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She preferred to use a pseudonym for fear of Taliban retaliation against her husband and other family members who are still in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sadaat, Afghan evacuee in the Bay Area\"]‘It’s not easy to survive in this country. We have been already waiting for three years and still — such a messy situation.’[/pullquote]Before leaving her country, Sadaat worked for a U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, project on agricultural development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She received her visa in August before Kabul fell to the Taliban, but her husband was still waiting for his paperwork. She waited another two months, leaving the country with her children. Now she’s in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here with my three children, I’m just struggling with that — finding resources and finding different sources to help me out. How can I get him out of there?” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her husband had previously worked with the U.S. government, and now he has to live in hiding from the Taliban regime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not living a normal life,” Sadaat said. But she acknowledges that caring for three kids by herself in the U.S. is also far from normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since she has to take her kids to school and pick them up, Sadaat hasn’t been able to find a job. Her brother lives in Fremont and has been helping her move around the city until she can get her own license and car to drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy to survive in this country,” she said. “We have been already waiting for three years and still — such a messy situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This pending situation is very frustrating for me,” Sadaat said. Her kids are having trouble focusing as well, living in a new country without their father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890467\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/019_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg\"]Aminah Abdullah, who is the charity coordinator at the Pleasanton \u003ca href=\"https://mcceastbay.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muslim Community Center in the East Bay\u003c/a> (MCC), says that for many recently arrived evacuees, the biggest challenge is housing, and once housing is secured, everything else becomes easier. To help bridge the gap and provide food, MCC has been \u003ca href=\"https://mcceastbay.org/event/afghan-refugee-food-drive/2021-11-05/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coordinating food drop-offs\u003c/a> for families who are in need of support, many of whom are waiting for state benefits to kick in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abdullah said they’re also asking for used cars so they can fix them up for families. “A lot of people are working from home now. They might have an extra vehicle they no longer need. They could donate it to MCC and we would fix it up if needed and pass it along to a refugee family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MCC works with refugee resettlement organizations like the International Rescue Committee and Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay who assist with housing and support in the first few months of arrival.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Searching for stability\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For M. 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After staying there for two and a half months, they left to move in with relatives in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11887630\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51403_018_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\"]But within the first week of their arrival, they were told by a manager of the building complex that there was an occupancy limit and they would need to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now they have to move again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the financial support they receive from the government is not enough to provide a security deposit, and some places ask for a credit history, something they also don’t have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are totally lost in this situation,” she said and added that some landlords were asking for a five-month deposit on a one-bedroom apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Afghanistan, Shakir said, her husband was a contract worker for U.S.-based companies and they were in the process of applying for a \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/special-immg-visa-afghans-employed-us-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special immigrant visa\u003c/a> (SIV) when they left, but she said they applied for humanitarian parole and have received approval to stay for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/explainer-humanitarian-parole-and-the-afghan-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">humanitarian parole\u003c/a> was seen as a temporary workaround that would allow individuals to enter and stay in the U.S. without a visa for “urgent humanitarian reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal and community groups say they expect to file at least 30,000 humanitarian parole applications, but nationwide only about 100 applications have been approved since July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Shakir, who received temporary status under humanitarian parole, it hasn’t solved all of the challenges. Her CalFresh card stopped working, so the family needs help with food in addition to housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We waited for four weeks and it didn’t arrive at our mail address. Then they said, ‘Wait, one week more.’ We waited one week more. Still, it didn’t arrive,” she explained. “Then they said, ‘OK, you apply for replacement.’ We applied for a replacement again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Shakir, Afghan evacuee in the Bay Area\"]‘We don’t want to be a load on the government. We have experience. We can work, you know?’[/pullquote]For now, this has meant they are forgoing meals so their son has enough to eat and they rely on family members for assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are affected and sometimes we feel very heavy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a good life there back in Kabul, in Afghanistan … life before was quite amazing. Like my husband was a civil engineer. And also he had his own business,” she said. 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Not only could it ease anxiety, but it also could provide important protections from discrimination and harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law, which takes effect on Jan. 1, requires the state’s public colleges to update records for students who have legally changed their names. It also allows graduates to request an updated copy of their diploma at no cost to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, starting with the 2023-24 class, it will require institutions to allow students to self-identify their names on diplomas, even without legal documentation of a name change. (The legislation does not specifically require colleges to let students self-identify their names on educational records besides diplomas without legally changing their names. It also does not affect how people are identified on legal documents used for tax, immigration status and other purposes.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.them.us/story/california-first-state-requiring-colleges-use-trans-students-correct-names\">first state to enact such a law\u003c/a>. A previous version failed in the Legislature in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The right to self-identify one’s name on a college diploma helps protect transgender and gender-nonconforming students, advocates say. Research shows that transgender people are at higher risk of discrimination and violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jamie Marquis, junior psychology major at UC Davis\"]‘[Deadnaming is] humiliating. It makes you feel out of place and unwelcome, because of all the things about your identity, even your name is being ignored.’[/pullquote]More than \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/issues/anti-violence\">1 in 4 trans people has experienced a “bias-driven assault,”\u003c/a> with rates even higher for trans women and trans people of color, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/\">National Center for Transgender Equality\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic records listing a student’s name and gender as assigned at birth could potentially “out” that student’s identity, which can put them at a significant disadvantage when seeking housing and employment, said David Chiu, who authored the bill while representing San Francisco in the state Assembly. Chiu, now the San Francisco city attorney, said he was asked by \u003ca href=\"https://www.eqca.org/\">Equality California\u003c/a> and other transgender activist groups to draft the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A college diploma represents years of hard work and academic achievement,” Chiu said in an interview. “It shouldn’t cause stress or harm by having someone’s deadname on it because of outdated school policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No statewide policy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In California, public colleges have been using a range of policies about what names they record on diplomas and in other records, as no statewide policy existed. In November 2020, the University of California system put in place a policy — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/president-drake-announces-new-presidential-policy-gender-recognition-and-lived-name\">Presidential Policy on Gender Recognition and Lived Name\u003c/a> — that ensures that all individuals are identified by their accurate gender identity and name on university-issued documents and in UC’s information systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At California State University and the California Community Colleges, there have been no system-wide policies, spokespersons said. But the two systems support the new state law, they also said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11899232\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/Jamie-and-cat-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie Marquis and their cat Cleo in their backyard in Sacramento on Dec 4, 2021. ‘[Deadnaming is] humiliating. It makes you feel out of place and unwelcome, because of all the things about your identity, even your name is being ignored,’ they said. \u003ccite>(Karlos Rene Ayala/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some campuses have put their own policies in place. American River College in Sacramento County, for example, adopted an affirmed name policy in 2019, which allows students to change their names in campus computer systems and, in early 2020, to self-identify their names on their diplomas. The policy is now in place for all four colleges in the Los Rios Community College District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change, college officials said, has been powerful and emotional for students. Emilie Mitchell, interim dean of social and behavioral sciences at Cosumnes River College, described her experience helping a former student change their name in the college’s computer system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This person was just crying when they were talking about going into classes, and professors often read the roster out loud, and it was their deadname,” Mitchell said. She said she could hear the retraumatization they experienced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within five minutes, Mitchell was able to change the student’s name in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, that’s such a small thing, right?” Mitchell said. “All I did was click a couple of boxes, literally, but this person’s experience, their educational experience, their sense of being validated in their identity, was so profound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eli Fox, a junior psychology major at California State University, Monterey Bay, changed their name during their first few months of college but said they had to deal with a lot of stress due to their deadname being on high school documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really tricky to get everything to line up,” Fox said. “There are a lot of school administrative people who aren’t really educated, and it was really difficult trying to educate them and also advocate for myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Emilie Mitchell, interim dean of social and behavioral sciences, Cosumnes River College\"]‘That’s such a small thing, right? All I did was click a couple of boxes, literally, but this person’s experience, their educational experience, their sense of being validated in their identity, was so profound.’[/pullquote]High school teachers, college professors and administrators have often resisted respecting their name or helping them change their school documents, Fox said. They often asked Fox invasive questions about their transition that made them feel like they were just being nosy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should have to explain their identity or justify the way that they are to anybody,” Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox said they are relieved to see the law pass, as it will make the process easier for future students like them. Fox aspires to use their degree in psychology to work in data gathering and research, and wants to continue their education in biopsychology, and incorporate social theory into science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox says they have gained so much knowledge just from being queer and being around queer people. They hope to help show LGBTQ+ youth of the future to be proud of who they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reducing anxiety\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Michelle Haggerty, a psychology professor who advises the Queer Student Union at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, said the new state law will help to reduce the anxiety of both students and professors and to create a more accepting environment on campus. If students are able to update their names on school records before the semester starts, it will erase any awkward scenarios where the professor may deadname a student by accident, Haggerty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said this new policy will help students after they graduate, lessening how much they may have to explain their name or who they are to future employers. Haggerty has known students who have quit their jobs due to discrimination and invasive questions about their transitions, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Depending on where you are, it makes people feel unsafe,” Haggerty said of being transgender or gender-nonconforming. “Different industries and different communities will look at these things differently … I think it’s hard to make a judgment on, ‘Am I safe or not?’ and ‘Who can I reveal these aspects of myself to?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law could help protect cisgender college students, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='transgender']Linda Johnson — a sophomore at College of the Redwoods who has earned a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College and a master’s degree from Fuller Theological Seminary — said that she was unable to have her maiden name printed on her diploma. At a time when she was going through a divorce from an abusive spouse, she wasn’t able to feel happy or excited when she received her diploma. Instead, she didn’t even want to look at it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been so much easier if I could have gone and said, ‘This is what I want,’ without having to wait for all of the legalities to catch up,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marquis, the Davis student — who also is an American River College graduate — remembers the anxiety of a day when they walked up to the counter of the community college’s records and admissions office to update their academic records. Had they forgotten a document? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Schwartz also said surveillance cameras are more often used in lower-income, largely Black and Latino communities than in more affluent, predominantly white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think license plate readers are not worth these downsides,” Schwartz said. Rather, he added, money should be spent on improving the trust between the police and the community instead of “ever more frightening surveillance technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Schaaf, citing the city’s seemingly intractable jump in violent crime, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-news-crime-police-race-and-ethnicity-homicide-9ceaa74e9ac9d310d6f889cfaf414f59#:~:text=SAN%20FRANCISCO%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20The,in%20homicides%20and%20gun%20violence.\">asked the city council to approve funding to create two new police academies and add 60 officers to the force\u003c/a>, a proposal the council nearly unanimously approved. Critics of the move accused the mayor and councilmembers of reversing course and betraying pledges they had made in the wake of George Floyd’s murder last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879404/oakland-just-redirected-18-million-away-from-police-into-violence-prevention-programs\">to cut the city’s policing budget\u003c/a> and reallocate some of those funds to violence prevention and social service programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For decades in Oakland we’ve over-invested in policing, and the number of homicides and robberies this year are clear proof that this approach to public safety simply does not work,” Cat Brooks, executive director of the Justice Teams Network and a co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, said earlier this month. “We can’t make the same mistakes we made in the past. We cannot throw more good money after failed policy solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooks said tens of thousands of Oakland residents filled the streets last year to demand the city “reinvest our tax dollars into programs that will actually keep us safe, not over-police Black and Brown communities.” By approving Schaaf’s police funding increase, the council was walking away from that mandate, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the same day Schaaf sent her letter, San Francisco Mayor London Breed — who last year\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-plan-for-reinvesting-120-million-from-police-into-black-communities\"> championed an even more dramatic police divestment plan\u003c/a> — responded to the uptick in crime in areas of her city by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899060/vowing-to-end-reign-of-criminals-destroying-our-city-sf-mayor-breed-announces-latest-tenderloin-crackdown\">calling for new, more aggressive policing tactics\u003c/a>, particularly targeted at the beleaguered Tenderloin neighborhood, including a push to give officers more real-time access to surveillance footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Schaaf’s letter to Newsom this week, she also reiterated a request for as much California Highway Patrol presence and enforcement in the city as possible. A recent grant-funded effort between Oakland and the CHP “was extremely helpful,” she added, without providing specific details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf additionally asked for help from the CHP’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force regarding “recent caravan robberies of pharmacies, stores and cannabis businesses in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s office did not immediately respond when asked to comment on Schaaf’s requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting by KQED’s Matthew Green and by Keith Burbank of Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the summer of 2020, Robert Abeyta was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and admitted into Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and really could have gotten out very quickly if I had the financial resources,” said Abeyta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abeyta is 39 and grew up in Oakland’s Fruitvale District. He said he was completely broke at the time of his arrest. But even though his bank account was empty, there were resources available that he could have used to post bail and return to his life on the outside. He just couldn’t access them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These resources are \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/economic-impact-payments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">economic impact payments initially established by the CARES Act\u003c/a>, and, even though incarcerated people are eligible for this money, their fight to get it started almost as soon as it became available to them. Nearly two years later, some people are still waiting. KQED has spoken with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, advocates, attorneys and detention facility staff to better understand how this happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The law and the lawsuit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the early days of the pandemic, Congress passed the CARES Act, a more than $2 trillion aid package meant to provide a lifeline to the many Americans whose worlds got turned inside out by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of this package included stimulus payments, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/03/what-to-know-about-all-three-rounds-of-coronavirus-stimulus-checks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which have since been expanded, and add up to around $3,200 per individual\u003c/a>. The stimulus money is distributed by the IRS, so to get it, you had to have filed a tax return. The eligibility requirements for these funds are quite broad: Essentially, if you are a citizen or permanent resident, you aren’t a dependent for tax purposes and you don’t make over $75,000 for individuals, you should qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the CARES Act passed, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/05/18/checks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May of 2020\u003c/a>, the IRS determined that incarcerated people weren’t eligible for the stimulus payments and asked over 950,000 incarcerated people to return more than $1 billion worth of payments the IRS had already distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prison authorities around the country took note of that and started to treat any attempt by somebody in their custody to apply for or obtain those funds as some form of misconduct,” said Yaman Salahi, a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein in San Francisco — even to the extent, Salahi said, that, “we were hearing from people who said, [they were] sent to the hole, which is solitary confinement, because [they] tried to do this, or all of [their] correspondence about this [had] been confiscated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salahi helped argue the \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">class action suit\u003c/a> that would confirm incarcerated people are in fact eligible for the stimulus payments initially established by the CARES Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we took a look at the issue, we determined that the IRS’s position was almost certainly unlawful because it had no basis in the law that Congress passed,” said Salahi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LieffCabraser/status/1316811868577513473\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge agreed, and in October of 2020, the IRS reversed its policy and again began issuing the checks to incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The barriers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Robert Abeyta went into jail in July of 2020, so the doubt the IRS raised about eligibility and the back and forth it caused happened while he was incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though we were eligible to receive those checks, the jail would not receive the checks,” said Abeyta. “They would send them back. The checks or the debit cards, didn’t matter. They’d send them back to the Treasury Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dean White, who served as programs supervisor of the Inmate Services Unit at Santa Rita Jail, confirmed that the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office did have a policy against receiving tax refund money. This meant that people at Santa Rita needed to find a third party to receive payments on their behalf to avoid having them be returned to the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abeyta said, “It was very, very messy because, you know, not everybody has the social support to have, you know, somebody offer an address for them to use to file their taxes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even getting this far was a feat. Abeyta didn’t have H&R Block or even the internet, and he could only use the phone for set periods of time.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Robert Abeyta\"]‘It’s really hard when you’re in a cage all the time … there’s something about that environment that really exhausts a person.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if the forms got flagged by the IRS, trying to get through to figure out what happened and how to fix it felt nearly impossible with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/23/irs-1040-hotline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wait times on the agency phone lines\u003c/a>. It wasn’t easy to stay hopeful and persistent, Abeyta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The driving factor was just believing in what we were doing. It’s really hard when you’re in a cage all the time … there’s something about that environment that really exhausts a person,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abeyta said one saving grace was consistent support from advocates on the outside, like the \u003ca href=\"https://nlgsf.org/programs-committees/nlg-sfba-programs/santa-rita-jail-hotline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Rita Jail Hotline\u003c/a>, an affiliate of the National Lawyers Guild’s San Francisco/Bay Area chapter, who gave support over the phone and helped distribute explainer packets with the filing forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salahi from Lieff Cabreser said, after the class action confirmed incarcerated people were eligible for the stimulus, the courts also told the IRS it was obligated to send notices to incarcerated people confirming they were eligible, and to officials at detention facilities explaining the same, and asking them not to interfere with the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Santa Rita’s White said, as of December 2021, the facility has never heard directly from the IRS about the stimulus funds. White said he and his colleagues became aware of their residents’ eligibility through the advocacy group Bay Area Legal Aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If they’ve committed crimes, why should I care if they get their money?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Abeyta, and many other incarcerated folks seeking out these funds, have committed serious crimes, so many people may not be sympathetic about them struggling to get their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Gregoratos, who directs the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office’s unique in-house advocacy department, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsheriff.com/services/jail-services/prisoner-legal-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prisoner Legal Services\u003c/a>, gets it. But, he also says, “Ninety-nine percent of the people here in our jail right now are not convicted of a crime. They’re awaiting trial.” Gregoratos says those waits have gotten even longer during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His colleague, Nubia Aguilera, pointed out that the funds can also go to offset basic amenities incarcerated people need in prisons, which, under normal circumstances, they would likely buy with money from friends and family on the outside. Because of the pandemic, these friends and family may not have enough resources to go around even at home, much less to send out to support folks inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the people locked up aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit from these funds, Aguilera said: “I know a lot of them have been, you know, filling out release forms to let their money go to family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the incarcerated people whom Aguilera and Gregoratos have supported through this process is 64-year-old Vincent Jacobo from San Francisco. He’s been incarcerated in the San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno for a little over eight years, awaiting trial for murder.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Vincent Jacobo\"]‘I was just happy that I could help them because I’ve never done anything for [my family] before in my life.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo had never filed taxes before he submitted a return to get his stimulus money, so it was easier for his checks to get snagged, because the IRS didn’t have a previous record of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo said he didn’t want the money for himself: “The only thing I would do is spend it all on commissary. So I released it to a friend of mine here and he put it in Western Union and sent it, I’ve sent it down to help my kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo’s daughter and grandchildren live in Southern California. When he finally got his money, Jacobo says, they were able to pay down bills and rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just happy that I could help them because I’ve never done anything for them before in my life. So it was, yeah, I was happy I could do something for them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of 2020, Robert Abeyta, back at Santa Rita Jail, finally got his money. His bail was a little over a thousand dollars, he said, so getting his stimulus money also meant getting his freedom. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In California, it costs about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/covid-19-response-efforts/#CJI\">$94 a day to jail a person\u003c/a>, so state taxpayers likely doled out over $14,000 to cover Abeyta’s time in lockup while he waited for federal money he was due. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His public defender, Joseph Goldstein-Breyer, said Abeyta has used the extra time on the outside to start turning his life around: “Since he was out of custody, Mr. Abeyta had the opportunity to jump through so many hoops to get his life together. I had a laundry list I could bring to the district attorney to say, ‘Don’t interrupt this wonderful, healthy momentum he has.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the year that Abeyta has been out of jail, said Goldstein-Breyer, he has enrolled in treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues. He has also been hired as an agent for a government support program to distribute what are colloquially known as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.truconnect.com/lifeline?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=wefi_targeting&gclid=CjwKCAiAksyNBhAPEiwAlDBeLJat-pzrCBwmz68Awx81c1kfOmwhXVQSq4uF0PoW1mnsAD6FmfCpaRoCeQ4QAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obamaphones\u003c/a>” to people with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899089\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a hat and blue shirt holding a device stands next to a white SUV with a sign that reads \"Assurance\" and the trunk opened.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Abeyta helps people sign up for Assistance Wireless, a government program to supply free phone plans to people with lower incomes, in Castro Valley on Dec. 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abeyta is taking biology and history classes at Coastline College and has had his driver’s license restored. “At first, he was renting a car to get to all of these commitments, and then, because of saving money through work and improving his credit score, he was able to buy a 2019 Kia Niro, which he’s so proud of,” Goldstein-Breyer added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Abeyta resolved his most recent charge without receiving additional jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where are we now?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to Santa Rita Jail’s Dean White, as of the end of August 2021, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is no longer returning stimulus payments it receives on behalf of people incarcerated there. That means, for about 10 months after the class action suit confirmed that people locked up were eligible for this money, those incarcerated at Santa Rita were still having to use workarounds to get their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White says the jail also established a hotline connecting its residents with tax assistance volunteers through the Alameda County Social Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to advocates at Bay Area Legal Aid, after considerable back and forth between their team and officials at Santa Rita, the jail set up a process to give people more flexibility around phone use, and to allow them to use a fax machine to send documents to the IRS if they have gotten stuck on hold three times for 45 minutes. Santa Rita’s White corroborated the details of the current process, with slight adjustments, saying the residents needed to be stuck on hold for an hour and that Santa Rita would lend them support by emailing the IRS as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the Santa Rita Jail Hotline also say they are no longer receiving regular calls from people incarcerated there about stimulus payment issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregoratos at the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office says his office has been receiving checks on behalf of folks incarcerated in the county throughout the pandemic. To date, they have assisted over 200 people in getting their money and have released about 100 payments to family members of those incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently around 150,000 people incarcerated in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/population-reports-2/\">prisons\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bscc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Jail-Pop-Trends-Through-Q2-2021.pdf\">jails\u003c/a>. This reporting represents experiences of people only in county jails; it does not speak to how folks in state prisons have fared. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told KQED it is not tracking how many incarcerated people have received payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be really helpful to have some transparency about what the current status is of the backlog. If the IRS thinks it needs more resources to get through that expeditiously, then I think it would be good for the public to know that and for Congress to act,” said Lieff Cabreser’s Salahi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For incarcerated people who have yet to pursue the funds, Salahi said the IRS has said it will still accept their tax returns. For those who’ve already submitted returns, it’s unclear how many haven’t gotten their stimulus money, but, he said, his office continues to get calls and letters almost daily from people still waiting for their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting into almost two years after the first set of stimulus payments were passed and authorized by Congress. The whole point, and it’s in the law that Congress passed, was to have the IRS issue [the payments] as rapidly as possible. And I think two years later is not rapid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if the forms got flagged by the IRS, trying to get through to figure out what happened and how to fix it felt nearly impossible with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/23/irs-1040-hotline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wait times on the agency phone lines\u003c/a>. It wasn’t easy to stay hopeful and persistent, Abeyta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The driving factor was just believing in what we were doing. It’s really hard when you’re in a cage all the time … there’s something about that environment that really exhausts a person,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abeyta said one saving grace was consistent support from advocates on the outside, like the \u003ca href=\"https://nlgsf.org/programs-committees/nlg-sfba-programs/santa-rita-jail-hotline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Rita Jail Hotline\u003c/a>, an affiliate of the National Lawyers Guild’s San Francisco/Bay Area chapter, who gave support over the phone and helped distribute explainer packets with the filing forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salahi from Lieff Cabreser said, after the class action confirmed incarcerated people were eligible for the stimulus, the courts also told the IRS it was obligated to send notices to incarcerated people confirming they were eligible, and to officials at detention facilities explaining the same, and asking them not to interfere with the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Santa Rita’s White said, as of December 2021, the facility has never heard directly from the IRS about the stimulus funds. White said he and his colleagues became aware of their residents’ eligibility through the advocacy group Bay Area Legal Aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If they’ve committed crimes, why should I care if they get their money?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Abeyta, and many other incarcerated folks seeking out these funds, have committed serious crimes, so many people may not be sympathetic about them struggling to get their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Gregoratos, who directs the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office’s unique in-house advocacy department, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsheriff.com/services/jail-services/prisoner-legal-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prisoner Legal Services\u003c/a>, gets it. But, he also says, “Ninety-nine percent of the people here in our jail right now are not convicted of a crime. They’re awaiting trial.” Gregoratos says those waits have gotten even longer during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His colleague, Nubia Aguilera, pointed out that the funds can also go to offset basic amenities incarcerated people need in prisons, which, under normal circumstances, they would likely buy with money from friends and family on the outside. Because of the pandemic, these friends and family may not have enough resources to go around even at home, much less to send out to support folks inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the people locked up aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit from these funds, Aguilera said: “I know a lot of them have been, you know, filling out release forms to let their money go to family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the incarcerated people whom Aguilera and Gregoratos have supported through this process is 64-year-old Vincent Jacobo from San Francisco. He’s been incarcerated in the San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno for a little over eight years, awaiting trial for murder.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo had never filed taxes before he submitted a return to get his stimulus money, so it was easier for his checks to get snagged, because the IRS didn’t have a previous record of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo said he didn’t want the money for himself: “The only thing I would do is spend it all on commissary. So I released it to a friend of mine here and he put it in Western Union and sent it, I’ve sent it down to help my kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo’s daughter and grandchildren live in Southern California. When he finally got his money, Jacobo says, they were able to pay down bills and rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just happy that I could help them because I’ve never done anything for them before in my life. So it was, yeah, I was happy I could do something for them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of 2020, Robert Abeyta, back at Santa Rita Jail, finally got his money. His bail was a little over a thousand dollars, he said, so getting his stimulus money also meant getting his freedom. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In California, it costs about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/covid-19-response-efforts/#CJI\">$94 a day to jail a person\u003c/a>, so state taxpayers likely doled out over $14,000 to cover Abeyta’s time in lockup while he waited for federal money he was due. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His public defender, Joseph Goldstein-Breyer, said Abeyta has used the extra time on the outside to start turning his life around: “Since he was out of custody, Mr. Abeyta had the opportunity to jump through so many hoops to get his life together. I had a laundry list I could bring to the district attorney to say, ‘Don’t interrupt this wonderful, healthy momentum he has.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the year that Abeyta has been out of jail, said Goldstein-Breyer, he has enrolled in treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues. He has also been hired as an agent for a government support program to distribute what are colloquially known as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.truconnect.com/lifeline?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=wefi_targeting&gclid=CjwKCAiAksyNBhAPEiwAlDBeLJat-pzrCBwmz68Awx81c1kfOmwhXVQSq4uF0PoW1mnsAD6FmfCpaRoCeQ4QAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obamaphones\u003c/a>” to people with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899089\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a hat and blue shirt holding a device stands next to a white SUV with a sign that reads \"Assurance\" and the trunk opened.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Abeyta helps people sign up for Assistance Wireless, a government program to supply free phone plans to people with lower incomes, in Castro Valley on Dec. 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abeyta is taking biology and history classes at Coastline College and has had his driver’s license restored. “At first, he was renting a car to get to all of these commitments, and then, because of saving money through work and improving his credit score, he was able to buy a 2019 Kia Niro, which he’s so proud of,” Goldstein-Breyer added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Abeyta resolved his most recent charge without receiving additional jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where are we now?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to Santa Rita Jail’s Dean White, as of the end of August 2021, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is no longer returning stimulus payments it receives on behalf of people incarcerated there. That means, for about 10 months after the class action suit confirmed that people locked up were eligible for this money, those incarcerated at Santa Rita were still having to use workarounds to get their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White says the jail also established a hotline connecting its residents with tax assistance volunteers through the Alameda County Social Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to advocates at Bay Area Legal Aid, after considerable back and forth between their team and officials at Santa Rita, the jail set up a process to give people more flexibility around phone use, and to allow them to use a fax machine to send documents to the IRS if they have gotten stuck on hold three times for 45 minutes. Santa Rita’s White corroborated the details of the current process, with slight adjustments, saying the residents needed to be stuck on hold for an hour and that Santa Rita would lend them support by emailing the IRS as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the Santa Rita Jail Hotline also say they are no longer receiving regular calls from people incarcerated there about stimulus payment issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregoratos at the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office says his office has been receiving checks on behalf of folks incarcerated in the county throughout the pandemic. To date, they have assisted over 200 people in getting their money and have released about 100 payments to family members of those incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently around 150,000 people incarcerated in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/population-reports-2/\">prisons\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bscc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Jail-Pop-Trends-Through-Q2-2021.pdf\">jails\u003c/a>. This reporting represents experiences of people only in county jails; it does not speak to how folks in state prisons have fared. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told KQED it is not tracking how many incarcerated people have received payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be really helpful to have some transparency about what the current status is of the backlog. If the IRS thinks it needs more resources to get through that expeditiously, then I think it would be good for the public to know that and for Congress to act,” said Lieff Cabreser’s Salahi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For incarcerated people who have yet to pursue the funds, Salahi said the IRS has said it will still accept their tax returns. For those who’ve already submitted returns, it’s unclear how many haven’t gotten their stimulus money, but, he said, his office continues to get calls and letters almost daily from people still waiting for their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting into almost two years after the first set of stimulus payments were passed and authorized by Congress. The whole point, and it’s in the law that Congress passed, was to have the IRS issue [the payments] as rapidly as possible. And I think two years later is not rapid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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At the end of the day, the safety of the people of San Francisco is the most important thing to me, and we are past the point where what we see is even remotely acceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department has been vague about the costs of stepped-up enforcement in Union Square, the shopping and tourist destination neighboring the Tenderloin that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897148/rash-of-organized-weekend-robberies-target-luxury-stores-across-the-bay-area\">the target of an organized mass shoplifting operation last month\u003c/a>, an incident that garnered national headlines — much to the consternation of city leaders. A surge of cops in the area since then has driven down thefts some 80%, according to SFPD, and racked up some 8,000 hours in officer overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://londonbreed.medium.com/a-safer-san-francisco-eb40d9d502e4\">crime-fighting plan\u003c/a> that Breed and Scott are proposing for the Tenderloin, as holiday shopping shifts into high gear, aims to employ a similar strategy. Put simply: more cops on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are areas in this city that need constant, 24-hour police presence while we make those arrests,” Scott said, portraying a chaotic environment of rampant open-air drug use and street crime.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11892879,news_11892123,news_11889586\"]If Breed’s budget request for more officers goes through, one thing is likely to change, Scott said: The police will stop ignoring open-air drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People will not be allowed to smoke meth, to smoke fentanyl, to inject heroin in their arms in public spaces,” he said. “And it’s very important that we are consistent and that we sustain this effort, because to do it for two weeks is not going to help us long-term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more police officers on the street will require significantly more funding, a move that comes roughly a year and a half since Breed championed a much different plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-plan-for-reinvesting-120-million-from-police-into-black-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">divert $120 million\u003c/a> away from law enforcement. But she said her intention to ask San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors for supplemental police funding does not represent a reversal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that things have changed as it related to our significant need for law enforcement, and so an investment is necessary as a result,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More officers on the beat is just one part of San Francisco’s latest Tenderloin crackdown. The mayor has also tasked the city’s Department of Emergency Management to coordinate a holistic response, which includes expanding housing resources, cleaning the streets and improving lighting and physical conditions in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the plan includes two pieces of legislation: One, likely to be introduced in January, would amend the city’s surveillance ordinance to allow police to access camera systems in real time — a move sure to stoke controversy. A separate ordinance would crack down on illegal street vending in an effort to stem the resale of stolen goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some city leaders were quick to support the plan, others expressed serious doubts about its efficacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Commissioner John Hamasaki \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HamasakiLaw/status/1470866635149897728?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pointed out on Twitter\u003c/a> that tough-on-crime tactics have come to the Tenderloin before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The myth that we just need to ‘prosecute harder’ is garbage,” he said, referencing the most recent federal crackdown targeting the Tenderloin that brought stiff prison sentences for drug dealing. “Dealing has gone up, supply has gotten bigger, violence increased. Is that success? Why are we doing the same thing and expecting a different result?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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