioned their development as fetuses: 18 weeks, 23 weeks, 30 weeks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With no time limits or restrictions on a woman’s right to an abortion, Gallagher said, the amendment did nothing to protect the rights of the fetus.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Babies like my twins at 30 weeks, their lives could be taken. And I don't think that's the right balance,” he said. “We can do better.” \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proponents of Proposition 1 have said the intention of the amendment was only to preserve the status quo. But in various committee hearings, the bill’s supporters seemed confused by the language of their own bill at times and scrambled to answer questions definitively about whether the amendment would preserve the viability limit or discard it. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But doctors who were involved in drafting the law, like Dr. Pratima Gupta, say that was no mistake. They left the word \"viability\" out on purpose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Every pregnancy is individual and it's a continuum,” said Gupta, an OB-GYN in San Diego.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People come into pregnancy with a range of preexisting health conditions, she said, like diabetes, anemia, high blood pressure, and obesity. They may not have much money or access to good medical care with the latest technology. All of these very nuanced factors, and not some arbitrary number, determine whether a fetus is viable, she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If I see a patient who has broken their bag of water at 23 weeks of pregnancy, that doesn't mean that it's viable or not viable,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctors who consulted on the amendment were following the lead of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the leading advisory group for OB-GYNs, which itself removed the term \"viability\" from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acog.org/news/news-articles/2022/05/understanding-acog-policy-on-abortion\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">its own guidance on abortion\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last May. The term has become so politicized that it barely has any medical meaning anymore, the group said, and deciding whether and when to have an abortion should be left to the patient and doctor.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The demise of Roe v. Wade, in a strange way, is what has freed doctors of the vagaries of the viability framework as it was outlined in Roe. If the Supreme Court could put an end to 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion, doctors seem to be saying, the court could take all the flaws of their decision with it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“In a world where there is no Roe, I think you're seeing California legislators trying to write into law a kind of blank slate, a better idea of what reproductive autonomy could be that isn't just Roe Part Two,” Ziegler said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Why women get abortions later in pregnancy\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent years, at least three other states have removed viability and gestational age limits from their abortion laws. Colorado, New Jersey, Vermont and Washington, D.C., now allow abortion throughout pregnancy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abortion opponents argue that if California follows suit by passing Proposition 1, it will be a free-for-all, with women lining up for abortions when they’re eight months pregnant, for no reason at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We already currently have abortion up to 24 weeks. Why do we need to push it beyond that?” said Jonathan Keller, president and CEO of the California Family Council, a religious nonprofit. “Aren't we able to say that that is a step too far, even for California?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research indicates such scenarios are a fantasy. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/ss/ss6811a1.htm\">Abortions at or after 21 weeks are extremely rare\u003c/a>, representing only\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">1.2% of all abortions, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">according to data\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other studies show\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/fact-sheet/abortions-later-in-pregnancy/\">the reasons women seek abortions at this time in pregnancy are varied\u003c/a>. It is primarily because of medical complications, where a pregnancy is desired, but the mother finds out late about a complication that puts her own life at risk, or a fetal abnormality that will make it impossible for the baby to survive after birth. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Increasingly, women face legal and logistical barriers that make it difficult for them to access abortion care as early as they want to, said Elizabeth Nash, policy analyst at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.guttmacher.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guttmacher Institute\u003c/a>, a research organization focused on reproductive rights. 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It may be that they can't get time off of work.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Women may have trouble raising the money they need to pay for the procedure, or they may have an abusive partner who exerts control over their decisions and movements. “It may be that they don't recognize that they're pregnant,” Nash said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, even in a state like California that champions abortion rights and is even positioning itself as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914440/california-wants-to-be-the-nations-abortion-haven\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">an abortion sanctuary\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, voters are more uncomfortable with the procedure the later it gets in pregnancy. 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Ziegler predicts that they’ll accept the ambiguity in Proposition 1 and let the courts sort out the details later.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was made possible as part of The California Newsroom – a collaboration of California’s public radio stations, NPR and CalMatters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Flor Rodriguez got a $9,000 rent-relief check in the mail last December, it felt like an answer to her prayers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even before the pandemic started, it was hard for Rodriguez to make rent. She worked in Napa’s vineyards for years, but wildfires put her out of her job picking grapes. Then COVID slashed her hours cleaning houses. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She struggled to come up with $1,650 a month for the two-bedroom apartment she shares with the 9-year-old and 2-year-old daughters she’s raising on her own. The 39-year-old immigrated from Guatemala four years ago and has an asylum case pending.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Becky Castañeda, case manager, Napa County Recovery Center\"]‘It felt like a stab in the back. What was supposed to be an assistance to get tenants out of debt just put them back in it.’[/pullquote]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She was stressing about the possibility of losing their home when a social worker told Rodriguez about the state’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/program_overview.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">COVID rent-relief program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which launched in mid-March of 2021 and allowed tenants and landlords to apply for up to 18 months in assistance.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rodriguez got approved and says she used the money to help cover her rental debt. But five months later, in April, the state told her she had to return the money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California has \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/dashboard.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">handed out more than $4.3 billion\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in emergency COVID rent relief since the start of the pandemic. For Rodriguez and many other tenants with lower incomes who fell behind on rent, it’s been a lifeline. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now the state is asking thousands of applicants to pay back the money — in most cases, after they received it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“How am I going to come up with that money if I don’t have it?” Rodriguez said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who’s caught — and who’s caught up?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state has issued almost 19,000 notices to California tenants and landlords who were originally approved for rent relief, saying they actually weren’t eligible. The vast majority of those denials — over 16,500 of them — went to people who’d already received the funds. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s part of an effort to catch fraud, according to the Department of Housing and Community Development.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People get really clever. They are very, very smart and they do a lot of things to try to end-run around whatever kind of security you build into your systems,” said Jessica Hayes, who, as federal recovery branch chief for the HCD, manages its rent-relief operation and other federally funded programs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With brazen examples of fraud in pandemic-aid programs surfacing around the country, Hayes touts the department’s track record. Administrators had to balance responsibly managing taxpayer money with a mandate from state lawmakers to get the program running quickly, she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It would have been 100% preferable to have caught every single one of these on the front end,” she said. “But it’s also not possible. There’s no physical way when your goal is to be as open as possible and really help as many people as possible.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hayes wouldn’t disclose specific fraud-protection measures out of concern it would compromise the department’s work.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But advocates say tenants who desperately needed the assistance have gotten wrongfully caught up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A helping hand\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the Napa County Recovery Center, case workers have been working to help clients like Rodriguez. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The center was one of many community organizations around the state that got a grant to work with renters in need and help them access the program. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But out of 147 people who got approved with their help, 35 were later denied. For many of them the news came months after they’d received the money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It felt like a stab in the back,” said Becky Castañeda, 20, one of the case managers in Napa hired to reach out to potential applicants and support them through the process. “What was supposed to be an assistance to get tenants out of debt just put them back in it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927202\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58155_DSC03268-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young Latina woman of 20 with long black hair stands with her arms folded in front of a red wooden fence as she looks at the camera with a determined expression.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58155_DSC03268-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58155_DSC03268-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58155_DSC03268-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58155_DSC03268-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58155_DSC03268-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Becky Castañeda, case manager at Napa County Recovery Center, one of many community organizations around the state that got a grant to work with renters in need and help them access the program. She’s working with a mother of four named Monica who’s being asked to pay back $3,400. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state does give applicants a chance to appeal before coming to a final decision and sending out a “recapture notice.” But advocates say the appeal process is overly difficult. Many of the denial notices cite “inconsistent or unverifiable information” but offer no specifics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“How are they supposed to know what supporting paperwork to provide on their appeal?” Castañeda said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s working with a mother of four named Monica who’s being asked to pay back $3,400. (We’re not using Monica’s last name to protect her privacy because she’s undocumented.) She says she lost her income when the restaurant where she works closed for a year early in the pandemic. She applied for aid in November, and was approved in mid-February. In March, after receiving a check, she got a notice informing her she’d have to pay it back.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After reviewing the application, Castañeda and her colleagues couldn’t identify any inaccuracies or unverifiable information, so, like they’ve done with many of these appeals, they sent in the same documents again — PG&E bills, lease agreements, income documentation. They submitted the appeal in early April and are still waiting on a decision, Castañeda says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It would have been better if they were honest from the beginning because now it seems like it was all a trick,” said Monica, 34, who’s desperate for an answer on the appeal. She’s stressed, wondering how the state will collect. She and her husband are back to working part-time now, she says, and while they’re caught up on rent for the time being, they’re still behind on some bills.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vague charges, denied appeals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, attorney Ora Prochovnick is representing a tenant who’s been told that her property manager needs to return $31,000 in rent relief they got on her behalf. Prochovnick, director of litigation and policy for the \u003ca href=\"https://evictiondefense.org/\">Eviction Defense Collaborative\u003c/a>, got involved after the client appealed the decision and was denied. She says the reason given for the denial was so vague it didn’t give her client a real chance to defend herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prochovnick says HCD finally provided a detailed list of the alleged problems with the application two months after the notice was issued, and only after she applied pressure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“None of them had any merit and it didn’t take a lot of digging to find that,” Prochovnick said. “So it seems that what they did is a very cursory surface investigation and latched on to the easiest opportunity to deny rather than doing any homework so that they could approve.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among the list of issues reviewers flagged was an objection to the quality of her driver’s license photo and the font used on it, Prochovnick says. She has seen the license and calls the implication that it’s fraudulent “one of the craziest accusations I’ve ever read.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tenant is facing eviction, but Prochovnick says the landlord has agreed to put the process on hold while lawyers try to resolve the problem.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Prochovnick, the case points to broader equity concerns. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I am an experienced attorney who’s been a litigator for more than 35 years and I’m dumbfounded by this process,” she said. “I’m just imagining all of the many tenants who don’t have those types of resources and are just told, ‘Give back the money.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this summer, tenant advocacy groups \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://publiccounsel.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Petition-for-Writ-of-Mandate_Filed.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on behalf of renters who were denied rent relief. A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/press-release-judge-orders-ca-dept-of-housing-community-development-to-stop-denying-state-rental-assistance-applications-until-further-review/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">judge has ordered\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the state to stop issuing denials while the suit moves forward. For now, HCD officials say demands for repayment are on hold to ensure people have a chance to appeal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We hope the ultimate outcome of our lawsuit is a fairer process to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to get the help they need in order to stabilize their housing and not become homeless,” said Lorraine López, senior attorney for the \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/\">Western Center on Law and Poverty\u003c/a> who’s working on the case.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The suit alleges HCD’s denial process doesn’t provide applicants due process, and seeks a more transparent appeals process that grants them access to details about the reasons they were denied. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the 18,871 denials HCD issued after applicants were approved, only 2,503 have been appealed, according to the department, but there’s still time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Napa, case managers at the recovery center have only had seven appeals approved at this point, of the 25 they submitted. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An uncertain future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even as Flor Rodriguez waits on her appeal, she’s preparing to move. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s being evicted by her landlord — not because of her difficulties with the rent-relief program, but because the landlord told Rodriguez she plans to renovate the apartment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At home, with her 2-year-old daughter, Carmen, in her arms, Rodriguez is waiting for a ride from a friend to go see another apartment. But the odds aren’t in her favor. The vacancy rate for rental housing in the city of Napa is just 2%, according to the city’s Housing Division. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After weeks of looking for apartments, Rodriguez still hasn’t found anything. She says her 9-year-old daughter has started to ask what’s going to happen. “She’s worried we’re going to end up on the streets,” Rodriguez said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She tells her daughter it will be OK. She’s trying to convince herself, too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Shortly after KQED published this story, attorney Ora Prochovnick received word from the state Department of Housing and Community Development that her client’s case was resolved and she would be able to keep the rental assistance she already received. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She was stressing about the possibility of losing their home when a social worker told Rodriguez about the state’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/program_overview.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">COVID rent-relief program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which launched in mid-March of 2021 and allowed tenants and landlords to apply for up to 18 months in assistance.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rodriguez got approved and says she used the money to help cover her rental debt. But five months later, in April, the state told her she had to return the money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California has \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/dashboard.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">handed out more than $4.3 billion\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in emergency COVID rent relief since the start of the pandemic. For Rodriguez and many other tenants with lower incomes who fell behind on rent, it’s been a lifeline. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now the state is asking thousands of applicants to pay back the money — in most cases, after they received it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“How am I going to come up with that money if I don’t have it?” Rodriguez said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who’s caught — and who’s caught up?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state has issued almost 19,000 notices to California tenants and landlords who were originally approved for rent relief, saying they actually weren’t eligible. The vast majority of those denials — over 16,500 of them — went to people who’d already received the funds. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s part of an effort to catch fraud, according to the Department of Housing and Community Development.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People get really clever. They are very, very smart and they do a lot of things to try to end-run around whatever kind of security you build into your systems,” said Jessica Hayes, who, as federal recovery branch chief for the HCD, manages its rent-relief operation and other federally funded programs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With brazen examples of fraud in pandemic-aid programs surfacing around the country, Hayes touts the department’s track record. Administrators had to balance responsibly managing taxpayer money with a mandate from state lawmakers to get the program running quickly, she says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It would have been 100% preferable to have caught every single one of these on the front end,” she said. “But it’s also not possible. There’s no physical way when your goal is to be as open as possible and really help as many people as possible.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hayes wouldn’t disclose specific fraud-protection measures out of concern it would compromise the department’s work.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But advocates say tenants who desperately needed the assistance have gotten wrongfully caught up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A helping hand\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the Napa County Recovery Center, case workers have been working to help clients like Rodriguez. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The center was one of many community organizations around the state that got a grant to work with renters in need and help them access the program. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But out of 147 people who got approved with their help, 35 were later denied. For many of them the news came months after they’d received the money. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It felt like a stab in the back,” said Becky Castañeda, 20, one of the case managers in Napa hired to reach out to potential applicants and support them through the process. “What was supposed to be an assistance to get tenants out of debt just put them back in it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927202\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58155_DSC03268-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A young Latina woman of 20 with long black hair stands with her arms folded in front of a red wooden fence as she looks at the camera with a determined expression.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58155_DSC03268-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58155_DSC03268-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58155_DSC03268-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58155_DSC03268-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58155_DSC03268-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Becky Castañeda, case manager at Napa County Recovery Center, one of many community organizations around the state that got a grant to work with renters in need and help them access the program. She’s working with a mother of four named Monica who’s being asked to pay back $3,400. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state does give applicants a chance to appeal before coming to a final decision and sending out a “recapture notice.” But advocates say the appeal process is overly difficult. Many of the denial notices cite “inconsistent or unverifiable information” but offer no specifics.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“How are they supposed to know what supporting paperwork to provide on their appeal?” Castañeda said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s working with a mother of four named Monica who’s being asked to pay back $3,400. (We’re not using Monica’s last name to protect her privacy because she’s undocumented.) She says she lost her income when the restaurant where she works closed for a year early in the pandemic. She applied for aid in November, and was approved in mid-February. In March, after receiving a check, she got a notice informing her she’d have to pay it back.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After reviewing the application, Castañeda and her colleagues couldn’t identify any inaccuracies or unverifiable information, so, like they’ve done with many of these appeals, they sent in the same documents again — PG&E bills, lease agreements, income documentation. They submitted the appeal in early April and are still waiting on a decision, Castañeda says. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It would have been better if they were honest from the beginning because now it seems like it was all a trick,” said Monica, 34, who’s desperate for an answer on the appeal. She’s stressed, wondering how the state will collect. She and her husband are back to working part-time now, she says, and while they’re caught up on rent for the time being, they’re still behind on some bills.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Vague charges, denied appeals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, attorney Ora Prochovnick is representing a tenant who’s been told that her property manager needs to return $31,000 in rent relief they got on her behalf. Prochovnick, director of litigation and policy for the \u003ca href=\"https://evictiondefense.org/\">Eviction Defense Collaborative\u003c/a>, got involved after the client appealed the decision and was denied. She says the reason given for the denial was so vague it didn’t give her client a real chance to defend herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prochovnick says HCD finally provided a detailed list of the alleged problems with the application two months after the notice was issued, and only after she applied pressure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“None of them had any merit and it didn’t take a lot of digging to find that,” Prochovnick said. “So it seems that what they did is a very cursory surface investigation and latched on to the easiest opportunity to deny rather than doing any homework so that they could approve.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among the list of issues reviewers flagged was an objection to the quality of her driver’s license photo and the font used on it, Prochovnick says. She has seen the license and calls the implication that it’s fraudulent “one of the craziest accusations I’ve ever read.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tenant is facing eviction, but Prochovnick says the landlord has agreed to put the process on hold while lawyers try to resolve the problem.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Prochovnick, the case points to broader equity concerns. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I am an experienced attorney who’s been a litigator for more than 35 years and I’m dumbfounded by this process,” she said. “I’m just imagining all of the many tenants who don’t have those types of resources and are just told, ‘Give back the money.’”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this summer, tenant advocacy groups \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://publiccounsel.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Petition-for-Writ-of-Mandate_Filed.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on behalf of renters who were denied rent relief. 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"content": "\u003cp>A federal judge on Wednesday declined to sign off on a plea deal for a Napa man who plotted to firebomb the Democratic Party’s California headquarters in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s electoral defeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian Benjamin Rogers pleaded guilty in May to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913965/plot-to-blow-up-democratic-headquarters-exposed-california-extremists-hiding-in-plain-sight\">conspiring to use explosives or fire to destroy the John L. Burton Democratic Headquarters in Sacramento\u003c/a>, and to possessing an explosive device and a machine gun. Under his plea deal, Rogers faced seven to nine years in prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release and $250,000 in fines.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer\"]‘I have to say in … 23 years I’ve never seen that type of statement. I’ve never seen a defendant come in and simply say I regret I was caught.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said he was concerned by a statement Rogers made during the presentencing investigation, in which the defendant told the probation department he felt badly for putting himself in a situation “that allowed the government to destroy my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to say in … 23 years I’ve never seen that type of statement. I’ve never seen a defendant come in and simply say I regret I was caught,” Breyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge asked federal prosecutors to justify why they thought a sentence of seven to nine years in prison would be appropriate, “especially in light of the defendant’s statements, which to the court suggests that he continues to be a substantial danger to the community,” Breyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the hearing, Breyer highlighted the detailed planning and steps Rogers had taken to destroy the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had five fully operational firebombs. He had an arsenal that would be the envy of the Ukrainian people,” Breyer said. “He had a map that he disseminated showing the exact location of the John Burton building. He had scoped it out and determined that the CHP and the fire department were in close proximity to that building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer scheduled an October 27 court hearing to sentence Rogers and his co-defendant, Jarrod Copeland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11915379,news_11913965\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]Rogers’ attorney, Colin Cooper, urged the judge to accept the current plea agreement, stressing that his client “regrets terribly” participating in the plot and had never before been in trouble with the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remain optimistic that when [the judge] hears from Mr. Rogers, hears further from me and hears further from the government that he will agree that the plea agreement reached and agreed upon between the government and Mr. Rogers was well-thought-out, was intensively discussed and negotiated and considered appropriate by both parties,” Cooper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to his 2021 arrest, Rogers owned British Auto Repair of the Napa Valley and was known as a larger-than-life figure in the nearby business community. He was often seen exercising at a local gym with his friend and former employee Jarrod Copeland. According to people who knew him, Rogers posted pictures of himself on social media dressed in fatigues, and showing off his cars and guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late November 2020, weeks after the presidential election, the FBI and local law enforcement were alerted by an anonymous tipster that Rogers, an outspoken supporter of then-President Trump was heavily armed and had threatened to kill people if Trump lost the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say Rogers used an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014785-copeland-rogers-motion-to-detain-public\">encrypted messaging application\u003c/a> to tell Copeland he would “hit the enemy in the mouth” by using Molotov cocktails and gasoline to attack targets including the Democratic Party headquarters, the governor’s mansion and the headquarters of social media giants Facebook and Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to blow up a democrat building bad,” Rogers wrote in one of the messaging apps he used to communicate with Copeland, according to the indictment. In a different message, he declared his intent to “go to war” after President Biden was inaugurated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair “hoped their attacks would prompt a movement,” prosecutors said when they announced the charges last July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa County sheriff’s deputies secured search warrants after receiving an anonymous tip that Rogers possessed illegal guns. After searching his home and auto repair shop in January 2021, they seized nearly 50 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and five pipe bombs, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents also seized a “white privilege card,” which looks like a credit card and states “Trumps Everything” beneath the label, with the number 0045 repeated as a credit card number, signaling the 45th U.S. president. “Scott Free” is named as the cardholder, with a membership term listed as from “birth” through “death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators also pointed to the “Three Percenters” bumper sticker on Rogers’ vehicle, signaling support for an anti-government movement named after the false belief that just 3% of American colonists defeated the British during the American Revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say that in late December 2020, Copeland told Rogers he contacted an anti-government militia group to gather support for their movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copeland previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy and destruction of records. The judge scheduled his sentencing for the same day as Rogers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers also faces charges of possession of illegal firearms and bomb charges in Napa County, with that next court hearing scheduled for October 4, his attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press and KQED’s Julie Small.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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