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Once she began shining her light into the dark corners of City Hall, she didn’t let up, and I think the city’s better off for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCME and Serrano Sewell did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The missing skull eventually set the events in motion for Kominek-Adachi’s firing, the suit argues. The U.S. Department of Justice had ordered the OCME to improve its records of missing and unidentified persons, a task assigned to Kominek-Adachi. According to the suit, San Francisco had fallen behind on identifying unclaimed human remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2020-2023, San Francisco has reported 1,487 unidentified or unclaimed individuals, city data shows. If the bodies can’t be identified or no next of kin is found, the city cremates the deceased and \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/02/san-francisco-unclaimed-dead-names/\">scatters\u003c/a> their ashes at the Golden Gate.[aside postID=news_12072450 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKernCountyGetty.jpg']The OCME’s website said that in the overwhelming majority of death cases, it identifies the subject within 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In depositions, staff alleged that the skull had been last seen in reconstruction clay, which made it look like a mannequin head. Kominek-Adachi argued that Serrano Sewell, who thought that the skull was a prop, threw it away during the viewing room cleaning, which was needed for inspection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was total incompetence,” Kominek-Adachi told KQED. “He has an office job and had no business handling remains.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, records obtained by the \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/02/06/human-skull-missing-medical-examiner-employee-lawsuit/\">\u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> connected the head to an unidentified man found dead near an encampment in the city’s Lake Merced neighborhood. Depositions with other OCME employees show that attempts weren’t made to locate the skull until “it was on the news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The skull was a critical element in the OCME’s ability to identify Doe #82’s remains,” the suit alleges. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The OCME’s website said that in the overwhelming majority of death cases, it identifies the subject within 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In depositions, staff alleged that the skull had been last seen in reconstruction clay, which made it look like a mannequin head. Kominek-Adachi argued that Serrano Sewell, who thought that the skull was a prop, threw it away during the viewing room cleaning, which was needed for inspection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was total incompetence,” Kominek-Adachi told KQED. “He has an office job and had no business handling remains.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, records obtained by the \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/02/06/human-skull-missing-medical-examiner-employee-lawsuit/\">\u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> connected the head to an unidentified man found dead near an encampment in the city’s Lake Merced neighborhood. Depositions with other OCME employees show that attempts weren’t made to locate the skull until “it was on the news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The skull was a critical element in the OCME’s ability to identify Doe #82’s remains,” the suit alleges. However, it said Serrano Sewell “made no effort to initiate an investigation into the whereabouts of the skull,” nor did he respond to Kominek-Adachi’s emails about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he allegedly tried to stop her from getting a promotion by illegally directing her to take a polygraph test that other candidates for the position were not required to take. When she was ultimately promoted, she was given a temporary position, a loophole that allowed her to be fired at will, the suit states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11957423 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67658_230802-CityHallSanFrancisco-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The dome of an ornate building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67658_230802-CityHallSanFrancisco-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67658_230802-CityHallSanFrancisco-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67658_230802-CityHallSanFrancisco-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67658_230802-CityHallSanFrancisco-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67658_230802-CityHallSanFrancisco-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67658_230802-CityHallSanFrancisco-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall on Aug. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, Kominek-Adachi and Serrano Sewell became embroiled in a state consumer affairs case against a funeral home in Placer County, which refused to cremate Kominek-Adachi’s grandmother, the suit states. Although she said her complaint was a personal matter, the funeral home contacted the OCME, which Serrano Sewell allegedly seized upon as an opportunity to terminate her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court records show that Serrano Sewell said he found the skull in February 2024, after multiple other employees “diligently searched for it and couldn’t find it,” Urbanic said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was only after Ms. Kominek was fired that they found the skull, and that’s its own story,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance to approve the settlement will be introduced on Tuesday and then assigned to the Government Audit and Oversight Committee, before the Board of Supervisors finalizes the settlement over the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ahall\">\u003cem>Alex Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A group of detained immigrants who say their rights are being violated at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070519/california-senators-visit-immigration-jail-ahead-of-looming-ice-funding-bill-deadline\">California City immigration detention facility\u003c/a> in the Mojave Desert will get their first day in court on Friday before a federal judge in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/gomez-ruiz-et-al-v-ice\">lawsuit\u003c/a> alleges that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071297/bay-area-congressman-ramps-up-push-to-bring-ice-detention-conditions-to-light\">conditions at the 2,560-bed immigration jail\u003c/a> operated by a for-profit contractor are so bad that they violate the Constitution and a law meant to protect people with disabilities. It points to meager medical care, inadequate access to lawyers and an environment so punishing it’s worse than a high-security prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit comes as a record number of people are being held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention — more than 70,000 as of late January — and a growing number of them are dying. There were 32 deaths in 2025, the highest in two decades, and ICE has reported that six people have died in custody since the start of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The detainees are asking U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney to order ICE to ensure that conditions improve so they comply with the Rehabilitation Act and the 1st and 5th amendments to the Constitution. They’re also asking her to make the case a class action to cover everyone held at the California City facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly three-quarters of the roughly 1,000 people held at the detention center, 100 miles north of Los Angeles and 75 miles east of Bakersfield, have no criminal conviction. And in any case, immigration detention is a civil matter, not a sentence for a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Cody Harris, a partner at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, who’s part of a team representing the detainees, said people are locked in their cells facing the wall for headcounts four times a day and are not allowed contact visits where they can hug their children or other loved ones. He called it draconian and cruel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CoreCivicKQED3-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CoreCivic Inc. California City Immigration Processing Center in California City, California, in June 2025. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These are people who went out to the doctor, or went to get food at a restaurant, and they were apprehended,” Harris said. “They’ve never been in a jail, they’ve never been in a prison, and then suddenly they’re finding themselves in this remote facility with barbed wire everywhere and they’re being treated worse than the highest-security criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also alleges a dire lack of medical care, even for life-threatening conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late December, Chesney intervened for two men — one with a serious heart condition, the other with symptoms of cancer — who had been waiting months for care. The judge, who was appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton, ordered ICE to ensure the men see specialists and get treatment promptly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said ICE and CoreCivic, the company that owns and operates the former prison in California City, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054544/californias-newest-immigration-facility-is-also-its-biggest-is-it-operating-legally\">opened it in haste last August\u003c/a>, unprepared to handle even routine medical needs, let alone serious ones.[aside postID=news_12070519 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/AlexPadillaAdamSchiffAP.jpg']“Their staffing was not ready, their training was not ready, the facility itself wasn’t ready,” he said. “They set out to make this the biggest immigration detention facility in the entire state … and they just weren’t ready to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE and the Department of Homeland Security dispute the allegations. In court filings, they argue that the law does not require them to treat detainees better than prisoners and say the California City facility has an experienced warden who follows ICE’s detention standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say plaintiffs’ complaints about health care reflect isolated lapses, not systemic problems, and that the staff now meets medical needs in a timely way. And they say they allow detainees access to legal counsel, subject to the facility’s “operational limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE generally does not comment on pending litigation, but in this case, DHS sent KQED a statement from spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin that reads in part: “Any claims there are subprime conditions at the California City detention center are FALSE…. This type of garbage about ICE facilities is contributing to our officers facing an 8000% increase in death threats against them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin has cited the 8,000% figure repeatedly in recent months, but DHS has not offered publicly verifiable data to support the claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin said detainees get nutritious meals, access to phones to contact family and lawyers, and disability accommodations. She said comprehensive medical care is provided “from the moment an alien enters ICE custody.” She added: “The average illegal alien gets far more due process than most Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869381\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Adelanto Detention Facility is the largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in California. The private GEO Group manages the facility. Organizers signal that distrust of for-profit prison operators like GEO Group and Core Civic among detained migrants could complicate the process to vaccinate this population. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the government is also asking that the case be moved from San Francisco to a court in the Eastern District of California, which includes Kern County, where the California City facility is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the detainees say the case should stay in San Francisco because the ICE field office that sends arrested immigrants to California City is located here, and the Eastern District has a severe shortage of judges, which could delay the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, detainees at another California ICE facility, the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County, \u003ca href=\"https://publiccounsel.org/press-releases/adelanto-detainees-file-federal-lawsuit-challenging-inhumane-conditions-at-adelanto-ice-processing-center/\">filed a similar lawsuit\u003c/a>. That suit alleges ICE denies critical medical care, adequate nutrition and sanitation, and abuses solitary confinement at Adelanto. Two men died in ICE custody at Adelanto last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said, regardless of how Americans feel about immigration, he hoped they could agree that the government has a legal and moral duty to treat people in custody with human dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government can’t just lock people up and treat them however it likes and throw away the key until it deports them. It has some basic obligations,” he said. “How you treat people you’re detaining says a lot about your values as a country. And right now, what’s being said is pretty ugly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Their staffing was not ready, their training was not ready, the facility itself wasn’t ready,” he said. “They set out to make this the biggest immigration detention facility in the entire state … and they just weren’t ready to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE and the Department of Homeland Security dispute the allegations. In court filings, they argue that the law does not require them to treat detainees better than prisoners and say the California City facility has an experienced warden who follows ICE’s detention standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say plaintiffs’ complaints about health care reflect isolated lapses, not systemic problems, and that the staff now meets medical needs in a timely way. And they say they allow detainees access to legal counsel, subject to the facility’s “operational limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE generally does not comment on pending litigation, but in this case, DHS sent KQED a statement from spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin that reads in part: “Any claims there are subprime conditions at the California City detention center are FALSE…. This type of garbage about ICE facilities is contributing to our officers facing an 8000% increase in death threats against them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin has cited the 8,000% figure repeatedly in recent months, but DHS has not offered publicly verifiable data to support the claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin said detainees get nutritious meals, access to phones to contact family and lawyers, and disability accommodations. She said comprehensive medical care is provided “from the moment an alien enters ICE custody.” She added: “The average illegal alien gets far more due process than most Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11869381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11869381\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/GettyImages-450371267-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Adelanto Detention Facility is the largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in California. The private GEO Group manages the facility. Organizers signal that distrust of for-profit prison operators like GEO Group and Core Civic among detained migrants could complicate the process to vaccinate this population. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the government is also asking that the case be moved from San Francisco to a court in the Eastern District of California, which includes Kern County, where the California City facility is located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the detainees say the case should stay in San Francisco because the ICE field office that sends arrested immigrants to California City is located here, and the Eastern District has a severe shortage of judges, which could delay the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, detainees at another California ICE facility, the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County, \u003ca href=\"https://publiccounsel.org/press-releases/adelanto-detainees-file-federal-lawsuit-challenging-inhumane-conditions-at-adelanto-ice-processing-center/\">filed a similar lawsuit\u003c/a>. That suit alleges ICE denies critical medical care, adequate nutrition and sanitation, and abuses solitary confinement at Adelanto. Two men died in ICE custody at Adelanto last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris said, regardless of how Americans feel about immigration, he hoped they could agree that the government has a legal and moral duty to treat people in custody with human dignity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal government can’t just lock people up and treat them however it likes and throw away the key until it deports them. It has some basic obligations,” he said. “How you treat people you’re detaining says a lot about your values as a country. And right now, what’s being said is pretty ugly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When images of FBI agents carrying boxes out of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">Sheng Thao\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> home hit the news and social media in June of 2024, it was the public’s first glimpse of a possible investigation of the then-mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But records now show that agents had been working for over a year on the probe that led to the indictment of Thao, her partner Andre Jones and businessmen David and Andy Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And two weeks prior to the raids, they had sat down for the first time with a man who would become a key informant in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, referred to in a January 2025 indictment as “Co-conspirator 1,” was allegedly involved in the bribery scheme, but has not been charged. His credibility — and the degree to which federal investigators relied on his claims — has now become one of the central fault lines in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is widely assumed to be Oakland businessman and former city council candidate, Mario Juarez. Juarez declined KQED’s request for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the dispute is a question that could shape what evidence against Oakland’s former mayor a jury ultimately sees: Did federal agents rely too heavily on a deeply controversial informant to secure search warrants of the defendants’ homes, vehicles and businesses — or did they already have enough evidence without him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022788\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheng Thao, center, stands next to her attorney, Jeff Tsai, left, as he makes a statement outside of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As defense attorneys push to suppress evidence they say was tainted by incomplete information about Juarez’s credibility, the outcome could determine how much of the government’s case survives to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors last year charged Thao, Jones and David and Andy Duong with bribery, conspiracy and fraud. They allege Thao agreed to use her power to extend the Duongs’ recycling contract, commit the city to purchase homes from a housing company co-owned by the Duongs and appoint city officials selected by the Duongs and Co-Conspirator 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange, the Duongs financed negative campaign mailers targeting Thao’s opponents in the 2022 mayoral election and paid Jones for a no-show job, prosecutors allege.[aside postID=news_12064908 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00001-1020x681.jpg']All four defendants have pleaded not guilty. The case is scheduled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064908/judge-sets-2026-trial-date-in-bribery-case-of-former-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go to trial in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, defense attorneys began raising questions about Juarez’s past. They described a decadeslong history of fraud, including instances where they say Juarez falsely accused business partners of illegal activity in an effort to escape liability for his own actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez did the same in this case, they allege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The origin of the present case is yet another [Co-Conspirator 1] fraud scheme gone wrong,” attorneys for Andy Duong wrote in a Dec. 4 filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys are now asking a judge to suppress evidence seized with search warrants they say rested heavily on Juarez’s claims and are calling for a hearing where they can question the FBI agents who wrote them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors, however, say their evidence goes far beyond Juarez’s word. They argue investigators had already built a substantial case before Juarez ever spoke to the FBI — and that at least one judge was explicitly told his statements were not required to establish probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides are set to make their arguments on March 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Juarez’s alleged ‘counter-attack history’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Questions around Juarez’s credibility first emerged in October when David Duong filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062614/defense-in-oakland-corruption-case-files-motion-targeting-key-informants-credibility\">a legal challenge called a Franks motion\u003c/a>, accusing the FBI of not disclosing the full picture of Juarez’s background in a June 2024 search warrant affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Franks motion is a way for a defendant to challenge a search warrant by arguing that a law enforcement officer intentionally or recklessly made false statements or left out important information in an affidavit supporting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Duong’s attorneys, Juarez was sued approximately 33 times between 1992 and 2022, including numerous fraud cases involving former business partners. They say those cases reveal a consistent tactic: accusing others of wrongdoing when business relationships collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even a cursory review of those matters and related press reports demonstrates that Co-Conspirator 1 has a history of diverting monies entrusted to him and accusing his business partners of misdeeds to try to discredit them and avoid paying his debts,” they wrote in the Oct. 31 motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one example, the lawyers cite, attorney Sandra Raye Mitchell was working for a couple that owned a commercial real estate property in Oakland’s Fruitvale district in 2010. The clients were attempting to evict Juarez and others from the property and were suing them in federal court. During one of her visits to the property, Mitchell told police, Juarez hit her arm and ripped her jacket, causing buttons to come off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a request for a restraining order, Juarez alleged Mitchell had attacked \u003cem>him.\u003c/em> A woman claimed in a sworn statement that she had witnessed Mitchell hitting herself and ripping off her own clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge barred Juarez from harassing, striking or threatening Mitchell, but Juarez successfully appealed the decision on the grounds that the judge didn’t offer him or his witnesses an opportunity to speak at the hearing. Mitchell declined to comment on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao’s attorneys point to the episode as an early example of what they call Juarez’s “counter-attack” history — a pattern of alleging misconduct by others in response to accusations and lawsuits lodged against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another example, Juarez filed a restraining order against a man who sued him for fraud.[aside postID=news_12061916 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250902_SANLEANDROCITYHALL_GH-2-KQED.jpg']Mauro and Hilda Bucio alleged in an August 2011 lawsuit that Juarez, who had been their real estate agent, had failed to repay $220,000 the couple had loaned him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez filed a restraining order against Mauro Bucio the following year, alleging that he followed him at an event and hit him, causing Juarez to fear for his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Martinez, an Emeryville-based attorney who represented the Bucios in their claim against Juarez, told KQED the assault didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My client didn’t do any of that,” he said. “I think it was an anaemic attempt to gain an advantage in our litigation, but he didn’t follow through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a third example, Juarez in 2024 accused then-Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price of charging him with passing bad checks in retaliation for refusing to donate to her anti-recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez alleged that Price had pulled him aside at a gathering and said that, as DA, she could help Juarez, but that he would “need to show love and support to her” in the form of a $25,000 donation to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just was ridiculous to me, the allegation,” Price said in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Juarez was eventually dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>He is a very disingenuous, deceitful person who will say anything to avoid responsibility. That’s what he does. He defrauds people all the time,” Price added. “And so one would be wise to make sure that you have evidence to support anything, that you can verify what he says. And I presume that they have done that,” she said, referring to the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Jan. 14 filing, federal prosecutors pointed out that, in fact, they did have evidence to verify what Juarez had told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The government’s investigation revealed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say the FBI began its investigation in early 2023 of the alleged bribery scheme involving Thao and the others — long before agents began speaking with Juarez. They argue that Juarez did not initiate the case, but rather entered an investigation that was already well underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to federal prosecutors, agents began investigating Juarez after learning he had failed to pay for a negative campaign mailer targeting Thao’s rivals in the lead-up to the 2022 election. Juarez and the Duongs at that point had gone into business together on Evolutionary Homes, a company that aimed to convert shipping containers into housing for the homeless and sell them to local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a May 2024 911 call, Juarez alleged that a member of the Duong family had ordered a group of 10 men to assault him. Andy Duong later told a district attorney inspector a different story about that incident: that his family had walked away from their investment after Juarez only delivered two homes. Juarez, he said, had shown up at California Waste Solutions and held him and his father for hours, demanding money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991627\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents raid the Maiden Lane home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Juarez spoke to the FBI pursuant to a proffer agreement, which allows an individual to speak with the government and not have their statements used against them in court proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the spring of 2024, the government had amassed a significant amount of documentary evidence tying each of the Defendants and Co-Conspirator 1 to the conspiracy, including incriminating text messages, Apple notes, calendar entries, financial records showing the corrupt payments, phone records showing significant communication among Defendants at key points relating to the agreements and payments, and other documentary evidence relating to the scheme,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on this evidence alone, they wrote, two separate judges had signed off on four previous warrants for the defendants’ iCloud accounts, email accounts and cell phone location data. The government presented the same evidence when it sought the June 2024 residential search warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Co-Conspirator 1’s statements were included for merely ‘context and completeness,’ and explicitly informed the magistrate judge that these statements to law enforcement were not necessary to a finding of probable cause,” they wrote.[aside postID=news_12052003 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty.jpg']In a legal filing this week, Thao’s attorneys pushed back on that argument, saying that the documentary chain of evidence establishing Thao’s involvement in the scheme relies on Juarez’s text messages and notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also pointed out they had warned the magistrate judge in a multipage footnote about information relevant to Juarez’s credibility, and described his possible motivations for cooperating with the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the affidavit made clear that Co-Conspirator 1 “appears to be … motivated by revenge against the Duongs and a desire to obtain protection from law enforcement from the Duongs, among any number of other potential personal motivations he may have” and also that Co-Conspirator 1 “appears to be talking ‘with the hope of obtaining some form of leniency in exchange.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information about Juarez’s past that defendants claim the FBI left out of the affidavit consisted in part of “decades-old unsworn civil complaints,” news articles and other information, they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those complaints and other materials, at most, establish “that Co-Conspirator 1 has been repeatedly \u003cem>accused\u003c/em> of fraud in civil litigation over the years,” they argued. “It is a far cry, however, from the ‘decadeslong pattern of repeatedly being found liable for defrauding business partners,’ that Defendants purport it to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors admit that the FBI agent who wrote the June 14, 2024, affidavit was not aware of every detail of Juarez’s past legal issues when it was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, they argue, he was not responsible for doing the additional investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants “cite no precedent for the suggestion that agents must search and disclose all court records related to civil lawsuits related to informants, nor could they,” the filing reads. What’s more, they argue, given the information the government did disclose, not including every detail of Juarez’s civil litigation history, “cannot be considered to be reckless or material” — a key element of meeting the Franks standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 2024 shooting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Defendants also accuse the FBI of leaving out key information about a June 9, 2024, shooting that took place in front of Juarez’s Fruitvale home three days after he first spoke with agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Duong’s attorneys, the June 14 search warrant affidavit had framed the shooting as a possible attempt to murder Juarez, orchestrated by the Duongs because they had learned he was cooperating with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to prosecutors, FBI agents believed at the time that the shooting could have been a targeted attack by the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11992169 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Waste Solutions worker empties recycling bins in the Rockridge neighborhood on April 22, 2020, in Oakland, California. A campaign finance investigation into the city’s curbside recycling contractor has received renewed attention since the FBI raids. \u003ccite>(Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Given that the shooting occurred three days after Co-Conspirator 1 spoke to federal law enforcement, Co-Conspirator 1’s prior allegations that the Duongs had directed an assault on him, as well as suspicious phone tolls leading up to the shooting, the FBI believed that Co-Conspirator 1 may have been part of a targeted attack instigated by the Duongs,” the government’s filing reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Duong’s attorneys allege Juarez lied to law enforcement about what happened that night in an attempt to incriminate the Duongs and save himself from his own legal troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The affidavit omits evidence, collected by the FBI immediately after the shooting, that suggests the shooting was not an assassination attempt but a botched car burglary,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the government’s filing, Juarez had initially reported to OPD and the FBI that he confronted two individuals breaking into this vehicle, one of whom shot at him, and he returned fire. Months later, FBI agents ascertained through analysis of Juarez’s interview after the shooting, surveillance footage and Shot Spotter reports that Juarez likely shot first, rather than returning fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they interviewed him again, he changed his story, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Duong talks with attendees after a private screening of The King of Trash on Jan. 10, 2026, at Regal Jack London in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“During that interview, Co-Conspirator 1 stated that he shot first after another individual pointed a firearm at him, and he believed his life was in danger,” the filing reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez said he couldn’t recall what he initially told OPD about the shooting and that he might have miscommunicated about the sequence of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During that interview, Co-Conspirator 1 continued to state that he believed the shooting was orchestrated by the Duongs,” the filing states.[aside postID=news_12070619 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20251022_Bobby-Seale-Way_AA_023_qed.jpg']Despite that, prosecutors argue that even if the FBI agent had known Juarez shot first, it would not have undermined his belief that the shooting was targeted, since it took place three days after the FBI interviewed Juarez and because of Juarez’s allegation that he had been previously assaulted in an attack orchestrated by the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue that Juarez’s inconsistent statements about the shooting and the other details about his “stale civil allegations of fraud” would not have changed the judge’s decision to sign off on the warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the judge grants the Franks hearing, in order for the evidence to be suppressed, attorneys would need to prove that it’s more likely than not that the information left out was material to a finding of probable cause and that the FBI agent did not include it intentionally or with a reckless disregard for the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not sufficient to show that the agent made a simple mistake, Stanford criminal law professor Robert Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not enough to show that the [FBI agent] goofed,” Weisberg said. “It’s not enough to show that he was negligent in doing so. Rather, you have to show that the FBI agent at least strongly suspected that he was not giving information that was clearly relevant to the question of probable cause, and maybe sort of was gambling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event there is a Franks hearing, both sides could present evidence and witnesses in open court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why Frank’s hearings can be dramatic,” he said. “It comes pretty close to calling the FBI agent a liar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is widely assumed to be Oakland businessman and former city council candidate, Mario Juarez. Juarez declined KQED’s request for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the dispute is a question that could shape what evidence against Oakland’s former mayor a jury ultimately sees: Did federal agents rely too heavily on a deeply controversial informant to secure search warrants of the defendants’ homes, vehicles and businesses — or did they already have enough evidence without him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022788\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022788\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheng Thao, center, stands next to her attorney, Jeff Tsai, left, as he makes a statement outside of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As defense attorneys push to suppress evidence they say was tainted by incomplete information about Juarez’s credibility, the outcome could determine how much of the government’s case survives to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors last year charged Thao, Jones and David and Andy Duong with bribery, conspiracy and fraud. They allege Thao agreed to use her power to extend the Duongs’ recycling contract, commit the city to purchase homes from a housing company co-owned by the Duongs and appoint city officials selected by the Duongs and Co-Conspirator 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange, the Duongs financed negative campaign mailers targeting Thao’s opponents in the 2022 mayoral election and paid Jones for a no-show job, prosecutors allege.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>All four defendants have pleaded not guilty. The case is scheduled to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064908/judge-sets-2026-trial-date-in-bribery-case-of-former-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go to trial in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, defense attorneys began raising questions about Juarez’s past. They described a decadeslong history of fraud, including instances where they say Juarez falsely accused business partners of illegal activity in an effort to escape liability for his own actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez did the same in this case, they allege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The origin of the present case is yet another [Co-Conspirator 1] fraud scheme gone wrong,” attorneys for Andy Duong wrote in a Dec. 4 filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys are now asking a judge to suppress evidence seized with search warrants they say rested heavily on Juarez’s claims and are calling for a hearing where they can question the FBI agents who wrote them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors, however, say their evidence goes far beyond Juarez’s word. They argue investigators had already built a substantial case before Juarez ever spoke to the FBI — and that at least one judge was explicitly told his statements were not required to establish probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sides are set to make their arguments on March 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Juarez’s alleged ‘counter-attack history’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Questions around Juarez’s credibility first emerged in October when David Duong filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062614/defense-in-oakland-corruption-case-files-motion-targeting-key-informants-credibility\">a legal challenge called a Franks motion\u003c/a>, accusing the FBI of not disclosing the full picture of Juarez’s background in a June 2024 search warrant affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Franks motion is a way for a defendant to challenge a search warrant by arguing that a law enforcement officer intentionally or recklessly made false statements or left out important information in an affidavit supporting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Duong’s attorneys, Juarez was sued approximately 33 times between 1992 and 2022, including numerous fraud cases involving former business partners. They say those cases reveal a consistent tactic: accusing others of wrongdoing when business relationships collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even a cursory review of those matters and related press reports demonstrates that Co-Conspirator 1 has a history of diverting monies entrusted to him and accusing his business partners of misdeeds to try to discredit them and avoid paying his debts,” they wrote in the Oct. 31 motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one example, the lawyers cite, attorney Sandra Raye Mitchell was working for a couple that owned a commercial real estate property in Oakland’s Fruitvale district in 2010. The clients were attempting to evict Juarez and others from the property and were suing them in federal court. During one of her visits to the property, Mitchell told police, Juarez hit her arm and ripped her jacket, causing buttons to come off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a request for a restraining order, Juarez alleged Mitchell had attacked \u003cem>him.\u003c/em> A woman claimed in a sworn statement that she had witnessed Mitchell hitting herself and ripping off her own clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge barred Juarez from harassing, striking or threatening Mitchell, but Juarez successfully appealed the decision on the grounds that the judge didn’t offer him or his witnesses an opportunity to speak at the hearing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mauro and Hilda Bucio alleged in an August 2011 lawsuit that Juarez, who had been their real estate agent, had failed to repay $220,000 the couple had loaned him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez filed a restraining order against Mauro Bucio the following year, alleging that he followed him at an event and hit him, causing Juarez to fear for his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Martinez, an Emeryville-based attorney who represented the Bucios in their claim against Juarez, told KQED the assault didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My client didn’t do any of that,” he said. “I think it was an anaemic attempt to gain an advantage in our litigation, but he didn’t follow through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a third example, Juarez in 2024 accused then-Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price of charging him with passing bad checks in retaliation for refusing to donate to her anti-recall campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez alleged that Price had pulled him aside at a gathering and said that, as DA, she could help Juarez, but that he would “need to show love and support to her” in the form of a $25,000 donation to the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just was ridiculous to me, the allegation,” Price said in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Juarez was eventually dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>He is a very disingenuous, deceitful person who will say anything to avoid responsibility. That’s what he does. He defrauds people all the time,” Price added. “And so one would be wise to make sure that you have evidence to support anything, that you can verify what he says. And I presume that they have done that,” she said, referring to the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Jan. 14 filing, federal prosecutors pointed out that, in fact, they did have evidence to verify what Juarez had told them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The government’s investigation revealed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say the FBI began its investigation in early 2023 of the alleged bribery scheme involving Thao and the others — long before agents began speaking with Juarez. They argue that Juarez did not initiate the case, but rather entered an investigation that was already well underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to federal prosecutors, agents began investigating Juarez after learning he had failed to pay for a negative campaign mailer targeting Thao’s rivals in the lead-up to the 2022 election. Juarez and the Duongs at that point had gone into business together on Evolutionary Homes, a company that aimed to convert shipping containers into housing for the homeless and sell them to local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a May 2024 911 call, Juarez alleged that a member of the Duong family had ordered a group of 10 men to assault him. Andy Duong later told a district attorney inspector a different story about that incident: that his family had walked away from their investment after Juarez only delivered two homes. Juarez, he said, had shown up at California Waste Solutions and held him and his father for hours, demanding money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991627\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents raid the Maiden Lane home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Juarez spoke to the FBI pursuant to a proffer agreement, which allows an individual to speak with the government and not have their statements used against them in court proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the spring of 2024, the government had amassed a significant amount of documentary evidence tying each of the Defendants and Co-Conspirator 1 to the conspiracy, including incriminating text messages, Apple notes, calendar entries, financial records showing the corrupt payments, phone records showing significant communication among Defendants at key points relating to the agreements and payments, and other documentary evidence relating to the scheme,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on this evidence alone, they wrote, two separate judges had signed off on four previous warrants for the defendants’ iCloud accounts, email accounts and cell phone location data. The government presented the same evidence when it sought the June 2024 residential search warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Co-Conspirator 1’s statements were included for merely ‘context and completeness,’ and explicitly informed the magistrate judge that these statements to law enforcement were not necessary to a finding of probable cause,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a legal filing this week, Thao’s attorneys pushed back on that argument, saying that the documentary chain of evidence establishing Thao’s involvement in the scheme relies on Juarez’s text messages and notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also pointed out they had warned the magistrate judge in a multipage footnote about information relevant to Juarez’s credibility, and described his possible motivations for cooperating with the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the affidavit made clear that Co-Conspirator 1 “appears to be … motivated by revenge against the Duongs and a desire to obtain protection from law enforcement from the Duongs, among any number of other potential personal motivations he may have” and also that Co-Conspirator 1 “appears to be talking ‘with the hope of obtaining some form of leniency in exchange.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information about Juarez’s past that defendants claim the FBI left out of the affidavit consisted in part of “decades-old unsworn civil complaints,” news articles and other information, they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those complaints and other materials, at most, establish “that Co-Conspirator 1 has been repeatedly \u003cem>accused\u003c/em> of fraud in civil litigation over the years,” they argued. “It is a far cry, however, from the ‘decadeslong pattern of repeatedly being found liable for defrauding business partners,’ that Defendants purport it to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors admit that the FBI agent who wrote the June 14, 2024, affidavit was not aware of every detail of Juarez’s past legal issues when it was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, they argue, he was not responsible for doing the additional investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defendants “cite no precedent for the suggestion that agents must search and disclose all court records related to civil lawsuits related to informants, nor could they,” the filing reads. What’s more, they argue, given the information the government did disclose, not including every detail of Juarez’s civil litigation history, “cannot be considered to be reckless or material” — a key element of meeting the Franks standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 2024 shooting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Defendants also accuse the FBI of leaving out key information about a June 9, 2024, shooting that took place in front of Juarez’s Fruitvale home three days after he first spoke with agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to David Duong’s attorneys, the June 14 search warrant affidavit had framed the shooting as a possible attempt to murder Juarez, orchestrated by the Duongs because they had learned he was cooperating with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to prosecutors, FBI agents believed at the time that the shooting could have been a targeted attack by the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11992169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11992169 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/CalWasteSolutionsWorker01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Waste Solutions worker empties recycling bins in the Rockridge neighborhood on April 22, 2020, in Oakland, California. A campaign finance investigation into the city’s curbside recycling contractor has received renewed attention since the FBI raids. \u003ccite>(Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Given that the shooting occurred three days after Co-Conspirator 1 spoke to federal law enforcement, Co-Conspirator 1’s prior allegations that the Duongs had directed an assault on him, as well as suspicious phone tolls leading up to the shooting, the FBI believed that Co-Conspirator 1 may have been part of a targeted attack instigated by the Duongs,” the government’s filing reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Duong’s attorneys allege Juarez lied to law enforcement about what happened that night in an attempt to incriminate the Duongs and save himself from his own legal troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The affidavit omits evidence, collected by the FBI immediately after the shooting, that suggests the shooting was not an assassination attempt but a botched car burglary,” they wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the government’s filing, Juarez had initially reported to OPD and the FBI that he confronted two individuals breaking into this vehicle, one of whom shot at him, and he returned fire. Months later, FBI agents ascertained through analysis of Juarez’s interview after the shooting, surveillance footage and Shot Spotter reports that Juarez likely shot first, rather than returning fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they interviewed him again, he changed his story, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011026_KingofTrash-_GH_003_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Duong talks with attendees after a private screening of The King of Trash on Jan. 10, 2026, at Regal Jack London in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“During that interview, Co-Conspirator 1 stated that he shot first after another individual pointed a firearm at him, and he believed his life was in danger,” the filing reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juarez said he couldn’t recall what he initially told OPD about the shooting and that he might have miscommunicated about the sequence of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During that interview, Co-Conspirator 1 continued to state that he believed the shooting was orchestrated by the Duongs,” the filing states.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite that, prosecutors argue that even if the FBI agent had known Juarez shot first, it would not have undermined his belief that the shooting was targeted, since it took place three days after the FBI interviewed Juarez and because of Juarez’s allegation that he had been previously assaulted in an attack orchestrated by the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue that Juarez’s inconsistent statements about the shooting and the other details about his “stale civil allegations of fraud” would not have changed the judge’s decision to sign off on the warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the judge grants the Franks hearing, in order for the evidence to be suppressed, attorneys would need to prove that it’s more likely than not that the information left out was material to a finding of probable cause and that the FBI agent did not include it intentionally or with a reckless disregard for the truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not sufficient to show that the agent made a simple mistake, Stanford criminal law professor Robert Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not enough to show that the [FBI agent] goofed,” Weisberg said. “It’s not enough to show that he was negligent in doing so. Rather, you have to show that the FBI agent at least strongly suspected that he was not giving information that was clearly relevant to the question of probable cause, and maybe sort of was gambling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the event there is a Franks hearing, both sides could present evidence and witnesses in open court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why Frank’s hearings can be dramatic,” he said. “It comes pretty close to calling the FBI agent a liar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>This \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/28/california-los-angeles-prison-solitary\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>story\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> was produced in collaboration between The Marshall Project and CatchLight as part of a three-year \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.catchlight.io/mental-health-details\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Mental Health Visual Desk Reporting Initiative.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning in July 2013, tens of thousands of California prisoners made history when they refused to eat. They were participating in a state-wide hunger strike, protesting policies that kept people locked in solitary confinement indefinitely. Hundreds of people in Pelican Bay State Prison, the state’s supermax facility near the Oregon state line, had been in \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/10/resource-PB-monitoring-stats.pdf\">isolation for over a decade\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most were sent to solitary, known as the Security Housing Unit (SHU), for being labeled gang members. But that designation could be based on evidence as thin as reading a certain book, knowing someone in a gang, or sketching an Aztec warrior, incarcerated people and attorneys reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 60 days of refusing food, and along with a \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/ashker-v-brown\">concurrent lawsuit\u003c/a>, the hunger strikers ultimately won \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/08/2015-09-01-Ashker-settlement-summary.pdf\">major policy changes\u003c/a> from the California corrections department. Among them was an agreement to move most people in long-term solitary back into the general population, giving many a renewed chance at parole. Now, back in the community and over a decade since the protest, these men are working to rebuild their lives, help others inside, and make sense of the trauma they endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photographer Brian L. Frank has been capturing this journey through portraits of people who were in solitary and who participated in the 2013 strike. The project primarily took place at Alcatraz, a site whose history echoes the experience of those in Pelican Bay. As a federal penitentiary, Alcatraz housed men who were deemed too dangerous for other facilities. Most were locked in small single cells. The prison, which closed in 1963, has since become a national park with exhibits exploring the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/thebiglockup.htm\">past and present\u003c/a> of incarceration in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank had photographed men inside the Pelican Bay SHU in 2014, on assignment for The Atlantic magazine. “It was a traumatizing and defining experience,” he said. “To think that I might be the only human from outside the prison they really spoke to, maybe in 10 years. It was something that stuck with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"998\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_02.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_02-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An incarcerated man paces in the “exercise yard” of the solitary unit at Pelican Bay prison in 2014. SHU prisoners spend roughly 23 hours a day in their cells and often less than an hour in the concrete yard, with a partially open roof — their only exposure to sunlight and fresh air. \u003ccite>(Brian L. Frank/CatchLight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Participants in the portrait series include strike leaders like Sitawa Jamaa, one of four members of the Short Corridor Collective who \u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/news/features/solitary-secure-housing-units-2014-2/?src=longreads\">organized the strike\u003c/a>. The Collective formed when its members were isolated in a specific section of Pelican Bay’s SHU, intended to cut them off from members of their alleged gangs. Instead, the four men formed a multiracial coalition that drafted an “agreement to end hostilities” among incarcerated people and planned the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care what label you put on any of us, you can’t keep us in the hole because of a label,” Jamaa said. “They keep you in there forever, unless you snitch. That ain’t fair. I never had an incident in 34 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank also photographed hunger striker Jack Morris in Los Angeles. Morris, who spent over 30 years in solitary confinement, came home in 2017 and now runs the reentry program for a community health clinic. “When I think of guys having to do time in solitary confinement, I can’t even begin to make a suggestion as to how to endure that,” he said. “Because I don’t know if I could survive again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071909 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_03-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_03-1536x1147.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solitary confinement cell at the Solitary Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay penitentiary. \u003ccite>(Brian L. Frank/CatchLight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While in the SHU at Pelican Bay, men were alone in their cells for roughly 23 hours a day, with every meal provided through a slot in their door. Many said they never received a phone call, unless a family member died. Visits with loved ones were behind a thick plexiglass window. And any time spent outside their cells to exercise took place in an open-air cement room, with walls so high they couldn’t see their surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had guys ask me, ‘Where are we in the world, where are we in the state?’” said psychologist Craig Haney, who studies the mental toll of long-term isolation. He has interviewed over 100 men in the SHU at Pelican Bay as an expert witness. “They could have been on Mars because they never got visually in contact with the world around them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was built in the late 1980s, the solitary unit at Pelican Bay was a new kind of incarceration, Haney said. Human contact between incarcerated people and officers was largely eliminated. Cell doors were operated by the push of a button, messages were communicated via intercom, and surveillance was done with cameras instead of officers making rounds.[aside postID=news_12059022 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/258_KQED_NewFolsomPrisonSacramento_04132023-1020x680.jpg']Haney’s research found that such prolonged isolation led to paranoia, anxiety, despair, anger and, eventually, numbness among people in the SHU. “When you’re in the SHU, you don’t feel,” said Frank Reyna, who spent 20 years in solitary at Pelican Bay. “If you feel, you start getting weak. When people die, you just move on. You lose your emotions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials had built a fortress designed to keep people away from each other. But locked alone in their cells, the men at Pelican Bay found any way they could to connect — by talking through their cell doors, the vents in the walls, or in cracks in the corners of their recreation cages.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People found different ways to pass time, and make what meaning they could. Jamaa organized reading groups on his tier, with men taking turns reading different passages to each other and analyzing the text. Many spent hours in the morning with fastidious workout routines. During the strike, Brian James at Corcoran prison, south of Fresno, found himself counting and re-counting the perforations on his cell door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were only three ways out of the SHU, prisoners concluded: “snitch, parole, or die.” To snitch meant to provide information on another alleged gang member, and open yourself to the risk of retaliatory violence. Parole was unlikely for those whom prison officials had deemed among “the worst of the worst.” The only way out of the Pelican Bay SHU, hunger strikers reasoned, was in a body bag. They had nothing to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the strike began, “there was something in front of me to reach for, or hope for,” said James. “You spend your life inside of a box alone. So to know I’m in solidarity with [so many] people, it gave me that push in the right direction. I immediately knew we were a part of something really big.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071918\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071918\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1466\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_04-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_04-1536x1126.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of concertina wire and flood lighting surround the solitary unit at Pelican Bay in 2014. \u003ccite>(Brian L. Frank/CatchLight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Participants remember how, after a few days of fasting, the tier grew quiet. Where there used to be the sounds of morning exercise routines and chatter between cells, people began to spend more time in bed, conserving their energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a growing chorus of activists outside the prison were amplifying their message. The strike made international news. Celebrities like Danny Glover and Jay Leno lent their support. Groups held frequent rallies outside state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolores Canales’ son was on hunger strike in the SHU in Corcoran prison. She and other family members organized the California Families Against Solitary Confinement to pressure the corrections department to change their policies. “I felt like they would probably let them starve to death before meeting any demands,” she said. “There was such an urgency that if we did not do something, it would never change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071919\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_06-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_06-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_06-2000x1332.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_06-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_06-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_06-2048x1364.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photograph of the Reyna family, with a young Frank at the bottom right, in front of his Los Angeles home. \u003ccite>(Brian L. Frank/CatchLight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a two-month strike, state lawmakers agreed to hold a hearing on the issue, and the men returned to eating. The protest had a long-lasting impact in California and beyond. In December 2012, before the strike, there were \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/10/resource-PB-monitoring-stats.pdf\">9,870 \u003c/a>men in some form of isolation in California state prisons. This past December, the most recent data available, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2026/01/STA429-010526-M.pdf\">there were 3,030\u003c/a>. The strike also sparked a nationwide movement against isolation — the next year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/23/shifting-away-from-solitary\">10 states\u003c/a> passed laws restricting its use. Many more states \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/reforming-solitary-confinement-without-high-court\">have since followed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the hunger strikers’ wins, the fight against the use of solitary continues. State activists are pushing for the \u003ca href=\"https://camandela.org/\">California Mandela Act on Solitary Confinement\u003c/a>, which would put strict limits on the length of isolation in state facilities, and ban it outright for pregnant people and people with disabilities. The act is named for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.unodc.org/documents/justice-and-prison-reform/Nelson_Mandela_Rules-E-ebook.pdf\">U.N. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners\u003c/a>, known as the Nelson Mandela Rules. Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/09/california-solitary-confinement-bill/\">vetoed a version\u003c/a> of the bill in 2022, calling it “overly broad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long-term fast, people need to return to eating very slowly, to avoid serious health complications. And after being starved of human contact, prisoners describe how they needed to also slowly readjust to being around people. Psychiatrist Terry Kupers called it the “SHU post-release syndrome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_09-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_09-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_09-2000x1332.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_09-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_09-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_09-2048x1364.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alcatraz Island, initially constructed as a military prison in the 1850s, was later converted into a maximum-security federal penitentiary until its closure in 1963. \u003ccite>(Brian L. Frank/CatchLight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When people get out of solitary, they isolate themselves,” Kupers said. “They dread crowds. They can’t look for a job. They don’t want to be near people they don’t know. I have mothers in the community calling me saying, ‘My kid will not come out of the room. What should I do?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyna came home to Los Angeles in October after over 38 years in prison. “Sometimes I could have a beautiful day, man, and then I just feel empty, like I’m back to where I was,” he said. “But now I can release things. My feelings are coming back. Now, I don’t care, I cry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cu>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thank you to the individuals who shared their time and stories to \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/28/california-los-angeles-prison-solitary\">make this project possible\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>With additional gratitude to Minister King X (Director, California Prison Focus/K.A.G.E Universal), \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.c-note.org/\">\u003cem>Donald C-Note Hooker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, Lundi Shackleton, and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy staff at Alcatraz and organizers of the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/alca/planyourvisit/formerly-incarcerated-speaker-series.htm\">\u003cem>Formerly Incarcerated Speaker Series. \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This project is dedicated to the memory and enduring legacy of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/article/unlocking-truth-how-alcatraz-changing-conversation-incarceration\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Stanford Chatfield \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>(1956-2025)\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Historical Interpreter at Alcatraz for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cu>CREDITS:\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>PHOTOGRAPHER: \u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Brian L. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photographer Brian L. Frank has been capturing this journey through portraits of people who were in solitary and who participated in the 2013 strike. The project primarily took place at Alcatraz, a site whose history echoes the experience of those in Pelican Bay. As a federal penitentiary, Alcatraz housed men who were deemed too dangerous for other facilities. Most were locked in small single cells. The prison, which closed in 1963, has since become a national park with exhibits exploring the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/thebiglockup.htm\">past and present\u003c/a> of incarceration in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank had photographed men inside the Pelican Bay SHU in 2014, on assignment for The Atlantic magazine. “It was a traumatizing and defining experience,” he said. “To think that I might be the only human from outside the prison they really spoke to, maybe in 10 years. It was something that stuck with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"998\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_02.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_02-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An incarcerated man paces in the “exercise yard” of the solitary unit at Pelican Bay prison in 2014. SHU prisoners spend roughly 23 hours a day in their cells and often less than an hour in the concrete yard, with a partially open roof — their only exposure to sunlight and fresh air. \u003ccite>(Brian L. Frank/CatchLight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Participants in the portrait series include strike leaders like Sitawa Jamaa, one of four members of the Short Corridor Collective who \u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/news/features/solitary-secure-housing-units-2014-2/?src=longreads\">organized the strike\u003c/a>. The Collective formed when its members were isolated in a specific section of Pelican Bay’s SHU, intended to cut them off from members of their alleged gangs. Instead, the four men formed a multiracial coalition that drafted an “agreement to end hostilities” among incarcerated people and planned the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care what label you put on any of us, you can’t keep us in the hole because of a label,” Jamaa said. “They keep you in there forever, unless you snitch. That ain’t fair. I never had an incident in 34 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank also photographed hunger striker Jack Morris in Los Angeles. Morris, who spent over 30 years in solitary confinement, came home in 2017 and now runs the reentry program for a community health clinic. “When I think of guys having to do time in solitary confinement, I can’t even begin to make a suggestion as to how to endure that,” he said. “Because I don’t know if I could survive again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071909 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_03-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_03-1536x1147.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solitary confinement cell at the Solitary Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay penitentiary. \u003ccite>(Brian L. 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Human contact between incarcerated people and officers was largely eliminated. Cell doors were operated by the push of a button, messages were communicated via intercom, and surveillance was done with cameras instead of officers making rounds.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Haney’s research found that such prolonged isolation led to paranoia, anxiety, despair, anger and, eventually, numbness among people in the SHU. “When you’re in the SHU, you don’t feel,” said Frank Reyna, who spent 20 years in solitary at Pelican Bay. “If you feel, you start getting weak. When people die, you just move on. You lose your emotions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials had built a fortress designed to keep people away from each other. But locked alone in their cells, the men at Pelican Bay found any way they could to connect — by talking through their cell doors, the vents in the walls, or in cracks in the corners of their recreation cages.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People found different ways to pass time, and make what meaning they could. Jamaa organized reading groups on his tier, with men taking turns reading different passages to each other and analyzing the text. Many spent hours in the morning with fastidious workout routines. During the strike, Brian James at Corcoran prison, south of Fresno, found himself counting and re-counting the perforations on his cell door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were only three ways out of the SHU, prisoners concluded: “snitch, parole, or die.” To snitch meant to provide information on another alleged gang member, and open yourself to the risk of retaliatory violence. Parole was unlikely for those whom prison officials had deemed among “the worst of the worst.” The only way out of the Pelican Bay SHU, hunger strikers reasoned, was in a body bag. They had nothing to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the strike began, “there was something in front of me to reach for, or hope for,” said James. “You spend your life inside of a box alone. So to know I’m in solidarity with [so many] people, it gave me that push in the right direction. I immediately knew we were a part of something really big.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071918\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071918\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1466\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_04-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_04-1536x1126.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of concertina wire and flood lighting surround the solitary unit at Pelican Bay in 2014. \u003ccite>(Brian L. Frank/CatchLight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Participants remember how, after a few days of fasting, the tier grew quiet. Where there used to be the sounds of morning exercise routines and chatter between cells, people began to spend more time in bed, conserving their energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a growing chorus of activists outside the prison were amplifying their message. The strike made international news. Celebrities like Danny Glover and Jay Leno lent their support. Groups held frequent rallies outside state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dolores Canales’ son was on hunger strike in the SHU in Corcoran prison. 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Psychiatrist Terry Kupers called it the “SHU post-release syndrome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_09-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_09-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_09-2000x1332.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_09-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_09-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/EchoesOfIsolation_09-2048x1364.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alcatraz Island, initially constructed as a military prison in the 1850s, was later converted into a maximum-security federal penitentiary until its closure in 1963. \u003ccite>(Brian L. 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Now, I don’t care, I cry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cu>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thank you to the individuals who shared their time and stories to \u003ca href=\"https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/28/california-los-angeles-prison-solitary\">make this project possible\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>With additional gratitude to Minister King X (Director, California Prison Focus/K.A.G.E Universal), \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.c-note.org/\">\u003cem>Donald C-Note Hooker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, Lundi Shackleton, and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy staff at Alcatraz and organizers of the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/alca/planyourvisit/formerly-incarcerated-speaker-series.htm\">\u003cem>Formerly Incarcerated Speaker Series. \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This project is dedicated to the memory and enduring legacy of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parksconservancy.org/article/unlocking-truth-how-alcatraz-changing-conversation-incarceration\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Stanford Chatfield \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>(1956-2025)\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Historical Interpreter at Alcatraz for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cu>CREDITS:\u003c/u>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>PHOTOGRAPHER: \u003c/strong> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Brian L. 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We don’t have that right now, and that’s why we’re filing this lawsuit: to get justice for all the people that have been harmed and to get people back in business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E came under renewed scrutiny from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068307/scott-wiener-revives-push-for-san-francisco-to-break-with-pge-after-massive-outage\">residents and city officials\u003c/a> after a fire at a Mission District substation spurred a massive blackout on Dec. 20, darkening entire city blocks from the Presidio and Richmond District to Chinatown. At its peak, the outage \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068177/pge-outage-leaves-130000-across-san-francisco-without-power\">affected 130,000 PG&E customers\u003c/a>. Most regained power hours later, but some Richmond and other westside residents were left in the dark for more than 40 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outage snarled traffic, confused Waymo autonomous vehicles and disrupted public transit. It also harmed many small businesses, forcing them to close their doors on one of the busiest holiday shopping days of the year, losing out on major anticipated profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are mom-and-pop businesses,” Lee said. “They don’t have a big cushion; they operate on very thin margins. And this kind of devastating loss could mean the difference between keeping their doors open and closing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fiasco was followed by a series of smaller, shorter outages, which mostly affected the city’s West Side. Richmond residents dealt with \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/02/pge-outage-richmond-blackout-sea-cliff/\">six outages\u003c/a> through late December and early January, and blackouts in the Sunset have occurred as recently as last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070215\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-04-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E generators block the street at 24th Street and Balboa in San Francisco on Jan. 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group, which said it will file the lawsuit this week, alleged a “systemic failure to provide reliable service” by PG&E in a statement on Monday. Attorneys said they expect at least 40 businesses to join the suit, which aims to recoup monetary damages for losses incurred during the string of outages since December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, which did not respond to a request for comment on the suit, has promised $200 credits to residences impacted by the outage, and larger $2,500 payments to commercial customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the lawyers representing business owners said those payments are not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the suit’s plaintiffs have reported damages of more than $100,000, according to Quentin Kopp, a former judge advocating on behalf of the suit’s plaintiffs.[aside postID=news_12070159 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-03-KQED.jpg']Bill Lee, who owns Far East Cafe in Chinatown, said the banquet-style Chinese restaurant was expecting a party of 700 the night of the blackout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine the disappointment for the guests and the restaurant owner? They have suffered tremendously,” he said. “The $2,500 payment by PG&E is not nearly, nearly enough. Many other restaurants in the entire city are likewise damaged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some merchants have said they haven’t even received those promised payments yet, and that the utility company has delayed their claims for compensation. The suit follows a petition signed by more than 100 West Side business owners and residents and delivered to the city’s Board of Supervisors, urging them to hold PG&E accountable, and lamenting the lackluster payments, according to David Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has said supervisors will hold hearings to question the utility company about what led to the mishap, communication and power restoration issues throughout and how to prevent similar incidents moving forward. The incidents have also reinvigorated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070159/pge-plans-power-outages-for-san-francisco-neighborhoods-hit-by-major-blackout\">San Franciscans’ calls for the city\u003c/a> to end its partnership with PG&E and instead pursue public power — a feat that could take years, if the city were to attempt it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kopp said the plaintiffs filing their suit this week are headed on their own long road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E will try to delay the trial of this case,” he told KQED. “It will refuse to settle, to pay appropriate and deserved amounts of money to those businesses which have been damaged and to homeowners who have been damaged. This is going to be at least a two- to three-year enterprise in trying to obtain justice for our clients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Paula Sibulo contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>California prosecutors are expressing alarm at the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an immigration agent, pointing to statements that the agent has \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsq4o1VMLuc\">absolute immunity\u003c/a> from prosecution and to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5676324/minnesota-ice-shooting-investigation-fbi-renee-macklin-good\">decision to exclude Minnesota investigators\u003c/a> from the inquiry into the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews with KQED, state and local prosecutors vowed to investigate and, if necessary, prosecute federal agents who act illegally in California. But they acknowledged that those probes would be difficult to undertake without federal cooperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite what Vice President Vance has irresponsibly and erroneously said …There’s no such thing as absolute immunity,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, said. “Of course, there can be criminal liability for an ICE agent who commits a crime. ICE agents do not have carte blanche and license to kill and commit crimes and assaults and batter and rape and murder Americans. That’s what JD Vance is saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid aggressive immigration raids in Minneapolis, Renee Macklin Good was shot three times by an ICE agent as she \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html\">appeared to turn her car away\u003c/a> from the officer on Jan. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the shooting, federal authorities — including President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/trump-shooting-renee-good-ice.html\">blamed\u003c/a> Good for the shooting, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/us/politics/trump-ice-shooting-response-minneapolis.html\">excluded\u003c/a> state and local law enforcement from the investigation and moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/fbi-renee-good-ice-shooting.html\">focus the probe\u003c/a> on Good’s possible activism, not the ICE agent’s actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069309\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/KristiNoemGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2026, in Brownsville, Texas. Secretary Noem announced that the federal government would be deploying 500 miles of water barriers in the Rio Grande River. \u003ccite>(Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The precedent here is very simple — you have a federal law enforcement official, engaging in a federal law enforcement action,” Vice President JD Vance said from the White House podium two days after the shooting. “That’s a federal issue; that guy is protected by absolute immunity, he is doing his job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That claim prompted outrage from Democrats around the nation, in part because Macklin Good’s shooting, while she drove her car, is not unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration agents have been involved in at least two nonfatal shootings of drivers in Los Angeles in recent months, and a Wall Street Journal investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-show-how-ice-vehicle-stops-can-escalate-to-shootings-caf17601\">identified\u003c/a> 13 times since July when ICE agents fired into civilians’ vehicles, twice fatally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vance’s comments in particular outraged law enforcement in California and beyond; the administration’s response led six federal prosecutors in Minnesota to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5676293/several-federal-prosecutors-in-minnesota-resign-over-ice-shooting-investigation\">resign\u003c/a> this week.[aside postID=news_12069888 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251120-robbontapb-08-bl-KQED.jpg']“I’ve never in my career seen a government official, an elected official, or the head of a law enforcement agency come out and within minutes justify the conduct of the officer or agent (involved in a shooting),” San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069540/san-francisco-da-weighs-in-on-minneapolis-ice-shooting\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a> onTuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It tells me that there’s already been a conclusion drawn, that we will not have a full and fair and independent investigation because they’ve already told us that they’ve determined that this shooting was justified. And so there will not be an opportunity for justice should that need to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins, a Democrat, made headlines in October amid threats of Bay Area immigration raids when she said she would\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/jenkins-federal-agents-21114802.php\"> not hesitate to prosecute federal agents \u003c/a>who break the law in San Francisco. Her comments prompted Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to write a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/DAGToddBlanche/status/1981495700450893894/photo/1\">letter\u003c/a> that offered a preview of the government’s response to the Minnesota case: He declared any arrest of federal agents “illegal and futile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jenkins’ comments were correct, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s exactly what I feel. I don’t care who they are, I don’t care who or what their role is. If they come into our county, violate the law, they get held accountable just like anybody does,” he said. “Stature or occupation is not relevant as to whether you get prosecuted if you violate the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the Los Angeles cases, TikTok streamer Carlitos Ricardo Parias was accused by federal agents of using his car as a deadly weapon; agents claimed they fired at him in self-defense. But a federal judge dismissed the assault charges filed by federal prosecutors, and video of the incident has \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-28/federal-judge-dismisses-indictment-against-tiktoker\">raised questions\u003c/a> about the agents’ account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054682\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-STEPHEN-WAGSTAFFE-ON-PB-03-KQED_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-STEPHEN-WAGSTAFFE-ON-PB-03-KQED_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-STEPHEN-WAGSTAFFE-ON-PB-03-KQED_1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250904-STEPHEN-WAGSTAFFE-ON-PB-03-KQED_1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Stephen Wagstaffe at KQED in San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear if there are state or local investigations into that incident: Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman declined an interview request for this story, and Bonta declined to confirm or deny a state investigation, saying he cannot comment on pending cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors said that federal authorities’ actions are eroding trust in law enforcement – and making their jobs harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rule of law doesn’t truly exist in our country at the highest level right now,” Jenkins said. “We already know that based on the history in this country, there’s so much distrust when it comes to the prosecution of law enforcement for unlawful shootings or even fair investigations into those shootings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe said he was dismayed to see the rush to judgment by both the Trump administration and local elected officials, like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. Within hours of the Good shooting, Frey \u003ca href=\"https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapolis-mayor-ice-shooting-self-defense-bullshit-officials-will-seek-justice-jan-2026\">declared the federal government’s self-defense claims “bulls—.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Wagstaffe said none of that should affect the investigation.[aside postID=news_12069724 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/SanctuaryCitySFTrumpAP-1020x725.jpg']“What we’re trying to do here is inspire public trust,” he said. “But I’m not going to be influenced in even the slightest by what any other person says.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta, Wagstaffe and Jenkins all said that in the wake of Good’s killing and the subsequent decision by the FBI to shut out Minnesota investigators, they have real concerns about their ability to probe potential use-of-force incidents involving federal authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe noted that federal prosecutors generally are not empowered to investigate murders — local district attorneys are. Jenkins said if federal authorities take control of a scene and refuse to share evidence, “it would nearly negate our ability to prosecute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Bonta said that what should happen after a federal agent uses deadly force is a joint investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have access to the scene. We should have access to the evidence. We should get cooperation from the federal government,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has made moves to push back on what Democrats here see as ICE’s overreach: Last year, the governor signed a law \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044570/california-bill-would-prohibit-ice-officers-from-wearing-masks-in-the-state\">barring local and federal law enforcement from wearing a mask\u003c/a> while on duty, a law that’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-14/federal-challenge-california-ice-law-enforcement-mask-ban\">now tied up in court\u003c/a>. The author of that bill, state Sen. Scott Wiener, is currently pushing \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wiener-announces-legislation-hold-federal-other-officers-accountable-lawlessness\">legislation\u003c/a> to make it easier for Californians to sue over violations of constitutional rights, like illegal search and seizures or retaliating against someone for exercising their First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058608\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GettyImages-2237687579-scaled-e1759877176351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal agents confront protesters outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Sept. 28, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. In a Truth Social post on Sept. 27, President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of military troops to “protect war-ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.” \u003ccite>(Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bonta urged Californians to report federal misconduct to a new \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/reportmisconduct\">website\u003c/a> his office created, including video of encounters with ICE, which the public \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/reportmisconduct\">is allowed to record.\u003c/a> But he also encouraged protesters and others not to take the bait if federal agents appear to be provoking a violent response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot, and you should not, assault or strike or commit a crime against an officer. You just can’t, no matter what they did in terms of approaching you. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Timothy Simmons began his law enforcement career at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/contra-costa-county\">Contra Costa County\u003c/a> Sheriff’s Office 17 years ago, he knew he wanted to stay rooted in his hometown communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Vallejo, Simmons said the hallmarks of his childhood — soccer games and hangouts at the mall — took place just as much in Richmond, a city that has dealt with a history of high crime rates and headlines driven largely by the Chevron refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now not only have I adopted the city of Richmond as a second home, I actually have family members who live in this community, and that’s really informed a lot of my ideology and my philosophy,” said Simmons, who officially assumes the role of the department’s new chief, starting on Jan. 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons, who was formerly assistant chief, shared his vision with KQED’s Brian Watt, explaining the importance of community policing, ongoing staffing challenges and mental health. Here are highlights from their conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A reckoning after George Floyd\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Simmons said when he joined Richmond Police, former chief Chris Magnus was trying to shift the department toward community-oriented policing. According to Simmons, officers were encouraged to build relationships with community-based organizations, such as neighborhood councils and business districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[These groups] would begin to know who their beat officer [was], and there would be a personal connection made. And officers would assume the ownership of the quality of life and the crime issues within those areas that they’re assigned,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069790\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069790\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Simmons_Timothy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Simmons_Timothy-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Simmons_Timothy-2000x3000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Simmons_Timothy-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Simmons_Timothy-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Simmons_Timothy-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy Simmons, the new chief for the Richmond Police Department, has been a law enforcement officer for 17 years, beginning at the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Richmond Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The department has faced its share of scandals. In 2014, Officer Wallace Jensen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11733690/even-with-new-disclosure-law-fight-continues-to-unseal-californias-secret-police-files\">shot and killed\u003c/a> 24-year-old Richard “Pedie” Perez, who was unarmed. Richmond Police was also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767613/ex-richmond-police-lieutenant-swapped-sexually-explicit-texts-with-exploited-teen\">involved\u003c/a> in a massive sexual exploitation case centered on a teenage sex worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the watershed moment likely arrived in earnest in 2020, after racial justice protests sparked by the police murder of George Floyd. In response, law enforcement agencies around the country began to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5399738/george-floyd-police-justice-change\">reexamine\u003c/a> their own policies and practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Departments were thrown into disarray,” Simmons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, several East Bay cities, such as Berkeley, Oakland and Richmond, created task forces to reimagine public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons represented the force in Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/4011/Reimagining-Public-Safety\">effort\u003c/a> but said the reallocation of $3 million from the city’s budget to fund policing alternatives had an unintended effect on staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There wasn’t a strong consideration as to what the impacts to the police department would be directly,” he said. “People on the lower end of the seniority tenure started to believe that there might be layoffs, and they didn’t want to stick around to see if they were going to lose their job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons said within a two-year period, Richmond Police lost around 45 officers who were hired at other jurisdictions — including those who had been working to build community relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started to be a little bit more on the reactive side, rather than on the proactive side when it comes to solving neighborhood problems,” said Simmons, who, as chief, plans to focus on recruitment and retention to improve relationship-building work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mental health for officers and residents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of Simmons’ other priorities is to improve mental health support for officers. Research has long shown police officers face \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/nx-s1-5389653/police-protests-mental-health-treatment-growth\">worse\u003c/a> health outcomes than the general public, specifically as it relates to higher rates of depression, burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re short-staffed, officers are working a lot of mandatory overtime. So, it’s a challenge for us to maintain proper mental health and proper work-life balance and make sure that our staff gets to spend time with their families and their friends and spend time doing things that you know fills their spirit, so to speak,” Simmons said.[aside postID=news_12068817 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS55037_023_KQED_ChevronRefineryStrike_04072022-qut-1020x680.jpg']The way Richmond Police handles mental health made headlines last year, following the police shooting death of 27-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054383/during-mental-health-crises-california-police-are-still-first-responders-its-not-working\">Angel Montaño\u003c/a>. During a 911 call, his family said he was threatening to kill them and cited “mental health issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Bisa French, Richmond Police’s former chief, called for reforms but expressed uncertainty about “what can be done differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons acknowledged that distress calls associated with mental health continue to be a challenge. He said the department will keep focusing on annual training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until the system changes, this will continue to be an issue that society relies on law enforcement to be a response to,” he said. “We have a lot of work to do in this area, but Richmond [Police] and myself, we’re going to be committed to being as well-trained as we can, as empathetic as we possibly can and understanding the dynamics — while also putting the reverence for life as one of our primary things that is in our oath that we have to protect. It’s a balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Concerns over surveillance tech\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As many California cities have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066989/california-cities-double-down-on-license-plate-readers-as-federal-surveillance-grows\">doubled down\u003c/a> on automated license plate readers, Simmons has prioritized data privacy concerns. Last fall, he decided to shut down Richmond’s system after a configuration error made local data potentially searchable by outside agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are we a sanctuary state, but we are also a sanctuary city,” he said. “As such, I support the values and ideals of this community, making sure that our immigrant community, our undocumented community, and everybody in Richmond who calls Richmond home have the right to feel like their privacy is protected and it’s not being exploited by any city government or police department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1777px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20160901_115600_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20160901_115600_qed.jpg 1777w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20160901_115600_qed-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20160901_115600_qed-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Richmond Police vehicle on Sept. 1, 2016. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December, Flock Safety, the system vendor, told KQED that it had shut off out-of-state access to camera data from California law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/richmondpolicecali/posts/pfbid02DLgEZwDpaCE6ZEXMyYboDY4EFiQFq8axkX2SG9YE6oQFUdgQDVuHMdPwx8xzXbpel\">Facebook post\u003c/a> announcing the suspension that it has no evidence that any outside agency actually viewed Richmond’s data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Simmons said he wanted to get the system running again, arguing the lack of access to ALPR data has left investigators, officers and victims of crime “at a deficit, where we would have had a lot of investigative leads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of crimes that have been committed in our city and our community since turning that off,” Simmons said. “It is extremely important for us to be able to leverage technology so that we can provide the best possible law enforcement services to our community, [while] ensuring that privacy is protected. 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