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This is absurd to the highest levels.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, the Department of the Interior denied the framing of \u003cem>NOTUS\u003c/em>’ report.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This story relies on anonymous allegations to manufacture a political narrative that simply is not true,” the department wrote. “There has been no political pressure to reach a predetermined outcome, and claims suggesting the Department is secretly working to hand over National Park Service land to a private developer are false.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The department went on to say that “any land exchange or access proposal involving National Park Service lands would be subject to all applicable federal laws, regulations and Departmental policies, including required environmental review and public notification processes,” and that if a proposal for the easement advances, the department will follow all federal law. “Anonymous speculation does not change those facts.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“No final decisions have been made,” the department said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In his email to KQED, Davis said the proposal was “consistent” with his “pro-environment and progressive values and life history.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Without a direct access route, every trip from the Hazel Green area requires a significantly longer drive — twice as long, at a minimum — on unpaved forest roads and thus more air pollution,” he wrote. “The new access road would be safer for drivers and generate substantially less vehicle emissions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advocates worry proposal could set a dangerous precedent\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Former Yosemite Superintendent Don Neubacher called this latest attempt to carve a private road through the park “ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s another nightmare for the National Park Service and Yosemite specifically,” Neubacher told KQED. Under his leadership, he said, “We said we didn’t have the authority, and we thought it would be illegal to give it an easement. Now all of a sudden the Trump administration is really pushing this.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neubacher pushed back against the DOI’s characterization of the deal.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074148\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DonaldTrumpTariffsAP-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Pope Army Airfield, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, en route to Palm Beach, Florida. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“As far as I can tell, that story is 100% accurate,” he said. “And they’re covering up their actions on this. They were hoping, I think, that it would just slide through in a sort of a secret way.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neubacher said that in 2012, during his tenure at Yosemite, his office did a legal review of this very land exchange and concluded the Park Service didn’t have the authority to go through with it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There was no legal right for this developer to have access into the Yosemite National Park,” he said. “The only thing that’s changed is you have a new administration that just seems to be pro-development.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Mark Rose, senior Sierra Nevada program manager for National Parks Conservation Association, called the move “an attack on the American people that own this national park,” in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle America’s conservation legacy are now taking aim at Yosemite with this secretive, backroom deal that would turn over Park Service land to a private developer,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Neubacher said he believes it would take an act of Congress to go through with the exchange — or it’s likely to fail in court again. Earlier this year, Congress was informed that the Park Service was considering the land exchange, but declined to include the project on a list they endorsed for a federal funding pot, \u003ca href=\"https://www.notus.org/agencies/trump-administration-yosemite-private-developer-deal\">\u003cem>NOTUS \u003c/em>reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“When you do a land exchange, you have to demonstrate it’s in the best interests of the government,” Neubacher said. “I don’t see how anybody can claim that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Yosemite NPS employees union released a statement on Friday criticizing the proposed deal.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“As stewards of Yosemite, the ceding of public lands for private interests is antithetical to what we stand for as employees of the National Park Service,” representatives of the National Federation of Federal Employees Local 465 wrote. “We are dismayed that the administration is choosing to prioritize this deal while dismissing and further exacerbating the issues that negatively impact NPS employees at Yosemite.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1298\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12058519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty-1536x997.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Visitors look up at El Capitan from El Capitan Meadow in Yosemite National Park, California, on May 20, 2025. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jesse Chakrin, director of the philanthropic group, Fund for People in Parks, said he was surprised to hear the particular area, along the drive from Hodgdon Meadow toward Crane Flat, would potentially be up for sale.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s a beloved area,” he said. “It is a beautiful spot that has the best dogwood in the park, probably. It has amazing and wonderful flowers in the spring and fall colors in the fall.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But his biggest shock, Chakrin said, is what the Trump administration’s approach to the deal could mean for the future of parks. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“What it indicates to me is that there is no boundary on what they are considering as far as maximizing the benefit to a small number of very wealthy individuals,” he said. “And that’s not what National Parks are for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies backing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101914179/bay-area-communities-resist-data-center-boom\">data center construction\u003c/a> are flooding Sacramento with cash, hoping to stop or defang seven bills that would regulate the facilities as they head toward approval in the California Legislature this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pro-data-center spenders include Big Tech companies like Amazon and AI titan Anthropic. But they are led, dollar-wise, by old school utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric, which earlier this year clocked its second biggest lobbying quarter since 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The financial push comes a year after four bills that attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/09/data-centers-california-electricity-rates/\">regulate data centers\u003c/a> died or were diluted after lobbying from the industry. But as artificial intelligence fuels an unprecedented facility buildout, public backlash is transforming data center construction into a major issue for candidates in upcoming elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx\">May Gallup poll\u003c/a> found seven in 10 Americans oppose data center construction in their communities, while a Public Policy Institute of California poll in July found \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/data-center-ppic-survey/\">similar opposition statewide.\u003c/a> Rising public anxiety over utility costs, water use, and grid strain has driven California lawmakers to propose strict new data center rules — igniting a high-stakes lobbying push by the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of cities have considered or passed project bans this year, including in Monterey Park, where voters passed a ballot measure to permanently ban data centers, and Bay Area cities like Pittsburg, which backtracked on approvals following public outcry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs of protest pepper front yards in a nearby residential neighborhood in Monterey Park, California, on April 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State law requires businesses and groups that engage in lobbying to report their overall quarterly spending, but does not require a breakdown of exactly how much is being spent on each bill. An analysis by CalMatters of lobbying activity for the first six months of 2026 found that utilities, tech companies and their proxies have spent millions of dollars lobbying state lawmakers, with data center bills emerging as a primary focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Monday, it will be clear which bills made it out of the Legislature and onto Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for signature or veto by the end of September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of the measures could have far-reaching consequences, affecting not only data center development but environmental regulation, utility rates, and how freely California’s tech giants can operate in the state. Nationally, advocates and lawmakers agree that California’s regulation around data centers could be an important bellwether for how similar fights will play out elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The level of awareness is through the roof, and the level of concern and sensitivity is through the roof — it’s bipartisan, it’s national, and it’s across the board,” California Sen. Steve Padilla, a Democrat from Chula Vista who is author of two pending data center bills, told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who is lobbying on data centers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During the first half of 2026, Amazon paid more than $500,000 to lobby lawmakers on 33 pieces of legislation, including several data center bills and matters related to antitrust and artificial intelligence. Amazon spent more than $1.7 million lobbying in California last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, AI company Anthropic, which sent its first lobbyists to Sacramento last year, has spent nearly $90,000 to influence decisions made by the California Legislature so far this year and, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/d8a5f95e-3b6d-463a-a848-c9ef8e2394db?syn-25a6b1a6=1\">Financial Times\u003c/a>, nearly tripled its federal lobbying spend in the same time period. Last year, Anthropic spent over $200,000 lobbying in the state.[aside postID=news_12095308 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/OAK-Data-Center-1536x1024.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Anthropic paid a lobbyist to influence lawmakers decisionmaking on data centers, a spokesperson said the company does not support or oppose any specific bills in California. The company, the spokesperson said, is also interested in working with lawmakers “on AI safety and other relevant issues.” Representatives for Amazon did not respond to a request for comment from CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility giant PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=3180852&amendid=0\">latest filing\u003c/a> shows that it spent $2.86 million lobbying in California between April and June — its second highest quarter since 1999 (only surpassed since then by 2018, the year of the deadliest wildfire in state history, later linked to its equipment). A spokesperson for PG&E said the company has engaged on a “broad scope” of issues facing the industry during this legislative session, adding that “less than 5% of our spending was on data-center related issues,” amounting to approximately $143,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other utilities, like Southern California Edison, and unions representing utility workers, like the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, have also invested in lobbying efforts on the bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities providers are particularly motivated to influence bills because the development of new data centers represents a historic opportunity for expansion and grid upgrades, according to Matthew Freedman, senior staff attorney for The Utility Reform Network. Under the current regulatory framework, he said, the cost of expanding transmission lines is spread across all grid users, which means everyday consumers foot the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12064267 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986.jpg\" alt=\"A panel of multiple wires of different colors inside an office building.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some old and some new wiring connects to various servers at One Wilshire, a high-rise office building in downtown L.A. that has been almost entirely converted into a server farm. \u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But several of this year’s data center bills would change that, shifting costs back toward data center operators. “The groups that have been the strongest opponents of the bills this year include the proxies for the data centers and the tech companies,” Freedman said, referring to industry groups such as the Data Center Coalition, Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the California Chamber of Commerce. “They serve as a mouthpiece for the tech industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filings do not show that tech giants like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft are lobbying lawmakers directly on data centers this session. Instead, the business groups Freedman referenced, which represent the Big Tech firms, carry the weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which represents companies including Apple and Amazon, has so far spent over $100,000 lobbying on bills including the various data center measures this year and is on track for its highest annual lobbying spend since tracking began in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Data Center Coalition, which counts companies like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI among its members, has logged its second and third highest-ever spending quarters so far this year. It has spent roughly $60,000 lobbying state lawmakers and the governor’s office to voice opposition to nearly every bill that would regulate data centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The bills and the backlash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The measures before the Legislature this session include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Bills to shift electric infrastructure costs toward data center operators and away from residential customers: SB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb1168\">1168\u003c/a>, SB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb886\">886\u003c/a> and AB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2383\">2383\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bills mandating disclosures or estimates of water usage (and sometimes usage of other resources): AB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2619\">2619\u003c/a> and two bills that cleared the Legislature Thursday, AB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1577\">1577\u003c/a> and AB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2469\">2469\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb887\">887\u003c/a>, which would require all data center projects to undergo environmental reviews and offer fast-tracked approval for facilities that meet standards for water and energy conservation.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Business interests opposed to the bills argue they would stifle tech companies’ ability to innovate and compete, tie up critical infrastructure in red tape and unfairly burden the construction of data centers versus the construction of other types of projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Ahmad Thomas told CalMatters that he sees public debate over data centers as fueled by “strong anti-AI sentiment,” and that industry groups like his aim to “ground the conversation in reality” about the ways consumers rely on data center infrastructure for everyday services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2242294580-scaled-e1787960077712.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2242294580-scaled-e1787960077712.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1392\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of a 33 megawatt data center with closed-loop cooling system on October 20, 2025 in Vernon, California. \u003ccite>(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups counter that transparency is vital to protect the environment and public resources, and that everyday consumers should not be affected by increased infrastructure and utilities costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Britt Smith, who is part of a community group organizing against a controversial $2 billion Amazon data center project in Gilroy south of San Jose, said corporate opponents of the bills are “spending so much because there’s so much at stake,” adding, “Our future, our safety, is not for sale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This robust fight stands in stark contrast to last year, when the only bill signed into law was stripped down to just a requirement for state energy regulators to publish an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/12/data-center-energy-study-california/\">environmental impact study\u003c/a> on data centers’ electricity demand. Newsom also vetoed a water usage disclosure bill, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/AB-93-Veto.pdf\">citing\u003c/a> concerns that regulation could stifle AI growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether this year’s intensified lobbying will yield similar results remains uncertain, but lawmakers say shifting voter sentiment heading into the midterms has altered the political landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re looking down the barrel of public outcry that says we don’t want [data centers] at all, and you’ve got localities that are saying they’re going to ban them, then you know the atmosphere has changed,” Assemblymember Diane Papan, a San Mateo Democrat who authored two of the bills, told CalMatters. “We are in a totally different environment this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/08/california-data-center-backlash-big-tech-lobbying/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx\">May Gallup poll\u003c/a> found seven in 10 Americans oppose data center construction in their communities, while a Public Policy Institute of California poll in July found \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/data-center-ppic-survey/\">similar opposition statewide.\u003c/a> Rising public anxiety over utility costs, water use, and grid strain has driven California lawmakers to propose strict new data center rules — igniting a high-stakes lobbying push by the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of cities have considered or passed project bans this year, including in Monterey Park, where voters passed a ballot measure to permanently ban data centers, and Bay Area cities like Pittsburg, which backtracked on approvals following public outcry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12089535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12089535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/MontereyParkGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs of protest pepper front yards in a nearby residential neighborhood in Monterey Park, California, on April 1, 2026. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State law requires businesses and groups that engage in lobbying to report their overall quarterly spending, but does not require a breakdown of exactly how much is being spent on each bill. An analysis by CalMatters of lobbying activity for the first six months of 2026 found that utilities, tech companies and their proxies have spent millions of dollars lobbying state lawmakers, with data center bills emerging as a primary focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Monday, it will be clear which bills made it out of the Legislature and onto Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for signature or veto by the end of September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of the measures could have far-reaching consequences, affecting not only data center development but environmental regulation, utility rates, and how freely California’s tech giants can operate in the state. Nationally, advocates and lawmakers agree that California’s regulation around data centers could be an important bellwether for how similar fights will play out elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The level of awareness is through the roof, and the level of concern and sensitivity is through the roof — it’s bipartisan, it’s national, and it’s across the board,” California Sen. Steve Padilla, a Democrat from Chula Vista who is author of two pending data center bills, told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who is lobbying on data centers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>During the first half of 2026, Amazon paid more than $500,000 to lobby lawmakers on 33 pieces of legislation, including several data center bills and matters related to antitrust and artificial intelligence. Amazon spent more than $1.7 million lobbying in California last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, AI company Anthropic, which sent its first lobbyists to Sacramento last year, has spent nearly $90,000 to influence decisions made by the California Legislature so far this year and, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/d8a5f95e-3b6d-463a-a848-c9ef8e2394db?syn-25a6b1a6=1\">Financial Times\u003c/a>, nearly tripled its federal lobbying spend in the same time period. Last year, Anthropic spent over $200,000 lobbying in the state.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A spokesperson for PG&E said the company has engaged on a “broad scope” of issues facing the industry during this legislative session, adding that “less than 5% of our spending was on data-center related issues,” amounting to approximately $143,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other utilities, like Southern California Edison, and unions representing utility workers, like the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, have also invested in lobbying efforts on the bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities providers are particularly motivated to influence bills because the development of new data centers represents a historic opportunity for expansion and grid upgrades, according to Matthew Freedman, senior staff attorney for The Utility Reform Network. Under the current regulatory framework, he said, the cost of expanding transmission lines is spread across all grid users, which means everyday consumers foot the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12064267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12064267 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986.jpg\" alt=\"A panel of multiple wires of different colors inside an office building.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2172265986-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some old and some new wiring connects to various servers at One Wilshire, a high-rise office building in downtown L.A. that has been almost entirely converted into a server farm. \u003ccite>(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But several of this year’s data center bills would change that, shifting costs back toward data center operators. “The groups that have been the strongest opponents of the bills this year include the proxies for the data centers and the tech companies,” Freedman said, referring to industry groups such as the Data Center Coalition, Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the California Chamber of Commerce. “They serve as a mouthpiece for the tech industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filings do not show that tech giants like Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft are lobbying lawmakers directly on data centers this session. Instead, the business groups Freedman referenced, which represent the Big Tech firms, carry the weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which represents companies including Apple and Amazon, has so far spent over $100,000 lobbying on bills including the various data center measures this year and is on track for its highest annual lobbying spend since tracking began in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Data Center Coalition, which counts companies like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI among its members, has logged its second and third highest-ever spending quarters so far this year. It has spent roughly $60,000 lobbying state lawmakers and the governor’s office to voice opposition to nearly every bill that would regulate data centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The bills and the backlash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The measures before the Legislature this session include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Bills to shift electric infrastructure costs toward data center operators and away from residential customers: SB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb1168\">1168\u003c/a>, SB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb886\">886\u003c/a> and AB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2383\">2383\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bills mandating disclosures or estimates of water usage (and sometimes usage of other resources): AB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2619\">2619\u003c/a> and two bills that cleared the Legislature Thursday, AB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1577\">1577\u003c/a> and AB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab2469\">2469\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SB \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb887\">887\u003c/a>, which would require all data center projects to undergo environmental reviews and offer fast-tracked approval for facilities that meet standards for water and energy conservation.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Business interests opposed to the bills argue they would stifle tech companies’ ability to innovate and compete, tie up critical infrastructure in red tape and unfairly burden the construction of data centers versus the construction of other types of projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Ahmad Thomas told CalMatters that he sees public debate over data centers as fueled by “strong anti-AI sentiment,” and that industry groups like his aim to “ground the conversation in reality” about the ways consumers rely on data center infrastructure for everyday services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2242294580-scaled-e1787960077712.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063588\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/GettyImages-2242294580-scaled-e1787960077712.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1392\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of a 33 megawatt data center with closed-loop cooling system on October 20, 2025 in Vernon, California. \u003ccite>(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups counter that transparency is vital to protect the environment and public resources, and that everyday consumers should not be affected by increased infrastructure and utilities costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Britt Smith, who is part of a community group organizing against a controversial $2 billion Amazon data center project in Gilroy south of San Jose, said corporate opponents of the bills are “spending so much because there’s so much at stake,” adding, “Our future, our safety, is not for sale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This robust fight stands in stark contrast to last year, when the only bill signed into law was stripped down to just a requirement for state energy regulators to publish an \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/12/data-center-energy-study-california/\">environmental impact study\u003c/a> on data centers’ electricity demand. Newsom also vetoed a water usage disclosure bill, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/AB-93-Veto.pdf\">citing\u003c/a> concerns that regulation could stifle AI growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether this year’s intensified lobbying will yield similar results remains uncertain, but lawmakers say shifting voter sentiment heading into the midterms has altered the political landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re looking down the barrel of public outcry that says we don’t want [data centers] at all, and you’ve got localities that are saying they’re going to ban them, then you know the atmosphere has changed,” Assemblymember Diane Papan, a San Mateo Democrat who authored two of the bills, told CalMatters. “We are in a totally different environment this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/08/california-data-center-backlash-big-tech-lobbying/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>Immigration agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12096334/as-ice-custody-deaths-rise-state-bill-would-force-release-of-911-call-data\">arrested more people\u003c/a> in Northern California in July than at any point since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025. That’s according to a KQED analysis of newly released data compiled by UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement across California and nationally have likewise surged to new levels, the data shows, even as the Trump administration has backed off the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077656/how-a-bay-area-attorney-aims-to-hold-us-agents-accountable-for-violence-in-minneapolis\">high-profile raids\u003c/a> it launched last year in cities from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, where ICE agents fatally shot two protesters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nationwide, ICE recorded nearly 50,000 arrests in July. Close to 4,300 of them were in California, making it the state with the third-highest number of arrests — though it was dwarfed by the scale of arrests in Texas and Florida, which together accounted for nearly 20,000 of the month’s immigration arrests.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr />\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/siFPm/1/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, in ICE’s San Francisco “area of responsibility,” which includes all of the state north of Bakersfield, ICE made 890 arrests in July. That’s more than a 60% increase since February, the last month for which this data was previously available. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area immigration lawyers say they’ve seen the increase reflected in a jump in calls to rapid response hotlines this summer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Most of the arrests are taking place at ICE check-in appointments, for which people are often summoned abruptly, they said. Typically, immigrants required to check in are people who lack a visa but have some type of provisional permission to remain in the country, including a pending asylum case.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Lourdes Martinez, an attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, said her nonprofit recommends that people who are called into an ICE office “out of the blue” contact their county’s rapid response network before they go. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Not because we can prevent a detention, but we can help you assess your risk,” said Martinez, who co-directs the Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership, the county’s rapid response network. “In particular, parents with small children…. We want them to [go to the appointment] having made a plan with their family: What is Plan B if the parent doesn’t get to come home to the children?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>ICE has also been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077581/bay-area-officials-raise-privacy-concerns-after-ice-arrest-at-sfo\">arresting people catching domestic flights\u003c/a> at airports and attending green card interviews in Northern California in recent months, Martinez and others said. They called those practices unprecedented. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The numbers are not very high, but it’s very alarming. It really should not be happening. It’s very much a violation of how the process is supposed to work,” Martinez said. She noted that immigration arrests are civil, not criminal, and added that federal judges have been ordering many of these individuals released from detention. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, who runs the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association, said she is cautioning immigrants, even those who are here lawfully, to avoid air travel.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people who’ve been in the United States for a long time, they have work authorization, and they’ve traveled domestically in the past without a problem — who are very much blindsided when they’re detained by ICE at the airport,” she said. “It’s really not a safe time to travel if you’re an immigrant. If you’re a lawful permanent resident and you have any type of criminal history, I would really consult with an immigration attorney before choosing to travel.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One place where arrests are no longer happening in Northern California is at courthouses. A federal judge in San Jose blocked the practice after ICE began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">making arrests\u003c/a> at the San Francisco and Concord immigration courts last year. In addition, the judge ordered the agency to improve conditions in its short-term holding cells at its San Francisco headquarters at 630 Sansome St. Advocates say that requirement led to fewer arrests in the region last winter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge on June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We started this year with a low number of arrests,” Martinez said. “But we heard with the big appropriations bill last year that they were hiring 10,000-plus new agents. And so we were expecting that things were going to pick up.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The number of people arrested has risen sharply this spring across California, but it remains lower in the San Francisco area of responsibility than in ICE’s two other subdivisions in the state. The San Diego border region saw 1,955 arrests in July, and the Los Angeles office arrested 1,406 people. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Despite the statewide increase, there are still far fewer immigration arrests here than in Texas and Florida. That’s largely because of California laws passed during the first Trump administration that restrict the ability of local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE, according to Angela Chan, an assistant chief attorney at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California has the highest number of immigrants compared to any other state. And we’re not leading in terms of the number of ICE arrests. That’s likely largely due to our sanctuary laws,” said Chan, who helped author the laws.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12047437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said in 2018, after California barred participation in a federal program known by its code section, 287(g), that delegates police and sheriff’s deputies to take on some duties of ICE agents, immigration arrests dropped by nearly 25%. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“By contrast, when a state like Texas or Florida allows 287(g), that increases ICE arrests overall,” Chan said. “If local law enforcement is engaged in immigration enforcement, that’s going to drive up ICE arrests. Any contact with police can turn into an immigration enforcement action.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Deportation Data Project obtained the government data from ICE under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The new numbers run from October 2022 through Aug. 6 of this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement in response to questions from KQED, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who declined to be identified said the information released by the Deportation Data Project “relies on information releases that have not been reviewed, audited or given context,” and alleged that the organization had “cherry-picked” the data “to peddle a false narrative.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In response, Phil Neff, the Deportation Data Project’s lead data analyst, said, “We posted the original data. These are ICE’s own records of who is arrested, detained, and deported.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other data sources tracking ICE arrests suggest that the enforcement in July is much higher than any previous month going back as far as the Obama era, according to Ariel Ruiz Soto, an immigration policy analyst with the nonpartisan think tank Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It is likely possible that the arrests that ICE had in July of 2026 are the largest in the data history that we have,” he said. “At least from 2008 nationwide — and in California, at least since 2014.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new arrest numbers show the administration “didn’t stop the enforcement,” after it abandoned the strategy of aggressive surges in cities like Minneapolis, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for more immigration restrictions, recently told the Associated Press. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They changed the tactics and are, if anything, being more effective,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But as enforcement increases, those arrested are less likely to be dangerous criminals and more apt to be people who lack a secure immigration status, Ruiz Soto said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We know that when there have been more arrests, the share of people who have no criminal conviction or charge aside from being in the country without status has continued to increase,” he said. “Most people who are being arrested are not the worst of the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Newsroom data reporter Emily Zentner contributed to this report. 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That’s according to a KQED analysis of newly released data compiled by UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement across California and nationally have likewise surged to new levels, the data shows, even as the Trump administration has backed off the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077656/how-a-bay-area-attorney-aims-to-hold-us-agents-accountable-for-violence-in-minneapolis\">high-profile raids\u003c/a> it launched last year in cities from Los Angeles to Minneapolis, where ICE agents fatally shot two protesters. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nationwide, ICE recorded nearly 50,000 arrests in July. Close to 4,300 of them were in California, making it the state with the third-highest number of arrests — though it was dwarfed by the scale of arrests in Texas and Florida, which together accounted for nearly 20,000 of the month’s immigration arrests.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr />\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/siFPm/1/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, in ICE’s San Francisco “area of responsibility,” which includes all of the state north of Bakersfield, ICE made 890 arrests in July. That’s more than a 60% increase since February, the last month for which this data was previously available. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area immigration lawyers say they’ve seen the increase reflected in a jump in calls to rapid response hotlines this summer. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Most of the arrests are taking place at ICE check-in appointments, for which people are often summoned abruptly, they said. 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She noted that immigration arrests are civil, not criminal, and added that federal judges have been ordering many of these individuals released from detention. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, who runs the Immigrant Legal Defense Program at the San Francisco Bar Association, said she is cautioning immigrants, even those who are here lawfully, to avoid air travel.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I know a lot of people who’ve been in the United States for a long time, they have work authorization, and they’ve traveled domestically in the past without a problem — who are very much blindsided when they’re detained by ICE at the airport,” she said. “It’s really not a safe time to travel if you’re an immigrant. If you’re a lawful permanent resident and you have any type of criminal history, I would really consult with an immigration attorney before choosing to travel.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One place where arrests are no longer happening in Northern California is at courthouses. A federal judge in San Jose blocked the practice after ICE began \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">making arrests\u003c/a> at the San Francisco and Concord immigration courts last year. In addition, the judge ordered the agency to improve conditions in its short-term holding cells at its San Francisco headquarters at 630 Sansome St. Advocates say that requirement led to fewer arrests in the region last winter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1760\" height=\"1174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12074725\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5.jpg 1760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/ice-badge-69a05cdd559c5-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge on June 10, 2025. 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That’s largely because of California laws passed during the first Trump administration that restrict the ability of local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE, according to Angela Chan, an assistant chief attorney at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“California has the highest number of immigrants compared to any other state. And we’re not leading in terms of the number of ICE arrests. That’s likely largely due to our sanctuary laws,” said Chan, who helped author the laws.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12047437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. 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The new numbers run from October 2022 through Aug. 6 of this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In a statement in response to questions from KQED, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson who declined to be identified said the information released by the Deportation Data Project “relies on information releases that have not been reviewed, audited or given context,” and alleged that the organization had “cherry-picked” the data “to peddle a false narrative.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In response, Phil Neff, the Deportation Data Project’s lead data analyst, said, “We posted the original data. These are ICE’s own records of who is arrested, detained, and deported.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other data sources tracking ICE arrests suggest that the enforcement in July is much higher than any previous month going back as far as the Obama era, according to Ariel Ruiz Soto, an immigration policy analyst with the nonpartisan think tank Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It is likely possible that the arrests that ICE had in July of 2026 are the largest in the data history that we have,” he said. “At least from 2008 nationwide — and in California, at least since 2014.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new arrest numbers show the administration “didn’t stop the enforcement,” after it abandoned the strategy of aggressive surges in cities like Minneapolis, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for more immigration restrictions, recently told the Associated Press. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“They changed the tactics and are, if anything, being more effective,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But as enforcement increases, those arrested are less likely to be dangerous criminals and more apt to be people who lack a secure immigration status, Ruiz Soto said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We know that when there have been more arrests, the share of people who have no criminal conviction or charge aside from being in the country without status has continued to increase,” he said. “Most people who are being arrested are not the worst of the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Newsroom data reporter Emily Zentner contributed to this report. 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Zealous protection of our Constitutional right to free speech is a provocative demonstration of our country’s powerful lack of fear.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Justice Department did not respond Saturday to a message seeking comment on the decision.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>George Porteous, the editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily, responded to the ruling by saying on X: “The reporters in our newsroom shouldn’t have to fear that writing a story will result in their deportation. 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The judge also cited retaliation against people who were\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055641/after-kirks-death-trump-targets-critics-in-expanding-free-speech-fight\"> critical of Charlie Kirk\u003c/a> after the Turning Point USA co-founder was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-conservative-activist-shot-546165a8151104e0938a5e085be1e8bd\">assassinated last September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Tomorrow, or perhaps even today, targets may include anyone in the United States who exercises their freedom of speech to simply express opinions the government does not like,” the judge in San Jose said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This downward spiral is antithetical to our Constitution that recognizes our right to speak freely,” she added. “Here you can simultaneously hate the content of a person’s speech and love the country that cherishes the freedom to allow it. 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Today’s victory means they won’t have to.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Conor Fitzpatrick, an attorney with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which brought the lawsuit, praised the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In America, free speech doesn’t just belong to the people who say things the government agrees with,” Fitzpatrick said in a release.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11986286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/L1005168_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestine encampment outside of Sproul hall in Berkeley, Calif. on May 11, 2024. UC Berkeley students were among those on college campuses across the country who criticized Israel’s actions in its war in Gaza. (Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In her decision, Wise said it was clear that the government’s tactics has had an effect on college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The government has offered a chilling message regarding protected speech — speak out against Israel or in support of Palestinians and we will revoke your visa and deport you. Behave. Noncitizen students heard the warning and heeded. And, as the idiom goes, the silence is deafening,” the judge wrote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At The Stanford Daily, lawfully present noncitizens at the paper have quit, withheld articles, refused assignments, requested articles be taken down, and asked for anonymity due to fear of adverse immigration consequences, Wise noted.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said noncitizens have the same First Amendment rights as citizens and yet were left to guess what the U.S. foreign policy was at any given moment and on any given subject.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is an incomprehensible standard,” she said. “While the Court understands that the government has been granted considerable discretion on foreign policy and immigration matters, that discretion must nevertheless still ensure that ordinary people can understand what the law permits and prohibits.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wise added: “Our Constitutional right to freedom of speech guarantees people the right to express — through their words, actions, or assembly — opinions that may be repugnant, views that run counter to prevailing political norms, or beliefs that otherwise challenge the country’s domestic or foreign policy, military engagement, or war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/whatmatters\">WhatMatters\u003c/a> to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-kqed-v2-dropcap-paragraph dropcap-paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"dropcap\">G\u003c/span>race Coleman thinks about her crime a lot — like all the time, every day. Killing two people while driving drunk forced her to start seeing herself through an unfiltered lens of accountability. Since the day after that terrible night in late 2020, she has moved forward through her incarceration and shaped a path into recovery, rehabilitation and mental wellness.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s not even just as simple as, oh, I wake up in prison every day and that in itself is a reminder of the harm that I’ve caused,” she said. “It’s the way that I choose to live my life. It’s being in AA. It’s being a part of these DUI programs. Sharing my story in those spaces, that’s what keeps me sober.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her story is not pretty. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Dec. 8, 2020, Coleman sped through a red light and smashed into a car carrying a family of five. Gabriela Andrade and Henry Saldana-Mejia died. Strapped in the backseat, their three young daughters were injured but lived.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/12/california-roadway-deaths-inaction/\">DUI homicides\u003c/a> leave surviving victims and communities looking for answers. Without direct intent to harm, the offender can be left struggling to reconcile what they did with who they are.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some grasp for ways to change for the better. They start searching within themselves for the underlying causes of their behavior.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ots.ca.gov/grants/alcohol-impaired-driving/\">1,300\u003c/a> alcohol-related driving deaths occur each year in California, but it’s hard to say just how many people are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/04/license-to-kill/\">actually prosecuted and convicted\u003c/a> for causing these DUI fatalities. Murder statutes do not differentiate whether a homicide charge is attributed to drunk driving.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Coleman faces an era of incarceration where the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/02/whats-next-california-prisons/\">concept of rehabilitation\u003c/a> continues to evolve. Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/02/san-quentin-rehabilitation-center/\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> has emphasized prison \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/the-california-model/\">reforms\u003c/a> that aim to prepare people for parole and reentry back into society. Decades of mass incarceration and tough-on-crime policies have slowly given way to trauma-informed programming and better second chance opportunities for those willing to wrestle with the \u003cem>why\u003c/em> of what they did. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s an arduous journey of self-reflection that many offenders are not prepared to face early on. Some take years or even decades. Some never reach that point. But Coleman did not hesitate to start working on herself right away.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In the beginning, I was like, all right — I clearly got to get therapy,” she said. “I need to get my mental health in check. Clearly something is wrong with me if I just woke up and found out I killed people. This doesn’t just happen.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coleman co-facilitates Responsibly Driven, a self-help curriculum specifically designed to help DUI offenders analyze their flawed decision-making patterns and learn to overcome them. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>While awaiting trial in Orange County Jail, Coleman met with surviving relatives of Andrade and Saldan-Mejia. It’s rare for criminal offenders to get such an opportunity — even rarer before being convicted. But her defense attorney, judge, prosecutor and the lawyer representing the victims’ family helped facilitate the face-to-face sit-down. Coleman listened to their pain, felt their loss and did her best to answer questions through her own tears.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“As a daughter, and as an only daughter, I knew that feeling that my parents were my everything,” she said. “And I just couldn’t even, like, stand the fact that I had taken away the two most important people in a child’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Soon after that 2022 meeting, Coleman pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and accepted a 21 years-to-life prison sentence.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“For me, it definitely started with that day,” she said. “Like, any bit of denial that I was stuck in was gone. Any bit of selfishness that I still had — and caring about myself and what was going to happen to me — didn’t seem to matter as much anymore.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“But it definitely at the same time brought a sense of hope versus just like all of this devastating hopelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jeff Roberts represented the family of Coleman’s victims and remembers her from that private meeting in 2022. He also interviewed her during depositions for a civil wrongful death lawsuit. “I did get to know Grace a little bit, and I know she’s got a story too,” said Roberts. “She had a bit of a broken situation, even though she seemed like a young lady of privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roberts would like to see Coleman emerge from prison ready to continue sharing her story and help others avoid drunken driving and substance abuse. He was surprised to learn her sentence does not carry a definitive and clear release date.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Grace needed to serve a good length of time,” said Roberts. “But I don’t think she needed to serve a life sentence, because quite frankly — that she killed two people and left three people orphaned \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a life sentence. Emotionally, she won’t forget about that.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mental health while under arrest\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Coleman’s dark reality began in a hospital bed after the crash. She woke up groggy, confused, in pain and sedated. Her left arm was in a sling. Her right wrist was handcuffed to the bed’s metal safety railing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A nurse knew few details, but told her the horrible news while a police officer watched in silence.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know what happened, who I killed, how I even got into my car that night,” said Coleman. “Because the last thing I remembered, I was nowhere near my car — so I had a lot of questions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After a few days, they moved her to a medical unit inside the jail. Everywhere was under COVID lockdown at the time. Visits were nonexistent. Communication was sparse. It took weeks for Coleman to piece together all the facts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Coleman’s boyfriend had driven her home moments before the crash. A day fueled by alcohol, drugs and the tense dynamics of a toxic relationship should have ended when he left her wobbling toward her front door, keys in hand. But in a blackout state, she went to her Range Rover and took off.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Right away in jail, she started seeing a private mental health specialist who was allowed in the jail despite the pandemic lockdowns. Coleman said she’d always believed in the value of therapy, but this was the first time she dove in and embraced the help.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coleman inside her room in the Latham unit at California Institution for Women. Positive affirmations and photos with childhood friends keep her eyes on the hope of parole. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“I talk about it like an identity crisis because you’re stripping yourself, stripping away layers of yourself and going through such a huge transition in your life,” said Coleman.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Weekly therapy sessions and clarity from her newfound sobriety helped Coleman analyze the root causes of her substance abuse. She realized how a fundamental lack of self-worth contributed to codependency issues and people-pleasing belief systems. For years, she’d been the girl who always said yes to everything — always \u003cem>wanted\u003c/em> to say yes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The crime would have never happened without deep levels of alcoholism, and then, bringing it back to the reasons why I drank or how I even ended up in these alcoholic states,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a 22-year-old white girl from Laguna Beach, Coleman feared how other people in jail would react to her privilege and affluence. The story of her crime stayed on the local television news. Everyone knew her face. To survive socially, she needed to connect and empathize with those around her. She needed to walk with both humility and self-assurance.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1023\" data-id=\"12097399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097399\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM3.jpg 682w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM3-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A photograph of Coleman and her best friend hangs in her locker. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1023\" data-id=\"12097398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097398\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM4.jpg 682w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM4-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coleman practices yoga and meditation in the backyard of Latham unit, where she’s currently housed. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She turned to her faith in God to quell the crippling anxiety and stress — the same demons she’d once fiercely self-medicated against with alcohol, weed and Xanax. The jail offered hardly any rehabilitative programming, but Coleman did whatever she could think of to stay motivated and productive. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There was no way that I was going to be able to move forward without creating some sort of spiritual foundation in order for me to even have a reason worth living,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She organized nondenominational worship groups and recovery groups with other women in the jail. She also began writing down and collecting positive affirmations. She found community through cooking and sharing meals. She exercised fervently and looked for spaces in the small cramped housing to meditate and do yoga.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When high school and college friends visited her, they were startled with how healthy and well she looked. Their last images of her before jail were of her using and being high all the time. They liked seeing the bright, clear-headed person they’d always known she could be.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That party girl version of me was something that I had to let go of,” she said. “I struggled with that for sure because I felt it was like a part of who I was — being fun and being social. But I realized I could be all of those things without needing to be like, you know, that horrible blacked out friend.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Welcome to life in prison\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The plea deal represented Coleman’s desire to move forward. Although naive to the prison system, she learned during her 18 months in jail how the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation could offer her better opportunities for self-help programming and education.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As soon as Coleman arrived at her first prison in the fall of 2022, other DUI offenders welcomed her into support groups. She listened to stories similar to hers. She realized she did not need to deal with the trauma of her remorse, guilt and shame alone.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She also found healing and catharsis through sharing her experience with others. She became heavily involved in the Alcoholics Anonymous community. She discovered \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2019/11/18/ccwf-program-targets-distracted-and-drunk-driving/\">FADD — Felons Against Distracted and Drunk Driving\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097401\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coleman stays busy but finds solace in quiet moments. She wonders how to manage and cope with the indefinite years of incarceration still ahead. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>The road through mental health therapy, however, became more difficult with the transition into prison. Coleman maintained some phone sessions with her private therapist, but it was never the same as their in-person conversations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And relying on the prison healthcare system at Central California Women’s Facility meant a barrage of randomly assigned psychiatrists and psychologists with different styles of treatment, different strategies and different agendas.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Within prison culture, seeking and receiving mental health care left Coleman vulnerable to stigmatization and judgment from her peers. Participating in therapy or being on prescribed medication can be perceived as signs of weakness. People worry about how the parole board might react to psychiatric diagnoses.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I come from the generation who very much believe in mental health and therapy as a positive thing and, like, a healthy thing,” said Coleman. “So coming into the prison system and there being this whole stigma, but also fear of it, was very different to me.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She found herself at a crossroads as she adapted to the rigors of long-term incarceration. Many offenders her age might choose to continue with the same lifestyle that brought them to prison. They fight. They act out. They indulge in contraband and substance abuse.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Coleman chose a different crowd. Her focus on self-help and rehabilitation put her in circles with women two to three times her age who’d been in the system for decades.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s older than me,” she said. “I’m always the youngest by like 20 years.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She saw how parole hearings do not equate to a guarantee of release. All around her, she observed the effects of aging in prison. It made her question her own future.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I look at older women in here and especially like older women who do the same things I do,” she said. “Because one day, they could be me or I could be them. Having a life sentence, I know that my way home isn’t promised.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mental health decisions\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Because steadfast sobriety is so central to her recovery and rehabilitative mindset, Coleman believed that antidepressant or anti-anxiety medication could be a step backward. She declined psychiatrists’ offers of prescriptions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Exercise, yoga and support groups continued to be her go-tos for finding stability. Her faith in a higher power kept her grounded.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In October 2023, Coleman transferred to the lower-security facility of California Institute for Women in Chino. It offers a more relaxed atmosphere and better rehabilitative opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097404\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Most rehabilitative self-help programs in prison rely on support from outside volunteers. But California Institution for Women’s Responsibly Driven cohort is solely organized and facilitated from within the incarcerated community. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>She began leading yoga classes and found programs that fit her needs and personality. At home in AA meetings, she quickly became a lead facilitator. She joined \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Responsibly-Driven-Impaired-Prevention-Curriculum/dp/0999766228\">Responsibly Driven\u003c/a>, a group with a specialized curriculum aimed at unraveling the decision-making processes behind substance abuse. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She applied herself to a vocational job assignment in audio-video production training and joined the prison’s newsletter team. Her community leaders brought her onto the Inmate Advisory Council.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But there was still a lot of turmoil inside her head.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sabrina Limon befriended Coleman when she first arrived. They bonded over their mutual commitment to sobriety and working the 12 steps of AA.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coleman and others share their experiences and learn to take accountability for their actions. Groups like Responsibly Driven and Alcoholics Anonymous allow them a safe space to open up and be vulnerable. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“You could see her anxiety just all over her face and body language,” said Limon. “It just looked like she was searching to find, like, ‘What am I supposed to be doing? Where do I go?’ And you could really, really see that anxiety on her.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Incarcerated since 2016, the 46-year-old Limon experienced bouts of anxiety and struggled with depression herself but remained leery of seeking mental health services. “There’s a lot of rumors on the yard that, you know, the parole board’s gonna look down on that. There’s like this fear.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California Institute for Women started an onsite guidance center to make mental health resources more accessible. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/whatmatters\">WhatMatters\u003c/a> to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-kqed-v2-dropcap-paragraph dropcap-paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"dropcap\">G\u003c/span>race Coleman thinks about her crime a lot — like all the time, every day. Killing two people while driving drunk forced her to start seeing herself through an unfiltered lens of accountability. Since the day after that terrible night in late 2020, she has moved forward through her incarceration and shaped a path into recovery, rehabilitation and mental wellness.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s not even just as simple as, oh, I wake up in prison every day and that in itself is a reminder of the harm that I’ve caused,” she said. “It’s the way that I choose to live my life. It’s being in AA. It’s being a part of these DUI programs. Sharing my story in those spaces, that’s what keeps me sober.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her story is not pretty. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Dec. 8, 2020, Coleman sped through a red light and smashed into a car carrying a family of five. Gabriela Andrade and Henry Saldana-Mejia died. Strapped in the backseat, their three young daughters were injured but lived.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/12/california-roadway-deaths-inaction/\">DUI homicides\u003c/a> leave surviving victims and communities looking for answers. Without direct intent to harm, the offender can be left struggling to reconcile what they did with who they are.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some grasp for ways to change for the better. They start searching within themselves for the underlying causes of their behavior.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"https://www.ots.ca.gov/grants/alcohol-impaired-driving/\">1,300\u003c/a> alcohol-related driving deaths occur each year in California, but it’s hard to say just how many people are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/04/license-to-kill/\">actually prosecuted and convicted\u003c/a> for causing these DUI fatalities. Murder statutes do not differentiate whether a homicide charge is attributed to drunk driving.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Coleman faces an era of incarceration where the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/02/whats-next-california-prisons/\">concept of rehabilitation\u003c/a> continues to evolve. Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/02/san-quentin-rehabilitation-center/\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> has emphasized prison \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/the-california-model/\">reforms\u003c/a> that aim to prepare people for parole and reentry back into society. Decades of mass incarceration and tough-on-crime policies have slowly given way to trauma-informed programming and better second chance opportunities for those willing to wrestle with the \u003cem>why\u003c/em> of what they did. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s an arduous journey of self-reflection that many offenders are not prepared to face early on. Some take years or even decades. Some never reach that point. But Coleman did not hesitate to start working on herself right away.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“In the beginning, I was like, all right — I clearly got to get therapy,” she said. “I need to get my mental health in check. Clearly something is wrong with me if I just woke up and found out I killed people. This doesn’t just happen.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coleman co-facilitates Responsibly Driven, a self-help curriculum specifically designed to help DUI offenders analyze their flawed decision-making patterns and learn to overcome them. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>While awaiting trial in Orange County Jail, Coleman met with surviving relatives of Andrade and Saldan-Mejia. It’s rare for criminal offenders to get such an opportunity — even rarer before being convicted. But her defense attorney, judge, prosecutor and the lawyer representing the victims’ family helped facilitate the face-to-face sit-down. Coleman listened to their pain, felt their loss and did her best to answer questions through her own tears.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“As a daughter, and as an only daughter, I knew that feeling that my parents were my everything,” she said. “And I just couldn’t even, like, stand the fact that I had taken away the two most important people in a child’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Soon after that 2022 meeting, Coleman pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and accepted a 21 years-to-life prison sentence.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“For me, it definitely started with that day,” she said. “Like, any bit of denial that I was stuck in was gone. Any bit of selfishness that I still had — and caring about myself and what was going to happen to me — didn’t seem to matter as much anymore.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“But it definitely at the same time brought a sense of hope versus just like all of this devastating hopelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jeff Roberts represented the family of Coleman’s victims and remembers her from that private meeting in 2022. He also interviewed her during depositions for a civil wrongful death lawsuit. “I did get to know Grace a little bit, and I know she’s got a story too,” said Roberts. “She had a bit of a broken situation, even though she seemed like a young lady of privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Roberts would like to see Coleman emerge from prison ready to continue sharing her story and help others avoid drunken driving and substance abuse. He was surprised to learn her sentence does not carry a definitive and clear release date.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Grace needed to serve a good length of time,” said Roberts. “But I don’t think she needed to serve a life sentence, because quite frankly — that she killed two people and left three people orphaned \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a life sentence. Emotionally, she won’t forget about that.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mental health while under arrest\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Coleman’s dark reality began in a hospital bed after the crash. She woke up groggy, confused, in pain and sedated. Her left arm was in a sling. Her right wrist was handcuffed to the bed’s metal safety railing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A nurse knew few details, but told her the horrible news while a police officer watched in silence.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know what happened, who I killed, how I even got into my car that night,” said Coleman. “Because the last thing I remembered, I was nowhere near my car — so I had a lot of questions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After a few days, they moved her to a medical unit inside the jail. Everywhere was under COVID lockdown at the time. Visits were nonexistent. Communication was sparse. It took weeks for Coleman to piece together all the facts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Coleman’s boyfriend had driven her home moments before the crash. A day fueled by alcohol, drugs and the tense dynamics of a toxic relationship should have ended when he left her wobbling toward her front door, keys in hand. But in a blackout state, she went to her Range Rover and took off.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Right away in jail, she started seeing a private mental health specialist who was allowed in the jail despite the pandemic lockdowns. Coleman said she’d always believed in the value of therapy, but this was the first time she dove in and embraced the help.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coleman inside her room in the Latham unit at California Institution for Women. Positive affirmations and photos with childhood friends keep her eyes on the hope of parole. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“I talk about it like an identity crisis because you’re stripping yourself, stripping away layers of yourself and going through such a huge transition in your life,” said Coleman.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Weekly therapy sessions and clarity from her newfound sobriety helped Coleman analyze the root causes of her substance abuse. She realized how a fundamental lack of self-worth contributed to codependency issues and people-pleasing belief systems. For years, she’d been the girl who always said yes to everything — always \u003cem>wanted\u003c/em> to say yes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The crime would have never happened without deep levels of alcoholism, and then, bringing it back to the reasons why I drank or how I even ended up in these alcoholic states,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As a 22-year-old white girl from Laguna Beach, Coleman feared how other people in jail would react to her privilege and affluence. The story of her crime stayed on the local television news. Everyone knew her face. To survive socially, she needed to connect and empathize with those around her. She needed to walk with both humility and self-assurance.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1023\" data-id=\"12097399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097399\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM3.jpg 682w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM3-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A photograph of Coleman and her best friend hangs in her locker. (Brian L. 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The jail offered hardly any rehabilitative programming, but Coleman did whatever she could think of to stay motivated and productive. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There was no way that I was going to be able to move forward without creating some sort of spiritual foundation in order for me to even have a reason worth living,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She organized nondenominational worship groups and recovery groups with other women in the jail. She also began writing down and collecting positive affirmations. She found community through cooking and sharing meals. She exercised fervently and looked for spaces in the small cramped housing to meditate and do yoga.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When high school and college friends visited her, they were startled with how healthy and well she looked. Their last images of her before jail were of her using and being high all the time. They liked seeing the bright, clear-headed person they’d always known she could be.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“That party girl version of me was something that I had to let go of,” she said. “I struggled with that for sure because I felt it was like a part of who I was — being fun and being social. But I realized I could be all of those things without needing to be like, you know, that horrible blacked out friend.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Welcome to life in prison\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The plea deal represented Coleman’s desire to move forward. Although naive to the prison system, she learned during her 18 months in jail how the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation could offer her better opportunities for self-help programming and education.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As soon as Coleman arrived at her first prison in the fall of 2022, other DUI offenders welcomed her into support groups. She listened to stories similar to hers. She realized she did not need to deal with the trauma of her remorse, guilt and shame alone.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She also found healing and catharsis through sharing her experience with others. She became heavily involved in the Alcoholics Anonymous community. She discovered \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2019/11/18/ccwf-program-targets-distracted-and-drunk-driving/\">FADD — Felons Against Distracted and Drunk Driving\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097401\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coleman stays busy but finds solace in quiet moments. She wonders how to manage and cope with the indefinite years of incarceration still ahead. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>The road through mental health therapy, however, became more difficult with the transition into prison. Coleman maintained some phone sessions with her private therapist, but it was never the same as their in-person conversations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And relying on the prison healthcare system at Central California Women’s Facility meant a barrage of randomly assigned psychiatrists and psychologists with different styles of treatment, different strategies and different agendas.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Within prison culture, seeking and receiving mental health care left Coleman vulnerable to stigmatization and judgment from her peers. Participating in therapy or being on prescribed medication can be perceived as signs of weakness. People worry about how the parole board might react to psychiatric diagnoses.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I come from the generation who very much believe in mental health and therapy as a positive thing and, like, a healthy thing,” said Coleman. “So coming into the prison system and there being this whole stigma, but also fear of it, was very different to me.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She found herself at a crossroads as she adapted to the rigors of long-term incarceration. Many offenders her age might choose to continue with the same lifestyle that brought them to prison. They fight. They act out. They indulge in contraband and substance abuse.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Coleman chose a different crowd. Her focus on self-help and rehabilitation put her in circles with women two to three times her age who’d been in the system for decades.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s older than me,” she said. “I’m always the youngest by like 20 years.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She saw how parole hearings do not equate to a guarantee of release. All around her, she observed the effects of aging in prison. It made her question her own future.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I look at older women in here and especially like older women who do the same things I do,” she said. “Because one day, they could be me or I could be them. Having a life sentence, I know that my way home isn’t promised.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mental health decisions\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Because steadfast sobriety is so central to her recovery and rehabilitative mindset, Coleman believed that antidepressant or anti-anxiety medication could be a step backward. She declined psychiatrists’ offers of prescriptions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Exercise, yoga and support groups continued to be her go-tos for finding stability. Her faith in a higher power kept her grounded.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In October 2023, Coleman transferred to the lower-security facility of California Institute for Women in Chino. It offers a more relaxed atmosphere and better rehabilitative opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097404\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM6.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM6-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Most rehabilitative self-help programs in prison rely on support from outside volunteers. But California Institution for Women’s Responsibly Driven cohort is solely organized and facilitated from within the incarcerated community. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>She began leading yoga classes and found programs that fit her needs and personality. At home in AA meetings, she quickly became a lead facilitator. She joined \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Responsibly-Driven-Impaired-Prevention-Curriculum/dp/0999766228\">Responsibly Driven\u003c/a>, a group with a specialized curriculum aimed at unraveling the decision-making processes behind substance abuse. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She applied herself to a vocational job assignment in audio-video production training and joined the prison’s newsletter team. Her community leaders brought her onto the Inmate Advisory Council.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But there was still a lot of turmoil inside her head.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sabrina Limon befriended Coleman when she first arrived. They bonded over their mutual commitment to sobriety and working the 12 steps of AA.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097407\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coleman and others share their experiences and learn to take accountability for their actions. Groups like Responsibly Driven and Alcoholics Anonymous allow them a safe space to open up and be vulnerable. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>“You could see her anxiety just all over her face and body language,” said Limon. “It just looked like she was searching to find, like, ‘What am I supposed to be doing? Where do I go?’ And you could really, really see that anxiety on her.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Incarcerated since 2016, the 46-year-old Limon experienced bouts of anxiety and struggled with depression herself but remained leery of seeking mental health services. “There’s a lot of rumors on the yard that, you know, the parole board’s gonna look down on that. There’s like this fear.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California Institute for Women started an onsite guidance center to make mental health resources more accessible. Individuals can participate in self-help groups led by psychologists or get one-on-one therapy sessions without being classified as patients.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097410\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM8.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Yoga and spirituality help Coleman stay positive while serving her time. She gathers with other women before leading a yoga class. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>The open-door policy made it easy for Coleman to talk to someone and pursue the right kind of treatment. She soon decided to sign up for patient care. She also became more confident that her sobriety shouldn’t prevent her from taking antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications while under psychiatric supervision.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Anxiety is a part of, like, my daily life,” said Coleman. “It’s something that I ignored for a very long time, and why I turned to alcoholism and smoking weed in the first place, so I think acknowledging my anxiety today is really important.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Limon noticed the difference therapy made in Coleman’s life and appreciated her willingness to talk about it honestly. It inspired her to seek her own treatment.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen such a change in Grace as far as her anxiety goes and really working on her mental health one-on-one with a therapist,” said Limon. “I decided I’m gonna go check it out for myself. And sure enough, thanks to Grace, now I have a therapist. It’s wonderful. It’s helping me so much.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rehabilitation and parole\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Coleman qualifies as a youth offender because she committed her crime at age 22. Under current law, that means she can go before \u003ca href=\"http://dcr.ca.gov/bph/\">California’s Board of Parole Hearings\u003c/a> in 2033.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Her first chance at freedom will depend on what she does and the choices she makes between now and then. The parole board will look to see who she has become.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Rehabilitation isn’t presented to us on a silver platter or silver bunk beds,” said Coleman. “It’s something that we actively work for.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097412\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM9.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coleman with Rocky, one of six rescue dogs she and her peers train as service animals in California Institution for Women’s Puppy Program. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Coleman runs laps out on the facility’s main rec yard to clear her head, even on days when the Southern California heat of Chino exceeds 90 degrees. But it’s her yoga mat that she says will always be her best safe space.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One way or another, illicit drugs find their way into the general population of most prisons. Substance abuse and drug trafficking remain obstacles a person focused on rehabilitation must continually stay clear of and navigate around. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Coleman lives in a housing unit where residents choose to abide by a code of integrity. In the unit, participants of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.caninesupportteams.org/prison-pup-program\">Puppy Program\u003c/a> care for and train rescue animals to become service dogs. They are required to maintain a disciplinary-free record and consent to drug testing.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“You see a lot of people who want to start doing better and who want to be in, like, a better living environment to stay sober,” she said. “They come over here so that they feel like they have a positive support system to get out of the mix.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM10.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/CM10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coleman and Rocky walk together down a hallway where each door opens to a two-person cell. Unless her security level goes up, Coleman will remain at CIW until she earns parole. (Brian L. Frank for CalMatters/CatchLight)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp>Coleman fills her days with meaningful work and interacts with volunteer organizations from the outside. She contributes to \u003ca href=\"https://csw.ucla.edu/research/feminist-anti-carceral-studies/uc-sentencing-project/\">University of California’s Sentencing Project\u003c/a> as a storytelling participant. \u003ca href=\"https://www.poeticjustice.org/\">Poetic Justice\u003c/a> gives her a creative outlet to express her trauma and healing through poetry. \u003ca href=\"https://www.thereevolution.org/\">ReEvolution\u003c/a> brings formerly incarcerated mentors and advocates inside the prison to discuss restorative justice and circles of harm — harm experienced and harm caused. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Barbara Van Sickle, ReEvolution’s executive director, goes into the prison regularly and has spent lots of time with Coleman in group settings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen her get to a place where she’s living in responsibility, accountability, and remorse, and not feeling that she can move forward,” said Van Sickle. “But I believe she’s working through that with a lot of introspection and is beginning to find her value again.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joe Garcia is a California Local News fellow.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced jointly by CalMatters & CatchLight as part of our \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.catchlight.io/mental-health\">\u003cem>mental health initiative\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported with support from the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/08/california-prisons-rehabilitation-after-dui/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Highway 1 still remains under threat from that blaze, as well as the Plaskett Fire to the south, which has burned 2,774 acres since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2026/8/26/plaskett-fire\">eruption\u003c/a> on Wednesday morning. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While rain clouds gathered in the Monterey County area on Friday morning, Cal Fire incident meteorologist Aviva Braun said in a YouTube \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/18ATQwUhNqk?si=OBgpdd6ZCngLar2M\">briefing\u003c/a> that, after bringing little relief to either blaze, they will dissipate this afternoon, followed by drying conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That “constant drying factor” presents challenges, Braun said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-827.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097343\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-827.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-827-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-827-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A helicopter drops water on the Timber Fire on Aug. 27, 2026, in California. (Courtesy of Cal Fire)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Citing these conditions as well as the threat of erratic wind gusts approaching 40 mph that could be triggered by isolated thunderstorms, meteorologists already issued a red flag \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-information/calpf-timber-fire\">warning\u003c/a> along the central coast.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Fourteen areas in the Timber Fire region face active evacuation orders, with another 17 under evacuation warnings — and five more under orders to shelter in place. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Around Plaskett, two areas face evacuation orders and another three are under evacuation warnings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The fire has already \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-5/d5-news/d5-news-8-27-2026-3\">closed\u003c/a> a 40-mile stretch of Highway 1, beginning around Gorda at mile marker 10.2 to just south of Old Coast Road at Mile Marker 50.1. Officials have no timeline on plans to reopen the iconic roadway.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“As surrounding brush dries out, fire activity is expected to pick up, with the potential for flying embers to spark new spot fires 0.1 to 0.2 miles ahead of the main fire front and cross over established containment lines,” Cal Fire wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2026/8/8/timber-fire\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A community meeting on the Timber Fire is scheduled for 4 p.m. Saturday in Carmel Valley’s Cachagua Community Park.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/plaskett-fire-ocean-helicopter.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097338\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/plaskett-fire-ocean-helicopter.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/plaskett-fire-ocean-helicopter-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/plaskett-fire-ocean-helicopter-1536x866.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A helicopter flies over the ocean near the Plaskett Fire on Aug. 26, 2026, in California. 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Highway 1 still remains under threat from that blaze, as well as the Plaskett Fire to the south, which has burned 2,774 acres since its \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2026/8/26/plaskett-fire\">eruption\u003c/a> on Wednesday morning. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While rain clouds gathered in the Monterey County area on Friday morning, Cal Fire incident meteorologist Aviva Braun said in a YouTube \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/18ATQwUhNqk?si=OBgpdd6ZCngLar2M\">briefing\u003c/a> that, after bringing little relief to either blaze, they will dissipate this afternoon, followed by drying conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That “constant drying factor” presents challenges, Braun said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-827.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097343\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-827.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-827-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-827-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A helicopter drops water on the Timber Fire on Aug. 27, 2026, in California. 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Officials have no timeline on plans to reopen the iconic roadway.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>“As surrounding brush dries out, fire activity is expected to pick up, with the potential for flying embers to spark new spot fires 0.1 to 0.2 miles ahead of the main fire front and cross over established containment lines,” Cal Fire wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2026/8/8/timber-fire\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A community meeting on the Timber Fire is scheduled for 4 p.m. Saturday in Carmel Valley’s Cachagua Community Park.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/plaskett-fire-ocean-helicopter.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097338\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/plaskett-fire-ocean-helicopter.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/plaskett-fire-ocean-helicopter-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/plaskett-fire-ocean-helicopter-1536x866.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A helicopter flies over the ocean near the Plaskett Fire on Aug. 26, 2026, in California. 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Palantir earned nearly \u003ca href=\"https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2026/Palantir-Reports-Q2-2026-U-S--Comm-Revenue-Growth-of-149-YY-and-Revenue-Growth-of-93-YY-Raises-FY-2026-Revenue-Guidance-to-82-YY-Growth-and-U-S--Comm-Revenue-Guidance-to-134-YY-Crushing-Consensus-Expectations/\">$2 billion\u003c/a> in net income, after expenses, during the first half of this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The core of our business, in the United States, continues to expand at an unrelenting and breakneck pace,” Karp said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Thursday, California lawmakers approved a bill sponsored by the California Nurses Association that would establish some guardrails in the deployment of AI in patient care. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1979\">bill\u003c/a>, by Assemblymember Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, would prohibit a health facility or doctor’s office from using an AI tool to perform any function that requires a professional license. 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The software “recommendations usually end up being something unfavorable for staffing or the nurses or patient care in general, or all three together.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260827-Palantir-Nurses-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260827-Palantir-Nurses-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260827-Palantir-Nurses-04-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/260827-Palantir-Nurses-04-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nurses block the street in Palo Alto outside the headquarters of artificial intelligence giant Palantir on Aug. 27, 2026. The actions cited the “deadly costs” of Palantir’s products, including its development and operation of ELITE, an application used by federal agents that identifies people for arrest using, in part, Medicaid data. (Courtesy of National Nurses United)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hcahealthcare.com/about\">HCA Healthcare\u003c/a>, which operates about 190 hospitals in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, did not respond to a request for comment. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ucla\">UCLA\u003c/a> is launching the nation’s first digital humanities department and bachelor’s degree this fall. The new discipline combines classical humanities with technical know-how to examine a digitized and increasingly AI-enhanced world.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The major fuses technological tools for statistical analysis, coding, 3D mapping and data visualization with traditional humanities subjects like history, literature and global cultures. It’s a multidisciplinary approach to education that capitalizes on employers’ growing desire for recent graduates to think critically while also being able to harness new technology. And the major requires a great deal of teamwork among students, another skill hiring managers seek. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Students will learn how new technologies shape culture and the human biases that enter into the use of these new tools. Top of mind is the rise of generative artificial intelligence and training students to use it ethically while also understanding how easily it can produce misleading content.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12051530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students walk past Royce Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus in Los Angeles, on Aug. 15, 2024. (Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Todd Presner is a UCLA professor of European languages and transcultural studies, and co-led the effort to create the digital humanities department. He said contemporary culture has witnessed a rift between computational subjects and the traditional humanities, and both are enhanced by merging the two. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s actually at our own peril when scientists are not speaking to folks in the humanities with historical knowledge, ethical knowledge, cultural knowledge, right?” he said. “And at the same time, I’d say when the humanities are not understanding the technologies in the world today, they also could be seen as irrelevant.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Presner has taught a course showing students how to get under the hood of large language models, which store the reading material generative AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT use to spit out answers. “Students can essentially upload their own training data to some of these smaller models and see how easily they can be manipulated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New major, old discipline\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>UCLA students will be able to declare digital humanities as a major this year, but campus professors have taught courses in the discipline for more than two decades. It’s the second most popular minor at UCLA, which was one reason the school decided to transform it into a major, said Alexandra Minna Stern, dean of the UCLA College Division of Humanities where digital humanities is based. Last academic year, 750 UCLA undergraduate students took a course in digital humanities. Stern expects 50 to 100 students to eventually declare the major, and would be thrilled if 40 signed up this year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The department will launch with 23 faculty, including lecturers, plus four staff members. Stern eventually wants a few more faculty, but UCLA’s currently under a hiring freeze. No academic unit at the university was cut to make way for the new digital humanities. Faculty hail from multiple humanities fields as well as information studies and data science, so classes will occur across several campus buildings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1319\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2227778784-scaled-e1787859357158.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12051319\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People walk on the plaza outside Royce Hall on the UCLA campus on July 30, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said at least one museum will provide internship opportunities. Based in the Los Angeles area, the Wende Museum specializes in collecting artifacts and oral histories of refugees as well as other dissident groups and digitizing them — a key aspect of digital humanities training. She aims to secure similar arrangements with other museums so students can further apply what they learn in professional settings. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The major’s introductory courses are \u003ca href=\"https://catalog.registrar.ucla.edu/major/2026/DigitalHumanitiesBA\">clustered around\u003c/a> data networks, such as statistical reasoning, and courses on culture, such as the symbolic history of Jerusalem or film depictions of antiquity. Upper division courses can center on how contemporary technology is shaped by political, cultural, and social forces or a class on social media data analysis.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One student’s experience\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kedaar Sridhar, 26, graduated from UCLA in 2022 with a computer science major and a minor in digital humanities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The social media data analysis course was his favorite in the minor. For a class project, he and a team of students analyzed the hashtag “facemask” on social media while much of the world was still in the throes of COVID-19. He relied on the coding language Python as well as sentiment analysis tools to classify how different countries felt about face masks in public based on the social media posts featuring that hashtag. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If he could do college all over, he’d major in the new digital humanities program because it combines the application of contemporary data software with the probing analytical questions that the humanities embody.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12050663\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty-1536x982.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People walk on the UCLA campus on July 30, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think computer science is the what, digital humanities is the how and the why, and how do you actually apply it, and why is it important to be applied,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sridhar credits the minor with landing him an internship at Microsoft. All the applicants knew computer science, but digital humanities distinguished him, he said. An interviewer asked what the minor entailed, and he said “it’s human-centered data storytelling, working with groups, working in projects, getting a tangible outcome.”\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The interviewer said that’s what they’re looking for.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the past year he co-founded his own company, Grantlytics, an AI-based platform focused on helping nonprofits fundraise by writing proposals, finding funding opportunities and identifying promising donors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As an employer, he’s looking for much of what the digital humanities major offers. Without it, Sridhar would prefer a candidate with a humanities and coding or math background. But digital humanities “automatically is that interdisciplinary nature because it combines those two worlds together.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What employers want\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sridhar’s preference for someone well-rounded appears to be backed by recent survey data.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hiring managers who recruit recent college graduates indicated this year that these workers are mostly employable, but with caveats. The \u003ca href=\"https://naceweb.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2026/publication/research-report/2026-job-outlook-report-spring-update.pdf\">annual survey\u003c/a> by the National Association of Colleges and Employers shows that the skills recent graduates are most proficient in aren’t what employers prioritize most. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For example, 99% of hiring managers say oral and written communication and persuasion skills are important. But the same hiring managers indicated \u003ca href=\"https://naceweb.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2026/publication/research-report/2026-job-outlook-report-spring-update.pdf#page=26\">that just 55%\u003c/a> of recent college graduates score well in communication skills. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The same goes for critical thinking: Around 94% of hiring managers rate \u003ca href=\"https://www.naceweb.org/career-readiness/competencies/career-readiness-defined#competencies\">this competency\u003c/a> highly, but they report that just half of recent graduates are able to gather data from diverse sources and draw conclusions or work well in a fast-paced setting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Where recent graduates do better is in technology, but hiring managers care slightly less about those. About 75% of employers place high importance on adapting to new technology or using tech to achieve company goals; they say that about 65% of recent grads are competent in that skill set. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stern, the dean, is careful not to overstate the promise of digital humanities to halt the freefall of the broader humanities as a major students want. The share of U.S. college students majoring in fields such as literature, history, philosophy and foreign languages is at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amacad.org/humanities-indicators/higher-education/bachelors-degrees-humanities\">historic nadir\u003c/a> — just 8% of degrees conferred were in the humanities, down from nearly 15% nearly two decades ago. The trend at UCLA is similar.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>She knows things are tough for humanities departments, but “an art history grad is more likely to get a job these days than a computer science grad,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:explore:outcomes-by-major\">citing data tracked\u003c/a> by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. “There are ebbs and flows across time” in which degrees lead to jobs and that students gravitate toward.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/08/ucla-digital-humanities/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Top of mind is the rise of generative artificial intelligence and training students to use it ethically while also understanding how easily it can produce misleading content.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1337\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12051530\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAAP-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students walk past Royce Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus in Los Angeles, on Aug. 15, 2024. 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It’s the second most popular minor at UCLA, which was one reason the school decided to transform it into a major, said Alexandra Minna Stern, dean of the UCLA College Division of Humanities where digital humanities is based. Last academic year, 750 UCLA undergraduate students took a course in digital humanities. Stern expects 50 to 100 students to eventually declare the major, and would be thrilled if 40 signed up this year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The department will launch with 23 faculty, including lecturers, plus four staff members. Stern eventually wants a few more faculty, but UCLA’s currently under a hiring freeze. No academic unit at the university was cut to make way for the new digital humanities. Faculty hail from multiple humanities fields as well as information studies and data science, so classes will occur across several campus buildings.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1319\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2227778784-scaled-e1787859357158.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12051319\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People walk on the plaza outside Royce Hall on the UCLA campus on July 30, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said at least one museum will provide internship opportunities. Based in the Los Angeles area, the Wende Museum specializes in collecting artifacts and oral histories of refugees as well as other dissident groups and digitizing them — a key aspect of digital humanities training. She aims to secure similar arrangements with other museums so students can further apply what they learn in professional settings. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The major’s introductory courses are \u003ca href=\"https://catalog.registrar.ucla.edu/major/2026/DigitalHumanitiesBA\">clustered around\u003c/a> data networks, such as statistical reasoning, and courses on culture, such as the symbolic history of Jerusalem or film depictions of antiquity. Upper division courses can center on how contemporary technology is shaped by political, cultural, and social forces or a class on social media data analysis.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One student’s experience\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kedaar Sridhar, 26, graduated from UCLA in 2022 with a computer science major and a minor in digital humanities. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The social media data analysis course was his favorite in the minor. For a class project, he and a team of students analyzed the hashtag “facemask” on social media while much of the world was still in the throes of COVID-19. He relied on the coding language Python as well as sentiment analysis tools to classify how different countries felt about face masks in public based on the social media posts featuring that hashtag. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If he could do college all over, he’d major in the new digital humanities program because it combines the application of contemporary data software with the probing analytical questions that the humanities embody.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1278\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12050663\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty-1536x982.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People walk on the UCLA campus on July 30, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I think computer science is the what, digital humanities is the how and the why, and how do you actually apply it, and why is it important to be applied,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sridhar credits the minor with landing him an internship at Microsoft. All the applicants knew computer science, but digital humanities distinguished him, he said. An interviewer asked what the minor entailed, and he said “it’s human-centered data storytelling, working with groups, working in projects, getting a tangible outcome.”\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The interviewer said that’s what they’re looking for.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the past year he co-founded his own company, Grantlytics, an AI-based platform focused on helping nonprofits fundraise by writing proposals, finding funding opportunities and identifying promising donors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>As an employer, he’s looking for much of what the digital humanities major offers. Without it, Sridhar would prefer a candidate with a humanities and coding or math background. But digital humanities “automatically is that interdisciplinary nature because it combines those two worlds together.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What employers want\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sridhar’s preference for someone well-rounded appears to be backed by recent survey data.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Hiring managers who recruit recent college graduates indicated this year that these workers are mostly employable, but with caveats. The \u003ca href=\"https://naceweb.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2026/publication/research-report/2026-job-outlook-report-spring-update.pdf\">annual survey\u003c/a> by the National Association of Colleges and Employers shows that the skills recent graduates are most proficient in aren’t what employers prioritize most. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For example, 99% of hiring managers say oral and written communication and persuasion skills are important. But the same hiring managers indicated \u003ca href=\"https://naceweb.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2026/publication/research-report/2026-job-outlook-report-spring-update.pdf#page=26\">that just 55%\u003c/a> of recent college graduates score well in communication skills. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The same goes for critical thinking: Around 94% of hiring managers rate \u003ca href=\"https://www.naceweb.org/career-readiness/competencies/career-readiness-defined#competencies\">this competency\u003c/a> highly, but they report that just half of recent graduates are able to gather data from diverse sources and draw conclusions or work well in a fast-paced setting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Where recent graduates do better is in technology, but hiring managers care slightly less about those. About 75% of employers place high importance on adapting to new technology or using tech to achieve company goals; they say that about 65% of recent grads are competent in that skill set. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stern, the dean, is careful not to overstate the promise of digital humanities to halt the freefall of the broader humanities as a major students want. The share of U.S. college students majoring in fields such as literature, history, philosophy and foreign languages is at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amacad.org/humanities-indicators/higher-education/bachelors-degrees-humanities\">historic nadir\u003c/a> — just 8% of degrees conferred were in the humanities, down from nearly 15% nearly two decades ago. The trend at UCLA is similar.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>She knows things are tough for humanities departments, but “an art history grad is more likely to get a job these days than a computer science grad,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:explore:outcomes-by-major\">citing data tracked\u003c/a> by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. “There are ebbs and flows across time” in which degrees lead to jobs and that students gravitate toward.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/08/ucla-digital-humanities/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>Tourists are once more being urged to stay away from Big Sur as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12094533/big-sur-wildfire-map-evacuation-timber-fire-august-2026\">Highway 1 closed\u003c/a> Thursday afternoon amid the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/timber-fire\">Timber Fire\u003c/a> — now the \u003ca href=\"https://next.kqed.org/news/12096883/timber-fire-now-third-largest-in-state-chp-announces-highway-1-closure\">third-largest\u003c/a> in the state this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After igniting earlier this month, the fire is still only 23% contained and has burned more than 19,000 acres of remote coastal terrain. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Warm, dry conditions and immediate danger to people and structures had started to wane last week. But new fire growth on Wednesday and “critical \u003ca href=\"https://wfca.com/wildfire-articles/what-is-backburning/\">backburning\u003c/a> operations” — a burning technique used to remove fuels and stop forward progress of a fire — scheduled for Thursday have prompted Monterey County officials to implement new \u003ca href=\"https://www.readymontereycounty.org/emergency/alerts\">evacuation orders\u003c/a> on Thursday afternoon. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-4-scaled-e1786481390761.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094806\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A view of flames and smoke as the Timber Fire continues in Big Sur, California, on Aug. 10, 2026. (Tayfun Coskun/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Overnight, the Timber Fire pushed east and north deep into the Ventana Wilderness,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2026/8/8/timber-fire\">a CalFire update\u003c/a> said. “Critical fire weather remains the primary driver of this fire.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A second fire, named \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2026/8/26/plaskett-fire/updates/79674372-a8ef-4d57-8c94-22f093f69ab7\">the Plaskett Fire\u003c/a>, broke out south of the Timber Fire in Monterey County around 11 a.m. on Wednesday. As of Thursday, this new fire is 50 acres and is 0% contained, prompting additional evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Also on Thursday, the National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ530&warncounty=CAC053&firewxzone=CAZ530&local_place1=2%20Miles%20SE%20Big%20Sur%20CA&product1=Red+Flag+Warning&lat=36.2529&lon=-121.7873\">issued a Red Flag Warning \u003c/a>in the region for Friday morning, anticipating lightning amid isolated thunderstorms and winds up to 50 miles per hour.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Lightning strikes may result in new fire ignitions,” the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘Do not come to Big Sur’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This coastal stretch is home to many of Big Sur’s most popular hotels, restaurants and campgrounds, as well as state parks. Last week, some of those businesses had begun reopening and welcoming visitors back, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.henrymiller.org/\">Henry Miller Memorial Library\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.phoenixshopbigsur.com/\">Nepenthe Restaurant.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#advice\">I have plans to visit Big Sur. What should I do?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But a social media post from the library on Wednesday alerted would-be visitors that they would be closing once again starting Thursday “until further notice.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Again, we implore you: Do not come to Big Sur,” the business \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DchPwPBkiSy/?hl=en\">wrote on Instagram.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Aengus Wagner, wine and service director for Nepenthe, said the restaurant had just reopened on Aug. 20 after being closed for 10 days during the initial outbreak of the Timber Fire. Now, they’re closing again at least through Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s not fun to close a restaurant ever, let alone twice in a month,” Wagner said, “let alone that being your busiest month of the year when all your employees are collecting their acorns for the winter.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After reopening briefly, all state parks in Big Sur — \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=582\">Andrew Molera\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=578\">Julia Pfeiffer Burns, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=570\">Pfeiffer Big Sur \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=565\">Point Sur\u003c/a> state parks — are once again \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30009\">closed\u003c/a> due to the threat from the Timber Fire.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stretches of the coast to the north and south of the mandatory evacuation zone are currently under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan\">evacuation warnings\u003c/a> — the step that comes before an evacuation order, which acts as a warning to residents that they may need to evacuate soon. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Highway 1 is closed again\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1544014817765868&set=pb.100064720926577.-2207520000\">Monterey California Highway Patrol announced on Facebook\u003c/a> that Highway 1 through the area is closed starting at 1 p.m. on Thursday from just south of Andrew Molera State Park to the north and Deetjens Big Sur Inn to the south. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The status of Highway 1 has been changeable and unpredictable for drivers in the last month. After its initial closure in early August, the road reopened to drivers on Aug. 22.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If you’re looking at alternative routes around Big Sur right now, bear in mind that the one narrow road connecting Big Sur south of Lucia to Highway 101 over the Santa Lucia mountains — \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nacimiento-Fergusson+Rd,+California/@35.9907059,-121.3662903,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x809296a8a7f9159b:0x70441b9f4863105b!8m2!3d35.9907059!4d-121.3637154!16s%2Fm%2F02rk30k!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDgwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\">Nacimiento-Fergusson Road\u003c/a> — is notoriously steep and winding.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fire closures have ‘huge impact’ on businesses, locals\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wagner said employees at Nepenthe are “locking down the hatches and getting ready to head home,” after the abrupt announcement last night that the highway would close down again. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While the closure is going to have a “huge impact” on the business, Wagner said given the near-constant back-and-forth of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069761/californias-highway-1-fully-opens-through-big-sur-years-after-major-landslides\">openings and closures for years,\u003c/a> “we’re kind of professional at it now.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We have less than three hours to complete that to get home, to not be visible on the highway if we choose to stay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office is telling anyone considering staying behind to be “prepared to self-sustain for up to 7 days.” Wagner said many locals were processing the news at a vigil last night held for \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereycountynow.com/opinion/local_spin/three-people-are-killed-in-one-weekend-amid-dystopian-reality-of-car-week/article_e9614c2c-4c23-4246-aec6-8e41c5fa10a9.html\">a local killed on Highway 1 earlier this month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“People had to make a quick decision,” he said. “My feeling is most people stay.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wagner, who grew up in Big Sur and came back in 1991 to make it his full-time residence, said he’s watched fires burn on Mount Manuel near his home in both 2008 and 2016, and “now, I’m not afraid of it,” he said. “Unless the weather pattern changes dramatically, historically, the way this is moving, it’s just a big pain in the ass.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He said locals are grateful to the firefighting efforts that — so far — have meant no loss of buildings or life in the blaze. And they’re resilient, he said, given the past 10 years of fire and rain affecting Highway 1’s status.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tourists, on the other hand, he said, “have no idea.” Weddings are having to be relocated, and last week’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.seemonterey.com/events/monterey-car-week/\">Monterey Car Week\u003c/a> — an event which organizers say draws \u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/monterey-car-week--pebble-beach-concours-delegance-returns-august-716-2026-302839650.html\">100,000 people \u003c/a>every year — was “another huge debacle,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are open any chance we can,” he said. “We just remind [tourists]: we’ll be here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"advice\">Advice for visitors to Big Sur right now\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If you have existing plans to visit the Big Sur region, keep a close eye out for any email or voicemail notification from your hotel advising you of any cancellations — and your options. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If you’re trying to get in contact with your accommodation yourself, bear in mind that the property may have been directly affected by the Timber Fire evacuations, and that cellphone service in the area is spotty.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-getty-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094837\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-getty-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-getty-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-getty-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A bulldozer helps battle the Timber Fire in Big Sur, California, on Aug. 10, 2026. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>See Monterey, the county’s tourism group, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.seemonterey.com/plan-your-visit/travel-alert/\">advising visitors\u003c/a> who are already in the affected areas of Big Sur to “follow evacuation instructions, take essential belongings and medications, and bring their pets.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to See Monterey, several hotels throughout Monterey County are now also “offering evacuation rates for residents and visitors in need,” through \u003ca href=\"https://www.seemonterey.com/resources/community-connection/\">a spreadsheet of available lodgings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Monterey County has established a temporary emergency shelter at \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/jD58jfurSmbyjGdG8\">Carmel Mission Inn Conference Room \u003c/a>in Carmel. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Big Sur Timber Fire links and resources\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2026/8/8/timber-fire\">CalFire’s Timber Fire evacuation map and updates\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30009\">Current California state park closures\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.seemonterey.com/plan-your-visit/travel-alert/\">See Monterey’s spreadsheet of hotel evacuation rates\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/?view=36.3458%2C-121.8507%2C12&layers=full_closures%2Clane_closures%2Cspeed\">Caltrans map of highway closures\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Tourists are once more being urged to stay away from Big Sur as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12094533/big-sur-wildfire-map-evacuation-timber-fire-august-2026\">Highway 1 closed\u003c/a> Thursday afternoon amid the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/timber-fire\">Timber Fire\u003c/a> — now the \u003ca href=\"https://next.kqed.org/news/12096883/timber-fire-now-third-largest-in-state-chp-announces-highway-1-closure\">third-largest\u003c/a> in the state this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After igniting earlier this month, the fire is still only 23% contained and has burned more than 19,000 acres of remote coastal terrain. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Warm, dry conditions and immediate danger to people and structures had started to wane last week. But new fire growth on Wednesday and “critical \u003ca href=\"https://wfca.com/wildfire-articles/what-is-backburning/\">backburning\u003c/a> operations” — a burning technique used to remove fuels and stop forward progress of a fire — scheduled for Thursday have prompted Monterey County officials to implement new \u003ca href=\"https://www.readymontereycounty.org/emergency/alerts\">evacuation orders\u003c/a> on Thursday afternoon. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-4-scaled-e1786481390761.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094806\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A view of flames and smoke as the Timber Fire continues in Big Sur, California, on Aug. 10, 2026. (Tayfun Coskun/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Overnight, the Timber Fire pushed east and north deep into the Ventana Wilderness,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2026/8/8/timber-fire\">a CalFire update\u003c/a> said. “Critical fire weather remains the primary driver of this fire.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A second fire, named \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2026/8/26/plaskett-fire/updates/79674372-a8ef-4d57-8c94-22f093f69ab7\">the Plaskett Fire\u003c/a>, broke out south of the Timber Fire in Monterey County around 11 a.m. on Wednesday. As of Thursday, this new fire is 50 acres and is 0% contained, prompting additional evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Also on Thursday, the National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ530&warncounty=CAC053&firewxzone=CAZ530&local_place1=2%20Miles%20SE%20Big%20Sur%20CA&product1=Red+Flag+Warning&lat=36.2529&lon=-121.7873\">issued a Red Flag Warning \u003c/a>in the region for Friday morning, anticipating lightning amid isolated thunderstorms and winds up to 50 miles per hour.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Lightning strikes may result in new fire ignitions,” the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">‘Do not come to Big Sur’\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This coastal stretch is home to many of Big Sur’s most popular hotels, restaurants and campgrounds, as well as state parks. Last week, some of those businesses had begun reopening and welcoming visitors back, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.henrymiller.org/\">Henry Miller Memorial Library\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.phoenixshopbigsur.com/\">Nepenthe Restaurant.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#advice\">I have plans to visit Big Sur. What should I do?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But a social media post from the library on Wednesday alerted would-be visitors that they would be closing once again starting Thursday “until further notice.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Again, we implore you: Do not come to Big Sur,” the business \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DchPwPBkiSy/?hl=en\">wrote on Instagram.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Aengus Wagner, wine and service director for Nepenthe, said the restaurant had just reopened on Aug. 20 after being closed for 10 days during the initial outbreak of the Timber Fire. Now, they’re closing again at least through Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s not fun to close a restaurant ever, let alone twice in a month,” Wagner said, “let alone that being your busiest month of the year when all your employees are collecting their acorns for the winter.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After reopening briefly, all state parks in Big Sur — \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=582\">Andrew Molera\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=578\">Julia Pfeiffer Burns, \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=570\">Pfeiffer Big Sur \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=565\">Point Sur\u003c/a> state parks — are once again \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=30009\">closed\u003c/a> due to the threat from the Timber Fire.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Stretches of the coast to the north and south of the mandatory evacuation zone are currently under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11834901/fire-evacuation-what-actually-happens-and-how-can-you-plan\">evacuation warnings\u003c/a> — the step that comes before an evacuation order, which acts as a warning to residents that they may need to evacuate soon. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Highway 1 is closed again\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1544014817765868&set=pb.100064720926577.-2207520000\">Monterey California Highway Patrol announced on Facebook\u003c/a> that Highway 1 through the area is closed starting at 1 p.m. on Thursday from just south of Andrew Molera State Park to the north and Deetjens Big Sur Inn to the south. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The status of Highway 1 has been changeable and unpredictable for drivers in the last month. After its initial closure in early August, the road reopened to drivers on Aug. 22.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If you’re looking at alternative routes around Big Sur right now, bear in mind that the one narrow road connecting Big Sur south of Lucia to Highway 101 over the Santa Lucia mountains — \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nacimiento-Fergusson+Rd,+California/@35.9907059,-121.3662903,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x809296a8a7f9159b:0x70441b9f4863105b!8m2!3d35.9907059!4d-121.3637154!16s%2Fm%2F02rk30k!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDgwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\">Nacimiento-Fergusson Road\u003c/a> — is notoriously steep and winding.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fire closures have ‘huge impact’ on businesses, locals\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wagner said employees at Nepenthe are “locking down the hatches and getting ready to head home,” after the abrupt announcement last night that the highway would close down again. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While the closure is going to have a “huge impact” on the business, Wagner said given the near-constant back-and-forth of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069761/californias-highway-1-fully-opens-through-big-sur-years-after-major-landslides\">openings and closures for years,\u003c/a> “we’re kind of professional at it now.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We have less than three hours to complete that to get home, to not be visible on the highway if we choose to stay,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office is telling anyone considering staying behind to be “prepared to self-sustain for up to 7 days.” Wagner said many locals were processing the news at a vigil last night held for \u003ca href=\"https://www.montereycountynow.com/opinion/local_spin/three-people-are-killed-in-one-weekend-amid-dystopian-reality-of-car-week/article_e9614c2c-4c23-4246-aec6-8e41c5fa10a9.html\">a local killed on Highway 1 earlier this month\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“People had to make a quick decision,” he said. “My feeling is most people stay.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Wagner, who grew up in Big Sur and came back in 1991 to make it his full-time residence, said he’s watched fires burn on Mount Manuel near his home in both 2008 and 2016, and “now, I’m not afraid of it,” he said. “Unless the weather pattern changes dramatically, historically, the way this is moving, it’s just a big pain in the ass.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>He said locals are grateful to the firefighting efforts that — so far — have meant no loss of buildings or life in the blaze. And they’re resilient, he said, given the past 10 years of fire and rain affecting Highway 1’s status.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Tourists, on the other hand, he said, “have no idea.” Weddings are having to be relocated, and last week’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.seemonterey.com/events/monterey-car-week/\">Monterey Car Week\u003c/a> — an event which organizers say draws \u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/monterey-car-week--pebble-beach-concours-delegance-returns-august-716-2026-302839650.html\">100,000 people \u003c/a>every year — was “another huge debacle,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are open any chance we can,” he said. “We just remind [tourists]: we’ll be here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"advice\">Advice for visitors to Big Sur right now\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If you have existing plans to visit the Big Sur region, keep a close eye out for any email or voicemail notification from your hotel advising you of any cancellations — and your options. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If you’re trying to get in contact with your accommodation yourself, bear in mind that the property may have been directly affected by the Timber Fire evacuations, and that cellphone service in the area is spotty.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-getty-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12094837\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-getty-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-getty-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/timber-fire-getty-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A bulldozer helps battle the Timber Fire in Big Sur, California, on Aug. 10, 2026. 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Bernie Sanders is set to speak in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2026. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But opponents say it’s a misguided effort to tax the wealthy and could result in billionaires fleeing to other states.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Passing a billionaire tax in California is not a long-term viable solution to providing affordable healthcare,” member Lanier Coles said. “We need \u003cem>federal\u003c/em> tax reform to address the growing inequities and concentration of wealth.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One member in the audience fired back: “That’s why you lost to Trump twice.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The 17-4 vote fell along moderate-progressive lines. The measure would create a one-time 5% tax on Californians with a net worth that exceeds $1 billion who lived in the state as of Jan. 1, 2026. 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In addition to the local and state Democratic Party split, Newsom and former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, the Democratic frontrunner for governor, have both opposed Proposition 40. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Opponents of the measure say the one-time tax would not produce the long-term funding needed to backfill healthcare cuts from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Groups opposing Proposition 40 include Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California and the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California healthcare unions back the state billionaire tax and have received the support of Vermont Sen. 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(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A no vote on Proposition 40 “would reinforce the public perception that our local Democratic Party is more responsive to the billionaire interest who spent heavily to elect the current majority than healthcare workers and working families,” former Supervisor Gordon Mar said. “The federal healthcare cuts facing California are not minor … Prop. 40 is the only proposal before voters and on the table more generally that approaches the scale of this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco Democratic Party members Emma Hare and Eric Kingsbury put forward a resolution calling for a national wealth tax, which Newsom has also proposed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“American government increasingly answers to an oligarchy of a few hundred households rather than to the more than three hundred million Americans it exists to serve,” reads the resolution, co-sponsored by Supervisor Matt Dorsey and party member Joe Sangirardi. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If wealthy people know how to do anything really well, it’s to get through loopholes, and I think this measure has a lot of loopholes,” Hare said. “I think we can do better.”\u003c/p>\n",
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In addition to the local and state Democratic Party split, Newsom and former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, the Democratic frontrunner for governor, have both opposed Proposition 40. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Opponents of the measure say the one-time tax would not produce the long-term funding needed to backfill healthcare cuts from President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Groups opposing Proposition 40 include Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California and the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California healthcare unions back the state billionaire tax and have received the support of Vermont Sen. 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