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"content": "\u003cp>Ever since California started embracing changes to its criminal sentencing system a decade ago, police and prosecutors have pushed back, arguing that the reforms went too far and undermined public safety, and that voters who approved them didn’t really know what they were doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, opponents of reform went back to the electorate with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841579/prop-20-asks-should-california-rollback-recent-criminal-justice-reforms-transcript\">Proposition 20\u003c/a>, which would have made it easier to put some people in jail for theft, while making it harder for thousands of state prisoners to qualify for parole consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kate Chatfield, policy director of the Justice Collaborative\"]‘The voters are so much further along on this issue than the California Legislature or any Legislature in the country.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it wasn’t even close,” said Kate Chatfield, policy director at the pro-reform Justice Collaborative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s right — Proposition 20 has been trailing by double digits since Tuesday as the ballots continue to be tallied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chatfield says supporters of the measure — largely law enforcement groups — used the traditional law and order playbook, which worked in decades past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They used all their usual cards in the deck. 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And, you know, the case for more prisons and more prison spending is just not one that California voters are willing to accept.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"criminal-justice-reform\"]But Jordan’s group did suffer one big loss:\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842445/prop-25-asks-should-california-get-rid-of-money-bail-transcript\"> Proposition 25,\u003c/a> which would have ended money bail in California, was defeated after a well-funded campaign by the bail industry and law enforcement. 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Blount posted $50,000 bail and was released within an hour, according to a sheriff’s spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grand jury indictment unsealed Friday morning charges Blount with involuntary manslaughter and assault by a public officer, both felonies. Each charge includes an additional allegation that Blount personally inflicted great bodily harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some observers welcomed news that Blount would face criminal charges, which comes almost a year after 52-year-old David Ward died after a brutal struggle with deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about time that something has happened to hold people accountable for the killing of David Ward,” said Jerry Threet, a police accountability lawyer and former director of an independent law enforcement oversight office in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"david-glen-ward\" label=\"More on The Death of David Ward\"]Ward led deputies and Sebastopol police on a 5-mile car chase on Nov. 27, 2019 after an officer spotted him driving a suspected stolen vehicle. Deputies would later realize the vehicle belonged to Ward, who had recently recovered it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward stopped at a dead end in the community of Bloomfield and was approached by deputies in an encounter captured on body camera video. Deputies Blount and Jason Little can be heard shouting commands to Ward, who was still seated in his vehicle. He raised and lowered his hands, then lowered his window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the driver’s side door wouldn’t open, Blount grabbed Ward and tried to pull him out through the window, but Ward’s legs were pinned under the steering wheel and he howled in pain. Blount and Little both said Ward was biting them during the struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blount then grabbed Ward by the hair and twice slammed his head into the car’s door frame, as Little fired a Taser. Blount put Ward in a neck hold through the driver’s side window, and Ward appears to lose consciousness. He stopped breathing after being removed from the passenger side of the car and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward’s death was ruled a homicide caused by cardiorespiratory collapse, blunt impact injuries, neck restraint, use of a Taser and a “physical confrontation with law enforcement,” according to summary coroner’s findings released in May. The coroner also found that Ward was under the influence of methamphetamine, had a history of chronic substance abuse, other chronic health issues and mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is ghastly, what happened to David, who was not entirely innocent in this episode, but he certainly didn’t deserve to die,” said Izaak Schwaiger, a former Sonoma County prosecutor and now civil attorney who is representing Ward’s mother. “It is very disturbing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az807R-35Vg&feature=emb_title\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blount’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick announced last December he was moving to fire Blount and released video of the incident. However, Blount retired in February and has presumably been collecting a pension since then, according to a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Office had no direct comment on the criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We respect the independent criminal process,” a sheriff’s spokesman wrote in an emailed response. “We have nothing further.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal investigation conducted by the Santa Rosa Police Department was completed in May, and a charging decision in the case has since rested with District Attorney Jill Ravitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors in California can choose to directly file charges, which happens in the vast majority of cases, or to present potential criminal charges to the grand jury, which decides in secret whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed with a criminal charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued Friday, Ravitch said that “criminal grand juries are not unprecedented in Sonoma County”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In fact, they are frequently convened across the state, and in light of the obstacles presented with Covid-19, and the public safety issues in this case, we felt it made sense to submit this evidence to the grand jury for their consideration,” Ravitch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of criminal grand juries in cases of killings by law enforcement has come under scrutiny across the nation, including in Missouri following the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, and more recently, \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/523347-grand-juror-in-breonna-taylor-case-calls-kentucky-attorney-general-a\">in Kentucky\u003c/a> following the slaying of Breonna Taylor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a certain amount of political cover that is available to an elected official by proceeding this way,” said Schwaiger, the civil attorney representing Ward’s mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors could have pursued a far more serious charge against Blount, police accountability attorney Threet said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there is evidence to support a charge of second-degree murder,” Threet said, under the doctrine of implied malice. 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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area voters delivered strong support to a half-dozen measures that aim to strengthen independent oversight of local law enforcement, many spurred by a national movement demanding police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local measures come after the California Legislature this summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101879558/major-police-reform-bills-fail-in-california-legislature\">failed to pass\u003c/a> several major statewide police accountability bills — including one to remove police officers who commit serious misconduct — after facing strong opposition from law enforcement groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a rundown of each of those measures and how they fared on Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#S1\">Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#E\">San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#II\">Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#G\">San Jose: Measure G\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#P\">Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"S1\">\u003c/a>Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstators and OPD\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators face a police line on May 29, 2020 in Oakland during protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 80% of Oakland voters approved an effort to boost oversight of the city’s police force as of late Tuesday night. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/24-Measure-S1-City-of-Oakland-Police-Commussion.pdf\">Measure S1\u003c/a> — backed unanimously by the Oakland City Council — creates a new independent Office of the Inspector General and increases the authority of both the Oakland Police Commission and the Community Police Review Agency, which investigates complaints of officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure allows the commission and CPRA to hire attorneys independently of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure also requires Oakland’s police chief to respond to the commission’s requests for information and allows the City Council to suspend members of the commission for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent OIG is tasked with reviewing cases of police misconduct and submitting reports to the Police Commission and the Oakland City Council. It also oversees compliance with a 2003 settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit — known as the Riders case — when the city and Police Department entered into an agreement to address serious allegations of police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such an important issue,” City Council President Rebecca Kaplan said late Tuesday night, “that there be a trusted decision maker that isn’t part of the department so that you can build that trust and ensure accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes under Measure S1 touch on several sources of recent controversy in the Oakland Police Department. Former Chief Anne Kirkpatrick, fired in February, has targeted the Police Commission and the court-appointed federal monitor in a lawsuit alleging she was retaliated against for reporting malfeasance by commissioners and disagreeing with the monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg\" alt=\"seal of the SF sheriff's department\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition D comes in the wake of several high-profile allegations of misconduct in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco voters showed up with strong support for independent \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/sheriff-oversight\">oversight of the county Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a>, with more than 67% of ballots counted Tuesday in favor of Proposition D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"police-reform\"]The proposition creates two new bodies to bring independent oversight to the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department. The Office of Inspector General investigates misconduct within the department, and a seven-member oversight board will make policy recommendations regarding department operations, complaints against deputies and in-custody deaths. The sheriff, though, retains authority to determine any discipline against deputies and other staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, placed on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors, comes after major misconduct in the Sheriff’s Department. Deputies were criminally charged in 2016 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv5enm/san-francisco-sheriffs-deputies-accused-of-forcing-jailed-inmates-to-participate-in-fight-club\">arranging gladiator-style fights\u003c/a> between inmates in San Francisco County Jail. A subsequent botched internal investigation resulted in those charges being dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the department entered into an agreement allowing the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability to investigate a number existing allegations of misconduct. Proposition D, however, creates an oversight structure for the county that is separate from city Police Department oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As elected officials, California sheriffs have typically seen less civilian oversight than local police departments, which are accountable to mayors and city councils. That may be changing. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/uncategorized/2019/09/sheriff-power/\">Assembly Bill 1185, \u003c/a>which Gov. Gavin Newsom approved last month, codifies every county’s ability to establish a sheriff oversight board and inspector general’s office with subpoena powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD chief William Scott\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief William Scott listens during a town hall meeting at César Chávez Elementary School in the wake of a December 2019 police shooting in the Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters in San Francisco were also approving \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/police-staffing\">Proposition E\u003c/a> with more than 71% in favor as of Wednesday. The measure amends the city charter to scrap a mandatory minimum of 1,971 full-duty sworn police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition requires the department to submit a report and recommendation for police staffing levels every two years to the Police Commission. The commission would then have to consider the report when approving the department’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, San Francisco would have been in violation of its charter if it fell below the minimum staffing level, which the officers’ union charged that it routinely has in opposition to the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passage of Proposition E allows city leaders — including the mayor, supervisors and the Police Commission — to hire fewer full-duty officers, if they choose to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort aligns with recent proposals from Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott that aim to divert responses to some mental health-related issues and other non-violent complaints away from armed police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"II\">\u003c/a>Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley police line\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley police officers form a line on Telegraph Avenue during protests in December 2014 following a New York jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley voters were in support of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Clerk/Elections/Police%20Charter%20Question%20and%20Text.pdf\">Measure II\u003c/a> by a 5-to-1 margin Tuesday, which gives the city the go-ahead to scrap its existing Police Commission and replace it by early 2022 with a nine-member independent oversight body and director. The new Police Accountability Board will have the authority to access internal police records and seek officer testimony, investigate complaints filed by the public and recommend discipline. The board will also advise on the hiring of future police chiefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Introduced by a coalition of Berkeley police officials, City Council members and current oversight commissioners, Measure II will also give the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/post/berkeley-measure-ii-police-accountability-board#stream/0\">more time\u003c/a> to file complaints against police officers and lower the burden of proof in the process of investigating those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was an early adopter of civilian police oversight. Its current Police Review Commission was established in 1973, long before most other cities had even considered such entities. But some Berkeley residents and city leaders say it now lacks the authority of oversight bodies in cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"G\">\u003c/a>San Jose: Measure G\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers in riot gear block off a street in downtown San Jose on May 29, 2020, in advance of a large protest against police brutality, spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose voters were passing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/appointees/city-clerk/elections/measure-g-charter-amendment\">Measure G\u003c/a> with 78% yes votes as of Wednesday. It institutes a handful of fairly wide-ranging changes in the city — some unrelated to police accountability — including changing the size of the Planning Commission and allowing the council to establish different timelines for redistricting if U.S. census results arrive late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerning police oversight, Measure G will expand the review authority of the Independent Police Auditor. The IPA will now be able to review administrative investigations initiated by the Police Department against its officers and gain access to unredacted records related to police shootings and other serious use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes as the San Jose Police Department is being sued for its officers’ use of tear gas and projectiles against mostly peaceful demonstrators during the George Floyd protests in the city in late May and early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scandal also erupted this summer when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/sjpd-officers-mock-muslims-blm-protesters-on-facebook/\">blogger exposed\u003c/a> that current and former San Jose police officers swapped bigoted messages in a Facebook group, prompting the department to place four officers on leave. The Santa Clara County district attorney has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-22/social-media-scandal-santa-clara-police-charges-dropped\">announced plans to dismiss charges\u003c/a> in 14 criminal cases tainted by those officers’ involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"P\">\u003c/a>Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11818497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg\" alt=\"A screen shot from body camera video of the Nov. 27 in-custody of death of David Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward's face against the car's door frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-800x412.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-1020x525.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from body-camera video of the Nov. 27 police killing of David Glen Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward’s face against the car’s door frame. \u003ccite>(Via Sonoma County Sheriff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Sonoma County \u003ca href=\"http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CRA/Registrar-of-Voters/Elections/PDFs/Measure-P-IOLERO-November-3-2020/\">measure\u003c/a> seeking to increase power of the county’s independent oversight of its Sheriff’s Office was leading by wide margin Wednesday night. Over two-thirds of votes counted so far are in favor of the measure that drew strong opposition from the sheriff and deputies’ union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really hopeful that now that we have this outcome, they’ll shift gears and take the hand that’s been held out to them so we can improve these relationships,” said Jerry Threet, former director of Sonoma County’s Independent Office of Law Enforcement Outreach and supporter of Measure P.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure increases powers and budget of the office, which was created in the years following the 2013 killing of 13-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/andy-lopez/\">Andy Lopez\u003c/a>. Backers of the measure say the office known as IOLERO was underfunded from the start and has relied on the voluntary cooperation of the sheriff to provide access and allow for any substantive oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, which was put on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, requires the sheriff to cooperate with investigations and gives IOLERO authority to obtain evidence, contact witnesses and subpoena records. The office would also be able to publish body camera footage on its website and recommend disciplinary actions for officers under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure P also increases funding for the office, requiring that its budget be equal to 1% of the overall sheriff’s budget, and prohibits its directors from being removed unless approved by a four-fifths vote of the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes a year after former Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount, who had a history of misusing neck holds, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789667/in-custody-death-sonoma-county-deputy-lied-in-court-about-past-carotid-hold\">was caught on body camera video\u003c/a> slamming a man’s head into a car door frame following a chase after attempting to put him in a headlock through the driver’s side window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, David Glen Ward, who had a disability, subsequently died from his injuries according to coroner’s findings, which also found methamphetamine in his system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick moved to fire Blount, but the deputy was allowed to retire before he was officially disciplined and is now presumably collecting a pension. A criminal investigation into Ward’s death took months to complete and the Sonoma County district attorney has yet to make a charging decision in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure P was strongly \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/campaign-heats-up-on-sonoma-county-ballot-measure-to-beef-up-law-enforcemen/\">opposed\u003c/a> by the sheriff and the union representing its deputies. Its funding provision is expected to be challenged in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie and Kate Wolffe of KQED News contributed reporting to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area voters delivered strong support to a half-dozen measures that aim to strengthen independent oversight of local law enforcement, many spurred by a national movement demanding police reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local measures come after the California Legislature this summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101879558/major-police-reform-bills-fail-in-california-legislature\">failed to pass\u003c/a> several major statewide police accountability bills — including one to remove police officers who commit serious misconduct — after facing strong opposition from law enforcement groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a rundown of each of those measures and how they fared on Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#S1\">Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#D\">San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#E\">San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#II\">Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#G\">San Jose: Measure G\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#P\">Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"S1\">\u003c/a>Oakland: Measure S1\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstators and OPD\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43436_026_KQED_Oakland_GeorgeFloydProtest_05292020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators face a police line on May 29, 2020 in Oakland during protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 80% of Oakland voters approved an effort to boost oversight of the city’s police force as of late Tuesday night. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/24-Measure-S1-City-of-Oakland-Police-Commussion.pdf\">Measure S1\u003c/a> — backed unanimously by the Oakland City Council — creates a new independent Office of the Inspector General and increases the authority of both the Oakland Police Commission and the Community Police Review Agency, which investigates complaints of officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure allows the commission and CPRA to hire attorneys independently of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure also requires Oakland’s police chief to respond to the commission’s requests for information and allows the City Council to suspend members of the commission for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent OIG is tasked with reviewing cases of police misconduct and submitting reports to the Police Commission and the Oakland City Council. It also oversees compliance with a 2003 settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit — known as the Riders case — when the city and Police Department entered into an agreement to address serious allegations of police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is such an important issue,” City Council President Rebecca Kaplan said late Tuesday night, “that there be a trusted decision maker that isn’t part of the department so that you can build that trust and ensure accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes under Measure S1 touch on several sources of recent controversy in the Oakland Police Department. Former Chief Anne Kirkpatrick, fired in February, has targeted the Police Commission and the court-appointed federal monitor in a lawsuit alleging she was retaliated against for reporting malfeasance by commissioners and disagreeing with the monitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"D\">\u003c/a>San Francisco: Proposition D\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg\" alt=\"seal of the SF sheriff's department\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposition D comes in the wake of several high-profile allegations of misconduct in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco voters showed up with strong support for independent \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/sheriff-oversight\">oversight of the county Sheriff’s Department\u003c/a>, with more than 67% of ballots counted Tuesday in favor of Proposition D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The proposition creates two new bodies to bring independent oversight to the San Francisco County Sheriff’s Department. The Office of Inspector General investigates misconduct within the department, and a seven-member oversight board will make policy recommendations regarding department operations, complaints against deputies and in-custody deaths. The sheriff, though, retains authority to determine any discipline against deputies and other staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, placed on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Board of Supervisors, comes after major misconduct in the Sheriff’s Department. Deputies were criminally charged in 2016 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv5enm/san-francisco-sheriffs-deputies-accused-of-forcing-jailed-inmates-to-participate-in-fight-club\">arranging gladiator-style fights\u003c/a> between inmates in San Francisco County Jail. A subsequent botched internal investigation resulted in those charges being dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the department entered into an agreement allowing the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability to investigate a number existing allegations of misconduct. Proposition D, however, creates an oversight structure for the county that is separate from city Police Department oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As elected officials, California sheriffs have typically seen less civilian oversight than local police departments, which are accountable to mayors and city councils. That may be changing. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/uncategorized/2019/09/sheriff-power/\">Assembly Bill 1185, \u003c/a>which Gov. Gavin Newsom approved last month, codifies every county’s ability to establish a sheriff oversight board and inspector general’s office with subpoena powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"E\">\u003c/a>San Francisco: Proposition E\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD chief William Scott\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS40522_IMG_2406-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief William Scott listens during a town hall meeting at César Chávez Elementary School in the wake of a December 2019 police shooting in the Mission District. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters in San Francisco were also approving \u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/police-staffing\">Proposition E\u003c/a> with more than 71% in favor as of Wednesday. The measure amends the city charter to scrap a mandatory minimum of 1,971 full-duty sworn police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposition requires the department to submit a report and recommendation for police staffing levels every two years to the Police Commission. The commission would then have to consider the report when approving the department’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, San Francisco would have been in violation of its charter if it fell below the minimum staffing level, which the officers’ union charged that it routinely has in opposition to the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passage of Proposition E allows city leaders — including the mayor, supervisors and the Police Commission — to hire fewer full-duty officers, if they choose to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort aligns with recent proposals from Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott that aim to divert responses to some mental health-related issues and other non-violent complaints away from armed police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"II\">\u003c/a>Berkeley: Measure II\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11843553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley police line\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS13484_460085990-e1418082501731-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley police officers form a line on Telegraph Avenue during protests in December 2014 following a New York jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. \u003ccite>(Stephen Lam/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Berkeley voters were in support of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofberkeley.info/uploadedFiles/Clerk/Elections/Police%20Charter%20Question%20and%20Text.pdf\">Measure II\u003c/a> by a 5-to-1 margin Tuesday, which gives the city the go-ahead to scrap its existing Police Commission and replace it by early 2022 with a nine-member independent oversight body and director. The new Police Accountability Board will have the authority to access internal police records and seek officer testimony, investigate complaints filed by the public and recommend discipline. The board will also advise on the hiring of future police chiefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Introduced by a coalition of Berkeley police officials, City Council members and current oversight commissioners, Measure II will also give the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/post/berkeley-measure-ii-police-accountability-board#stream/0\">more time\u003c/a> to file complaints against police officers and lower the burden of proof in the process of investigating those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley was an early adopter of civilian police oversight. Its current Police Review Commission was established in 1973, long before most other cities had even considered such entities. But some Berkeley residents and city leaders say it now lacks the authority of oversight bodies in cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"G\">\u003c/a>San Jose: Measure G\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828875\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/IMG_8296-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers in riot gear block off a street in downtown San Jose on May 29, 2020, in advance of a large protest against police brutality, spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose voters were passing \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/appointees/city-clerk/elections/measure-g-charter-amendment\">Measure G\u003c/a> with 78% yes votes as of Wednesday. It institutes a handful of fairly wide-ranging changes in the city — some unrelated to police accountability — including changing the size of the Planning Commission and allowing the council to establish different timelines for redistricting if U.S. census results arrive late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerning police oversight, Measure G will expand the review authority of the Independent Police Auditor. The IPA will now be able to review administrative investigations initiated by the Police Department against its officers and gain access to unredacted records related to police shootings and other serious use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes as the San Jose Police Department is being sued for its officers’ use of tear gas and projectiles against mostly peaceful demonstrators during the George Floyd protests in the city in late May and early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scandal also erupted this summer when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseinside.com/news/sjpd-officers-mock-muslims-blm-protesters-on-facebook/\">blogger exposed\u003c/a> that current and former San Jose police officers swapped bigoted messages in a Facebook group, prompting the department to place four officers on leave. The Santa Clara County district attorney has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-22/social-media-scandal-santa-clara-police-charges-dropped\">announced plans to dismiss charges\u003c/a> in 14 criminal cases tainted by those officers’ involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"P\">\u003c/a>Sonoma County: Measure P\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11818497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11818497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg\" alt=\"A screen shot from body camera video of the Nov. 27 in-custody of death of David Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward's face against the car's door frame.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"988\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-800x412.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Blount-screen-shot-1-1020x525.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from body-camera video of the Nov. 27 police killing of David Glen Ward shows former Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount as he grabs Ward by the head, a few seconds before slamming Ward’s face against the car’s door frame. \u003ccite>(Via Sonoma County Sheriff)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Sonoma County \u003ca href=\"http://sonomacounty.ca.gov/CRA/Registrar-of-Voters/Elections/PDFs/Measure-P-IOLERO-November-3-2020/\">measure\u003c/a> seeking to increase power of the county’s independent oversight of its Sheriff’s Office was leading by wide margin Wednesday night. Over two-thirds of votes counted so far are in favor of the measure that drew strong opposition from the sheriff and deputies’ union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really hopeful that now that we have this outcome, they’ll shift gears and take the hand that’s been held out to them so we can improve these relationships,” said Jerry Threet, former director of Sonoma County’s Independent Office of Law Enforcement Outreach and supporter of Measure P.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure increases powers and budget of the office, which was created in the years following the 2013 killing of 13-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/andy-lopez/\">Andy Lopez\u003c/a>. Backers of the measure say the office known as IOLERO was underfunded from the start and has relied on the voluntary cooperation of the sheriff to provide access and allow for any substantive oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, which was put on the ballot by a unanimous vote of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, requires the sheriff to cooperate with investigations and gives IOLERO authority to obtain evidence, contact witnesses and subpoena records. The office would also be able to publish body camera footage on its website and recommend disciplinary actions for officers under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure P also increases funding for the office, requiring that its budget be equal to 1% of the overall sheriff’s budget, and prohibits its directors from being removed unless approved by a four-fifths vote of the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure comes a year after former Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Blount, who had a history of misusing neck holds, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789667/in-custody-death-sonoma-county-deputy-lied-in-court-about-past-carotid-hold\">was caught on body camera video\u003c/a> slamming a man’s head into a car door frame following a chase after attempting to put him in a headlock through the driver’s side window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, David Glen Ward, who had a disability, subsequently died from his injuries according to coroner’s findings, which also found methamphetamine in his system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick moved to fire Blount, but the deputy was allowed to retire before he was officially disciplined and is now presumably collecting a pension. A criminal investigation into Ward’s death took months to complete and the Sonoma County district attorney has yet to make a charging decision in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure P was strongly \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/campaign-heats-up-on-sonoma-county-ballot-measure-to-beef-up-law-enforcemen/\">opposed\u003c/a> by the sheriff and the union representing its deputies. Its funding provision is expected to be challenged in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie and Kate Wolffe of KQED News contributed reporting to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:45 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 4\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 20, a ballot measure that would have rolled back key portions of recent criminal justice reforms. The measure had more than 62% votes against it as of Wednesday at 3:35 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results illustrate how dramatically public opinion has shifted over the past two decades and indicate that voters do not feel California has gone too far in its efforts to reduce prison and jail populations and redirect money into rehabilitation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criminal justice reform advocates hailed the defeat of what they called “the prison spending scam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Voters] support the reforms that we’ve made, and they actually want us to keep moving toward rehabilitation … instead of just mindlessly locking up more and more people for nonviolent crime,” said Dan Newman, a consultant for the No on Prop. 20 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 20, backed by police and prosecutors, was aimed at making it easier to put some people in jail for theft, while making it harder for thousands of state prisoners to qualify for parole consideration. It also would have expanded DNA collection of people convicted of some misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on Proposition 20\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/proposition-20-crime-prosecutors-law-enforcement,Proposition 20: Should California increase penalties for certain property crimes and repeated parole violations? Should it be harder to qualify for early parole and release?' link2='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results#californiapropositions,Proposition 20: Election Results' hero=https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/10/KQED-Election-2020-Aside-Prop-20.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters argued that the measure would selectively roll back what they characterized as some of the more harmful reforms enacted in recent years, making it easier for communities to crack down on serial theft and ensuring that dangerous criminals aren’t eligible for early parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents, including state Democratic leaders, said it would send more people to jail and prison just as California is starting to get a handle on its overcrowded lockups, and that it would redirect millions of dollars from rehabilitation programs, victims services and other community programs back to incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement groups generally supported Proposition 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, voters also rejected Proposition 25, an effort to end cash bail in California. The measure was a referendum on Senate Bill 10, a law passed by the California Legislature and signed by former Gov. Jerry Brown two years ago. The law eliminated cash bail as an option for securing release from jail after an arrest, replacing it with a system that relies on risk assessments to advise judges, who would make the final call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Proposition 25 was rejected, the current cash bail system will remain in place.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article is co-published with \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/\">ProPublica\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two dozen groups on the Chinese-owned social media app WeChat have been circulating misinformation that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is “preparing to mobilize” the National Guard and “dispatch” the military to quell impending riots, apparently in an attempt to frighten Chinese Americans into staying home on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misinformation, which takes the form of a photo of a flyer and is in both English and Chinese, also warns that the government plans to impose a national two-week quarantine and close all businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will announce this as soon as they have troops in place to prevent looters and rioters,” it states. The flyer originally appeared on WeChat during the first surge of the pandemic, and it later spread to other social media. 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I’m sure that it’s pretty widespread,” said Shaw San Liu, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association in San Francisco, which has been tracking the flyer and other misinformation on WeChat. “We’re really concerned about making sure we get some good counterinformation, facts out there so that people are not discouraged because this is the last stretch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Carly Liu, San Francisco\"]‘It makes us feel more scared … I do think if there were (people) who were going to vote in-person on Nov. 3, they may definitely be deterred from going out in person.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahaku McFadden, a spokesperson for the National Guard, called the flyer “categorically false,” adding that DHS “does not have the authority to mobilize the National Guard,” which is under the control of state governors, and that “there is no discussion of a nationwide quarantine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ProPublica’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/electionland/\">Electionland\u003c/a> project first received a tip about the flyer from a San Francisco resident whose elderly mother received it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother is not proficient in English, but she read the Chinese part and started freaking out,” the woman, who gave her first name as Dora, said. “It is clearly to keep people from the polls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11844969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11844969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/CPA-Flyer-WeChat.jpg\" alt=\"flyer debunking disinformation on WeChat\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/CPA-Flyer-WeChat.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/CPA-Flyer-WeChat-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This flyer was created by the Chinese Progressive Association after reporting from KQED and ProPublica to combat misinformation in the Chinese community. \u003ccite>(Chinese Progressive Association)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although the Trump administration has tried to ban WeChat, a spate of recent misinformation on the app appears aimed at boosting the president’s reelection campaign by deterring Chinese Americans from voting Democratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shameful democrats, truly shameful,” runs one frequently shared message, which KQED translated from Chinese. “Without our consent, they made everyone permanent mail in ballot voters. Also, some people’s political registration has been changed to ‘independent’ or ‘democrat.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another asserts that “90 percent of media is controlled by Democrats, 60 percent of college professors are left wing. That means America’s population, culture, wealth, media, and education are in the hands of Democrats. Trump and Republicans are in a very dangerous situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owned by Shenzhen-based Tencent Holdings Ltd, WeChat is among the world’s largest social media apps, boasting more than 1 billion active monthly users, mostly in China. Chinese Americans, who once used it primarily to communicate with family back home, have increasingly formed chat groups on the app for everything from sharing recipes to organizing rent strikes. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/how-chinese-language-media-u-s-are-debunking-wechat-coronavirus-n1156621\">During the pandemic\u003c/a> and the presidential campaign, dozens of groups have promulgated misinformation without it being flagged or removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Saturday night, WeChat had received no recent complaints regarding the flyer about the National Guard, though there may have been some when the image first circulated in late March and early April, a person familiar with WeChat’s policies said. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, which have started to crack down on false information, WeChat is almost entirely reliant on individual users to report misinformation, the person said. Users agree on signing up not to post “fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive” information on the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='election-explainers']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person also said that, unlike some U.S.-based social media companies, WeChat has no specific relationship with the federal government to track or report misinformation. WeChat’s user base in this country is far smaller — “in the low single-digit millions” — than that of Facebook or Twitter. Asian Americans, many of whom reportedly use WeChat, make up 36% of San Francisco’s population. DHS officials said they were unaware of any efforts by WeChat or the federal government to partner to address election misinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration wrote a series of rules \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834806/wechat-ban-and-sfs-chinatown-how-trumps-plan-could-hurt-housing-rights-campaigns\">that would have effectively banned downloads of WeChat\u003c/a> and the video-sharing app TikTok in the U.S. this fall. On Sept. 20, the day they were to go into effect, a federal judge stayed the ruling, giving WeChat a reprieve. The app can be downloaded for free with no restrictions in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS officials said that the FBI handles most investigations of domestic misinformation and election interference. The FBI declined to comment on whether it is investigating the flyer or on any other interactions with WeChat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FBI remains in close touch with all of our interagency partners and social media and technology companies to enable a quick exchange of threat information,” said Sutton Roach, a spokesperson for the bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misinformation on WeChat is not a new phenomenon. A 2018 study by the Columbia Journalism Review found that political discourse on WeChat is “asymmetrically polarized” and “especially vulnerable to political misinformation” such as unfounded right-wing conspiracy theories. Most of this misinformation \u003ca href=\"https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/wechat-misinformation-china.php\">is spread in large chat rooms\u003c/a>, like the ones the Chinese Progressive Association has observed in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shaw San Liu, Chinese Progressive Association\"]‘This conflation of racial justice and Black Lives Matters with riots as a white right-wing talking point, that is very much being brought into the Chinese right-wing analysis.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After similar reports of misinformation in Australia, WeChat blocked Australian users from seeing the content of problematic accounts flagged by the Australian government. WeChat worked with Austrian regulators to help ensure that information on official accounts – which require verification and payment by account owners – complied with local laws banning the dissemination of misinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stemming the Tide\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Without intervention from WeChat, responsibility for pushing back against misinformation has often fallen on younger members of Chinese American families, said Kitty Fong, a San Francisco resident and president of the Rose Pak Democratic Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One evening in October, the 32-year-old Fong walked into her family kitchen to get some water. Her mother was cooking spare ribs and rice, and over the simmering meat she turned to Fong to ask if she’d heard the rumor on WeChat that riots were coming on the heels of the election, and that families should stock up on food and other goods. The flyer warning about mobilizing the National Guard also encourages people to “stock up on whatever you need to make sure you have a two week supply of everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carly Liu, a San Francisco resident who lives in the South of Market neighborhood, said she thinks that misinformation on WeChat has swayed her community. The messages echo claims on right-wing websites that presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter are corrupt and being investigated, and that there’s a media cover-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden “should be arrested and prosecuted for racketeering charges,” one WeChat message says. “This very serious case is ignored and censored by mainstream media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such messages “actually convinced some people to vote for Trump because they weren’t sure they can trust Biden,” Liu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she is not a U.S. citizen, Liu helped her parents, who are in their 80s, to vote. 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It would also add more than a dozen new crimes to the list of what’s considered “violent” in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could call it a “tough-on-crime” measure, but proponents of it are avoiding that rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This initiative does not increase the prison population,” said Richard Temple, a political consultant for Proposition 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the way Californians talk — and think — about criminal justice has shifted dramatically in the past few decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fernando Guerra, Loyola Marymount University political science professor\"]‘It used to be, even in California, that an effective campaign was to talk about law and order — that you were really, really for it as a Republican or that you weren’t against it as a Democrat.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, California led the nation in passing a spate of strict sentencing laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the harshest and most recognizable laws of that era was the 1994 three strikes law. The law put people in state prisons for decades after committing a third offense, even if it was a nonviolent crime. It passed with bipartisan support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be, even in California, that an effective campaign was to talk about law and order — that you were really, really for it as a Republican or that you weren’t against it as a Democrat,” said Fernando Guerra, a political science professor at Loyola Marymount University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state packed its prisons and spending ballooned, however, public sentiment slowly began to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prisons were so overcrowded that conditions inside were unconstitutional, the state finally acted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, lawmakers passed a bill mandating jail, instead of prison time, for most nonviolent crimes. Then in 2014, voters passed Proposition 47, decreasing penalties for drug use and petty theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, voters passed Proposition 57, letting thousands of prisoners qualify for early parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the changes were approved over the objections of law enforcement, who warned they’d lead to spikes in crime. Supporters of those measures say that never happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re in the midst right now of monumental decline in crime here in California,” said Maureen Washburn, a policy analyst at the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, which advocates for less incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2019, we actually reached the lowest level of crime in California in 50 years,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, those pushing a rollback of the reforms say there’s at least one area where crime has continued to climb: theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 20 consultant Temple said theft has increased by 30% since Proposition 47 passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 20 would make it easier to charge someone with felony theft and easier to send someone back to jail for violating their probation. And adding crimes such as domestic violence and rape of an unconscious person to the list of violent crimes would prevent thousands of prisoners from being considered for early parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temple said it’s a simple concept: People who have committed violent crimes shouldn’t be eligible for early release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in this moment of racial reckoning and amid calls for more oversight of police and prisons, Temple and other Proposition 20 proponents are quick to contend that the measure won’t send any new people to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s written there that no matter what your theft, nobody goes to prison for stealing in a store, for shoplifting,” he said. “They won’t go to prison. That’s in the initiative. It cannot happen, and it won’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technically, he’s right: Proposition 20 would likely send more people to county jails, not state prisons, while keeping some people in prison longer. However, for a ballot measure backed by prosecutors and police, the emphasis on keeping people out of prison is a noticeable shift away from “lock them up and throw away the key.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Temple also says Proposition 20 would help people with drug and mental health problems that are falling through the cracks. Many critics of Proposition 47 have complained for years that after the measure passed, prosecutors and courts lost leverage to push people into treatment. That’s because without the threat of jail time, some offenders would just take a misdemeanor conviction instead of agreeing to participate in rehabilitation programs to avoid jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How is this taking care of them — by letting them over and over steal and not get treatment?” Temple said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"election-2020\" label=\"election 2020 coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerra said this shift in language reflects the evolution that the state has gone through — voters aren’t willing to simply take law enforcement’s word for it that harsher laws are necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You say ‘law and order’ now, people ask, ‘OK, what does that mean?’ ” Guerra said. “In California and many progressive states, we’re not going to accept the slogan ‘law and order’ without some meat on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of Proposition 20 argue that despite the softer rhetoric from the other side, this is just the same playbook with a different script. 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"content": "\u003cp>A political action committee funded mainly by the Valero Energy company has raised more than a quarter-million dollars to convince Benicia residents to vote for its preferred candidate in the city's mayoral race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Antonio-based oil giant runs the Benicia refinery, one of California's largest, which is located in the small Solano County city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Christina Strawbridge, Benicia city councilwoman and mayoral candidate\"]'Once again, Valero has gone after my opponent with negative ads. That does not work in Benicia.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contributions to the Working Families for a Strong Benicia PAC represent four times the total combined amount raised from individual donations by the city's three mayoral candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mayor's race, Valero and one of its allied unions are supporting \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.benicia.ca.us/vertical/sites/%7BF991A639-AAED-4E1A-9735-86EA195E2C8D%7D/uploads/Christina_Strawbridge_Candidate_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christina Strawbridge\u003c/a>, a councilwoman and vice mayor, against Councilman \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.benicia.ca.us/vertical/sites/%7BF991A639-AAED-4E1A-9735-86EA195E2C8D%7D/uploads/Steve_Young_Candidate_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Young\u003c/a> — both Democrats — funding phone polls, digital ads and mailers and reigniting a debate over the city's future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2019, Valero has donated $240,000 to the committee. The donations come two years after the Valero-funded PAC spent thousands to help Strawbridge and Lionel Largaespada \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704576/valero-backed-candidates-win-benicia-city-council-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">win seats\u003c/a> on the Benicia City Council and defeat Kari Birdseye, an environmentalist candidate who supported tighter regulation of the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PAC also received a $25,000 contribution from the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Lodge 549 in what the union calls an effort to stop \"coastal politicians\" from killing manufacturing jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Steve Young wants Benicia to be a town where tech professionals buy a latte and telecommute. Christina Strawbridge wants it to be a place where our members who live in Benicia, who come home from work dirty and tired, can continue to raise their families, too,\" said Timothy Jefferies, the union's business manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Patterson, Benicia's current mayor and one of Valero's leading critics, is leaving office after serving in that position for 13 years and on the City Council for 17 years prior to that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election arrives as Valero and other oil companies that produce and process petroleum in California face declining sales because of the coronavirus pandemic and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841676/behind-the-battle-for-the-future-of-californias-oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increasing calls\u003c/a> for the state to move away from fossil fuels as it battles climate change-driven wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839077/strong-california-gas-demand-unlikely-to-return-as-even-refineries-go-renewable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gasoline demand dropping\u003c/a>, two of the Bay Area's refineries, the Marathon plant in Martinez and Phillips 66 in Rodeo, are shifting to producing renewable fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Thursday, Valero announced a \u003ca href=\"https://investorvalero.com/news/news-details/2020/Valero-Energy-Reports-Third-Quarter-2020-Results/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loss of $464 million in the third quarter\u003c/a> of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two worst refinery accidents in the Bay Area in the last three years took place at Valero's Benicia refinery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A May 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681218/cpuc-probe-says-pge-mistakes-led-to-benicia-refinery-outage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">power outage at the refinery\u003c/a> led to a major release of toxic sulfur, prompting city leaders to call for an industrial safety ordinance. In March 2019, the plant had a series of malfunctions that led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11737076/valeros-pollution-release-exposes-weaknesses-in-benicias-air-monitoring-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another significant pollution release\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patterson and Young have since pushed for the city to have more regulatory control over the refinery. Attacks from the Valero PAC followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Steve Young doesn't need a job because he is supported by the taxpayers of California. He has no reason to protect Benicia's jobs and tax base,\" states one of the recent mailers from the Valero PAC that was widely distributed to Benicia voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Christina is a local business owner and knows how important it is to keep Benicia working. Now, more than ever, we need leaders like Christina Strawbridge,\" it states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benicia residents have also received several rounds of calls paid for by the Valero-funded PAC, aimed at convincing voters to back Strawbridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Young: 'Leave it to Benicia Voters'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Young says he's not against the refinery, noting that it's a major part of Benicia's economy and that Valero frequently contributes to \"worthy local causes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the PAC is targeting him because he led a Planning Commission vote several years ago that ultimately led to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.benicia.ca.us/index.asp?SEC=B7EDC93A-FFF0-4A14-9B1A-1C8563BC256A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejection of Valero's crude-by-rail application\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their ongoing attempts to influence the makeup of the City Council go far beyond normal corporate interest in local affairs,\" Young said in an email. \"Leave it to Benicia voters to elect their own representatives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says he wants the company to be more transparent about problems and accidents at the refinery and to send out immediate alerts to Benicia residents when accidents occur. He also says the city should have stronger air quality monitoring systems in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The relationship between Valero and the community is strained,\" Young said, adding that city officials and refinery executives can change that by holding monthly meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young says he's a stronger candidate than Strawbridge because of his career working in local government and his better understanding of how to address problems facing the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Strawbridge: 'Heal the Divide'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Strawbridge says that since she was elected to the City Council in 2018, relations between Benicia and the refinery have improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes that while the city did not put in place the more stringent regulations that Young and Patterson wanted, Benicia reached an agreement with Valero that includes the addition of portable air monitors, notifications during hazardous material incidents and increased disclosure on incident investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"valero\"]But she also acknowledges that the campaign work by the company's PAC is not helping the two sides get along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The relationship needs to improve and may have had a setback with this election cycle and Valero's formation of a PAC,\" Strawbridge said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is now a continued lack of trust within the community about the methods used during the election that were similar to 2018,\" she added. \"Once again, Valero has gone after my opponent with negative ads. That does not work in Benicia.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strawbridge believes the pushback from Valero's critics has also gone too far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There has been a concerted effort to discredit me on social media and the local paper by supporters of my opponent,\" Strawbridge said. \"As mayor of Benicia, I plan to heal the divide our city has experienced for many years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strawbridge touts her experience promoting nonprofits, preserving historic buildings and advocating for parks and local tourism. She says her background in small business will help guide the city through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third mayoral candidate, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.benicia.ca.us/vertical/sites/%7BF991A639-AAED-4E1A-9735-86EA195E2C8D%7D/uploads/Jason_Diavatis_Candidate_Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Diavatis\u003c/a>, who has not been supported or opposed by the Valero PAC, did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Influence in California\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Valero's donations to the PAC represent just one place the oil company has made campaign contributions to influence California races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil giant and its various political action committees have contributed at least $14.1 million to California groups and congressional candidates in the state since 2015, according to a review of state and federal campaign finance data by \u003ca href=\"https://maplight.org/data/\">MapLight\u003c/a>, a Berkeley-based nonprofit that follows money in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Kaune, the Benicia PAC's treasurer and head of political law at Nielsen Merksamer, a Sacramento-based lobbying firm, declined to comment. 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