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They reached it \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/california-extends-eviction-moratorium-through-june/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just days before the deadline\u003c/a>, providing six more months of a ban on eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with two months left before that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB91\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extension itself expires on June 30\u003c/a>, there is no proposed legislation on giving renters more time before the moratorium ends, and lawmakers expressed uncertainty that there would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It remains to be seen if there’s appetite in Sacramento to extend the protections past June 30,” said David Chiu, a San Francisco Democrat who wrote the original eviction moratorium legislation. “But I don’t think any of my colleagues have an interest in seeing a wave of mass evictions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a group of local-level elected officials, renters and tenant advocates called for an extension of the moratorium, either through legislative action or executive fiat, and a change to the elements of the law that still allow landlords to evict tenants for reasons other than failing to pay their rent. 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Someone who has been working hand in glove on many of the issues that are front and center and are certainly topical today,” Newsom said. “And I appreciate Rob bringing up the most salient and most obvious point around the issue of API hate in this state, in our region, in this city, our nation, for that matter, globally. And I think from his unique life and lived experience, we have someone that doesn’t need to be educated on these things, that truly will be a potent, powerful figure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘This is someone ready to hit the ground running. Someone who has been working hand in glove on many of the issues that are front and center and are certainly topical today.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta has represented the 18th Assembly District, which includes areas of Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro, since 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If confirmed by the state Legislature, as is widely expected, Bonta will serve out the remainder of Becerra’s four-year term, which ends in 2022. As such, he would presumably run next year for a full term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta has authored several criminal justice reform bills, including ones that ban the use of private prisons, mandate independent reviews by the state Department of Justice of officer-involved shootings and eliminate cash bail. All three of those were signed into law, but Senate Bill 10 — the bail measure — never took effect and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11845036/voters-reject-proposition-25-preserving-cash-bail-in-california\">overturned by voters\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assemblymember has also earned broad support from leaders in California’s criminal justice community, including Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza and Lenore Anderson, chief executive and president of Alliance for Safety and Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rob has been a champion in the Legislature for safety and justice reform, and he has been a steadfast and forward-thinking partner for the reform movement,” Anderson said in a statement before Bonta was named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Civil rights advocate Tim Silard, president of the Rosenberg Foundation, called Bonta a leader in the fight to reform California’s criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve worked closely with him and have seen up close his resolve and determination to create a more just world,” Silard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked by a reporter on Wednesday how he plans to charge serious repeat offenders, including those convicted of hate crimes, Bonta doubled down on his commitment to criminal justice reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My values don’t change when it comes to specific application to a certain type of crime,” he said. “We have enough enhancements, enough criminalization, enough mass incarceration, enough over-sentencing, more than we need. We need prevention. We need healing. Rather than retributive justice, we need restorative justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta was born in Quezon City, Philippines, in 1972 and came to California with his parents when he was just 2 months old, after Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law. In California, his mother worked for the United Farm Workers union, helping to organize Filipino farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta graduated from Yale Law School in 1998 and served as San Francisco deputy city attorney from 2003 to 2012, until he was elected to the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement announcing the appointment, Bonta said he became a lawyer because he saw it “as the best way to make a positive difference for the most people.” He pledged to “work tirelessly every day to ensure that every Californian who has been wronged can find justice and that every person is treated fairly under the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he has won his recent elections overwhelmingly, Bonta is known as a prolific fundraiser, finishing 2020 with \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1434826&session=2019\">$2.4 million in the bank\u003c/a>, money that can now be used for his 2022 campaign for attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s attorney general is sometimes referred to as “the state’s top cop,” managing the Department of Justice, with broad jurisdiction and power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866327\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-14.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11866327\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/Image-from-iOS-14.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. 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It also provides legal counsel to state government boards, commissions and agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"rob-bonta\"]With a possible recall of Newsom on the electoral horizon, it’s notable that the attorney general’s office also writes ballot titles and summaries for statewide ballot measures and can offer legal opinions on election-related issues. While the office is supposed to be nonpartisan, its actions often reflect the political party of its chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the state’s top law enforcement official, the attorney general generally maintains good working relationships with county district attorneys, sheriffs and police departments. This can lead to friction, criticism or disappointment from criminal justice advocates when the AG does not go as far as they would like in pushing for reform on hot-button issues such as police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra was roundly criticized by media organizations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798901/state-attorney-general-must-disclose-police-misconduct-files-on-local-cops-appeals-court-rules\">including KQED\u003c/a>, for withholding thousands of records on police misconduct and shootings made public by a landmark transparency law, SB 1421. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Jan. 13, 2020, Tony and Terry Lopez’s world came crashing down around them: Their 20-year-old son, whom they called Lil Tony, had been shot in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He died the next day. A year later, his family said the loss remains unbearable. The motive for the killing remains unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was such a beautiful soul. He had a great personality. Everybody was drawn to him,” said Terry Lopez. “He liked to make people laugh. He was goofy. You know, we’re a goofy family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nina Salarno Besselman, executive director of Crime Victims United\"]‘I think when somebody’s been a victim of a crime, they do want to see justice done.’[/pullquote]Ten months later, two brothers were arrested by Los Angeles officials. Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles County’s tough-on-crime district attorney at the time, charged one of the brothers, the 16-year-old alleged shooter, in adult court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lopezes believed he could face decades in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, at the end of the year, a new district attorney, George Gascón, was sworn in. He’d campaigned on a reform agenda, promising to decrease incarceration, and once in office immediately moved to limit the harsh sentencing practices of his predecessor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he got sworn in, they automatically put a halt to any juveniles being transferred to adult court,” said Tony Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That change — keeping the alleged shooter in juvenile court — means that even if the teen is convicted, he’ll face a much shorter sentence. Under state law, people charged with crimes in juvenile court can only serve until their 25th birthday, and can also qualify before that for early release. The idea is that young people’s brains are still developing and they should be given a chance at reform rather than locked up for life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Lopez said the family was devastated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine committing murder, even if you get the max time, which is to the age 25, which is nine years, but to be let out from three to five years is like totally a slap in our face,” he said, noting that he understands the concept of rehabilitation, but not when someone’s life is lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is the justice for Lil Tony, you know, where’s the justice for the next Lil Tony?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lopez family feels burned by Gascón’s new policies, but the truth is, this debate spans far beyond Los Angeles. California has been moving to restrict long prison sentences for the past decade, and recent law changes have taken particular aim at limiting juvenile punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]The changes have sparked debates about what victims want and need — and who should represent them. Do they want the government to focus on punishment? Or should the focus be crime prevention, rehabilitation and support services for survivors of crime?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who have traditionally advocated for crime victims in California believe Gascón and others are forgetting about the central role of the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think when somebody’s been a victim of a crime, they do want to see justice done,” said Nina Salarno Besselman, a prosecutor and executive director of the three-decades old Crime Victims United, and also a survivor of violent crime — her sister was murdered in 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salarno Besselman’s group has historically been aligned with law enforcement, and helped push many of the state’s tough-on-crime laws, including the harsher sentences for juvenile offenders that are now being rethought by prosecutors like Gascón and a host of state lawmakers and voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an accountability and a justice component that seems to be getting forgotten these days,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"criminal-justice\"]For a long time, Salarno Besselman and her group were among the loudest voices advocating for survivors of crime. But in recent years, other groups have emerged with a different approach focused less on prison sentences and more on crime prevention, rehabilitation and support services for crime survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tinisch Hollins is executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice, a pro-reform advocacy group that has built out a national network of more than 10,000 crime survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins is herself a survivor: Two of her brothers were killed by gun violence over the past decade in the largely Black San Francisco neighborhood they grew up in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a community where the majority of us are not recognized as crime victims at all, or survivors at all,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins, who is a strong supporter of the kind of criminal justice reforms that leaders like Gascón are pushing for, noted that most victims don’t get any chance to demand accountability: No arrests have been made in the majority of violent crimes — including both of her brothers’ murders — over the last decade, according to state crime data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I think it’s critical for us to have a voice in this conversation. Black and brown communities and disadvantaged communities experience the bulk of trauma and crime and violence. And they’re the least resourced. We’re the least resourced, the least responded to,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins said local governments have historically responded to crime and violence in those communities with more policing, which leads to more people being caught up in the criminal justice system. A \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/wp-content/uploads/February-2021-LA-Survivor-Poll.pdf\">recent survey\u003c/a> her group commissioned in Los Angeles County of more than 700 survivors of violent crime showed that most support changes to the justice system, with greater focus on rehabilitating offenders and preventing future crime, and less on simply punishing people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what survivors really want, Hollins said, is help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll found that most survivors don’t get the support they need after experiencing a violent crime, whether that be help navigating the justice system, financial assistance to help with medical costs, property damage or lost income, or broader help like mental health counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I go back to my moment of losing my brothers. And, you know what we needed most for that moment? What we needed were people that were compassionate. We needed people that could give us the insight and understanding of how the system works or doesn’t work,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollins believes the poll findings show that the victims’ rights conversation has been co-opted by law enforcement and more privileged Californians who don’t suffer from either the bulk of victimization or the consequences of having community members locked up in prison.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tinisch Hollins, executive director of Californians for Safety and Justice\"]‘Black and brown communities and disadvantaged communities experience the bulk of trauma and crime and violence. And they’re the least resourced.’[/pullquote]“A lot of the traditional victims’ advocates have outright said that people of color, people from our communities and those who have intersections with the criminal justice system, whether they have friends or family members who have had contact, that they don’t deserve to identify themselves as crime survivors or crime victims,” Hollins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Los Angeles, critics of Gascón say that the sudden shift in policies there are leaving all mourning families in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired L.A. prosecutor Kathy Cady is one of a dozen or so former deputy DAs who have been volunteering to represent families — including the Lopez’s — in court when Gascón’s office moves to reduce criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said those on the other side of this debate are right to advocate for more victims’ services, but that shouldn’t be a substitute for appropriate consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what victims want is they want to make sure that people are held accountable. 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