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"content": "\u003cp>As San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052383/removal-hearings-against-embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-begin-monday\">removal hearing opened this week\u003c/a> at the Hall of Justice in Redwood City, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047905/san-mateo-sheriff-corpus-to-appear-in-court-after-misconduct-accusations\">embattled leader\u003c/a> again rejected allegations that she and her chief of staff shared a romantic relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus, who’s been accused of nepotism and abuse of power throughout her more than two years on the job, denied that she and her second-in-command Victor Aenlle had been romantically involved since her campaign, saying instead that he was “someone [she] trusted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”I am a 54-year-old woman and I hope I can date whoever I want as long as it’s a healthy relationship,” Corpus told retired Santa Clara County Judge James Emerson, who is overseeing the removal hearing, during her testimony on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the stand, she said she was single.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing opened Monday as part of the complicated removal process that began after San Mateo County supervisors unanimously \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045697/san-mateo-county-supervisors-take-historic-vote-to-remove-sheriff\">voted to oust her\u003c/a> in June — making history by being the first board in the state to vote to remove an elected sheriff from office. County voters approved a charter amendment in March, granting them the ability to remove her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing is expected to last two weeks, with five days for both Corpus’ defense team and county attorneys to make their cases to Emerson, who will issue the supervisors an advisory opinion based on the evidence presented. The board will then take its final vote on her removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015445\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff Christina Corpus (center) speaks about a shooting at the Half Moon Bay IDES Society in Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, on Jan. 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Samantha Laurey/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In opening statements, the county painted Corpus as corrupt and vindictive — a portrayal that has gained momentum since allegations about misconduct first began during her campaign, then bubbled over after a bombshell \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">400-page investigative report\u003c/a> in November found her leadership riddled with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her defense plans to argue, though, that Corpus was targeted as an outsider looking to reform the “old boys’ club” that controls San Mateo County politics, led by longtime County Executive Officer Mike Callagy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Undersheriff Christopher Hsiung, the first witness called to testify in the case, said that ever since Corpus recruited him for the role, Aenlle had been by her side. They first traveled to hear him speak at a leadership conference before offering him the job, Hsiung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsiung, who worked in Mountain View for nearly 30 years but began his law enforcement career in San Mateo, initially thought the role in Corpus’ administration could be “a unique opportunity … to bookend my career in San Mateo County.”[aside postID=news_12052383 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed.jpg']He said he believed in Corpus’ vision when Aenlle approached him with the offer in fall 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But quickly, he said, Corpus became difficult to work with, and he noticed a less-than-professional relationship between her and Aenlle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was an “ongoing pattern [that] at meals that they would be sharing entrees,” he said. “They would order one and spit the dish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the encrypted messaging app Signal, which Corpus’ team used to communicate, Hsiung said he noticed she and Aenlle would appear active and offline at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Kearnan, another former sheriff’s official who was part of Corpus’ transition team, testified after Hsiung that from the start of Corpus’ administration, Aenlle would commonly answer questions he directed to her, and on calls with Corpus, he would be on speakerphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew they were together,” Kearnan said during testimony on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He alleged that on one occasion, he asked Corpus on a video call if she was alone. She said yes, but later in the call, he could see Aenlle in the reflection of the windshield on Corpus’ car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had some concerns regarding what was happening with her and the amount of influence [Aenlle] had with her,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the linchpins in Corpus and Aenlle’s alleged relationship is a trip they took to Hawaii together in October 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1459218231-scaled-e1741196609411.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks during a press conference in downtown Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2023. \u003ccite>(Nhat V. Meyer/MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kearnan said that after another former sheriff’s official saw the two boarding a flight from San Francisco to Maui, he pressed Corpus about the allegation. Shortly after, Aenlle called Kearnan, he said, and denied that he and Corpus took the trip together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I pushed him, he admitted it,” Kearnan said. He said he left Corpus’ team shortly after, having given Aenlle an ultimatum that only one of the two of them could stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callagy also terminated Aenlle’s position on Corpus’ transition team after he found out that the pair had a personal relationship. Callagy said at the time that if he’d known they were friends, he wouldn’t have approved Aenlle’s appointment in the first place.[aside postID=news_12052003 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty.jpg']But Corpus took office in January 2023, and Aenlle’s status in her administration grew. Heather Enders, human resources manager for the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, was also called on to speak Monday, and said that Corpus approached her in March 2023 about a high-paying “special coordinator” role for Aenlle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus asked for Aenlle’s rate to be $118 per hour, and when the human resources office recommended a lower rate based on his experience, Corpus allegedly told Enders that “it wasn’t good enough” and that Aenlle had told her to “find a way to pay him more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2023, he was hired as Corpus’ chief of staff, or formally, executive director — a new civilian position that appeared to replace one of the office’s assistant sheriffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aenlle was the only applicant for that role, Enders testified, and according to the county’s bombshell November 2022 report, authored by retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris H. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, BART is finally catching up to its public transit counterparts in New York and London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, instead of just using the Bay’s designated Clipper card to pay for a ride, riders can simply\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052424/you-can-soon-tap-a-credit-card-to-pay-bart-fare-its-been-a-long-time-coming\"> tap their credit card or debit card\u003c/a> on the turnstile to pay for their fare — as well as Apple Pay and Google Pay on mobile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART officials have been referring to this method as “contactless payment,” “open payment” or “Tap and Ride” (not to be confused with \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/guide/parking/payment/tap-and-go\">their existing “Tap and Go” program \u003c/a>for parking payments at BART stations).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The open payment update is part of a much longer effort to upgrade the Clipper card system, which has been under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052424/you-can-soon-tap-a-credit-card-to-pay-bart-fare-its-been-a-long-time-coming\">development for a decade\u003c/a> and has attracted some harsh \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052424/you-can-soon-tap-a-credit-card-to-pay-bart-fare-its-been-a-long-time-coming\">criticism from transit executives\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/the-new-york-city-subway-systems-cashless-payments-start-friday.html\">New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2014/july/contactless-payments-set-to-launch\">Transport for London \u003c/a>have offered this type of open payment for their cities’ riders for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what to know about BART’s Tap and Ride, who should keep using their Clipper card even after Wednesday, and the “card clash” problem that might jam you up at the BART turnstile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#bart-credit-card-possible-problem\">The problem you could encounter using a bank card for BART\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>When is contactless payment at BART rolling out?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You’ll be able to use Tap and Ride starting Wednesday, Aug. 20. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/tickets/contactless\">There is no registration process\u003c/a> to set up Tap and Ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What cards can I use to Tap and Ride on BART?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting Wednesday morning, you can use:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A credit card\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A debit card\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Apple Pay on mobile\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Google Pay on mobile.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040953\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040953\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20241204-BART-JY-033_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk through Montgomery BART Station in San Francisco, on Dec. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cards accepted include Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just tap your card (or your phone) to the reader, exactly like you would tap your Clipper card. And like Clipper, you’ll tap onto your ride and tap off too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, riders with HealthEquity debit cards will have trouble using this new feature. BART officials said they are working with HealthEquity to address the issue, but there’s a chance these riders may need to ask HealthEquity for a replacement card.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much will I pay each time I tap on BART with a bank card?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to a BART spokesperson, people who use Tap and Ride on BART will be charged the full adult fare for their journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find out how much your fare is by using\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/tickets/calculator\"> BART’s online calculator\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I tap onto BART with one bank card and off BART with another payment method?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No. Whichever payment method \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052424/you-can-soon-tap-a-credit-card-to-pay-bart-fare-its-been-a-long-time-coming\">you used to tap in\u003c/a> is the one you have to use when tapping out.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I share a credit card with family members?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to BART’s website, “each rider must pay with their own card or mobile device.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If family members have the same credit card number but they are on different cards and devices, they will be able to use it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I use Tap and Ride on other public transit, like SF Muni or AC Transit?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12051362 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/20241204-BART-JY-002_qed.jpg']For now, this is only a BART deal — which means you can’t, for example, tap onto a Muni Metro train from BART within the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a spokesperson for BART told KQED by email that it will “eventually” be offered by other Bay Area transit agencies — there just isn’t a timeline for this expansion yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sense, BART is serving as the contactless payment’s guinea pig. According to a\u003ca href=\"https://baha.granicus.com/player/clip/21113?view_id=1&redirect=true\"> June 28 agenda item\u003c/a> on the Clipper Executive Board’s meeting discussing the change, “it was decided that BART would be the most impactful operator for the initial customer rollout of Open Payments” after “a review of potential candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I use discounted BART fares. Can I still get them through Tap and Ride?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Bay Area public transit has\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/tickets/discounts\"> several plans for riders\u003c/a>, including discounts for\u003ca href=\"https://www.clippercard.com/ClipperWeb/discounts.html\"> seniors, students\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.clipperstartcard.com/s/\"> low-income residents\u003c/a>, and people who are transferring from\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/muni/fares\"> one mode of public transit to another\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you won’t be able to see or use these discounts if you use your payment card to tap on and off. So, according to the BART spokesperson’s email, riders who are “those who are currently eligible for discounts or plan to transfer to another system should continue using their Clipper cards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, BART officials say that in the future, discounted riders should hopefully be able to use Tap and Ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20241204-BART-JY-003_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20241204-BART-JY-003_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20241204-BART-JY-003_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20241204-BART-JY-003_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20241204-BART-JY-003_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers wait to board BART at Daly City Station in Daly City, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Can I use my employer’s commuter benefits program with Tap and Ride?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you use an employee benefit like Commuter Check to load pre-tax funds onto your Clipper card, you won’t be able to use that on Tap and Ride — at least not yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So, who \u003cem>will \u003c/em>Tap and Ride work best for?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For one thing, tourists to the Bay Area — who now won’t have to spend $3 to purchase a plastic Clipper card to load and use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who don’t ride BART or Bay Area public transit that often, whose Clipper card is gathering dust somewhere in their home, will probably also appreciate the convenience of tapping a payment card.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I change my mind after I tap into the station and don’t want to use BART after all?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to BART’s website, Tap and Ride users will have a 30-minute grace period to avoid \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/guide/faq#:~:text=A:%20We%20apologize%20for%20the,and%20abuse%20of%20parking%20rules.\">the $7.10 excursion fare\u003c/a> if they enter a station and then change their mind about taking the BART somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Clipper users still have to see an agent before exiting or contact customer services to avoid the fare. BART plans for Clipper card users to also get a grace period in the future, according to officials.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"bart-credit-card-possible-problem\">\u003c/a>How can I avoid “card clash” when using Tap and Ride?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There is a chance that BART’s system will be confused when the Clipper reader detects more than one type of payment method, said Jason Weinstein, Clipper program director for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, during \u003ca href=\"https://baha.granicus.com/player/clip/21113?view_id=1&redirect=true\">a June 28 meeting\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12051907 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-01-KQED.jpg']This so-called \u003ca href=\"https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/refunds-and-replacements/card-clash\">“card clash”\u003c/a> can apply to both Clipper cards and contactless bank cards — including any cards you’ve got saved in digital wallets like Apple Pay or Google Pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can you stop a potential card clash? Weinstein advised:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If you’re using a plastic credit or debit, physically take it out from your wallet, or bag or phone case before tapping.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you’re using Apple Pay, try setting up \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/en-us/105123\">Express Mode in your Apple Wallet \u003c/a>for your preferred card to avoid charging the wrong one.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you’re using Google Pay and don’t want to unlock your phone each time you pay, go to the Security tab in your Wallet app and turn off Verification.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you’re using an Android device, Weinstein said these phones tend to automatically charge the Clipper card first — so you’ll need to be more deliberate about choosing your stored credit or debit card.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Weinstein said during the meeting that BART will add signage in its stations to warn people of this problem, as well as the solutions for people running into card clashes. Station agents can help you if you are not able to resolve your problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can get more updates and details by checking out \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/tickets/contactless\">BART’s Contactless Payment page. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED’s Dan Brekke and Carly Severn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As Gov. Gavin Newsom eyes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043766/newsom-tries-to-find-political-footing-in-clash-with-trump\">potential run for the White House\u003c/a>, he faces a political challenge on the homefront. Roughly 30 AI-related bills are moving through the state Legislature in the last weeks of this legislative session, and it’s estimated a dozen or so will land on Newsom’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Does he veto all or most of them to mollify Silicon Valley donors? Or does he defy President Donald Trump’s industry-friendly light touch and model a tougher state stance on regulation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Aug. 7 event announcing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051433/california-teams-with-google-microsoft-ibm-adobe-to-prepare-students-for-ai-era\">AI training partnerships\u003c/a> with Adobe, Google, IBM and Microsoft, Newsom told reporters he is trying to establish a middle ground that provides guardrails for public safety without squelching innovation: “We’ve led in AI innovation, and we’ve led in AI regulation, but we’re trying to find a balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom noted that, even though he vetoed the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000892/ai-safety-testing-bill-heads-for-a-floor-vote-in-sacramento-taking-heavy-fire-from-silicon-valley\">controversial bill\u003c/a> of the last legislative session, he ultimately signed 18 AI-related bills into law, addressing everything from training data transparency to deepfakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry voices, chief among them OpenAI’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane, continue to lobby against binding regulation at all levels of government. Lehane often appears to be speaking to California in his public posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11802216\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan says local jurisdictions need the power to stop a wildfire disaster before it starts. The assemblymember and other state lawmakers announced a bill to expand enforcement actions against PG&E and other utilities on February, 18, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan on Feb. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Eli Walsh/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Imagine how hard it would have been for the US to win the Space Race if California’s aerospace and tech industries got tangled up in state-by-state regulations impeding the innovation of transistor technology,” Lehane wrote pointedly on \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7361704760334274560/\">LinkedIn\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if Silicon Valley lobbyists see the industry in a “space race” against foreign adversaries, it’s not clear whether the general public shares that sense of urgency for technological advancement at any cost. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-ai-plus-62025700-399b-11f0-b37f-b73dfdd12f1d\">Axios/Harris poll\u003c/a> released in early June 2025 showed strong majorities of Americans across all age groups want companies to take AI development slowly to “get it right the first time, even if that delays breakthroughs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signing some of the AI bills that make it to his desk could also provide Newsom with an opportunity to stick a thumb in the eye of Trump. The challenge for Newsom is choosing which of the roughly 30 bills making their way through Sacramento are least likely to upset his supporters in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998817/ai-regulation-still-in-the-mix-as-california-legislature-returns-to-session\">Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, \u003c/a>D-Orinda, could be considered the foremost advocate for AI regulation this legislative session, having authored six still in play:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AB 222\u003c/strong> — Would require data centers that power AI to disclose how much water and electricity they use, so the public can see their environmental footprint.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AB 412\u003c/strong> — Would require AI developers to disclose when copyrighted works were used to train their models and give rights holders a way to check and challenge that use.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AB 621\u003c/strong> — Would let victims, including minors, sue creators and facilitators of non-consensual deepfake sexual material and increase the damages they can collect.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AB 1018\u003c/strong> — Would regulate how AI-driven decision systems are developed, tested, disclosed, audited, and appealed when used to make consequential decisions about people.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AB 1064\u003c/strong> — Would ban AI chatbots from manipulating children into forming emotional attachments or harvesting their personal and biometric data.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AB 1405\u003c/strong> — Would require AI auditors to enroll with the state, follow conflict-of-interest and reporting rules, and create a system for the public to report auditor misconduct starting in 2027.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>When pressed to pick a personal favorite on the list, Bauer-Kahan chose \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1064\">AB 1064\u003c/a>, the Leading Ethical AI Development for Kids Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have teenage children. You know, I live it every day,” Bauer-Kahan said. “We have to step in and make sure these companies are doing right by our children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m driven mostly as a mother, and I think that Gov. Newsom is driven as a father,” she said. “You know, his children are going to grow up in the AI age, as are mine. And I think he wants a safe environment, and I’m hopeful that will lead him to find balance between what industry needs and what the public needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up female hands with a blue manicure using pink smartphone outdoors.\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Research shows that about 70% of teens use at least one kind of AI tool. \u003ccite>(Tatiana Meteleva/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bauer-Kahan said the long game for AI legislation requires a careful effort to define terms so it’s not easy for companies to sidestep the mandate, and to protect mechanisms of enforcement so the law has teeth. For instance, if a child suffers actual harm as a result of the use of a covered product, AB 1064 allows that child, or a parent or guardian, to sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But industry critics say the bill is misguided and full of issues that could lead to unintended consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“AB 1064’s definitions are drafted so broadly that they could unintentionally capture almost all chatbot tools, even basic customer service functions, and would require invasive age-verification to maintain functionality … It risks limiting minors’ access to lawful and beneficial AI tools — raising significant First Amendment concerns,” Robert Boykin, executive director of California and the Southwest for the trade group TechNet, wrote in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill could also spur costly litigation and create substantial regulatory uncertainty, Boykin said.[aside postID=news_12051433 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomAISF1.jpg']But a bill that provides no capacity for individuals to sue is a bill without teeth, according to many who watch Sacramento politics. That is to say, the State Attorney General’s Office has limited budget, people and attention to carry the entire burden of enforcement on its proverbial shoulders, especially when it’s busy pursuing \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/six-months-second-trump-administration-attorney-general-bonta-reports-california\">more than 37 lawsuits\u003c/a> against the second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After congressional Republicans rejected a push to ban states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Trump appears to have signaled his intent to roll out a backdoor ban with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf\">AI Action Plan\u003c/a>. The executive orders include language like, “AI is far too important to smother in bureaucracy at this early stage, whether at the state or Federal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implied threat: leave off AI regulation or federal funding could be reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seemed to be using money as a cudgel, but I’m not sure that will be effective here, or that’s something that really, would bother us, or prevent us in California from moving forward,” state Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker has introduced two AI bills this session. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB243&firstNav=tracking\">SB 243\u003c/a> would require companion chatbots to frequently remind users that it isn’t a person, in order to reduce the risk of emotional manipulation or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038154/kids-talking-ai-companion-chatbots-stanford-researchers-say-thats-bad-idea\">unhealthy attachment\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB468&firstNav=tracking\">SB 468\u003c/a> requires AI developers to design and disclose their own security measures to protect personal data, subject to state oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker, a former businessman, said he works with industry lobbyists to hash out language companies consider feasible, if not unobjectionable. In the case of SB 243, Boykin of TechNet acknowledged Becker’s constructive engagement, adding, “Our goal has always been to narrow some of the sweeping provisions — particularly around the definition of companion chatbots, reporting obligations, and costly third-party audits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Becker said California lawmakers are also well practiced in battling Silicon Valley lobbyists intent on killing or neutering legislation. “Even before Trump, there [was] a bipartisan effort to preempt our privacy laws here in California. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom noted that, even though he vetoed the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000892/ai-safety-testing-bill-heads-for-a-floor-vote-in-sacramento-taking-heavy-fire-from-silicon-valley\">controversial bill\u003c/a> of the last legislative session, he ultimately signed 18 AI-related bills into law, addressing everything from training data transparency to deepfakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry voices, chief among them OpenAI’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane, continue to lobby against binding regulation at all levels of government. Lehane often appears to be speaking to California in his public posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11802216\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan says local jurisdictions need the power to stop a wildfire disaster before it starts. The assemblymember and other state lawmakers announced a bill to expand enforcement actions against PG&E and other utilities on February, 18, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan on Feb. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Eli Walsh/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Imagine how hard it would have been for the US to win the Space Race if California’s aerospace and tech industries got tangled up in state-by-state regulations impeding the innovation of transistor technology,” Lehane wrote pointedly on \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7361704760334274560/\">LinkedIn\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if Silicon Valley lobbyists see the industry in a “space race” against foreign adversaries, it’s not clear whether the general public shares that sense of urgency for technological advancement at any cost. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-ai-plus-62025700-399b-11f0-b37f-b73dfdd12f1d\">Axios/Harris poll\u003c/a> released in early June 2025 showed strong majorities of Americans across all age groups want companies to take AI development slowly to “get it right the first time, even if that delays breakthroughs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signing some of the AI bills that make it to his desk could also provide Newsom with an opportunity to stick a thumb in the eye of Trump. The challenge for Newsom is choosing which of the roughly 30 bills making their way through Sacramento are least likely to upset his supporters in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998817/ai-regulation-still-in-the-mix-as-california-legislature-returns-to-session\">Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, \u003c/a>D-Orinda, could be considered the foremost advocate for AI regulation this legislative session, having authored six still in play:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AB 222\u003c/strong> — Would require data centers that power AI to disclose how much water and electricity they use, so the public can see their environmental footprint.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AB 412\u003c/strong> — Would require AI developers to disclose when copyrighted works were used to train their models and give rights holders a way to check and challenge that use.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AB 621\u003c/strong> — Would let victims, including minors, sue creators and facilitators of non-consensual deepfake sexual material and increase the damages they can collect.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AB 1018\u003c/strong> — Would regulate how AI-driven decision systems are developed, tested, disclosed, audited, and appealed when used to make consequential decisions about people.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AB 1064\u003c/strong> — Would ban AI chatbots from manipulating children into forming emotional attachments or harvesting their personal and biometric data.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>AB 1405\u003c/strong> — Would require AI auditors to enroll with the state, follow conflict-of-interest and reporting rules, and create a system for the public to report auditor misconduct starting in 2027.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>When pressed to pick a personal favorite on the list, Bauer-Kahan chose \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1064\">AB 1064\u003c/a>, the Leading Ethical AI Development for Kids Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have teenage children. You know, I live it every day,” Bauer-Kahan said. “We have to step in and make sure these companies are doing right by our children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m driven mostly as a mother, and I think that Gov. Newsom is driven as a father,” she said. “You know, his children are going to grow up in the AI age, as are mine. And I think he wants a safe environment, and I’m hopeful that will lead him to find balance between what industry needs and what the public needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up female hands with a blue manicure using pink smartphone outdoors.\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-1460098524-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Research shows that about 70% of teens use at least one kind of AI tool. \u003ccite>(Tatiana Meteleva/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bauer-Kahan said the long game for AI legislation requires a careful effort to define terms so it’s not easy for companies to sidestep the mandate, and to protect mechanisms of enforcement so the law has teeth. For instance, if a child suffers actual harm as a result of the use of a covered product, AB 1064 allows that child, or a parent or guardian, to sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But industry critics say the bill is misguided and full of issues that could lead to unintended consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“AB 1064’s definitions are drafted so broadly that they could unintentionally capture almost all chatbot tools, even basic customer service functions, and would require invasive age-verification to maintain functionality … It risks limiting minors’ access to lawful and beneficial AI tools — raising significant First Amendment concerns,” Robert Boykin, executive director of California and the Southwest for the trade group TechNet, wrote in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill could also spur costly litigation and create substantial regulatory uncertainty, Boykin said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But a bill that provides no capacity for individuals to sue is a bill without teeth, according to many who watch Sacramento politics. That is to say, the State Attorney General’s Office has limited budget, people and attention to carry the entire burden of enforcement on its proverbial shoulders, especially when it’s busy pursuing \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/six-months-second-trump-administration-attorney-general-bonta-reports-california\">more than 37 lawsuits\u003c/a> against the second Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After congressional Republicans rejected a push to ban states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Trump appears to have signaled his intent to roll out a backdoor ban with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf\">AI Action Plan\u003c/a>. The executive orders include language like, “AI is far too important to smother in bureaucracy at this early stage, whether at the state or Federal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implied threat: leave off AI regulation or federal funding could be reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seemed to be using money as a cudgel, but I’m not sure that will be effective here, or that’s something that really, would bother us, or prevent us in California from moving forward,” state Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker has introduced two AI bills this session. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB243&firstNav=tracking\">SB 243\u003c/a> would require companion chatbots to frequently remind users that it isn’t a person, in order to reduce the risk of emotional manipulation or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038154/kids-talking-ai-companion-chatbots-stanford-researchers-say-thats-bad-idea\">unhealthy attachment\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB468&firstNav=tracking\">SB 468\u003c/a> requires AI developers to design and disclose their own security measures to protect personal data, subject to state oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker, a former businessman, said he works with industry lobbyists to hash out language companies consider feasible, if not unobjectionable. In the case of SB 243, Boykin of TechNet acknowledged Becker’s constructive engagement, adding, “Our goal has always been to narrow some of the sweeping provisions — particularly around the definition of companion chatbots, reporting obligations, and costly third-party audits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Becker said California lawmakers are also well practiced in battling Silicon Valley lobbyists intent on killing or neutering legislation. “Even before Trump, there [was] a bipartisan effort to preempt our privacy laws here in California. So that’s gonna be a constant fight,” Becker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that he speaks with people who work in Silicon Valley who tell him they want regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My anecdotal experience is that there’s much more conversation by the people who work at these companies offline, about the potential impact of these technologies, than you’ll hear out of the communications people,” Becker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Under a bright morning sun, garbage trucks, tow trucks and law enforcement poured into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a>’s Columbus Park on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews of city workers wearing bright vests began taping off sections of sidewalk, raking up piles of debris and trash, disassembling tents and even ripping microwaves, solar panels and other materials out of RVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday morning marked the zero hour for what city officials say is a three-month plan to completely clear out the more than 100 RVs, many more tents and other forms of soft shelter from the park, where hundreds of people have lived for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Columbus Park is the largest single encampment in San José since The Jungle — a sprawling community that hundreds of people called home along Coyote Creek near Story and Senter roads — was dismantled in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say the conditions at the park, which lies just south of the San José Mineta International Airport, had become untenable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day this encampment is allowed to persist, it puts lives at risk, especially the lives of those who call it home. The lives of children, seniors, the most vulnerable,” Mayor Matt Mahan said Monday during a press conference inside City Hall, about a six-minute drive from the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052738 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosemary Pineda rakes the ground near where the she lives in Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The crush of RVs, vehicles and tents has dominated the space for several years, with the streets in and around the camp lined with loose trash and debris, making it unusable for recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions, city officials said, only added to the risks for people living there in close quarters, many of whom were already facing difficult and desperate situations in pricey Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our homeless neighbors are living in increasingly unsafe, unmanaged conditions, including a homicide in the park last year, a pedestrian fatality just last month, and a suicide just last week. That’s why we’re moving with urgency and resolve,” Mahan said.[aside postID=news_12051236 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250626-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg']The process of clearing the park has followed more than two months of in-person outreach to residents, city officials said. City workers offered park residents temporary spaces in motel rooms around the city, only about 42 of which are move-in ready now. Mahan said he expects nearly 400 will be ready within about a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is also building nearly 400 spaces for people that should be ready by year’s end, officials said, in the form of clusters of tiny homes or sanctioned safe camping sites, in addition to an existing safe parking site for people in RVs in the Berryessa neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents of the park are also being offered a roughly $2,000 buyback of their RVs in exchange for an agreement to accept temporary shelter in one of the city’s hotels or managed sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a thoughtful, methodical, multi-month process of standing up safe, dignified interim housing,” Mahan said of the plan, which will include meals, case management and security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if people are unwilling to accept that option, they will not be allowed to continue to camp in a public park. It’s as simple as that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052741 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-06-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-06-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-06-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-06-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers remove the belongings from an RV at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the last few years, San José has worked to cordon off sections of the nearby open grasslands where residents camped before, and which the city said must remain vacant due to federal aviation rules near airports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without enough shelter beds or homes for the residents, the several sweeps, cleanups and relocations have mostly shuffled around people facing homelessness onto a smaller footprint of the park, such as the former baseball diamonds and soccer fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Columbus Park residents told KQED on Monday they have accepted shelter offers and are happy to have the chance to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052680 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-11-KQED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-11-KQED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-11-KQED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-11-KQED-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily V. packs up her belongings at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, of course. I am looking forward to being able to be in a hotel,” Emily V., a 33-year-old who has been living at Columbus Park for about a year, said, while packing up tentpoles and a suitcase on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, nobody really wants to camp forever, you know? It’s just one of those things that happens to you. Life happens to everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like Fernando Alcantara, said he wasn’t given clear information about his options. Alcantara prepared to leave the park with his trailer on Monday, but instead, city crews dismantled it in front of him and hastily hoisted the shell onto a flatbed tow truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052674 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-05-KQED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-05-KQED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-05-KQED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-05-KQED-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fernando Alcantara speaks with a city official in front of his RV shortly before it was towed at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At least, can I take my stuff out? Because I have my wallet, I have money, I have everything,” in the trailer, he said. “They didn’t let me take anything. No I.D., no nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcantara’s situation highlighted some of the confusion and disarray on the ground during the large and sprawling operation. Only after his RV was confiscated did city workers determine he wasn’t offered shelter, and said they would try to connect him with an option for housing in one of the motel spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who have agreed to accept a motel or tiny home space will be allowed to remain at the site until Sept. 5, or until such shelter is ready for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052679 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-10-KQED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-10-KQED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-10-KQED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-10-KQED-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fernando Alcantara watches as his RV is towed at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shaunn Cartwright, an advocate for unhoused people and a frequent critic of Mahan’s policies that prioritize interim housing instead of building permanent affordable housing, said the city’s plan to inform people fell far short of what was needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many people didn’t receive detailed information, including herself, about what people should do to prepare, and what choices they had, so it could be shared with residents to avoid panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city intentionally left everybody in the dark here. And then it made it where it was so much easier for rumors to start,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052678 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-09-KQED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-09-KQED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-09-KQED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-09-KQED-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Spencer relocates his belongings from where he’d been staying at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s people that work nine to five, and if you assume they take the bus, so they’re seven to seven, and they missed everything. So they didn’t get to apply for the buyback program, they didn’t get to go to the hotels or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s director of housing, Erik Soliván, said the city is facing a “dynamic” situation, and emphasized that the park’s fluctuating population made informing all residents — a count estimated at 370 people last weekend — a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to capture as many people as we can to ensure we can give them offers of shelter and service,” Soliván told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052736 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-20-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers clear the homeless encampment at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan said he understands the plans may not be perfect when trying to address the individual needs of people who may be struggling in different ways, but said a change must happen soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to end unsheltered homelessness. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Columbus Park is the largest single encampment in San José since The Jungle — a sprawling community that hundreds of people called home along Coyote Creek near Story and Senter roads — was dismantled in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say the conditions at the park, which lies just south of the San José Mineta International Airport, had become untenable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day this encampment is allowed to persist, it puts lives at risk, especially the lives of those who call it home. The lives of children, seniors, the most vulnerable,” Mayor Matt Mahan said Monday during a press conference inside City Hall, about a six-minute drive from the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052738 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosemary Pineda rakes the ground near where the she lives in Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The crush of RVs, vehicles and tents has dominated the space for several years, with the streets in and around the camp lined with loose trash and debris, making it unusable for recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions, city officials said, only added to the risks for people living there in close quarters, many of whom were already facing difficult and desperate situations in pricey Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our homeless neighbors are living in increasingly unsafe, unmanaged conditions, including a homicide in the park last year, a pedestrian fatality just last month, and a suicide just last week. That’s why we’re moving with urgency and resolve,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The process of clearing the park has followed more than two months of in-person outreach to residents, city officials said. City workers offered park residents temporary spaces in motel rooms around the city, only about 42 of which are move-in ready now. Mahan said he expects nearly 400 will be ready within about a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is also building nearly 400 spaces for people that should be ready by year’s end, officials said, in the form of clusters of tiny homes or sanctioned safe camping sites, in addition to an existing safe parking site for people in RVs in the Berryessa neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents of the park are also being offered a roughly $2,000 buyback of their RVs in exchange for an agreement to accept temporary shelter in one of the city’s hotels or managed sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a thoughtful, methodical, multi-month process of standing up safe, dignified interim housing,” Mahan said of the plan, which will include meals, case management and security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if people are unwilling to accept that option, they will not be allowed to continue to camp in a public park. It’s as simple as that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052741 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-06-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-06-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-06-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-06-KQED-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers remove the belongings from an RV at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the last few years, San José has worked to cordon off sections of the nearby open grasslands where residents camped before, and which the city said must remain vacant due to federal aviation rules near airports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without enough shelter beds or homes for the residents, the several sweeps, cleanups and relocations have mostly shuffled around people facing homelessness onto a smaller footprint of the park, such as the former baseball diamonds and soccer fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Columbus Park residents told KQED on Monday they have accepted shelter offers and are happy to have the chance to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052680 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-11-KQED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-11-KQED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-11-KQED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-11-KQED-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily V. packs up her belongings at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, of course. I am looking forward to being able to be in a hotel,” Emily V., a 33-year-old who has been living at Columbus Park for about a year, said, while packing up tentpoles and a suitcase on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, nobody really wants to camp forever, you know? It’s just one of those things that happens to you. Life happens to everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like Fernando Alcantara, said he wasn’t given clear information about his options. Alcantara prepared to leave the park with his trailer on Monday, but instead, city crews dismantled it in front of him and hastily hoisted the shell onto a flatbed tow truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052674 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-05-KQED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-05-KQED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-05-KQED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-05-KQED-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fernando Alcantara speaks with a city official in front of his RV shortly before it was towed at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At least, can I take my stuff out? Because I have my wallet, I have money, I have everything,” in the trailer, he said. “They didn’t let me take anything. No I.D., no nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcantara’s situation highlighted some of the confusion and disarray on the ground during the large and sprawling operation. Only after his RV was confiscated did city workers determine he wasn’t offered shelter, and said they would try to connect him with an option for housing in one of the motel spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who have agreed to accept a motel or tiny home space will be allowed to remain at the site until Sept. 5, or until such shelter is ready for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052679 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-10-KQED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-10-KQED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-10-KQED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-10-KQED-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fernando Alcantara watches as his RV is towed at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shaunn Cartwright, an advocate for unhoused people and a frequent critic of Mahan’s policies that prioritize interim housing instead of building permanent affordable housing, said the city’s plan to inform people fell far short of what was needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many people didn’t receive detailed information, including herself, about what people should do to prepare, and what choices they had, so it could be shared with residents to avoid panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city intentionally left everybody in the dark here. And then it made it where it was so much easier for rumors to start,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052678 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-09-KQED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-09-KQED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-09-KQED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-09-KQED-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shawn Spencer relocates his belongings from where he’d been staying at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s people that work nine to five, and if you assume they take the bus, so they’re seven to seven, and they missed everything. So they didn’t get to apply for the buyback program, they didn’t get to go to the hotels or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s director of housing, Erik Soliván, said the city is facing a “dynamic” situation, and emphasized that the park’s fluctuating population made informing all residents — a count estimated at 370 people last weekend — a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to capture as many people as we can to ensure we can give them offers of shelter and service,” Soliván told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052736\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052736 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-20-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-20-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-20-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-COLUMBUS-PARK-MD-20-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers clear the homeless encampment at Columbus Park in San José on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahan said he understands the plans may not be perfect when trying to address the individual needs of people who may be struggling in different ways, but said a change must happen soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to end unsheltered homelessness. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052399/a-new-school-year-begins-in-san-francisco-with-new-possibilities-and-problems\">first day of school was in full swing\u003c/a> in San Francisco on Monday morning — packed buses squeezed down neighborhood streets, parents walked hand in hand with kids loaded down by new backpacks, and music and excited chatter poured out of the schoolyard at Sanchez Elementary in the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourth-grader Leilani stood by the school’s front door, eager to begin all of the learning in store in math class this year, while third-graders Miles and Miguel reunited on the play yard, their moms hoping they’d run out the first-day jitters before the morning bell rang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Get it all out before class,” they yelled to the boys as they sped across the turf-covered blacktop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These kids have all been in the same cohort together going all the way through, so they’re really excited to be back with their friends,” said Miles’ mom, Lindsey Husband. “We have a really strong community here, and our principal really holds things together. Everyone that works at Sanchez is just so great. We’re lucky to be a part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the familiar greetings that teachers and Principal Ann Marin — joined by Superintendent Maria Su and Mayor Daniel Lurie — gave nearly 300 transitional kindergarten through fifth grade students streaming onto the well-loved campus, it didn’t look like much had changed within the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a> since this time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at Sanchez Elementary School in San Francisco arrive for their first day of the school year on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s how Su seems to want it. On the heels of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">major budget concerns\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">leadership changes\u003c/a>, and as a new set of unpredictable challenges from the federal government loomed, she assured students and parents that their school would be safe and stable this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the last several months, your principal, your teachers, your social worker, your counselor have all been working to make sure that we start the school year great,” she told the families gathered for a morning meeting just after 8 a.m. “We come together to make sure that we continue on the wonderful thing that we already started last year.”[aside postID=news_12052399 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-12-BL_qed-1.jpg']While the energy was high, SFUSD is emerging from a challenging few years since the COVID-19 pandemic. Funding shortfalls, declining enrollment, and strife between educators and leadership have plagued the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, then-Superintendent Matt Wayne resigned after a poorly executed attempt to close schools, and in the spring, the district cut 400 staff positions to balance a $114 million budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After related \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">employee buyouts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040756/sfusd-reverses-over-150-layoffs-but-hiring-teachers-may-still-be-an-uphill-battle\">layoffs\u003c/a>, there won’t be quite as many adults on campuses this fall, but Su told reporters that there will be more permanent classroom teachers on Monday than there have been on the first day in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 95% of district classrooms have a permanent, certificated teacher, leaving just about 50 with substitutes. Last year, nearly 100 classrooms were without permanent educators, and in 2023, it was more than 140.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su also said kinks in the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051862/sf-teachers-are-yet-again-having-payroll-issues-just-after-launch-of-costly-new-system\">new payroll system\u003c/a> were under control after more than 100 educators reported struggles to get proper payment since it launched last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Superintendent Maria Su speaks to students at Sanchez Elementary School on the first day of classes for the new school year in San Francisco on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for threats from outside the district, including growing fears among the large immigrant community in SFUSD that federal enforcement officers could target schools, Su said she is collaborating with city and state leaders to protect campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFUSD is a sanctuary district that is within a sanctuary city, that is within a sanctuary state,” she said. “We also have policies and procedures in place that will protect our students once they are inside our school building. [We will] continue to work with all of our community partners, like our Rapid Response Network, like the city-funded S.F. legal services community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie told those gathered at Sanchez Elementary that his top priority for city schools was keeping students and their parents safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as your city leaders have your back,” he said. “We’re going to look out for you; we’re going to protect you and keep you safe. 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Last year, nearly 100 classrooms were without permanent educators, and in 2023, it was more than 140.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su also said kinks in the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051862/sf-teachers-are-yet-again-having-payroll-issues-just-after-launch-of-costly-new-system\">new payroll system\u003c/a> were under control after more than 100 educators reported struggles to get proper payment since it launched last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250818-SFUSDFIRSTDAY-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Superintendent Maria Su speaks to students at Sanchez Elementary School on the first day of classes for the new school year in San Francisco on Aug. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for threats from outside the district, including growing fears among the large immigrant community in SFUSD that federal enforcement officers could target schools, Su said she is collaborating with city and state leaders to protect campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFUSD is a sanctuary district that is within a sanctuary city, that is within a sanctuary state,” she said. “We also have policies and procedures in place that will protect our students once they are inside our school building. [We will] continue to work with all of our community partners, like our Rapid Response Network, like the city-funded S.F. legal services community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie told those gathered at Sanchez Elementary that his top priority for city schools was keeping students and their parents safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We as your city leaders have your back,” he said. “We’re going to look out for you; we’re going to protect you and keep you safe. 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Me and my wife both felt this would be wonderful for our son to have,” Floc said, adding that Ryden would benefit most from socializing with kids his age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the couple was dismayed to discover that the district’s complex student assignment system — known locally as “the lottery” — placed Ryden in a school across town instead of the one mere blocks from where they live in the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now placed on long waitlists for several nearby schools, they’re wondering whether to keep Ryden home for another year under his grandparents’ care and miss out on TK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t understand why it has to be like this. It’s so crazy,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052485\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240520-TKParentsDilemma-60-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240520-TKParentsDilemma-60-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240520-TKParentsDilemma-60-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/240520-TKParentsDilemma-60-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor and Karina Buendia, along with their son Fabian, 3, pick up their daughter Galilea, 5, after a transitional kindergarten class at Holbrook Language Academy in Concord on May 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The competition, especially for a seat in a language immersion school or a school in a wealthy neighborhood, points to strong demand for TK in San Francisco. This year, SFUSD is opening 16 new transitional kindergarten classrooms to accommodate the incoming class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s too early to provide final enrollment data for 2025–26, the district reported in March that it received \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031802/san-francisco-public-schools-see-surge-applications-thanks-transitional-kindergarten-demand\">the largest number of applications in more than a decade\u003c/a>, and the biggest surge in applications was for TK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a recent\u003ca href=\"https://rapidsurveyproject.com/article/interest-in-using-transitional-kindergarten-is-linked-with-california-parents-awareness-of-the-program/\"> statewide survey found that fewer parents of young kids know about TK\u003c/a> than they did just a few years ago, experts say San Francisco parents are more aware of it because the city has been offering free or low-cost preschool for children since 2004. Four-year-olds in the city participate in preschool at a higher rate than their peers in other parts of the state.[aside postID=news_11989955 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240520-TKPARENTSDILEMMA-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>With the price of rent shooting through the sky, working families need those options,” said Henry Wong, principal of Dr. William Cobb Elementary School in Lower Pacific Heights, which has one TK classroom this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A TK program is really wonderful in the sense [that] we’re preparing our kids for school, they’re gaining that foundation of being in a classroom and being around other children, which is very useful,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said 61% of students who applied for TK will be assigned to their first-choice school. After the main round of school assignments, the district uses waitlists to manage school enrollment, leaving many parents holding out for better options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floc said the enrollment office told him Ryden stood a better chance of getting into his neighborhood school for kindergarten than for TK, where there was only enough room for 20 students this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989615/california-struggles-with-classroom-space-for-transitional-kindergarten\">due to strict state standards\u003c/a> for TK that require adequate space to play indoors and outdoors, and a bathroom nearby for 4-year-olds, some schools don’t have the necessary facilities. 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After the main round of school assignments, the district uses waitlists to manage school enrollment, leaving many parents holding out for better options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floc said the enrollment office told him Ryden stood a better chance of getting into his neighborhood school for kindergarten than for TK, where there was only enough room for 20 students this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989615/california-struggles-with-classroom-space-for-transitional-kindergarten\">due to strict state standards\u003c/a> for TK that require adequate space to play indoors and outdoors, and a bathroom nearby for 4-year-olds, some schools don’t have the necessary facilities. 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Part of her legal team includes Tom Perez, former U.S. Labor Secretary under President Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus recently attempted to appeal the board’s vote and halt the removal process, saying it violated her constitutional rights. Last week, a judge denied that request, clearing the way for the hearings to begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions about Corpus’ leadership began emerging last year, when county officials say they received an “unprecedented” number of complaints about Corpus’ civilian second-in-command and alleged lover, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">Victor Aenlle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015445\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff Christina Corpus (center) speaks about a shooting at the Half Moon Bay IDES Society in Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, on Jan. 24, 2023. \u003ccite>(Samantha Laurey/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The county hired retired Judge LaDoris Cordell to conduct an independent investigation, and her report, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">published in November,\u003c/a> sustained several findings against Corpus, including that Corpus’ leadership was beset with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day that the report was released, Corpus’s office directed deputies to arrest Carlos Tapia, the head of the deputies’ union and a vocal critic of Corpus, on suspicion of time card fraud. San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe would determine Tapia “should not have been arrested” because “there was no basis to believe any violation of law had occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That week, the board took a vote of no confidence in Corpus. At the meeting, supervisors voted to eliminate Aenlle’s Executive Director position, but Corpus told the board she was immediately promoting Aenlle to assistant sheriff. Aenlle is still \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcsheriff.com/administration\">listed \u003c/a>on the department’s leadership web page as “Executive Director of Administration / Chief of Staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite mounting calls for Corpus to resign from local, state and federal lawmakers — many of whom were previously Corpus’ supporters — she remained steadfast. Most of Corpus’ leadership team left, along with dozens of employees who didn’t have enough years in to retire at their full pensions.[aside postID=news_12047905 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1459218231-1020x680.jpg']San Mateo officials used their abilities as a charter county to opt to remove Corpus through an amendment that required a four-fifths vote from the board. In a March special election, 84% of county voters granted supervisors that authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, a pre-removal conference was held with Corpus behind closed doors. Following that, county leaders said the chief probation officer found her removal was warranted and made that recommendation to the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with Cordell’s expansive report, an investigation by law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters — which included 524 pages of documentary evidence and 42 witness interviews — concluded that Corpus not only engaged in “flagrant and repeated neglect of the sheriff’s duties” but also obstructed an investigation into her conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County supervisors voted 5–0 in June to begin the formal removal of Corpus, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045697/san-mateo-county-supervisors-take-historic-vote-to-remove-sheriff\">making history \u003c/a>by being the first board in the state to vote to remove an elected sheriff from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County voters gave supervisors the authority to remove then-Sheriff Alex Villanueva in 2022, but the board didn’t need to use it as he lost reelection to a primary challenger. 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"content": "\u003cp>Class is back in session for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a>, and the new school year promises lots of change for the nearly 50,000 students and thousands more staffers headed back to campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008405/these-san-francisco-schools-could-close-list-isnt-final\">list of closing schools\u003c/a> is no longer looming overhead, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010008/sf-schools-crisis-is-spiraling-with-top-official-to-resign-heres-all-thats-happened\">leadership feels more stable \u003c/a>without the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005932/sf-mayor-sends-team-to-address-crisis-at-school-district-but-dont-call-it-a-takeover\">flurry of major city elections\u003c/a>, SFUSD is teed up for plenty of changes and growing pains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we’re watching heading into the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Slimmed down staffing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To close a record-high budget deficit projected for the 2025–26 school year, SFUSD last spring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">laid off 109 members of its staff\u003c/a> and offered \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">early retirement packages\u003c/a> to another 345 who agreed to leave their positions in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s school board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028317/sf-schools-brace-hundreds-layoffs-including-teachers-librarians-counselors\">approved much higher layoff projections\u003c/a> in March, totalling more than 500 across school sites and the district’s administrative office, but was able to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040756/sfusd-reverses-over-150-layoffs-but-hiring-teachers-may-still-be-an-uphill-battle\"> rescind most preliminary pink slips\u003c/a> thanks to high participation in the voluntary buyout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250418-SFUSD-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though the final layoff numbers ended up being relatively low, especially for student-facing positions, campuses are going to have noticeably fewer staff members this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district eliminated 400 positions in schools and across its administration, shifting many educators working in specialized roles, like curriculum development or reading support, into classroom positions vacated by buyout recipients.[aside postID=news_12044768 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-07-BL_qed.jpg']Schools will operate this fall according to a new bare-bones staffing model, which guarantees a principal, classroom teachers, a clerk and custodial staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other professionals, however, who families have grown accustomed to having around — like additional teachers who help keep class sizes small, or support English language learners — will only work in schools that have discretionary budgets available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD has publicly shared a supplementary staffing guide explaining how those roles could be filled, but how much funding individual schools have, and what they’re using it for, will start coming into view in the first few weeks of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also remains to be seen how many classes will start the year without a permanent teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district did not provide data on how many teacher vacancies it had on Friday, but in May, principals indicated that they were falling behind in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040756/sfusd-reverses-over-150-layoffs-but-hiring-teachers-may-still-be-an-uphill-battle\">trying to fill the positions\u003c/a> of those retiring or leaving the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Curriculum changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district is also introducing some pretty significant curriculum changes — both planned and unplanned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, kindergarten through eighth-grade math classes will begin using new lesson plans focused on problem-based learning and real-world applications. Both Imagine Learning and Amplify Desmos Math lessons were piloted in some SFUSD elementary and middle schools, respectively, last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008414\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1920x1283.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from the San Francisco Unified School District return to their buses after a field trip in San Francisco, California, on Sept. 13, 2012. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new curriculum will cost the district a total of $11.6 million — to fund new textbooks, digital licenses and professional development over the next five years in elementary grades and one year in middle school classes, according to SFUSD’s adoption \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/DEYNRV60952B/%24file/K-8%20Math%20Curriculum%20Adoption%20-%20Mar.%202025.pdf\">documents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the district has been working toward acquiring new math materials for multiple years, it also decided to make a last-minute change to another course curriculum: ninth-grade ethnic studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After parents and a \u003ca href=\"https://defendinged.org/map/\">national education organization\u003c/a> with a record of efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250521190020/https:/www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/14/metro/right-leaning-nonprofit-increasingly-targets-massachusetts-teaching-gender-race-sex-education/\">curtail education\u003c/a> about gender, race and sexual orientation in public schools expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046122/sfusd-was-a-pioneer-in-ethnic-studies-now-the-program-could-be-put-on-pause\">concerns with SFUSD’s longstanding Ethnic Studies curriculum\u003c/a>, Superintendent Maria Su decided to swap it out for a more regulated curriculum used by other districts across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told school leaders and families in June that SFUSD would\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046580/sf-school-district-wont-cancel-ethnic-studies-but-pauses-its-homegrown-curriculum\"> pause instruction of its homegrown curriculum\u003c/a>, developed by educators over more than 15 years, to audit course materials. Throughout the 2025–26 school year, she said the district will work on a more regulated internal curriculum to bring to the school board for approval ahead of fall 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Payroll problems persist\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As teachers returned to classrooms last week, some dealt with what has become a fairly typical point of tension in recent years: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051862/sf-teachers-are-yet-again-having-payroll-issues-just-after-launch-of-costly-new-system\">getting paid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two years and more than $30 million trying to make a payroll system operated by EMPower work, the district ditched it last year, shelling out even more money to purchase new software from companies Frontline and Red Rover to manage paychecks and employee benefits.[aside postID=news_12051862 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250418-SFUSD-04-BL_qed.jpg']That program launched in July, but in its first few weeks, some educators are already experiencing familiar issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Educators of San Francisco said some of its members’ dues haven’t been properly deducted from their summer paychecks, while other employees have reported being paid at the wrong rate or missing money for clocked vacation and sick days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said that kinks are expected, and some of the issues are byproducts of the EMPower system, since a lot of data had to be transferred over from that software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin Trujillo, SFUSD’s head of staff, assured board members last week that, unlike issues that arose in EMPower, he’s confident the district can identify and fix the root causes quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Declining enrollment and … a new school?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many of the problems SFUSD has been dealing with for years — long-term enrollment decline, funding shortfalls and teacher retention — persist, Su looks to be betting on new programs to draw in more students and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD saw an uptick in interest for this fall, thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031802/san-francisco-public-schools-see-surge-applications-thanks-transitional-kindergarten-demand\">expanding transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> offerings. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Schools will operate this fall according to a new bare-bones staffing model, which guarantees a principal, classroom teachers, a clerk and custodial staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other professionals, however, who families have grown accustomed to having around — like additional teachers who help keep class sizes small, or support English language learners — will only work in schools that have discretionary budgets available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD has publicly shared a supplementary staffing guide explaining how those roles could be filled, but how much funding individual schools have, and what they’re using it for, will start coming into view in the first few weeks of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also remains to be seen how many classes will start the year without a permanent teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district did not provide data on how many teacher vacancies it had on Friday, but in May, principals indicated that they were falling behind in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040756/sfusd-reverses-over-150-layoffs-but-hiring-teachers-may-still-be-an-uphill-battle\">trying to fill the positions\u003c/a> of those retiring or leaving the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Curriculum changes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The district is also introducing some pretty significant curriculum changes — both planned and unplanned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, kindergarten through eighth-grade math classes will begin using new lesson plans focused on problem-based learning and real-world applications. Both Imagine Learning and Amplify Desmos Math lessons were piloted in some SFUSD elementary and middle schools, respectively, last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008414\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsGetty-1920x1283.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from the San Francisco Unified School District return to their buses after a field trip in San Francisco, California, on Sept. 13, 2012. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new curriculum will cost the district a total of $11.6 million — to fund new textbooks, digital licenses and professional development over the next five years in elementary grades and one year in middle school classes, according to SFUSD’s adoption \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/DEYNRV60952B/%24file/K-8%20Math%20Curriculum%20Adoption%20-%20Mar.%202025.pdf\">documents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the district has been working toward acquiring new math materials for multiple years, it also decided to make a last-minute change to another course curriculum: ninth-grade ethnic studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After parents and a \u003ca href=\"https://defendinged.org/map/\">national education organization\u003c/a> with a record of efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250521190020/https:/www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/14/metro/right-leaning-nonprofit-increasingly-targets-massachusetts-teaching-gender-race-sex-education/\">curtail education\u003c/a> about gender, race and sexual orientation in public schools expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046122/sfusd-was-a-pioneer-in-ethnic-studies-now-the-program-could-be-put-on-pause\">concerns with SFUSD’s longstanding Ethnic Studies curriculum\u003c/a>, Superintendent Maria Su decided to swap it out for a more regulated curriculum used by other districts across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told school leaders and families in June that SFUSD would\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046580/sf-school-district-wont-cancel-ethnic-studies-but-pauses-its-homegrown-curriculum\"> pause instruction of its homegrown curriculum\u003c/a>, developed by educators over more than 15 years, to audit course materials. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That program launched in July, but in its first few weeks, some educators are already experiencing familiar issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>United Educators of San Francisco said some of its members’ dues haven’t been properly deducted from their summer paychecks, while other employees have reported being paid at the wrong rate or missing money for clocked vacation and sick days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said that kinks are expected, and some of the issues are byproducts of the EMPower system, since a lot of data had to be transferred over from that software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin Trujillo, SFUSD’s head of staff, assured board members last week that, unlike issues that arose in EMPower, he’s confident the district can identify and fix the root causes quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Declining enrollment and … a new school?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While many of the problems SFUSD has been dealing with for years — long-term enrollment decline, funding shortfalls and teacher retention — persist, Su looks to be betting on new programs to draw in more students and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD saw an uptick in interest for this fall, thanks to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031802/san-francisco-public-schools-see-surge-applications-thanks-transitional-kindergarten-demand\">expanding transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> offerings. Total applications were up 10%, led by families looking to enroll their 4-year-olds in district schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-09-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Su and San Francisco’s Board of Education President Phil Kim have both left the door open to the possibility of school closures in the coming years, Su said in the spring that she’s most interested in transforming SFUSD sites for more TK classes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044978/sfusd-pays-millions-for-special-ed-this-change-could-save-money-and-help-families\">expanded special education \u003c/a>offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such site might also become the home of a new kindergarten through eighth-grade \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048313/san-francisco-unified-plans-new-mandarin-immersion-school-amid-charter-push\">Mandarin immersion school\u003c/a> announced in July.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Weekdays at the Walgreens parking lot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fruitvale\">Fruitvale\u003c/a> have grown eerily quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a typical morning months ago, upwards of 60 men in work boots and dark hoodies would have been gathered around light poles and pop-up food stands in the large lot, chatting and drinking coffee out of paper cups. But on a recent gloomy Friday, only about a dozen day laborers milled about, hoping to find work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are starting to feel it. I’m scared,” a man in a black hooded sweatshirt, leaning against the Oakland drugstore building, said in Spanish. “It’s not like last year. Right now, I’m just scared. You can’t trust anyone anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other workers who spoke with KQED anonymously, fearing identification by immigration officials, said the number of day laborers gathering there has dwindled in recent months as the immigration raids sweeping through Southern and Central California stoke a foreboding feeling that they’ll hit the Bay Area next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since President Donald Trump took office with a campaign pledge to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s daily arrest targets have swelled as its operations pick up significantly across California. And there’s little sign of a slowdown — in July, Congress granted ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910650/ices-budget-just-tripled-whats-next\">an additional $75 billion\u003c/a> over the next four years to hire more officers and expand detention capacity, making it the largest law enforcement agency in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049999\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A day laborer waits for work at a Walgreens in Oakland on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Raids have shaken gas stations, farms and hardware stores across the state, and ICE officers have taken to arresting people outside immigration courts and local immigration offices where they’re summoned for check-ins on their asylum cases — a tactic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">previously unheard of\u003c/a> by immigrant advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, officials detained six people, including a teenager and a young adult with Down syndrome, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052198/teen-arrested-in-ice-raid-at-an-oakland-home-detained-out-of-state-attorney-says\">raiding a house in East Oakland\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12052198 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GettyImages-2220045842-2000x1334.jpg']Outside the Walgreens in Oakland, the man in the black hoodie said he’s been watching this unfold on the news. Though he is increasingly wary of the risk it puts him in, he still comes here most days because he needs the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he said, he stays more alert and regularly checks his phone for any warning of ICE activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recounted what he’s been told to do if ICE officers appear: “They say, ‘Don’t talk, don’t say anything. If they stop you, if they detain you, you’re never going to say anything. If they take you to the immigration, never say if you have papers. You will never speak and that’s it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he knows his rights and carries a red wallet-sized card that says in both English and Spanish that he does not want to answer questions, speak with immigration officials or hand over any documentation. But he also relies on faith to keep him safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that I have faith in God and I ask God and I am sure that if God tells me that it is my time, then it is my time, my destiny,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A chilling effect’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That morning, a team of outreach workers with Street Level Health Project, an Oakland nonprofit that serves undocumented immigrants and is part of Alameda County’s Rapid Response Network, also headed out of their Fruitvale office onto deserted roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team regularly checks in with day laborers at the Walgreens store on Foothill Boulevard. While walking there, executive director Gabriela Galicia told KQED that Street Level has had fewer clients coming in over the past few weeks, and she’s seeing fewer people on the streets and in stores in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050003 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-15-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-15-KQED-1536x1049.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Galicia, executive director of Street Level Health Project, poses for a photo in Oakland on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely apparent that there is a chilling effect,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Galicia said Street Level saw an increase in weekly clients during the first few months of the Trump administration, she believes some are now worried the office itself could be a target for immigration officers.[aside postID=news_12052249 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250814-OAKLANDPUSHBACK-08-KQED.jpg']“We’ve received community members that have stated very upfront that they are scared to sometimes leave the house, go to work, do their normal activities in the neighborhood or take their kids to summer programming,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One laborer outside Walgreens told KQED he’s drastically reduced how much time he spends out of the house, leaving virtually only to work at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s a way to protect yourself,” he said. “What you can do is avoid going out a lot, and only go out to the [day laborer] stops out of necessity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also altered his work routine. On days he might have once stood around on Foothill through the afternoon, he now waits just a few hours in the morning to see if a truck rolls into the lot with a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You only come out here for a bit because there’s no other way, and after that, you get exhausted,” he said. “Before, with more confidence, people stayed longer. You felt more free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Struggling to find work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Laborers said even as their numbers drop, work is becoming harder to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential employers “don’t come” any longer, one told KQED in Spanish. “Some say they are afraid. They are afraid of coming to hire people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers said there have been weeks when they’ve found work for only a few days. Other weeks, there’s been none at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12050000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Robles, left, and Norma Calvo, right, both of Street Level Health Project, speak to and offer services to a day laborer waiting for work at a Walgreens in Oakland on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Multiple day laborers told KQED that they used to work for companies but were recently let go or had their hours cut short. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Outside the Walgreens in Oakland, the man in the black hoodie said he’s been watching this unfold on the news. Though he is increasingly wary of the risk it puts him in, he still comes here most days because he needs the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he said, he stays more alert and regularly checks his phone for any warning of ICE activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recounted what he’s been told to do if ICE officers appear: “They say, ‘Don’t talk, don’t say anything. If they stop you, if they detain you, you’re never going to say anything. If they take you to the immigration, never say if you have papers. You will never speak and that’s it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said he knows his rights and carries a red wallet-sized card that says in both English and Spanish that he does not want to answer questions, speak with immigration officials or hand over any documentation. But he also relies on faith to keep him safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that I have faith in God and I ask God and I am sure that if God tells me that it is my time, then it is my time, my destiny,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A chilling effect’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>That morning, a team of outreach workers with Street Level Health Project, an Oakland nonprofit that serves undocumented immigrants and is part of Alameda County’s Rapid Response Network, also headed out of their Fruitvale office onto deserted roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team regularly checks in with day laborers at the Walgreens store on Foothill Boulevard. While walking there, executive director Gabriela Galicia told KQED that Street Level has had fewer clients coming in over the past few weeks, and she’s seeing fewer people on the streets and in stores in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050003 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-15-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250725_OAKLANDDAYLABORERS_GC-15-KQED-1536x1049.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Galicia, executive director of Street Level Health Project, poses for a photo in Oakland on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely apparent that there is a chilling effect,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Galicia said Street Level saw an increase in weekly clients during the first few months of the Trump administration, she believes some are now worried the office itself could be a target for immigration officers.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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On days he might have once stood around on Foothill through the afternoon, he now waits just a few hours in the morning to see if a truck rolls into the lot with a job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You only come out here for a bit because there’s no other way, and after that, you get exhausted,” he said. “Before, with more confidence, people stayed longer. You felt more free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Struggling to find work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Laborers said even as their numbers drop, work is becoming harder to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Potential employers “don’t come” any longer, one told KQED in Spanish. “Some say they are afraid. They are afraid of coming to hire people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers said there have been weeks when they’ve found work for only a few days. 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