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We’re Berkeley.”[/pullquote]Berkeley High students had also \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2015/10/02/berkeley-unified-school-district-inadequately-handles-sexual-harassment/\">created\u003c/a> an Instagram account on which some female students were referred to as “sluts” alongside degrading photos of them. Thomason was also motivated to address these issues after her sister was sexually assaulted at a middle school bike cage in 2014. She said the school responded by setting up a restorative justice circle that traumatized her sister even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomason’s mother, Heidi Goldstein, became an adviser for BHS Stop Harassing and is still working on these issues today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started researching Title IX and school district policies,” Goldstein said. “And that’s where I came to the conclusion that the whole system was just in disarray. There was no system and there really was no process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liana Thomason, right, a Berkeley High alum, founded the group BHS Stop Harassing. Her mother Heidi Goldstein continues to be an adult adviser for the group. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goldstein filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/OCR-Letter-1-14-2015.pdf\">complaint\u003c/a> with the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights about how the school handled misconduct complaints, prompting an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of BHS Stop Harassing began showing up at school board meetings to demand better policies around sexual harassment and more training for teachers as well as education for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley Public School District places an immense value on student safety and well-being,” former BUSD Superintendent Donald Evans and BUSD Board President Judy Appel wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sexual-Harrassment-Letter-v4c-1-7-.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to district families at the time. “Based on student, teacher, and community feedback about this and other related issues, we have come to realize that there is an urgent need to work on developing a culture focused on prevention of sexual harassment, not simply reacting to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Wild West of Title IX Regulations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maha Ibrahim, an attorney with Equal Rights Advocates, a nonprofit that advocates for gender equity in schools, has worked with Berkeley High students. She said few schools do a sufficient job responding to sexual harassment or assault claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal rules and regulations for Title IX have been written for universities – and schools K-12 were an afterthought,” Ibrahim said. “It’s like the Wild West. It’s a lot of individual adults who are shooting from the hip when approached with difficult or traumatic experiences of their students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11859164 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS46527_003_SanFrancisco_LowellHS_01092021-qut-1038x576.jpg']According to a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.knowyourix.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Know-Your-IX-2021-Report-Final-Copy.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the advocacy group Know Your IX, a survey of more than 100 students found that 20% of students who reported sexual violence to their school transferred schools, and nearly 10% dropped out entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said Berkeley’s progressive image also made it difficult for some to acknowledge that some students felt unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only was there an assumption that students wouldn’t face these issues at school, but there was a resistance to admit it could possibly be a problem,” Ibrahim said. “It was sort of like, ‘Well, this can’t be us. We’re Berkeley.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to demands from students made in 2014, the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ActionStepstoAddressSexualHarassment3.8.17.docx-1.pdf\">said\u003c/a> it expanded an advisory committee to create a comprehensive sexual harassment policy, held restorative justice circles for students who were targeted by sexual harassment and established a Title IX coordinator and compliance officer position.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Lawsuit and a Sexual Assault Reported on Campus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But students say the problems continued. The district was sued by a student over its handling of a sexual assault allegation last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges a student was sexually assaulted by another student during school hours in an unlocked classroom at Berkeley High in 2019. It claims the district failed to take steps to adequately ensure the victim’s safety. KQED is identifying the student as “Faith” to protect her identity over concerns for her safety. In the lawsuit, she is identified as “Jane Doe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith said she kept seeing her assailant on campus after the assault, and that he continued to sexually harass her. She said she had meltdowns for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually, I’m a happy, goofy person. My teachers were just worried, and they would always just look at me and they’re like, ‘You look so sad,’ ” Faith said. “They would try to help me get back to how I used to be. And it was just hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Faith sits with hands on knees, only legs and shoes visible\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faith, a former Berkeley High student, sued the district in January 2020 over its handling of her sexual assault allegations against a fellow student. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Faith and her parents decided it was too much, and she transferred into an independent studies program. Attorneys for the district argued in a court filing that administrators worked with Faith to make sure she was safe, and they tried to limit the potential for contact between the two students. They said district personnel were responsive to Faith’s complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RG20052743-Doe-VS-Berkeley-Unified-School-District.pdf\">sued the district\u003c/a> in January 2020 before she left Berkeley High the next month, and she said students at the school began talking about the case, trying to guess the identity of Jane Doe. She said it was scary, but that she also felt resilient knowing she had helped spark a larger conversation about safety on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want there to be a change, especially being a person of color. I became a person of color who was also assaulted,” Faith said. “It was just something I had to speak up on, because my voice is not heard by a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Names on the Bathroom Stall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some Berkeley High students had already thought the school had a culture where sexual misconduct was swept under the rug, but the lawsuit Faith filed seemed to break something open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the lawsuit was filed, a group of Berkeley High students began writing the names of alleged perpetrators on a bathroom stall. In black ink, they wrote “Boys To Watch Out 4,” followed by several names and the words “rapist” and “abuser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_0893-e1616451221449.jpg\" alt=\"Ayisha Friedman sitting outside, arms crossed\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayisha Friedman organized a walkout over sexual harassment and assault at Berkeley High in February 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ayisha Friedman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ayisha Friedman, a senior at Berkeley High during this time, said she saw the list during first or second period. Reading the list, Friedman thought about her friends who’d been harassed or assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always seeing somebody who had done something or experienced something or a hallway where something had been done. It’s always on your mind and it’s always breaking your heart,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said a lot of the boys were popular and known for inappropriate behavior around young women. She said the list was impossible to ignore. By the end of the school day, a picture of the stall had been shared on Instagram, and it felt like everyone in the school had seen it and had something to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that goes both ways. That goes people who were defending these women and who are saying, ‘I believe you, I am here for you,’ ” Friedman said. “And then people on the other side who were like, ‘Anybody could have written this. And this is a lie.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Walkout Gets the District’s Attention\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Several students who spoke to KQED described a climate at the high school where victims who reported their assaults to administrators were questioned or doubted by their peers. Students wanted the school district to do more to support victims and keep them safe on campus. Friedman and others began organizing a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Redmond, one of the organizers, reported her own sexual assault about a week before the walkout in February 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was in the midst of a really hard situation. But we were all coming together and working on something that we really cared about,” Redmond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she found a supportive community during a time when others were gossiping about her experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so tense,” said Sophia Kerievsky, another organizer and friend of Redmond. “I remember people were pointing at me in the courtyard, and just really attacking my character, and especially her character. It was this strange energy. It was a lot of girls who were standing up for her, and then a huge group of boys standing by his side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/BHS_Rape_Walkout-17-1-1-scaled-e1616451482414.jpg\" alt=\"BHS students behind podium during walkout\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1353\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley High School students organized a walkout in February 2020 to address sexual harassment and assault on campus. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mia Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The day of the walkout, Redmond wasn’t sure how many people would show up. So when she looked out at the courtyard, she was stunned by the support, and said the entire courtyard was filled with students, staff and administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me feel like I wasn’t alone in it. At the time I was feeling a lot of lack of understanding,” Redmond said. “And it definitely gave me a group of people who I was like, ‘I can trust these people. These people support me, and I want to support these people.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Practical and Philosophical Set of Demands\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The students drafted up specific demands, such as more resources for the Title IX office handling misconduct complaints, expanded consent education and policies stating that perpetrators found to be guilty by the school would be suspended from school-sanctioned events. They wanted to create a culture where victims could heal, and for the school to continue the conversation long after they had graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Brent Stephens had begun working for the district less than a year before the walkout, and he said many of the students’ requests were practical, and that change felt necessary. There had also been high turnover in the district’s Title IX coordinator role, with at least six different people working in that position from 2015 to 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, he said, had done their homework, and met with teachers, staff and adult advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so when they came with a set of demands, they were sort of philosophical in nature, but they were very pragmatic as well,” Stephens said. “It was … a political moment, but it resonated with what I and many others saw as legitimate needs of the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Conversation Continues Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just weeks after the walkout, schools shut down because of COVID-19. And as everyone focused on the pandemic, the momentum began to fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Annette Kwon, a former Berkeley High student now at Branham High School in San Jose, decided to find another way to restart the conversation. Over the summer, she made a TikTok video showing the faces of alleged perpetrators at Berkeley High and Lowell High School in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Kwon, a former Berkeley High student, created a TikTok video to continue a public conversation around sexual harassment and assault in high school. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Annette Kwon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When the quarantine started, everything died down,” she said. “And I just felt like it was necessary that the topic stays relevant, because if it had faded out once again, nothing would change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video received over 100,000 views, and soon students throughout the Bay Area launched Instagram accounts for people to post their experiences of harassment and assault anonymously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Redmond remembered seeing dozens of stories of harassment and assault posted on an Instagram account called BHS Protectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just felt like everyone was coming together again, and addressing the issue again that we had done in February,” Redmond said. “It was powerful to see not only so many people at Berkeley High being able to tell their stories, that they couldn’t talk about before, but also other schools following that, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Education Coverage' tag='education']But for others, the account was also overwhelming, especially during a pandemic that left so many people isolated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people were like, ‘I’m in a pandemic, I’m in my room 24/7. This is already messing with my mental health. And everyday I open my Instagram and I’m reminded of my own trauma,’ ” said Ayisha Friedman, another walkout organizer, of people she knew who had seen the account. “Where does the conversation go? You’re stuck in your room with no support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trish McDermott, a spokesperson for the Berkeley Unified School District, said in a statement that administrators reached out to those who posted about incidents of sexual harm, discrimination or racism, and those who were named in the posts. She said administrators also informed police and Child Protective Services about the account and specific allegations that could be traced to any students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account has since been removed, and now students who participated in the walkout are hoping some of the cultural shifts inspired by their organizing will last when the pandemic is over.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>District Announces Changes, and the Culture Begins to Shift\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ultraviolet Schneider-Dwyer, a senior at Berkeley High, said that before the walkout a lot of the incidents of harassment and assault occurred during parties where young people were too intoxicated to consent. She’s hopeful her peers will no longer tolerate that culture after so many students shared their experiences of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be more social consequences than there are administrative or academically,” she said. “At the same time, I’m just making sure that they’re not doing it out of fear of not being accepted, but they’re doing it because it’s the right thing to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Mia Redmond is a part of a committee to give students a chance to provide the school with input on issues like harassment and consent education. She feels like the district is taking students’ demands seriously. She’s graduating this year and plans to continue her advocacy after high school. And she said it will be up to future generations of Berkeley High students as well as administrators to make sure the changes she and others started will last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t say for certain whether [the walkout] changed the culture at Berkeley High, but it definitely brought up a conversation that wasn’t being had before,” Redmond said. “It was such a monumental thing in Berkeley High history that everyone who experienced it, they’re not going to forget about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/podcast/protecting-kids-from-abuse/\">This story\u003c/a> was reported in collaboration with Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. It was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Berkeley High students had also \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailycal.org/2015/10/02/berkeley-unified-school-district-inadequately-handles-sexual-harassment/\">created\u003c/a> an Instagram account on which some female students were referred to as “sluts” alongside degrading photos of them. Thomason was also motivated to address these issues after her sister was sexually assaulted at a middle school bike cage in 2014. She said the school responded by setting up a restorative justice circle that traumatized her sister even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomason’s mother, Heidi Goldstein, became an adviser for BHS Stop Harassing and is still working on these issues today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I started researching Title IX and school district policies,” Goldstein said. “And that’s where I came to the conclusion that the whole system was just in disarray. There was no system and there really was no process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47860_015_Berkeley_LianaThomason_03162021-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liana Thomason, right, a Berkeley High alum, founded the group BHS Stop Harassing. Her mother Heidi Goldstein continues to be an adult adviser for the group. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goldstein filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/OCR-Letter-1-14-2015.pdf\">complaint\u003c/a> with the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights about how the school handled misconduct complaints, prompting an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of BHS Stop Harassing began showing up at school board meetings to demand better policies around sexual harassment and more training for teachers as well as education for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley Public School District places an immense value on student safety and well-being,” former BUSD Superintendent Donald Evans and BUSD Board President Judy Appel wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Sexual-Harrassment-Letter-v4c-1-7-.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to district families at the time. “Based on student, teacher, and community feedback about this and other related issues, we have come to realize that there is an urgent need to work on developing a culture focused on prevention of sexual harassment, not simply reacting to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Wild West of Title IX Regulations\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maha Ibrahim, an attorney with Equal Rights Advocates, a nonprofit that advocates for gender equity in schools, has worked with Berkeley High students. She said few schools do a sufficient job responding to sexual harassment or assault claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal rules and regulations for Title IX have been written for universities – and schools K-12 were an afterthought,” Ibrahim said. “It’s like the Wild West. It’s a lot of individual adults who are shooting from the hip when approached with difficult or traumatic experiences of their students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.knowyourix.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Know-Your-IX-2021-Report-Final-Copy.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the advocacy group Know Your IX, a survey of more than 100 students found that 20% of students who reported sexual violence to their school transferred schools, and nearly 10% dropped out entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said Berkeley’s progressive image also made it difficult for some to acknowledge that some students felt unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only was there an assumption that students wouldn’t face these issues at school, but there was a resistance to admit it could possibly be a problem,” Ibrahim said. “It was sort of like, ‘Well, this can’t be us. We’re Berkeley.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to demands from students made in 2014, the district \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyschools.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ActionStepstoAddressSexualHarassment3.8.17.docx-1.pdf\">said\u003c/a> it expanded an advisory committee to create a comprehensive sexual harassment policy, held restorative justice circles for students who were targeted by sexual harassment and established a Title IX coordinator and compliance officer position.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Lawsuit and a Sexual Assault Reported on Campus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But students say the problems continued. The district was sued by a student over its handling of a sexual assault allegation last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges a student was sexually assaulted by another student during school hours in an unlocked classroom at Berkeley High in 2019. It claims the district failed to take steps to adequately ensure the victim’s safety. KQED is identifying the student as “Faith” to protect her identity over concerns for her safety. In the lawsuit, she is identified as “Jane Doe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith said she kept seeing her assailant on campus after the assault, and that he continued to sexually harass her. She said she had meltdowns for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually, I’m a happy, goofy person. My teachers were just worried, and they would always just look at me and they’re like, ‘You look so sad,’ ” Faith said. “They would try to help me get back to how I used to be. And it was just hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Faith sits with hands on knees, only legs and shoes visible\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47697_008_Berkeley_AnonymousFormerStudent_03122021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faith, a former Berkeley High student, sued the district in January 2020 over its handling of her sexual assault allegations against a fellow student. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Faith and her parents decided it was too much, and she transferred into an independent studies program. Attorneys for the district argued in a court filing that administrators worked with Faith to make sure she was safe, and they tried to limit the potential for contact between the two students. They said district personnel were responsive to Faith’s complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faith \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RG20052743-Doe-VS-Berkeley-Unified-School-District.pdf\">sued the district\u003c/a> in January 2020 before she left Berkeley High the next month, and she said students at the school began talking about the case, trying to guess the identity of Jane Doe. She said it was scary, but that she also felt resilient knowing she had helped spark a larger conversation about safety on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want there to be a change, especially being a person of color. I became a person of color who was also assaulted,” Faith said. “It was just something I had to speak up on, because my voice is not heard by a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Names on the Bathroom Stall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some Berkeley High students had already thought the school had a culture where sexual misconduct was swept under the rug, but the lawsuit Faith filed seemed to break something open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the lawsuit was filed, a group of Berkeley High students began writing the names of alleged perpetrators on a bathroom stall. In black ink, they wrote “Boys To Watch Out 4,” followed by several names and the words “rapist” and “abuser.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864779\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864779\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_0893-e1616451221449.jpg\" alt=\"Ayisha Friedman sitting outside, arms crossed\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayisha Friedman organized a walkout over sexual harassment and assault at Berkeley High in February 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ayisha Friedman)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ayisha Friedman, a senior at Berkeley High during this time, said she saw the list during first or second period. Reading the list, Friedman thought about her friends who’d been harassed or assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was always seeing somebody who had done something or experienced something or a hallway where something had been done. It’s always on your mind and it’s always breaking your heart,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said a lot of the boys were popular and known for inappropriate behavior around young women. She said the list was impossible to ignore. By the end of the school day, a picture of the stall had been shared on Instagram, and it felt like everyone in the school had seen it and had something to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that goes both ways. That goes people who were defending these women and who are saying, ‘I believe you, I am here for you,’ ” Friedman said. “And then people on the other side who were like, ‘Anybody could have written this. And this is a lie.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Walkout Gets the District’s Attention\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Several students who spoke to KQED described a climate at the high school where victims who reported their assaults to administrators were questioned or doubted by their peers. Students wanted the school district to do more to support victims and keep them safe on campus. Friedman and others began organizing a walkout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Redmond, one of the organizers, reported her own sexual assault about a week before the walkout in February 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was in the midst of a really hard situation. But we were all coming together and working on something that we really cared about,” Redmond said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she found a supportive community during a time when others were gossiping about her experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so tense,” said Sophia Kerievsky, another organizer and friend of Redmond. “I remember people were pointing at me in the courtyard, and just really attacking my character, and especially her character. It was this strange energy. It was a lot of girls who were standing up for her, and then a huge group of boys standing by his side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/BHS_Rape_Walkout-17-1-1-scaled-e1616451482414.jpg\" alt=\"BHS students behind podium during walkout\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1353\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley High School students organized a walkout in February 2020 to address sexual harassment and assault on campus. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mia Redmond)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The day of the walkout, Redmond wasn’t sure how many people would show up. So when she looked out at the courtyard, she was stunned by the support, and said the entire courtyard was filled with students, staff and administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made me feel like I wasn’t alone in it. At the time I was feeling a lot of lack of understanding,” Redmond said. “And it definitely gave me a group of people who I was like, ‘I can trust these people. These people support me, and I want to support these people.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Practical and Philosophical Set of Demands\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The students drafted up specific demands, such as more resources for the Title IX office handling misconduct complaints, expanded consent education and policies stating that perpetrators found to be guilty by the school would be suspended from school-sanctioned events. They wanted to create a culture where victims could heal, and for the school to continue the conversation long after they had graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Brent Stephens had begun working for the district less than a year before the walkout, and he said many of the students’ requests were practical, and that change felt necessary. There had also been high turnover in the district’s Title IX coordinator role, with at least six different people working in that position from 2015 to 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, he said, had done their homework, and met with teachers, staff and adult advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so when they came with a set of demands, they were sort of philosophical in nature, but they were very pragmatic as well,” Stephens said. “It was … a political moment, but it resonated with what I and many others saw as legitimate needs of the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Conversation Continues Online\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just weeks after the walkout, schools shut down because of COVID-19. And as everyone focused on the pandemic, the momentum began to fade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Annette Kwon, a former Berkeley High student now at Branham High School in San Jose, decided to find another way to restart the conversation. Over the summer, she made a TikTok video showing the faces of alleged perpetrators at Berkeley High and Lowell High School in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_6669-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Kwon, a former Berkeley High student, created a TikTok video to continue a public conversation around sexual harassment and assault in high school. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Annette Kwon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When the quarantine started, everything died down,” she said. “And I just felt like it was necessary that the topic stays relevant, because if it had faded out once again, nothing would change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video received over 100,000 views, and soon students throughout the Bay Area launched Instagram accounts for people to post their experiences of harassment and assault anonymously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mia Redmond remembered seeing dozens of stories of harassment and assault posted on an Instagram account called BHS Protectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just felt like everyone was coming together again, and addressing the issue again that we had done in February,” Redmond said. “It was powerful to see not only so many people at Berkeley High being able to tell their stories, that they couldn’t talk about before, but also other schools following that, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s agricultural growers square off against the farmworkers union at the Supreme Court on Monday over a nearly half-century-old law stemming from the work of famed union organizer Cesar Chavez. The law, enacted in 1975, allows union organizers limited access to farms so they can seek support from workers in forming a union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growers challenging the law contend that California, by giving union organizers a limited right of access to farms, is authorizing a mass trespass on the growers’ private property. And that, they argue, is an unconstitutional taking of their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\" Mike Fahner, Cedar Point Nursery owner-president\"]‘With social media — Facebook, Snapchat, WhatsApp — you can communicate with people around the world, effectively without having to have access to a person’s private property and place of business.’[/pullquote]Property owners, they argue, have the right to exclude whomever they want. Either organizers should be barred from their land, they contend, or the state should pay the growers “just compensation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case before the court began in 2015 at Cedar Point Nursery near the Oregon border. Strawberry grower Mike Fahner calls what happened “an ambush.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXKV1W12T8&t=1s\">In a widely circulated video\u003c/a>, he said union organizers, without giving the required notice, showed up with bullhorns, harassing his workers. “If this were to happen in any other industry, in any other state, the people would would be expecting to be arrested and and taken away in handcuffs,” Fahner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Farm Workers general counsel Mario Martinez says that account is “absolutely false.” He says people seen on the video circulated by Fahner and his lawyers are not union organizers but Cedar Point workers “going out on strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Agricultural Labor Relations Board investigated the events at the Cedar Point Nursery, concluded the UFW had not violated the law and dismissed the grower’s complaint. After that Cedar Point went to court, appealing all the way up to the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mario Martinez, United Farm Workers general counsel\"]’Most of these workers do not know of the existence of their rights to organize and form a union.’[/pullquote]For the union, the case is an existential threat. Farmworkers in California are seasonal, typically working for several employers during the course of the year. They arrive in town in time for the local harvest, live in motels, labor camps or with friends or relatives, then move on when the crop is picked. In practice that means organizers can gather signatures for a union election only during the relatively short harvest time at a particular site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of these and other farm-specific conditions, under California’s labor regulations, union organizers are permitted to meet with workers an hour before and after work and at lunchtime — all on the grower’s property — for limited periods during the year. Specifically, organizers are permitted on site during those specified hours, for 30 days, four times a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fahner contends that California’s agricultural labor law is a relic of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This law, in today’s world, is no longer necessary. With social media — Facebook, Snapchat, WhatsApp — you can communicate with people around the world, effectively without having to have access to a person’s private property and place of business,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union’s Martinez calls that argument “nonsense,” noting that most in the migrant workforce are undocumented, indigenous people who don’t speak English, have little education and don’t have modern smartphones with access to the internet or Wi-Fi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"farmworkers\" label=\"More farmworkers coverage\"]Most importantly, he asserts, “most of these workers do not know of the existence of their rights to organize and form a union. 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Last month, however, the Biden administration informed the justices that the government was withdrawing the previous administration’s brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is therefore the position of the United States, in line with this Court’s cases, that the California regulation — like the authorization of temporary entry by government officials for law enforcement, inspection, and similar purposes — does not constitute a per se taking” of private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That position,” wrote acting Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, “accords with the United States’ view — which the government has repeatedly articulated in this Court and lower courts” over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a dignified version of a blunt message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the newly energized conservative Supreme Court majority agrees with the growers, the decision could have profound consequences for other laws — laws allowing health and safety inspectors at every level of government to enter businesses to examine how meat is butchered, whether mines are safe, how toxic chemicals are stored, whether businesses are in compliance with fire and building codes, nursing homes and hospitals are taking proper care of their patients, and on and on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, a decision in favor of the the growers, arguably, could undermine many of those laws aimed at protecting not just farmworkers, but the American public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decision in the case is expected by summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dressed in a traditional Korean hanbok, Stella Kim stood among hundreds in San Francisco's Chinatown to support the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Kim sees the shooting of eight people in Atlanta, including six Asian women, as a backlash against progress and an assertion of white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can't stand, she said, and people who want progress need to keep showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wore a hanbok as a sign of resistance,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area at large joined in that resistance. Hundreds gathered, marched and even skated on Saturday, to mourn the lives of those killed or hurt by the recent rise of anti-AAPI violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865809\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1152px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-39.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-39-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-39-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-39-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Names of victims in the Atlanta spa shootings on March 16 are written on the Portsmouth Square Bridge on March 20, 2021, during a vigil and rally in support of the AAPI community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From a vigil in San Francisco's Chinatown to a solidarity glide on roller skates in Oakland, with actions also planned soon in San Jose and elsewhere, people across the region are showing their support for the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BayAreaJulie/status/1373359012914196483\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That community has grappled with rising racism and violence, including in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between March 19, 2020 and Feb. 28, 2021, there were at least 3,795 incidents of anti-Asian hate across the nation, ranging from physical assault and verbal harassment to various civil rights violations, according to a report released Tuesday by \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/reports/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a>. The project, based out of San Francisco State University, asks members of AAPI communities to self-report acts of hate and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 700 of those incidents occurred in the Bay Area, according to a report from the same organization released last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'These Are Our Community Members'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, people hung love letters to friends, family or the AAPI community at large on a clothesline, which was strung across a bridge connecting Portsmouth Square to the Chinese Culture Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One sign simply read \"grandma,\" written in Korean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many AAPI people attacked in the Bay Area have been seniors, including a Thai man killed in North Beach, a neighborhood adjacent to the peaceful vigil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it’s San Francisco or Oakland, I think a lot of people are facing similar things,\" said Hyejin Shim, who works at Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence, Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865827\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11865827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/1920Lun_Fong-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"un Fong, 87, holds a yellow rose while listening to speakers at Portsmouth Square during a vigil and rally in support of the AAPI community on March 20, 2021.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/1920Lun_Fong-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/1920Lun_Fong-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/1920Lun_Fong-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/1920Lun_Fong.jpg 1503w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lun Fong, 87, holds a yellow rose while listening to speakers at Portsmouth Square during a vigil and rally in support of the AAPI community on March 20, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She says the public discussions of whether or not the Atlanta women were engaging in sex work is a distraction — and dehumanizes people who lost their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that sex workers have always been a part of the community,\" Shim said. \"And so I think the question of whether these massage parlor workers were or were not is irrelevant. But the fact is that massage parlor workers who are Asian are often hypersexualized without their consent or their workplaces become a site of sexual harassment from clients. And that is both about race and gender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also at the San Francisco vigil was Esther Leong, who works at the nonprofit Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach. A San Franciscan with roots in Chinatown, Leong brought enlarged photos from books and family photos to the event to show the historic racism AAPI San Franciscans have faced, and to highlight AAPI's contributions to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s upset law enforcement in Atlanta hasn't called the shootings a hate crime. Leong said she wants government to figure out a way to determine that an incident is a hate crime without having the assailant utter words of hate.[aside postID=news_11860549 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/AAPI-1038x576.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leong says the way the law is written is too high a burden because people have to show that the attacker said hateful words as evidence. “I mean, how often does someone say, 'I’m going to hit you because you’re Chinese?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco vigil was organized by a wide breadth of AAPI groups, including the Chinese Progressive Association, the API Council, Filipina Women's Network, Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Center for Asian American Media, Rose Pak Democratic Club and at least a dozen other organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us, including women and low-wage workers, deserve to be safe,\" said Shaw San Liu, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our members — many of whom are women, mothers living in the [single room occupancy hotels], and young women — are already risking their safety to go to work, providing childcare and caring for family members, navigating distance learning, and trying their best to preserve their mental health during these trying times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865810\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1377px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1377\" height=\"941\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-34.jpg 1377w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-34-800x547.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-34-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-34-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1377px) 100vw, 1377px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roller skaters, skate boarders and bicyclists roll through Oakland on March 20, 2021, in solidarity with the AAPI community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, dozens came out in rollerskates to garner more attention for their support for the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those skaters, Ashley Silva, said she fears for her community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m also a Filipino and Hawaiian. I’m hapa,\" Silva said. \"I have my grandmother who goes out and my grandpa used to walk every single day. These could be our family members. These are our community members. And we have to keep each other safe. It’s really dangerous out there. And there are so many attacks. We really need to address the racism and take care of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in Oakland, Lani Lee Marsden said the Atlanta shooting was a culmination of varying forms of hate.[aside postID=news_11865171 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47867_GettyImages-1231773402-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here because I’m half Chinese and I am really devastated and upset and I feel helpless, hurt and really mad about what happened in Atlanta as well as sexism, racism and classism combined,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City of Brisbane 'With you in Solidarity'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The city of Brisbane in northern San Mateo County, where Asian Americans make up nearly 30% of the total population, held an afternoon rally in a park and made similar pleas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd heard speeches from local government and law enforcement officials calling for an end to hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific islanders. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On behalf of the Brisbane police officers and myself, we stand here with you in solidarity to denounce violence and racism and promote peace, respect and safety for everyone,” Police Chief Elizabeth Macias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San Mateo County, we stand united against hate. Unprovoked attacks against our neighbors for simply being Asian cannot and will not be tolerated,” said San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President David J. Canepa in a statement in February. “We need to celebrate who we are and not let racist behavior divide us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian American parents and business owners are fearful of their children or places of work being targeted, and many community members are afraid to go out in public, activists have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Taking Action Against Hate\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even before the deadly shootings at spas in the Atlanta area killed six women of Asian descent, President Biden had taken steps to address the recent surge of violence against Asians and Asian Americans by making forceful statements against hate and harassment, banning the federal government from employing the sort of \"inflammatory and xenophobic\" language used by his predecessor and tasking senior administration leaders to hold \"listening sessions\" with community leaders and advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865813\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231817018-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1252\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231817018-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231817018-1-800x522.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231817018-1-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231817018-1-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231817018-1-1536x1002.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Biden salutes Marines as he steps off Marine One after a series of meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 19, 2021. 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"content": "\u003cp>One year into the coronavirus pandemic, the impact on California’s prisons has become clear. Confined in close and often crowded quarters, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">nearly half of everyone incarcerated\u003c/a> around the state has become infected — that’s more than 49,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large outbreaks and alarming death tolls have ravaged most of the state’s prisons, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827142/lawmakers-want-stronger-covid-19-protections-in-california-prisons\">San Quentin State Prison in the San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848497/as-covid-19-tore-through-central-valley-prison-officials-failed-to-tighten-staffing-rules\">Avenal State Prison in the Central Valley\u003c/a> to Donovan Correctional Facility in the south of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has said the worst is now behind us. As of March 16, more than 45% of incarcerated people have received their first dose, according to prison health care services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Adamu Chan, formerly incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison\"]'Most of my friends caught COVID, and I know a few people that also passed.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852162/hundreds-of-people-at-san-quentin-petition-for-release-as-covid-19-surges\">court case\u003c/a> that has been brewing for months is keeping the issue in the spotlight. The possibility remains alive that prison officials may still have to take a drastic step: to halve the number of people at San Quentin, which was one of the hardest hit prisons in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Public Health Disaster’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823976/botched-outbreak-of-covid-19-at-san-quentin-was-preventable-lawmaker-says\">busload of infected prisoners\u003c/a> from a Chino prison were transferred to San Quentin. The men hadn’t been tested for the virus in a timely fashion, nor were they quarantined for observation when they first arrived. Within days, COVID-19 began tearing through San Quentin like wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my friends caught COVID, and I know a few people that also passed,” said Adamu Chan, who was incarcerated at San Quentin at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865529\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11865529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Adamu-3_cc-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Adamu Chan\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Adamu-3_cc-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Adamu-3_cc-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Adamu-3_cc-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Adamu-3_cc-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Adamu-3_cc.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adamu Chan was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak there last summer. He's been working as a community organizer since his release last fall. \u003ccite>(Jim McKee/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Quentin is the state’s oldest prison, and its architecture makes it particularly vulnerable to the spread of any kind of infectious disease. Most cell doors aren’t solid, but rather consist of bars that allow air to flow freely. In the main housing block, tier after tier of cells are stacked upon each other with a wide-open atrium stretching from the ground floor to the ceiling several stories above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cells themselves are tiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks are in 4-by-9 cells, double bunks, so there's two people in a very small cell,” Chan said. “In a cell block, there's about 800 people sharing the same air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, more than 70% of San Quentin’s inmates have been infected and 28 have died — the highest death toll at any of the state’s prisons. More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/cdcr-cchcs-covid-19-status/\">400 correctional staff at San Quentin\u003c/a> have also been infected and one has died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than architecture contributed to the virus’ spread, said Marin County Deputy Public Defender Christine O’Hanlon, who represents 249 men at San Quentin who sued to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found several what we call 'couplets,' or cell mates, where one of them was positive and the other one tested negative, and they did not separate them. They locked them in the cells together,” O’Hanlon said. “I think the brazen disregard to the concerns of COVID was the thing that shocked me the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Hanlon said the conditions of confinement at the prison amount to cruel and unusual punishment — a violation of the Eighth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865528\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11865528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ohanlon-2_edited-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Marin County Public Defender Christine O'Hanlon\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ohanlon-2_edited-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ohanlon-2_edited-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ohanlon-2_edited-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ohanlon-2_edited-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/ohanlon-2_edited.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marin County Public Defender Christine O'Hanlon points to boxes and boxes of medical records related to the cases of her clients, 249 men incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison who are suing to be released. \u003ccite>(Jim McKee/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last October, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20433046-201020-appellate-ruling-von-staich-a160122\">panel of appellate court judges weighed in\u003c/a>, calling what was happening at San Quentin “the worst epidemiological disaster in California correctional history.” They ordered prison officials to reduce San Quentin’s population by a whopping 50% to allow for proper social distancing and quarantining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor and CDCR immediately appealed that order, saying that deciding which prisoners to release is a complex and time-consuming process and that releases could pose a danger to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Office of the Inspector General for prisons (OIG) \u003ca href=\"https://www.oig.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/OIG-COVID-19-Review-Series-Part-3-%E2%80%93-Transfer-of-Patients-from-CIM.pdf\">released a report\u003c/a> further detailing how the inaction of prison officials caused a “public health disaster” at San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspector general wrote that testing for the virus was inadequate, that sick or potentially infected people were not immediately quarantined and thorough contact tracing was not conducted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The prison’s inability to properly quarantine and isolate incarcerated persons exposed to or infected with COVID-19, along with its practice of allowing staff to work throughout the prison during shifts or on different days, likely caused the virus to spread to multiple areas of the prison,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR declined to give an interview but responded to the OIG's report with a statement that said, \"San Quentin State Prison has made many improvements and already remedied several of the citations .... to keep all those who live and work in our state prisons safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Attorneys for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\"]'The court failed to give ‘due regard for prison officials’ unenviable task of keeping dangerous men in safe custody under humane conditions.'’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.khsu.org/post/california-supreme-court-sends-san-quentin-covid-19-case-back-appeals-court#stream/0\">California Supreme Court instructed the appellate court\u003c/a> to consider whether an evidentiary hearing should be held in the matter of San Quentin and the months-old order (on pause because of the appeals process) to cut the prisoner population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 24, as the one-year anniversary of statewide shelter-in-place orders approached, the appellate court decided to move forward with an evidentiary hearing. While the date is still to be determined, it means that the testimony of people — like the formerly incarcerated Chan — will be publicly presented and entered into a public record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prisons don't provide proper health care to folks,” Chan said. “Prisons are filled with largely large populations of elderly folks and people with preexisting conditions. And they are dirty and unsafe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An ‘Unenviable Task’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>CDCR has argued that their efforts “are in lockstep with the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s] guidance on the management of COVID-19 in correctional facilities,” and that they have taken significant measures to respond to the pandemic, including providing masks, hand sanitizer and soap, and setting aside more space for quarantining and caring for COVID-positive people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, prison officials have said they must juggle the health of inmates with the challenges of maintaining public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court failed to give ‘due regard for prison officials’ unenviable task of keeping dangerous men in safe custody under humane conditions,' ” attorneys for the prison system wrote in a November court filing in which they quoted previous court rulings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public defender O’Hanlon countered that many of her clients are at low risk for reoffending if released, because they’re older and also suffer from other medical problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865563\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11865563\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/cdcr-vax_crop-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"As of March 16, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has administered vaccines to more than 45% of incarcerated people and more than 26,000 correctional staff.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/cdcr-vax_crop-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/cdcr-vax_crop-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/cdcr-vax_crop-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/cdcr-vax_crop-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/cdcr-vax_crop.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As of March 16, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has administered vaccines to more than 45% of incarcerated people and more than 26,000 correctional staff. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CDCR/CCHCS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state is arguing that a 50% population reduction at San Quentin is no longer necessary now that vaccines have become available and California has prioritized vaccinating incarcerated people. As of March 16, more than 43,000 prisoners and more than 26,000 staff have received first-round vaccines, according to California Correctional Health Care Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"RELATED COVERAGE\" tag=\"san-quentin-state-prison\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But O’Hanlon said there are broader issues at stake, including how the prison system neglects inmate health care in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our position is that CDCR should not get a pass for the egregious conduct,” she said. “I think they need to be held to answer to what they were doing, why they allowed this to go on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More importantly, O'Hanlon said, “They need to be discouraged and deterred from doing this in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the upcoming evidentiary hearing will focus solely on what happened at San Quentin, a ruling could set a precedent for other prisons in California that have grappled with severe outbreaks, including the California Institution for Men, where 27 inmates have died from COVID-19, and Avenal State Prison where more than 3,000 people were infected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11852162/hundreds-of-people-at-san-quentin-petition-for-release-as-covid-19-surges\">court case\u003c/a> that has been brewing for months is keeping the issue in the spotlight. The possibility remains alive that prison officials may still have to take a drastic step: to halve the number of people at San Quentin, which was one of the hardest hit prisons in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A ‘Public Health Disaster’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Last summer, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823976/botched-outbreak-of-covid-19-at-san-quentin-was-preventable-lawmaker-says\">busload of infected prisoners\u003c/a> from a Chino prison were transferred to San Quentin. The men hadn’t been tested for the virus in a timely fashion, nor were they quarantined for observation when they first arrived. Within days, COVID-19 began tearing through San Quentin like wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my friends caught COVID, and I know a few people that also passed,” said Adamu Chan, who was incarcerated at San Quentin at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865529\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11865529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Adamu-3_cc-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Adamu Chan\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Adamu-3_cc-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Adamu-3_cc-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Adamu-3_cc-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Adamu-3_cc-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Adamu-3_cc.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adamu Chan was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak there last summer. He's been working as a community organizer since his release last fall. \u003ccite>(Jim McKee/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Quentin is the state’s oldest prison, and its architecture makes it particularly vulnerable to the spread of any kind of infectious disease. Most cell doors aren’t solid, but rather consist of bars that allow air to flow freely. In the main housing block, tier after tier of cells are stacked upon each other with a wide-open atrium stretching from the ground floor to the ceiling several stories above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cells themselves are tiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks are in 4-by-9 cells, double bunks, so there's two people in a very small cell,” Chan said. “In a cell block, there's about 800 people sharing the same air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, more than 70% of San Quentin’s inmates have been infected and 28 have died — the highest death toll at any of the state’s prisons. More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/cdcr-cchcs-covid-19-status/\">400 correctional staff at San Quentin\u003c/a> have also been infected and one has died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than architecture contributed to the virus’ spread, said Marin County Deputy Public Defender Christine O’Hanlon, who represents 249 men at San Quentin who sued to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found several what we call 'couplets,' or cell mates, where one of them was positive and the other one tested negative, and they did not separate them. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An ‘Unenviable Task’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>CDCR has argued that their efforts “are in lockstep with the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s] guidance on the management of COVID-19 in correctional facilities,” and that they have taken significant measures to respond to the pandemic, including providing masks, hand sanitizer and soap, and setting aside more space for quarantining and caring for COVID-positive people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, prison officials have said they must juggle the health of inmates with the challenges of maintaining public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court failed to give ‘due regard for prison officials’ unenviable task of keeping dangerous men in safe custody under humane conditions,' ” attorneys for the prison system wrote in a November court filing in which they quoted previous court rulings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public defender O’Hanlon countered that many of her clients are at low risk for reoffending if released, because they’re older and also suffer from other medical problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865563\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11865563\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/cdcr-vax_crop-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"As of March 16, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has administered vaccines to more than 45% of incarcerated people and more than 26,000 correctional staff.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/cdcr-vax_crop-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/cdcr-vax_crop-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/cdcr-vax_crop-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/cdcr-vax_crop-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/cdcr-vax_crop.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As of March 16, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has administered vaccines to more than 45% of incarcerated people and more than 26,000 correctional staff. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CDCR/CCHCS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state is arguing that a 50% population reduction at San Quentin is no longer necessary now that vaccines have become available and California has prioritized vaccinating incarcerated people. As of March 16, more than 43,000 prisoners and more than 26,000 staff have received first-round vaccines, according to California Correctional Health Care Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is excerpted from the preview episode of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.artsandmedia.net/cause/november-in-my-soul/\">\u003cem>November In My Soul\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a forthcoming podcast about mental Illness, confinement and liberty in California. It is co-produced and co-hosted by Lee Romney and Jenny Johnson. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Marlene Baker’s untreated mental illness kept her on the streets, hustling to stay warm and stay fed. Local law enforcement would pick her up for minor offenses — drinking in public or hitchhiking — then book her into the overcrowded jail and release her right back to the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes your mind plays tricks on you and you do things,” Baker, now 58, said in a 2019 interview at her tiny studio apartment in the Siskiyou County town of Weed. “I didn’t trust my mind for a long time. Still, I’ll wake up sometimes in the middle of the night screaming, like, is there a ghost in here or something? And then I just take my medicine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stories of our colliding criminal justice and mental health systems play out across the country. That crisis is most visible, and most commonly reported, in urban areas. But Baker’s is a rural story, full of profound rural challenges. Siskiyou County, which abuts the Oregon border, spans 6,000 square miles and is home to just shy of 44,000 people. Community mental health resources are thin. Public transportation is almost nonexistent, housing is scarce and recruiting mental health clinicians nearly impossible. [aside tag=\"mental-health,criminal-justice\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlene Baker was too ill to voluntarily seek help for her condition. If she committed a more serious crime, she could receive the mental health treatment she needed. That’s because a felony charge would finally compel her to accept care provided through the criminal justice system. Recent data from Siskiyou County indicate the jail is often the landing place for people with serious mental illness: About half the inmates are \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20514156-jail_mentalhealth_jpsreport_02-03-2020#document/p8/a2022750\">prescribed psychiatric meds\u003c/a>, more than double the state median.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental illness plays a role in a high number of criminal cases here. What to do once those people enter the system, said Siskiyou County District Attorney Kirk Andrus, is a vexing question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got a community that wants to be protected,” he said. “But you also have a person who needs intervention and not necessarily the kind of intervention that we have to offer. It’s a massive problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Baker’s case, though, despite those rural challenges — in some ways because of them — a number of key people took some risks and bent some rules to help her heal in the community, with her freedom intact. And her success is helping to bring about some bold changes in the way Siskiyou County confronts its mental health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47876_MarleneWithElephant-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47876_MarleneWithElephant-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47876_MarleneWithElephant-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47876_MarleneWithElephant-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47876_MarleneWithElephant-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47876_MarleneWithElephant-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlene Baker, now 58, fills her small studio apartment with tapestries and artwork to make it homey. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘I grew up normal’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Baker is petite with a penchant for fashion and perfect dusky eye makeup. Her apartment, separated from Interstate 5 by a flimsy chain-link fence, can be loud. But Baker has spruced it up inside “to make it homey” with tapestries and artwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her journey began in a “you-blink-you-miss-it” Central Valley town where, Baker said, “I grew up normal. We had a nice house. We had money. I went to school, graduated.”\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had two kids, got divorced and headed to her parents’ vacation home in Mount Shasta, where she landed a job in the front office of a local eye doctor. Then: an accident. Baker stepped out of her car onto black ice, taking her “whole spine out from the neck down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Marlene Baker']‘I’d get hysterical and not know what’s really going around and verbally say stuff that didn’t make sense’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple surgeries followed, and Baker gave her kids to their dad to raise as her bones healed. There was a complication, though: A surgical tear in her spinal covering had left her brain stem dry for four days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d get hysterical and not know what’s really going around,” she said, “and verbally say stuff that didn’t make sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlene had yet to get her diagnosis — schizoaffective disorder. She didn’t know about the underlying brain injury that likely caused her illness. She didn’t know she was ill, but her life was falling apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker wound up homeless in and around Mount Shasta, where winters are cold and bears and mountain lions wander through town at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the guys would watch over me while I slept at night,” she said, “and I’ve lost about four or five of them right now. The other ones, they’re still going in and out of mental hospitals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker’s parents had now moved to Mount Shasta, too, and they’d see her panhandling. They didn’t understand her angry outbursts and erratic behavior any better than she did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were embarrassed,” Baker said. “They didn’t know what to do with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This went on for more than 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Not a single crisis bed’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even in big cities, where services are not as hard to come by, people often slip through the cracks of the voluntary mental health system. So, California’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=WIC§ionNum=5150\">Welfare and Institutions Code 5150\u003c/a> serves as an important tool to help people like Baker, who don’t know that they’re sick. Under that civil statute, anyone deemed a danger to themselves or others, or gravely disabled, can be temporarily committed to a locked psychiatric facility for treatment. There’s just one problem — there \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20515636-cha-psych-bed-data-report-sept-2018#document/p12/a2022952\">are no facilities like that in Siskiyou County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone has a psychotic break, they go to a hospital that is hours and hours away,” said Siskiyou County Public Defender Lael Kayfetz. “You have to leave your family. You have to leave your support system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker was hospitalized just once under a 5150 hold: A case worker drove her 260 miles south to Sacramento. Mostly, though, Baker cycled in and out of the jail and back to the streets. Until 2013. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘I’m going to kill you’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Baker’s family rarely invited her over, but as a gesture of good will, they welcomed her to stay the night after a Thanksgiving meal. They woke up to her screams. She was in a psychosis — delusional and hallucinating. She thought an intruder had sliced her chest with a knife. She didn’t recognize her own family. And, in the chaos, she told her mom, “I’m going to kill you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her mom was scared,” said Kayfetz, who would represent Baker in connection with the incident. “So, they called law enforcement not understanding what they were setting in motion. There was no putting the brakes on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney charged Baker with Penal Code Section 422: making criminal threats. When it’s charged as a felony, as it was in Baker’s case, “it’s a strike under the three strikes law,” Kayfetz said. “It changes everything about how you’re treated in the system, how you’re treated by law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A felony conviction can also make it difficult — or impossible — to get government-subsidized housing, for life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Siskiyou County Public Defender Lael Kayfetz']‘By some miracle she made it to her next court appearance and that is the thing that saved her’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker was still psychotic. And she was clearly “incompetent to stand trial” — that means you can’t follow the proceedings, understand the charges or help your attorney. The process of regaining competency usually involves a trip to a state mental hospital, often after long waits in a jail cell. But for Baker, there was a hitch: Siskiyou County’s jail has so few beds for women that even those charged with felonies are often quickly set free. Baker was already out, with instructions in court for her first hearing in the case. If she failed to show up, the judge would likely issue a warrant for her arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By some miracle she made it to her next court appearance,” Kayfetz said, “and that is the thing that saved her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Bending the Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, it takes an exception to create a new rule, and Baker became a test case. The judge, the public defender, county mental health officials and even the prosecutor, came to an agreement. Instead of returning her to jail or sending her to a state hospital hundreds of miles away, they’d try to help Baker on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two psychologists who had to evaluate her competency arranged to do it at Kayfetz’s office, “something,” she said, “that had never been done before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, how Baker was going to keep complying with court demands — given her lack of housing and the county’s spotty public transportation — was not at all clear. If she had an address, county behavioral health workers could fetch her for her appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lael told me, ‘You need [to get] off the street,’ ” Baker recalled. “Getting off the street was key to my healing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker’s case worker began to search, placing her first in a series of motels before, finally, a permanent home. It was small and noisy, but with four walls and a door with a lock. On her first night, Baker said, “I had a backpack for a pillow” and a comforter her case worker grabbed from the office. Still, she missed the outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You breathe all the fresh air all night long, you’re under God’s heavens. It’s hard to stop being homeless,” she said. “You’re free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlene Baker’s tiny studio apartment, in a rundown former motel, is separated from Interstate 5 by a chain-link fence. On this day in September 2019, she shows off the old-fashioned pantaloons she’s hung there to dry. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Freedom \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Baker had gained a different kind of freedom. But she was still facing a felony charge. To retain her liberty, she’d have to engage fully with treatment — something she had resisted for years. Now though, thanks to Siskiyou County’s only practicing psychiatrist, she built a bond and began to trust. They spoke about medicinal plants and healthy foods, and Baker agreed to long-acting injections of an anti-psychotic medication that cleared her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was time to enter a plea. Kayfetz knew a guilty plea would jeopardize Baker’s housing — and her stability. But there was another option — she could plead \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1026.&lawCode=PEN\">not guilty by reason of insanity.\u003c/a> That plea almost always means you go to a state mental hospital for a minimum of six months and often much longer. Baker had to stand up in court and say she understood she might spend the rest of her life there. Because Kayfetz had a plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her client was thriving. Sending her hundreds of miles away to a state hospital, she argued, wasn’t necessary or humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk Andrus, the district attorney, balked. But the judge agreed with Kayfetz. If Baker complied with her treatment, the felony charge would eventually be dismissed. For years, though, she’d have to check in regularly with the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her progress exceeded expectations. Four years after that fateful Thanksgiving, Baker received training to work as a peer facilitator for a weekly mental health support group. Dipping into her meager disability checks, she prepped healthy stews and soups for the group in her tiny kitchen and brought in Bingo prizes she bought at the Dollar General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865582\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47871_MarleneLentilStew-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlene Baker prepares lentil stew in September 2019 in the tiny kitchen of her studio apartment. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her relationship with her family healed, too, especially with her mom and sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, on a sweltering August day in 2019, her case came up on the Siskiyou County Superior Court calendar for the very last time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marlene Baker got to the courthouse in a crushed velvet spaghetti-strap dress and lavender eye makeup. She hadn’t slept. She was too nervous. The judge congratulated her and declared her “restored” — as in restored to sanity. Within minutes, her long ordeal in the criminal justice system was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Loss and Hope\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sanity cannot stave off hardship. Within months of her court victory, Baker’s longtime case worker died unexpectedly. Then came COVID-19 and deep isolation. Baker’s peer group has technically been allowed to meet. But “nobody wants to go because it’s 6 feet apart and you can’t eat in there,” she said, “and that’s why they always came. I would bring them good food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker’s visits with her psychiatrist are no longer in person, just phone calls. So the long-acting injections are out, too. She has to remember to take her pills each morning. And last fall, more loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mom died, and two months later, my dad died,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given all that, Kayfetz said, the fact that Baker is still housed and plugged in to mental health services is a victory. Beyond that, Baker’s success has helped bring about broader change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after her six-year fight to shed her felony charge came to an end, Siskiyou County launched what’s known as a behavioral health court. It wipes the criminal charges off the records of participants who complete treatment. Every inmate who arrives at the jail now takes an iPad questionnaire to determine if they need mental health services or would be good candidates for the new court. If they are, they get that treatment right here in the community, with their liberty intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker was still psychotic. And she was clearly “incompetent to stand trial” — that means you can’t follow the proceedings, understand the charges or help your attorney. The process of regaining competency usually involves a trip to a state mental hospital, often after long waits in a jail cell. But for Baker, there was a hitch: Siskiyou County’s jail has so few beds for women that even those charged with felonies are often quickly set free. Baker was already out, with instructions in court for her first hearing in the case. If she failed to show up, the judge would likely issue a warrant for her arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By some miracle she made it to her next court appearance,” Kayfetz said, “and that is the thing that saved her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Bending the Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, it takes an exception to create a new rule, and Baker became a test case. The judge, the public defender, county mental health officials and even the prosecutor, came to an agreement. Instead of returning her to jail or sending her to a state hospital hundreds of miles away, they’d try to help Baker on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two psychologists who had to evaluate her competency arranged to do it at Kayfetz’s office, “something,” she said, “that had never been done before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, how Baker was going to keep complying with court demands — given her lack of housing and the county’s spotty public transportation — was not at all clear. If she had an address, county behavioral health workers could fetch her for her appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lael told me, ‘You need [to get] off the street,’ ” Baker recalled. “Getting off the street was key to my healing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker’s case worker began to search, placing her first in a series of motels before, finally, a permanent home. It was small and noisy, but with four walls and a door with a lock. On her first night, Baker said, “I had a backpack for a pillow” and a comforter her case worker grabbed from the office. Still, she missed the outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You breathe all the fresh air all night long, you’re under God’s heavens. It’s hard to stop being homeless,” she said. “You’re free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11865581\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47870_MarleneChainlinkFencePantaloons-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marlene Baker’s tiny studio apartment, in a rundown former motel, is separated from Interstate 5 by a chain-link fence. On this day in September 2019, she shows off the old-fashioned pantaloons she’s hung there to dry. \u003ccite>(Lee Romney)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Freedom \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Baker had gained a different kind of freedom. But she was still facing a felony charge. To retain her liberty, she’d have to engage fully with treatment — something she had resisted for years. Now though, thanks to Siskiyou County’s only practicing psychiatrist, she built a bond and began to trust. They spoke about medicinal plants and healthy foods, and Baker agreed to long-acting injections of an anti-psychotic medication that cleared her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was time to enter a plea. Kayfetz knew a guilty plea would jeopardize Baker’s housing — and her stability. But there was another option — she could plead \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1026.&lawCode=PEN\">not guilty by reason of insanity.\u003c/a> That plea almost always means you go to a state mental hospital for a minimum of six months and often much longer. Baker had to stand up in court and say she understood she might spend the rest of her life there. Because Kayfetz had a plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her client was thriving. Sending her hundreds of miles away to a state hospital, she argued, wasn’t necessary or humane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk Andrus, the district attorney, balked. But the judge agreed with Kayfetz. If Baker complied with her treatment, the felony charge would eventually be dismissed. For years, though, she’d have to check in regularly with the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her progress exceeded expectations. Four years after that fateful Thanksgiving, Baker received training to work as a peer facilitator for a weekly mental health support group. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Jan. 13, 2020, Tony and Terry Lopez’s world came crashing down around them: Their 20-year-old son, whom they called Lil Tony, had been shot in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He died the next day. A year later, his family said the loss remains unbearable. The motive for the killing remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was such a beautiful soul. He had a great personality. Everybody was drawn to him,” said Terry Lopez. “He liked to make people laugh. He was goofy. You know, we’re a goofy family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nina Salarno Besselman, executive director of Crime Victims United\"]‘I think when somebody’s been a victim of a crime, they do want to see justice done.’[/pullquote]Ten months later, two brothers were arrested by Los Angeles officials. Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles County’s tough-on-crime district attorney at the time, charged one of the brothers, the 16-year-old alleged shooter, in adult court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lopezes believed he could face decades in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, at the end of the year, a new district attorney, George Gascón, was sworn in. He’d campaigned on a reform agenda, promising to decrease incarceration, and once in office immediately moved to limit the harsh sentencing practices of his predecessor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he got sworn in, they automatically put a halt to any juveniles being transferred to adult court,” said Tony Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That change — keeping the alleged shooter in juvenile court — means that even if the teen is convicted, he’ll face a much shorter sentence. Under state law, people charged with crimes in juvenile court can only serve until their 25th birthday, and can also qualify before that for early release. The idea is that young people’s brains are still developing and they should be given a chance at reform rather than locked up for life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Lopez said the family was devastated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine committing murder, even if you get the max time, which is to the age 25, which is nine years, but to be let out from three to five years is like totally a slap in our face,” he said, noting that he understands the concept of rehabilitation, but not when someone’s life is lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the justice for Lil Tony, you know, where’s the justice for the next Lil Tony?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lopez family feels burned by Gascón’s new policies, but the truth is, this debate spans far beyond Los Angeles. California has been moving to restrict long prison sentences for the past decade, and recent law changes have taken particular aim at limiting juvenile punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]The changes have sparked debates about what victims want and need — and who should represent them. Do they want the government to focus on punishment? Or should the focus be crime prevention, rehabilitation and support services for survivors of crime?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who have traditionally advocated for crime victims in California believe Gascón and others are forgetting about the central role of the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think when somebody’s been a victim of a crime, they do want to see justice done,” said Nina Salarno Besselman, a prosecutor and executive director of the three-decades old Crime Victims United, and also a survivor of violent crime — her sister was murdered in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salarno Besselman’s group has historically been aligned with law enforcement, and helped push many of the state’s tough-on-crime laws, including the harsher sentences for juvenile offenders that are now being rethought by prosecutors like Gascón and a host of state lawmakers and voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an accountability and a justice component that seems to be getting forgotten these days,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"criminal-justice\"]For a long time, Salarno Besselman and her group were among the loudest voices advocating for survivors of crime. But in recent years, other groups have emerged with a different approach focused less on prison sentences and more on crime prevention, rehabilitation and support services for crime survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tinisch Hollins is executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice, a pro-reform advocacy group that has built out a national network of more than 10,000 crime survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins is herself a survivor: Two of her brothers were killed by gun violence over the past decade in the largely Black San Francisco neighborhood they grew up in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a community where the majority of us are not recognized as crime victims at all, or survivors at all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins, who is a strong supporter of the kind of criminal justice reforms that leaders like Gascón are pushing for, noted that most victims don’t get any chance to demand accountability: No arrests have been made in the majority of violent crimes — including both of her brothers’ murders — over the last decade, according to state crime data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I think it’s critical for us to have a voice in this conversation. Black and brown communities and disadvantaged communities experience the bulk of trauma and crime and violence. And they’re the least resourced. We’re the least resourced, the least responded to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins said local governments have historically responded to crime and violence in those communities with more policing, which leads to more people being caught up in the criminal justice system. A \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/wp-content/uploads/February-2021-LA-Survivor-Poll.pdf\">recent survey\u003c/a> her group commissioned in Los Angeles County of more than 700 survivors of violent crime showed that most support changes to the justice system, with greater focus on rehabilitating offenders and preventing future crime, and less on simply punishing people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what survivors really want, Hollins said, is help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll found that most survivors don’t get the support they need after experiencing a violent crime, whether that be help navigating the justice system, financial assistance to help with medical costs, property damage or lost income, or broader help like mental health counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I go back to my moment of losing my brothers. And, you know what we needed most for that moment? What we needed were people that were compassionate. We needed people that could give us the insight and understanding of how the system works or doesn’t work,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins believes the poll findings show that the victims’ rights conversation has been co-opted by law enforcement and more privileged Californians who don’t suffer from either the bulk of victimization or the consequences of having community members locked up in prison.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tinisch Hollins, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice\"]‘Black and brown communities and disadvantaged communities experience the bulk of trauma and crime and violence. And they’re the least resourced.’[/pullquote]“A lot of the traditional victims’ advocates have outright said that people of color, people from our communities and those who have intersections with the criminal justice system, whether they have friends or family members who have had contact, that they don’t deserve to identify themselves as crime survivors or crime victims,” Hollins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Los Angeles, critics of Gascón say that the sudden shift in policies there are leaving all mourning families in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired L.A. prosecutor Kathy Cady is one of a dozen or so former deputy DAs who have been volunteering to represent families — including the Lopez’s — in court when Gascón’s office moves to reduce criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said those on the other side of this debate are right to advocate for more victims’ services, but that shouldn’t be a substitute for appropriate consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what victims want is they want to make sure that people are held accountable. 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"content": "\u003cp>Asian American leaders said Thursday that their communities were in “crisis” following shootings in the Atlanta area earlier this week that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/978141138/atlanta-shooting-suspect-is-believed-to-have-visited-spas-he-targeted\">killed eight people\u003c/a>, including six Asian women. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities said it’s too early to determine whether the suspect will be charged with a hate crime, but on Thursday, Rep. 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There was a 27-year-old man \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/11/975592502/asian-americans-experience-far-more-hate-incidents-than-numbers-indicate\">who was assaulted in Los Angeles last month\u003c/a> and an 83-year-old woman \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/13/asian-american-attack-white-plains/\">who was punched and spat on\u003c/a> in White Plains, New York, last week. And Asian American seniors \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/12/966940217/anger-and-fear-as-asian-american-seniors-targeted-in-bay-area-attacks\">have been victims of numerous attacks in the Bay Area since January\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate has identified Asian American women, youth and elders as particularly vulnerable groups. Almost 70% of the incidents they documented were reported by women. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11865171 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47867_GettyImages-1231773402-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Chu and others Thursday said former President Donald Trump “stoked” anti-Asian hate by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/22/881810671/white-house-defends-trumps-use-of-racist-term-to-describe-coronavirus\">using phrases like “kung flu”\u003c/a> and “China plague” in order to shift blame away from his response to the coronavirus pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In opening remarks, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said he was concerned that the hearing was about “policing of rhetoric,” but Rep. 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Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and U.S. Reps. Doris Matsui, D-California; Young Kim, R-California; and Michelle Steel, R-California, also testified. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other witnesses included civil rights advocates like John Yang, president and executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/\">Asian Americans Advancing Justice\u003c/a>, and the actor Daniel Dae Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens right now and over the course of the coming months will send a message for generations to come as to whether we matter,” Kim said Thursday. “You may consider us statistically insignificant now, but one more fact that has no alternative is that we are the fastest-growing racial demographic in the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yang said Wednesday that while there are a lot of unknowns about the Atlanta suspect’s motives, the attack emphasizes the importance of Thursday’s hearing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we do know is that the fear, the anger and the grief in our Asian American community is very real,” he said. “I want to make sure we give voice to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11860549 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/AAPI-1038x576.jpg']Along with advocating for resources for victims and their communities, including mental health services, Yang said he aimed to ask lawmakers to publicly condemn the racist attacks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that in order to prevent further incidents, there will need to be an educational effort to combat pervasive racial stereotypes, including “the model minority myth, the perpetual foreigner myth and in particular with respect to what happened in Atlanta, the sexualization of Asian women.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kulkarni of Stop AAPI Hate also said she would advocate Thursday for federal funding for local programs that provide direct support and case management to victims of hate incidents. She and Yang both said they would like to see a more developed federal civil rights infrastructure that would address discrimination that doesn’t rise to the level of a crime. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Biden Administration Outreach\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The House Judiciary hearing is one piece of a larger federal response that Asian American leaders have been pushing for under an administration they see as more receptive to their concerns than Trump’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, President Biden said he was “making no connection” between the recent attacks on Asian Americans and the shootings in Atlanta and would wait to say more until an investigation from the FBI and Justice Department is completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever the motivation here, I know that Asian Americans are very concerned,” he said from the Oval Office. “As you know I’ve been speaking about the brutality against Asian Americans for the last couple months and I think it is very, very troublesome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Biden signed a memorandum \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/26/memorandum-condemning-and-combating-racism-xenophobia-and-intolerance-against-asian-americans-and-pacific-islanders-in-the-united-states/\">condemning racism and xenophobia\u003c/a> against AAPI communities and in his first primetime address last week, he called out “vicious hate crimes against Asian Americans, who’ve been attacked, harassed, blamed and scapegoated.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jo-Ann Yoo, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aafederation.org/\">Asian American Federation\u003c/a>, attended a White House listening session for AAPI leaders earlier this month. She said that when Trump was in office, she would watch for a “spike in attacks” when someone from the White House used the term “China virus.” In comparison, Yoo said, the tone of Biden’s White House listening session was “surreal.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t have one meeting and say OK, we heard you, we’re done,” she said. “But I think we walked away feeling like, ‘Wow, this is different.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday that Biden’s domestic policy team and the Department of Justice are continuing to host listening sessions like the one Yoo attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Biden and Vice President Harris will travel to Atlanta to meet with Asian American leaders there, postponing a political event that had been planned in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Congressional Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rep. Meng and Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, are also pushing for congressional action on violence targeting Asian Americans. Last week, they \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/977928933/n-y-rep-grace-meng-on-her-bill-to-address-asian-hate-crimes\">reintroduced a bill\u003c/a> that would designate a Justice Department employee to take on an expedited review of hate crimes related to the pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.hirono.senate.gov/news/press-releases/hirono-and-meng-introduce-bill-to-address-surge-of-anti-asian-hate-crimes-during-coronavirus-pandemic\">COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act\u003c/a> would also encourage state and local law enforcement agencies to establish online reporting of incidents in multiple languages, expand education campaigns and issue guidance on mitigating “racially discriminatory language” in describing the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yoo and Kulkarni both warned before Thursday’s hearing that depending on law enforcement would not solve what they see as a larger racism problem. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are saying we need cops, but a lot of what is happening isn’t criminal,” Yoo said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11862544 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Chinatown-2-1020x680.jpg']According to Kulkarni, at least 90% of cases documented were hate incidents rather than hate crimes. She said although these incidents, like being verbally harassed on the street or discriminated against at work, might not qualify as hate crimes, they “really do impact the lives of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an emphasis on the hate crimes piece,” Kulkarni said. “But [policy makers] just won’t be addressing most of what’s happening to Asian Americans if that’s all they do.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AAAJ’s Yang sees Thursday’s hearing as a chance to convey the severity with which the recent attacks have impacted Asian American communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that because of this testimony [lawmakers] will have the courage to speak out against the violence and to give visibility and protection to the Asian American community,” he said. “I hope they understand why what’s happening now has been so deeply traumatizing.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/978024380/8-women-shot-to-death-at-atlanta-massage-parlors-man-arrested\">the shooting deaths of eight people Tuesday at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia\u003c/a> – six of whom were women of Asian descent – Bay Area public officials and Asian American community leaders expressed feelings of heartbreak and outrage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I saw it last night, it broke my heart. It just simply broke my heart,\" said Malcolm Yeung, executive director of the Chinese Community Development Center, which owns and operates low-income housing in San Francisco's Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am horrified by the murder of API women in Georgia,\" said Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DavidChiu/status/1372213199764779008?s=20\">on Twitter\u003c/a>. \"Make no mistake — this crime was driven by hate, fueled by racism that has festered during this pandemic. ... This must be an inflection point. Enough is enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sheng Thao, Oakland councilmember\"]'For far too long our culture has belittled, fetishized, and dehumanized API women, especially poorer, southeast Asian women. This was not only a hate act directed at the API community but at women everywhere who constantly face sexual violence in our country.'[/pullquote]In the wake of the Atlanta killings and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859965/700-anti-asian-hate-incidents-reported-in-bay-area-during-pandemic-true-figures-might-be-even-worse\">numerous other attacks\u003c/a> against AAPI community members in the Bay Area and across the nation, Chiu, alongside California State Treasurer Fiona Ma, state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, and other politicians, called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint a state attorney general who will make stopping anti-AAPI hate \"a top priority\" in a press conference on Wednesday. Ma pointed to Assemblymember Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, as a voice for the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://secureservercdn.net/104.238.69.231/a1w.90d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/210312-Stop-AAPI-Hate-National-Report-.pdf\">report\u003c/a> released Tuesday by \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a> – a project based out of San Francisco State University that asks members of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities to self-report acts of hate and discrimination – between March 19, 2020 and Feb. 28, 2021, there were at least 3,795 incidents of anti-Asian hate across the nation, ranging from physical assault and verbal harassment to various civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 700 of those incidents occurred in the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859965/700-anti-asian-hate-incidents-reported-in-bay-area-during-pandemic-true-figures-might-be-even-worse\">according to an earlier Stop AAPI Hate report\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jian Zhang, CEO of Chinese Hospital, which first opened its doors in San Francisco in 1925, said many in her community are \"afraid to go out. It's terrible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hate crimes against Chinese and Asians need to stop,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Councilmember Sheng Thao said in a statement, \"For far too long our culture has belittled, fetishized, and dehumanized API women, especially poorer, southeast Asian women. This was not only a hate act directed at the API community but at women everywhere who constantly face sexual violence in our country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the state level, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said the California Department of Education would double down on its effort to address bias and acts of hate. The state’s “Education to End Hate” Initiative that began last year has provided grants to schools for anti-racism and bias training for educators, Thurmond said. The department will host roundtables in the upcoming months to discuss solutions with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just have to reiterate our sadness at seeing these deplorable acts being carried out. And we want to offer as much support as we can to our schools and work with them,\" Thurmond said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will work with the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus to \"continue our work\" to end violence and bigotry across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These shootings are a vicious and vile act that compounds the fear and pain that Asian-Americans face each day. It is a profound and cruel injustice that, amid the coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis, the AAPI community also faces the surging threat of violent and deadly attack,\" Pelosi said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to host Mina Kim on KQED's Forum on Wednesday, Cynthia Choi, co-director of Chinese for Affirmative Action and co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, put the Atlanta shootings into personal terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has been a difficult evening and today has been especially hard learning about more of the facts around the case and connecting with community leaders across the country,\" Choi said. \"The days ahead, I think, are going to continue to be really difficult for our community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'There Is a Pattern ... And We Can't Ignore That'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While Georgia police said the Atlanta shooter \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/978141138/atlanta-shooting-suspect-is-believed-to-have-visited-spas-he-targeted\">denied\u003c/a> his crimes were racially motivated, AAPI community members have responded, in myriad ways, that it remains impossible to separate his actions from the current rise of anti-Asian hate and increased attacks in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While anti-Asian violence is woven throughout our nation's history, the Trump administration's relentless scapegoating of Asians for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has increased [those incidents],\" said the advocacy group Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta in a statement on Wednesday. \"We're calling on our allies across communities of color to stand with us in grief and solidarity against racist violence in all its forms,\" said Stephanie Cho, the Atlanta group's executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101882555/after-murder-of-eight-asian-americans-in-georgia-fears-of-anti-asian-racism-and-violence-intensify\">On KQED's Forum Wednesday\u003c/a>, sociologist and author Nancy Wang Yuen told Mina Kim that hate crimes are often multilayered when it comes to women of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're not saying 'I'm a racist' or 'I'm only targeting Asians,' but they want to limit it to the gender or the roles of all the jobs,\" she said. \"But, of course, we know that six Asian women are dead. And these are from three different businesses. So there is a targeting. There is a pattern. And we can't ignore that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11860549 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/AAPI-1038x576.jpg']Yeung, the head of the Chinatown Community Development Center, said that while the shooter \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/978141138/atlanta-shooting-suspect-is-believed-to-have-visited-spas-he-targeted\">connected his actions to sex addiction\u003c/a>, there are many other places to find similar activities, instead of targeting spas where Asian women were working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What brought that about, versus any number of areas in and around the sex trade? You've got to wonder what context was created by the anti-Asian sentiment catalyzed by Trump. You've got to wonder what that causes people to think and feel,\" Yeung said. \"I can't get away from that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860549/tip-of-the-iceberg-how-effects-of-anti-asian-attacks-run-deep\">climate of anti-AAPI sentiment has clouded San Francisco's Chinese community with fear\u003c/a>, said Zhang, CEO of Chinese Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we have late meetings, I wouldn't let [my staff] take a bus home. I would drop them off myself,\" Zhang said. \"After the attack, it takes people a long time to recover. They're scared. The impact is huge. Also for the family, too, not just the victims. And the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is so tragic and horrifying to the community,\" said Rev. Norman Fong, the former director of the Chinatown Community Development Center and a community leader in his own right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fong likened the shooting to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/who-vincent-chin-history-relevance-1982-killing-n771291\">1982 beating death of Vincent Chin\u003c/a> in Detroit, an act of hate by white autoworkers who were angry at joblessness they blamed on Japanese Americans (though Chin was Chinese). Fong recalled the solidarity from Rev. Jesse Jackson and other members of the Black community who joined hands with the AAPI community across the country in the wake of that hateful act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865265\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11865265\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/GettyImages-1231773498-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mourner with a sign reading 'Black and Asian Solidarity #StopAsianHate' stands at the site of two shootings that occurred yesterday at spas across the street from one another, in memorial for the lives lost, on March 17, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. Suspect Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested after a series of shootings at three Atlanta-area spas left eight people dead on Tuesday night, including six Asian women. \u003ccite>(Megan Varner/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We all need to pull together to overcome this anti-Asian hate,\" Fong said. \"We also need to educate ourselves on each other's history otherwise it's too easy to scapegoat and hate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again on KQED's Forum, Choi of Stop AAPI Hate noted that impacted communities have a second layer of mental health crises ongoing right now: first, with the pandemic, and secondly, with rising racist hate, which compounds other trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When violence against the AAPI community emerges, \"what we're experiencing is re-traumatizing,\" Choi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wang Yuen suggested taking a break from social media to ease that mental health crisis, and for Asian women in particular to seek safe spaces where they can share their traumatic experiences to heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Making a Safer Community for All\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As attacks against the Asian American community garner more attention, a split has emerged from different voices calling for two approaches: more police and prosecution, or alternatives to policing that can bring safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already in San Francisco, Mayor London Breed has asked the police to increase patrols in “areas with a high number of Asian residents, visitors, and businesses immediately,” she announced on Twitter Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More long-term efforts will also be announced shortly. No one should have to live in fear that their race or ethnicity could make them a victim,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rev. Fong noted that some people want to defund police over issues of brutality, but said “we have to be practical, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love community cops that walk the beat,” Fong said. “I may not be popular for saying that, but I think the brutality and the training definitely we have to address. But practically for the seniors, what they would say was they would like more foot cops, but more Chinese-speaking. That's the problem. There aren’t that many.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though, Fong added, “I’m from a different generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls for enforcement were also echoed by Ma, the state treasurer, in arguing for Bonta to become the state’s next attorney general. On Wednesday, Ma argued for an attorney general who will “put resources to these crimes” and “to convict those people perpetrating crimes against the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeung, the executive director of Chinatown CCDC, said he’s seen police become part of the Chinatown community. A few years back, police were assigned to public housing that his organization operates, which Yeung was grateful for. He called it “transformative” for people living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On some occasions, officers were so embedded in the community of people living there, that one officer once noticed when a Chinatown family was missing from a community barbeque, and called them up themselves to invite them to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That level of intimacy with people living there made them feel safe, Yeung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It moved me in a way that’s hard to describe,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1372232626237370368\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some in the AAPI community are calling for unity with the Black community in not demanding more policing, fearing conflict and death that have come in those interactions. From George Floyd to Oscar Grant, there is a fear that the Black community may see a rising risk from increased police enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, in response to deadly attacks in the Bay Area, dozens of Asian American organizations from the Bay Area banded together to issue a joint statement calling for a non-police response, like patrols by volunteers, tailored support for victims and mental health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On KQED’s Forum, Choi told Mina Kim that policing wasn’t necessarily the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pushing for more community-based and community-led safety initiatives that really get at the different forms of violence and assaults,” Choi said. “And so this has been a time for our community to look at all forms of violence that we have been subjected to. And that includes working with other communities who are also affected by systemic racism. And there has been a movement to move away from an overreliance on law enforcement approaches, given the conversations that we're having today about abusive policing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment was also echoed by groups in the East Bay \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892437/oaklanders-combat-chinatown-attacks-with-volunteering-mutual-aid\">in February\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this current moment and historically — I’m just going to be explicit — policing has not meant safety for communities of color or young people,” said Stanley Pun, co-director of AYPAL, a youth nonprofit based in Oakland Chinatown that works with low-income Asian and Pacific Islander families. “We need to work together from a space of compassion, empathy and understanding to seek justice, not vengeance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there may be nuanced disagreements on approaches to policing, for Yeung there is unanimity that communities of color need to nurture their relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we've all fallen down on that,\" Yeung said. \"It's not just something we do in a moment of crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporters MJ Johnson, Nastia Voynovskaya and Forum host Mina Kim contributed to this report. NPR reporters Jaclyn Diaz and Vanessa Romo contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees held in state facilities in California will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine starting Monday, according to state public health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes months after federal authorities said the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857822/advocates-fear-immigrant-detainees-could-be-left-out-of-vaccination-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is responsible\u003c/a> for allocating vaccines to immigrant detainees within its borders, prompting local advocates to \u003ca href=\"https://imadvocates.org/portfolio-item/covid-19-vaccines-in-immigrant-detention/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">push\u003c/a> California officials to clarify their plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning Monday — March 15 — those who reside or work in congregate settings, where outbreak risk remains high, will be prioritized for the vaccine, including those who live in homeless shelters or are held in “incarceration/detention” facilities, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Provider-Bulletin-2-12-21.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">update\u003c/a> released by state health officials last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"ice\" label=\"Related coverage\"]The California Department of Public Health confirmed to KQED that the vaccine eligibility expansion includes ICE detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates who campaigned since last winter for California officials to include detained immigrants in vaccination plans welcomed the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel that this is a very long overdue inclusion of immigrants in detention in the state’s plan,” said Jackie Gonzalez, policy director for Immigrant Defense Advocates. “And what we would like to see is clear guidance for how local public health departments should roll out the vaccine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coronavirus has swept through all seven detention centers in California, infecting more than 600 people held in the facilities since the pandemic began. More than a dozen detainees diagnosed with COVID-19 are currently in isolation or being monitored, according to ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/coronavirus#detStat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">figures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nationwide average daily population in detention centers has dropped dramatically from nearly 40,000 a year ago, to about \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14,000\u003c/a> last month. The decrease is due in part to Trump administration policies that essentially closed down the border to asylum seekers, as well as court orders forcing ICE to release detainees to allow for social distancing during the pandemic inside facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE detention centers should work with local health jurisdictions to get allocations of doses and arrange vaccinations, said Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, during a call with reporters last week. “The exact approach is going to be provider specific.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A limited number of detainees nationwide have begun to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, but that has depended largely on availability and the vaccination priorities of each state, ICE spokesman Jonathan Moor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaccines at detention facilities are administered by either the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/ice-health-service-corps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICE Health Services Corps\u003c/a>, contracted medical staff or “through other processes as defined by the state and/or local vaccination implementation plan,” Moor said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jackie Gonzalez, policy director for Immigrant Defense Advocates\"]‘This is a very long overdue inclusion of immigrants in detention in the state’s plan.’[/pullquote]A spokesman for CoreCivic, the for-profit company that runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816707/man-dies-of-covid-19-in-san-diego-ice-detention-center-lawyers-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Otay Mesa Detention Center\u003c/a> near San Diego, said the facility was working to provide the vaccine to detainees “as quickly as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re following the plan and protocols established by the state of California and the San Diego Health Department health officials, for prioritizing recipients and administering the vaccine,” said Ryan Gustin, a spokesman with CoreCivic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GEO Group and Management & Training Corporation, the two other private companies that operate detention facilities in the state, declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrant advocates, including members of an advisory group tasked with helping California public health officials distribute the vaccine equitably, say local health departments or other trusted community medical providers should be the entities informing detainees and providing them with shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t expect folks that are detained to be receptive to getting the vaccine from the detention facility staff or from people associated with ICE,” said Kiran Savage-Sangwan, who directs the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network and also sits on CDPH’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Community-Vaccine-Advisory-Committee.aspx/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Community Vaccine Advisory Committee\u003c/a>. “And that’s because of the really poor track record of medical care in these facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>March 13 marked a year since Breonna Taylor was shot by police in her home in Louisville, Kentucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds rallied in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon, beginning at Mission High School and marching to the Mission Police Station for a vigil and open mic. They lit candles, burned sage and held signs in an effort to honor her memory and fight for justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the people, we hold the power and we must continue to show up,” said Asmara Gebre, a midwife at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital who has been on strike to protest racism in her workplace. Gebre implored the audience to show up not just on anniversaries, “but every fucking day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers and those in attendance said they want to continue to keep Taylor’s memory alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just keep having to add names,” Jasmine Ordonez said. She came from another vigil — one for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863507/will-angelo-quintos-death-lead-to-police-reforms-in-antioch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angelo Quinto\u003c/a> who was allegedly killed by Antioch police in December. Ordonez says she wants justice for Taylor and for others killed by police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some have been demanding three officers who fired into Taylor’s home be criminally charged, others — like Ordonez — say more incarceration isn’t the solution. Instead, she wants to see police abolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after Taylor's death, none of the officers who fired their service weapons — a total of 32 rounds — face criminal charges directly as a result of Taylor's killing. At least three officers connected to the raid have been terminated from the force, and Louisville officials have also banned \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/11/875466130/no-knock-warrants-banned-in-louisville-in-law-named-for-breonna-taylor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no-knock warrants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addressing the crowd, Gebre, the midwife, also stressed the importance of honoring Breonna Taylor’s memory by building an anti-racist society. “Are you complicit when you show up to work?” she asked, addressing the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do you share space with your friends, how do you intervene in those moments? … That is what we need because we need an anti-racist society,” Gebre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeli Gaufo writes, 'Justice for Breonna' outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on March 13, 2021. 'F\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p9-0\"}]'>or me it's just about fighting everything that's happening with police brutality, and getting justice for Black liberation — because all of our liberation is tied to Black liberation,' Gaufo said. \u003c/span> \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864732\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says, 'Justice for Breonna Taylor' during a rally in her honor outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on March 13, 2021, one year after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police officers in Kentucky. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864733\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47658_021_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally in honor of Breonna Taylor outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on March 13, 2021, the 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some have been demanding three officers who fired into Taylor’s home be criminally charged, others — like Ordonez — say more incarceration isn’t the solution. Instead, she wants to see police abolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after Taylor's death, none of the officers who fired their service weapons — a total of 32 rounds — face criminal charges directly as a result of Taylor's killing. At least three officers connected to the raid have been terminated from the force, and Louisville officials have also banned \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/11/875466130/no-knock-warrants-banned-in-louisville-in-law-named-for-breonna-taylor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no-knock warrants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addressing the crowd, Gebre, the midwife, also stressed the importance of honoring Breonna Taylor’s memory by building an anti-racist society. “Are you complicit when you show up to work?” she asked, addressing the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where do you share space with your friends, how do you intervene in those moments? … That is what we need because we need an anti-racist society,” Gebre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864731\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47647_002_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeli Gaufo writes, 'Justice for Breonna' outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on March 13, 2021. 'F\u003cspan data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"paragraph-wrapper\",null,\"paragraph\",{\"id\":\"p9-0\"}]'>or me it's just about fighting everything that's happening with police brutality, and getting justice for Black liberation — because all of our liberation is tied to Black liberation,' Gaufo said. \u003c/span> \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864732\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11864732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS47655_017_SanFrancisco_BreonnaTaylorRally_03132021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, 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