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"content": "\u003cp>The federal government has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057777/\">officially shut down\u003c/a> after Congress failed to pass a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/government-shutdown\">stopgap funding bill\u003c/a> by Tuesday’s deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And one big concern from residents across the Bay Area: “Will the government shutdown stop my Social Security benefits?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The short answer: No, your \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-chuck-schumer-20e54a0f5e4fee909d0f9ea2c07c15e1\">social security payments\u003c/a> should still go out and they \u003ca href=\"https://blog.ssa.gov/what-the-federal-government-shutdown-means-to-you/\">should still be on time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Social Security Administration confirmed Wednesday in an email to KQED: Following their \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/agency/shutdown/materials/contingency-plan-09-24-25.pdf\">September contingency plan\u003c/a>, “Social Security beneficiaries would continue receiving their Social Security, Social Security Disability Insurance, and SSI payments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 6.8 million people in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/deposit/GIS/data/Reports/T2StateSum.htm\">receive Social Security payments\u003c/a>. But unlike social security, some other kinds of benefits and social services will be disrupted during this shutdown — especially if it’s a long one. Read on to learn more about how benefits operate during a government shutdown, and what to watch out for when it comes to receiving your payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>To be absolutely clear: My Social Security payments will continue during the shutdown?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, your social security payments — including retirement, disability and survivor benefits — will continue to go out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is because Social Security is funded by “\u003ca href=\"https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/#the-difference-between-mandatory-discretionary-and-supplemental-spending\">mandatory spending\u003c/a>” — meaning it’s not tied to the kind of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/business/government-shutdown-social-security-trump.html\">annual budget negotiations by Congress\u003c/a> that have resulted in this shutdown. Social Security’s funding is already authorized by the Social Security Act, and therefore secured by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035251\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A closed entrance to the Social Security Administration headquarters sits empty in Woodlawn, Md., on March 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Wesley Lapointe/The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An exception to this is Supplemental Security Income, which is funded through these annual Congressional budget votes. However, experts have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/business/government-shutdown-social-security-trump.html\">told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that SSI payments are available through December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to know: Completely unrelated to the shutdown, on Tuesday the federal government began to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-paper-checks-social-security-33cc5d4a6739e537ac4204718720277b\">phase out paper checks\u003c/a> for most government programs, including Social Security, in favor of direct deposits. If the recipient does not have a bank account, they will receive a Direct Express card or — if no other options are available — they can still request a paper check. Nearly 34,000 Californians still rely on \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/deposit/GIS/data/Reports/T2StateSum.htm\">check payments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will my local Social Security Administration office be open during the shutdown?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes: Social Security Administration offices in the Bay Area will still be open during the government shutdown. You can find your local office on Social Security’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/locator/?URL=%2Fapps6z%2FFOLO%2Ffo001.jsp\">website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While services at these offices will be reduced, you’ll still be able to receive the following services there:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Apply for benefits\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Request an appeal\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Change your address or direct deposit information\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Report a death\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Verify or change your citizenship status\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Replace a lost or missing Social Security payment\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Obtain a critical payment\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Change a representative payee\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Make a change in your living arrangement or income (SSI recipients only), and\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Obtain a new or replacement Social Security card.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What Social Security-related services will be affected during the shutdown?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the Social Security Administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/agency/shutdown/materials/contingency-plan-09-24-25.pdf\">shutdown plan\u003c/a>, almost 12% of the agency’s staff will be furloughed — that is, not working — during the shutdown. 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According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/business/government-shutdown-social-security-trump.html\">the New York Times\u003c/a>, this measurement adjusts payments for price inflation, and SSA is unable to do this without the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is ceasing operations during the shutdown.[aside postID=news_12058137 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TrumpsSignageOrder-36-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What other benefits could be in jeopardy from a shutdown?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The longer the shutdown continues, the more programs could be at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last U.S. federal government shutdown, during the first Trump administration in 2018, was also the longest in history at 35 days. According to officials working for Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (D-10), 5 million Californians who are beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) could eventually lose access to their funds if another shutdown of this length occurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the Food Research and Action Center say that SNAP recipients should \u003ca href=\"https://frac.org/blog/how-will-government-shutdown-affect-snap-benefits\">still receive their October payments\u003c/a>, but expressed concern about the timeliness of payments after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) — another nutrition program geared toward women, infants and children, which serves more than 972,400 Californians — could also \u003ca href=\"https://www.nwica.org/press-releases/National-WIC-Association-Emphasizes-WIC-Has-Funds-to-Remain-Open-Temporarily-in-Government-Shutdown-Urges-Congressional-Action\">potentially be impacted\u003c/a> by a longer shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting by KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/abandlamudi\">Adhiti Bandlamudi\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\">Carly Severn\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Social Security’s funding is already authorized by the Social Security Act, and therefore secured by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035251\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A closed entrance to the Social Security Administration headquarters sits empty in Woodlawn, Md., on March 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Wesley Lapointe/The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An exception to this is Supplemental Security Income, which is funded through these annual Congressional budget votes. However, experts have \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/business/government-shutdown-social-security-trump.html\">told the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that SSI payments are available through December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something else to know: Completely unrelated to the shutdown, on Tuesday the federal government began to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-paper-checks-social-security-33cc5d4a6739e537ac4204718720277b\">phase out paper checks\u003c/a> for most government programs, including Social Security, in favor of direct deposits. If the recipient does not have a bank account, they will receive a Direct Express card or — if no other options are available — they can still request a paper check. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a Sunday in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, a prize wheel promising zany items invited passersby to try their luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out on an afternoon walk, Matt Melnicki took a spin. The wheel landed on a picture of a skull and crossbones surrounded by jelly beans, meaning he had to eat a mystery flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melnicki guessed a red jelly bean was either cappuccino or liver and onion. He took a bite and grimaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It … doesn’t taste like coffee,” Melnicki said, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wheel of fortune and a host of other activities, including whimsical petitions — “Abolish the raven vs. crow distinction” and art supplies for drawing on strangers’ faces, seemed fantastically varied, but fit the name of the station’s organizers: Creative Mutual Aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00490_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00490_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00490_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00490_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00490_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Mitchell (left) sits with his friend at a Creative Mutual Aid tabling session at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco on Aug. 31, 2025. Creative Mutual Aid, a group of Sara Rubenstein and Joe Mitchell, aims to bring mutual aid to San Francisco parks, whether it’s through free trinkets or providing household items. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mutual aid, an idea that gained traction during the pandemic, is defined broadly as people caring for one another by building “new social relations that are more survivable” than those traditionally provided (or not) by the government, according to some researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conventional examples of mutual aid include online crowdfunding to help people cover emergency bills or neighbors sharing food or skills with one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Creative Mutual Aid, a volunteer-led collective, also provides this kind of grassroots support to the community. At their pop-ups, there’s a “Free Mall” — usually a blanket laid out with donated items, such as canned food, used books and clothes. They also provide free fentanyl test strips in a heart-shaped tin.[aside postID=news_12055649 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-JackieKeliiaa-01-BL_qed.jpg']“You can give something to someone who’s spending, you know, more nights under the stars than they’d like to,” said Joe Mitchell, an organizer with Creative Mutual Aid. “Give them some toilet paper, give somebody some water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, dial their hotline at 252-697-8379 (“MYSTERY”). You’ll hear Sara Rubenstein’s voice saying, “You’ve reached the gifts request hotline. Please make your request, and our links in the chain will fulfill it,” — with the “links” being their community of volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These requests run from the artistic to the absurd, Rubenstein, another organizer, said. One early request was for a painting of a sunset, fulfilled by a community member who created a watercolor for the caller. Someone once requested a blueprint for a time machine. Another there requested a scented bar of soap — an item Rubenstein calls “small acts of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be anything as deep as something helping somebody out of a really depressed state, or it can be something funny — like the other day we got a request for unusual Rice Krispies treats,” Rubenstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once someone texted the line and asked for some words of wisdom. Rubenstein texted back a passage from Herman Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thus, like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of sufferings arise all those works of art in which a single individual lives himself for an hour or so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star … .”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00048_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00048_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00048_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00048_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00048_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wagon houses Creative Mutual Aid’s, “Free Mall” full of trinkets, condoms, and fentanyl testing strips at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco on Aug. 31, 2025. Creative Mutual Aid, a group of Sara Rubenstein and Joe Mitchell, aims to bring mutual aid to San Francisco parks, whether it’s through free trinkets or providing household items. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The response: “Beautiful. I feel my precious fleeting foams arising already.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creative Mutual Aid launched informally around last spring. Rubenstein had recently made the switch from a career as a preschool educator to working at a nonprofit, and she missed the creativity and playfulness of working with children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to figure out how to engage with the public in a way that was natural to me and was my giving self,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, she and Mitchell decided to set up a table of art supplies in Golden Gate Park. At first, only children showed up, but they soon dragged adults along with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubenstein and Mitchell started doing the pop-ups nearly every week, on Sundays from noon to 6 p.m. at public parks in San Francisco.[aside postID=news_12052092 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-25-BL_qed.jpg']The collective mainly does art, but they mentioned needs that might not be met by governments or nonprofits, citing examples like raising money for rent to prevent sudden eviction, or paying emergency medical bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They try to address serious and immediate needs, too. Rubenstein remembered a man named Stanley who approached her on the street. She said he needed a dress shirt and shoes for a job interview he had coming up, and a mobility scooter. Through the Creative Mutual Aid network, they were able to crowdsource what he needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Except for the scooter,” Rubenstein said, undeterred. “That’s still on the list!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a part of the group’s theatrical flair, Mitchell wears chainmail on his head during tabling, and Rubenstein has some wrapped around her hands. Mitchell thinks the attire is an appropriate metaphor for what the group tries to provide, connecting the medieval-themed accessories to the current political atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, let’s face it. These are dark ages. And we want to be a light,” Mitchell said. “ Neighbors have to be around for each other, supporting each other — without needing anything in return.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is supported through donations, volunteers and self-funding. While most interactions are positive, some aren’t, and there are times when hardly anyone shows up at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sunday in the Castro was particularly slow. Toward the end of their shift, a man named Teddy stopped by with his partner, David, spun the wheel and got a temporary tattoo of a skull from Rubenstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00374_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00374_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00374_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00374_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00374_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Rubenstein makes bubbles at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco on Aug. 31, 2025. Creative Mutual Aid, a group of Sara Rubenstein and Joe Mitchell, aims to bring mutual aid to San Francisco parks whether it’s through free trinkets, or providing household items. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before he left, she rummaged under the table and found a bookmark with a teddy bear design to give him. The gratitude was evident in Teddy’s voice and eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you so much. I really appreciate you,” he said. “And you’re our neighbors, yeah?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interactions like that, for Rubenstein, are what make the group’s efforts worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of being part of a beautiful experience for somebody in this destabilized world is a joy and a sacred honor to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>For more than two decades, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California’s\u003c/a> Clean Air Vehicle Decal Program has allowed certain hybrid, electric and hydrogen-powered cars to use the carpool lane — even when they didn’t meet the passenger minimum that other cars are subject to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/end-californias-clean-air-vehicle-decal-program\">CAV comes to an end\u003c/a>, and drivers who would have otherwise qualified for the program will no longer be able to use the HOV lane if driving without passengers, regardless of whether they have a valid clean-air sticker on their vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the California Highway Patrol has confirmed to KQED that drivers will have a 60-day grace period beginning Oct. 1, “during which drivers with a valid clean-air decal will not be cited for driving alone in the carpool lane.” But CHP added that officers could still pull over drivers during this period for a variety of reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Nov. 30 — once 60 days have passed — CHP confirmed that driving without passengers in the carpool lane will result in a citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Why is the CAV Decal Program ending?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California officials originally launched CAV in 1999 to encourage drivers to buy low-emission vehicles. But Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/us-ending-electric-vehicle-carpool-lane-access-program-2025-09-10/\">did not approve\u003c/a> an extension of CAV to enable the program to keep running. “The state needs approval to operate [the program] on federal roadways throughout the state,” said Lindsay Buckley, director of communications of the California Air Resources Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowcanIkeepusingthecarpoollane\">How can I keep using the carpool lane?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“We’re really disappointed in the federal government’s inaction,” added Buckley. “It’s a really smart, cost-effective thing that has played an important role here in driving adoption of clean air vehicles and making Californians aware that these vehicles even exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/end-californias-clean-air-vehicle-decal-program\">state data\u003c/a>, this change will affect around half a million vehicles that currently have the CAV sticker. If you’re one of them, keep reading for what you need to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_32945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1948px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32945 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/07/hybrid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1948\" height=\"1504\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Toyota Prius with a California ‘clean air vehicle’ sticker drives in the carpool lane on Highway 101 on May 6, 2011, in San Rafael, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>I have a CAV decal. What will happen on Oct. 1?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sept. 30 is the last day the CAV program will exist in its current form. State officials previously told KQED that after that date, folks driving solo in the HOV lane could receive a citation from CHP. And misusing the carpool lane could cost you a fine of at least $490.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But CHP recently updated KQED that drivers will have a 60-day grace period starting Oct. 1 where the law enforcement agency will be educating residents about this change. During this 60-day window, however, CHP could still pull over a car with a decal, if officers believe there’s something else the driver is doing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/end-californias-clean-air-vehicle-decal-program\">You don’t have to remove your decal \u003c/a>if you don’t want to.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does this impact all CAV decal colors?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the past, the California Department of Motor Vehicles would send out decals with different colors depending on the year. Different colors have different expiration dates: Yellow and green decals, for example, will expire on Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Aug. 30, even if you’ve just purchased the newest EV on the market, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/clean-air-vehicle-decal\">you can no longer order a new CAV decal.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowcanIkeepusingthecarpoollane\">\u003c/a>What can I do if I want to keep using the carpool lane?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carpool with more people\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Different highways have different regulations for how many people need to be inside a vehicle in order to use the carpool lane legally. On most routes, you need at least two people in the vehicle — including the driver — to enter the HOV lane during peak commute hours. But you need \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/programs/traffic-operations/hov\">at least three people\u003c/a> when driving I-80 (including the Bay Bridge) and I-880 in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider public transit …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As frustrating as it might feel if you’re one of those people who purchased an EV primarily \u003cem>for \u003c/em>the carpool access, you may have to explore new commute options outside of your car.[aside postID=news_12055461 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-31-BL_qed.jpg']“Folks might want to consider public transit as an alternative due to the additional travel time that they may face out of the carpool lane,” Buckley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t ridden BART or AC Transit across the Bay in a while, keep in mind that both agencies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12051362/bart-and-ac-transits-new-schedules-and-changes-start-this-week-check-if-your-routes-affected\">updated their schedules and routes in August\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>… or look into casual carpool \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option for folks commuting from the East Bay to San Francisco is the region’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052422/the-relaunch-of-casual-carpool\">reactivated casual carpool initiative\u003c/a>. Organized informally by riders, two passengers join a driver to form a 3-person carpool. Paused during the pandemic, community members have set up \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/carpool/casual\">more than 20 casual carpool pick-up locations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>See if you qualify for an Express Lanes discount\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are looking for other ways to save time but also money when commuting across the Bay Bridge, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972997/drive-in-the-i-880-express-lanes-you-may-qualify-for-a-cheaper-tollbooth-fee\">you may qualify for Express Lanes START\u003c/a>. This discount program offers drivers who make below a certain income a discount of at least 50% on their tolls when using the I-880 Express Lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How effective was the CAV Decal Program?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since CAV was first created, more than a million Californians have received a decal for their car. Multiple academic studies — most of them from the 2010s — show that the initiative succeeded in convincing drivers to switch over to low-emission vehicles. A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7hw5899j\">2014 UC Davis study\u003c/a> found that 54% of Prius drivers in the nine-county Bay Area said that they chose to purchase a hybrid vehicle primarily for access to the HOV lane. In Los Angeles, that number was 64%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-emission vehicles are now everywhere in the state’s highways: per federal data, roughly one in three electric vehicles in the country are registered in the Golden State. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hope has earned a reputation for what could be called urban foraging — rummaging through South \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/lake-tahoe\">Lake Tahoe\u003c/a> cabins and, more recently, a preschool for food to feed herself and her young cub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the repeated break-ins have proved an effective way for the 5-year-old black bear to find a delicious meal, they’ve also earned her a spot on the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s “conflict bear” list, making her vulnerable to euthanasia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife advocates in the Tahoe area are fighting to stop CDFW from killing Hope, which they say won’t stop the break-ins but would leave her cub, Bounce, an orphan — and other hungry bears more likely to meet the same fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hope should not be singled out as the most notorious, incorrigible break-in bear. Other mother [bears] are all doing the same thing,” said Ann Bryant, the executive director of the BEAR League, a nonprofit that aims to protect bears in the Tahoe region. “So our concern is once they kill her, then are they just going to move on to the next family?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Hope has lived in South Lake Tahoe for about five years, the BEAR League has been keeping a closer eye on her and Bounce since the spring, when they emerged from hibernation hungry and making repeated unwelcome visits to homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1080px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/BEar-League.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058048\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/BEar-League.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/BEar-League.jpg 1080w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/BEar-League-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BEAR League protest in September 2025 to stop the California Department of Fish and Wildlife from trapping Hope and Bounce, two black bears. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the BEAR League)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, staffers at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/bear-753-chased-out-of-preschool/\">South Lake Tahoe preschool\u003c/a> arrived on a Monday morning to find Hope and Bounce inside, intensifying fears that they could pose threats to people in the Tahoe Keys neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Hope’s case illustrates, such run-ins — which are becoming increasingly common in the Tahoe area — pose a threat to the bears, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Tira, a CDFW spokesperson, said Hope is different from many bears in that she breaks into homes repeatedly and is teaching her cub to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s gotten her deemed a “conflict bear,” a CDFW designation that means she could be subject to long-term captivity, relocation or death if she comes in contact with staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bryant said bears like Hope aren’t born with an instinct to enter buildings and rummage through homes. In the Tahoe region, they’ve been conditioned to do so by tourists and others who don’t protect their homes from bears, despite taking over their natural habitat.[aside postID=news_12018132 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/BlackBearTahoeGetty-1020x680.jpg']“When a window’s open and [Hope] smells a pie inside on the counter, she’s going to go in and get it,” Bryant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears are intelligent; when they’re repeatedly lured toward people’s homes by wafts of food, they learn that humans’ kitchens are a good place to find their next meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They think, “This is an easy way to make a living,” Bryant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said most of Hope’s break-ins, especially her early ones, were “soft entries,” using non-destructive means like an open window or unlocked door to get in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Step by Step Early Learning Center, the preschool Hope broke into, Tira said he believes employees might have left a door to the building unlocked or open over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often, though, after a bear makes a soft entry and gets its first taste or two of human food, it can get more aggressive. Hope has broken into multiple homes by smashing windows, according to Bryant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tira said that’s made her “a very serious public safety situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/hope-bounce-aug23.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058051\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/hope-bounce-aug23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/hope-bounce-aug23.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/hope-bounce-aug23-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hope and Bounce in Lake Tahoe on Aug. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the BEAR League)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Mother bears are incredibly protective of their cubs,” he said. “Let’s say these two bears enter a home and there’s elderly people there or children or somebody inadvertently gets in the way of the mother cub. There’s all sorts of scenarios that could play out that we don’t want to see happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said killing Hope isn’t going to neutralize that threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll see after she’s dead, if they succeed: ‘Uh-oh, here’s another break in, and it sure wasn’t Hope,’” Bryant said. “The way to resolve this is not just to kill and kill and kill until there’s no bears left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes that CDFW should focus more on highlighting the conditions that contribute to bear break-ins, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002429/california-camping-tahoe-yosemite-bears-safety-what-to-do-bear-spray\">teaching people how to prevent them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need them to help us tell people that if you don’t want bears in your building, in your home or in your preschool or in your church or wherever, close and lock the windows and doors,” Bryant said, adding that trash should be secured in bear-proof containers, which are abundant around public beaches and rental properties, and food shouldn’t be left in cars or outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeowners can also have bear wires set up around their property that are effective at keeping the animals away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said bear safety education is especially important now, as more people buy second homes in Tahoe and rent during the off-season thanks to the rise in remote work during COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While break-ins have always happened, they became more common as out-of-towners moved in, unaware of the precautions necessary when sharing a habitat with more wild animals.[aside postID=news_12057419 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250604-HikingSFBluffs-03-BL_qed.jpg']“The mistakes they made during that time, until they got with the program and started to research and ask questions … really trained a lot of bears on the tricks of getting into homes and getting into refrigerators,” Bryant said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, the Caldor and Tamarack fires that burned tens of thousands of acres of Tahoe’s backcountry also forced more bears to move into developed parts of the region. Many have stayed because of the easier access to food they found there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the big turning point,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although CDFW has year-round educational programming, Tira said the agency is also responsible for many priorities throughout the state of California, and doesn’t have the staffing to focus on changing local ordinances or zoning that could decrease the frequency of bear break-ins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Hope, he said the department is not actively searching for her to kill her. If Hope is killed, Bryant said Bounce would be placed in a rehabilitation center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past three weeks, groups of volunteers have been watching Hope daily, scurrying her away from neighborhoods and trying to keep her out of trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said they’re hoping to get a message through to state officials: “The citizens and the residents don’t want her to die. 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This legislation strikes that balance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) authored the bill, after his original effort became target No. 1 for Silicon Valley lobbyists\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007323/can-california-still-lead-on-ai-regulation-following-newsoms-veto-of-ai-safety-bill\"> last legislative session\u003c/a> and died on Newsom’s desk. That bill spooked high-profile California politicians, including\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002254/california-bill-to-regulate-catastrophic-effects-of-ai-heads-to-newsoms-desk\"> Nancy Pelosi,\u003c/a> nervous about getting on the wrong side of Big Tech. In last year’s veto message for SB 1047, Newsom announced a working group on AI, which helped lay the groundwork for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020857/california-lawmaker-ready-revive-fight-regulating-ai\">SB 53\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With a technology as transformative as AI, we have a responsibility to support that innovation while putting in place commonsense guardrails to understand and reduce risk,” \u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/governor-newsom-signs-senator-wieners-landmark-ai-law-set-commonsense-guardrails-boost\">wrote\u003c/a> Wiener. “I’m grateful to the Governor for his leadership in convening the Joint California AI Policy Working Group, working with us to refine the legislation, and now signing it into law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The working group issued its\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/June-17-2025-%E2%80%93-The-California-Report-on-Frontier-AI-Policy.pdf\"> report\u003c/a> in June, calling on lawmakers to pass transparency requirements and whistleblower protections, declaring that California has the “responsibility” to ensure the safety of generative artificial intelligence software, “so that their benefit to society can be realized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2159671948-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2159671948-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2159671948-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2159671948-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2159671948-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2159671948-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2159671948-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Close-up of phone screen displaying Anthropic Claude, a Large Language Model (LLM) powered generative artificial intelligence chatbot, in Lafayette, California, June 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report noted that AI systems have been observed finding loopholes that allow them to behave in ways their programmers did not intend. Also, that competitive pressures are undermining safety, and policy intervention is needed to prevent a race to the bottom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, was the first major AI developer to endorse SB 53, having offered more cautious support for SB 1047. “We’re proud to have worked with Senator Wiener to help bring industry to the table and develop practical safeguards that create real accountability for how powerful AI systems are developed and deployed, which will in turn keep everyone safer as the rapid acceleration of AI capabilities continues,” wrote Jack Clark, co-founder and head of policy for Anthropic.[aside postID=news_12052617 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GETTYIMAGES-2228237489-KQED.jpg']Federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have historically taken a relatively\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905230/do-federal-lawmakers-have-the-stomach-to-rein-in-big-tech\"> light touch\u003c/a> toward regulating the technology industry. Despite high-drama hearings about troubling trends in social media and now AI, few bills make it out of their respective committees, let alone to a floor vote. “While federal standards remain essential to avoid a patchwork of state regulations, California has created a strong framework that balances public safety with continued innovation,” Clark added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time around, other AI developers got behind Wiener’s effort. “Meta supports balanced AI regulation and the California Frontier AI law is a positive step in that direction,” a spokesperson for Meta wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, a coalition of more than 20 tech and youth safety advocacy organizations\u003ca href=\"https://encodeai.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SB-53-Coalition-Letter-9_24_2025.pdf\"> sent a letter\u003c/a> to Gov. 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SVLG is committed to advocating for policies that seek to responsibly scale this transformative technology at this pivotal juncture and to unleash a new wave of innovation and growth,” Ahmad Thomas, CEO of Silicon Valley Leadership Group, wrote in a statement. “We will continue to work with the Governor and leaders in the Legislature to ensure that new laws and regulations don’t impose undue burdens on the most innovative companies in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Four months \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12056113/charlie-kirks-assassination-and-the-rise-of-political-violence\">before he was assassinated\u003c/a> at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, Charlie Kirk staged one of his trademark “American Comeback” tour stops at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a white tent, with a stack of MAGA hats at his side and a raucous student crowd in front of him, the scene looked eerily like the one where he would later be killed. The video of that day, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH4BhA2UY08\">posted on YouTube\u003c/a>, is titled “Charlie Kirk & Riley Gaines Take on Freaky San Francisco.” In it, Kirk sipped tea from a Peet’s Coffee cup as he debated students. 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Trump has also called for the termination of late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our government cannot be allowed to control what we do and do not say on television, and we have to stand up for it,” Kimmel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk rose to national prominence as the co-founder of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization that promotes conservative values on high school and college campuses, in 2012. TPUSA, which created a website identifying college instructors it claimed discriminated against conservative students, expanded beyond campus activism to become a major engine for Trump’s 2024 campaign, using its nationwide network of student chapters to energize young conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A popular podcaster, Kirk used social media and his college campus events to argue that free speech was under attack at American universities because of liberal bias among students and faculty. Although Kirk’s campus events were billed as forums for respectful debate, they often devolved into name-calling and shouting matches. In 2023, he called San Francisco State an “island of totalitarianism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH4BhA2UY08\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at a memorial service for Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, Trump pledged to defend free speech “at all costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tradition of reason and open debate that Charlie practiced is not a pillar of our democracy; in many ways, it’s the basis of our entire society,” Trump said to an audience of tens of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump has made a cottage industry of suing U.S. media outlets over coverage he deems unfavorable. In December 2024, ABC News contributed $15 million to Trump’s planned presidential library as part of a settlement in a defamation case. The lawsuit stemmed from anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air claim that Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Paramount, the parent company of CBS, agreed to donate $16 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over coverage on CBS’s \u003cem>60 Minutes\u003c/em>. 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The investigation largely centers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986306/uc-berkeley-encampment-is-packing-up-for-merced-heres-what-admin-agreed-to\">pro-Palestinian protests\u003c/a> that erupted on university campuses following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the ongoing retaliation by Israel that has followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s decision to cooperate with the investigation has rattled some on campus, who say the school — long celebrated as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032030/uc-berkeley-faculty-rally-to-defend-free-speech-and-protest-cuts\">birthplace of the free speech movement\u003c/a> — is failing to defend its own students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees listen to opening remarks at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The administration has not been honest with its own community, and it has broken trust with the community … knowing full well that the consequences [of forwarding these names] could be deportation, harassment, detention, loss of employment, limitations imposed on passports, congressional hearings, vilification, abduction,” said Judith Butler, a distinguished professor in UC Berkeley’s graduate school. “All of these things have happened to students at other universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By debating students and posting the clips online, Kirk helped swell the ranks of the Republican Party and turn Turning Point USA into a kingmaker in the American conservative movement. California — and the Bay Area in particular — proved especially useful foils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is also a guy who was trying to make money off the internet. He knew his audience was MAGA folks, and one of the biggest villains of that movement is the state of California, whether it be Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom and his lockdowns, or the ‘blue-haired liberals’ they make fun of,” Higdon said. “So coming out here and recording videos that make you look intellectually superior to California’s college youth plays really well with that audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s surprising that Kirk would choose California as a location for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Kulisek (center), a Concord resident, holds a candlelight at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Takumi Sugawara, president of the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA, said it still “doesn’t feel real” that Kirk is dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was so relevant to my life. I listened to his podcast, I tuned into his show like every morning,” Sugawara said, adding that he joined Turning Point USA because he wanted to promote free speech on campus. “ I wanted to foster this environment where people can agree to disagree, but still call each other fellow Americans and fellow free speech lovers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he opposed ABC’s decision to suspend \u003cem>Jimmy Kimmel Live\u003c/em> over comments Kimmel made in a monologue following Kirk’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee grabs a candlelight at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. 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Trump criticized the network’s decision to reinstate Kimmel, saying it amounted to an illegal campaign contribution to the Democrats, and threatened legal action against ABC and its parent company, Disney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This show is not important,” Kimmel said. “What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/emanoukian\">\u003cem>Elize Manoukian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Tuesday, Kimmel said “it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man” and used most of his monologue to accuse the Trump administration of attacking the First Amendment. Trump has also called for the termination of late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our government cannot be allowed to control what we do and do not say on television, and we have to stand up for it,” Kimmel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirk rose to national prominence as the co-founder of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization that promotes conservative values on high school and college campuses, in 2012. TPUSA, which created a website identifying college instructors it claimed discriminated against conservative students, expanded beyond campus activism to become a major engine for Trump’s 2024 campaign, using its nationwide network of student chapters to energize young conservatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A popular podcaster, Kirk used social media and his college campus events to argue that free speech was under attack at American universities because of liberal bias among students and faculty. Although Kirk’s campus events were billed as forums for respectful debate, they often devolved into name-calling and shouting matches. In 2023, he called San Francisco State an “island of totalitarianism.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/oH4BhA2UY08'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/oH4BhA2UY08'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Speaking at a memorial service for Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, Trump pledged to defend free speech “at all costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The tradition of reason and open debate that Charlie practiced is not a pillar of our democracy; in many ways, it’s the basis of our entire society,” Trump said to an audience of tens of thousands of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump has made a cottage industry of suing U.S. media outlets over coverage he deems unfavorable. In December 2024, ABC News contributed $15 million to Trump’s planned presidential library as part of a settlement in a defamation case. The lawsuit stemmed from anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air claim that Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Paramount, the parent company of CBS, agreed to donate $16 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over coverage on CBS’s \u003cem>60 Minutes\u003c/em>. Last Friday, a federal judge dismissed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00085_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takumi Sugawara, center, president of the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA, leads a prayer with his fellow members before starting a vigil for Charlie Kirk at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley, where Kirk spoke in 2022 and had reportedly planned to return later this year, is one target of a sprawling antisemitism investigation launched by the Trump administration earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two days after Kirk’s death, on Sept. 12, the university announced it had turned over\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055827/uc-berkeley-gives-trump-administration-160-names-in-antisemitism-investigation\"> information of more than 160 students and faculty\u003c/a> to administration officials after a request by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The investigation largely centers on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986306/uc-berkeley-encampment-is-packing-up-for-merced-heres-what-admin-agreed-to\">pro-Palestinian protests\u003c/a> that erupted on university campuses following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the ongoing retaliation by Israel that has followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley’s decision to cooperate with the investigation has rattled some on campus, who say the school — long celebrated as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032030/uc-berkeley-faculty-rally-to-defend-free-speech-and-protest-cuts\">birthplace of the free speech movement\u003c/a> — is failing to defend its own students and faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00109_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees listen to opening remarks at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The administration has not been honest with its own community, and it has broken trust with the community … knowing full well that the consequences [of forwarding these names] could be deportation, harassment, detention, loss of employment, limitations imposed on passports, congressional hearings, vilification, abduction,” said Judith Butler, a distinguished professor in UC Berkeley’s graduate school. “All of these things have happened to students at other universities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By debating students and posting the clips online, Kirk helped swell the ranks of the Republican Party and turn Turning Point USA into a kingmaker in the American conservative movement. California — and the Bay Area in particular — proved especially useful foils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is also a guy who was trying to make money off the internet. He knew his audience was MAGA folks, and one of the biggest villains of that movement is the state of California, whether it be Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom and his lockdowns, or the ‘blue-haired liberals’ they make fun of,” Higdon said. “So coming out here and recording videos that make you look intellectually superior to California’s college youth plays really well with that audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s surprising that Kirk would choose California as a location for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00429_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jan Kulisek (center), a Concord resident, holds a candlelight at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. The San Francisco State University Chapter of Turning Point USA hosts a vigil for Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed on Sept. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Takumi Sugawara, president of the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA, said it still “doesn’t feel real” that Kirk is dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was so relevant to my life. I listened to his podcast, I tuned into his show like every morning,” Sugawara said, adding that he joined Turning Point USA because he wanted to promote free speech on campus. “ I wanted to foster this environment where people can agree to disagree, but still call each other fellow Americans and fellow free speech lovers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he opposed ABC’s decision to suspend \u003cem>Jimmy Kimmel Live\u003c/em> over comments Kimmel made in a monologue following Kirk’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250922-KIRKVIGIL00296_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee grabs a candlelight at a vigil for Charlie Kirk hosted by the San Francisco State University chapter of Turning Point USA at Fort Funston in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 2025. 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"content": "\u003cp>Belva Davis, an Emmy Award-winning journalist who broke the color barrier in Bay Area radio and television in the 1960s, died Wednesday. She was 92.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis was the first Black woman to be hired as a television journalist on the West Coast when she took a position with KPIX-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, in 1966. She remained on the air for nearly five decades at KPIX, KRON and KQED. Davis rose to prominence during an era of pervasive sexism, racism and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Pam Moore, former KRON TV anchor\"]‘She is a legend and she was a mentor, a friend, a mom… You don’t work in California and journalism as a person of color and not know about Belva Davis.’[/pullquote]“Her legitimacy as an excellent reporter, her integrity, her professional accomplishments and her personal attributes made her the sort of person that everyone aspired to become,” said Mary Bitterman, who served as KQED’s CEO from 1993 to 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her reputation as a journalist, reporter and anchor was always highly respected, noted for its fairness and for putting stories into context,” Bitterman noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis was hired by KQED TV in 1977 and continued working there until her retirement in 2012. Among the programs she hosted were KQED Newsroom and This Week in Northern California. She was known as much for her personal kindness and warmth as she was for her deep knowledge of journalism, Bay Area communities and politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is a legend and she was a mentor, a friend, a mom – you know, all of those things. And I just loved her,” said former KRON TV anchor Pam Moore, who met Davis early in her own career. “Certainly you don’t work in California and journalism as a person of color and not know about Belva Davis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1615px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/27_Belva-Davis_TWINC-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person leans on a desk in a TV studio with the words \"This Week in Northern California\" written on the wall behind them.' width=\"1615\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/27_Belva-Davis_TWINC-KQED.jpg 1615w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/27_Belva-Davis_TWINC-KQED-800x991.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/27_Belva-Davis_TWINC-KQED-1020x1263.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/27_Belva-Davis_TWINC-KQED-160x198.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/27_Belva-Davis_TWINC-KQED-1240x1536.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1615px) 100vw, 1615px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis on the set of KQED’s ‘This Week in Northern California.’ \u003ccite>(KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without any formal training, Davis broke into an industry with steep obstacles for Black women. Being hired for media jobs outside community-focused radio stations and newspapers, which aimed their programming and news coverage at predominantly Black audiences, was almost unheard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working for radio station KDIA in 1964, Davis covered the Republican National Convention at San Francisco’s Cow Palace, where conservative Barry Goldwater was nominated for president. As one of the few journalists of color at the convention, Davis endured extraordinary abuse and discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an interview at Google in 2011, Davis recalled the treatment she and others, including her radio news director, Louis Freeman, received that week, such as being denied press passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were in the rafters, sitting quietly, trying to make sure nobody found us,” she recalled. When Davis and Freeman were discovered, convention attendees yelled, “‘What are you [N-word] doing in here anyway?’,” Davis recalled. “We were driven out of that hall as people threw debris at my news director and I.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident, \u003ca href=\"https://msmagazine.com/2020/08/24/republican-national-convention-conventional-ignorance-belva-daviss-confrontation-with-violent-racism-at-the-1964-rnc/\">which Davis also wrote about in her 2011 memoir, \u003cem>Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman’s Life in Journalism\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, shook but did not deter her. In fact, it deepened her resolve to stick with journalism to tell the stories of Black communities and others overlooked by mainstream media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Journalists were beginning to bring the stories of Black Americans out of the shadows … and into the light of day,” Davis wrote of her thoughts following the RNC incident. “They were reporting on the cross burnings and water hosings, the beatings and lynchings, in vivid details that the public could no longer ignore. I wanted to be one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She confronted prejudice, confronted every possible barrier, and yet became the journalist who was most trusted and most believed,” former \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> and Politico journalist Carla Marinucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had to put up with being thrown out of press conferences, being called names, being called ethnic slurs. She never let any of that deter her,” Marinucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1421px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED.jpg\" alt='Two people sit at a table talking to each other in front of a TV screen with the words \"This Week in Northern California\" written on it.' width=\"1421\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED.jpg 1421w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1421px) 100vw, 1421px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis (right) interviews Kamala Harris on This Week in Northern California in 2012. \u003ccite>(David Marks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as she was the focus of abuse at the RNC, Davis realized that television journalism was where she wanted to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a bad, terrible incident, but it inspired me to do something that I might not have ever done had that been a pleasant, ordinary, normal convention,” Davis said years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years after that GOP convention, Davis was hired by KPIX TV, becoming the first Black woman to be hired as a full-time journalist on Bay Area television. It was just another step on a journey that began many miles from the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black woman smiles at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2412\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-800x1005.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-1020x1281.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-1223x1536.jpg 1223w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-1630x2048.jpg 1630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Belva Davis’s first foray into journalism began as a freelancer for Jet Magazine in 1957. \u003ccite>(ROMAINE/KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born Belvagene Melton in 1932 in Monroe, Louisiana, she was the oldest of four children. In the early 1940s, she and her family moved west to Oakland, where she attended public schools. She graduated from Berkeley High School in 1951, becoming the first in her family to get a high school diploma. Although she was accepted to San Francisco State University, she did not attend because her family could not afford the tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her first foray into the world of journalism came in 1957 when she wrote articles as a freelancer for Jet magazine. For the next few years, she wrote for other publications, such as the Sun-Reporter, which covered issues of particular interest to Black communities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, neither one of us had gone to journalism school,” recalled retired news anchor Barbara Rodgers, who worked with Davis at KPIX. “And in fact, in her case, she always sort of felt she didn’t have everything she needed because she didn’t get to go to college … And I would tell her, you got your J-school education by doing it – the same way I got mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodgers met Davis in 1979 when she moved to San Francisco from Rochester, New York, where she’d worked in local television. Friends told her to look Davis up when she came to town. Davis was known for hosting parties for the holidays, often inviting people new to the Bay Area who didn’t have a circle of friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to her house for my first Thanksgiving dinner and almost every Thanksgiving after that, because Belva would put together every year this really eclectic group of people who were just so interesting,” Rodgers recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was so gracious… She just took me under her wing anytime I had a question or needed some advice. So she became my San Francisco mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Rodgers said, Davis helped pave the way for her and many women who followed her in Bay Area journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say that Belva kicked open the door, but left her shoe in it,” Rodgers said. “She wanted to prop it open for all the rest of us and really encouraged us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first she had to get in the door herself. Davis recalled being turned away by one Bay Area television news director who told her, “We’re not hiring any Negresses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That may not sound like a harmful word, but even as a young woman starting out in the business world, that was something that was very hurtful,” she said years later on KQED’s Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helped me in my resolve to demonstrate that I could do whatever they were doing in that station as well as anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in her career at KRON TV, Davis was assigned the title “urban affairs specialist,” but she soon burnished her credentials covering political stories more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people sit around a large table in a TV studio.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-1020x661.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-1536x995.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-1920x1244.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis leads a roundtable discussion during a 1993 broadcast of KQED’s ‘This Week in Northern California.’ Panelists include Anthony Moor of KRON-TV (far left) and Phil Matier of The San Francisco Chronicle (second from left). \u003ccite>(KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At KQED, Davis hosted several TV news-oriented programs that often focused on public affairs and politics. Over the years, she covered some of the most important stories and issues, including the deaths of hundreds of people at the Jonestown cult compound in Guyana, the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, and the AIDS crisis, as well as many local, state and national elections. She interviewed some of the most iconic newsmakers, including Muhammad Ali, Coretta Scott King and Fidel Castro, among many others. She also reported early on about deadly use of force by local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marinucci, a frequent guest on This Week in Northern California, called Davis “the gold standard for a generation of journalists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Belva Davis was a trailblazer like no other. She was a pioneer as an African American woman, but also a mentor to so many of us all throughout the Bay Area and throughout the nation,” Marinucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965466\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo showing a Black woman and white man having a discussion looking at prepared sheets of paper with an old-style CRT television in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-1536x998.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis and producer John Roszak behind the scenes of a 1993 broadcast of KQED’s ‘This Week in Northern California.’ \u003ccite>(KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Davis was also very active with her union, including a stint as vice president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. In addition to the eight Emmy Awards she won from the San Francisco/Northern California chapter, Davis received lifetime achievement awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and American Women in Radio and Television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was often called upon to serve on boards and commissions in the Bay Area. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown tapped Davis to help head fundraising efforts for the city’s Museum of the African Diaspora, which opened in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis’ oft-repeated motto was, “Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you dream it, you can make it so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting on Davis’ professional and personal life, KQED’s Bitterman said, “Belva was always a gentle woman and a strong woman with high standards. And I think her influence will be felt for many years to come … we shall not soon see her like again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis is survived by her second husband, Bill Moore; two children from her first marriage, Darolyn Davis and Steven Davis; and a granddaughter, Sterling Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an interview at Google in 2011, Davis recalled the treatment she and others, including her radio news director, Louis Freeman, received that week, such as being denied press passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were in the rafters, sitting quietly, trying to make sure nobody found us,” she recalled. When Davis and Freeman were discovered, convention attendees yelled, “‘What are you [N-word] doing in here anyway?’,” Davis recalled. “We were driven out of that hall as people threw debris at my news director and I.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident, \u003ca href=\"https://msmagazine.com/2020/08/24/republican-national-convention-conventional-ignorance-belva-daviss-confrontation-with-violent-racism-at-the-1964-rnc/\">which Davis also wrote about in her 2011 memoir, \u003cem>Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman’s Life in Journalism\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, shook but did not deter her. In fact, it deepened her resolve to stick with journalism to tell the stories of Black communities and others overlooked by mainstream media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Journalists were beginning to bring the stories of Black Americans out of the shadows … and into the light of day,” Davis wrote of her thoughts following the RNC incident. “They were reporting on the cross burnings and water hosings, the beatings and lynchings, in vivid details that the public could no longer ignore. I wanted to be one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She confronted prejudice, confronted every possible barrier, and yet became the journalist who was most trusted and most believed,” former \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> and Politico journalist Carla Marinucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She had to put up with being thrown out of press conferences, being called names, being called ethnic slurs. She never let any of that deter her,” Marinucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1421px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED.jpg\" alt='Two people sit at a table talking to each other in front of a TV screen with the words \"This Week in Northern California\" written on it.' width=\"1421\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED.jpg 1421w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231025-BELVA-DAVIS-KAMALA-HARRIS-DM-KQED-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1421px) 100vw, 1421px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis (right) interviews Kamala Harris on This Week in Northern California in 2012. \u003ccite>(David Marks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as she was the focus of abuse at the RNC, Davis realized that television journalism was where she wanted to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a bad, terrible incident, but it inspired me to do something that I might not have ever done had that been a pleasant, ordinary, normal convention,” Davis said years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years after that GOP convention, Davis was hired by KPIX TV, becoming the first Black woman to be hired as a full-time journalist on Bay Area television. It was just another step on a journey that began many miles from the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965469\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black woman smiles at the camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2412\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-800x1005.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-1020x1281.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-160x201.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-1223x1536.jpg 1223w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Romaine-1630x2048.jpg 1630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Belva Davis’s first foray into journalism began as a freelancer for Jet Magazine in 1957. \u003ccite>(ROMAINE/KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born Belvagene Melton in 1932 in Monroe, Louisiana, she was the oldest of four children. In the early 1940s, she and her family moved west to Oakland, where she attended public schools. She graduated from Berkeley High School in 1951, becoming the first in her family to get a high school diploma. Although she was accepted to San Francisco State University, she did not attend because her family could not afford the tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her first foray into the world of journalism came in 1957 when she wrote articles as a freelancer for Jet magazine. For the next few years, she wrote for other publications, such as the Sun-Reporter, which covered issues of particular interest to Black communities in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, neither one of us had gone to journalism school,” recalled retired news anchor Barbara Rodgers, who worked with Davis at KPIX. “And in fact, in her case, she always sort of felt she didn’t have everything she needed because she didn’t get to go to college … And I would tell her, you got your J-school education by doing it – the same way I got mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodgers met Davis in 1979 when she moved to San Francisco from Rochester, New York, where she’d worked in local television. Friends told her to look Davis up when she came to town. Davis was known for hosting parties for the holidays, often inviting people new to the Bay Area who didn’t have a circle of friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to her house for my first Thanksgiving dinner and almost every Thanksgiving after that, because Belva would put together every year this really eclectic group of people who were just so interesting,” Rodgers recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was so gracious… She just took me under her wing anytime I had a question or needed some advice. So she became my San Francisco mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Rodgers said, Davis helped pave the way for her and many women who followed her in Bay Area journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say that Belva kicked open the door, but left her shoe in it,” Rodgers said. “She wanted to prop it open for all the rest of us and really encouraged us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first she had to get in the door herself. Davis recalled being turned away by one Bay Area television news director who told her, “We’re not hiring any Negresses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That may not sound like a harmful word, but even as a young woman starting out in the business world, that was something that was very hurtful,” she said years later on KQED’s Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It helped me in my resolve to demonstrate that I could do whatever they were doing in that station as well as anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early in her career at KRON TV, Davis was assigned the title “urban affairs specialist,” but she soon burnished her credentials covering political stories more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963229\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963229\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people sit around a large table in a TV studio.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-1020x661.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-1536x995.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-04-KQED-1920x1244.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis leads a roundtable discussion during a 1993 broadcast of KQED’s ‘This Week in Northern California.’ Panelists include Anthony Moor of KRON-TV (far left) and Phil Matier of The San Francisco Chronicle (second from left). \u003ccite>(KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At KQED, Davis hosted several TV news-oriented programs that often focused on public affairs and politics. Over the years, she covered some of the most important stories and issues, including the deaths of hundreds of people at the Jonestown cult compound in Guyana, the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, and the AIDS crisis, as well as many local, state and national elections. She interviewed some of the most iconic newsmakers, including Muhammad Ali, Coretta Scott King and Fidel Castro, among many others. She also reported early on about deadly use of force by local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marinucci, a frequent guest on This Week in Northern California, called Davis “the gold standard for a generation of journalists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Belva Davis was a trailblazer like no other. She was a pioneer as an African American woman, but also a mentor to so many of us all throughout the Bay Area and throughout the nation,” Marinucci said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965466\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo showing a Black woman and white man having a discussion looking at prepared sheets of paper with an old-style CRT television in the background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/09/231003-BELVA-DAVIS-Roszak-1536x998.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belva Davis and producer John Roszak behind the scenes of a 1993 broadcast of KQED’s ‘This Week in Northern California.’ \u003ccite>(KQED archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Davis was also very active with her union, including a stint as vice president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. In addition to the eight Emmy Awards she won from the San Francisco/Northern California chapter, Davis received lifetime achievement awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and American Women in Radio and Television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was often called upon to serve on boards and commissions in the Bay Area. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown tapped Davis to help head fundraising efforts for the city’s Museum of the African Diaspora, which opened in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis’ oft-repeated motto was, “Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you dream it, you can make it so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reflecting on Davis’ professional and personal life, KQED’s Bitterman said, “Belva was always a gentle woman and a strong woman with high standards. And I think her influence will be felt for many years to come … we shall not soon see her like again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis is survived by her second husband, Bill Moore; two children from her first marriage, Darolyn Davis and Steven Davis; and a granddaughter, Sterling Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\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>Jennifer isn’t saying her brother is a saint. Far from it. He was convicted of domestic violence last year and entered a one-year intervention program. He graduated on July 23 in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fresno\">Fresno\u003c/a> County courtroom, where a judge told him he had done a good job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minutes later, while leaving the courthouse, five men and one woman in plain clothes approached him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone came up to him, got in his face and said his name,” said Jennifer, who did not want CalMatters to use her last name because she was concerned about immigration enforcement agents targeting other relatives. “And they grabbed him, and I tried to get between them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother, who is undocumented, didn’t provide them with an identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shoved him in this car, which was a plain, beat-up van,” Jennifer said. “Then one of them asked if they should wait for ‘the other guy,’ and a different person said ‘we’re good with this one,’ like he was just part of their quota that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother is already back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11658200 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents early on October 14, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents early on Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Social media is awash with videos of federal agents making arrests at immigration court hearings, which are on federal property, inside federal courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s different about the detention of Jennifer’s brother is that it took place on the grounds of a state courthouse. Local media have reported the detention of at least two dozen other people on the grounds of California court buildings in \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article311886762.html\">Stanislaus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article311556058.html\">Glenn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/la-county-judge-denounces-ice-arrest-outside-downtown-courthouse/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and Fresno counties, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5496530/legal-experts-ice-criminal-courts-a-slower-path-to-justice\">NPR reports\u003c/a> federal immigration detentions in state courthouses across the country, from the Chicago suburbs to a county south of Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last Trump administration, California Democrats were so concerned about ICE making arrests at superior court buildings and potentially discouraging witnesses from testifying that they \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668\">passed a law to forbid that kind of enforcement\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12055651 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty3-1020x603.jpg']Picking people up at a courthouse can have a “potential chilling effect” on witnesses, victims and even suspects who are afraid to show up for court, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-chief-justice-issues-statement-immigration-enforcement-california-courthouses\">said earlier this summer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making courthouses a focus of immigration enforcement hinders, rather than helps, the administration of justice by deterring witnesses and victims from coming forward and discouraging individuals from asserting their rights,” Guerrero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By waiting outside the courthouse, immigration agents appear to be complying with California law, though it’s unclear whether the word “courthouse” in the law includes the grounds outside the courthouse. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office wouldn’t provide what it a spokesperson called “legal analysis” of those actions when CalMatters asked about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one immigration enforcement action was a clear violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butte County, immigration enforcement agents conducted an operation inside the county’s Oroville courthouse on July 28. State law forbids civil arrests “in a courthouse while attending a court proceeding or having legal business in the courthouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056765 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters rally outside the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on July 15, 2025, calling on ICE to release a person ahead of a preliminary injunction hearing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As far as the court is aware, ICE had not conducted enforcement actions inside one of its courthouses prior to Monday, July 28th,” Butte County Superior Court executive officer Sharif Elmallah said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court is concerned by the potential chilling effect and other potential adverse impacts on participation in the legal system that may occur due to these enforcement actions being conducted in and around courthouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/newsom-new-immigration-laws/\">package of bills\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Saturday meant to keep immigration enforcement agents out of schools and hospitals, it’s unclear what California law enforcement can actually do to enforce the law forbidding immigration agents from making arrests inside courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Justice Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/immigrant#resources\">guidance to state courthouses\u003c/a> provides some latitude to immigration enforcement agents. They may make arrests inside a courthouse if the case involves a national security threat, someone’s life is in danger, evidence is in danger or agents are in “hot pursuit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failing all of that, under California law, immigration agents can enter a courthouse to detain someone whom they believe poses a danger to public safety if they can’t find an alternate location and they have the approval of a federal immigration enforcement supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE defends courthouse arrests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer believes immigration agents ran her brother’s name through their own database when it was posted on the Fresno County Superior Court’s public online court docket, then waited for him to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions from CalMatters, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement responded with a July quote from a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, which asserted the agency’s right to make arrests of “a lawbreaker where you find them.” The spokesperson also said the arrests are safer for immigration agents, since the people they’re arresting have been through security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046907 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE presence in immigration courts. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Policies on courthouse arrests have seesawed through Democratic and Republican administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration in 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/ero-outreach/pdf/10029.2-policy.pdf\">designated schools, hospitals and religious buildings\u003c/a> as “sensitive locations” where immigration agents need permission to operate. ICE at the time said the list of sensitive locations was longer than those three types of places and urged agents to get permission from higher-ups before making arrests at any organization assisting “victims of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump undid that policy in 2018 with a directive instructing ICE agents to make arrests at state and local courthouses. They proceeded to do so, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/56303dd4fea7b23d9375c1400d997364\">even in California\u003c/a>. In 2021, the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2021/04/27/dhs-announces-new-guidance-limit-ice-and-cbp-civil-enforcement-actions-or-near\">reversed that guidance\u003c/a>, putting courthouses mostly off-limits. In May, Wired reported that the new Trump administration went even further than its 2018 directive, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/ice-quietly-scales-back-rules-for-courthouse-raids/\">explicitly removing instructions\u003c/a> to agents that they should respect local laws that would prevent them from arresting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are immigrants avoiding court?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer said word has already gotten out among the immigrant community in Fresno to stop attending court. Family members even tried to discourage her brother from appearing on the day he was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, people are just avoiding going to the courthouse, even after meeting with groups who inform them that there’s consequences to not showing up,” said Nora Zaragoza-Yáñez, a program manager for the Valley Watch Network, an immigrant rights group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043437 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Fresno County Superior Court spokesperson said the court hasn’t seen a change in the number of people appearing, but noted that in a county of 1 million people, such shifts among a relatively small population would be hard to notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Justice said it’s aware of the courthouse arrests. As a former member of the Assembly, Bonta, now the state attorney general, was a co-author of the law that was meant to deter immigration enforcement at California courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very concerned with the Trump administration’s actions, which make our communities less safe by deterring victims or witnesses of crimes from coming forward out of fear of getting caught up in the President’s mass deportation dragnet,” the California Department of Justice said in an unsigned statement to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/ice-courthouse-arrests/\">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\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother, who is undocumented, didn’t provide them with an identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shoved him in this car, which was a plain, beat-up van,” Jennifer said. “Then one of them asked if they should wait for ‘the other guy,’ and a different person said ‘we’re good with this one,’ like he was just part of their quota that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her brother is already back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11658200 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents early on October 14, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS24379_GettyImages-492659304-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents early on Oct. 14, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(John Moore/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Social media is awash with videos of federal agents making arrests at immigration court hearings, which are on federal property, inside federal courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s different about the detention of Jennifer’s brother is that it took place on the grounds of a state courthouse. Local media have reported the detention of at least two dozen other people on the grounds of California court buildings in \u003ca href=\"https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article311886762.html\">Stanislaus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article311556058.html\">Glenn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/la-county-judge-denounces-ice-arrest-outside-downtown-courthouse/\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and Fresno counties, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5496530/legal-experts-ice-criminal-courts-a-slower-path-to-justice\">NPR reports\u003c/a> federal immigration detentions in state courthouses across the country, from the Chicago suburbs to a county south of Boston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the last Trump administration, California Democrats were so concerned about ICE making arrests at superior court buildings and potentially discouraging witnesses from testifying that they \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB668\">passed a law to forbid that kind of enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Picking people up at a courthouse can have a “potential chilling effect” on witnesses, victims and even suspects who are afraid to show up for court, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-chief-justice-issues-statement-immigration-enforcement-california-courthouses\">said earlier this summer.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making courthouses a focus of immigration enforcement hinders, rather than helps, the administration of justice by deterring witnesses and victims from coming forward and discouraging individuals from asserting their rights,” Guerrero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By waiting outside the courthouse, immigration agents appear to be complying with California law, though it’s unclear whether the word “courthouse” in the law includes the grounds outside the courthouse. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office wouldn’t provide what it a spokesperson called “legal analysis” of those actions when CalMatters asked about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one immigration enforcement action was a clear violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Butte County, immigration enforcement agents conducted an operation inside the county’s Oroville courthouse on July 28. State law forbids civil arrests “in a courthouse while attending a court proceeding or having legal business in the courthouse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12056765 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250715-ImmigrationCourtProtests-16-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters rally outside the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on July 15, 2025, calling on ICE to release a person ahead of a preliminary injunction hearing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As far as the court is aware, ICE had not conducted enforcement actions inside one of its courthouses prior to Monday, July 28th,” Butte County Superior Court executive officer Sharif Elmallah said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The court is concerned by the potential chilling effect and other potential adverse impacts on participation in the legal system that may occur due to these enforcement actions being conducted in and around courthouses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/newsom-new-immigration-laws/\">package of bills\u003c/a> Gov. 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They may make arrests inside a courthouse if the case involves a national security threat, someone’s life is in danger, evidence is in danger or agents are in “hot pursuit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Failing all of that, under California law, immigration agents can enter a courthouse to detain someone whom they believe poses a danger to public safety if they can’t find an alternate location and they have the approval of a federal immigration enforcement supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>ICE defends courthouse arrests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer believes immigration agents ran her brother’s name through their own database when it was posted on the Fresno County Superior Court’s public online court docket, then waited for him to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions from CalMatters, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement responded with a July quote from a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, which asserted the agency’s right to make arrests of “a lawbreaker where you find them.” The spokesperson also said the arrests are safer for immigration agents, since the people they’re arresting have been through security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046907 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE presence in immigration courts. \u003ccite>(Anna Vignet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Policies on courthouse arrests have seesawed through Democratic and Republican administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration in 2011 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/ero-outreach/pdf/10029.2-policy.pdf\">designated schools, hospitals and religious buildings\u003c/a> as “sensitive locations” where immigration agents need permission to operate. ICE at the time said the list of sensitive locations was longer than those three types of places and urged agents to get permission from higher-ups before making arrests at any organization assisting “victims of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump undid that policy in 2018 with a directive instructing ICE agents to make arrests at state and local courthouses. They proceeded to do so, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/56303dd4fea7b23d9375c1400d997364\">even in California\u003c/a>. In 2021, the Biden administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2021/04/27/dhs-announces-new-guidance-limit-ice-and-cbp-civil-enforcement-actions-or-near\">reversed that guidance\u003c/a>, putting courthouses mostly off-limits. In May, Wired reported that the new Trump administration went even further than its 2018 directive, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/ice-quietly-scales-back-rules-for-courthouse-raids/\">explicitly removing instructions\u003c/a> to agents that they should respect local laws that would prevent them from arresting people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are immigrants avoiding court?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jennifer said word has already gotten out among the immigrant community in Fresno to stop attending court. Family members even tried to discourage her brother from appearing on the day he was detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, people are just avoiding going to the courthouse, even after meeting with groups who inform them that there’s consequences to not showing up,” said Nora Zaragoza-Yáñez, a program manager for the Valley Watch Network, an immigrant rights group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043437 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Fresno County Superior Court spokesperson said the court hasn’t seen a change in the number of people appearing, but noted that in a county of 1 million people, such shifts among a relatively small population would be hard to notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Justice said it’s aware of the courthouse arrests. As a former member of the Assembly, Bonta, now the state attorney general, was a co-author of the law that was meant to deter immigration enforcement at California courthouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very concerned with the Trump administration’s actions, which make our communities less safe by deterring victims or witnesses of crimes from coming forward out of fear of getting caught up in the President’s mass deportation dragnet,” the California Department of Justice said in an unsigned statement to CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/ice-courthouse-arrests/\">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\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The pinnacle experience for many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> undergraduate students is the spring commencement ceremony. Wearing their cap and gowns, thousands crowd California Memorial Stadium, the Golden Bears’ historic home, to mark the beginning of a new chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Cal senior, Javier, knows he may miss this rite of passage and has prepared for a quieter triumph as the new fall semester gets underway this month. The 22-year-old sociology major, who plans to attend law school, is enrolled at UC Berkeley from Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall in San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has never set foot on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although my body is physically confined, I keep my mind free by learning and educating myself and continuing to grow,” said Javier, who asked to be identified by his middle name on his lawyer’s advice, citing potential educational and legal repercussions, under KQED’s anonymous sources policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Javier, who awaits trial for an alleged violent crime, is expected to become California’s first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/incarcerated\">incarcerated\u003c/a> young person to graduate from a UC school after transferring from community college. His achievement is possible through a partnership between the Alameda County Office of Education and Incarceration to College, an outreach program for in-custody and out-of-custody youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12057183\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-2000x1500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_1144-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incarceration to College, launched in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, has served more than 1,000 students across three Bay Area counties, giving them access to college readiness courses, tutoring and coaching. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Anna Vignet)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The program, founded by a formerly incarcerated scholar and UC Berkeley graduate, provides college readiness courses, tutoring and coaching to incarcerated students in juvenile halls in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties. 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He grew up in a Mexican immigrant household in Hayward with nearly a dozen family members, including his mother, siblings and other relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was heavily influenced by the gang culture of his uncles and his neighborhood. By 13, he landed in juvenile hall for assault and armed robbery, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People knew what school I went to and who I involved myself with. So I didn’t really want to go to school,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 15, he said, he and his friends survived a shooting. Shortly after, in ninth grade, he dropped out. He said he felt dismissed by teachers who routinely sent him to the principal’s office for what he described as small infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 17, Javier returned to juvenile hall. There, older friends from the neighborhood who were also incarcerated encouraged him to finish high school. At first, he was discouraged because he had only about a year’s worth of credits, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, damn…I am pretty much nowhere. So that kind of made me feel ashamed,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But surrounded by peers with similar experiences, classes began to feel different, Javier said. He began to feel a sense of belonging and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I went from being quiet to being the main person answering all the questions on the whiteboard, being the first one to raise his hand,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Javier graduated from high school and enrolled in online classes at Laney College in Oakland, with support from Incarceration to College. 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The initiative supports system-impacted youth in accessing higher education. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It had a profound impact on UC Berkeley students,” Robinson said. At first, they had questions, but ultimately, they fully supported the arrangement. It also buoyed Jaiver, who said he sometimes faced pushback from juvenile hall staff questioning whether he was really receiving a UC Berkeley education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Javier’s trajectory is uncommon, especially given the disparity in college achievement for formerly incarcerated adults. A 2018 study by the Prison Policy Initiative found 4% of formerly incarcerated people held a college degree, compared to 29% of the U.S. population. The report cited barriers, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962706/program-offering-pell-grants-to-incarcerated-people-in-heavy-demand-in-california\">financial aid eligibility\u003c/a> and discriminatory admissions practices. Those who complete a degree beyond high school may face licensing restrictions for certain careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of students like Javier has already made a cultural shift in Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall, with more students eager to pursue higher education, said Lucia Moritz, executive director of student programs at the Alameda County Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Javier] mentors other students,” Moritz said. “There’s been a lot of youth who will say, like, he’s the one who motivated me to step up my work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As graduation nears, Javier wants to attend law school because of his familiarity with the juvenile justice system. 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He excelled, lobbied to take a full-time course load and even cross-enrolled in a UC Berkeley class. As a junior, he transferred to Cal full-time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He shone. He was an A+ student,” said Victoria Robinson, a senior lecturer in ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. “He’s thirsty for education. You can’t give him enough material…to the point where the syllabus wasn’t enough. He just wants to keep learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a transformative move, Robinson flipped the classroom dynamic. Instead of Javier joining remotely, she brought the classroom to him — teaching from inside the juvenile hall while students tuned in via Zoom. 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