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Classroom educators are also included, with 115 credentialed teaching positions that won’t be budgeted for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layoffs are the board’s first major budget decision of the year as SFUSD rushes to patch a $113 million deficit and regain local control over its spending. Without major changes, the district has reported, it could run out of cash by the middle of next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district has experienced a significant decline in overall enrollment consistent with statewide trends, and yet we’ve kept staffing levels largely the same,” said Board President Phil Kim. “It simply is not sustainable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s unclear whether the cuts will come mostly from pink slips, voluntary departures or SFUSD’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">early retirement buyout\u003c/a> plan — which Superintendent Maria Su confirmed Tuesday received more than the minimum 314 applications to go forward — there will be fewer staff positions in the district next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010494\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010494\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-04-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Su speaks at a press event in front of the SFUSD offices in San Francisco on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This could force schools to have more combined-grade classes or fewer full-time support staff, such as English language arts specialists and social workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art teacher Laura Simon said Visitacion Valley Middle School is at risk of losing a full-time counselor and nurse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My school nurse helped me get vaccinated so that I could come to school, she helped my family find a clinic so that we could go see a doctor — so many of our newcomer students wrote that same thing,” Simon said during the board meeting, reading notes from students. “‘The nurse is always there for me; she talked to me about substance abuse and my feelings; she makes my school feel safe.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tara Ramos, who has been the librarian at Sanchez Middle School for a decade, said the most notable effect on students would be a lack of enrichment opportunities. Librarian roles, which weren’t included in the preliminary layoff notices approved Tuesday, could be redistributed based on the district’s new staffing model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My only role would probably end up being to just release teachers,” Ramos told KQED. Four days a week, she hosts a whole grade level in the library for almost two hours while their teachers have a planning meeting. But she said this isn’t the part of her job that inspires her — or the students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t be able to do any book clubs, I wouldn’t be able to do any special projects. I’ll have no opportunities for collaboration with teachers, to make connections between what I’m doing in library class and what the kids are doing in classrooms,” she continued. “It’s just going to be very basic, and it kind of feels like I’m more of like a substitute than a librarian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028309 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-12-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the school budgets sent to schools last week, Sanchez is budgeted to have a librarian three days a week, according to Ramos. If she takes that role, she would work at another school the other two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under that schedule, Ramos said she probably wouldn’t work with the second and third-grade classes like she has this year — taking them on curriculum-relevant field trips like Mondays to the African American Art and Culture Complex in the Fillmore during second grade’s history of San Francisco unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also wouldn’t host book clubs, which have helped coax some of her more hesitant readers into becoming bookworms but require individualized attention as she gets to know what excites students about reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008731\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and parents protest San Francisco Unified School District for closures in San Francisco on Sept. 24, 2024. Educators claim that the California Department of Education is blocking SFUSD from hiring critical staff such as counselors, nurses, social workers and psychologists. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assistant principals, who focus on issues like chronic absenteeism and managing individualized education programs for students with disabilities, are also not included in the district’s preliminary staffing model. Earlier this month, the school board approved 149 administrator layoffs — all positions considered supplemental by the state and that SFUSD can’t afford to pay for with general funds under its bare-bones staffing plan, according to Su.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fund — which comes from local property taxes and the state — would guarantee the staffing of classroom teachers, a principal, a clerk and janitorial staff at each school site, which are the requirements for “keeping the lights on.”[aside postID=news_12027158 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Other roles would be filled only if the district can find restricted money to allocate to them. Ramos’ position will likely be covered by the Public Education Enrichment Fund, which comes from the city and a portion of which must be used for sports, libraries, arts and music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents, teachers and board members have repeatedly implored district staff to cut contracts and positions in the central office first so that SFUSD doesn’t have to issue and later rescind as many layoff notices — which hurts morale and is likely to lead educators to look for jobs elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Receiving a pink slip — and not knowing whether it will be rescinded — “often causes a lot of anxiety and, of course, a real reaction of folks to seek employment elsewhere,” said teachers union president Cassondra Curiel before the vote. “For these layoffs to be coming in at almost 400 when we know that annually in a regular school year, 400 of our educators churn out of education in San Francisco Unified … we really find this to be an unnecessarily high number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said her team would turn to reductions in the central office next but had to look at teacher staffing first because the state requires districts to send out preliminary notices for those positions by March 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total number of educators that will be cut — and how many will be through layoffs — won’t be clear until May, when Gov. Gavin Newsom releases his state budget revision and the district has a better understanding of its attrition and retirement rates. A final vote on layoff notices has to happen before May 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to see the central office reductions. We need to see the contract reductions,” board member Matt Alexander told Su and the budget team, adding that he felt uncomfortable supporting the layoffs while these cuts remained up in the air. “If we get to May 15, I’m not going to vote for this same number of layoffs unless the data shows that that’s what needs to happen — but there needs to be a lot more evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Feb. 27: This story was updated to clarify that school librarian cuts were not included in the layoff notices approved Tuesday night. Instead, campuses could have reduced and redistributed librarian roles under the district’s overall staffing model for next year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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She appreciated that the school gave generous financial aid to ensure cultural and socioeconomic diversity among its nearly 90 preschool to fifth-grade students while also offering a low ratio of students per teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you walk into the school, you see all kinds of beautiful ways that they represent the embracing of many different cultures,” Roundfield said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is on the campus of Mills College at Northeastern University, which gives the children access to the college’s lawns, trails and facilities, and allows them to participate in research projects led by professors and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s a really wonderful thing to be able to bring your child to a setting that’s that stunning and, you know, just open their mind about what’s possible as a kid growing up in East Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lately, Roundfield and several other parents tell KQED they’re concerned about the school’s future after the school canceled tours in the middle of admissions season and stopped enrolling new students for the 2025–26 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parents worry these two things — on top of observations that enrollment hardly grew this year — signal the potential dismantling of a beloved institution. 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Students at Mills College Children’s School get access to campus lawns, trails and facilities. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead, Dean Beth Kochly told them by email that the college had no plans for closure in 2025 and would provide “a definitive plan” in the next few weeks after completing an analysis of the Children School’s current operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kochly and a spokeswoman for Boston-based Northeastern University, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11888178/mills-college-to-merge-with-northeastern-university-after-months-long-court-battle\">which merged with Mills College in 2022\u003c/a>, would not answer questions about what prompted the review. Debra Brown, the longtime head of the Children’s School, turned down a request for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Schaeffer, a teacher and one of the leaders of the campus staff union, said the administration’s lack of transparency had left her with an unsettling impression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in a lot of meetings like bargaining for the contract, so a lot of information that does come out I’m pretty aware of,” she said. “And there’s just been nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said during a recent open house, she met multiple parents searching for a new school because a nearby charter school called Urban Montessori, which enrolls 300 students,\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2025/01/16/these-five-oakland-charter-schools-may-close-this-year/\"> is closing at the end of this year\u003c/a>. The closure presented an opportunity to grow enrollment at the Children’s School, Schaeffer said, which is why she was perplexed to learn the school stopped enrolling new students for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']Schaeffer has a lot at stake: she earned her teaching credential and master’s degrees from Mills. After a stint teaching middle school for the Oakland Unified School District, she came back to teach at the Children’s School. This year, her daughter is a student in her combined fourth- and fifth-grade class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she hopes administrators take into consideration the Children’s School’s role as a cutting-edge laboratory where researchers, college students and young kids learn from each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, students in her class participated in a study that found their use of artificial intelligence in a debate project helped build their reasoning skills. The education professor who designed the study \u003ca href=\"https://news.northeastern.edu/2024/12/04/ai-in-education-chatgpt-for-kids/\">told Northeastern’s news site\u003c/a> that he wants to next investigate how working with an AI partner might boost those students’ literacy skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaefer’s students are also experimenting with a video game designed by graduate students in Northeastern’s new game science and design program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the face of the uncertainty and fear that people have, myself included, around education in general right now, the last thing we need to do is close a place where kids can be creative, and adults can be creative, and we can teach to question and challenge things,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: This story has been updated to include the proper spelling of Lindsay Schaeffer’s name. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Over the course of two years, Evelyn Alfred built a home on vacant city-owned land in Vallejo. Using wooden beams, insulation, tarps and some experience in construction, she built a two-room structure, complete with windows and blinds, a shower, leather couches and a raised bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alfred, who is 64 years old, has several disabilities, and has been unhoused for more than two decades, her makeshift home provided shelter and stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when city officials told her she had to leave in late October, her eviction seemed all but inevitable. Just a few months earlier, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">had given cities greater leeway to remove people\u003c/a> living in structures like hers, under threat of fines and jail time — even if no alternative shelter was available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden, I got a notice, [a] lady came and said you got 72 hours notice … And I said ‘I can’t move in 72 hours,’” Alfred recalled. “There’s no way.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sued. And earlier this month, a district court judge determined she could stay until the case is resolved in a victory legal advocates say is the first of its kind in the country since the Supreme Court’s order last year — and one they say could have broad implications for legal fights over homeless encampments across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People experiencing homelessness and their allies have long used the courts to fight what they see as overly aggressive tactics to remove them from city streets, but the Supreme Court’s recent decision \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000606/scenes-from-san-franciscos-unhoused-encampment-sweeps\">dealt them a major blow\u003c/a>. Now, with Alfred’s case, they’re hoping another legal strategy has gained a foothold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sends a message that the courts recognize unhoused people have multiple constitutional rights that may be violated by criminalization or sweeps policies,” said Tristia Bauman, an attorney with the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley who specializes in laws related to homelessness but wasn’t involved in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone, however, thinks it’s a winning argument. Ilan Wurman, an attorney who’s pioneered legal arguments brought by business owners against cities in an effort to force them to clean encampments, said the Supreme Court’s decision upheld an established legal precedent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The courts are going to see through it,” Wurman said. “The nub of the Supreme Court’s prior ruling was that these municipal regulations and ordinances fit comfortably within a longstanding tradition of reasonable police powers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, even Wurman admitted Alfred’s case was likely to inspire new litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">Supreme Court decision in City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson\u003c/a>, cities across California have moved to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/camping-ban-ordinances/\">crackdown on encampments\u003c/a>. By the National Homelessness Law Center’s tally, some 40 California jurisdictions have passed or strengthened laws governing homelessness, among them Fremont, which earlier this month adopted what’s believed to be one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">broadest anti-camping laws\u003c/a> in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12026580]Vallejo has a \u003ca href=\"https://library.municode.com/ca/vallejo/codes/municipal_code?nodeId=TIT7PUHESAWE_IVOFAGPUHESA_CH7.67UNCASTPEPRPU\">longstanding camping ban on the books\u003c/a>, and relied on that, its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofvallejo.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=17972007\">encampment policy\u003c/a> and the state penal code and in its attempt to clear the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alfred’s case, however, federal District Court Judge Dena Coggins found that Vallejo’s plan to raze her shelter while failing to offer Alfred any alternative and barring her from camping anywhere in the city would likely “expose her to more dangerous conditions than she currently faces” — a violation of her due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her order, Coggins pointed out Alfred had submitted applications with multiple services providers and had reached out to more than a dozen apartment buildings, only to run into waiting lists. The city, meanwhile, had done next to nothing to connect Alfred with housing resources and had given her closer to 65 hours notice to leave, in an apparent violation of its own policies, according to the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city did not provide an interview or written statement in response to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1131px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/image00000112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1131\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/image00000112.jpg 1131w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/image00000112-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/image00000112-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/image00000112-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1131px) 100vw, 1131px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evelyn Alfred built this makeshift structure on vacant city-owned land across from the Vallejo marina over the course of two years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Eli Smith)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her scathing dissent on the Grants Pass ruling, Justice Sonia Sotomayor pointed to the due process clause as a possible avenue for challenging “anti-homelessness ordinances,” writing it “may well place constitutional limits” on such policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the legal argument Alfred’s lawyers presented to Coggins, but until her ruling, those arguments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993380/unhoused-oakland-residents-eviction-battle-is-early-test-of-supreme-court-ruling\">had only been successful in buying unhoused people a few extra days\u003c/a> or weeks to pack their belongings before being forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Andrea Henson, who has supported several unhoused people in those cases, including in Alfred’s Vallejo suit, said the Supreme Court’s decision has made it more difficult to ask judges to block encampment sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been extraordinarily hard going to court about these [sweeps] because of the environment,” Henson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more cities establish new policies to crack down on encampments, Henson said she hopes they’ll look to Alfred’s legal victory as a cautionary tale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t offer anything, and you don’t let people camp anywhere, there’s precedent now that that can be seen as deliberate indifference,” Henson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12000987]Before Henson got involved, advocates with the local chapter of the California Homeless Union initially filed the lawsuit. Their win is the latest illustration of the impact of the group’s organizing efforts, which have led to lawsuits around the state filed by unhoused people and activists without formal legal schooling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to build leadership and build a movement,” said union member Eli Smith, who initiated the Vallejo action, though she’s not a trained lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eli is heartened by all the new faces that showed up at the local union’s weekly meeting after their win made news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am hoping that it will help not just fortify the tools we have to fight and set a legal precedent, which is incredibly significant,” Eli said, “but that it’ll also give people hope in this political landscape that is so bleak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfred said she’s now waiting to get approved for a subsidized unit in senior housing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Over the course of two years, Evelyn Alfred built a home on vacant city-owned land in Vallejo. Using wooden beams, insulation, tarps and some experience in construction, she built a two-room structure, complete with windows and blinds, a shower, leather couches and a raised bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Alfred, who is 64 years old, has several disabilities, and has been unhoused for more than two decades, her makeshift home provided shelter and stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when city officials told her she had to leave in late October, her eviction seemed all but inevitable. Just a few months earlier, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">had given cities greater leeway to remove people\u003c/a> living in structures like hers, under threat of fines and jail time — even if no alternative shelter was available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden, I got a notice, [a] lady came and said you got 72 hours notice … And I said ‘I can’t move in 72 hours,’” Alfred recalled. “There’s no way.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sued. And earlier this month, a district court judge determined she could stay until the case is resolved in a victory legal advocates say is the first of its kind in the country since the Supreme Court’s order last year — and one they say could have broad implications for legal fights over homeless encampments across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Vallejo has a \u003ca href=\"https://library.municode.com/ca/vallejo/codes/municipal_code?nodeId=TIT7PUHESAWE_IVOFAGPUHESA_CH7.67UNCASTPEPRPU\">longstanding camping ban on the books\u003c/a>, and relied on that, its \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofvallejo.net/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=17972007\">encampment policy\u003c/a> and the state penal code and in its attempt to clear the camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alfred’s case, however, federal District Court Judge Dena Coggins found that Vallejo’s plan to raze her shelter while failing to offer Alfred any alternative and barring her from camping anywhere in the city would likely “expose her to more dangerous conditions than she currently faces” — a violation of her due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her order, Coggins pointed out Alfred had submitted applications with multiple services providers and had reached out to more than a dozen apartment buildings, only to run into waiting lists. The city, meanwhile, had done next to nothing to connect Alfred with housing resources and had given her closer to 65 hours notice to leave, in an apparent violation of its own policies, according to the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city did not provide an interview or written statement in response to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1131px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/image00000112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1131\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/image00000112.jpg 1131w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/image00000112-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/image00000112-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/image00000112-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1131px) 100vw, 1131px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evelyn Alfred built this makeshift structure on vacant city-owned land across from the Vallejo marina over the course of two years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Eli Smith)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In her scathing dissent on the Grants Pass ruling, Justice Sonia Sotomayor pointed to the due process clause as a possible avenue for challenging “anti-homelessness ordinances,” writing it “may well place constitutional limits” on such policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the legal argument Alfred’s lawyers presented to Coggins, but until her ruling, those arguments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993380/unhoused-oakland-residents-eviction-battle-is-early-test-of-supreme-court-ruling\">had only been successful in buying unhoused people a few extra days\u003c/a> or weeks to pack their belongings before being forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Andrea Henson, who has supported several unhoused people in those cases, including in Alfred’s Vallejo suit, said the Supreme Court’s decision has made it more difficult to ask judges to block encampment sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been extraordinarily hard going to court about these [sweeps] because of the environment,” Henson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As more cities establish new policies to crack down on encampments, Henson said she hopes they’ll look to Alfred’s legal victory as a cautionary tale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t offer anything, and you don’t let people camp anywhere, there’s precedent now that that can be seen as deliberate indifference,” Henson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s school board will make its first major budget decision of the year on Tuesday night when it votes on a proposal to potentially lay off hundreds of educators and administrators — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026596/sf-school-staffing-cuts-leave-counselors-social-workers-on-the-chopping-block\">“painful” cuts\u003c/a> that parents and teachers say will unfairly harm students’ education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a>, which is already under state oversight after certifying two negative budget reports in a row, has to cut $113 million — 10% of its total spending — next year. In an announcement on Friday, SFUSD said that about 80% of its budget goes toward staffing, so cuts across school sites and the district’s central office will be necessary to close its funding gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has been warning of the budget crisis’ effects on school staffing since it launched its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">now-shelved school closure plan\u003c/a> last March. Still, for many, Tuesday’s decision will be a reality check of what campuses could look like next fall when the district starts operating on a staffing plan focused on “keeping the lights on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hear that it is a really tough place to be in right now where we have to make these tough decisions, and these tough decisions are going to, as I shared in our last meeting, impact people that we know and impact our students and impact our schools,” Superintendent Maria Su said at a board meeting earlier this month. “However, we are, at this moment in time, facing a very large deficit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s proposal is part of a worst-case scenario that would see the district issue as many as 837 preliminary layoff notices. If approved, it would give the district permission to send pink slips to 559 student-facing employees such as teachers, counselors and teachers aides. Earlier this month, the board approved a plan to send notices to 149 administrators and release temporary staffers. In the coming months, it also expects to request approval to pink slip 129 central office employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-05-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-05-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-05-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-05-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-05-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-05-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-05-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su speaks during a press conference at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The district said these high numbers were chosen out of an “abundance of caution” and added that the final number of employees left without a job next year will likely be lower. But because it is required by state law to issue preliminary pink slips by March 15 — before it has a complete picture of its budget for the next fiscal year based on resignations, an early retirement buyout plan, and final state and federal funding allocations — it wants to ensure “flexibility” to lay off the necessary number of employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really find this to be an unnecessarily high number, even if they were in good faith doing due diligence in order to make sure their budget matches their staffing,” said Cassondra Curiel, the president of San Francisco’s teachers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have so many families and students without a [permanent] educator in their classroom right now, so the concept of a layoff yet again of educators that are already employed seems counterproductive to ensuring that every student has a qualified credentialed educator in their classroom for next year,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027158 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241010-SFUSDClosures-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, students in dozens of classrooms \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002125/as-san-francisco-school-closures-loom-frustrated-teachers-say-hiring-has-hit-a-wall\">didn’t have a permanent teacher\u003c/a>. There’s also been an uptick in the number of combination classes that schools have to teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, some schools, like Sheridan Elementary School, might have to introduce a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands\">kindergarten-first grade combined class\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not one person who I know has a child in this district sends their child to school to be the teacher. They send their child to school to learn from teachers and educators,” Curiel said. “The district’s cuts [are] ultimately harming what students have to look forward to for the next year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents are also worried that important school-site positions like assistant principal roles won’t be funded. Some campuses are already without a \u003ca href=\"https://careers.sfusd.edu/job/San-Francisco-Assistant-Principal-2024-2025-School-Year-CA-94102/1111756000/#:~:text=Job%20Description&text=You%20will%20report%20to%20the,the%20achievement%20of%20all%20students.\">second-in-command\u003c/a> who helps supervise and train staff and work on “closing the opportunity gap” in schools — including managing individualized education programs and efforts to help chronically absent students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got over 100 IEPs in the school, which is about 25%–30% of the student population, all of which not only requires the extra staffing to put those supports in place but also an administrative overhead to make sure they’re being met, that the reporting is happening, all of that kind of stuff,” said Daniel Hobe, whose third-grader attends Rosa Parks Elementary in the Western Addition. “That’s really where our assistant principal was carrying a lot of the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backpacks hang in the hallway at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Su’s staffing plan presented earlier this month does not include guaranteed funding for assistant principals at any schools. The baseline model, which district staff said includes the positions required to keep schools functional, is trim — it includes classroom teachers, a principal, a clerk, janitorial staff and a few other roles. It doesn’t cover wages for many of the social workers or counselors the district employs, though Su said that doesn’t mean they will all be laid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Half of our SFUSD students live in poverty, we have other kids with disabilities. This is just a real kick in the stomach,” parent Brandee Marckmann said of cuts to student support positions. “It’s not fair to basically balance the budget on the backs of our kids when it’s the SFUSD management that has made so many mistakes.”[aside postID=news_12026600 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-Dream-Keeper-Returns-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The board’s decision on Tuesday night won’t include a list of specific employees who’ll get pink slips next month, — only the numbers that will go out. If the plan is approved, the district said it will review employee resignations, retirements and leaves and then use a seniority list to determine which staffers will receive preliminary notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some staff who have worked in the district for a long time might be bumped from a specialized role, like a language arts specialist, back to the classroom. That means that in some cases, two notices are issued while only one employee would be without a job, Curiel previously told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is also reviewing interest in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">buyout it offered more senior staff\u003c/a> last December, which had a deadline last week. If at least 314 agree to early retirement at the end of the year, they’ll get a one-time payment equal to 60% of their salary and keep their retirement benefits. The district said that could help offset the final number of layoffs, but if there is too little interest, the deal will be fully revoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Su has said that the process of stabilizing the district’s finances will be “awful” over the next few months, she has maintained that it is necessary to keep the district from further state intervention — especially with uncertainty at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be in a much better place in two years’ time where this district will be fully solvent, meaning we control our budget, we control how we allocate our dollars, we control what types of programs and initiatives we want to fund,” she told the school board at its last meeting. “More importantly, we will have and be able to give our teachers and educators and staff a level of stability and predictability that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, students in dozens of classrooms \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002125/as-san-francisco-school-closures-loom-frustrated-teachers-say-hiring-has-hit-a-wall\">didn’t have a permanent teacher\u003c/a>. There’s also been an uptick in the number of combination classes that schools have to teach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, some schools, like Sheridan Elementary School, might have to introduce a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025440/schools-face-cuts-california-teachers-unions-band-together-demands\">kindergarten-first grade combined class\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not one person who I know has a child in this district sends their child to school to be the teacher. They send their child to school to learn from teachers and educators,” Curiel said. “The district’s cuts [are] ultimately harming what students have to look forward to for the next year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents are also worried that important school-site positions like assistant principal roles won’t be funded. Some campuses are already without a \u003ca href=\"https://careers.sfusd.edu/job/San-Francisco-Assistant-Principal-2024-2025-School-Year-CA-94102/1111756000/#:~:text=Job%20Description&text=You%20will%20report%20to%20the,the%20achievement%20of%20all%20students.\">second-in-command\u003c/a> who helps supervise and train staff and work on “closing the opportunity gap” in schools — including managing individualized education programs and efforts to help chronically absent students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got over 100 IEPs in the school, which is about 25%–30% of the student population, all of which not only requires the extra staffing to put those supports in place but also an administrative overhead to make sure they’re being met, that the reporting is happening, all of that kind of stuff,” said Daniel Hobe, whose third-grader attends Rosa Parks Elementary in the Western Addition. “That’s really where our assistant principal was carrying a lot of the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-52-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Backpacks hang in the hallway at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Su’s staffing plan presented earlier this month does not include guaranteed funding for assistant principals at any schools. The baseline model, which district staff said includes the positions required to keep schools functional, is trim — it includes classroom teachers, a principal, a clerk, janitorial staff and a few other roles. It doesn’t cover wages for many of the social workers or counselors the district employs, though Su said that doesn’t mean they will all be laid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Half of our SFUSD students live in poverty, we have other kids with disabilities. This is just a real kick in the stomach,” parent Brandee Marckmann said of cuts to student support positions. “It’s not fair to basically balance the budget on the backs of our kids when it’s the SFUSD management that has made so many mistakes.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a>’s new district attorney begins to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024972/how-alameda-countys-next-district-attorney-wants-shape-office\">reshape the office\u003c/a> in her first days on the job, former lead prosecutor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a> sat down with KQED to discuss the obstacles she faced during last year’s recall election and the concerns she has for the county’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017506/these-maps-show-where-pamela-price-lost-the-most-support-from-voters-in-the-recall-election\">was recalled\u003c/a> less than two years into her term, facing criticism for what some residents said was her office’s ineffectual response to rising crime rates in cities such as Oakland. As a progressive prosecutor, she was vocal about pursuing alternatives to mass incarceration and reforming the county’s justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many residents are hopeful that District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson, a former judge, will do more than her predecessor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024575/alameda-countys-new-da-says-people-are-a-little-tired-of-nothing-happening\">to improve public safety\u003c/a>, there are some who are concerned that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013987/after-voter-backlash-whats-next-for-the-criminal-justice-reform-movement\">criminal justice reform movement\u003c/a> will be set back, especially as Jones Dickson begins reversing some of Price’s directives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public will have to wait and see how it works out,” Price told KQED. “We have to wait and see what the new district attorney is able to accomplish, but she certainly will have the foundation of all the things that we were able to do over the last two years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the policies Price implemented was a charging directive that requires prosecutors to get supervisory approval before pursuing sentence enhancements, especially for juveniles. The policy was meant to improve accountability and transparency on the part of prosecutors, Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson rescinded that and several other Price directives on Wednesday, including one that established stricter guidelines for prosecutors seeking to charge minors in adult court. It was one of Jones Dickson’s first official acts after being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027507/jones-dickson-takes-office-as-alameda-county-da-vows-to-prioritize-victims\">sworn in last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027665\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during her swearing-in ceremony at the County Administration Building in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price argued that her policies allowed supervisors to check the validity of a particular charge or sentence request, making it less likely to be thrown out due to accusations of discrimination in a challenge under the California Racial Justice Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a conviction is tainted by racial bias, it has to be overturned,” Price said. Jones Dickson “doesn’t have to take my policy, but you need to have a policy. Otherwise, public safety is definitely at risk because people can be let go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods called the policy reversal troubling, saying that it could allow a prosecutor with minimal experience to charge young people as adults without any oversight, potentially resulting in more Black and Brown children entering the adult system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022612 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cristine Soto DeBerry, executive director of the nonprofit Prosecutors Alliance Action, said she hopes that Jones Dickson will consider other measures to ensure that prosecutors are judicious with sentence enhancements. Data shows that harsher sentences do little to reduce crime rates, DeBerry said, adding that the office needs to be innovative if it wants to effectively address public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting more people in jail for longer periods of time is not the answer, she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Jones Dickson said during her campaign that she is not opposed to finding alternatives to incarceration and to pushing for reform efforts, those initiatives will not be her primary concern as district attorney. She has repeatedly emphasized that her first commitment is to support victims of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are effective ways to do both, Price countered, pushing back on the idea that her office didn’t do enough for victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of victims’ advocates in the district attorney’s office increased by 35% during her tenure, Price said. Her office also made significant headway in addressing a backlog of victim compensation applications that existed prior to her election and in reorganizing support systems for victims and witnesses, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008946\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The event was part of Price’s anti-recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My office certainly did a great deal of work and created tremendous advances for victims in this county,” Price said. She added that she had plans to do more before her term was cut short by the recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every district attorney needs time to adjust to the role and to figure out what problems there are in the office, Price said, calling the public outcry that she faced so soon after starting her term a disservice to her administration and to the county. When it comes to addressing a backlog of cases and figuring out how to best work with prosecutors and other agents in the system, it takes time to find the proper footing, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price plans to discuss the issues facing Alameda County — including those that will need to be addressed by the new district attorney — on a new podcast she is launching Tuesday titled “Pamela Price Unfiltered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she is unsure of what Alameda County’s future looks like. But whether or not it swings in a more conservative direction on crime and public safety, Price noted that Jones Dickson will need to figure out how to reconcile her approach to justice with what’s demanded of her by different groups — including the law enforcement unions that recommended her for the job.\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",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cristine Soto DeBerry, executive director of the nonprofit Prosecutors Alliance Action, said she hopes that Jones Dickson will consider other measures to ensure that prosecutors are judicious with sentence enhancements. Data shows that harsher sentences do little to reduce crime rates, DeBerry said, adding that the office needs to be innovative if it wants to effectively address public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting more people in jail for longer periods of time is not the answer, she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Jones Dickson said during her campaign that she is not opposed to finding alternatives to incarceration and to pushing for reform efforts, those initiatives will not be her primary concern as district attorney. She has repeatedly emphasized that her first commitment is to support victims of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are effective ways to do both, Price countered, pushing back on the idea that her office didn’t do enough for victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of victims’ advocates in the district attorney’s office increased by 35% during her tenure, Price said. Her office also made significant headway in addressing a backlog of victim compensation applications that existed prior to her election and in reorganizing support systems for victims and witnesses, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008946\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The event was part of Price’s anti-recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My office certainly did a great deal of work and created tremendous advances for victims in this county,” Price said. She added that she had plans to do more before her term was cut short by the recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every district attorney needs time to adjust to the role and to figure out what problems there are in the office, Price said, calling the public outcry that she faced so soon after starting her term a disservice to her administration and to the county. When it comes to addressing a backlog of cases and figuring out how to best work with prosecutors and other agents in the system, it takes time to find the proper footing, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price plans to discuss the issues facing Alameda County — including those that will need to be addressed by the new district attorney — on a new podcast she is launching Tuesday titled “Pamela Price Unfiltered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she is unsure of what Alameda County’s future looks like. But whether or not it swings in a more conservative direction on crime and public safety, Price noted that Jones Dickson will need to figure out how to reconcile her approach to justice with what’s demanded of her by different groups — including the law enforcement unions that recommended her for the job.\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>On a sunny Thursday in San Francisco’s Presidio, groups of elementary school students ate lunch outside the Walt Disney Museum, people waited in line at food trucks lining the lawn and groups chatted in red low-back chairs overlooking the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Cook, who’s visiting from Maine, was spending her final day in the city sitting just north of the lawn, looking out at the bridge with a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were just talking about how absolutely beautiful this place is, and that a group of people had the vision to make this happen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That vision appears to be threatened by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Trump\u003c/a>, who signed a sweeping executive order Wednesday night to all but eliminate certain federal agencies, including the Presidio Trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trust, which Congress formed in 1996 to manage and protect the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972756/the-hidden-history-of-fort-scott-in-san-franciscos-presidio\">historic 1,500-acre park\u003c/a> that looks out on the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay, is one of four agencies named in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/commencing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/\">“Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy” order,\u003c/a> which calls for shrinking agencies that the administration deems “unnecessary” to “minimize government waste and abuse.” They have been ordered to eliminate their non-statutory operations “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law” and reduce their statutory function to the minimum required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250130_Pelosi_DB_00406-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi meets with KQED in her office in the San Francisco Federal Building, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Presidio Trust is statutory, and it has been protected from assaults over time by its statutory strength,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D–San Francisco) said in a statement Wednesday night. “We will be carefully reviewing the language of the President’s executive order and its purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order also targets the Inter-American Foundation, the United States African Development Foundation, and the United States Institute of Peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the order will face legal contest wasn’t immediately clear Thursday, but Californians have already mounted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027149/california-battles-trumps-executive-orders-in-court-as-legal-and-political-tensions-rise\">multiple fights against Trump in court\u003c/a> since he took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, who represents the park area, said that while it’s still unclear exactly what the order will do, he is working with the trust and local lawmakers to protect the Presidio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing that this does is create completely unnecessary fear,” he told KQED. “I’ll be incredibly supportive of our city attorneys and of our federal officials in pushing back at this. We have to remember there are 3,000 San Francisco residents that live in the Presidio. These are my constituents; this is deeply, deeply personal to me and to my neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mostly empty lawn of the Main Parade Ground in front of the Walt Disney Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco, on Mar. 13, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday in the park, Elizabeth Bradburn’s goldendoodle Charles was among about a dozen running off-leash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely bring the dog here and meet other dog parents and families,” she said, adding that her family often brings visiting friends down to see the bridge and eat at restaurants in the Presidio. “I think it’s a destination spot for a lot of people from outside of San Francisco, but then we who live here also use it regularly on a daily basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. military’s Base Realignment and Closure process in the 1990s shuttered a number of old Army bases, including the one that used to occupy the Presidio land. It could have become a national park at the time, said Jim Wunderman, who was working for San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan, but the Republican-led federal government pushed back.[aside postID=news_12027607 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-184795463-1020x680.jpg']Instead, the Presidio Trust was formed, creating a public-private partnership that lessened the financial burden on the Department of the Interior and garnered bipartisan support. The agency would get federal money to help it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023708/surprising-ways-former-bay-area-military-bases-are-transforming-and-why-it-takes-so-long\">transition from an Army base\u003c/a> and work closely with the National Park Service, but it had to become financially independent by 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the trust said it “has not received regular annual appropriations from Congress since 2013,” and now relies on funds earned by leasing historic buildings it has renovated, including the Walt Disney Museum, the Bay School and many restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency will submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget in two weeks, as required by the order, but is confident that its operations are statutorily based, according to a spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Presidio is a one-of-a-kind national park site, and all of its services and business will continue to operate as normal, welcoming visitors and serving all who live and work here,” the trust’s statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national landmark has been on Republican lawmakers’ radar as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023991/republicans-target-sfs-presidio-for-tax-cuts-immigration-crackdown\">place to recoup funds\u003c/a> for weeks, first floated in a 50-page list of potential cost reductions to pay for Trump’s immigration crackdown and tax cuts in January. The list that circulated among GOP leaders called for the Presidio Trust to return $200 million secured by Pelosi in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to make infrastructure upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list claimed that the way the transfer of the funds was requested “was not consistent with standard agency practices for selecting priority deferred maintenance projects,” but Presidio spokespeople have said the money is already in use. It’s unclear whether these funds will be affected by the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said during a press conference Thursday that it was unclear if those funds could be clawed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know,” she said. “That’s a matter of law. They are committed and when they are committed there are certain standards that are examined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the president’s targeting everyone,” Pelosi continued. “But when we wrote our bill, we wrote it, as I said, prepared for an assault. 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Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Presidio Trust is statutory, and it has been protected from assaults over time by its statutory strength,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D–San Francisco) said in a statement Wednesday night. “We will be carefully reviewing the language of the President’s executive order and its purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order also targets the Inter-American Foundation, the United States African Development Foundation, and the United States Institute of Peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the order will face legal contest wasn’t immediately clear Thursday, but Californians have already mounted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027149/california-battles-trumps-executive-orders-in-court-as-legal-and-political-tensions-rise\">multiple fights against Trump in court\u003c/a> since he took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, who represents the park area, said that while it’s still unclear exactly what the order will do, he is working with the trust and local lawmakers to protect the Presidio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing that this does is create completely unnecessary fear,” he told KQED. “I’ll be incredibly supportive of our city attorneys and of our federal officials in pushing back at this. We have to remember there are 3,000 San Francisco residents that live in the Presidio. These are my constituents; this is deeply, deeply personal to me and to my neighbors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/015_KQED_SanFrancisco_Coronavirus_03132020_7090_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mostly empty lawn of the Main Parade Ground in front of the Walt Disney Museum in the Presidio of San Francisco, on Mar. 13, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday in the park, Elizabeth Bradburn’s goldendoodle Charles was among about a dozen running off-leash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely bring the dog here and meet other dog parents and families,” she said, adding that her family often brings visiting friends down to see the bridge and eat at restaurants in the Presidio. “I think it’s a destination spot for a lot of people from outside of San Francisco, but then we who live here also use it regularly on a daily basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. military’s Base Realignment and Closure process in the 1990s shuttered a number of old Army bases, including the one that used to occupy the Presidio land. It could have become a national park at the time, said Jim Wunderman, who was working for San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan, but the Republican-led federal government pushed back.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Instead, the Presidio Trust was formed, creating a public-private partnership that lessened the financial burden on the Department of the Interior and garnered bipartisan support. The agency would get federal money to help it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023708/surprising-ways-former-bay-area-military-bases-are-transforming-and-why-it-takes-so-long\">transition from an Army base\u003c/a> and work closely with the National Park Service, but it had to become financially independent by 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the trust said it “has not received regular annual appropriations from Congress since 2013,” and now relies on funds earned by leasing historic buildings it has renovated, including the Walt Disney Museum, the Bay School and many restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency will submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget in two weeks, as required by the order, but is confident that its operations are statutorily based, according to a spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Presidio is a one-of-a-kind national park site, and all of its services and business will continue to operate as normal, welcoming visitors and serving all who live and work here,” the trust’s statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national landmark has been on Republican lawmakers’ radar as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023991/republicans-target-sfs-presidio-for-tax-cuts-immigration-crackdown\">place to recoup funds\u003c/a> for weeks, first floated in a 50-page list of potential cost reductions to pay for Trump’s immigration crackdown and tax cuts in January. The list that circulated among GOP leaders called for the Presidio Trust to return $200 million secured by Pelosi in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to make infrastructure upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list claimed that the way the transfer of the funds was requested “was not consistent with standard agency practices for selecting priority deferred maintenance projects,” but Presidio spokespeople have said the money is already in use. It’s unclear whether these funds will be affected by the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi said during a press conference Thursday that it was unclear if those funds could be clawed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know,” she said. “That’s a matter of law. They are committed and when they are committed there are certain standards that are examined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the president’s targeting everyone,” Pelosi continued. “But when we wrote our bill, we wrote it, as I said, prepared for an assault. The statute is very tight and purposeful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors hope to use Mayor Daniel Lurie’s recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024579/luries-sf-fentanyl-emergency-ordinance-sails-through-its-first-test\">expansion of executive powers\u003c/a> in a new push to combat drug dealing — one that would bring an outside expert’s approach despite a looming \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021378/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-freezes-most-city-hiring-on-day-1-in-office\">$840 million budget deficit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Supervisors Bilal Mahmood and Matt Dorsey will propose a new framework for law enforcement to shut down outdoor drug markets. The proposal comes as Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020848/now-sf-mayor-lurie-unveils-emergency-plans-drug-homelessness-crises\">vowed to reduce drug dealing\u003c/a> on city streets with increased police enforcement, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026575/a-new-triage-center-opened-in-san-francisco-but-questions-remain\">opening new command centers\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin and South of Market, despite concern from some addiction experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal draws from work by David Kennedy, a criminal justice professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. The supervisors are also calling on the mayor to hire Kennedy to help devise a plan to keep drug sales off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once a market closes down on one block, you have to make sure it stays closed,” said Mahmood, whose district includes the Tenderloin, a neighborhood long plagued by drug dealing on sidewalks and other public spaces. “We have to develop a new solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The framework aims to improve interdepartmental communication started by former Mayor London Breed under the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center, which includes the city’s police department, public health department, emergency management and other agencies. Kennedy’s approach also emphasizes deterrence, including deploying more community ambassadors for nighttime patrols and expanding job training to prevent people from entering or returning to the drug trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dorsey, who oversees the SoMa neighborhood, first attempted to introduce Kennedy’s plan in 2023 after he joined the board, it gained little traction. However, the political landscape has shifted since, with the board now holding a moderate majority aligned with Lurie’s public safety priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”For the first time in recent years, all of the downtown supervisors are allies when it comes to public safety,” Dorsey said. “This is something we are closer to being able to implement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Patrick McDonald on Sixth Street in San Francisco after visiting the outdoor triage center to get a shelter space on Feb. 11, 2025. He has a broken hip. “I’ve been on the streets so long, I just want off,” he said. “I just want to cry.” \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least three supervisors have expressed support for the resolution, which will be introduced at the full board meeting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Lurie supports the idea, Mahmood and Dorsey may not need to get buy-in from all of their colleagues. Earlier this month, Lurie signed legislation allowing the city to more quickly hire and contract work for services related to the overdose crisis and homelessness by limiting certain requirements for board approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said hiring Kennedy and swiftly implementing any future drug market response plans that come from the partnership “would not be possible” without the mayor’s newly expanded powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It streamlines us to contract with professor David Kennedy and fund some of these public safety initiatives,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the mayor’s office said, like previous administrations, Lurie will not comment on proposed resolutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey acknowledged the potential friction in bringing in an outside expert to assess San Francisco’s challenges and help the city find a solution that various agencies can agree on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be a real challenge to have someone come in and tell us what to do when we don’t have enough police to do the basics,” Dorsey said. “In my mind, we should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People sit on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another potential hurdle? Kennedy could cost roughly $550,000 over two years, according to estimates Dorsey previously shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s 100% justified,” said Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman, who supports the proposal. “This is having an impact on our local economy. Every day, this is impacting our general fund monumentally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors are hoping to lean on Kennedy’s roughly 30 years of working with local governments and law enforcement agencies to shut down outdoor drug markets in states such as North Carolina and Tennessee. His \u003ca href=\"https://nnscommunities.org/strategies/drug-market-intervention-2/\">Drug Market Intervention strategy\u003c/a> focuses on deterrence by arresting violent drug dealers and giving nonviolent dealers a choice: quit selling and agree to participate in social services or go to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy developed the model in 2004 before fentanyl, an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin, hit U.S. cities. His approach has been \u003ca href=\"https://billypenn.com/2024/07/01/philadelphia-kensington-drug-market-shutdown/\">adapted in multiple cities\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12026575 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-12-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 633 people died of accidental overdose in 2024, a drop from 2023 when the city had its highest year for overdose deaths — 810 — on record, according to data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Last month, 59 people died of accidental drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors supporting the proposal acknowledged potential health risks from disrupting drug dealing patterns, such as \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307291?role=tab\">increased overdose risk\u003c/a>. But Mahmood and Dorsey believe Kennedy’s model should complement public health approaches to address overdoses and addiction, from connecting users to treatment to distributing overdose-reversal medications like Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said he also supports ideas like former Supervisor Dean Preston’s push to introduce a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">successful method used in Zurich, Switzerland\u003c/a>, for combating drug dealing and overdoses. It calls for greater cooperation between health and police agencies and supports supervised consumption sites where people can use drugs away from the sidewalk and under medical supervision in case of an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these things have to be considered simultaneously,” Mahmood said. “Holistically, we have to arrest dealers, and that has to be done in complement with helping people on the street struggling with addiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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However, the political landscape has shifted since, with the board now holding a moderate majority aligned with Lurie’s public safety priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”For the first time in recent years, all of the downtown supervisors are allies when it comes to public safety,” Dorsey said. “This is something we are closer to being able to implement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_SFPOLICETRIAGE_GC-20-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Patrick McDonald on Sixth Street in San Francisco after visiting the outdoor triage center to get a shelter space on Feb. 11, 2025. He has a broken hip. “I’ve been on the streets so long, I just want off,” he said. “I just want to cry.” \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least three supervisors have expressed support for the resolution, which will be introduced at the full board meeting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Lurie supports the idea, Mahmood and Dorsey may not need to get buy-in from all of their colleagues. Earlier this month, Lurie signed legislation allowing the city to more quickly hire and contract work for services related to the overdose crisis and homelessness by limiting certain requirements for board approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said hiring Kennedy and swiftly implementing any future drug market response plans that come from the partnership “would not be possible” without the mayor’s newly expanded powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It streamlines us to contract with professor David Kennedy and fund some of these public safety initiatives,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the mayor’s office said, like previous administrations, Lurie will not comment on proposed resolutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey acknowledged the potential friction in bringing in an outside expert to assess San Francisco’s challenges and help the city find a solution that various agencies can agree on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be a real challenge to have someone come in and tell us what to do when we don’t have enough police to do the basics,” Dorsey said. “In my mind, we should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/TenderloinD5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People sit on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another potential hurdle? Kennedy could cost roughly $550,000 over two years, according to estimates Dorsey previously shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s 100% justified,” said Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman, who supports the proposal. “This is having an impact on our local economy. Every day, this is impacting our general fund monumentally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors are hoping to lean on Kennedy’s roughly 30 years of working with local governments and law enforcement agencies to shut down outdoor drug markets in states such as North Carolina and Tennessee. His \u003ca href=\"https://nnscommunities.org/strategies/drug-market-intervention-2/\">Drug Market Intervention strategy\u003c/a> focuses on deterrence by arresting violent drug dealers and giving nonviolent dealers a choice: quit selling and agree to participate in social services or go to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy developed the model in 2004 before fentanyl, an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin, hit U.S. cities. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 633 people died of accidental overdose in 2024, a drop from 2023 when the city had its highest year for overdose deaths — 810 — on record, according to data from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Last month, 59 people died of accidental drug overdoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors supporting the proposal acknowledged potential health risks from disrupting drug dealing patterns, such as \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307291?role=tab\">increased overdose risk\u003c/a>. But Mahmood and Dorsey believe Kennedy’s model should complement public health approaches to address overdoses and addiction, from connecting users to treatment to distributing overdose-reversal medications like Narcan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said he also supports ideas like former Supervisor Dean Preston’s push to introduce a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">successful method used in Zurich, Switzerland\u003c/a>, for combating drug dealing and overdoses. It calls for greater cooperation between health and police agencies and supports supervised consumption sites where people can use drugs away from the sidewalk and under medical supervision in case of an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these things have to be considered simultaneously,” Mahmood said. “Holistically, we have to arrest dealers, and that has to be done in complement with helping people on the street struggling with addiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Organizers at over a dozen \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> nonprofits are reeling as they face the impending loss of city funding, raising concerns that the cuts will hurt their ability to continue serving Oakland residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the deadline fast approaching, several of the organizations on the list are also worried that they still haven’t received the money the city owes them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland, which must \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027749/oakland-reverses-several-layoffs-amid-scramble-close-massive-budget-deficit\">close a $130 million budget shortfall\u003c/a>, announced in January that it will be terminating contracts with 13 community organizations at the end of this month. That amounts to $2.6 million in slashed funding for nonprofits that provide the city with important social services such as free meals for seniors and violence prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to find a way to keep showing up for them every day,” said Kim Olson, director of advocacy at the nonprofit SOS Meals on Wheels. “But in the long run, it means we’re really living in a state of uncertainty and having to decide how do we keep our programs going, how do we make sure that we can continue to serve at the same level we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SOS Meals on Wheels provides free meals and wellness checks to over 1,000 senior citizens across Oakland and Alameda County each year. The organization is looking to expand its services, but those goals will be harder to reach with the termination of its two-year contract, Olson said, adding that the organization still hasn’t been paid the $150,000 it’s owed by the city for services rendered last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009716\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/BOSS2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Frazier, the founder of Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS), speaks at a press conference held at the trauma recovery center in Oakland on Wednesday, Oct. 16. 2024. \u003ccite>(Gilare Zada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to an email sent to Oakland officials by City Administrator Jestin Johnson on Jan. 28, the city will pay nonprofits for the work they’ve done up to the point of termination, but no other work is authorized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize these reductions will be difficult for their recipients and for the community members benefitting from the services they help fund,” Johnson said in the email. “Unfortunately, we do anticipate additional reductions remain necessary, including additional grant terminations and impacts on city contracts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson sent termination notices to 13 nonprofits, including Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, Trybe Inc., Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, Centro Legal de la Raza and several others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his reassurances that the organizations will still be paid for existing work, Olson said there’s been minimal communication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027749 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, chair of the city’s finance committee, criticized the decision to end the contracts as one that was made unilaterally by Johnson. The council, however, gave him the authority to take such budget-cutting measures when it approved the city’s current budget and contingency plan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">in July\u003c/a>; Ramachandran voted against the spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While city officials have been looking for ways to mitigate the deficit, Ramachandran said there have been no discussions about ending contracts early. She called it a decision that should not have been made without the input of other city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been trying to demand answers but have not gotten any information, and it’s very frustrating,” Ramachandran said. “I’m not saying that the city of Oakland has unlimited money to continue funding every program that is important to our community, but ones that we’ve already promised and committed to doing, we should not have terminated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De’Morea Evans, an organizer with Trybe Inc., said at a Tuesday gathering of nonprofit leaders at the Fruitvale Transit Village that the funding nonprofits receive from the city goes directly to the people. After the termination of its contract, the nonprofit — which is dedicated to supporting families and young people through community events, mentorship programs and violence prevention initiatives — will see its budget slashed by $210,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-13-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monique Berlanga, Executive Director for Centro Legal de La Raza, speaks during a press conference with leaders from community groups throughout Alameda County in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland on Jan. 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Community members are the ones who will feel the brunt of the loss if nonprofits are unable to fully function, Evans said. He urged city officials to consider how ending the contracts will affect Oakland, noting that many of the services that nonprofits provide are sorely needed by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Rick Cohen, a spokesperson for the National Council of Nonprofits, the work that nonprofits do in their communities is more critical than ever despite both public and private funding streams continuing to dry up. Without them, government officials will need to find alternative ways to provide services that city community residents need, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is the return on investment that governments get from working with nonprofits is so much more than the savings that you get from turning off certain programs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Help us to be able to help them,” Evans said at Tuesday’s event. “We all stand for the same purpose — to help our community be better and to provide hope to people that are hopeless and opportunity to people who feel as if they don’t have a choice. I ask you, Oakland, do what’s right by your people so we can continue to do what’s right in our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jen Waicukauski’s phone blared just after 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning, warning of a break-in at their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a> camera store. Waicukauski and their partner rushed out the door in pajamas, watching through Waicukauski’s phone as burglars hustled cameras, film and equipment out of the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An hour later, they arrived in front of Looking Glass Photo & Camera, a fixture of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/east-bay\">East Bay\u003c/a>’s photography community for more than 50 years. Waicukauski said it looked “like a bomb went off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To see [that] the entire front of the building ultimately had been completely destroyed, I burst into tears,” they told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking Glass’ dual glass doors, surrounded by a grid of windows, had been rammed in by a vehicle, which pounded into the storefront four times. Shards of glass showered the floor of the main showroom, and inventory left behind was rustled through and knocked off of shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wasn’t prepared for that level of damage and then to come in and then see just the sea of glass,” Waicukauski said. “There were just pieces of the building hanging. The glass was still falling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027612\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking Glass Photo & Camera owner Jen Waicukauski said the store’s main showroom was a sea of glass when they arrived Sunday morning, just an hour after the break-in. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Looking Glass Photo & Camera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They said the moment was overwhelming — “I just didn’t quite know what to do,” Waicukauski recalled. But almost immediately, people started showing up to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, the store reopened for business — operating mostly from a temporary back counter — and long-time customers and enthusiasts have raised more than $50,000 to go toward Looking Glass’ recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waicukauski said the support the store has received in the days since has been humbling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I just never am sure if we deserve all the love that people have given us, so it just means so much to know that what we do actually matters,” Waicukauski said. “I like to think that it does, but when everybody shows up, it’s like, ‘OK, that’s cool, that’s amazing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A challenging path ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a construction crew and employees sifted through the damage on Sunday, the financial reality of the burglary began to set in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody [was] just starting to calculate in their minds the actual cost of what this is going to take to get up and running again and how much we have lost,” Waicukauski told KQED. “Many of them also know what we’ve been through as a business over the years and just how hard our industry is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027569 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking Glass Photo & Camera on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. Hundreds of people have raised more than $52,800 toward its extensive repairs. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking Glass is one of the only small camera stores still \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13970148/pamplemousse-magazine-analog-film-photography-san-francisco\">operating in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, in part because of the slim profit margins on selling cameras. And during the pandemic, other services such as rentals, classes and demos weren’t possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The store also just finished a move into a new Fifth Street location, which was expensive and interrupted business over the summer. On top of all that, it is in the midst of a transition in its operations, reviving rental services and moving away from demonstrations and displays — which Waicukauski said have gotten more dangerous because of smash-and-grabs like the one that happened Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, when workers cleaning the store floated the idea of a GoFundMe page to jumpstart recovery, Waicukauski said they were hesitant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s weird to ask for help. We’ve always asked for the support of our community,” they said. “But to literally go out and do a GoFundMe where you’re asking people for their hard-earned dollars to help us make it through a really tough time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My partner and I had this conversation where it was, ‘Are we prepared for nobody to really contribute?’ We can’t expect people to do anything, but we can’t not ask for help right now either.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The whole freaking planet is showing up’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since a fundraiser was started for the store, though, hundreds of people have raised more than $52,800 toward its extensive repairs. A social media page managed by the trust of famed Bay Area photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928843/ansel-adams-in-our-time-de-young-review\">Ansel Adams\u003c/a> amplified the effort, and Waicukauski said people have been showing up in person to place orders and volunteer their time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole freaking planet is showing up right now,” they said. “I cannot believe the way that it has been shared, the people that are just coming in, [asking] ‘What do you have that I can buy?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore6-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inside of Looking Glass Photo & Camera following Sunday morning’s break-in. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Looking Glass Photo & Camera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ginger Fierstein, who works at Looking Glass’ film developing partner next door, said the store is a major part of the local photography network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking Glass has done so much to foster community and be this core hub,” she said. “I would see some people come in and just yap to some of the employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photo Lab, where she works, develops all of the film dropped off next door at Looking Glass. Even when the store was in its previous locations further away, Fierstein said people often took the extra step to take their film there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011111 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/Annies-Annuals-3-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can come to the [Photo] Lab directly and get your film back a little faster or your digital scans developed by email instead of USB, but people still loved going to Looking Glass,” she said. “Despite the slight inconvenience, they would make it like a ritual to go there and really build that into a part of their art practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin Stuart, who interned at the store in 2015, said the community made it worth getting caught in rush hour traffic from El Cerrito to go work at Looking Glass after long days in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just loved the vibe of the store, a lot of people who came in were characters,” said Stuart, who still makes photographs as part of her job with the city of Eugene, Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the ability to talk to other photographers, the other staff,” she continued. “They were all super kind and nice and all were really invested in my development, both for my career and as a photographer. And so, just getting to chat with them and talk photography with all these different people who were into different kinds of photography all over the place was super cool. And Jen was super pivotal in my growth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the first few months in the Fifth Street space have been challenging, Waicukauski said the smash-and-grab hasn’t changed their path for revamping Looking Glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was starting to make sense and starting to look like a sustainable plan moving forward,” they said of the time just before the break-in. “This is feeling like we’ve made the right choice, people are responding to it well, and we’re developing something really kind of cool. A new version of a camera store.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027570\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/BerkeleyPhotoStore2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers installed a temporary wall at Looking Glass Photo & Camera after its dual front doors were smashed in during a smash-and-grab on Sunday. \u003ccite>(Katie DeBenedetti/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s going to include a new website reviving Looking Glass’ rentals program, which Waicukauski said will be a top priority as they begin recovery efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though [rental equipment] is something that will likely be covered by insurance, I don’t know when that check is coming,” Waicukauski said. “Any money that comes in now will be going towards rebuilding that, which will then get funneled into the other costs that are coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also hope to lean into the relationships a camera store can foster, introducing a community platform meant to help local photographers connect in person. Some of Looking Glass’ classes and workshops have given rise to groups who now photograph together, Waicukauski said, and they hope to host more events like a \u003ca href=\"https://www.lookingglassphoto.com/womens-photo-walk-in-nature.html\">Women’s Photo Walk\u003c/a> in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are working on a way to help people find friends to just go out and take pictures with because it is not safe to do it by yourself — that’s part of it — and it’s also nice to have company and connect around a shared interest,” Waicukauski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having people to go out and do stuff with and having a reliable source to find those people, that’s one of the things that we want to do in a bigger and more meaningful way as we move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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