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Her call follows San Francisco police’s recent crackdown on drug users and dealers, following Mayor Daniel Lurie’s promise to reduce drug-related activity in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been displaced because of enforcement actions around the city to the Mission. And [residents] want to see people get help and connected to treatment. They want to see the end of public drug use,” Fielder told KQED. “That’s why I’m calling for this hearing because we can’t take a neighborhood-by-neighborhood approach. That’s exactly how we got here. We need something comprehensive so that we’re not continuing this cat-and-mouse game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder’s push for the Four Pillars strategy comes after a November report from the Budget and Legislative Analyst, which found the city has already adopted some elements of Zurich’s approach. Like San Francisco today, Zurich faced a public drug use crisis in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the report highlighted a key gap: San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA.Zurich_4_Pillars.111924.a.pdf\">lack of sufficient collaboration\u003c/a> between police, health officials and social service providers, which were essential to Zurich’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested nearly 90 people last Wednesday night at Jefferson Square Park, many for loitering or having outstanding warrants on drug-related charges, and seized about 550 grams of narcotics, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-scaled-e1740692245681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers carried out a sweeping drug market raid on the evening of Feb. 26, 2025, in Jefferson Square Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sebastian Luke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The operation took place after residents complained about increased drug use and dealing at the park, which is located directly across the street from the Department of Emergency Management’s headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January, local law enforcement has increased pressure in areas like the Sixth Street corridor in South of Market and the Tenderloin, both of which have become widely known as visible hot spots for outdoor drug markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The escalated police approach has so far included increased arrests of drug users and dealers, alongside the establishment of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028499/can-sfs-new-triage-centers-help-solve-the-addiction-crisis\">new triage center on Sixth Street\u003c/a> where people can walk in to get connected to various social and health services. The site is also intended to serve as a police command center, where officers can hand off people they arrest or detain for drugs over to sheriff’s deputies. However, police have not yet used the site for any arrest processing, according to SFPD officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029248 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-019-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the heightened pressure in certain neighborhoods, drug markets have shifted into new parts of the city, including near the 16th Street BART station and, until just before Wednesday’s raid, Jefferson Square Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of community concern about what was happening, and we believe a lot of it was because of the pressure that we put on the Mid-Market and Tenderloin and people looking for somewhere to go where they can hang out and do these types of activities,” Police Chief Bill Scott told KQED. “Operations like these will continue throughout the city for as long as necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s homelessness policy chief, Kunal Modi, acknowledged some of the shortcomings of the city’s approach to Sixth Street over the weekend. While the area has seen improved street cleanliness and more arrests, Modi noted in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/kunalmodi/status/1895977354079715715\">post on social media platform X\u003c/a> that the city’s limited shelter and treatment bed capacity has stunted efforts to connect people with housing or medical services. He also admitted that the increased enforcement has displaced challenges to other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Wednesday night’s raid at Jefferson Square Park, more than 50 people were quickly released. Addiction and homelessness experts, as well as Fielder, have raised concerns about the longer-term strategy for dealing with street-level challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is taking place is a return to very failed policies of the past, and we’re not going to see any improvement in the issues that folks are really concerned about in San Francisco, like housing and poverty and street-based drug use,” said Anna Berg, a licensed clinical social worker and the program director for the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. “We know that the highest rates of overdose occur post-arrest and incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said drug treatment services were offered but did not say whether anyone accepted them. SFPD did not respond to requests for further data or information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city right now is going all in on just enforcement and some attempts to connect people to treatment, but it’s unclear what exactly those offers are,” Fielder said. “We need to scale up our treatment system and invest in prevention as well. If we don’t, we will continue to see displacement to all parts of the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other neighborhoods have seen increased drug activity, Jefferson Square Park has remained relatively calm in the aftermath of last week’s police raid, according to nearby residents like Sebastian Luke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I walk around every day. The park has been quiet and clean; it’s been calm since the raid,” said Luke, who witnessed and documented the mass arrest operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Franciscans deserve safe neighborhoods, not open-air drug markets. We heard the community, and this operation shows what’s possible when agencies work together to take real action,” Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, whose district borders Jefferson Square Park, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scsherrill/status/1895178573927063598\">posted on X\u003c/a> the day after the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the block-by-block enforcement approach is also costly — something police will be forced to confront as the city stares down a nearly $900 million budget shortfall and departments are required to make deep cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very resource-heavy type of operation, but we do plan to do more because it’s a good way to at least intermittently deal with that displacement,” Scott told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors representing the Tenderloin and South of Market recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027784/sf-supervisors-call-for-outside-expert-to-lead-drug-market-crackdown\">put forward their own proposal\u003c/a> for how the city could tackle outdoor drug markets. Their approach, inspired by a model developed by law enforcement expert David Kennedy, focuses on clearing drug markets by arresting violent drug dealers and giving nonviolent dealers a choice of either mandatory social programs or jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood, who introduced the idea, told KQED that they see the idea working within the Four Pillars model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder said she’s still researching her colleagues’ proposal but likes elements of it, including efforts to increase job training programs to redirect youth and adults away from the drug trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Shamann Walton, Matt Dorsey, Bilal Mahmood and Chyanne Chen plan to co-sponsor the Four Pillars hearing, according to representatives from Fielder’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we just focus on [law enforcement], we’re going to continue to see lopsided and geographically narrow and intermediate success, not long-term successes,” Fielder said. “That’s what the Four Pillars is all about, long-term solutions and not just headline-grabbing actions that we’ve had for many decades in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:45 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After last Wednesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">overnight mass drug arrest\u003c/a>, one San Francisco supervisor is demanding a hearing to reassess the city’s approach to tackling outdoor drug use and dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission District Supervisor Jackie Fielder plans to announce the hearing at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Meeting, urging the city to consider a successful strategy in Zurich’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">Four Pillars Strategy\u003c/a>” that combines drug prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement. Her call follows San Francisco police’s recent crackdown on drug users and dealers, following Mayor Daniel Lurie’s promise to reduce drug-related activity in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been displaced because of enforcement actions around the city to the Mission. And [residents] want to see people get help and connected to treatment. They want to see the end of public drug use,” Fielder told KQED. “That’s why I’m calling for this hearing because we can’t take a neighborhood-by-neighborhood approach. That’s exactly how we got here. We need something comprehensive so that we’re not continuing this cat-and-mouse game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder’s push for the Four Pillars strategy comes after a November report from the Budget and Legislative Analyst, which found the city has already adopted some elements of Zurich’s approach. Like San Francisco today, Zurich faced a public drug use crisis in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the report highlighted a key gap: San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA.Zurich_4_Pillars.111924.a.pdf\">lack of sufficient collaboration\u003c/a> between police, health officials and social service providers, which were essential to Zurich’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested nearly 90 people last Wednesday night at Jefferson Square Park, many for loitering or having outstanding warrants on drug-related charges, and seized about 550 grams of narcotics, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-scaled-e1740692245681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers carried out a sweeping drug market raid on the evening of Feb. 26, 2025, in Jefferson Square Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sebastian Luke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The operation took place after residents complained about increased drug use and dealing at the park, which is located directly across the street from the Department of Emergency Management’s headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January, local law enforcement has increased pressure in areas like the Sixth Street corridor in South of Market and the Tenderloin, both of which have become widely known as visible hot spots for outdoor drug markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The escalated police approach has so far included increased arrests of drug users and dealers, alongside the establishment of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028499/can-sfs-new-triage-centers-help-solve-the-addiction-crisis\">new triage center on Sixth Street\u003c/a> where people can walk in to get connected to various social and health services. The site is also intended to serve as a police command center, where officers can hand off people they arrest or detain for drugs over to sheriff’s deputies. However, police have not yet used the site for any arrest processing, according to SFPD officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the heightened pressure in certain neighborhoods, drug markets have shifted into new parts of the city, including near the 16th Street BART station and, until just before Wednesday’s raid, Jefferson Square Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of community concern about what was happening, and we believe a lot of it was because of the pressure that we put on the Mid-Market and Tenderloin and people looking for somewhere to go where they can hang out and do these types of activities,” Police Chief Bill Scott told KQED. “Operations like these will continue throughout the city for as long as necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s homelessness policy chief, Kunal Modi, acknowledged some of the shortcomings of the city’s approach to Sixth Street over the weekend. While the area has seen improved street cleanliness and more arrests, Modi noted in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/kunalmodi/status/1895977354079715715\">post on social media platform X\u003c/a> that the city’s limited shelter and treatment bed capacity has stunted efforts to connect people with housing or medical services. He also admitted that the increased enforcement has displaced challenges to other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Wednesday night’s raid at Jefferson Square Park, more than 50 people were quickly released. Addiction and homelessness experts, as well as Fielder, have raised concerns about the longer-term strategy for dealing with street-level challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is taking place is a return to very failed policies of the past, and we’re not going to see any improvement in the issues that folks are really concerned about in San Francisco, like housing and poverty and street-based drug use,” said Anna Berg, a licensed clinical social worker and the program director for the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. “We know that the highest rates of overdose occur post-arrest and incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said drug treatment services were offered but did not say whether anyone accepted them. SFPD did not respond to requests for further data or information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city right now is going all in on just enforcement and some attempts to connect people to treatment, but it’s unclear what exactly those offers are,” Fielder said. “We need to scale up our treatment system and invest in prevention as well. If we don’t, we will continue to see displacement to all parts of the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other neighborhoods have seen increased drug activity, Jefferson Square Park has remained relatively calm in the aftermath of last week’s police raid, according to nearby residents like Sebastian Luke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I walk around every day. The park has been quiet and clean; it’s been calm since the raid,” said Luke, who witnessed and documented the mass arrest operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Franciscans deserve safe neighborhoods, not open-air drug markets. We heard the community, and this operation shows what’s possible when agencies work together to take real action,” Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, whose district borders Jefferson Square Park, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scsherrill/status/1895178573927063598\">posted on X\u003c/a> the day after the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the block-by-block enforcement approach is also costly — something police will be forced to confront as the city stares down a nearly $900 million budget shortfall and departments are required to make deep cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very resource-heavy type of operation, but we do plan to do more because it’s a good way to at least intermittently deal with that displacement,” Scott told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors representing the Tenderloin and South of Market recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027784/sf-supervisors-call-for-outside-expert-to-lead-drug-market-crackdown\">put forward their own proposal\u003c/a> for how the city could tackle outdoor drug markets. Their approach, inspired by a model developed by law enforcement expert David Kennedy, focuses on clearing drug markets by arresting violent drug dealers and giving nonviolent dealers a choice of either mandatory social programs or jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood, who introduced the idea, told KQED that they see the idea working within the Four Pillars model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder said she’s still researching her colleagues’ proposal but likes elements of it, including efforts to increase job training programs to redirect youth and adults away from the drug trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Shamann Walton, Matt Dorsey, Bilal Mahmood and Chyanne Chen plan to co-sponsor the Four Pillars hearing, according to representatives from Fielder’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we just focus on [law enforcement], we’re going to continue to see lopsided and geographically narrow and intermediate success, not long-term successes,” Fielder said. “That’s what the Four Pillars is all about, long-term solutions and not just headline-grabbing actions that we’ve had for many decades in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When the politics of Sacramento oppose the politics of Washington, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> is able to insulate itself. The state’s environmental laws, agencies and funding streams allow it — to a certain extent — to set its own agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, California can set its own clean car targets, clean water standards and goals for prescribed burning. In — or more literally on — about half of the state, that’s not the case because the federal government owns it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, on this land, federal policies apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service is the biggest landowner, holding 43% of all federal land within California’s borders. Next is the Bureau of Land Management, with 32%. The National Park Service controls 16%. The state of California, comparatively, holds just 3% of the state’s landmass, so those who care about California’s public lands and about limiting explosive wildfires also care about federal policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet policy on federal public lands is currently in chaos. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029178/trumps-mass-layoffs-noaa-cut-into-bay-area-weather-service\">Firings\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">funding freezes\u003c/a>, emails that demand employees list five things they accomplished during the week and high-profile resignations have caused \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027914/wide-us-forest-service-layoffs-leave-safety-projects-delayed-fire-crews-depleted\">upheaval and bewilderment \u003c/a>for the people entrusted to care for public lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current and former federal and state employees told KQED they were concerned about delayed fire safety projects, canceled training for fire responders, slow response times to fires, and depleted ranks of firefighters and firefighting support staff. The trickle-down effects could mean communities are left at a higher fire risk of wildfire while public lands are neglected and ill-managed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we manage large fires, about half the positions are actually suppression,” said Dan Munsey, San Bernardino County’s fire chief, referring to firefighters who directly engage with the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People demonstrate against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other half, he said, are support positions — fire modelers, map makers, logistics. Many positions have been cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you reduce positions in the Forest Service and other federal agencies, it’ll very likely have a direct impact,” Munsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildland firefighters are concerned about travel restrictions announced last week that could mean delays if a serious fire erupted and a call was issued for aid. The emailed guidance, reviewed by KQED, stipulated that even travel related to national security, public safety and immigration enforcement had to be approved by the Department of the Interior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://kqedsf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=76a7a35148c4486bb2069a5ead8d421f\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u003ci>Map by Matthew Green/KQED\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riva Duncan, a longtime Forest Service employee who is now spokesperson for the nonprofit advocacy group Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, expressed doubt that agency heads would allow firefighter travel to be delayed but said the confusion was understandable and that direction from the federal government was not clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some wildfire safety projects around the state have been put on hold. Sometimes, the projects, which already take so long that the community the project was meant to protect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/08/16/stalled-us-forest-service-project-could-have-protected-california-town-from-caldor-fire-destruction/\">get burned before it gets completed\u003c/a>, as did the town of Grizzly Flats in the 2021 Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11929377\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smoke-filled view of woods with a fire truck on one side of the road.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Cal Fire truck drives on a smoke-filled Highway 50 between Pollock Pines and Strawberry on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, as the Caldor Fire burns nearby. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Contractors working on a plan to prepare communities for wildfire in Shasta County, as well as a project assessing wildfire hazards in the wildland-urban interface in Plumas County, have been told to stop work until USDA Community Wildfire Defense grants are unfrozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Vizzachero, who was fired from his job as a Los Padres National Forest biologist, was contributing work to wildfire protection plans for Ohai, Santa Barbara, Montecito and Monterey. He’s handed the work to a colleague, who already has a full plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies such as the National Weather Service also assist in fire response. An annual training for incident meteorologists, who interpret how forecasted weather conditions will impact fire and responding crews, was canceled last week with short notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[W]e have no choice but to cancel,” said the email from a director at the NWS, which KQED reviewed, owing to travel and spending restrictions and short staffing. “[We] understand and appreciate that many [incident meteorologists] were still willing to make it work, but we cannot ask them to do that given the risks and impacts to their home offices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some wildfire prevention work is proceeding. Last week, a public-private partnership in the works for months that will bring 400 miles of fire breaks to the area between Oregon and California was announced. It’s funded by the American Relief Act, which passed in December. And several planned prescribed burns have gone forward. KQED spoke to one firefighter from the site of a pile burn in Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955379\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three people in fire fighter's clothing walk through a recently burned patch of forest.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Forest Service firefighters walk through a prescribed burn area along the San Juan Ridge near Nevada City, California, on June 27, 2023, days after the fire to ensure the fire is completely out. The area is heavily forested and borders the Yuba River near historic towns that date to the 1849 California Gold Rush. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a letter dated Feb. 26, Congressional representatives from California and Oregon wrote to Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> expressing concern over the firings and funding freezes, noting the “loss of skilled employees, many of whom possess specialized training in modern wildfire prevention techniques, will have lasting effects on the U.S. Forest Service’s ability to respond to the growing threat of wildfires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is particularly concerning that many of those laid off were probationary employees who were actively involved in these critical projects,” the letter said. “Their departure, along with the broader staff reductions, leaves the agency dangerously understaffed as we head into another fire season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ranks among federal firefighters were thin, even before the recent layoffs. Munsey \u003ca href=\"https://sbcsentinel.com/2024/03/munsey-asks-congress-for-federal-aid-to-fund-firefighting-efforts-in-desert-mountain-areas/\">testified before Congress\u003c/a> in 2024 that he does not feel the Forest Service has been a good public safety partner. Over 80% of land within county boundaries is federally owned, but his department responds to a majority of calls that occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That represents 8,550 calls last year,” Munsey told KQED. “This is taking away from our local government and subsidizing the federal system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, he decided not to sign the annual local mutual aid agreement with the Forest Service. He said he will continue to respond to emergency calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11053456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11053456\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forest Service crews work to cut down hazard trees in Lower Lake, California, on Aug. 16, 2016, following the Clayton fire. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[When we sign], we’re saying we’re going to send you resources to support you on your land and, theoretically, they’re supposed to send us resources to support us on our land. But it’s been very imbalanced,” Munsey said. “Local government has given resources to the federal government at a much higher scale. That costs our local citizens over $14 million of local tax funds to mitigate these emergencies on federal land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 13 of the 25 Forest Service fire stations in the county were not staffed, he said. The Forest Service has lost almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/wildfires-forest-service-firefighters-preparedness-level-five\">half its permanent employees\u003c/a> since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message to [the federal government] is, ‘We’re not going to sign a reciprocal agreement until you staff all your fire stations,’” Munsey said. “When you staff your fire stations, then I’ll sign it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s worried fire response this season will be significantly impacted if some of the lost positions don’t return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, it’s really unbalanced because you won’t staff your positions that are required to keep our community safe,” Munsey said, adding that some representatives have told him they think the positions will return. “I’m hopeful this is just a reset, but it’s really hard to tell where it’s going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of New Bullards Bar Reservoir in the Tahoe National Forest near Camptonville, California, on Aug. 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, federal wildland firefighters have called for improved pay and working conditions. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed in 2021, boosted pay for wildland firefighters by about $20,000 a year, a bump that is still in effect. However, the raise will sunset on March 14 unless Congress extends it. Representatives have also introduced a flurry of legislation designed to fix forests and federal firefighter pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposed bill with bipartisan support is the creation of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/441?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22sheehy%22%7D&s=7&r=2\">single federal wildfire service\u003c/a>. This could be good, said Duncan of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters. But the bill doesn’t have a lot of substance. One thing it does specify is that the director of the service would be a political appointee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly oppose that,” Duncan said. “We don’t think that those kinds of positions should be a political appointee. They should be an experienced fire manager coming from in the ranks, who is being put in the job for their skills and experience, not for their political party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028548 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/ButteCountyFireGetty-1020x663.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Duncan thinks the time is right for a discussion about how things should be done differently. Land management agencies, she points out, are now nearly overwhelmed with fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s become such a huge part of their budgets,” she said. “It was never supposed to be that way. And I believe other resource areas have suffered because of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Monthei, a former hotshot wildland firefighter who is a writer and host of the \u003ca href=\"https://lifewithfirepodcast.com/\">Life with Fire\u003c/a> podcast, has mixed feelings about the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My first instinct is that this is a great idea. Then my secondary instinct is, like, what are they trying to pull?” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monthei wondered if the creation of a new agency was an excuse to corral money for firefighters, who are always politically popular, and then cut money for managing trees, wildlife and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been talk for a long time about either turning over federal lands to states, and there are some states pushing for that because they feel like they can do it better,” Duncan said. “And then there’s also discussion about privatization. Not going to state agencies but to the highest bidder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the chapter about the Department of the Interior in \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-16.pdf\">Project 2025\u003c/a>, a document outlining a far-right vision for remaking the federal government, was William Perry Pendley. He was never confirmed but served as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management during Trump’s first administration. In past statements, he argued that the federal government \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/trumps-pick-for-managing-federal-lands-doesnt-believe-the-government-should-have-any/2019/07/31/0bc1118c-b2cf-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html\">shouldn’t even own land,\u003c/a> and instead, the resources on public land should be available to companies to extract for profit. Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 during the campaign but now is executing a lot of what the document outlined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some people worried that this firing of all these employees in the land management agencies is the first step to then cripple the agencies so they can go, ‘See? They can’t do it. We told you,’” Duncan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunters, anglers and conservation groups oppose public land privatization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Randy Moore, the former Forest Service chief and an employee of the agency for 45 years, announced his resignation. The following day, Tom Shultz was announced as the new chief. At the Idaho Forest Group, Shultz was vice president of resources and government affairs, where he led timber procurement, and he previously served as director of the Idaho Department of Public Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 1, Trump signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-expansion-of-american-timber-production/\">executive order\u003c/a> calling for the “immediate expansion of American timber production.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet policy on federal public lands is currently in chaos. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029178/trumps-mass-layoffs-noaa-cut-into-bay-area-weather-service\">Firings\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">funding freezes\u003c/a>, emails that demand employees list five things they accomplished during the week and high-profile resignations have caused \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027914/wide-us-forest-service-layoffs-leave-safety-projects-delayed-fire-crews-depleted\">upheaval and bewilderment \u003c/a>for the people entrusted to care for public lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current and former federal and state employees told KQED they were concerned about delayed fire safety projects, canceled training for fire responders, slow response times to fires, and depleted ranks of firefighters and firefighting support staff. The trickle-down effects could mean communities are left at a higher fire risk of wildfire while public lands are neglected and ill-managed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we manage large fires, about half the positions are actually suppression,” said Dan Munsey, San Bernardino County’s fire chief, referring to firefighters who directly engage with the fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029490\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandGetty2-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People demonstrate against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other half, he said, are support positions — fire modelers, map makers, logistics. Many positions have been cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you reduce positions in the Forest Service and other federal agencies, it’ll very likely have a direct impact,” Munsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildland firefighters are concerned about travel restrictions announced last week that could mean delays if a serious fire erupted and a call was issued for aid. The emailed guidance, reviewed by KQED, stipulated that even travel related to national security, public safety and immigration enforcement had to be approved by the Department of the Interior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://kqedsf.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=76a7a35148c4486bb2069a5ead8d421f\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-size: 14px\">\u003ci>Map by Matthew Green/KQED\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riva Duncan, a longtime Forest Service employee who is now spokesperson for the nonprofit advocacy group Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, expressed doubt that agency heads would allow firefighter travel to be delayed but said the confusion was understandable and that direction from the federal government was not clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some wildfire safety projects around the state have been put on hold. Sometimes, the projects, which already take so long that the community the project was meant to protect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/08/16/stalled-us-forest-service-project-could-have-protected-california-town-from-caldor-fire-destruction/\">get burned before it gets completed\u003c/a>, as did the town of Grizzly Flats in the 2021 Caldor Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11929377\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A smoke-filled view of woods with a fire truck on one side of the road.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS51299_067_Meyers_CaldorFire_08312021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Cal Fire truck drives on a smoke-filled Highway 50 between Pollock Pines and Strawberry on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, as the Caldor Fire burns nearby. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Contractors working on a plan to prepare communities for wildfire in Shasta County, as well as a project assessing wildfire hazards in the wildland-urban interface in Plumas County, have been told to stop work until USDA Community Wildfire Defense grants are unfrozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Vizzachero, who was fired from his job as a Los Padres National Forest biologist, was contributing work to wildfire protection plans for Ohai, Santa Barbara, Montecito and Monterey. He’s handed the work to a colleague, who already has a full plate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies such as the National Weather Service also assist in fire response. An annual training for incident meteorologists, who interpret how forecasted weather conditions will impact fire and responding crews, was canceled last week with short notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[W]e have no choice but to cancel,” said the email from a director at the NWS, which KQED reviewed, owing to travel and spending restrictions and short staffing. “[We] understand and appreciate that many [incident meteorologists] were still willing to make it work, but we cannot ask them to do that given the risks and impacts to their home offices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some wildfire prevention work is proceeding. Last week, a public-private partnership in the works for months that will bring 400 miles of fire breaks to the area between Oregon and California was announced. It’s funded by the American Relief Act, which passed in December. And several planned prescribed burns have gone forward. KQED spoke to one firefighter from the site of a pile burn in Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955379\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Three people in fire fighter's clothing walk through a recently burned patch of forest.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66691_230627-HousingNevadaCoWildfire-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Forest Service firefighters walk through a prescribed burn area along the San Juan Ridge near Nevada City, California, on June 27, 2023, days after the fire to ensure the fire is completely out. The area is heavily forested and borders the Yuba River near historic towns that date to the 1849 California Gold Rush. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a letter dated Feb. 26, Congressional representatives from California and Oregon wrote to Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> expressing concern over the firings and funding freezes, noting the “loss of skilled employees, many of whom possess specialized training in modern wildfire prevention techniques, will have lasting effects on the U.S. Forest Service’s ability to respond to the growing threat of wildfires.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is particularly concerning that many of those laid off were probationary employees who were actively involved in these critical projects,” the letter said. “Their departure, along with the broader staff reductions, leaves the agency dangerously understaffed as we head into another fire season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ranks among federal firefighters were thin, even before the recent layoffs. Munsey \u003ca href=\"https://sbcsentinel.com/2024/03/munsey-asks-congress-for-federal-aid-to-fund-firefighting-efforts-in-desert-mountain-areas/\">testified before Congress\u003c/a> in 2024 that he does not feel the Forest Service has been a good public safety partner. Over 80% of land within county boundaries is federally owned, but his department responds to a majority of calls that occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That represents 8,550 calls last year,” Munsey told KQED. “This is taking away from our local government and subsidizing the federal system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, he decided not to sign the annual local mutual aid agreement with the Forest Service. He said he will continue to respond to emergency calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11053456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11053456\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20762_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs19-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forest Service crews work to cut down hazard trees in Lower Lake, California, on Aug. 16, 2016, following the Clayton fire. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[When we sign], we’re saying we’re going to send you resources to support you on your land and, theoretically, they’re supposed to send us resources to support us on our land. But it’s been very imbalanced,” Munsey said. “Local government has given resources to the federal government at a much higher scale. That costs our local citizens over $14 million of local tax funds to mitigate these emergencies on federal land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 13 of the 25 Forest Service fire stations in the county were not staffed, he said. The Forest Service has lost almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/wildfires-forest-service-firefighters-preparedness-level-five\">half its permanent employees\u003c/a> since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The message to [the federal government] is, ‘We’re not going to sign a reciprocal agreement until you staff all your fire stations,’” Munsey said. “When you staff your fire stations, then I’ll sign it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s worried fire response this season will be significantly impacted if some of the lost positions don’t return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, it’s really unbalanced because you won’t staff your positions that are required to keep our community safe,” Munsey said, adding that some representatives have told him they think the positions will return. “I’m hopeful this is just a reset, but it’s really hard to tell where it’s going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027921\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027921\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/230815-BlueForestInitiative-24-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of New Bullards Bar Reservoir in the Tahoe National Forest near Camptonville, California, on Aug. 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, federal wildland firefighters have called for improved pay and working conditions. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed in 2021, boosted pay for wildland firefighters by about $20,000 a year, a bump that is still in effect. However, the raise will sunset on March 14 unless Congress extends it. Representatives have also introduced a flurry of legislation designed to fix forests and federal firefighter pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One proposed bill with bipartisan support is the creation of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/441?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22sheehy%22%7D&s=7&r=2\">single federal wildfire service\u003c/a>. This could be good, said Duncan of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters. But the bill doesn’t have a lot of substance. One thing it does specify is that the director of the service would be a political appointee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We strongly oppose that,” Duncan said. “We don’t think that those kinds of positions should be a political appointee. 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It also received a nearly $2.6 million subsidy payment from the Coliseum that wasn’t previously budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12021175 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station No. 25 on Jan. 5, 2025, located on Butters Drive in the East Oakland Hills. It was one of two stations that were scheduled to close until June. In 2023, Fire Station 25 responded to 834 calls. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City Administrator Jestin Johnson said the number of parking tickets given out had risen by about 20% in recent months compared to the same time last year, and annual revenue from the citations is expected to exceed earlier projections by $3.39 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional money from parking enforcement and Coliseum funding was included in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026938/oakland-leaders-propose-plan-reopen-fire-stations-budget-crisis-threatens-more-closures\">$8.75 million proposal\u003c/a> to ward off the firehouse closures by Councilmembers Janani Ramachandran, Zac Unger and Rebecca Kaplan last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their resolution goes before the council on Tuesday. Despite the city’s announcement that it would not close the stations last week, Ramachandran said she still believes it is an important vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because this [announcement from the city] came as a surprise, I am looking for clarity tomorrow and a strong statement that makes clear that they’re keeping these stations open,” she told KQED. “Administrative actions can be rescinded at any time and don’t have to go through the public process in a vote the way that council budget actions do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022659 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Gg4EOtTaMAA2rIR.jpeg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution also uses money from the city’s self-liability and transportation funds to keep the stations from closing — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">reopen two that were browned out\u003c/a> in the first phase of budget cuts in January before the end of the fiscal year. It’s unclear if that funding could be used to reopen the shuttered stations more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said that during the meeting, the council members plan to amend the resolution to add reopening the city’s third shuttered station — Station 10 — which was closed in 2022 for construction and has remained that way since repairs were finished because of funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hoping to vote on $2 million to open these fire stations before the end of the fiscal year,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution doesn’t put a timeline on the reopenings, which Ramachandran said gives Fire Chief Damon Covington more flexibility to open them when it makes the most sense for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is eyeing May as the ideal time when all services could be restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever it takes to get to the ultimate goal of keeping every Oakland fire station open, I’m ready to pursue,” Ramachandran told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city isn’t out of the woods completely. The report also showed that Oakland is still facing a $140 million ongoing structural deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot continue to run an operating deficit forever,” Bradley Johnson said. “Our city’s structural budget issues will continue to carry forward into future years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Johnson said the fiscal situation is “tenuous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to continue to keep our foot on this problem throughout the end of the fiscal year to make sure it remains a resolved problem,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget team said it had reduced about $2.6 million in expenditures by terminating some citywide grants and is counting on about the same amount in savings from contract terminations that are in progress. It also received a nearly $2.6 million subsidy payment from the Coliseum that wasn’t previously budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12021175 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station No. 25 on Jan. 5, 2025, located on Butters Drive in the East Oakland Hills. It was one of two stations that were scheduled to close until June. In 2023, Fire Station 25 responded to 834 calls. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City Administrator Jestin Johnson said the number of parking tickets given out had risen by about 20% in recent months compared to the same time last year, and annual revenue from the citations is expected to exceed earlier projections by $3.39 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional money from parking enforcement and Coliseum funding was included in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026938/oakland-leaders-propose-plan-reopen-fire-stations-budget-crisis-threatens-more-closures\">$8.75 million proposal\u003c/a> to ward off the firehouse closures by Councilmembers Janani Ramachandran, Zac Unger and Rebecca Kaplan last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their resolution goes before the council on Tuesday. Despite the city’s announcement that it would not close the stations last week, Ramachandran said she still believes it is an important vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because this [announcement from the city] came as a surprise, I am looking for clarity tomorrow and a strong statement that makes clear that they’re keeping these stations open,” she told KQED. “Administrative actions can be rescinded at any time and don’t have to go through the public process in a vote the way that council budget actions do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump administration\u003c/a> claimed in court last week that it is not dismantling the sole federal agency tasked with protecting consumers from unfair financial practices, despite ordering its employees to stop working weeks ago and firing more than a hundred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer advocates worry that paralyzing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will leave millions of Americans with little recourse if they face fraud, credit report errors, predatory lending and other financial abuses. The CFPB has halted work on dozens of enforcement actions that sought relief for consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CFPB’s estimated 38 pending federal lawsuits included a filing against Capital One, alleging the bank cheated customers out of $2 billion in interest payments. Last week, the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5311561/cfpb-confirmation-mckernan-lawsuits-capital-one\">dropped cases\u003c/a> against Capital One and four other lenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, it’s like open season on consumers. And apparently, this administration does not care,” said Dalié Jiménez, a former CFPB staffer who now teaches law at UC Irvine. “This completely incentivizes people who want to break the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the CFPB \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-sues-comerica-bank-for-systematically-failing-disabled-and-older-americans/\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against Comerica Bank for “failing 3.4 million Direct Express cardholders, primarily unbanked Americans receiving federal benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency alleged the bank charged illegal ATM fees and mishandled fraud complaints, among other infractions. Millions of seniors and disabled Americans who receive their benefits on Comerica Bank’s prepaid debit cards were unable to access their funds or get timely assistance when trying to report unauthorized transactions, errors in their account or stolen cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029205\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-01.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-01-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-01-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-01-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan oustide her Comerica Bank location in San Leandro on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Joan, an East Oakland resident, a yearslong ordeal to resolve similar issues with Comerica was so taxing that she became rail-thin and lost her hair. Even now, speaking about her experience brings her to tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was hysterical. I was trying to figure out how I’m going to pay for this, pay for that. Where is my money at?” said the former postal service worker who has received disability benefits for more than a decade. “It’s stressful. You get depressed — crying — and you don’t know what to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 3, 2022, the 63-year-old woman couldn’t withdraw her disability benefits from an ATM near her home. The $1,600 she receives monthly from the federal government is her only income. She couldn’t get through to a representative on Comerica’s helpline. She had to borrow money from friends to pay rent and bills.[aside postID=forum_2010101908851 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/02/russelvought-1020x574.jpg']She later learned a person in San Jose had fraudulently taken $1,000 from her account. Comerica declined her fraud claim. KQED is withholding the woman’s full name because she fears becoming a fraud target again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comerica filed a lawsuit against the watchdog agency, arguing it overstepped its authority. Conservatives have long targeted the CFPB, claiming it lacks accountability. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">Project 2025\u003c/a>, a right-wing policy blueprint, called for the CFPB’s \u003ca href=\"https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-27.pdf#page=9\">dissolution\u003c/a>, referring to it as an unconstitutional and damaging agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Vought, a Project 2025 co-author who was installed as the agency’s acting director on Feb. 7, ordered the bureau’s 1,700 full-time employees to cease investigations, litigation, enforcement actions, rulemaking and other work and closed the CFPB’s headquarters and regional offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents agency staffers, estimates 300 probationary and term employees were fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, we’ve been told that the work we do every day to protect American consumers — no, we’re not allowed to do that,” said Solange Hilfinger-Pardo, a CFPB enforcement attorney in San Francisco for four years and an NTEU chapter 335 member. “And, of course, if we’re not there to do the work, then all of these cases just go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029220 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-05.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-05-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-05-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-05-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-05-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-05-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joan outside her home in Oakland on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Congress created the CFPB in response to the 2008 financial crisis to stop the kind of predatory lending practices that fueled the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Since it began operating in 2010, the bureau has recovered \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/the-bureau/\">more than $21 billion\u003c/a> for Americans, including monetary compensation and canceled debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has collected an additional $5 billion in civil penalties to reimburse consumers after businesses that broke the law went bankrupt, closed down or didn’t have enough funds for restitution. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/enforcement/payments-harmed-consumers/civil-penalty-fund/\">$270 million\u003c/a> was distributed to California residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily halted the administration from mass firing more agency employees, deleting CFPB records and defunding the agency after the NTEU and others sued. In court documents filed Feb. 24, the Trump administration said it intends to keep the agency operating, but on a “substantially more streamlined form.” A hearing in the case was set for today.[aside postID=news_12029178 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/NOAAGetty-1020x680.jpg']In its lawsuit against Comerica, the CFPB alleged the bank had subjected benefits recipients to excessive phone wait times, sometimes for hours, and dropped nearly 25 million customer-service calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2008 until last year, Comerica had an exclusive contract for the Direct Express program. The bank, a subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated, reported total assets of about $84 billion in 2022 and deposits of more than $71 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to vigorously defend our record as the financial agent for the Direct Express program and remain committed to serving our cardholders,” Nicole Idzi Hogan, a Comerica spokesperson, said in a statement, adding that the bank has worked hard to address issues in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout the CFPB’s investigation, we have cooperated by sharing information and data to illustrate the unique nature of this program and the fact that we operate with the oversight of the Fiscal Service,” she continued. “Despite our good faith efforts to provide this critical context, the CFPB has consistently ignored our arguments and documentation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the Bank of New York Mellon Corporation was selected as the new Direct Express manager. Comerica signed a three-year contract extension to transition the services to BNY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029206 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-02.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250227-ABUSED-BANK-CUSTOMERS-MD-02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In December, the CFPB filed a lawsuit against Comerica Bank, alleging it failed 3.4 million Direct Express cardholders — primarily unbanked Americans relying on federal benefits. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joan said she tried for months to get Comerica to reimburse her. She was the fourth federal benefit recipient to seek help from the East Bay Community Law Center, according to Desiree Nguyen Orth, who directs the consumer justice unit at the Berkeley nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen Orth was one of the lawyers who assisted her in filing a complaint with the CFPB, reaching a settlement last month after suing the bank. Nguyen Orth is concerned for consumers that small nonprofits like hers won’t be able to reach because they lack the kinds of resources, subpoena power and authority of the CFPB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just cannot compete with banks who can afford to hire white-shoe law firms that have an endless supply of lawyers,” said Nguyen Orth, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Law School. “There are millions of people who need this kind of help, and we are so far under-resourced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why the agency exists. This is why they are a watchdog. They are the resource that we pay for as taxpayers to hold companies accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California consumers can file complaints about financial products and services to local district attorneys’ offices, the Attorney General’s office and the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in general, national banks are primarily under the purview of federal regulators, though the state of California can pursue legal action in certain circumstances, Mark Leyes, a spokesperson with the DFPI, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has some of the most robust financial protections for consumers in the country. The Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) is steadfast in its commitment to serve California communities using its broad authorities, regardless of potential changes in federal policy,” Leyes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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She told KQED she’s not at liberty to talk about the roughly 20 cases so far where a judge has reached a decision. “I can tell you I’m feeling very good about our case. Very good,” said Liss-Riordan. X did not respond to KQED with a comment in time for this report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liss-Riordan suggested the early wins for the four Twitter workers could presage what’s ahead for federal workers who fight back against Musk’s efforts to cut costs with mass firings and pressure tactics to prompt resignations. “The similarities are just uncanny,” she said, adding, “There are a lot more protections for federal workers than there are for private employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965845\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/AP23299774246124-e1740789537911.jpg\" alt=\"A brightly lit letter X is seen above a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers install lighting on an ‘X’ sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in San Francisco, on July 28, 2023. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott’s nomination, which must be confirmed by the Board of Supervisors, comes days after the board approved Lurie’s motion to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028306/sf-activists-rally-against-luries-push-remove-outspoken-police-commissioner\">remove progressive attorney Max Carter-Oberstone\u003c/a> from the Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mayor London Breed initially appointed Carter-Oberstone, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025784/lurie-aims-oust-sf-police-commissioner-pushed-reforms-clashed-breed\">their collegiality fizzled\u003c/a> after the commissioner revealed Breed’s practice of asking commissioners to sign undated resignation letters in order to take the job. Lurie said his decision to remove Carter-Oberstone was an effort to fill the seat with someone who “will collaborate and communicate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone listens to speakers at a rally protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The board voted 9–2 to remove Carter-Oberstone, with Supervisors Myrna Melgar and Jackie Fielder opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter-Oberstone “has shown tremendous courage in his service on the SF Police Commission,” Fielder, who represents the Mission District, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JackieFielder_/status/1894581432724722020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1894581432724722020%7Ctwgr%5Efc18a3fa297c266941a74b1a8919652963880fae%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvu.com%2Fnews%2Fsan-francisco-board-supervisors-vote-remove-police-commissioner-from-his-post\">posted on social media platform X\u003c/a>. “He is a whistleblower who revealed unethical practices of the last administration, earning him a national award.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His likely replacement, Scott, is a well-known resident of the Fillmore, where, in addition to anti-gun violence work, she has also stepped into the fight for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961026/thousands-sf-homes-destroyed-decades-ago-rebuilt-under-new-bill\">teamed up with Sen. Scott Wiener\u003c/a> on state legislation aimed at remedying social and economic harms during urban renewal projects in the 1960s and 1970s that bulldozed thousands of homes primarily owned by Black, Japanese and Filipino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott founded and leads Healing 4 Our Families & Our Nation, which supports victims of violence, and is the president of the San Francisco chapter of Mothers In Charge, another violence prevention organization. She has served on multiple city boards, including the Chief of Police African American Police Advisory Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike Carter-Oberstone, who studied police reform, Scott’s background lacks as much direct experience working on government and police issues beyond the scope of gun control. Police commissioners have a range of police oversight duties, including reviewing contracts, disciplinary actions and monitoring data gathered from SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mattie will bring invaluable experience, deep compassion and a commitment to our communities. Her voice on the Police Commission will help us strengthen public safety and build trust across our city,” Lurie said on Friday. “I’m optimistic that Mattie will receive the same overwhelming support that Wilson [Leung] did as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The three employees were relatively new to their jobs and received emails notifying them of their termination before their supervisors were aware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were given until 5 p.m. Thursday before being locked out of their emails and accounts, according to Dalton Behringer, the Bay Area office’s union steward for the National Weather Service Employees Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, around 800 probationary employees at NOAA were reportedly fired. The agency, which employs around 12,000 people, includes federal meteorologists who provide daily forecasts, issue \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022118/particularly-dangerous-situation-red-flag-warning-and-other-wildfire-terms-explained\">red flag warnings\u003c/a> for high fire danger, alert residents to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026803/one-of-the-years-strongest-storms-is-about-to-hit-the-bay-area\">critical storm and weather threats\u003c/a>, and collect data on water, climate and river levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is very clearly not what you want to do if you want to remove the fat,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources and UCLA. “This is what you would do if you want to purposefully kneecap a well-functioning public agency. It’s really impossible at this point to see it as anything other than that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain said the cuts would exacerbate staffing shortages and strain the weather service’s ability to provide critical information to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029016 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/005_KQED_StanfordGradUnion_05302023_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may mean that meteorologists are put in a really difficult position, where they’re trying their best, and they’re still not able to keep up,” he said. “They may still miss things. And that, first of all, will be a personally terrible feeling for those meteorologists who might miss a severe weather event, a tornado on the radar screen, or a flash flood warning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area NWS office, which serves more than 8 million residents across 11 counties in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay regions, was already down one meteorologist, Behringer said. It will now operate with a staff of 22, with 20% of the remaining employees eligible for retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behringer, a meteorologist for the Bay Area office, spoke to KQED after hours in his union capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work of the fired employees “is going to get spread to those of us who are already overworked, and we’re understaffed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weather service offices from Eureka to Los Angeles may also have lost staff, Behringer said, but he could not confirm it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11647575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11647575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/DK_Snow_Survey_8309_02_01_2018-e1517527035156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warning Coordination Meteorologists with the National Weather Service and the General Forecaster National Weather Service help California’s chief of the Cooperative Snow Surveys Program with the second snow survey of the 2018 snow season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada. \u003ccite>(Dale Kolke/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The full impact of the layoffs will not be known for weeks. Behringer said weather service products such as those offered to schools and in multiple languages could disappear, and community engagement might be scaled back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some offices could be asked to expand their forecast areas to fill in gaps. The additional workload and loss of expertise could slow the dissemination of critical weather data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A big part of our work is aligned with emergency management so that we can work eye to eye with them,” Behringer said. “With reduced staffing levels, that hinders our ability to not only do outreach but also limits our ability to get in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If suddenly our office has to start covering areas we’re not as familiar with weather-wise, we could definitely see a degradation in our service,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layoff emails stated that the employees were “not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and/or skills do not fit the agency’s current needs,” Behringer said.[aside postID=news_12028300 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/PresidioSFGetty-1020x693.jpg']The cuts come after Howard Lutnick was sworn in as secretary of the Commerce Department, which oversees NOAA, last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jared Huffman, a Democrat who represents communities from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border, called the firings a “betrayal of the American people, and it will not stand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were looking for a point at which this crazy DOGE exercise really backfired into people’s lives, I think you’ve found it with NOAA and with many of these cuts,” said Huffman, the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took aim at the Department of Government Efficiency, the newly formed entity behind the Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029015/us-judge-in-san-francisco-will-hear-union-request-to-halt-trump-mass-firings\">slashing of the federal workforce\u003c/a>, which is overseen by billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tech bros at DOGE just have no concept of any of this,” said Huffman. “These layoffs will absolutely translate into direct impacts to people’s lives, to our economy, and to our way of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is particularly worried about how the loss of a meteorologist could affect local forecasting, especially during fire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to head into fire season, for example, without the data and the science that we need to be safe,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Maximus Simmons cast his ballot in November, he could only fill it out for one election — his Oakland school board representative — because he was among the first 16- and 17-year-olds \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012537/young-people-in-oakland-and-berkeley-are-casting-ballots-for-the-first-time-heres-what-it-looks-like\">allowed to vote in Oakland and Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay cities allowed teens to vote in school board elections for the first time last year, following years of youth advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Filling out the ballot is easy once you get it, but actually making sure to go and turn in your ballot, even I struggled with that a little bit,” said Simmons, who also serves as student director on the Oakland school board. “It was a matter of making time to drop it off and also figuring out how to drop it off because a lot of kids are on their parents’ schedule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons said the experience empowered him and his peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How was youth voter turnout?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly 1,500 youth voters were registered by Election Day in Berkeley and Oakland, with about a third casting ballots. The numbers are low compared to turnout among adults who voted in the same school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cities run their school board elections differently. In Oakland, residents select candidates based on the district they live in and only half of the districts are up for an election at any given time. In Berkeley’s at-large system, the candidates with the most votes overall are elected to available seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youth turnout in Oakland & Berkeley 2024 school board elections\" aria-label=\"Donut Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MJZF4\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MJZF4/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just under 600 young people exercised their right to vote in school board races. Those who did cast ballots had similar vote splits to the general population — except for one race in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District 5, which includes the diverse Fruitvale and Jingletown neighborhoods with a large Spanish-speaking population, saw different voting patterns. While adults elected Patrice Berry, youth voters preferred Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez. Both candidates advocated for diversity and equity efforts in the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the results in District 5 weren’t close enough to be affected by the youth vote, it was by far the tightest race: Just 885 votes separated Berry from Ritzie-Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lessons from 2024\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The historic youth vote was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002068/in-oakland-and-berkeley-16-and-17-year-olds-can-now-vote-for-school-board\">years in the making\u003c/a>. Berkeley passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921973/berkeley-and-oakland-passed-measures-to-let-16-and-17-year-olds-participate-in-school-board-elections-so-why-cant-they-vote-yet\">Measure Y1\u003c/a> in 2016, amending the city charter to allow teens to vote in school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, students formed the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition to attempt the same thing with help from the nonprofit Oakland Kids First, led by executive director Lukas Brekke-Miesner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lukas Brekke-Miesner, executive director of Oakland Kids First, at Willard Park in Berkeley, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. He helped launch youth voting in Oakland back in 2019. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It took another four years after Oakland’s 2020 measure for teens in both cities to vote, meaning most of the original student advocates had aged out of the youth voting category altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always hard to know if something’s high or low when it’s the first time,” Brekke-Miesner said. “Generally, our feeling is overwhelmingly positive in the sense that every young person who voted was a young person who has never been able to vote before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029001 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logistical issues with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters delayed the implementation of youth voting, Brekke-Miesner said. He didn’t learn until August 2024 that the systems were ready for the upcoming election, a timeline that significantly impacted turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth voters also do not appear on voter rolls because they are minors, Brekke-Miesner said, which meant that there was no way to track registration or follow up with potential voters ahead of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything about our ability to register voters, mobilize voters, educate voters, et cetera, was all condensed to a September, October timeline,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the work, he noted, was led by teens and teachers. At Oakland High School, Simmons said civics teachers would set aside class time to educate students about how to register and fill out a ballot, with a curriculum from the League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville — a critical step to foster civic engagement early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029006 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximus Simmons, of Oakland, is a student director at Oakland Unified and was a first-time youth voter in the 2024 election. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Society is set up for young people to not care about voting,” said Simmons, a junior. “We don’t learn about it in school. We don’t learn about who our political party should be, what each political party means. We’re not taught why voting is important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in Oakland hosted candidate forums at several high schools, which they have done for the past few elections they couldn’t even vote in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Berkeley High School, Zamahra Winta Clark went from classroom to classroom with a curriculum developed by a school librarian to educate her peers about the registration process. Clark is also a student director on Berkeley’s school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If students were able to vote in the mayoral election, I feel like it would be a way higher percentage of voter turnout for students,” Clark, a senior, said. “The majority of them were confused on not only how the process works, but how this affects them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons added that the novelty of youth voting could play a role in limiting turnout since students aren’t familiar with the process yet. Simmons said he expects turnout to increase as it has in the few other cities in the U.S. that allow youth voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nationwide momentum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside of the Bay Area, cities on the East Coast states of Vermont, Maryland and New Jersey allow youth voting in local elections. More than a dozen states have active campaigns supported by Vote16USA, a national organization that provides resources to local youth vote advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see in places where we’ve lowered the voting age, 16- and 17-year-olds are voting at a much higher rate than those that are 18 and older,” said LaJuan Allen, the director of Vote16USA. “And not only that, but the voting turnout for folks that are 18 and older continued to increase every election cycle that 16- and 17-year-olds were able to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Takoma Park, Maryland, was the first municipality to expand youth voting in 2013. Only 59 young people cast ballots, marking turnout at 44%. By 2020, turnout had risen to 69%, surpassing the general population rate of 54%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen said he expects a similar pattern in the Bay Area, especially as more cities in the region expand the right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Albany is next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The latest Bay Area city to expand youth voting rights is in neighboring Albany — and it goes a step further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vote16USA helped launch Albany’s youth voting ballot measure last year, which voters passed in November. The measure allows young people to cast ballots in school board races and municipal elections — the broadest expansion of youth voting rights on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029005 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lukas Brekke-Miesner, left, of Oakland, is the executive director of Oakland Kids First, which helped launch youth voting in Oakland back in 2019. Maximus Simmons, of Oakland, is a student director at Oakland Unified and was a first-time youth voter in the 2024 election. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alex Li, a freshman at Georgetown University, was a key organizer in the city’s campaign while attending Albany High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is traditional, and I guess more politically intuitive, to go just for school board because there’s that direct connection,” Li said. “But at the same time, it’s not as if we’re not citizens of the city, and we’re not impacted by what happens in the policymaking through ballot measures or the city council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s unclear how quickly Albany can implement youth voting, Li said Berkeley and Oakland cut through much of the bureaucratic red tape at the registrar’s office. Brennen Brown, Albany’s public information officer, said the city is coordinating with the county to get that done before the next election.[aside postID=news_12012537 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']More Bay Area cities are expected to follow. Students at the Alameda Science and Technology Institute are putting together a campaign with the help of Vote16USA and the League of Women Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all Bay Area cities are embracing a lower voting age. A San Francisco measure to allow 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in city elections was rejected by voters in 2016 and 2020 — both times, the margin of defeat was slim. Youth advocates began launching a third attempt in April, but nothing tangible came of that effort by the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates believe national politics could also play a role in expanding a lowered voting age. President Donald Trump’s second term is motivating many teens who feel democracy itself is at risk, according to Allen. He also noted that youth frustration with national politics is pushing many to look toward their own communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people are very excited about what their impact could be on the local level as it relates to a more inclusive democracy,” Allen said. “But I think I would be remiss if I didn’t say that young people are disappointed and are thinking about what the next four years are going to look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only for them,” he added. “But for their communities and the people that they love and care about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logistical issues with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters delayed the implementation of youth voting, Brekke-Miesner said. He didn’t learn until August 2024 that the systems were ready for the upcoming election, a timeline that significantly impacted turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth voters also do not appear on voter rolls because they are minors, Brekke-Miesner said, which meant that there was no way to track registration or follow up with potential voters ahead of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything about our ability to register voters, mobilize voters, educate voters, et cetera, was all condensed to a September, October timeline,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the work, he noted, was led by teens and teachers. 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Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Society is set up for young people to not care about voting,” said Simmons, a junior. “We don’t learn about it in school. We don’t learn about who our political party should be, what each political party means. We’re not taught why voting is important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in Oakland hosted candidate forums at several high schools, which they have done for the past few elections they couldn’t even vote in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Berkeley High School, Zamahra Winta Clark went from classroom to classroom with a curriculum developed by a school librarian to educate her peers about the registration process. Clark is also a student director on Berkeley’s school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If students were able to vote in the mayoral election, I feel like it would be a way higher percentage of voter turnout for students,” Clark, a senior, said. “The majority of them were confused on not only how the process works, but how this affects them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons added that the novelty of youth voting could play a role in limiting turnout since students aren’t familiar with the process yet. Simmons said he expects turnout to increase as it has in the few other cities in the U.S. that allow youth voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nationwide momentum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside of the Bay Area, cities on the East Coast states of Vermont, Maryland and New Jersey allow youth voting in local elections. More than a dozen states have active campaigns supported by Vote16USA, a national organization that provides resources to local youth vote advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see in places where we’ve lowered the voting age, 16- and 17-year-olds are voting at a much higher rate than those that are 18 and older,” said LaJuan Allen, the director of Vote16USA. “And not only that, but the voting turnout for folks that are 18 and older continued to increase every election cycle that 16- and 17-year-olds were able to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Takoma Park, Maryland, was the first municipality to expand youth voting in 2013. Only 59 young people cast ballots, marking turnout at 44%. By 2020, turnout had risen to 69%, surpassing the general population rate of 54%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen said he expects a similar pattern in the Bay Area, especially as more cities in the region expand the right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Albany is next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The latest Bay Area city to expand youth voting rights is in neighboring Albany — and it goes a step further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vote16USA helped launch Albany’s youth voting ballot measure last year, which voters passed in November. The measure allows young people to cast ballots in school board races and municipal elections — the broadest expansion of youth voting rights on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029005 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lukas Brekke-Miesner, left, of Oakland, is the executive director of Oakland Kids First, which helped launch youth voting in Oakland back in 2019. Maximus Simmons, of Oakland, is a student director at Oakland Unified and was a first-time youth voter in the 2024 election. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alex Li, a freshman at Georgetown University, was a key organizer in the city’s campaign while attending Albany High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is traditional, and I guess more politically intuitive, to go just for school board because there’s that direct connection,” Li said. “But at the same time, it’s not as if we’re not citizens of the city, and we’re not impacted by what happens in the policymaking through ballot measures or the city council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s unclear how quickly Albany can implement youth voting, Li said Berkeley and Oakland cut through much of the bureaucratic red tape at the registrar’s office. 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