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It also alleges that most of the deployments have specifically targeted residential areas and private properties, occasionally resulting in penalties for code infractions, ground searches and criminal investigations — all without a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sonoma County’s warrantless drone surveillance program violates the California Constitution, which guarantees the people’s affirmative right to privacy and right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government,” the lawsuit reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the county’s drone program is described in the suit as notable due to its scale and sophistication, it is far from the only one in the state. As more counties and government agencies, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042515/sf-crypto-billionaire-wants-to-donate-millions-for-police-drones-surveillance-efforts\">San Francisco Police Department\u003c/a>, expand their use of drones and other aerial surveillance devices, the lawsuit calls attention to the public’s growing concerns over the right to privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10831641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10831641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS8331_IMG_1310-e1452733518537.jpg\" alt=\"California lawmakers have introduced several bills to regulate drone use in the state.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California lawmakers have introduced several bills to regulate drone use in the state. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The lawsuit is about our right to privacy and our right to live private lives in and around our homes as technology moves forward and the government gets powerful devices like drones,” said Matt Cagle, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Sonoma County declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU NorCal attorneys filed the lawsuit on behalf of three Sonoma County residents and property owners who accused the county of subjecting them to invasive surveillance operations, according to the lawsuit. 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According to the lawsuit, it was confirmed that drones were used to identify the violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This horrible experience has shattered my sense of privacy and security,” Schmitz said in a statement. “I’m afraid to open my blinds or go outside to use my hot tub because who knows when the county’s drone could be spying on me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cagle, drones have been used in the county to monitor private residences near the city of Santa Rosa, backyards, children’s play areas, swimming pools and hot tubs. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sonoma County’s warrantless drone surveillance program violates the California Constitution, which guarantees the people’s affirmative right to privacy and right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government,” the lawsuit reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the county’s drone program is described in the suit as notable due to its scale and sophistication, it is far from the only one in the state. As more counties and government agencies, such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042515/sf-crypto-billionaire-wants-to-donate-millions-for-police-drones-surveillance-efforts\">San Francisco Police Department\u003c/a>, expand their use of drones and other aerial surveillance devices, the lawsuit calls attention to the public’s growing concerns over the right to privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10831641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10831641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/RS8331_IMG_1310-e1452733518537.jpg\" alt=\"California lawmakers have introduced several bills to regulate drone use in the state.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California lawmakers have introduced several bills to regulate drone use in the state. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The lawsuit is about our right to privacy and our right to live private lives in and around our homes as technology moves forward and the government gets powerful devices like drones,” said Matt Cagle, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Sonoma County declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACLU NorCal attorneys filed the lawsuit on behalf of three Sonoma County residents and property owners who accused the county of subjecting them to invasive surveillance operations, according to the lawsuit. Other defendants include county officials, code enforcement officers and Permit Sonoma, the agency that oversees land use and permitting, as well as the drone program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nichola Schmitz, one of the plaintiffs, said in the lawsuit that she only learned of the drones surveilling her home when a worker on her property pointed it out to her. Schmitz said she immediately ran into her home and was concerned that the drones had seen her naked earlier in the day.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Shortly after the incident, Schmitz received notice that parts of her property were in violation of the county code. She has since paid $25,000 to resolve the issue and is facing $10,000 in additional fees. According to the lawsuit, it was confirmed that drones were used to identify the violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This horrible experience has shattered my sense of privacy and security,” Schmitz said in a statement. “I’m afraid to open my blinds or go outside to use my hot tub because who knows when the county’s drone could be spying on me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cagle, drones have been used in the county to monitor private residences near the city of Santa Rosa, backyards, children’s play areas, swimming pools and hot tubs. The county has also made efforts to conceal its drone program from the public, he alleged, adding that officials have killed amendments to its surveillance policy that would restrict how drones can be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs in the lawsuit are seeking a permanent injunction against the use of taxpayer dollars to fund the program and also a judicial warrant requirement for any future drone flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that people have a right to live their lives privately in and around their homes,” he said. “If a government agency is going to monitor private activities or private spaces where people expect to be having their privacy, they need to be getting a warrant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the California Constitution, people are entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy from government surveillance in their homes and in the areas around their homes, Cagle said. The lawsuit against Sonoma County will help determine whether that expectation still stands in the “drone era,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an important test case,” Cagle told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are laws relating to when private citizens and private individuals can use drones, when it comes to laws relating to government use of drones, it’s kind of the Wild West.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slewis\">\u003cem>Sukey Lewis\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>Witnesses say \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley-police\">Berkeley police\u003c/a> threatened residents with less lethal weapons during a cleanup on Wednesday of an encampment that has been the source of conflict for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encampment at Harrison and Eighth streets, which is home to roughly 40 people, is the subject of multiple lawsuits. Business owners \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004348/berkeley-moves-to-expand-homeless-encampment-sweeps-in-more-aggressive-approach\">sued last year\u003c/a> to force the city to clean it up, while camp residents have multiple suits pending against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DKfUK7aSel5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MXJqY213amMxcXY2Zg%3D%3D\">Video of the sweep\u003c/a> posted by the publication \u003ca href=\"https://thestreetspirit.org/\">Street Spirit\u003c/a> shows an officer pointing a less lethal rifle at a tent and saying, “Get out now. You’re going to be shot with less lethal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesica Prado, who took the video and has been living at the encampment for seven years, said the incident happened shortly after officers showed up around 6 a.m. She said police officers were dropping smoke-emitting devices into the areas where people were sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man was “really, really scared and worked up, and he was just trying to stay inside,” Prado said. “And I think that’s when a bunch of cops just started swarming around his tent and telling him that he needed to get out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042928\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042928\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-43-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stretch of Harrison Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, home to an unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Prado, who is also a representative with the Berkeley Homeless Union, said the officers threw one of the smoke devices into the man’s living area, and he threw it back at them. At that point, an officer pointed a non-lethal weapon at him, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first sweep that I’ve seen them come with such force,” Prado said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another video, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKglqBmOwwe/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=cnQzbWM4b29zb3Ns\">posted by Berkeley Copwatch\u003c/a>, shows the same man pushed to the ground and pinned by officers after crossing a police line, seemingly inadvertently, during an altercation later that morning. “I did nothing wrong, you backed me into here,” the man said, while the police pleaded with him to cooperate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More and more cops came. We counted 10 on top of him at one point,” said Andrea Prichett of Copwatch, who shot the video. “He was saying he couldn’t breathe.”[aside postID=news_12041026 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250513-HUD-FUNDS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg']A spokesperson for the police department confirmed one person was arrested during the sweep, but directed all questions about use of force to the city, which did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Mayor Adena Ishii said, though the details are still emerging, “the video circulating on social media is upsetting, particularly during such a traumatic moment for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that she is “committed to ensuring that our city approaches clearings of encampments with as much care and empathy as possible while ensuring everyone’s safety and well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had moved to close the encampment earlier this year, citing health hazards and public nuisance, including rodents, loose syringes, rotting food and human waste, but the Berkeley Homeless Union and residents sued and won a temporary restraining order. That order expired on May 23, after an attorney for the union missed a filing deadline for a preliminary injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, several hours after the city started dismantling the camp, Senior District Judge Edward Chen ordered the city to stop, citing due process concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460.jpg\" alt=\"tents along a street\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents on Eighth Street at a homeless encampment near Harrison Street in Berkeley in June 2023. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, whose district includes Harrison Street, expressed support for the city’s action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley Homeless Union is exploiting the legal system to keep the dangerous, unsafe encampment on Harrison Street open, which is a known magnet for criminal activity and open illicit drug use,” she wrote in an email to KQED. ”I applaud our city staff who conducted vital, difficult work on Wednesday to close the Harrison encampment after we were legally cleared to do so and had issued notice for closure in January before litigation delayed the closure process. The city will now follow the restraining order issued by Judge Chen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brigitte Nicoletti, an attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center who represents some camp residents, said residents had been caught off guard. The city did not provide advance notice of the sweep and gave people less than 30 minutes to retrieve their belongings before heavy machinery moved in to crush and remove what remained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They wouldn’t even let me cross the lines to talk to clients,” Nicoletti added, referring to a large area cordoned off by the police. “It’s very, very concerning and a real escalation in tactics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042929\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250520-BerkeleyRVBuyBack-40-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stretch of Harrison Street in northwest Berkeley on May 20, 2025, home to an unhoused population. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t take all that,” said Shareef Muwwakkil, who’d been living in a tent in the area for a couple of years. “Most people out here are malnutritioned; they don’t even have the energy to put up significant resistance. It’s just overkill. It’s showboating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the scene were handing out new tents and sleeping bags to residents who’d lost theirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just knocks the wind out of me,” Muwwakkil said of losing books, audio equipment, clothes and other belongings. “This is not OK for me to go through anymore. It’s wearing me out.”[aside postID=news_12042370 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']At an emergency hearing on Wednesday, Chen asked lawyers for the city why they hadn’t provided notice ahead of the sweep. “What was the problem with giving reasonable notice?” he said. “Was it to avoid any possible intervention by this court?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has consistently stated it intends to proceed with this abatement,” Deputy City Attorney Laura Iris Mattes said. “We’ve given them five months’ worth of notice … folks have the opportunity to leave at any time …They have had since the city posted this notice in January to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen didn’t buy that. “Anybody would have expected there would be some notice … It just seems like, as a matter of fairness and due process, there’d be notice,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In asking the judge to halt the sweep, Anthony Prince, the attorney representing the Berkeley Homeless Union, acknowledged the harm was already done. “The toothpaste is out of the tube,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can do is halt this now,” Chen said. “I’m not in a position to put the toothpaste back in the tube.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen ordered the city to pause abatement until further notice. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A spokesperson for the police department confirmed one person was arrested during the sweep, but directed all questions about use of force to the city, which did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Mayor Adena Ishii said, though the details are still emerging, “the video circulating on social media is upsetting, particularly during such a traumatic moment for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that she is “committed to ensuring that our city approaches clearings of encampments with as much care and empathy as possible while ensuring everyone’s safety and well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had moved to close the encampment earlier this year, citing health hazards and public nuisance, including rodents, loose syringes, rotting food and human waste, but the Berkeley Homeless Union and residents sued and won a temporary restraining order. That order expired on May 23, after an attorney for the union missed a filing deadline for a preliminary injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, several hours after the city started dismantling the camp, Senior District Judge Edward Chen ordered the city to stop, citing due process concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460.jpg\" alt=\"tents along a street\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/GettyImages-1502059460-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents on Eighth Street at a homeless encampment near Harrison Street in Berkeley in June 2023. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Rashi Kesarwani, whose district includes Harrison Street, expressed support for the city’s action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Berkeley Homeless Union is exploiting the legal system to keep the dangerous, unsafe encampment on Harrison Street open, which is a known magnet for criminal activity and open illicit drug use,” she wrote in an email to KQED. ”I applaud our city staff who conducted vital, difficult work on Wednesday to close the Harrison encampment after we were legally cleared to do so and had issued notice for closure in January before litigation delayed the closure process. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At an emergency hearing on Wednesday, Chen asked lawyers for the city why they hadn’t provided notice ahead of the sweep. “What was the problem with giving reasonable notice?” he said. “Was it to avoid any possible intervention by this court?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has consistently stated it intends to proceed with this abatement,” Deputy City Attorney Laura Iris Mattes said. “We’ve given them five months’ worth of notice … folks have the opportunity to leave at any time …They have had since the city posted this notice in January to move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen didn’t buy that. “Anybody would have expected there would be some notice … It just seems like, as a matter of fairness and due process, there’d be notice,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In asking the judge to halt the sweep, Anthony Prince, the attorney representing the Berkeley Homeless Union, acknowledged the harm was already done. “The toothpaste is out of the tube,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can do is halt this now,” Chen said. “I’m not in a position to put the toothpaste back in the tube.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chen ordered the city to pause abatement until further notice. The next hearing in the case is set for June 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The group’s former leaders, including Robert Ogilvie, the organization’s CEO until just days ago, his predecessor, Drew Becher, and former treasurer, Rick Hutchinson, will be required to appear before the committee under penalty of perjury, and could be held in contempt if they refuse to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton lambasted the organization for its fiscal mismanagement and lack of transparency, which has left dozens of partner organizations scrambling for funding alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The harm to neighborhood groups across San Francisco cannot be overstated,” said Walton, a member of the Government Audit & Oversight Committee. “Many of these groups are volunteer-run. They did nothing wrong. Their funds were held in a trust, and now those funds may be gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization’s implosion comes as its leaders last month admitted to misspending at least $3.8 million in restricted funds in order to cover its operating costs, prompting the city to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\"> launch civil and criminal investigations\u003c/a> of the group and the mayor to suspend its city funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12042690 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than 50 years, the Parks Alliance was a critical player in supporting San Francisco’s many open-space projects and serving as a fiscal sponsor for more than 80 community organizations across the city that don’t have their own tax-exempt status and use the nonprofit as a bank to hold and distribute their funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not know the Parks Alliance’s full assets at this time, but we do know they owe the city and many nonprofits a lot of money,” Walton said. “We are here to demand answers. This is about public trust, accountability and the real consequences of failed oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a leaked email last month sent to a Parks Alliance donor and obtained by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, the Alliance’s board chair, Louise Mozingo, admitted to improperly spending those restricted funds and likened the organization’s financial situation to “a dumpster fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the email, Mozingo said the board was preparing for the possibility of shutting down the organization and had already contacted a firm specializing in “nonprofit liquidation.” She also acknowledged that the board was “very conscious” that doing so would “substantially hurt many small businesses and organizations that will realize a significant loss, causing real hardship in already uncertain times,” according to \u003cem>the Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.[aside postID=news_12042526 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS42458_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_GGP_03302020-qut-1020x680.jpg']The downfall of the Alliance, which Supervisor Jackie Fielder described to KQED as “a magnet and a who’s who in the city for very powerful people,” follows a series of scandals involving multiple city-funded nonprofits accused of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004947/sf-mayor-breed-pushes-back-against-corruption-criticism-from-opponents\">misusing city funds\u003c/a> or unfairly awarding grants based on personal connections. Last year, the executive director of the now-defunct nonprofit SF SAFE was arrested for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997977/former-head-of-sfpd-linked-nonprofit-arrested-over-alleged-misuse-of-700000\">allegedly stealing and misusing\u003c/a> more than $700,000 in public funds and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Thursday’s hearing, Fielder also directed the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\">audit the city’s Recreation and Parks Department,\u003c/a> which has worked closely with the Alliance on various open-space projects. The audit, she said, should include a review of the department’s current projects and its financial ties to the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all of the mistrust in city government from San Franciscans, I think it’s all the more important for the Recreation and Parks Department to undertake this audit as questions surround their affiliated nonprofits,” Fielder told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of representatives of groups impacted by the Alliance’s closure also spoke at Thursday’s hearing, urging supervisors to hold the defunct nonprofit’s leaders accountable and “solve this mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of community projects in every single district of the city, and each of the supervisors here knows well how important these projects are to the fabric of the neighborhood,” said Rosaura Valle, who helps lead the Detroit Steps Project in the city’s Sunnyside neighborhood, an initiative funded largely by small donations from local residents. ”Volunteers commit their own personal time, skills and passion to projects that benefit the community and the city at no cost to the city. And now we’re stripped of our assets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ildiko Polony, the executive director of conservation group Sutro Stewards, one of the few fiscally sponsored groups that had paid employees, said her entire staff, who the Alliance technically employed, received layoff notices on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I’m in a position of scrambling, trying to figure out what to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reports of the Parks Alliance’s financial mismanagement began emerging in late April, Polony formed a coalition of fiscally sponsored groups, in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to keep the Alliance afloat. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The downfall of the Alliance, which Supervisor Jackie Fielder described to KQED as “a magnet and a who’s who in the city for very powerful people,” follows a series of scandals involving multiple city-funded nonprofits accused of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004947/sf-mayor-breed-pushes-back-against-corruption-criticism-from-opponents\">misusing city funds\u003c/a> or unfairly awarding grants based on personal connections. Last year, the executive director of the now-defunct nonprofit SF SAFE was arrested for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997977/former-head-of-sfpd-linked-nonprofit-arrested-over-alleged-misuse-of-700000\">allegedly stealing and misusing\u003c/a> more than $700,000 in public funds and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Thursday’s hearing, Fielder also directed the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\">audit the city’s Recreation and Parks Department,\u003c/a> which has worked closely with the Alliance on various open-space projects. The audit, she said, should include a review of the department’s current projects and its financial ties to the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all of the mistrust in city government from San Franciscans, I think it’s all the more important for the Recreation and Parks Department to undertake this audit as questions surround their affiliated nonprofits,” Fielder told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of representatives of groups impacted by the Alliance’s closure also spoke at Thursday’s hearing, urging supervisors to hold the defunct nonprofit’s leaders accountable and “solve this mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of community projects in every single district of the city, and each of the supervisors here knows well how important these projects are to the fabric of the neighborhood,” said Rosaura Valle, who helps lead the Detroit Steps Project in the city’s Sunnyside neighborhood, an initiative funded largely by small donations from local residents. ”Volunteers commit their own personal time, skills and passion to projects that benefit the community and the city at no cost to the city. And now we’re stripped of our assets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ildiko Polony, the executive director of conservation group Sutro Stewards, one of the few fiscally sponsored groups that had paid employees, said her entire staff, who the Alliance technically employed, received layoff notices on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I’m in a position of scrambling, trying to figure out what to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reports of the Parks Alliance’s financial mismanagement began emerging in late April, Polony formed a coalition of fiscally sponsored groups, in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to keep the Alliance afloat. Now its members, who held a press event on the steps of City Hall ahead of Thursday’s hearing, are calling on the city to make them whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition estimates that close to $2 million of its donations were depleted by the Alliance, and is now demanding city leaders compensate the groups, so they can reimburse their vendors, rehire staff and continue projects. It also calls on the city to maintain the function of Alliance’s fiscal sponsorship program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It] has allowed for community partners, for neighbors to get together to make the change that they want to see happen in their neighborhoods,” Polony said. “There is little that is as empowering to a community than being able to come together and envision together what you wanna see happen in your community and then work to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So the fiscal sponsorship program that SFPA provided, that function needs to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a warm May afternoon, Butch Larson and David Garcia leaned intently over a makeshift workbench outside Larson’s tent, one of a dozen lining the Guadalupe River Trail in South \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above them, cars roared along an overpass on Highway 85, enveloping the encampment in an unceasing din, but providing the pair a break from the midday sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson tinkered with the underside of a small skateboard. He worked slowly, still recovering mobility in his right arm after suffering a stroke last year. Larson has been unhoused since 2012, living for the last four years in this encampment off Cherry Avenue. Garcia arrived a year or two later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a hundred yards away, a construction crew worked on what San José officials hope will be future homes for Larson and Garcia: a 128-unit tiny home village set to open this fall. People experiencing homelessness in the immediate area will be offered first preference for a private room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson and Garcia aren’t interested, at least not right now. Both said the facilities have too many rules and too little space for their tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want those,” Garcia said. “They should give us a hotel room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butch Larson repairs a bicycle near the place he lives along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Larson doesn’t want that either. He lived briefly in a former downtown motel that was converted into a temporary housing unit, and said it felt “like a jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t smoke no marijuana or drink alcohol there,” he said. “I couldn’t have my tools, I couldn’t have my electric bike, I couldn’t have my motorbike, I couldn’t have my electric skateboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson, Garcia and others living in encampments near interim housing sites could soon face new pressure to move indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council will vote next week on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">controversial plan\u003c/a> authored by Mayor Matt Mahan to arrest unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter. The proposal, called Responsibility to Shelter, is aimed at getting unhoused people into temporary housing or a court-ordered behavioral health treatment program.[aside postID=news_12029843 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-10-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg']Mahan is leading a call echoed by mayors across California, and recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">by Gov. Gavin Newsom:\u003c/a> if shelter space is available, living in often unsafe and unsanitary encampments cannot be an acceptable alternative. If encampments persist after the city has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\"> spent millions\u003c/a> of taxpayer dollars on temporary housing, Mahan argued, winning support for future shelter in San José will prove impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to our moral responsibility to intervene in cycles of addiction and mental illness and get people indoors into treatment, we have a duty and really a political necessity to bring the whole community along,” Mahan told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the mayor’s plan argue that such enforcement is premature. City data shows most unhoused people in San José accept shelter when offered. And even if every person living outdoors wanted a bed, the city is still far from being able to offer one: while there are more than 3,000 city and county-run shelter units in San José, an estimated 5,477 people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026630/san-jose-has-an-idea-to-bring-street-homelessness-to-functional-zero-can-it-work\">living without shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials, whose collaboration would be required once an arrest is made, are deeply skeptical. Without additional treatment beds, they warn, the plan could push more people through a revolving door between the courthouse, the jailhouse and the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the encampment near Cherry Avenue, Larson and Garcia said the threat of arrest would do little to change their mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been telling everybody out here, I’ll probably be the first person to go to jail over this s–t,” Larson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New police and outreach units\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both supporters and opponents of the plan agree that unhoused people who are arrested won’t be spending nights in jail, at least not initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan before the council on Tuesday would add an expectation to accept shelter to the city’s encampment code of conduct. That code of conduct also prohibits camping in a “no encampment zone,” which includes the two-block radius around existing temporary housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042510 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in front of the Via del Oro interim housing site in San José on May 29, 2025, announces a no-encampment zone. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the code of conduct is not enforceable by arrest, San José Chief of Police Paul Joseph told the city council last month. Instead, violations would be used “to prioritize which campsites are in need of abatement and which can wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means encampments near the city’s interim housing communities, such as the Cherry Avenue site, will be prioritized for enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley, who declined to share his last name, has lived there for two and a half years. He flashed a bright smile underneath a pair of black Ray-Ban sunglasses, but said frankly, “It’s hard out here.”[aside postID=news_12031813 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240409-SJEncampmentBan-045-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“I mean, with no air conditioning and your stuff gets stolen,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing, actually, because I like nice clothes, but it gets stolen. It gets stolen a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the mayor’s enforcement plan, Riley said it didn’t sound too extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like if you don’t want to be homeless, then you should accept the resources, even if it’s not a mansion,” he added, gesturing at the nearby tiny homes under construction behind a chain-link fence. “If they gave me a chance right now, once they’re done, I would do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, that offer will come from a new seven-person team of housing and parks workers, who will spend time building relationships with people in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These offers of housing distinguish Responsibility to Shelter from encampment laws being rolled out in other California cities. After the Supreme Court ruled last year in the Grants Pass decision that jurisdictions\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\"> could legally clear tents\u003c/a> without offering shelter, cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">such as Fremont\u003c/a> and Fresno \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019944/in-fresno-one-of-californias-toughest-new-camping-bans-comes-into-focus\">have passed \u003c/a>outright bans on camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the housing team has made several offers of shelter (originally proposed by Mahan as three offers but revised to give discretion to outreach workers), a new “Neighborhood Quality of Life” police unit could be dispatched. That unit, made up of one sergeant and six officers, would make arrests for any misdemeanor violations at the site, such as trespassing or illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026470 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks at a press conference in San Francisco on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan sees the arrests as a pathway to services that only the county can provide — a forcing function for judges to order participation in mental health or substance use programs, and to pressure the county to fund more housing for people enrolled in such treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those individuals who are a subset of the population, but our most vulnerable neighbors and, frankly, the most impactful on the rest of society, success is getting into treatment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jamie Chang, associate professor of social welfare at UC Berkeley, said there’s little evidence that arrests will make a positive difference in the life of someone experiencing homelessness. She questions the premise that people who are resisting shelter are necessarily in need of mental health or substance use treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned about people who are not accepting shelter for various reasons, because they have disabilities, because they have too much stuff,” she said. “I think it’s very clear that people experiencing homelessness have many, and oftentimes very valid reasons for refusing shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>County says plan is ‘unnecessary and ineffective’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For people who are arrested under the Responsibility to Shelter plan, the path to treatment is not straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José officials want police to bring arrestees to a county facility where people under the influence of drugs or alcohol or those experiencing a mental health crisis can stay up to 24 hours — but they haven’t reached an agreement with the county to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of a deal, San José police will bring the unhoused person they arrest to the county jail, where they will be immediately released with a citation to appear in court, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said, citing a state law that prohibits jailings for most misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs posted in the Santa Teresa neighborhood of San José on May 29, 2025, announce that video surveillance is in use. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Damon Silver, Santa Clara County’s acting public defender, said it’s unlikely at that point for the person experiencing homelessness — just released from county jail and likely separated from their belongings — to navigate the path to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re struggling to survive,” Silver said. “And for us to expect that they’re likely going to be able to manage both the transportation, the monitoring of when their court date is and then arrive successfully at court? I think we’re going to anticipate a large failure-to-appear rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That failure to appear could lead a judge to issue a bench warrant, which raises the chances that the unhoused person would have to spend time in jail until their next court appearance.[aside postID=news_12026437 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']If the person experiencing homelessness does appear for their arraignment, San José’s city attorney will ask that the case be referred to the county behavioral health court. The public defender might push back on the terms of a proposed treatment plan or ask that the judge dismiss the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If placed in a diversion program, the unhoused person could be connected to therapy, treatment or counseling. But judges, lawyers and service providers who work in the county’s diversion system all agreed: without housing, treatment will fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough housing beds for people in this county,” Silver said. “We don’t frankly have enough mental health beds for people in this county, and we don’t have enough substance abuse beds and treatment for people in this county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender’s skepticism has been echoed by top Santa Clara County brass. In a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Letter-to-CSJ-re-Arrests-of-Unhoused-Individuals-for-Nonviolent-Misdemeanors-5.12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12 letter\u003c/a> addressed to San José leaders, Board of Supervisors President Otto Lee, District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Sheriff Robert Jonsen and County Executive James R. Williams called the potential homeless arrests “unnecessary and ineffective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time of tremendous budgetary challenges, City policies should not divert limited public safety resources to address what is ultimately a problem caused by the lack of affordable housing in our cities,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor: Encampments ‘undermine’ support for housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two days after the letter was sent, newly elected District 10 Councilmember George Casey fired back against county leadership during a hearing on the city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is members of the city council, Casey argued, not the county government, who field the brunt of complaints from residents about persistent street homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people don’t know who their county supervisor is or what the county is responsible for, and we’re the ones that catch hell,” Casey said. “So they get to sit back in the cuts and do nothing, and they’ve done nothing. And so the idea that we’re going to let that letter or whatever they are willing to do or not do dictate what we do is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Casey is intimately familiar with the politics of homeless housing. Five of the city’s 13 interim housing communities lie along a stretch of Monterey Road that straddles District 10 and District 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the council has approved more temporary housing projects in South San José, they have layered on incentives to ameliorate concerns from residents living near the sites: the no encampment zones within a two-block radius, first preference for beds to people experiencing homelessness in the immediate area and a Community Advisory Committee to solicit feedback from nearby residents after the housing opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa Ajlouny leads the Community Advisory Committee for the recently opened Via del Oro interim housing complex. The site has been open for less than two months, but Ajlouny said he has already fielded complaints from neighbors about lingering encampments, fires and reported thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issa Ajlouny, founder and president of SAFER San José (Safety Advocate For Empowering Residents), sits at his home in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m the mediator,” he said. “I’m trying to be the person that says, ‘Hey, neighborhood, we need to be good neighbors to [the unhoused] and try to help them, our tax dollars are going towards it, we might as well do that.’ But in turn, we needed to be treated as good neighbors … and that actually is not happening right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ajlouny wants to see tougher enforcement and larger no-encampment zones — and he supports the Responsibility to Shelter plan, which would be enforced primarily in neighborhoods like his, near interim housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message from the city when Via del Oro was approved was “We’ll throw you a bone,” Ajlouny said. “And the bone hasn’t landed yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José is operating more than 1,200 temporary units with on-site services — including private rooms and prefabricated apartments in tiny home villages, converted motel rooms and parking spaces for RVs. More than 500 additional shelter spaces are expected to open later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">KQED analysis\u003c/a> found that neighborhood fears about the city’s first five interim housing sites never came to pass. But Mahan believes that the future of homeless housing in San José is predicated on residents like Ajlouny seeing meaningful improvements in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t do that if 10%, 20%, 30% of people are saying, ‘No thanks, I want to stay right here, continuing with my lifestyle in my tent,’” Mahan said. “It completely undermines the rationale for the work and the political support that the community is willing to give to these efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We haven’t necessarily solved the problem’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In early March, a parking lot for RV-dwellers opened on Berryessa Road in north San José, with on-site bathrooms and showers, along with case managers and hot meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening was preceded by months of messaging, both to people staying in their vehicles nearby and people living in the neighborhood, that RVs would be cleared from the area once the safe parking lot launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember David Cohen said there were about 20 RVs on nearby streets when the site opened. A month later, about half remained. Now, the streets are clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Vía Del Oro Drive in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who moved in early went back, and spoke to some of the people they knew on the [streets] and said ‘Actually it’s a pretty nice place,’” Cohen said. “As we build more of these sites and people see how they work, I believe more and more people will be accepting of the service and fewer will be service-resistant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story didn’t end with the cleared streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we have another street a couple blocks away that has RVs on it that didn’t before,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said he’ll wait for any amendments to the Responsibility to Shelter plan on Tuesday before making a final decision on his vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He agrees with the mayor that the city can’t wait until there is a bed available for every unhoused person in San José before clearing tents or lived-in vehicles — that there’s value in showing neighborhoods that new shelter sites will come with clean streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we have to understand that when we don’t have enough beds for everybody, we haven’t necessarily solved the problem,” he said. “We’ve just moved the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a hundred yards away, a construction crew worked on what San José officials hope will be future homes for Larson and Garcia: a 128-unit tiny home village set to open this fall. People experiencing homelessness in the immediate area will be offered first preference for a private room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson and Garcia aren’t interested, at least not right now. Both said the facilities have too many rules and too little space for their tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want those,” Garcia said. “They should give us a hotel room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042505\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butch Larson repairs a bicycle near the place he lives along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Larson doesn’t want that either. He lived briefly in a former downtown motel that was converted into a temporary housing unit, and said it felt “like a jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t smoke no marijuana or drink alcohol there,” he said. “I couldn’t have my tools, I couldn’t have my electric bike, I couldn’t have my motorbike, I couldn’t have my electric skateboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Larson, Garcia and others living in encampments near interim housing sites could soon face new pressure to move indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council will vote next week on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">controversial plan\u003c/a> authored by Mayor Matt Mahan to arrest unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter. The proposal, called Responsibility to Shelter, is aimed at getting unhoused people into temporary housing or a court-ordered behavioral health treatment program.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mahan is leading a call echoed by mayors across California, and recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039730/newsom-pushes-cities-ban-homeless-encampments-across-california\">by Gov. Gavin Newsom:\u003c/a> if shelter space is available, living in often unsafe and unsanitary encampments cannot be an acceptable alternative. If encampments persist after the city has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\"> spent millions\u003c/a> of taxpayer dollars on temporary housing, Mahan argued, winning support for future shelter in San José will prove impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to our moral responsibility to intervene in cycles of addiction and mental illness and get people indoors into treatment, we have a duty and really a political necessity to bring the whole community along,” Mahan told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the mayor’s plan argue that such enforcement is premature. City data shows most unhoused people in San José accept shelter when offered. And even if every person living outdoors wanted a bed, the city is still far from being able to offer one: while there are more than 3,000 city and county-run shelter units in San José, an estimated 5,477 people are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026630/san-jose-has-an-idea-to-bring-street-homelessness-to-functional-zero-can-it-work\">living without shelter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials, whose collaboration would be required once an arrest is made, are deeply skeptical. Without additional treatment beds, they warn, the plan could push more people through a revolving door between the courthouse, the jailhouse and the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the encampment near Cherry Avenue, Larson and Garcia said the threat of arrest would do little to change their mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been telling everybody out here, I’ll probably be the first person to go to jail over this s–t,” Larson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New police and outreach units\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both supporters and opponents of the plan agree that unhoused people who are arrested won’t be spending nights in jail, at least not initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan before the council on Tuesday would add an expectation to accept shelter to the city’s encampment code of conduct. That code of conduct also prohibits camping in a “no encampment zone,” which includes the two-block radius around existing temporary housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042510 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign in front of the Via del Oro interim housing site in San José on May 29, 2025, announces a no-encampment zone. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the code of conduct is not enforceable by arrest, San José Chief of Police Paul Joseph told the city council last month. Instead, violations would be used “to prioritize which campsites are in need of abatement and which can wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means encampments near the city’s interim housing communities, such as the Cherry Avenue site, will be prioritized for enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley, who declined to share his last name, has lived there for two and a half years. He flashed a bright smile underneath a pair of black Ray-Ban sunglasses, but said frankly, “It’s hard out here.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I mean, with no air conditioning and your stuff gets stolen,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing, actually, because I like nice clothes, but it gets stolen. It gets stolen a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about the mayor’s enforcement plan, Riley said it didn’t sound too extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I feel like if you don’t want to be homeless, then you should accept the resources, even if it’s not a mansion,” he added, gesturing at the nearby tiny homes under construction behind a chain-link fence. “If they gave me a chance right now, once they’re done, I would do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, that offer will come from a new seven-person team of housing and parks workers, who will spend time building relationships with people in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These offers of housing distinguish Responsibility to Shelter from encampment laws being rolled out in other California cities. After the Supreme Court ruled last year in the Grants Pass decision that jurisdictions\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\"> could legally clear tents\u003c/a> without offering shelter, cities \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">such as Fremont\u003c/a> and Fresno \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019944/in-fresno-one-of-californias-toughest-new-camping-bans-comes-into-focus\">have passed \u003c/a>outright bans on camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the housing team has made several offers of shelter (originally proposed by Mahan as three offers but revised to give discretion to outreach workers), a new “Neighborhood Quality of Life” police unit could be dispatched. That unit, made up of one sergeant and six officers, would make arrests for any misdemeanor violations at the site, such as trespassing or illegal dumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12026470 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-16-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks at a press conference in San Francisco on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan sees the arrests as a pathway to services that only the county can provide — a forcing function for judges to order participation in mental health or substance use programs, and to pressure the county to fund more housing for people enrolled in such treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those individuals who are a subset of the population, but our most vulnerable neighbors and, frankly, the most impactful on the rest of society, success is getting into treatment,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jamie Chang, associate professor of social welfare at UC Berkeley, said there’s little evidence that arrests will make a positive difference in the life of someone experiencing homelessness. She questions the premise that people who are resisting shelter are necessarily in need of mental health or substance use treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very concerned about people who are not accepting shelter for various reasons, because they have disabilities, because they have too much stuff,” she said. “I think it’s very clear that people experiencing homelessness have many, and oftentimes very valid reasons for refusing shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>County says plan is ‘unnecessary and ineffective’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For people who are arrested under the Responsibility to Shelter plan, the path to treatment is not straightforward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José officials want police to bring arrestees to a county facility where people under the influence of drugs or alcohol or those experiencing a mental health crisis can stay up to 24 hours — but they haven’t reached an agreement with the county to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of a deal, San José police will bring the unhoused person they arrest to the county jail, where they will be immediately released with a citation to appear in court, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said, citing a state law that prohibits jailings for most misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042508\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042508\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-20-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs posted in the Santa Teresa neighborhood of San José on May 29, 2025, announce that video surveillance is in use. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Damon Silver, Santa Clara County’s acting public defender, said it’s unlikely at that point for the person experiencing homelessness — just released from county jail and likely separated from their belongings — to navigate the path to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re struggling to survive,” Silver said. “And for us to expect that they’re likely going to be able to manage both the transportation, the monitoring of when their court date is and then arrive successfully at court? I think we’re going to anticipate a large failure-to-appear rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That failure to appear could lead a judge to issue a bench warrant, which raises the chances that the unhoused person would have to spend time in jail until their next court appearance.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If the person experiencing homelessness does appear for their arraignment, San José’s city attorney will ask that the case be referred to the county behavioral health court. The public defender might push back on the terms of a proposed treatment plan or ask that the judge dismiss the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If placed in a diversion program, the unhoused person could be connected to therapy, treatment or counseling. But judges, lawyers and service providers who work in the county’s diversion system all agreed: without housing, treatment will fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough housing beds for people in this county,” Silver said. “We don’t frankly have enough mental health beds for people in this county, and we don’t have enough substance abuse beds and treatment for people in this county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public defender’s skepticism has been echoed by top Santa Clara County brass. In a \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Letter-to-CSJ-re-Arrests-of-Unhoused-Individuals-for-Nonviolent-Misdemeanors-5.12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12 letter\u003c/a> addressed to San José leaders, Board of Supervisors President Otto Lee, District Attorney Jeff Rosen, Sheriff Robert Jonsen and County Executive James R. Williams called the potential homeless arrests “unnecessary and ineffective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time of tremendous budgetary challenges, City policies should not divert limited public safety resources to address what is ultimately a problem caused by the lack of affordable housing in our cities,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Mayor: Encampments ‘undermine’ support for housing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two days after the letter was sent, newly elected District 10 Councilmember George Casey fired back against county leadership during a hearing on the city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is members of the city council, Casey argued, not the county government, who field the brunt of complaints from residents about persistent street homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people don’t know who their county supervisor is or what the county is responsible for, and we’re the ones that catch hell,” Casey said. “So they get to sit back in the cuts and do nothing, and they’ve done nothing. And so the idea that we’re going to let that letter or whatever they are willing to do or not do dictate what we do is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Casey is intimately familiar with the politics of homeless housing. Five of the city’s 13 interim housing communities lie along a stretch of Monterey Road that straddles District 10 and District 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the council has approved more temporary housing projects in South San José, they have layered on incentives to ameliorate concerns from residents living near the sites: the no encampment zones within a two-block radius, first preference for beds to people experiencing homelessness in the immediate area and a Community Advisory Committee to solicit feedback from nearby residents after the housing opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Issa Ajlouny leads the Community Advisory Committee for the recently opened Via del Oro interim housing complex. The site has been open for less than two months, but Ajlouny said he has already fielded complaints from neighbors about lingering encampments, fires and reported thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042507\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issa Ajlouny, founder and president of SAFER San José (Safety Advocate For Empowering Residents), sits at his home in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’m the mediator,” he said. “I’m trying to be the person that says, ‘Hey, neighborhood, we need to be good neighbors to [the unhoused] and try to help them, our tax dollars are going towards it, we might as well do that.’ But in turn, we needed to be treated as good neighbors … and that actually is not happening right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ajlouny wants to see tougher enforcement and larger no-encampment zones — and he supports the Responsibility to Shelter plan, which would be enforced primarily in neighborhoods like his, near interim housing sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message from the city when Via del Oro was approved was “We’ll throw you a bone,” Ajlouny said. “And the bone hasn’t landed yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José is operating more than 1,200 temporary units with on-site services — including private rooms and prefabricated apartments in tiny home villages, converted motel rooms and parking spaces for RVs. More than 500 additional shelter spaces are expected to open later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">KQED analysis\u003c/a> found that neighborhood fears about the city’s first five interim housing sites never came to pass. But Mahan believes that the future of homeless housing in San José is predicated on residents like Ajlouny seeing meaningful improvements in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t do that if 10%, 20%, 30% of people are saying, ‘No thanks, I want to stay right here, continuing with my lifestyle in my tent,’” Mahan said. “It completely undermines the rationale for the work and the political support that the community is willing to give to these efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We haven’t necessarily solved the problem’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In early March, a parking lot for RV-dwellers opened on Berryessa Road in north San José, with on-site bathrooms and showers, along with case managers and hot meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening was preceded by months of messaging, both to people staying in their vehicles nearby and people living in the neighborhood, that RVs would be cleared from the area once the safe parking lot launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember David Cohen said there were about 20 RVs on nearby streets when the site opened. A month later, about half remained. Now, the streets are clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Vía Del Oro Drive in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who moved in early went back, and spoke to some of the people they knew on the [streets] and said ‘Actually it’s a pretty nice place,’” Cohen said. “As we build more of these sites and people see how they work, I believe more and more people will be accepting of the service and fewer will be service-resistant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the story didn’t end with the cleared streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now we have another street a couple blocks away that has RVs on it that didn’t before,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen said he’ll wait for any amendments to the Responsibility to Shelter plan on Tuesday before making a final decision on his vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He agrees with the mayor that the city can’t wait until there is a bed available for every unhoused person in San José before clearing tents or lived-in vehicles — that there’s value in showing neighborhoods that new shelter sites will come with clean streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we have to understand that when we don’t have enough beds for everybody, we haven’t necessarily solved the problem,” he said. “We’ve just moved the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Students at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stanford\">Stanford University\u003c/a> have ended what they say is the longest university \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040753/at-stanford-growing-pro-palestinian-hunger-strike-silence-from-university\">hunger strike in solidarity with Palestine\u003c/a> in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than three dozen students, staff and alumni have participated in the 24-day effort, which was launched in May in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039733/california-students-hunger-strike-gaza-spreads-stanford\">solidarity with Palestinians at risk of starving in Gaza\u003c/a> due to Israel’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/11/nx-s1-5389740/10-weeks-into-israels-aid-blockade-in-gaza-desperate-families-grind-lentils-for-flour\">monthslong blockade of aid\u003c/a> to the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike began after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038896/student-hunger-strikers-want-sf-states-divestment-deal-to-spread-across-csu-system\">similar movements took root across California State University\u003c/a> campuses in the Bay Area, calling for university leaders to meet protesters’ demands to divest from companies they say fund Israel’s war in Gaza and take actions meant to ensure campus free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite a goal to continue until administrators agreed to negotiate, the protesters announced they would end their effort following the final day of classes, calling the school’s failure to meet with them “shameful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are stopping the hunger strike, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop pushing for what we want in general,” said Yousef Helal, a first-year master’s student who participated in the strike. “It just means we’re going to seek different methods and we’ll do whatever we need to do until we meet our demands and until we can guarantee peace and safety for every Palestinian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042883\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG004_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person writes “Gaza is starving” at White Memorial Plaza in Stanford, California, on May 19, 2025. Several Stanford University students have been on a hunger strike for more than a week, pledging not to eat until the university agrees to divest from companies that they say are supporting Israel’s war in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to making Stanford’s investments public and divesting from companies that provide surveillance technology and weapons to Israel, the hunger strikers also called for the school to roll back strict protest regulations put in place last fall, to urge the Santa Clara County district attorney to drop charges against a dozen people linked to a protest on campus last June and to denounce the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestinian student activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike took place in waves, with about a dozen protesters at a time refusing food for about a week in solidarity. Some participated for at least 10 days, Helal said. Others had to end their protest early due to severe health impacts, according to a health professional supporting the strikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout, “the administration has refused to talk to us at all,” Helal said. “Their students are literally at their doorsteps, two minutes away from the president’s office, starving, suffering … It’s very shameful.”[aside postID=news_12040753 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/05192025_STANFORDHUNGERSTRIKE_EG044-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In a statement last month, Stanford spokesperson Luisa Rapport said the university respects the rights of students to express their views in ways “within the limits of the university’s viewpoint-neutral time, place, and manner rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have urged them to consider forms of expression that do not jeopardize their health and well-being,” she said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The end of the strike reflects a year of growing hostility between pro-Palestinian protesters and administrators on Stanford’s campus, strikers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford was among more than 130 schools across the country whose students spent weeks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984203/pro-palestinian-protests-sweep-california-college-campuses-amid-israel-hamas-war\">camped out on their campuses last spring\u003c/a>, bringing attention to U.S. support for Israel and pressuring their universities to pull financial investments from companies that supply weapons or surveillance technology to the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a group of protesters\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989050/pro-palestinian-stanford-protesters-detained-after-occupying-presidents-office\"> occupied the university president’s office\u003c/a> in June and refused to leave until they were arrested, administrators shut down Stanford’s encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve of the protesters face\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035346/santa-clara-da-charges-12-pro-palestinian-protesters-took-over-stanford-university-presidents-office\"> felony vandalism and trespassing charges\u003c/a>. (In March, the Santa Clara County district attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030271/stanford-journalist-can-finally-breathe-after-avoiding-charges-for-reporting-on-protest\">declined to charge a student journalist\u003c/a> who was also arrested while covering the demonstration.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042884\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/05192025_StanfordHungerStrike_EG008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Allen Cu, 21, a third-year student at Stanford University, stands for a portrait at White Memorial Plaza in Stanford, California, on Monday, May 19, 2025. 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He said the relationship between the protesters and the school had changed since the previous spring, when he visited the encampment during a campus tour.[aside postID=news_12042393 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/BoulderColoradoAttackGetty-1020x680.jpg']Other students said they felt like the protests were held to a “double standard” by the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall, the university also declined to take action on students’ requests to make its investments public and divest from companies protesters have said were benefiting Israel’s war in Gaza, citing their interest that the school’s massive endowment remain unpolitical and confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as the University does not take positions on partisan or political issues, the Trustees maintain a strong presumption against using the endowment as an instrument to advance any particular social or political agenda,” the Board of Trustees’ Special Committee on Investment Responsibility said in a statement in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Helal said Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine plans to find new ways to put pressure on the administration next fall. 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"content": "\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan on Wednesday unveiled his final city budget plan, setting up a handful of contentious votes next week on city spending, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031266/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahans-aggressive-plan-to-tackle-homelessness\">homelessness \u003c/a>and council pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his June Budget Message, the mayor asked the council to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">shift city funds\u003c/a> toward interim housing and shelter, in order to fill a $35.6 million budget shortfall in the fiscal year beginning July 1. The council will vote on that idea on Tuesday, along with a pair of ambitious Mahan proposals: one to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031813/san-jose-council-gives-initial-approval-mayors-controversial-homelessness-pay-plans\">potentially arrest\u003c/a> unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter and another that would tie the pay of city leaders to a series of performance metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget message is all about focusing on the basics and increasing accountability for results,” Mahan told KQED. “I think accountability for the leadership at city hall is important, I’m calling on the city and county to be accountable for expanding shelter … and I’m saying that individuals in our community should be held accountable for coming indoors when there’s an appropriate shelter or treatment placement that is repeatedly offered to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s budget is in relatively good shape compared to the large deficits faced by city leaders in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038739/oakland-budget-keeps-fire-stations-closed-police-cuts-in-place-despite-new-sales-tax\">Oakland\u003c/a>. As a result, Mahan wrote that the balancing plan “avoids virtually all layoffs,” and adds five new positions to the city workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget plan also sets aside $27 million in reserves, in anticipation of a larger $52.9 million deficit in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The balanced budget this year was largely achieved by using revenue raised from a tax on property sales of $2 million or more — approved by voters through Measure E in 2020 — to pay for the interim housing the city uses to shelter people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By default, three-quarters of the money raised through Measure E goes to build new permanently affordable housing. Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">successfully\u003c/a> pushed to shift more of that money toward temporary housing in his first two budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, he proposed to spend up to 90% of Measure E revenue on shelter — a nearly $40 million shift that will cover the ongoing costs of the city’s interim housing units and erase the deficit — and to make that change permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move has drawn criticism from affordable housing advocates and some council members who argue a permanent funding shift will make it harder for new affordable apartments to get off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we create opportunities for folks to come indoors through shelter, we need a place for folks who have stability to then transition and move forward,” Councilmember Pamela Campos told KQED. She called for investments “both in creating shelter opportunities and creating the outflow of affordable housing that allows people to continue on their journey to improving their lives.”[aside postID=news_12031813 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240409-SJEncampmentBan-045-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Campos also said the city should be spending more on programs that prevent homelessness (which receive 10% of Measure E funds ), such as rental assistance. She said that revenue would be a targeted investment to reduce the “hidden homelessness” experienced by 2,200 students in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our prevention dollars are one of the most impactful ways that we can stop the inflow of individuals, families, young adults and seniors on a limited income who are becoming homeless,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council will also vote Tuesday on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029843/san-jose-mayor-pushes-to-arrest-unhoused-who-refuse-shelter\">Mahan’s plan\u003c/a> to arrest people experiencing homelessness who have turned down multiple offers of shelter. The mayor has said the plan would open pathways for unhoused people into court-ordered treatment and encourage people experiencing homelessness near shelters to come indoors. County leaders have come out against the idea, arguing it will lead to a revolving door of citations and releases given the local shortage of shelter, affordable housing and treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan is also asking the council to withhold 5% of the mayor and council members’ salaries, to be paid or proportionally reduced based on whether the city meets a series of council-approved goals, such as reducing homelessness or crime. Mahan has billed the idea as building a greater level of accountability into city leadership, while some council members say it will restrict their flexibility and incentive to respond to emerging issues such as a wildfire or earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Measure E allocation and Mahan’s Responsibility to Shelter and Pay for Performance initiatives will each be voted on separately from the overall budget at Tuesday’s meeting. On Monday, the council will hold a hearing to solicit public comment on the city’s spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Campos also said the city should be spending more on programs that prevent homelessness (which receive 10% of Measure E funds ), such as rental assistance. She said that revenue would be a targeted investment to reduce the “hidden homelessness” experienced by 2,200 students in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our prevention dollars are one of the most impactful ways that we can stop the inflow of individuals, families, young adults and seniors on a limited income who are becoming homeless,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council will also vote Tuesday on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029843/san-jose-mayor-pushes-to-arrest-unhoused-who-refuse-shelter\">Mahan’s plan\u003c/a> to arrest people experiencing homelessness who have turned down multiple offers of shelter. The mayor has said the plan would open pathways for unhoused people into court-ordered treatment and encourage people experiencing homelessness near shelters to come indoors. County leaders have come out against the idea, arguing it will lead to a revolving door of citations and releases given the local shortage of shelter, affordable housing and treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan is also asking the council to withhold 5% of the mayor and council members’ salaries, to be paid or proportionally reduced based on whether the city meets a series of council-approved goals, such as reducing homelessness or crime. Mahan has billed the idea as building a greater level of accountability into city leadership, while some council members say it will restrict their flexibility and incentive to respond to emerging issues such as a wildfire or earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Measure E allocation and Mahan’s Responsibility to Shelter and Pay for Performance initiatives will each be voted on separately from the overall budget at Tuesday’s meeting. On Monday, the council will hold a hearing to solicit public comment on the city’s spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One of the Bay Area’s leading proponents of oil refinery oversight is pushing back against the Trump administration’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014622/trump-tried-cut-agency-investigates-oil-gas-accidents-will-he-do-it-again\"> latest effort to scrap the federal agency\u003c/a> that investigates chemical disasters, including fires and explosions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mark-desaulnier\">Democratic Rep. Mark DeSaulnier\u003c/a>, whose Contra Costa County district includes three major refineries, said the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board — known as CSB — serves a critical role in protecting the public health and safety of communities that live and work near refineries and chemical plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent oversight board “has people who are dedicated to understanding these very complex facilities, and go in and provide the best information to make sure that they’re safe,” DeSaulnier told KQED. “This is a small but mighty agency that we have helped create in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under easily overlooked language in the partial budget proposal the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/30/trump-administration-budget-proposal/\">released Friday\u003c/a>, the agency would be shuttered by October 2026, as “part of the Administration’s plans to move the Nation towards fiscal responsibility and to redefine the proper role of the Federal Government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration, which has staunchly advocated for unfettered oil and gas production, has consistently sought to reduce or outright eliminate oversight of fossil fuel and chemical industries, arguing they can adequately police themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier, a former member of California’s Air Resources Board, said that notion flies in the face of basic human nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MarkDeSaulnierGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-CA, speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump on Dec. 17, 2019, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you have a vested interest in [something], there’s a conflict of interest when it comes to the greater good,” he said. “We’ve had instances in the Bay Area where refineries were self-regulating, and we had explosions and people died, and the economy and the price of gasoline changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desaulnier noted that the board was targeted for elimination during the first Trump administration as well, but was saved after lawmakers on both sides of the aisle supported an amendment he authored to preserve its funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to Republican colleagues and to the industry, and we actually not only saved it, but we put more money back into it,” he said. “So I’m hopeful that will happen again.”[aside postID=news_12014622 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/TrumpOilGasRegulationsAP-1020x680.jpg']But in contrast with his first term, Trump is now attempting to establish greater control over independent agencies, a move the Supreme Court appears to at least partially accept. Last month, a divided Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/22/supreme-court-commissioners-independent-officials/\">declined to\u003c/a> immediately reinstate two independent regulators who were fired by the administration, arguing that doing so may be within the president’s authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier said he’s confident the agency can once again be rescued from Trump’s hatchet, and expects some of his Republican colleagues to again stand up for it. But he also acknowledged that it’s “a very, very strange time here in D.C. with this administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are doing damage to lots of institutions,” he said. “Everybody can always be looked at for greater efficiencies, and Republicans and Democrats should do this together, and I endeavor to do that. But just eliminating organizations without analyzing them is a horrible, horrible practice. And unfortunately, that’s the atmosphere right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Established by Congress in 1990, the board has no regulatory authority, and last year operated on only a modest budget of just over \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/6/final_-_fy25_csb_congressional_budget_justification.pdf\">$14 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s refinery in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it has nonetheless played a key role in investigating the root causes of some of the nation’s most catastrophic chemical accidents, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/climate/deepwater-horizon-anniversary.html\">the Deepwater Horizon\u003c/a> offshore drilling explosion in 2010 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/bio-lab-inc-conyers-fire-and-chemical-release-/\">Bio-Lab explosion\u003c/a> in Georgia last year that forced thousands of residents to shelter in place for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the CSB investigated the explosion and fire at\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665999/chevron-richmond-move-to-settle-lawsuit-over-2012-refinery-fire-that-sickened-thousands\"> Chevron’s Richmond refinery in 2012\u003c/a> that sent 15,000 people to hospitals, most of them with respiratory problems. More recently, it investigated safety violations that resulted in a fire that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988025/marathons-martinez-refinery-hit-with-state-fines-over-fire-that-burned-worker\">injured a worker last year at Marathon Petroleum’s\u003c/a> Martinez Renewable Fuels refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s safety recommendations have also prompted new federal environmental and workforce safety regulations that have prevented countless disasters, DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the actual operators [of the facilities] understand that there’s value to having these people come in and make sure that they are not missing anything,” he said. “So just eliminating [the agency] will be detrimental to everyone, including the people who are in the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\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>\u003cp>One of the Bay Area’s leading proponents of oil refinery oversight is pushing back against the Trump administration’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014622/trump-tried-cut-agency-investigates-oil-gas-accidents-will-he-do-it-again\"> latest effort to scrap the federal agency\u003c/a> that investigates chemical disasters, including fires and explosions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mark-desaulnier\">Democratic Rep. Mark DeSaulnier\u003c/a>, whose Contra Costa County district includes three major refineries, said the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board — known as CSB — serves a critical role in protecting the public health and safety of communities that live and work near refineries and chemical plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The independent oversight board “has people who are dedicated to understanding these very complex facilities, and go in and provide the best information to make sure that they’re safe,” DeSaulnier told KQED. “This is a small but mighty agency that we have helped create in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But in contrast with his first term, Trump is now attempting to establish greater control over independent agencies, a move the Supreme Court appears to at least partially accept. Last month, a divided Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/22/supreme-court-commissioners-independent-officials/\">declined to\u003c/a> immediately reinstate two independent regulators who were fired by the administration, arguing that doing so may be within the president’s authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier said he’s confident the agency can once again be rescued from Trump’s hatchet, and expects some of his Republican colleagues to again stand up for it. But he also acknowledged that it’s “a very, very strange time here in D.C. with this administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are doing damage to lots of institutions,” he said. “Everybody can always be looked at for greater efficiencies, and Republicans and Democrats should do this together, and I endeavor to do that. But just eliminating organizations without analyzing them is a horrible, horrible practice. And unfortunately, that’s the atmosphere right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Established by Congress in 1990, the board has no regulatory authority, and last year operated on only a modest budget of just over \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/6/final_-_fy25_csb_congressional_budget_justification.pdf\">$14 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/231228-MARATHON-REFINERY-MD-04_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s refinery in Martinez. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it has nonetheless played a key role in investigating the root causes of some of the nation’s most catastrophic chemical accidents, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/climate/deepwater-horizon-anniversary.html\">the Deepwater Horizon\u003c/a> offshore drilling explosion in 2010 and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csb.gov/bio-lab-inc-conyers-fire-and-chemical-release-/\">Bio-Lab explosion\u003c/a> in Georgia last year that forced thousands of residents to shelter in place for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, the CSB investigated the explosion and fire at\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665999/chevron-richmond-move-to-settle-lawsuit-over-2012-refinery-fire-that-sickened-thousands\"> Chevron’s Richmond refinery in 2012\u003c/a> that sent 15,000 people to hospitals, most of them with respiratory problems. More recently, it investigated safety violations that resulted in a fire that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988025/marathons-martinez-refinery-hit-with-state-fines-over-fire-that-burned-worker\">injured a worker last year at Marathon Petroleum’s\u003c/a> Martinez Renewable Fuels refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s safety recommendations have also prompted new federal environmental and workforce safety regulations that have prevented countless disasters, DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the actual operators [of the facilities] understand that there’s value to having these people come in and make sure that they are not missing anything,” he said. “So just eliminating [the agency] will be detrimental to everyone, including the people who are in the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\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>More than 1,000 labor and community organizers flooded the steps of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s City Hall on Wednesday to protest Mayor Daniel Lurie’s proposed budget, which city workers and activists have said insufficiently protects public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposed budget completely misses the mark,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the city’s Coalition on Homelessness. “It’s really a politics-first budget that really deprioritizes the poorest and most vulnerable San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest was described as “the biggest budget rally in about 20 years in San Francisco history” by Anya Worley-Ziegmann of the People’s Budget Coalition, a collective of nonprofits and activists that organized the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie proposed steep cuts to address the looming $782 million budget shortfall, as well as to bolster the city against the Trump administration’s threat to gut federal funding. That includes eliminating 1,400 city jobs — the vast majority of which currently sit vacant — and around $100 million in grants and other contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dozens of union members with SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 received layoff notices, not all city departments will see job cuts. Advocates noted that the proposal maintained funding for the city’s police, sheriff, fire, district attorney, public defender and emergency management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual holds a sign reading “protect public services, no cuts no layoffs” at a rally in front of City Hall, where thousands of labor unions and community organizations are demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some departments are getting increases, those are the SFPD and the sheriff’s office,” Worley-Ziegmann said. “Daniel Lurie has marked them out as essential services, completely ignoring the fact that people need to eat, people need housing, they do not need mass arrests and jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Sorros is a member of SEIU Local 1021 and has spent more than 19 years working for the city. But she was among those who received a layoff notice as a result of Lurie’s budget proposal, just weeks after she celebrated 20 years of the CityBuild program with the mayor and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the mayor: please, you celebrated us, please continue celebrating us by not cutting our program,” Sorros said. “In fact, we could probably use a little boost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizers say the cuts could have “devastating” impacts on programs that address food and housing security, such as\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\"> All My Usos\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides community resources to San Francisco’s Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program coordinator Jessica Ponce sits in the office of All My Usos in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. Ponce keeps stuffed animals in her office to help create a welcoming space, especially for the children in the community. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You’re cutting the lifeline of many community members,” said Jessica Ponce, a program coordinator with All My Usos. “With these budget cuts, you’re cutting essential services and direct services, especially to families, and limiting their access to a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lurie’s proposed budget includes an additional $2.2 million to the Citywide Food Access Team, organizers say cuts elsewhere will trickle down and impact community-based organizations that partner with the city.[aside postID=news_12042515 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFPDFile-45-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']The budget also proposes a restructuring of funding from Proposition C, a ballot measure that voters passed in 2018 to fund housing and homelessness services. The existing language specifies which funding can be used where, leaving millions of dollars unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal would reallocate that unused funding to plug holes elsewhere in the budget, sparking fierce opposition from homelessness advocacy groups for prioritizing adult shelter beds over housing for children and families. Friedenbach described the move as a way to create a “big slush fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most part, it would be moving [the money] from kids to grown-ups and from housing to shelter. That is something that we are vehemently opposed to,” she said. “We specifically structured Prop. C because we wanted to see efficient use of resources and that’s what the voters supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s office, however, describes the reallocation as a way to unlock funding that may otherwise never be used to address homelessness in the city. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie proposed steep cuts to address the looming $782 million budget shortfall, as well as to bolster the city against the Trump administration’s threat to gut federal funding. That includes eliminating 1,400 city jobs — the vast majority of which currently sit vacant — and around $100 million in grants and other contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dozens of union members with SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 received layoff notices, not all city departments will see job cuts. Advocates noted that the proposal maintained funding for the city’s police, sheriff, fire, district attorney, public defender and emergency management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An individual holds a sign reading “protect public services, no cuts no layoffs” at a rally in front of City Hall, where thousands of labor unions and community organizations are demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Some departments are getting increases, those are the SFPD and the sheriff’s office,” Worley-Ziegmann said. “Daniel Lurie has marked them out as essential services, completely ignoring the fact that people need to eat, people need housing, they do not need mass arrests and jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Sorros is a member of SEIU Local 1021 and has spent more than 19 years working for the city. But she was among those who received a layoff notice as a result of Lurie’s budget proposal, just weeks after she celebrated 20 years of the CityBuild program with the mayor and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the mayor: please, you celebrated us, please continue celebrating us by not cutting our program,” Sorros said. “In fact, we could probably use a little boost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other organizers say the cuts could have “devastating” impacts on programs that address food and housing security, such as\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\"> All My Usos\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that provides community resources to San Francisco’s Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-DREAMKEEPERRETURNS-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program coordinator Jessica Ponce sits in the office of All My Usos in San Francisco on Feb. 14, 2025. Ponce keeps stuffed animals in her office to help create a welcoming space, especially for the children in the community. All My Usos supports marginalized communities, especially Pacific Islander families in the Bay Area, through programs that build relationships and foster leadership. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You’re cutting the lifeline of many community members,” said Jessica Ponce, a program coordinator with All My Usos. “With these budget cuts, you’re cutting essential services and direct services, especially to families, and limiting their access to a better life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lurie’s proposed budget includes an additional $2.2 million to the Citywide Food Access Team, organizers say cuts elsewhere will trickle down and impact community-based organizations that partner with the city.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The budget also proposes a restructuring of funding from Proposition C, a ballot measure that voters passed in 2018 to fund housing and homelessness services. The existing language specifies which funding can be used where, leaving millions of dollars unspent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal would reallocate that unused funding to plug holes elsewhere in the budget, sparking fierce opposition from homelessness advocacy groups for prioritizing adult shelter beds over housing for children and families. Friedenbach described the move as a way to create a “big slush fund.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the most part, it would be moving [the money] from kids to grown-ups and from housing to shelter. That is something that we are vehemently opposed to,” she said. “We specifically structured Prop. C because we wanted to see efficient use of resources and that’s what the voters supported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s office, however, describes the reallocation as a way to unlock funding that may otherwise never be used to address homelessness in the city. In his proposal, that amounts to $90 million over the next three years from the proposition’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042748\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bianca Polovina, President of IFPTE Local 21, speaks to thousands of labor, community and human rights advocates rallying in front of City Hall, demanding an alternative to Mayor Lurie’s proposed budget cuts, on June 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rally organizers also pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">an ongoing lawsuit filed by Airbnb\u003c/a> against the city: the company is seeking $120 million from San Francisco, claiming they were forced to overpay taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While California democrats have called on Lurie to take a stand against Airbnb and other companies seeking to claw back money on business taxes, Lurie has instead tried to play ball with big business, to lure their tax base back to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This hasn’t sat well with organizers, who accused Lurie’s proposal of capitulating to “the billionaires and well-connected corporations refusing to pay their fair taxes and suing the City for half of its projected deficit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of protesters filled a budget hearing later in the afternoon with chants and public comments opposing the cuts. The Board of Supervisors has until the end of the month to approve the budget and can request amendments in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Former Alameda County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a> is calling out the swift reversal of many of her landmark initiatives just over 100 days after her successor, Ursula Jones Dickson, took office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the county’s Board of Supervisors appointed Jones Dickson following Price’s recall in February, she has quietly withdrawn death row resentencing efforts for at least four people who Price’s administration determined had received unfair sentences due to prosecutorial bias. For decades, Price has said, the office under prior district attorneys had covered up its practice of excluding Black and Jewish jurors from death penalty cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson has also dropped what Price called historic environmental justice charges and restructured her landmark Public Accountability Unit, which aimed to review police misconduct cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the residents of Alameda County understood that they were going to go back to the days when Black people and Jewish people were not allowed to serve on juries — that’s the danger that you have,” Price said during a press conference on Wednesday. “When the police got to tell the district attorney what she or he should or should not do, that’s the danger. We’re going backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the hallmarks of Price’s administration were also flashpoints in the campaign to recall her, which succeeded in November following community strife over her progressive prosecutorial decisions and her office’s response to crimes, especially in cities like Oakland and Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024318/alameda-countys-next-da-will-be-named-today-heres-what-to-know\">Jones Dickson\u003c/a> vowed to right the office by retraining staff, rebuilding relationships with community and law enforcement partners and clearing a backlog of misdemeanor cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027615\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during a press conference at the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said on her 100th day in office that her main goals were increasing efficiency and accountability to victims and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The DA’s position is not a political position,” Jones Dickson said in an apparent dig at Price. “The goal is to be an elected public servant. We stay in our lane, we keep the main thing the main thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/death-penalty-alameda-resentencing/\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> first reported\u003c/a> last week that Jones Dickson has sought to withdraw motions Price filed to resentence four people on death row following a mandated review of 35 death penalty cases in Alameda County last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ordered the review based on evidence that prosecutors had systematically struck Black and Jewish jurors from cases dating back to the 1980s. Last year, Price revealed notes written by prosecutors highlighting the race and ethnicity of potential jurors in the case of Ernest Dykes, whose \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11995937/alameda-county-da-seeks-new-sentences-for-3-people-on-death-row-amid-misconduct-record-destruction-claims\">release was reset\u003c/a> for this month under Price.[aside postID=news_12042069 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-04-1020x680.jpg']Price said Wednesday that Jones Dickson’s decision to drop the resentencing efforts was an attempt to cover up prosecutorial misconduct. She has alleged that her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, also ignored evidence of such misconduct to protect the reputation of the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an officer of the court and someone who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, Judge Jones Dickson has an absolute duty to ensure that justice is done for those men,” Price said. “We all have a right to the rule of law and not have it compromised by corruption or nepotism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Accountability Unit, which Price created to review police misconduct cases and called a “reckoning” for Alameda County, has also been restructured under Jones Dickson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has been renamed the Public Integrity Division, and its procedures will more closely resemble O’Malley’s prosecutorial practices, spokesperson Haaziq Madyun \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/07/new-alameda-da-shakes-up-unit-that-pamela-price-created-to-prosecute-cops/\">told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Price attempted to relitigate a case against three Alameda police officers in the death of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez, an unarmed man who died after being pinned down by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She filed charges just days after the recall campaign against her qualified for last November’s ballot, and her office took heat after the cases against two of the three officers were dismissed for missing the three-year statute of limitations to file charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\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\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The event, hosted by Protect the Win, was part of Price’s anti-recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price has also criticized the district attorney’s office for dropping an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042069/alameda-county-da-defends-dismissal-of-case-tied-to-toxic-fire-in-west-oakland\">environmental justice case\u003c/a> she brought against Radius Recycling, formerly Schnitzer Steel, over a 2023 fire that prosecutors said spread toxic smoke throughout the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office had charged the company and two leaders of its West Oakland scrap metal processing plant with recklessly managing hazardous materials, including aged vehicles and appliances, and later trying to cover it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said her office dropped the case after finding that it did not meet high evidentiary standards.[aside postID=news_12034231 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20161112_181430-qut-1020x765.jpg']“The bottom line is we can not move forward ethically on a case that we cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the case was reviewed along with others in the consumer division, some of which had been delegated out to a contracted law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had not seen that before — a law firm being hired by a district attorney to do the work of DAs,” Jones Dickson said, adding that it was a concern to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said she could not comment on whether the office would bring a civil case against Radius Recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about her motivation for speaking out against Jones Dickson, Price confirmed she isn’t planning to mount another campaign for office or a recall effort against her successor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that I feel it’s important [is] that the public should understand what is truly happening,” she told reporters. “It became clear in the last few days, and certainly with the 100-day report, that there are some things that the public needs to know about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a new direction. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the residents of Alameda County understood that they were going to go back to the days when Black people and Jewish people were not allowed to serve on juries — that’s the danger that you have,” Price said during a press conference on Wednesday. “When the police got to tell the district attorney what she or he should or should not do, that’s the danger. We’re going backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the hallmarks of Price’s administration were also flashpoints in the campaign to recall her, which succeeded in November following community strife over her progressive prosecutorial decisions and her office’s response to crimes, especially in cities like Oakland and Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024318/alameda-countys-next-da-will-be-named-today-heres-what-to-know\">Jones Dickson\u003c/a> vowed to right the office by retraining staff, rebuilding relationships with community and law enforcement partners and clearing a backlog of misdemeanor cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027615\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during a press conference at the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said on her 100th day in office that her main goals were increasing efficiency and accountability to victims and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The DA’s position is not a political position,” Jones Dickson said in an apparent dig at Price. “The goal is to be an elected public servant. We stay in our lane, we keep the main thing the main thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/death-penalty-alameda-resentencing/\">\u003cem>CalMatters\u003c/em> first reported\u003c/a> last week that Jones Dickson has sought to withdraw motions Price filed to resentence four people on death row following a mandated review of 35 death penalty cases in Alameda County last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ordered the review based on evidence that prosecutors had systematically struck Black and Jewish jurors from cases dating back to the 1980s. Last year, Price revealed notes written by prosecutors highlighting the race and ethnicity of potential jurors in the case of Ernest Dykes, whose \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11995937/alameda-county-da-seeks-new-sentences-for-3-people-on-death-row-amid-misconduct-record-destruction-claims\">release was reset\u003c/a> for this month under Price.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Price said Wednesday that Jones Dickson’s decision to drop the resentencing efforts was an attempt to cover up prosecutorial misconduct. She has alleged that her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, also ignored evidence of such misconduct to protect the reputation of the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an officer of the court and someone who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, Judge Jones Dickson has an absolute duty to ensure that justice is done for those men,” Price said. “We all have a right to the rule of law and not have it compromised by corruption or nepotism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Accountability Unit, which Price created to review police misconduct cases and called a “reckoning” for Alameda County, has also been restructured under Jones Dickson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has been renamed the Public Integrity Division, and its procedures will more closely resemble O’Malley’s prosecutorial practices, spokesperson Haaziq Madyun \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/07/new-alameda-da-shakes-up-unit-that-pamela-price-created-to-prosecute-cops/\">told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Price attempted to relitigate a case against three Alameda police officers in the death of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez, an unarmed man who died after being pinned down by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She filed charges just days after the recall campaign against her qualified for last November’s ballot, and her office took heat after the cases against two of the three officers were dismissed for missing the three-year statute of limitations to file charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\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\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The event, hosted by Protect the Win, was part of Price’s anti-recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price has also criticized the district attorney’s office for dropping an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042069/alameda-county-da-defends-dismissal-of-case-tied-to-toxic-fire-in-west-oakland\">environmental justice case\u003c/a> she brought against Radius Recycling, formerly Schnitzer Steel, over a 2023 fire that prosecutors said spread toxic smoke throughout the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office had charged the company and two leaders of its West Oakland scrap metal processing plant with recklessly managing hazardous materials, including aged vehicles and appliances, and later trying to cover it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said her office dropped the case after finding that it did not meet high evidentiary standards.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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