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Joseph Sample Jr., who worked as a ready-mix truck driver at company plants in Antioch and Concord, is \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.407806/gov.uscourts.cand.407806.105.0.pdf\">seeking $15 million in damages\u003c/a> from Cemex, one of the largest cement and building materials companies in the world, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.cemexusa.com/find-your-location\">nine ready-mix concrete plants\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sample’s attorney, Adante Pointer, told jurors the evidence would show a pattern of unchecked harassment that lasted more than five years and a company that failed to act on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence will show Cemex Corporation permitted its workers to harass my client because of his disability and race … and did nothing to protect him,” Pointer said in his opening statement. “You are going to hear evidence right here on this witness stand that Mr. Sample’s coworkers called him the N-word, monkey, retarded and other despicable names.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointer told jurors that Sample was born with a disability affecting one ear, leaving him hard to understand at times, and that he walked with a limp. 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She said Cemex granted Sample multiple leaves of absence that were not required to provide, and added that when coworkers raised concerns, it was over safety issues, not harassment.[aside postID=news_12074694 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ImmigrantTruckLicensesAP.jpg']Liu pointed to a March 2022 workplace accident in which she said Sample ran a red light with a mixer truck, and she said coworkers reported feeling unsafe around him over on-the-job safety disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first witness to take the stand was Thomas Milano, a former Cemex driver and trainer of 23 years, who said he trained Sample around 2017 and 2018, and later became a close friend. 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IOLERO also requested two years of records related to Sonoma County Sheriff Eddie Engram’s disciplinary decisions before he took office in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-judge ruling directed the Sonoma County Superior Court to issue a new order instructing Engram and his office to comply with the subpoenas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250924_SONOMACOUNTYSHERIFF_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250924_SONOMACOUNTYSHERIFF_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250924_SONOMACOUNTYSHERIFF_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250924_SONOMACOUNTYSHERIFF_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office headquarters in Santa Rosa on Sept. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Engram declined to comment specifically on the ruling but, in an email, stated, “We appreciate that the courts continue to provide clarity, and we remain committed to moving forward in a way that is fair, lawful, transparent, and focused on serving both our community and the dedicated employees who serve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engram has repeatedly said that he supports transparency and accountability that can strengthen public trust in the sheriff’s office, but he is also bound to uphold employee rights, legal protections and negotiated agreements with employee unions that govern IOLERO’s investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the Sonoma County Deputy Sheriff’s Association, which was also involved in the case, did not respond to a request to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors established IOLERO in 2015, in the aftermath of a sheriff deputy’s fatal shooting of Santa Rosa 13-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2020/02/28/the-need-for-sonoma-county-independent-office-of-law-enforcement-review-and-outreach-iolero/\">Andy Lopez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Sonoma County voters expanded the watchdog’s mandate to include investigation of whistleblower complaints. But when IOLERO subpoenaed personnel records on four sheriff employees, the office refused.[aside postID=news_12072339 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/ICEGetty.jpg']IOLERO sued in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006338/judges-ruling-thwarts-civilian-watchdogs-investigation-of-whistleblower-claim-against-sonoma-county-sheriff\">Sonoma County Superior Court\u003c/a>, but the judge sided with the Sheriff’s office, saying the oversight board had no authority to issue subpoenas related to whistleblower complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alden said the appeals court’s decision reversing the lower court ruling clarified important principles about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013532/sonoma-countys-sheriff-oversight-agency-appeals-decision-limiting-its-authority\">civilian oversight of sheriffs\u003c/a> that apply statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ It establishes that throughout California, when counties set up inspectors general, they have subpoena power and that sheriffs have to comply,” Alden said. ”It also says it doesn’t matter what the title of your agency is, as long as it’s clear your Board of Supervisors was using this same code section to create you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=25303.7\">codified\u003c/a> the rights of civilian oversight boards to access “the personnel records of peace officers and custodial officers required for the performance of the commission’s oversight duties,” but must “maintain the confidentiality of such records.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his ruling, First Appellate District Justice Mark B. 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That includes Alameda County, where supervisors approved the formation of a civilian sheriff oversight board in 2024, but are \u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/civilian-oversight-of-sheriffs-has-varied-success?in_playlist=kqed-now!podcast\">still debating the scope\u003c/a> of its mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11926889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11926889 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS21434_IMG_4885-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A glass-paned wall that reads 'Alameda County Sheriff's Office.'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS21434_IMG_4885-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS21434_IMG_4885-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS21434_IMG_4885-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS21434_IMG_4885-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS21434_IMG_4885-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these oversight agencies at the city and county levels have been prompted by horrific acts, by gross misconduct, by systemic failures, by lethal violence,” Victory said. “And there’s so many benefits that have already been documented over those counties and cities that started decades ago: of empowering the public, increasing public trust, increasing public transparency — all those things that ACLU values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU was a founding member of the\u003ca href=\"https://caforoversight.org/\"> California Coalition for Sheriff Oversight\u003c/a>, which also includes the League of Women Voters of California and organizations and people pushing for greater transparency and accountability in more than a dozen counties.[aside postID=news_12069782 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/USImmigrationCustomsEnforcementHQGetty.jpg']Even well-established oversight entities, such as the Citizen Law Enforcement Review Board in San Diego County and the Inspector General’s office in Los Angeles County, continue to struggle for access to records and witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling could bolster more nascent efforts for sheriff oversight in other Bay Area counties, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014666/inaugural-member-of-sf-sheriffs-oversight-board-resigns-citing-agencys-general-dysfunction\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, San Mateo, and Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am encouraged by Sonoma’s outcome,” Tara Evans, a Marin County resident, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans served on a citizens committee advising the Marin County Board of Supervisors on how to create robust sheriff oversight. In 2021, Evans and other residents sued the sheriff’s office to challenge its policy of sharing data from license plate readers with federal agencies and won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans said she hopes the ruling helps her county’s elected leaders to “stand firm” against efforts to weaken Marin County’s \u003ca href=\"https://apps.marincounty.gov/BosBoardsCommissions/BoardPage.aspx?BrdId=108&return=search.aspx\">Civilian Oversight Commission\u003c/a> “and ensure that transparency and accountability are not negotiable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Sheriff and deputies’ union has until April 24 to petition the California Supreme Court for review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement,\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.calsheriffs.org/about-cssa/\"> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California State Sheriffs’ Association\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> said, “The Opinion significantly restricts the discretion of counties across California, inhibits counties from negotiating labor agreements, outright prohibits certain provisions from being included in negotiated labor agreements, is in direct conflict with a prior opinion of the First Circuit Court of Appeals.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The non-profit organization of California’s 58 county sheriffs said virtually all of its members would be affected and was considering what “action may be warranted.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given the high stakes for sheriffs’ departments throughout California, an appeal or other intervention seems likely.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We’re glad we can move forward now on the whistleblower investigations, as the voters intended,” IOLERO’s Director John Alden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While little is known about the whistleblower’s complaint, some\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057369/leaked-subpoenas-shed-light-on-shadowy-sonoma-county-sheriff-whistleblower-case\"> subpoenas accidentally leaked \u003c/a>last year by the Sonoma County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association sought the personnel files of four people who witnessed alleged misconduct. IOLERO also requested two years of records related to Sonoma County Sheriff Eddie Engram’s disciplinary decisions before he took office in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-judge ruling directed the Sonoma County Superior Court to issue a new order instructing Engram and his office to comply with the subpoenas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250924_SONOMACOUNTYSHERIFF_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250924_SONOMACOUNTYSHERIFF_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250924_SONOMACOUNTYSHERIFF_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250924_SONOMACOUNTYSHERIFF_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office headquarters in Santa Rosa on Sept. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Engram declined to comment specifically on the ruling but, in an email, stated, “We appreciate that the courts continue to provide clarity, and we remain committed to moving forward in a way that is fair, lawful, transparent, and focused on serving both our community and the dedicated employees who serve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engram has repeatedly said that he supports transparency and accountability that can strengthen public trust in the sheriff’s office, but he is also bound to uphold employee rights, legal protections and negotiated agreements with employee unions that govern IOLERO’s investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the Sonoma County Deputy Sheriff’s Association, which was also involved in the case, did not respond to a request to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors established IOLERO in 2015, in the aftermath of a sheriff deputy’s fatal shooting of Santa Rosa 13-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2020/02/28/the-need-for-sonoma-county-independent-office-of-law-enforcement-review-and-outreach-iolero/\">Andy Lopez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, Sonoma County voters expanded the watchdog’s mandate to include investigation of whistleblower complaints. But when IOLERO subpoenaed personnel records on four sheriff employees, the office refused.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ratanapakdee’s daughter, Monthanus, expressed her family’s disappointment in a statement shared by Justice For Vicha, the foundation named for her father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We respect the court process. However, this is not about revenge — it is about accountability,” she said. “When consequences do not reflect the seriousness of the harm, it raises concerns about how we protect our seniors and public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897351\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS47911_011_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-qut.jpg\" alt='Four people wearing masks , with two people wearing blue t-shirts hold signs that read \"no more attacks on Asians\" and \"Unity together.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS47911_011_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS47911_011_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS47911_011_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS47911_011_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS47911_011_SanFrancisco_StopAAPIHateRally_0320201-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds gather at Portsmouth Square in San Francisco’s Chinatown on March 20, 2021, for a Stop AAPI Hate rally, which made space for people to grieve, make art and honor the lives lost to recent anti-Asian violence. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vicha Ratanapakdee was out for his usual morning walk in the quiet neighborhood he lived in with his wife, daughter and her family when Watson charged at him and knocked him to the ground. Ratanapakdee never regained consciousness and died two days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watson testified on the stand that he was in a haze of confusion and anger at the time of the unprovoked attack, according \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/grandpa-vicha-murder-jury-verdict/4013795/\">to KRON-TV\u003c/a>. He said he lashed out and didn’t know that Ratanapakdee was Asian or older.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju, whose office defended Watson, also said at his trial that the defendant is “fully remorseful for his mistake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of the San Francisco Public Defender did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment on Watson’s sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage of the attack was captured on a neighbor’s security camera and spread across social media, prompting a surge in activism over a rise in anti-Asian crimes driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people across several U.S. cities \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-immigration-health-san-francisco-race-and-ethnicity-782e4e92c47e17c9704d80ca791921b0\">commemorated the anniversary\u003c/a> of Ratanapakdee’s death in 2022, seeking justice for Asian Americans who have been harassed, assaulted and even killed in alarming numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asians in America have long been subject to prejudice and discrimination, but the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/victims-anti-asian-attacks-reflect-0632beaa1726f17dcabb672c224ad86a\">attacks escalated sharply\u003c/a> after COVID-19 first appeared in late 2019 in Wuhan, China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 10,000 hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were reported to the \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/21-SAH-NationalReport2-v2.pdf\">Stop AAPI Hate coalition\u003c/a> from March 2020 through September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865808\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-37-scaled-e1616348826100.jpg\" alt=\"A group of demonstrators hold signs that say, 'Stop Asian Hate' during a vigil and rally in San Francisco’s Chinatown on March 20, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of demonstrators hold signs that say ‘Stop Asian Hate’ during a vigil and rally in San Francisco’s Chinatown on March 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the Ratanapakdee family asserts he was attacked because of his race, hate crime charges were not filed and the argument was not raised in trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors have said hate crimes are difficult to prove absent statements by the suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 13 women who say correctional officers injured them during a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004368/like-a-war-zone-prison-officers-used-unprecedented-force-in-august-attack-incarcerated-women-say\">mass use-of-force incident\u003c/a> at the Central California Women’s Facility in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs say they suffered seizures, respiratory distress and long-term vision problems after officers used batons, physical force and chemical agents on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t breathe. My lungs were on fire … I thought I was going to die,” plaintiff Wisdom Muhammad said in a recent interview at her home in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women received settlements ranging from $200,000 to $50,000 each, based on the severity of their injuries, according to their attorney Robert Chalfant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sexual abuse of inmates, excessive force, cruel and unusual punishment, retaliation, those things need to stop,” Chalfant said. “And the only way those things stop is through lawsuits and forcing the payment of large amounts of money so that people take notice of what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, CDCR spokesperson Mary Xjimenez said the agency has reviewed the incident and has taken corrective action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 41 staff members were found to have violated policy, making it one of the largest disciplinary actions issued against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation\">CDCR\u003c/a> staff in a single incident, according to CDCR. Punishment ranged from transfers to termination, CDCR said, but the department has not yet responded to a public records request for disciplinary documents related to the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1742px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322060041_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1742\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322060041_qed.jpg 1742w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322060041_qed-800x612.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322060041_qed-1020x781.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322060041_qed-160x122.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-1322060041_qed-1536x1175.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1742px) 100vw, 1742px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarcerated people stand together in a yard at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, Madera County. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004477/incarcerated-women-say-officers-used-unprecedented-force-in-august-attack\">Aug. 2, 2024\u003c/a>, incident began when officers removed more than 150 women from their cells and locked them in the dining hall while staff conducted a large-scale search of their cells. As temperatures in the Chowchilla facility climbed to more than 100 degrees and time wore on, the women began to ask for water, food and medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials have said that the incarcerated population “became disruptive.” Officers used physical force, batons and chemical agents to “stop the incident,” according to a review from the Office of the Inspector General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint claims the women were complying with the officers’ orders and that the force was excessive and unnecessary. It also alleges that some women were denied or delayed medical care after being injured, leaving them with lasting physical and psychological harm.[aside postID=news_12004368 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/CentralCaliforniaWomensFacility-1020x816.jpg']A total of 109 incarcerated persons were medically evaluated, CDCR said, and three were transported to an outside medical facility for a short time. In the wake of the incident, CDCR also said it made mental health staff and resources available to those affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff were also retrained after the incident on how to respond to alarms and on the appropriate use of force, according to CDCR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women involved in the suit have a broader claim about this incident as well, that it was retaliation for sexual assault complaints that they had filed against correctional staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women’s prison in Chowchilla has been plagued by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11786495/metoo-behind-bars-new-records-shed-light-on-sexual-abuse-inside-state-womens-prisons\">reports of sexual assault for years\u003c/a>. In one high-profile case, at least 22 women accused correctional officer Gregory Rodriguez of sexual abuse dating back to 2014. The state ultimately paid millions of dollars to settle those claims. Rodriguez was criminally charged and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022075/former-guard-california-womens-prison-found-guilty-59-counts-sexual-abuse\">sentenced to 224 years\u003c/a> in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, an \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Staff-Misconduct-Monitoring-Report-January-June-2025.pdf\">audit \u003c/a>by the Office of Inspector General found that at least 279 women had sued the department, accusing at least 83 prison employees of sexual misconduct. The audit describes “a wave” of lawsuits filed by currently and formerly incarcerated people alleging staff sexual assault, harassment and misconduct. In response to the lawsuits, the department approved 402 investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice is also investigating allegations of sexual abuse and staff misconduct at California women’s prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/USDeptofJusticeGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into staff sexual abuse allegations at two women’s prisons in Chowchilla and Chino, following a series of lawsuits and similar abuses at federal facilities like FCI Dublin, which was closed due to widespread misconduct. \u003ccite>(J. David Ake/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the settlement reached this past week, CDCR did not agree to any policy changes or other non-monetary terms, and did not admit to wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department’s focus remains on the safety, security, and well-being of both the incarcerated population and staff,” Xjimenez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another class action lawsuit tied to the Aug. 2 incident is still pending. That case, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70350459/1/pc-hooper-v-de-la-cruz/\">Hooper v. State of California\u003c/a>, raises similar claims that medical care was delayed or denied and that the use of force was excessive and retaliatory. It is set to go to mediation in May, according to court filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR said it could not comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chalfant said that many of his clients were scared to come forward. 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Over the course of the detention, agents frequently searched beneath Ms. Savageford’s clothing and forced Ms. Savageford to undress,” according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The claim of Matt Allen said he came out to a protest later that day, after Pretti was shot. When federal agents began using tear gas and flash-bang grenades, Allen began to walk away, but he was hit in the back with projectiles. 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Raju said he intends to appeal and made clear outside the courthouse ahead of the hearing that even after being held in contempt, he has continued to turn away cases one day a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our view is that his order is an illegal order,” Raju told reporters. “So one day a week, we have declined to take some of the cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute has been ongoing since May 2025, when the public defender’s office first declared itself unavailable one day a week due to excessive caseloads. The 26 counts of contempt stem from refusals between January 12 and February 10, according to court documents. Raju said active misdemeanor cases have grown 78% and felony cases 56% since 2019 — and that each case now requires far more work than it once did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorfman acknowledged receiving 45 letters from legal experts around the country urging him to reverse his contempt finding — and said he read them all but was not persuaded. 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He told the judge the court “doesn’t have the contempt power to hold the [mayor’s office or district attorney],” and that imposing monetary sanctions on an office already starved of resources “will just make it worse.” If any sanction was warranted at all, DeClark said, it should be $1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the courtroom, Deputy Public Defender Tal Klement, who has worked at the office since 2003, described working 50 to 60 hours a week on top of court time and going to physical therapy for shoulder pain while raising two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My excessive caseload impacts the quality of my representation,” Klement testified.[aside postID=news_12077372 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed.jpg']Deputy Public Defender Seth Meisels, a 21-year veteran of the office, pointed to the sheer volume of digital evidence attorneys must now review in every case — body-worn camera footage, surveillance video, forensic records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has become increasingly difficult to determine which cases will go to trial,” he said. “But we still have to do the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the courthouse before the hearing, public defenders from Contra Costa, Alameda, Sacramento, Sonoma, Santa Cruz and Yolo counties gathered in solidarity with Raju. San Joaquin County Public Defender Judyanne Vallado, whose office declared itself unavailable for homicide and sex offenses carrying potential life sentences last year, said the move ultimately helped clear the court’s docket — not just her office’s caseload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Declaring unavailable isn’t just about helping the public defender’s office,” she said. “It’s helping the entire court justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods said he is considering taking the same steps as Raju if conditions in his office reach a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At some point in time, we have to say no,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raju said his office is in conversations with City Hall about a five-year plan to bring staffing closer to the standards set by a 2023 national workload study, which found the office needs 36 additional attorneys, along with more investigators, social workers and support staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged the plan would still not bring the office to parity with the district attorney’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/antioch-police-department\">Antioch police\u003c/a> officer charged in connection with a widespread scandal involving corruption and excessive force at two East Bay police departments was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sentencing of Eric Allen Rombough, who pleaded guilty last year to conspiring with other former officers to violate residents’ civil rights, brought to a close the litigation of the abuse case, which shook trust in law enforcement agencies in Antioch and neighboring Pittsburg and led to 10 guilty pleas or criminal convictions for former officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was extremely hard to listen to as a citizen, to hear that the police were essentially on a rampage of unbridled violence, racism, imposing — as you candidly admit — violence and terror on the community,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White told Rombough at the sentencing hearing. “I would venture to say that anybody who saw the red lights behind them in Antioch during that time period … or even now because of what happened … is in terror.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Rombough served as a key witness for prosecutors in trials against fellow \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045925/7-year-sentence-for-former-antioch-cop-stands-out-among-east-bay-officers-cases\">former officers Morteza Amiri\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065727/ex-antioch-cop-sentenced-to-7-5-years-for-sprawling-2023-corruption-scandal\">Christopher Wenger\u003c/a>. He received leniency for his cooperation with authorities, White said. Last year, Amiri and Wenger were sentenced to seven and seven and a half years in prison, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government’s investigation revealed that Rombough’s misconduct stood out among related cases as “the worst of the worst,” the judge said. Rombough bragged about using his 40-millimeter impact round launcher \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges\">to abuse suspects\u003c/a>, and he celebrated his colleagues’ use of violence. Rombough and his colleagues then falsified police reports to misrepresent their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel horrible about the victims, and about the other police officers who have had to clean up the job I created,” Rombough told White. “I understand why certain individuals don’t trust the police, because of what has happened here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Antioch Police vehicle sits in the parking lot of the Antioch Police Department on March 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rombough joined the Antioch Police Department in 2017. During his trial, which focused on a period between February 2019 and March 2022, Rombough testified that he conspired with Amiri, Wenger and other APD officers to injure, harass and intimidate residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors showed a series of text exchanges between Rombough and Amiri in which they repeatedly referred to Black suspects as “gorillas,” with Rombough adding: “I can shoot a few on Sunday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sent photos of victims’ injuries to one another, including bites caused by Amiri’s K9, and mocked other officers who refrained from using excessive force in their arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sentencing documents also describe a 2021 arrest in which Rombough kicked a suspect in the head and told other officers that he had injured his foot kicking the suspect’s head “like a field goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also alleged that Rombough displayed spent impact round shells on his mantle as trophies. In one text exchange with another officer, he sent a photograph of an injury, with the comments “and another one got 40d,” referring to his firearm, and “Bro so much fun.”[aside postID=news_12069430 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']But U.S. prosecutors said there was a second part to Rombough’s story: that after the former officer was indicted by a federal jury in 2023, investigators witnessed “a tremendous turnaround as well, unlike anyone else involved in the case,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Cheng said during the sentencing hearing. “In this, we saw a full and complete acceptance of responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal attorneys recommended a 36-month sentence — much more lenient than the punishments meted out to Amiri and Wenger. They also noted that Rombough paid $3,308 to a man he shot with his impact round launcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough’s lawyers also asked for leniency, saying that since he pleaded guilty, he has shown “genuine remorse.” Attorney Tony Brass noted that the misconduct took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which officers were forced to work longer hours at a time of heightened public tension, and during a broader institutional breakdown at APD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be a wolf to catch a wolf,” Brass said during the hearing, quoting the 2001 film \u003cem>Training Day.\u003c/em> “The Antioch Police Department was infirm from the top down. The structure was to encourage police officers to be intimidating, to have street credibility, which comes with violence and bending the rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White ultimately sentenced Rombough to 50 months in prison. He told Rombough the decision had been challenging because of what he called Rombough’s “heartfelt feeling of remorse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very painful thing, and it’s a very hard thing to do, but it’s one that has to be done. Police conduct must be judged at the highest level of morality because of the power that they hold, and hopefully, this sentence will temper the justice with mercy,” White told Rombough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough, who wore a gray suit and whose blond hair was cropped short, fought back tears as he read from a letter that he wrote to the judge before the sentence was handed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m choosing to be honest now because I want to be able to look my young sons in the eyes … and tell them the truth,” he said. “I want them to understand that when you make serious mistakes, you still have to try to make things right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough, who is not currently in custody, has 45 days to report to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for his sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On release from imprisonment, Rombough will be placed under supervision for three years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/antioch-police-department\">Antioch police\u003c/a> officer charged in connection with a widespread scandal involving corruption and excessive force at two East Bay police departments was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sentencing of Eric Allen Rombough, who pleaded guilty last year to conspiring with other former officers to violate residents’ civil rights, brought to a close the litigation of the abuse case, which shook trust in law enforcement agencies in Antioch and neighboring Pittsburg and led to 10 guilty pleas or criminal convictions for former officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was extremely hard to listen to as a citizen, to hear that the police were essentially on a rampage of unbridled violence, racism, imposing — as you candidly admit — violence and terror on the community,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White told Rombough at the sentencing hearing. “I would venture to say that anybody who saw the red lights behind them in Antioch during that time period … or even now because of what happened … is in terror.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Rombough served as a key witness for prosecutors in trials against fellow \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045925/7-year-sentence-for-former-antioch-cop-stands-out-among-east-bay-officers-cases\">former officers Morteza Amiri\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065727/ex-antioch-cop-sentenced-to-7-5-years-for-sprawling-2023-corruption-scandal\">Christopher Wenger\u003c/a>. He received leniency for his cooperation with authorities, White said. Last year, Amiri and Wenger were sentenced to seven and seven and a half years in prison, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government’s investigation revealed that Rombough’s misconduct stood out among related cases as “the worst of the worst,” the judge said. Rombough bragged about using his 40-millimeter impact round launcher \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges\">to abuse suspects\u003c/a>, and he celebrated his colleagues’ use of violence. Rombough and his colleagues then falsified police reports to misrepresent their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel horrible about the victims, and about the other police officers who have had to clean up the job I created,” Rombough told White. “I understand why certain individuals don’t trust the police, because of what has happened here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Antioch Police vehicle sits in the parking lot of the Antioch Police Department on March 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rombough joined the Antioch Police Department in 2017. During his trial, which focused on a period between February 2019 and March 2022, Rombough testified that he conspired with Amiri, Wenger and other APD officers to injure, harass and intimidate residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors showed a series of text exchanges between Rombough and Amiri in which they repeatedly referred to Black suspects as “gorillas,” with Rombough adding: “I can shoot a few on Sunday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sent photos of victims’ injuries to one another, including bites caused by Amiri’s K9, and mocked other officers who refrained from using excessive force in their arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sentencing documents also describe a 2021 arrest in which Rombough kicked a suspect in the head and told other officers that he had injured his foot kicking the suspect’s head “like a field goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also alleged that Rombough displayed spent impact round shells on his mantle as trophies. In one text exchange with another officer, he sent a photograph of an injury, with the comments “and another one got 40d,” referring to his firearm, and “Bro so much fun.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But U.S. prosecutors said there was a second part to Rombough’s story: that after the former officer was indicted by a federal jury in 2023, investigators witnessed “a tremendous turnaround as well, unlike anyone else involved in the case,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Cheng said during the sentencing hearing. “In this, we saw a full and complete acceptance of responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal attorneys recommended a 36-month sentence — much more lenient than the punishments meted out to Amiri and Wenger. They also noted that Rombough paid $3,308 to a man he shot with his impact round launcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough’s lawyers also asked for leniency, saying that since he pleaded guilty, he has shown “genuine remorse.” Attorney Tony Brass noted that the misconduct took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which officers were forced to work longer hours at a time of heightened public tension, and during a broader institutional breakdown at APD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be a wolf to catch a wolf,” Brass said during the hearing, quoting the 2001 film \u003cem>Training Day.\u003c/em> “The Antioch Police Department was infirm from the top down. The structure was to encourage police officers to be intimidating, to have street credibility, which comes with violence and bending the rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White ultimately sentenced Rombough to 50 months in prison. He told Rombough the decision had been challenging because of what he called Rombough’s “heartfelt feeling of remorse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very painful thing, and it’s a very hard thing to do, but it’s one that has to be done. Police conduct must be judged at the highest level of morality because of the power that they hold, and hopefully, this sentence will temper the justice with mercy,” White told Rombough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough, who wore a gray suit and whose blond hair was cropped short, fought back tears as he read from a letter that he wrote to the judge before the sentence was handed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m choosing to be honest now because I want to be able to look my young sons in the eyes … and tell them the truth,” he said. “I want them to understand that when you make serious mistakes, you still have to try to make things right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough, who is not currently in custody, has 45 days to report to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for his sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On release from imprisonment, Rombough will be placed under supervision for three years. He also must refrain from controlled substances, must make restitution and may not have contact with certain victims nor with any other defendant in the case, including Amiri and Wenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, White sentenced two other former Antioch police officers who testified against colleagues, Timothy Manly Williams and Daniel Harris, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069430/no-prison-time-for-2-former-antioch-cops-who-testified-against-colleagues\">to time served or probation\u003c/a> for federal charges. And in December 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/antioch\">Antioch\u003c/a> agreed to implement a series of police reforms and pay $4.6 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by the officers’ victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In the time between those posts, the company’s stock dropped nearly 18%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the stand, Musk said he was only speaking his mind with his tweets and had not intended to manipulate the market. 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It builds off a state law passed last year that provides a right to counsel for children in immigration proceedings, expanding that to people of all ages, with priority for those in immigration detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed language reads: “Subject to the availability of state funding, the state shall provide legal counsel to every covered individual that is not otherwise being provided counsel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pledge to provide counsel should be a prod to put the necessary funding in the budget — not only for California lawmakers, but also for other states, said Liz Kenney, associate director at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, who advocates for universal representation around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given California’s leadership on funding and supporting legal representation for immigrants, it’s an incredibly significant next step,” she said. “States across the country have always looked to California for leadership on this issue, so passing a right to counsel in California would significantly impact what other states are interested in exploring.”[aside postID=news_12076370 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/HaywardFamilyDeportation1.jpg']For a decade, New York City has invested in \u003ca href=\"https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/economic-benefits-of-immigration-legal-services/\">universal representation\u003c/a> for residents in immigration detention. 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