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Nobody wanted it,” the North Bay Democrat said. “The base was against it, the community was against it, two members of Congress from there were against it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push to build a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center on the air base \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037889/trump-administration-considers-immigration-detention-bay-area-military-base-records-show\">came to light\u003c/a> in April through internal federal emails obtained by KQED. The emails showed significant coordination among Department of Defense and Homeland Security officials to expedite the plans and tee them up for approval by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan came as a shock to Thompson and Rep. John Garamendi, another Democrat whose district includes the base. They \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039137/bay-area-democrats-decry-trump-administrations-outrageous-plan-to-use-military-base-for-immigration-detention\">expressed outrage\u003c/a> that the Trump administration had not informed them of the plan and concern that using military resources for civilian law enforcement could violate the Posse Comitatus Act and divert from missions such as supplying weapons to Ukraine and allies in the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037935\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1181\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty-800x472.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty-1020x602.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty-1536x907.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty-1920x1134.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield on Sept. 15, 2023. 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John Garamendi said he has “serious opposition” to using Travis Air Force base to lock up immigrants for deportation, a move he says would compromise military readiness and national security. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On May 5, the pair fired off a \u003ca href=\"https://garamendi.house.gov/media/press-releases/reps-garamendi-thompson-demand-answers-pentagon-over-plans-use-travis-afb#:~:text=Additionally%2C%20military%20personnel's%20involvement%20in,and%20maintain%20this%20detention%20center?\">letter\u003c/a> to Hegseth saying: “The decision to use Travis AFB as a migrant detention center would both constitute a dangerous militarization of immigration enforcement and unnecessarily degrade military readiness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, opposition mounted, with protests outside the base, constituents calling the congressmen and many local elected officials speaking out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjSHHfObknQ\">including the mayor\u003c/a> of Fairfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a May 29 meeting of the Travis Community Consortium, Travis’ commanding officer, then-Col. Jay Johnson, reported that there had been talks about establishing an ICE facility on the base, but he said that plan had been taken off the table, at least for the time being, according to Garamendi staff who attended the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, on Aug. 6, the congressmen received an official reply from Assistant Secretary of Defense M. Roosevelt Ditlevson that read, in part: “While DoD remains committed to supporting the Department of Homeland Security within the framework of applicable legal authorities and through approved requests for assistance, Travis AFB will not be designated for migrant detention-related activities at this time.”[aside postID=news_12039137 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/TravisAirForceBaseGetty2-1020x680.jpg']Garamendi and Thompson spoke about the shift in plans to KQED this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The argument that Mike Thompson and I made carried the day. Travis is a critical element in our national security,” Garamendi said. “The role that Travis has as an international distribution center for military supplies, equipment, and personnel is critical to everything the military must do. And a detention facility would degrade that mission.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garamendi and Thompson called it a win but said they would remain vigilant, as defense officials have approved immigration jails on military bases in other states, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/07/21/nx-s1-5475109/immigrant-detention-military-bases\">including New Jersey and Indiana\u003c/a> and a 5,000-bed installation \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/dod-detention-facility-fort-bliss\">at Fort Bliss\u003c/a> in El Paso, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this administration, you don’t really have a clear understanding of what is going to change from one moment to the next,” Thompson said. “So we’re watching it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Halfway through the first year of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\"> President Donald Trump’s second administration\u003c/a>, an expansion in operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/27/us/ice-arrests-trump.html?smid=url-share&rsrc=deeplink#ice_arrests_California\">a 123% increase\u003c/a> from 2024 in immigrant arrests in California alone. According to the same June numbers from a UC Berkeley law professor’s study called the \u003ca href=\"https://deportationdata.org/index.html\">Deportation Data Project, \u003c/a>there have been over 94,000 arrests nationwide since the inauguration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for many immigrants, anxiety about in-person and online surveillance by ICE will have been stoked by several new developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/08/sfpd-flock-alpr-ice-data-sharing/\">\u003cem>SF Standard\u003c/em> investigation\u003c/a> found that in San Francisco, law enforcement allowed out-of-state police officers to search through the city’s license-plate reader data on behalf of ICE — a move that is likely illegal. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> reported \u003c/a>that ICE also now has access to tools made by Paragon Solutions: an Israeli developer of spyware which can hack into any mobile phone — including encrypted apps — and look at messages, photos and location data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Extremely troubling’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Paragon’s software, called Graphite, uses a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/ronanfarrow/status/1963734651408728092?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">“zero clicks exploit”\u003c/a> — meaning that someone could use Graphite to access another person’s phone simply by sending it a message, even if that person does not click or download anything contained within.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an incredibly powerful tool,” said Turner Willman, a Bay Area resident who leads digital security workshops for the national progressive Asian American organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.18millionrising.org/\">18 Million Rising\u003c/a>. “In the hands of ICE, I have serious concerns about what the impacts would be on not only immigrants but advocates for immigrant rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ronanfarrow/status/1963734651408728092?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration put ICE’s original contract with Paragon — reported to be worth $2 million according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> —\u003c/a> under review, to make sure the partnership complied with an executive order that essentially prevents government agencies from using spyware that infringes on \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/30/2023-06730/prohibition-on-use-by-the-united-states-government-of-commercial-spyware-that-poses-risks-to\">“forms of human rights abuses or suppression of civil liberties.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration lifted that pause, in a move that the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cooper Quintin described as \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-paragon-solutions-malware\">“extremely troubling”\u003c/a> — citing \u003ca href=\"https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/first-forensic-confirmation-of-paragons-ios-mercenary-spyware-finds-journalists-targeted/\">research\u003c/a> that found that the hacking software was used in Italy to spy on journalists and humanitarian workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s access to the software — and to San Francisco’s license plate data — comes at a time when the agency’s budget has \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-release/congress-approves-unprecedented-funding-mass-detention-deportation-2025/\">expanded significantly\u003c/a>, as part of the Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration enforcement agenda\u003c/a>. KQED spoke to Quintin and other Bay Area technologists focused on public privacy about what people, especially immigrants, should know about the access ICE potentially has to your data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What \u003cem>are \u003c/em>the digital tools ICE is using?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As you might expect, your online activity generates multiple sources of information that immigration officials can use, like social media accounts, which the Trump administration now requires that \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/06/announcement-of-expanded-screening-and-vetting-for-visa-applicants\">people seeking a U.S. visa make public.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all of the data ICE uses is collected through your phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Those license plate readers can track your movements\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities around the Bay Area, including San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983813/san-jose-adding-hundreds-of-license-plate-readers-amid-privacy-and-efficacy-concerns\">San José\u003c/a>, have installed numerous automated license plate readers: devices that are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989977/san-franciscos-new-license-plate-readers-are-leading-to-arrests-and-concerns-about-privacy\">placed at traffic intersections\u003c/a>, which take pictures of every passing car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, “every single entrance and exit in the city of Piedmont” has an automated license plate reader, said Sam Smith, a Bay Area co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://convocation.design/\">Convocation Research and Design\u003c/a>, a think-tank that focuses on cybersecurity and human rights. This means, Smith said, that “no one can come or go in a car in Piedmont without it being logged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a fluorescent yellow coat holds a black machine.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Flock Safety worker holds up a new Automated License Plate Reader that was being installed in East San José on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Afterwards, the license plate numbers are run against a database of reported stolen vehicles or vehicles linked to suspected crimes. But using a license plate reader is also a simple way to establish someone’s patterns, like where they live, where they go to work and where they like to eat, Quintin said. This could make it easier to predict where someone will be at a certain time of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.flocksafety.com/\">Flock\u003c/a>, a major license plate reader software used in local government, \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/\">does not\u003c/a> have a formal contract with ICE. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/\">a May investigation\u003c/a> by tech outlet 404 Media found instances where local law enforcement in places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/flock-removes-states-from-national-lookup-tool-after-ice-and-abortion-searches-revealed/\">Illinois\u003c/a> had looked up individuals in the company’s automated license plate reader system — to then pass on to ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite California law barring local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE investigations except in cases of serious crimes, CalMatters reported that local authorities in Southern California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/06/california-police-sharing-license-plate-reader-data/\">shared license plate information\u003c/a> with ICE more than 100 times. According to the \u003cem>SF Standard\u003c/em>, San Francisco officers have allowed out-of-state law enforcement to run more than 1.6 million searches of the city’s license plate reader database — and at least 19 of those searches were related to ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flock \u003ca href=\"https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/statement-network-sharing-use-cases-federal-cooperation?ref=404media.co\">disabled their national search tool\u003c/a>, with the CEO Garrett Langley noting that “Some states, like California, do not allow any sharing across state borders,” and that for those states, Flock has disabled National Lookup “to make compliance easier.” The company is also currently \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/post/flock-safety-license-plate-camera-company-halts-cooperation-federal-agencies-among-investigation-concerns-including-il/17653876/\">facing scrutiny\u003c/a> from Illinois’ state attorney general and has paused its cooperation with federal agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Partnerships with federal agencies that already hold your data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Trump administration took steps to remove what it calls “unnecessary barriers” to \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/\">inter-agency data sharing\u003c/a> and expand the use of \u003ca href=\"https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=nx-s1-5372776:nx-s1-5443914-1\">Palantir\u003c/a>, a data analysis technology company, across the government.[aside postID=news_12038914 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/ICE-three-agents.jpg']In May, an \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/irs-ice-immigration-data-sharing-agreement-explainer/\">agreement\u003c/a> between the Internal Revenue Service and ICE was officialized, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035735/what-we-now-know-about-the-irs-ice-tax-data-deal\">allowing immigration officials to receive sensitive information\u003c/a> like names, addresses and tax data that can aid deportation efforts. Advocates like the National Immigration Forum called the agreement \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/irs-ice-immigration-data-sharing-agreement-explainer/\">“unprecedented”\u003c/a> and said that it threatened the IRS’s “longstanding commitment to taxpayer privacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are seeing is a huge increase of different federal agencies willfully sharing data, even when they’re not supposed to,” Quintin said. “Even if you personally are not concerned about ICE, I think it should be concerning to anybody. This is going to be used to further \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/33466/chapter-abstract/287744917?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">dragnet surveillance\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has several explainers sharing guidance for undocumented immigrants and mixed-status students filling out government forms like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035735/what-we-now-know-about-the-irs-ice-tax-data-deal\">tax filings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033573/fafsa-2025-california-priority-deadline-student-aid-department-of-education\">student loan\u003c/a> applications. Experts have stressed that people should always consult with an attorney who is familiar with their situation and immigration status before applying or filing for anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data brokers who collect and sell your personal details\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data brokers collect your data, sell it and even create an individual profile of you that includes information that comes from public records, like marriage licenses, home purchases, even travelers’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/data-brokers-are-selling-your-flight-information-cbp-and-ice\">domestic flight records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner Willman’s digital security workshop demonstrates how even interacting with a weather app can lead to your information being stored with Venntel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/cbp-dhs-location-data-venntel-apps/\">a company that sold data to U.S. government\u003c/a> agencies for \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-agencies-use-cellphone-location-data-for-immigration-enforcement-11581078600\">immigration enforcement\u003c/a> during the first Trump administration. (In 2024, Venntel was under investigation by the \u003ca href=\"https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/ftc-opened-investigation-into-commercial\">Federal Trade Commission\u003c/a> under President Joe Biden.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11671250 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/gettyimages-482560856_slide-0eb858cc20a7268075b700f441db64e8eadc3fce-e1527620398586.jpg\" alt=\"In California, an initiative expected on November's ballot would be one of the broadest online privacy regulations in the U.S.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under current U.S. privacy laws, people’s sensitive data, such as marriage licenses, home purchases and even travelers’ domestic flight records, are not as protected as one might think. \u003ccite>(traffic_analyzer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[ICE has] \u003ca href=\"https://epic.org/documents/how-data-brokers-harm-immigrants/\">contracts\u003c/a> with data brokers and with tech companies to gain access to our personal data,” Willman said. “Some of that is more obvious stuff, like our contact info, our addresses. But it’s also our social media accounts and our online activity. It’s our location data that’s coming from our cell phones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, we’re supposed to have constitutional protections around our privacy. There are legal steps to gain access to us, to search us, to surveil us,” Willman said. But through what they call the U.S.’s “unregulated and weak”\u003ca href=\"https://www.security.org/resources/digital-privacy-legislation-by-state/\"> data privacy laws\u003c/a>, “we don’t have those same kind of protections,” Willman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facial recognition software that can recognize and track you \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facial recognition software, which often scrapes information from public sources like social media accounts, is also a commonly used tool by local law enforcement to \u003ca href=\"https://contracosta.news/2025/02/15/el-cerrito-police-announces-use-of-facial-recognition-software/\">identify possible suspects\u003c/a>. Software like Clearview AI is used by hundreds of police departments across the country, like \u003ca href=\"https://contracosta.news/2025/02/15/el-cerrito-police-announces-use-of-facial-recognition-software/#google_vignette\">the El Cerrito Police Department\u003c/a> in Contra Costa County. Clearview AI is expected to engage in \u003ca href=\"https://www.biometricupdate.com/202508/ice-prepares-sole-source-facial-recognition-deal-with-clearview-ai\">a deeper collaboration with ICE\u003c/a> in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates have long expressed concerns about the use of facial recognition by law enforcement, citing privacy concerns and the documented inaccuracies this technology generates when \u003ca href=\"https://amnesty.ca/features/racial-bias-in-facial-recognition-algorithms/\">identifying people with darker skin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-comment-ice-and-california-law-enforcement-use-clearview-ai-s-face-surveillance-system\">women\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has more robust legal protections around this technology than other states. Police officers in the state are \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/california-just-blocked-police-body-cam-use-face\">prohibited from pairing footage\u003c/a> from their body cameras with facial recognition technology, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747249/san-francisco-bans-municipal-agencies-from-using-facial-recognition-technology\"> cities like San Francisco\u003c/a>, Oakland and Berkeley have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-bans-use-facial-recognition-tech/\">banned\u003c/a> the use of facial recognition technology by city agencies. San Francisco’s police department has nonetheless attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/18/facial-recognition-law-enforcement-austin-san-francisco/\">circumvent the ban\u003c/a>, according to an investigation by \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>404 Media has also reported that ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/\">is using\u003c/a> a mobile app called Mobile Fortify, which can identify someone by pointing a camera at their face — similar to the type of technology used at airports and borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s very dangerous for people who are maybe out in the street or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049326/as-ice-operations-expand-how-are-immigrant-allies-responding\">bystanders\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054798/san-jose-joins-the-growing-call-to-unmask-ice-agents\">ICE kidnapping\u003c/a>s,” Willman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what steps can you take for better privacy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Willman admits that even digital security experts like them are overwhelmed by news like ICE’s partnership with the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s why it’s important to focus on guidance that can feel achievable and within someone’s grasp, Willman said — while acknowledging that “there’s no such thing as being 100% secure or safe.” Rather, “when we use digital security, we are reducing harm and risk,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11746095\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS8886_facebook-whatsapp-e1557416960993.jpg\" alt=\"The Facebook and WhatsApp applications' icons. Facebook purchase WhatsApp in 2014.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Facebook and WhatsApp applications’ icons. Facebook purchased WhatsApp in 2014. \u003ccite>(Gabriel BouysAFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Start with small steps\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example Willman gave: People could move their conversations from WhatsApp — a messaging platform that “is very popular in diasporic communities and immigrant communities,” but may be vulnerable to spyware — to Signal, “which has a much better track record and collects way, way less data on us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also worth noting that each person’s situation is different — and avoiding technology is almost impossible for daily life, Quintin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Willman’s workshop, attendees are asked to pose a series of questions to themselves to assess their own risks and figure out how best to perceive with their own digital hygiene practices:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“What or who do I want to protect?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“Who do I want to protect it from? Who are my adversaries?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“How motivated and capable are they to get it?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“What happens if they do get it?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“What am I willing to do to prevent that?”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider removing your information from data brokers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/04/data-broker-registry/\">a guide on deleting your information\u003c/a> from data broker websites or “opting out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A data broker’s opt-out link tends to be at the bottom of the page, and the process can look something like filling out a form or emailing the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be hard to even find this opt-out information, though, and many data brokers are \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/privacy/2025/08/18/data-brokers-face-new-pressure-for-hiding-opt-out-pages-from-google\">facing criticism\u003c/a> from elected officials for hiding their opt-out pages from Google search to purposely make it harder for users to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11744516\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ap_17049076292456-98ef10b0a38140d3e3616319050b387595d13762-e1556823156400.jpg\" alt=\"In this 2016 photo, a man holds up his iPhone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store in San Francisco. Watchdog groups that keep tabs on digital privacy rights are concerned that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are searching the phones and other digital devices of international travelers at border checkpoints in U.S. airports.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this 2016 photo, a man holds up his iPhone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Eric Risberg/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can also use a third-party app such as \u003ca href=\"https://permissionslipcr.com/\">Permission Slip\u003c/a> to help you or paid services like \u003ca href=\"https://joindeleteme.com/\">DeleteMe\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-data-removal-services/\">EasyOptOuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While opting out can also be a lengthy process, the broker must respond within \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/04/data-broker-registry/\">90 days\u003c/a> according to California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For preventive measures, both Quintin and Willman said you should visit your phone’s settings to see which apps you’re already allowing to access your data, under “Permissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintin said that it can also be helpful to outright minimize the number of apps on your phone, including restaurant apps. “Deleting a lot of those will help reduce your \u003ca href=\"https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/attack-surface\">attack surface\u003c/a>,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa\">California Consumer Privacy Act\u003c/a> will allow you to request a report of all your data that any company has and delete it, Quintin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely recommend that people exercise their California consumer privacy rights,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keep your phone’s software up to date \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the\u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-paragon-solutions-malware\"> EFF statement\u003c/a> regarding Paragon, Quintin states that the company’s spyware “isn’t magical — it’s still just malware.”[aside postID=news_12044323 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13_qed-1020x680.jpg']“The best thing you can do to protect yourself against Graphite is to keep your phone up to date,” he said, meaning allowing software updates whenever they’re offered. You can also turn on \u003ca href=\"https://faq.whatsapp.com/673193694148537\">“disappearing messages”\u003c/a> on apps like WhatsApp so that their last few texts are not saved. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration put ICE’s original contract with Paragon — reported to be worth $2 million according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> —\u003c/a> under review, to make sure the partnership complied with an executive order that essentially prevents government agencies from using spyware that infringes on \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/30/2023-06730/prohibition-on-use-by-the-united-states-government-of-commercial-spyware-that-poses-risks-to\">“forms of human rights abuses or suppression of civil liberties.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration lifted that pause, in a move that the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cooper Quintin described as \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-paragon-solutions-malware\">“extremely troubling”\u003c/a> — citing \u003ca href=\"https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/first-forensic-confirmation-of-paragons-ios-mercenary-spyware-finds-journalists-targeted/\">research\u003c/a> that found that the hacking software was used in Italy to spy on journalists and humanitarian workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE’s access to the software — and to San Francisco’s license plate data — comes at a time when the agency’s budget has \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-release/congress-approves-unprecedented-funding-mass-detention-deportation-2025/\">expanded significantly\u003c/a>, as part of the Trump administration’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration enforcement agenda\u003c/a>. KQED spoke to Quintin and other Bay Area technologists focused on public privacy about what people, especially immigrants, should know about the access ICE potentially has to your data.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What \u003cem>are \u003c/em>the digital tools ICE is using?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As you might expect, your online activity generates multiple sources of information that immigration officials can use, like social media accounts, which the Trump administration now requires that \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/06/announcement-of-expanded-screening-and-vetting-for-visa-applicants\">people seeking a U.S. visa make public.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not all of the data ICE uses is collected through your phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Those license plate readers can track your movements\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities around the Bay Area, including San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983813/san-jose-adding-hundreds-of-license-plate-readers-amid-privacy-and-efficacy-concerns\">San José\u003c/a>, have installed numerous automated license plate readers: devices that are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989977/san-franciscos-new-license-plate-readers-are-leading-to-arrests-and-concerns-about-privacy\">placed at traffic intersections\u003c/a>, which take pictures of every passing car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, “every single entrance and exit in the city of Piedmont” has an automated license plate reader, said Sam Smith, a Bay Area co-founder of \u003ca href=\"https://convocation.design/\">Convocation Research and Design\u003c/a>, a think-tank that focuses on cybersecurity and human rights. This means, Smith said, that “no one can come or go in a car in Piedmont without it being logged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984097\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a fluorescent yellow coat holds a black machine.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Flock Safety worker holds up a new Automated License Plate Reader that was being installed in East San José on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Afterwards, the license plate numbers are run against a database of reported stolen vehicles or vehicles linked to suspected crimes. But using a license plate reader is also a simple way to establish someone’s patterns, like where they live, where they go to work and where they like to eat, Quintin said. This could make it easier to predict where someone will be at a certain time of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.flocksafety.com/\">Flock\u003c/a>, a major license plate reader software used in local government, \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/\">does not\u003c/a> have a formal contract with ICE. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/\">a May investigation\u003c/a> by tech outlet 404 Media found instances where local law enforcement in places like \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/flock-removes-states-from-national-lookup-tool-after-ice-and-abortion-searches-revealed/\">Illinois\u003c/a> had looked up individuals in the company’s automated license plate reader system — to then pass on to ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite California law barring local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE investigations except in cases of serious crimes, CalMatters reported that local authorities in Southern California \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/06/california-police-sharing-license-plate-reader-data/\">shared license plate information\u003c/a> with ICE more than 100 times. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In May, an \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/irs-ice-immigration-data-sharing-agreement-explainer/\">agreement\u003c/a> between the Internal Revenue Service and ICE was officialized, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035735/what-we-now-know-about-the-irs-ice-tax-data-deal\">allowing immigration officials to receive sensitive information\u003c/a> like names, addresses and tax data that can aid deportation efforts. Advocates like the National Immigration Forum called the agreement \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/irs-ice-immigration-data-sharing-agreement-explainer/\">“unprecedented”\u003c/a> and said that it threatened the IRS’s “longstanding commitment to taxpayer privacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are seeing is a huge increase of different federal agencies willfully sharing data, even when they’re not supposed to,” Quintin said. “Even if you personally are not concerned about ICE, I think it should be concerning to anybody. This is going to be used to further \u003ca href=\"https://academic.oup.com/book/33466/chapter-abstract/287744917?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">dragnet surveillance\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has several explainers sharing guidance for undocumented immigrants and mixed-status students filling out government forms like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035735/what-we-now-know-about-the-irs-ice-tax-data-deal\">tax filings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033573/fafsa-2025-california-priority-deadline-student-aid-department-of-education\">student loan\u003c/a> applications. Experts have stressed that people should always consult with an attorney who is familiar with their situation and immigration status before applying or filing for anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data brokers who collect and sell your personal details\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data brokers collect your data, sell it and even create an individual profile of you that includes information that comes from public records, like marriage licenses, home purchases, even travelers’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/data-brokers-are-selling-your-flight-information-cbp-and-ice\">domestic flight records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner Willman’s digital security workshop demonstrates how even interacting with a weather app can lead to your information being stored with Venntel, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/cbp-dhs-location-data-venntel-apps/\">a company that sold data to U.S. government\u003c/a> agencies for \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-agencies-use-cellphone-location-data-for-immigration-enforcement-11581078600\">immigration enforcement\u003c/a> during the first Trump administration. (In 2024, Venntel was under investigation by the \u003ca href=\"https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/ftc-opened-investigation-into-commercial\">Federal Trade Commission\u003c/a> under President Joe Biden.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11671250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11671250 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/gettyimages-482560856_slide-0eb858cc20a7268075b700f441db64e8eadc3fce-e1527620398586.jpg\" alt=\"In California, an initiative expected on November's ballot would be one of the broadest online privacy regulations in the U.S.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under current U.S. privacy laws, people’s sensitive data, such as marriage licenses, home purchases and even travelers’ domestic flight records, are not as protected as one might think. \u003ccite>(traffic_analyzer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[ICE has] \u003ca href=\"https://epic.org/documents/how-data-brokers-harm-immigrants/\">contracts\u003c/a> with data brokers and with tech companies to gain access to our personal data,” Willman said. “Some of that is more obvious stuff, like our contact info, our addresses. But it’s also our social media accounts and our online activity. It’s our location data that’s coming from our cell phones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Typically, we’re supposed to have constitutional protections around our privacy. There are legal steps to gain access to us, to search us, to surveil us,” Willman said. But through what they call the U.S.’s “unregulated and weak”\u003ca href=\"https://www.security.org/resources/digital-privacy-legislation-by-state/\"> data privacy laws\u003c/a>, “we don’t have those same kind of protections,” Willman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Facial recognition software that can recognize and track you \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facial recognition software, which often scrapes information from public sources like social media accounts, is also a commonly used tool by local law enforcement to \u003ca href=\"https://contracosta.news/2025/02/15/el-cerrito-police-announces-use-of-facial-recognition-software/\">identify possible suspects\u003c/a>. Software like Clearview AI is used by hundreds of police departments across the country, like \u003ca href=\"https://contracosta.news/2025/02/15/el-cerrito-police-announces-use-of-facial-recognition-software/#google_vignette\">the El Cerrito Police Department\u003c/a> in Contra Costa County. Clearview AI is expected to engage in \u003ca href=\"https://www.biometricupdate.com/202508/ice-prepares-sole-source-facial-recognition-deal-with-clearview-ai\">a deeper collaboration with ICE\u003c/a> in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates have long expressed concerns about the use of facial recognition by law enforcement, citing privacy concerns and the documented inaccuracies this technology generates when \u003ca href=\"https://amnesty.ca/features/racial-bias-in-facial-recognition-algorithms/\">identifying people with darker skin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-comment-ice-and-california-law-enforcement-use-clearview-ai-s-face-surveillance-system\">women\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has more robust legal protections around this technology than other states. Police officers in the state are \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/california-just-blocked-police-body-cam-use-face\">prohibited from pairing footage\u003c/a> from their body cameras with facial recognition technology, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747249/san-francisco-bans-municipal-agencies-from-using-facial-recognition-technology\"> cities like San Francisco\u003c/a>, Oakland and Berkeley have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-bans-use-facial-recognition-tech/\">banned\u003c/a> the use of facial recognition technology by city agencies. San Francisco’s police department has nonetheless attempted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/18/facial-recognition-law-enforcement-austin-san-francisco/\">circumvent the ban\u003c/a>, according to an investigation by \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>404 Media has also reported that ICE \u003ca href=\"https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/\">is using\u003c/a> a mobile app called Mobile Fortify, which can identify someone by pointing a camera at their face — similar to the type of technology used at airports and borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s very dangerous for people who are maybe out in the street or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049326/as-ice-operations-expand-how-are-immigrant-allies-responding\">bystanders\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054798/san-jose-joins-the-growing-call-to-unmask-ice-agents\">ICE kidnapping\u003c/a>s,” Willman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So what steps can you take for better privacy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Willman admits that even digital security experts like them are overwhelmed by news like ICE’s partnership with the IRS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s why it’s important to focus on guidance that can feel achievable and within someone’s grasp, Willman said — while acknowledging that “there’s no such thing as being 100% secure or safe.” Rather, “when we use digital security, we are reducing harm and risk,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11746095\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS8886_facebook-whatsapp-e1557416960993.jpg\" alt=\"The Facebook and WhatsApp applications' icons. Facebook purchase WhatsApp in 2014.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Facebook and WhatsApp applications’ icons. Facebook purchased WhatsApp in 2014. \u003ccite>(Gabriel BouysAFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Start with small steps\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example Willman gave: People could move their conversations from WhatsApp — a messaging platform that “is very popular in diasporic communities and immigrant communities,” but may be vulnerable to spyware — to Signal, “which has a much better track record and collects way, way less data on us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also worth noting that each person’s situation is different — and avoiding technology is almost impossible for daily life, Quintin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Willman’s workshop, attendees are asked to pose a series of questions to themselves to assess their own risks and figure out how best to perceive with their own digital hygiene practices:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>“What or who do I want to protect?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“Who do I want to protect it from? Who are my adversaries?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“How motivated and capable are they to get it?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“What happens if they do get it?”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>“What am I willing to do to prevent that?”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider removing your information from data brokers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/04/data-broker-registry/\">a guide on deleting your information\u003c/a> from data broker websites or “opting out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A data broker’s opt-out link tends to be at the bottom of the page, and the process can look something like filling out a form or emailing the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be hard to even find this opt-out information, though, and many data brokers are \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/privacy/2025/08/18/data-brokers-face-new-pressure-for-hiding-opt-out-pages-from-google\">facing criticism\u003c/a> from elected officials for hiding their opt-out pages from Google search to purposely make it harder for users to find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11744516\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/ap_17049076292456-98ef10b0a38140d3e3616319050b387595d13762-e1556823156400.jpg\" alt=\"In this 2016 photo, a man holds up his iPhone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store in San Francisco. Watchdog groups that keep tabs on digital privacy rights are concerned that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are searching the phones and other digital devices of international travelers at border checkpoints in U.S. airports.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this 2016 photo, a man holds up his iPhone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Eric Risberg/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can also use a third-party app such as \u003ca href=\"https://permissionslipcr.com/\">Permission Slip\u003c/a> to help you or paid services like \u003ca href=\"https://joindeleteme.com/\">DeleteMe\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-data-removal-services/\">EasyOptOuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While opting out can also be a lengthy process, the broker must respond within \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2024/04/data-broker-registry/\">90 days\u003c/a> according to California law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For preventive measures, both Quintin and Willman said you should visit your phone’s settings to see which apps you’re already allowing to access your data, under “Permissions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintin said that it can also be helpful to outright minimize the number of apps on your phone, including restaurant apps. “Deleting a lot of those will help reduce your \u003ca href=\"https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/attack-surface\">attack surface\u003c/a>,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa\">California Consumer Privacy Act\u003c/a> will allow you to request a report of all your data that any company has and delete it, Quintin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely recommend that people exercise their California consumer privacy rights,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keep your phone’s software up to date \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the\u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-paragon-solutions-malware\"> EFF statement\u003c/a> regarding Paragon, Quintin states that the company’s spyware “isn’t magical — it’s still just malware.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The best thing you can do to protect yourself against Graphite is to keep your phone up to date,” he said, meaning allowing software updates whenever they’re offered. You can also turn on \u003ca href=\"https://faq.whatsapp.com/673193694148537\">“disappearing messages”\u003c/a> on apps like WhatsApp so that their last few texts are not saved. On \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/delete-messages-and-attachments-iph2c9c4bfcb/ios\">an iPhone\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10001923/\">Android\u003c/a>, you can go to your settings and automatically delete old messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you suspect you are being targeted in a cyberattack, you can enable \u003ca href=\"https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120\">Lockdown Mode\u003c/a> (on an iPhone) or \u003ca href=\"https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9764949?hl=en\">Advanced Protection Mode\u003c/a> (on an Android), limiting some functionality of your phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Advocate for better protections\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Individual action can only go so far when faced with a systematic issue, Quintin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it’s why people also need to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049326/as-ice-operations-expand-how-are-immigrant-allies-responding\">work with their community\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">call their elected representative\u003c/a> to advocate for better laws around surveillance tech like Flock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any one of these things individually isn’t going to do anything,” he said. “When we do all of these things together, that’s really how we protect our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Start using apps and browsers that offer higher degrees of privacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://signal.org/\">Signal\u003c/a> (an encrypted messaging app)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://brave.com/\">Brave\u003c/a> (a browser)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.firefox.com/en-US/landing/get/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21953014515&gbraid=0AAAAAD-k1GoU5cx3InnRFVnrEWj-o_BBZ&gclid=CjwKCAjwlOrFBhBaEiwAw4bYDXtvyTTZsS7iPAQI-hYp092tbIUPuooqx_4TaQCunanjFqmDhRl9vxoCIb0QAvD_BwE&utm_campaign=SET_DEFAULT_BROWSER\">Firefox\u003c/a> (a browser)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://mullvad.net/en\">Mullvad\u003c/a> (a VPN)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://privacybadger.org/\">Privacy Badger\u003c/a> (an ad and trackers blocker)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ublockorigin.com/\">uBlock Origin\u003c/a> (an ad blocker)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://duckduckgo.com/\">Duck Duck Go\u003c/a> (a search engine)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More resources to better your digital privacy:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ssd.eff.org/\">Surveillance Self-Defense\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More tools from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/pages/tools\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.privacyguides.org/en/\">Privacy Guides\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://libguides.rutgers.edu/digitalprivacy\">Rutgers University\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/gentle-january/2024/01/31/overwhelmed-by-digital-privacy-reset-with-these-practical-tips\">The Markup\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/a-former-hackers-guide-to-boosting-your-online-security\">ProPublica\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://digitaldefensefund.org/\">Digital Defense Fund\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047251/chancellor-lyons-to-testify-in-house-hearing-on-uc-berkeley-antisemitism-policies\">growing action nationwide\u003c/a> to combat antisemitism in places of education, a bill that seeks to address the issue in California’s TK–12 schools is swiftly working through the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://app.trint.com/public/1206e858-ede3-4f83-be3d-3e393aa43637\">AB 715\u003c/a> would establish an Office of Civil Rights, which would become home to a new antisemitism prevention coordinator position. The governor would appoint the coordinator and have a broad remit to both administer antisemitism education to teachers and school administrators, as well as track and report on incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard from hundreds and hundreds of families across California who have tried to speak up when there were antisemitic materials or instruction in the school campus or in the classroom, and that their concerns went unheard,” said Assemblymember Dawn Addis, D-Morro Bay, who co-introduced the bill with Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, D-Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After passing the state Senate Committee on Education with a near-unanimous vote on Wednesday, lawmakers are racing to clear the Senate’s Appropriations Committee and a floor vote before they can return the bill to the Assembly for final votes — all before a Saturday deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While proponents of the law see this as a necessary step to combat a rise in antisemitism in California schools, opponents say the bill would have a chilling effect on free speech and learning in schools, especially when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032227\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240311-JewishProtest-JY-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rabbi Gil Leeds of Berkeley Chabad, left, and Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman, executive director of Berkeley Hillel, right, embrace as Jewish Berkeley students, faculty and community members rally on campus in Berkeley, California, on March 11, 2024. The crowd of over 100 rallied to protest antisemitism and blockage of Sather Gate by pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel students, stating that the University had not been enforcing its policy of keeping the gate path clear. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We, too, want to challenge antisemitism. This is not the way to do it,” said Theresa Montaño, a member of the California Faculty Association and a professor at California State University, Northridge. “This bill does nothing to challenge antisemitism. It does everything to create an environment that is divisive and that creates fear where teachers have to look around to see who in their classroom is likely to report them when they teach issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law would require teacher instruction to be “factually accurate and align with the adopted curriculum and standards in existing law, and be consistent with accepted standards of professional responsibility, rather than advocacy, personal opinion, bias or partisanship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the bill, like the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said “factual accuracy” is a vague standard and could be used to “prohibit statements that could be construed as ‘advocacy’ and ‘personal opinion,’ inviting politically motivated complaints,” according to a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oussama Mokeddem, legislative and government affairs director for the CAIR’s California chapter, said the bill doesn’t speak to the specific needs of other communities that are also experiencing hate.[aside postID=news_12050654 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/UCLAGetty.jpg']“To create an antisemitism prevention coordinator — which represents about 5% of the student population in California — with a substantive charge to address hate against the Jewish community, while relegating all other minority groups to coordinators based on general categories is a lopsided approach,” Mokeddem said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law has been heavily modified as it works its way through the halls of Sacramento. Earlier versions mandated instructional materials on Jews, Israel and the Israel-Palestine conflict, which have since been removed from the bill’s language. The bill also does not define antisemitism. Instead, the law looks to a \u003ca href=\"https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/02/the-u-s-national-strategy-to-counter-antisemitism-key-actions-by-pillar-2/\">strategy\u003c/a> from the Biden administration as a means to identify, respond to, prevent and counter antisemitism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, if a school is found to be in violation of existing anti-discrimination laws involving antisemitism, it would be required to implement an improvement plan developed in consultation with the antisemitism prevention coordinator and use alternative instructional materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s meeting of the state Senate Committee on Education, some lawmakers voiced concern that the bill was being rushed through the legislative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055702\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Steven Choi at the State Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 15, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We only received the new language for this bill last night at about 6 o’clock,” state Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“To create an antisemitism prevention coordinator — which represents about 5% of the student population in California — with a substantive charge to address hate against the Jewish community, while relegating all other minority groups to coordinators based on general categories is a lopsided approach,” Mokeddem said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law has been heavily modified as it works its way through the halls of Sacramento. Earlier versions mandated instructional materials on Jews, Israel and the Israel-Palestine conflict, which have since been removed from the bill’s language. The bill also does not define antisemitism. Instead, the law looks to a \u003ca href=\"https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/02/the-u-s-national-strategy-to-counter-antisemitism-key-actions-by-pillar-2/\">strategy\u003c/a> from the Biden administration as a means to identify, respond to, prevent and counter antisemitism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, if a school is found to be in violation of existing anti-discrimination laws involving antisemitism, it would be required to implement an improvement plan developed in consultation with the antisemitism prevention coordinator and use alternative instructional materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Wednesday’s meeting of the state Senate Committee on Education, some lawmakers voiced concern that the bill was being rushed through the legislative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055702\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/StevenChoi_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Steven Choi at the State Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 15, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We only received the new language for this bill last night at about 6 o’clock,” state Sen. Steven Choi, R-Los Angeles, said. “Ultimately, I wonder if we should be supporting such big changes to this bill when the public has had less than 24 hours to read the new language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choi said he struggled with whether to support the measure, but ultimately decided to vote yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when antisemitism and other forms of hate are rising across our nation, it is vital that our schools are equipped to respond with both clarity and compassion,” Choi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 2015 to 2024, reported hate crime events \u003ca href=\"https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/Hate%20Crime%20In%20CA%202024.pdf\">increased\u003c/a> 141.7% in California, according to the state’s Department of Justice. Out of all religious-based hate crimes in the state, Jewish people reported experiencing the vast majority during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this surge, California was recently named the top state for fighting antisemitism in a report by the Anti-Defamation League, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/08/19/independent-review-california-leads-the-nation-in-combating-antisemitism-through-statewide-initiatives/\">receiving a score of 94. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Jewish groups welcomed the bill’s passage in the state’s education committee. “This is a pivotal step forward toward safer, more inclusive classrooms for all students,” the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California wrote in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Late-night negotiations between Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> and Democratic leaders in the state Legislature produced a flurry of agreements on Wednesday on pivotal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052825/whats-next-for-californias-landmark-climate-program\">climate\u003c/a> and energy programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After months of hard work with the Legislature, we have agreed to historic reforms that will save money on your electric bills, stabilize gas supply, and slash toxic air pollution — all while fast-tracking California’s transition to a clean, green job-creating economy,” Newsom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On their own, each of the deals to extend the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040286/how-california-cap-and-trade-works-and-how-newsom-wants-to-change-it\">cap-and-trade\u003c/a> climate program, ease regulations on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910826/california-considers-more-drilling-and-other-concessions-to-big-oil-as-gas-prices-rise\">oil and gas\u003c/a> production, reform utility spending and advance regional energy sharing is a controversial and complex endeavor. Taken together, they present lawmakers with a series of monumental choices over California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027878/california-lawmakers-aim-lower-electricity-bills-but-theyll-face-tough-choices\">energy transition\u003c/a> with just a few days left in the legislative year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re at this point where we are paying for the effects of climate change, while we’re also trying to transition to the new future we want to see,” said Merrian Borgeson, a policy expert from the Natural Resources Defense Council. “But I think we’re standing up to the challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many environmentalists praised the agreements for advancing the state’s climate goals with an eye on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053867/affordability-concerns-at-center-of-cap-and-trade-renewal-debate\">affordability\u003c/a>, environmental justice and consumer advocates slammed many of the provisions as a sellout to the oil and gas industry. Numerous participants in the negotiations agreed they had rarely seen a collection of high-stakes climate policies come together in such a whirlwind of last-minute negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California State Capitol in Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This was a wretched process,” said Katie Valenzuela, a consultant for environmental justice groups. “This was the most closed-door, hardest-to-influence process from a community perspective that I’ve ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate and Assembly will not be able to vote on the bills until Saturday morning, due to a state rule requiring all bills to be in print for 72 hours before a final vote. Lawmakers will need to extend the session, currently set to recess on Friday at midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cap-and-trade extension\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After months of talks, lawmakers reached an agreement on an extension of cap-and-trade — the landmark program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative, renamed cap-and-invest, sets a limit on the planet-warming pollution that refineries, power plants and other factories can release — a cap that is lowered every year. Companies can either reduce their emissions or bid on allowances that give them permission to pollute. The auctions for those allowances raise billions of dollars for the state every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Valero Benicia Refinery in Benicia, on May 8, 2025, which processes up to 170,000 barrels of oil a day, making gasoline, diesel, and other fuels for California. Valero plans to shut down the Benicia refinery by April 2026, citing high costs and strict environmental rules. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1207/id/3136896\">Assembly Bill 1207\u003c/a> would extend cap-and-invest through 2045, sending a signal of stability to the carbon markets that supporters hope will increase auction returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is extended in a manner that will help ensure we actually meet our 2045 [greenhouse gas reduction] goals,” said Katelyn Roedner Sutter, California state director for the Environmental Defense Fund. “It addresses affordability concerns, and it maintains California as a climate leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1207 shifts the California Climate Credit to summer months, when higher air conditioning use causes electricity bills to spike. A companion measure, \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB840/id/3191153\">Senate Bill 840\u003c/a>, detailed how the revenues from carbon auctions will be spent — including setting aside $1 billion a year for the state’s high-speed rail system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice advocates said capping statewide emissions does little for residents living near refineries and other pollution hotspots. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050096/californias-clean-air-program-for-polluted-communities-faces-crossroads\">program created\u003c/a> during the last cap-and-trade reauthorization in 2017 was supposed to reduce local air pollution through community-designed plans, but has been criticized for having little teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valenzuela said a proposal to give the local pollution reduction plans more staying power was left out of the final agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disappointing doesn’t honestly feel like it describes it,” she said. “This is a terrible outcome for our communities, and we are incredibly frustrated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New incentives for the oil industry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice groups were further incensed by \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB237\">Senate Bill 237\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill aims to loosen some of California’s environmental regulations to hedge against rising gasoline prices and respond to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036695/shocking-news-valero-announces-plans-to-end-operations-at-benicia-refinery\">planned closure\u003c/a> of two oil refineries in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the only state in the nation that requires motorists to shift to a lower-emissions fuel in the summer. The state’s fuel standard has reduced smog and improved air quality for decades, but consumers continue to pay higher prices for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, if passed, would require the Governor to suspend the higher fuel standard whenever prices spike for more than 30 days, or appear likely to do so.[aside postID=news_12053867 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230921-VALERO-BENICIA-REFINERY-MD-01_qed.jpg']Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, called it a “deregulation bonanza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all about retreating on the things that have worked in this state,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also remove regulatory and legal obstacles for thousands of oil wells in Kern County by exempting them from a final review under the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil companies and environmentalists have clashed for more than a decade over challenges that have effectively stalled the permitting process for drilling new oil wells in Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The politics of this are that everyone’s really worried,” said Deborah A. Sivas, director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program at Stanford Law School. “We’re seeing affordability issues all over the place in the energy sector … so that’s the hook for the industry to say, ‘oh, you need to let us drill more because then we’ll feed more crude oil to the refineries.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sivas worried that more drilling would lead to more abandoned wells that threaten to taint water supplies and create other environmental hazards, because she said drilling for oil in California is just not sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The future is not in oil production in California,” she said.“That was the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Utility reform and wildfire fund\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB254\">Senate Bill 254\u003c/a>, authored by state Sen. Josh Becker, D-San Mateo, and Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Irvine, tackles several angles of climate and energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is a proposal to have the state fund some power-grid investments with revenue bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s three large investor-owned utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, typically pay for grid improvements with capital expenditures, which allow them to earn a guaranteed profit for shareholders. Proponents of the bills say financing these improvements publicly, through bonds, would bring down costs to ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11660347\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E workers work to repair power lines in the Coffey Park neighborhood following the damage caused by the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mark Toney, executive director of The Utility Reform Network, said the bill could save Californians billions of dollars over the next decade and was “a small step in the right direction for ratepayer affordability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities initially opposed the bill and said public financing threatened their ability to attract private investors, and pushed back with a public relations campaign \u003ca href=\"https://raterealities.com/\">criticizing\u003c/a> the proposal. But they praised the addition of new money for the state’s wildfire fund, which was nearly depleted by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1998021/socal-edisons-liability-from-the-eaton-fire-threatens-to-gobble-up-states-safety-fund\">January blazes in Los Angeles\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities can draw on this money to cover liability if their electrical equipment starts a damaging wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation proposes that utilities and ratepayers would each cover half of the nearly $18 billion fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, SCE and SDG&E issued a joint statement saying the wildfire fund would “help victims and communities recover and rebuild, without raising customer rates. While this legislation represents progress, more work is needed to create comprehensive and permanent solutions to address wildfire risk in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A final bill, Assembly Bill 825, would enable California to join a new, Western electricity market. 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Numerous participants in the negotiations agreed they had rarely seen a collection of high-stakes climate policies come together in such a whirlwind of last-minute negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-SACRAMENTOFILE-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California State Capitol in Sacramento on May 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This was a wretched process,” said Katie Valenzuela, a consultant for environmental justice groups. “This was the most closed-door, hardest-to-influence process from a community perspective that I’ve ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate and Assembly will not be able to vote on the bills until Saturday morning, due to a state rule requiring all bills to be in print for 72 hours before a final vote. Lawmakers will need to extend the session, currently set to recess on Friday at midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Cap-and-trade extension\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After months of talks, lawmakers reached an agreement on an extension of cap-and-trade — the landmark program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative, renamed cap-and-invest, sets a limit on the planet-warming pollution that refineries, power plants and other factories can release — a cap that is lowered every year. Companies can either reduce their emissions or bid on allowances that give them permission to pollute. The auctions for those allowances raise billions of dollars for the state every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055464\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250509-BeniciaRefinery-32-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Valero Benicia Refinery in Benicia, on May 8, 2025, which processes up to 170,000 barrels of oil a day, making gasoline, diesel, and other fuels for California. Valero plans to shut down the Benicia refinery by April 2026, citing high costs and strict environmental rules. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1207/id/3136896\">Assembly Bill 1207\u003c/a> would extend cap-and-invest through 2045, sending a signal of stability to the carbon markets that supporters hope will increase auction returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is extended in a manner that will help ensure we actually meet our 2045 [greenhouse gas reduction] goals,” said Katelyn Roedner Sutter, California state director for the Environmental Defense Fund. “It addresses affordability concerns, and it maintains California as a climate leader.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 1207 shifts the California Climate Credit to summer months, when higher air conditioning use causes electricity bills to spike. A companion measure, \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB840/id/3191153\">Senate Bill 840\u003c/a>, detailed how the revenues from carbon auctions will be spent — including setting aside $1 billion a year for the state’s high-speed rail system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice advocates said capping statewide emissions does little for residents living near refineries and other pollution hotspots. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050096/californias-clean-air-program-for-polluted-communities-faces-crossroads\">program created\u003c/a> during the last cap-and-trade reauthorization in 2017 was supposed to reduce local air pollution through community-designed plans, but has been criticized for having little teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valenzuela said a proposal to give the local pollution reduction plans more staying power was left out of the final agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disappointing doesn’t honestly feel like it describes it,” she said. “This is a terrible outcome for our communities, and we are incredibly frustrated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New incentives for the oil industry\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice groups were further incensed by \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB237\">Senate Bill 237\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill aims to loosen some of California’s environmental regulations to hedge against rising gasoline prices and respond to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036695/shocking-news-valero-announces-plans-to-end-operations-at-benicia-refinery\">planned closure\u003c/a> of two oil refineries in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is the only state in the nation that requires motorists to shift to a lower-emissions fuel in the summer. The state’s fuel standard has reduced smog and improved air quality for decades, but consumers continue to pay higher prices for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, if passed, would require the Governor to suspend the higher fuel standard whenever prices spike for more than 30 days, or appear likely to do so.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Sivas, director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program at Stanford Law School. “We’re seeing affordability issues all over the place in the energy sector … so that’s the hook for the industry to say, ‘oh, you need to let us drill more because then we’ll feed more crude oil to the refineries.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sivas worried that more drilling would lead to more abandoned wells that threaten to taint water supplies and create other environmental hazards, because she said drilling for oil in California is just not sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The future is not in oil production in California,” she said.“That was the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Utility reform and wildfire fund\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB254\">Senate Bill 254\u003c/a>, authored by state Sen. Josh Becker, D-San Mateo, and Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris, D-Irvine, tackles several angles of climate and energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is a proposal to have the state fund some power-grid investments with revenue bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s three large investor-owned utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, typically pay for grid improvements with capital expenditures, which allow them to earn a guaranteed profit for shareholders. Proponents of the bills say financing these improvements publicly, through bonds, would bring down costs to ratepayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11660347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11660347\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30321_GettyImages-860975008-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E workers work to repair power lines in the Coffey Park neighborhood following the damage caused by the Tubbs Fire. \u003ccite>(Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mark Toney, executive director of The Utility Reform Network, said the bill could save Californians billions of dollars over the next decade and was “a small step in the right direction for ratepayer affordability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities initially opposed the bill and said public financing threatened their ability to attract private investors, and pushed back with a public relations campaign \u003ca href=\"https://raterealities.com/\">criticizing\u003c/a> the proposal. But they praised the addition of new money for the state’s wildfire fund, which was nearly depleted by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1998021/socal-edisons-liability-from-the-eaton-fire-threatens-to-gobble-up-states-safety-fund\">January blazes in Los Angeles\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities can draw on this money to cover liability if their electrical equipment starts a damaging wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation proposes that utilities and ratepayers would each cover half of the nearly $18 billion fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, SCE and SDG&E issued a joint statement saying the wildfire fund would “help victims and communities recover and rebuild, without raising customer rates. While this legislation represents progress, more work is needed to create comprehensive and permanent solutions to address wildfire risk in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A final bill, Assembly Bill 825, would enable California to join a new, Western electricity market. Supporters touted the plan as a way to ensure the reliability of California’s grid by letting the state buy and sell power across the region. At the same time, opponents warned California’s participation in an interstate grid would loosen state control over energy supply and cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>[This column was reported for Political Breakdown, a bimonthly newsletter offering analysis and context on Bay Area and California political news. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>.]\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054886/john-burton-architect-of-california-democratic-machine-dies-at-92\">John Burton died on Sunday\u003c/a>, an event marking the release of his memoir, \u003ca href=\"https://politics-prose.com/book/9798881809089?srsltid=AfmBOor1H3GOn268Vqjuo7VMyDymf48kEBZVeC9THd3CoEw_ahfojRj4\">\u003cem>I Yell Because I Care\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, was planned for Tuesday night. His death transformed a literary evening at the California Museum, a block from the Capitol, into a celebration of Burton’s life and legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the end-of-session crush looming, attendance was essentially de rigueur for members following in Burton’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really impossible to be here at this event and not feel the weight of loss of not having our friend, Mr. John Burton, with us,” Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas told the crowd. “He was family to all of us in public service. His presence, his voice, his heart filled every single room he entered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The son of a farmworker and the first Assembly speaker from the Salinas Valley, Rivas praised Burton’s insistence on standing up for the little guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John was unapologetic. He was relentless. But he always used his power to fight for those with the least amount of power: Foster youth, farm workers, the poor, the overlooked, the voiceless,” Rivas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie Brown, who was first elected to the state Assembly in 1964 along with Burton, was there to remember the friend he met in 1951.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John Burton, in the world of politics, meant a lot. But in the world of friendship, he meant even more,” Brown said. “He was a very, very difficult friend to satisfy, sometimes almost impossible, but for all the right reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055433\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055433\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_152-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_152-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_152-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_152-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown (center left) walks down O Street in downtown Sacramento toward the California Museum to attend a reception launching the late John Burton’s memoir, “I Yell Because I Care,” on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 91, Brown has attended many funerals of his contemporaries. The former Assembly speaker joked about his longevity as he walked into the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have, for a long time, wanted to make sure that I’d be around to say goodbye to everybody I ever met. And so far, I’m reaching that goal,” he said. “From the group of people whom I started with in 1964, when there were 10 of us, there’s one.” That would be him.[aside postID=news_12055315 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-1415221422_qed.jpg']Burton’s daughter, Kimiko, remembered her father’s relentless focus on helping those who needed it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For him, it was helping the downtrodden and the underdog. He really felt an obligation to help people who didn’t have a voice, who don’t have lobbyists,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was an expectation that Gov. Gavin Newsom would speak. He arrived but did not enter the courtyard where the program was underway. Instead, he was spotted just outside, talking quietly with Kimiko Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, I asked her what he said. “I love you,” she said, choking back tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our fathers were friends when we were children, and so when I had anticipated that my dad would be here, I texted Gavin and I said, ‘My dad wants you here not because you’re the governor but because you’re Billy’s son,’” she said, referring to Newsom’s late father, former Judge Bill Newsom. “We were just telling stories about when we were young and when our dads were younger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_686-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_686-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_686-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_686-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The memoir of the late John Burton displayed at the California Museum in Sacramento on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Burton name has long carried weight in California politics. I arrived in California in 1981, and it wasn’t long before Burton caught my attention. In 1982, Burton, then one of the city’s congressional representatives, announced he would not seek re-election, choosing instead to come home and deal with his addiction to cocaine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, his older brother, Phil, a high-octane powerbroker in Washington, died suddenly of a heart attack. His widow, Sala Burton, replaced him in Congress. On her deathbed in 1987, Sala urged a young Nancy Pelosi to run for her seat in Congress to keep the Burton legacy alive. The rest, as they say, is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Burton machine” wielded outsize influence on who represented San Francisco in both Washington, D.C. and Sacramento. Led by Phil, the Burtons mastered the art of gerrymandering — drawing districts to maximize the number of Democrats elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_1000-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_1000-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_1000-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_1000-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas delivers remarks during the reception for the late John Burton’s memoir, “I Yell Because I Care,” at the California Museum in Sacramento on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a time when critics say Democrats have lost touch with working-class and non-college-educated voters, Burton spent his entire career laser-focused on those who needed government’s help most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, as he was stepping down as chair of the state Democratic Party, I asked Burton how he wanted to be remembered. After a long pause, he said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That when I left Sacramento, poor people and blind, disabled and women on what they used to call welfare, had more money than they had when I came in,” Burton said, adding, “I just tried to do the best I could for people. If you’re in a position of power or influence, you take care of those who ain’t got it, who don’t have the power. They don’t have anybody but you or somebody fighting for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another event celebrating Burton’s memoir is scheduled for Sept. 17 at 5:30 p.m. at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Burton’s daughter, Kimiko, remembered her father’s relentless focus on helping those who needed it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For him, it was helping the downtrodden and the underdog. He really felt an obligation to help people who didn’t have a voice, who don’t have lobbyists,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was an expectation that Gov. Gavin Newsom would speak. He arrived but did not enter the courtyard where the program was underway. Instead, he was spotted just outside, talking quietly with Kimiko Burton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward, I asked her what he said. “I love you,” she said, choking back tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our fathers were friends when we were children, and so when I had anticipated that my dad would be here, I texted Gavin and I said, ‘My dad wants you here not because you’re the governor but because you’re Billy’s son,’” she said, referring to Newsom’s late father, former Judge Bill Newsom. “We were just telling stories about when we were young and when our dads were younger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_686-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_686-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_686-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_686-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The memoir of the late John Burton displayed at the California Museum in Sacramento on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Burton name has long carried weight in California politics. I arrived in California in 1981, and it wasn’t long before Burton caught my attention. In 1982, Burton, then one of the city’s congressional representatives, announced he would not seek re-election, choosing instead to come home and deal with his addiction to cocaine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, his older brother, Phil, a high-octane powerbroker in Washington, died suddenly of a heart attack. His widow, Sala Burton, replaced him in Congress. On her deathbed in 1987, Sala urged a young Nancy Pelosi to run for her seat in Congress to keep the Burton legacy alive. The rest, as they say, is history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Burton machine” wielded outsize influence on who represented San Francisco in both Washington, D.C. and Sacramento. Led by Phil, the Burtons mastered the art of gerrymandering — drawing districts to maximize the number of Democrats elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_1000-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_1000-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_1000-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/09092025_LBR3_JOHNBURTONMEMOIR_1000-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas delivers remarks during the reception for the late John Burton’s memoir, “I Yell Because I Care,” at the California Museum in Sacramento on Sept. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Louis Bryant III for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a time when critics say Democrats have lost touch with working-class and non-college-educated voters, Burton spent his entire career laser-focused on those who needed government’s help most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, as he was stepping down as chair of the state Democratic Party, I asked Burton how he wanted to be remembered. After a long pause, he said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That when I left Sacramento, poor people and blind, disabled and women on what they used to call welfare, had more money than they had when I came in,” Burton said, adding, “I just tried to do the best I could for people. If you’re in a position of power or influence, you take care of those who ain’t got it, who don’t have the power. They don’t have anybody but you or somebody fighting for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another event celebrating Burton’s memoir is scheduled for Sept. 17 at 5:30 p.m. at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a>’s soup kitchens, homeless shelters and preschools can continue to serve those without legal status, at least temporarily, according to a decision on Wednesday by a U.S. district court judge in Rhode Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, four federal departments — Education, Justice, Health and Human Services and Labor — directed California to deny many immigrants access to federally funded public services, including health care, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/education\">education\u003c/a> and job training. The new policies apply to certain classes of immigrants, including those without legal status as well as those who have it, such as asylum seekers or those with student visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California quickly joined 20 other states and the District of Columbia in \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70869382/state-of-new-york-v-us-department-of-justice/\">a lawsuit\u003c/a>, arguing that the policy changes were illegal. The ruling today, which is a preliminary injunction, means that the federal government can’t enforce the new policies in these states until the lawsuit is decided, which could take months or years to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four federal departments said in July that the new policies were an effort to fulfill one of Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-open-borders/\">executive orders\u003c/a>, which claims that public benefits fuel “illegal immigration.” The executive order asks federal departments to ensure that “no taxpayer-funded benefits go to unqualified aliens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for the Justice Department, Sean Skedzielewski, said the new policies also reflect the proper interpretation of federal law, despite the fact that the Justice Department has used a different interpretation for nearly 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12026832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12026832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2197914000-scaled-e1740613370625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester waves the national flags of Mexico during a demonstration for immigrants’ rights outside of Los Angeles City Hall on Feb. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/c8da6d92-c0d0-4a14-a4a1-6c6c94d48b8b.pdf\">her written decision\u003c/a> issuing the preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy said she’s skeptical of Skedzielewski’s legal argument. “The [federal] Government argues that it has somehow interpreted this statute incorrectly for the nearly thirty years that it has been the law. In its view, everyone [from every past administration] has misunderstood it from the start — at least until last month, when the right way to read it became clear to the [federal] Government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McElroy wrote that the new policies, which are now paused, would mean that “fewer people will get critical antipoverty resources due to immigrant communities avoiding services but also because, generally, people living in poverty at times lack government identification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who qualifies for public benefits?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1996, Congress passed a law restricting most federally funded public benefits to U.S. citizens or those with certain legal statuses, such as a green card. Later, when clarifying the law, the federal government carved out certain exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any person, regardless of their legal status, can access a crisis call center and any neglected or abused child can receive public assistance because these services are “necessary for the protection of life and safety,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1996-08-30/pdf/96-22233.pdf\">federal guidance from 1996\u003c/a>, which clarified the meaning of that year’s law. Homeless and domestic violence shelters, public hospitals and programs that support mental health or substance use recovery are also available to all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11707712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33989_111918_AW_SoupKitchen_03-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33989_111918_AW_SoupKitchen_03-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33989_111918_AW_SoupKitchen_03-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33989_111918_AW_SoupKitchen_03-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33989_111918_AW_SoupKitchen_03-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33989_111918_AW_SoupKitchen_03-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers pass trays down the cafeteria line at St. Anthony’s. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a result of a 1982 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/08/immigrants-california/\">Supreme Court decision\u003c/a>, the federal government allows all students under 18 years old, regardless of legal status, to attend public school. Immigrants without legal status are also able to access Head Start and to enroll in adult education classes, which include English as a second language and high school equivalency programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, which encompasses San Jose, roughly 40% of residents are foreign-born and more than half of all children in the county have a foreign-born parent. The county receives about $3.7 billion in federal funding each year, most of which supports its public hospital system, according to a court declaration by Greta Hanson, the chief operating officer of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verifying patients’ legal status isn’t feasible, she said, but even if it were, it would “have extremely detrimental impacts and deter individuals from seeking much-needed care.” If an individual has a contagious disease but avoids seeking care, for example, they could jeopardize the health of their entire community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the new policies went into effect in July, the health system has yet to turn away any patients. The states in the lawsuit and the four federal departments came to an agreement that they would delay enforcing the new policies until Sept. 11. Because of today’s preliminary injunction, it will now take months or years before the policies are enacted, and if the judge ultimately rules in favor of California, the policies may never take effect at all.[aside postID=news_12055279 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250903-ICETRAINING_01023_TV-KQED.jpg']It’s just one of many lawsuits California has filed against the Trump administration regarding the treatment of immigrants. In an attempt to implement a different presidential executive order, which asked federal departments to stop “\u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/25/2025-05214/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos\">waste, fraud and abuse\u003c/a>,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) asked California to share private data about people who receive food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Democratic attorneys general, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, sued the USDA, saying it’s an attempt to target \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052815/oakland-attorneys-say-immigrant-children-are-being-held-in-prison-like-conditions\">mixed-status families\u003c/a>, where U.S. citizens may have a non-citizen relative. California has also sued the Trump Administration over its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054700/newsom-trump-troop-stunt-cost-taxpayers-nearly-120-million\">deployment of the National Guard\u003c/a> after federal immigration raids led to protests in Los Angeles this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, California has sued or joined other states in suing the federal government \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047925/california-sues-trump-administration-again-this-time-over-withheld-school-funds\">roughly 40 times\u003c/a> since the president’s inauguration. During the first Trump administration, California sued the president 123 times and won about two-thirds of those cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the lawsuits filed this year have already led to preliminary injunctions, temporarily halting the Trump administration’s new policies, but advocates for immigrants say the president’s actions have had an impact nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Californians, including those with legal status, are shying away from public services out of fear. Some are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/08/la-immigration-raids-empty-spaces/\">afraid to leave their house\u003c/a> at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an adult school in Huntington Beach, principal Steve Curiel said few immigrants are showing up for English-language classes this summer. 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In its view, everyone [from every past administration] has misunderstood it from the start — at least until last month, when the right way to read it became clear to the [federal] Government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McElroy wrote that the new policies, which are now paused, would mean that “fewer people will get critical antipoverty resources due to immigrant communities avoiding services but also because, generally, people living in poverty at times lack government identification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who qualifies for public benefits?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1996, Congress passed a law restricting most federally funded public benefits to U.S. citizens or those with certain legal statuses, such as a green card. Later, when clarifying the law, the federal government carved out certain exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any person, regardless of their legal status, can access a crisis call center and any neglected or abused child can receive public assistance because these services are “necessary for the protection of life and safety,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1996-08-30/pdf/96-22233.pdf\">federal guidance from 1996\u003c/a>, which clarified the meaning of that year’s law. Homeless and domestic violence shelters, public hospitals and programs that support mental health or substance use recovery are also available to all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11707712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33989_111918_AW_SoupKitchen_03-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33989_111918_AW_SoupKitchen_03-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33989_111918_AW_SoupKitchen_03-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33989_111918_AW_SoupKitchen_03-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33989_111918_AW_SoupKitchen_03-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS33989_111918_AW_SoupKitchen_03-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers pass trays down the cafeteria line at St. Anthony’s. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a result of a 1982 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/08/immigrants-california/\">Supreme Court decision\u003c/a>, the federal government allows all students under 18 years old, regardless of legal status, to attend public school. Immigrants without legal status are also able to access Head Start and to enroll in adult education classes, which include English as a second language and high school equivalency programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, which encompasses San Jose, roughly 40% of residents are foreign-born and more than half of all children in the county have a foreign-born parent. The county receives about $3.7 billion in federal funding each year, most of which supports its public hospital system, according to a court declaration by Greta Hanson, the chief operating officer of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verifying patients’ legal status isn’t feasible, she said, but even if it were, it would “have extremely detrimental impacts and deter individuals from seeking much-needed care.” If an individual has a contagious disease but avoids seeking care, for example, they could jeopardize the health of their entire community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the new policies went into effect in July, the health system has yet to turn away any patients. The states in the lawsuit and the four federal departments came to an agreement that they would delay enforcing the new policies until Sept. 11. Because of today’s preliminary injunction, it will now take months or years before the policies are enacted, and if the judge ultimately rules in favor of California, the policies may never take effect at all.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s just one of many lawsuits California has filed against the Trump administration regarding the treatment of immigrants. In an attempt to implement a different presidential executive order, which asked federal departments to stop “\u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/25/2025-05214/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos\">waste, fraud and abuse\u003c/a>,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) asked California to share private data about people who receive food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, Democratic attorneys general, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, sued the USDA, saying it’s an attempt to target \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052815/oakland-attorneys-say-immigrant-children-are-being-held-in-prison-like-conditions\">mixed-status families\u003c/a>, where U.S. citizens may have a non-citizen relative. California has also sued the Trump Administration over its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054700/newsom-trump-troop-stunt-cost-taxpayers-nearly-120-million\">deployment of the National Guard\u003c/a> after federal immigration raids led to protests in Los Angeles this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, California has sued or joined other states in suing the federal government \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047925/california-sues-trump-administration-again-this-time-over-withheld-school-funds\">roughly 40 times\u003c/a> since the president’s inauguration. During the first Trump administration, California sued the president 123 times and won about two-thirds of those cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the lawsuits filed this year have already led to preliminary injunctions, temporarily halting the Trump administration’s new policies, but advocates for immigrants say the president’s actions have had an impact nonetheless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Californians, including those with legal status, are shying away from public services out of fear. Some are \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/08/la-immigration-raids-empty-spaces/\">afraid to leave their house\u003c/a> at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an adult school in Huntington Beach, principal Steve Curiel said few immigrants are showing up for English-language classes this summer. He said he’s heard that other schools across the state are seeing the same trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Education reporter Carolyn Jones contributed to this story\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/09/public-benefits-california/\">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>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wild pigs \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/quest/17488/hog-wild\">roam on the loose\u003c/a> in 56 of California’s 58 counties. Travis Mowbray of Menlo Park hasn’t seen them in the flesh here in the San Francisco Bay Area, but he’s read all sorts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101887861/feral-pigs-rampage-bay-area\">headlines\u003c/a> about the trouble they stir up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve read that invasive wild boars present big problems for endemic wildlife, and for farmers, and for homeowners in the Bay Area. Do mountain lions or perhaps coyotes hunt these wild boars? Could they be convinced to try?” he asked.“I was thinking maybe recipe cards or a sauce?\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are edge case stories of wild boars killing humans, and they opportunistically scavenge animal carcasses, many of us might be surprised to learn that boars prefer vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Primarily, we’ll see them go after grubs that are in the soil, insect larvae, acorns and bulb plants,” said David Mauk, a Natural Resource Technician at the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority. Mauk took me and Mowbray on a tour of wild boar-disturbed areas in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.openspaceauthority.org/whats-new/mayyan-ooyakmas-rare-serpentine-soils-enchanting-find-bay-area\">Máyyan ‘Ooyákma — Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve\u003c/a>, which sits on 1,859 acres in the Diablo Range south of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preserve used to be ranchland and still bears the marks of human development, like grasses planted for grazing. Mauk’s job is to help the native flora and fauna bounce back, but the wild boars make it difficult. The common joke is that they’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kf8gJzWSrw\">rototillers\u003c/a> that poop, creating excellent conditions for invasive grasses and plants that love setting up shop in disturbed soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00271_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051714 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00271_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00271_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00271_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00271_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Mauk, a natural resource technician at Open Space Authority, drives through Máyyan ‘Ooyákma – Coyote Ridge, a preserve owned by Open Space Authority, in Morgan Hill on August 8, 2025. Wild Boars are an invasive species that endanger native plants and animals, as well as water sources. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The views are gorgeous in the Máyyan ‘Ooyákma — Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve, everywhere you look in these rolling, yellow hills. That is, until you look down and see soccer pitch-sized stretches of soil wild boars have turned over in their search for tasty treats underneath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preserves like this one are special because they are some of the last protected areas for what’s called \u003ca href=\"https://protectcoyotevalley.org/serpentine-habitat-101-a-rare-world-in-our-backyard/\">serpentine habitat\u003c/a>. A very special set of plants and animals has developed over millennia to survive on this volcanic soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the rare\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspaceauthority.org/whats-new/protecting-bay-checkerspot-butterfly#:~:text=Why%20is%20the%20Bay%20checkerspot,can%20still%20find%20the%20butterflies.\"> Bay checkerspot butterfly\u003c/a>, the official superstar species of this preserve, hangs out here because the ground hosts native flora like its favorite, the dwarf plantain. Many visitors come for the flora, too, especially during bloom season. In the spring, the fragrant fritillary’s flowers, for instance, hang down like tiny upside-down bells, and the petals also have a checkered or spotted pattern. The word “fragrant” is in its name because it gives off a sweet, gentle smell that attracts pollinators.[aside postID=news_12052988 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250804-BC-BIODIVERSITY-01-KQED.jpg']“The fragrant fritillary is one of our most sensitive species here on the ridge,” Mauk said. “There’s only a handful of spots where we have viable populations of them growing. The plant has a really short bloom window in the spring and can be sensitive to damage by, especially pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boar poop poses another threat. It can spread more than 30 infectious diseases, 20 of which can be transmitted to humans, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-27-me-spinach27-story.html\">E. coli\u003c/a>. Something to consider, as Mawk explains that, especially in warm weather, pigs love to hang out in streams and ponds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll wallow in the water sources, which is one of the types of damage they do,” Mauk said. “[It] harms the sides of banks, causes a lot of erosion, damages the vegetation in those riparian areas and really destroys the habitat for other animals that want to use those, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1941283/mark-twains-celebrated-red-legged-frogs-thriving-in-yosemite-valley\">California red-legged frog\u003c/a>.” The California red-legged frog, by the way, is another threatened species.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So … how did the pigs get here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the early 1700s, Spanish and Russian settlers introduced domestic pigs to California as \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Wild-Pig#:~:text=Overview,livestock%20and%20many%20became%20feral.\">livestock\u003c/a>. Many became feral, roaming the state’s scrubby hillsides in packs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in the 1920s, a wealthy landowner with more money than sense introduced wild boar from the Ural mountains of Russia onto his property, Rancho San Carlos in the Carmel Valley south of Monterey.\u003ca href=\"https://www.ventanawild.org/news/se02/pigs.html\"> George Gordon Moore\u003c/a> wanted to start a preserve he could hunt in with his friends and business associates, as he proudly described in a letter to his neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00140_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051712 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00140_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00140_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00140_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00140_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cows graze on the hills of Máyyan ‘Ooyákma – Coyote Ridge, a preserve owned by Open Space Authority, in Morgan Hill on August 8, 2025. The preserve used to be ranchland and still bears the marks of human development, like non-native grasses planted for grazing. Cows keep those non-native grasses in check. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“He told me that in trapping them four hounds had been killed and one helper badly wounded…The biggest boar we ever killed on the ranch, when hung, measured 9 ft. from tip to tip. The skin on his neck was three inches thick; eleven bullets were found which over the years had been embedded in the fat,” Moore wrote.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Before long, the Russian boars were mating with the Spanish domestic pigs, and they spread with abandon. Sows start breeding as early as four months old—yes, \u003cem>four months\u003c/em>—and the sows can pop out not one, but two litters a year. Most litters have four to 12 piglets, but some overachieving boars have cranked out 18. Fast forward to today, and wild pigs are now running loose in 56 of California’s 58 counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time, people didn’t realize just how damaging it can be to bring in an animal from another ecosystem and let it loose,” Mauk lamented.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hunters want to hunt wild boars, but it’s complicated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A young pig might be fair game for predators like coyotes and mountain lions, but adult pigs are another matter. Mature males weigh 200 pounds or more, females about 150–175 pounds. Where there’s a piglet, there’s a protective parent lurking nearby. Also, they travel in packs, called sounders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their sounders can range from five to six, to sometimes, 10–12 pigs,” Mauk explained. “Their main predator where they originally came from in Eurasia were brown bears! We don’t really have brown bears here in the Bay Area anymore. So the job kinda falls to us.”[aside postID=news_12052889 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/9_Opt2-2000x1388.jpeg']Most coyotes and mountain lions know better than to risk an encounter with a big, fast animal that travels in packs and sports super sharp tusks. Which means, the wild pigs have the evolutionary advantage on all of us. Estimates put California’s feral pig population between 200,000 and 400,000, concentrated in central and coastal regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wild pigs are a designated pest that can be hunted year-round without limit in California. According to the most recent Wild Pig Take Report from the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Hunting/Special-Hunts/Wild-Pig\">Department of Fish & Wildlife\u003c/a>, returned tags indicate hunters took 3,327 wild pigs \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/7773/25\">statewide\u003c/a> during the 2023–24 hunting season, a quarter of them from Monterey County alone. Because, of course, that’s where they started this party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m compassionate towards the pigs, because they are an intelligent animal. It’s not their fault they’re here. It’s not their fault that they don’t have a predator like the brown bear here. We just need to do our role in the ecosystem to make sure they don’t cause the damage that they are causing,” Mauk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, if you like to hunt, this sounds like it’s bacon time. But it will come as no surprise to learn that local authorities have local rules governing where and how you can go after wild boars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get lots of calls, lots of hunters. ‘Hey, what are you guys doing about your pigs? I’d love to come to your park,’” said Dana Page, a natural resource program manager for Santa Clara County Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a preserve, Page explained, authorities don’t want to risk the possibility that some hiker will get shot. For another thing, if you’re close enough to shoot a boar, you’re close enough to be noticed by the sounder and attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitely, you don’t want to get close to a pig!” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00515_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051717 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00515_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00515_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00515_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00515_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wild boar track indents the grass at Spreckels Hill, a protected property owned by Open Space Authority, in Morgan Hill on August 8, 2025. Wild pigs are a designated pest in California, and local agencies contract with professional outfits to trap and kill the feral creatures, which have poor eyesight and can be dangerous to humans if startled. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a third thing, pigs are really, really clever. If they notice they’re being hunted, they’ll retreat into the night or move someplace nearby, probably across county lines just to create jurisdictional confusion. Also, they’ll breed more vigorously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page is hopeful science will eventually offer some solves, like maybe pig birth control. Whatever the case, she figures such strategies will only reduce the wild boar population, not end them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The population has gotten to a point where we have to realize that they are here and they’re never going to be eliminated from the landscape,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area regional authorities know the local humans are getting fed up with the wild boars tearing up their lawns, defecating in their koi ponds, and treating their front yards like an all-you-can-root buffet. Multiple agencies are developing “a regional approach to feral pig management.” In plain English, officials are finally getting serious about tracking the boars’ whereabouts and even contracting with professional outfits to trap and kill boars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you spot wild boars, call the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/10933/636664045402970000\">local authorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> South Bay residents have been struggling with a weird garden invasion. Not hungry caterpillars, or cats pooping in the vegetable bed. No, think bigger. Think pigs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News Clip 1: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wild boars are increasing their range across open spaces in the Bay Area this year. From parkland to backyards, to water district properties and hiking trails.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wild pigs travel in packs, rip up suburban lawns and mess with sensitive habitats \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News Clip 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OK, it has plagued Morgan Hill for years, the periodic pig fest, as in wild pigs feasting on neighborhood lawns and fields…\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>News Clip 3:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Look at this big clump of lawn. We talked to one homeowner who says he woke up to this this morning, after pigs turned his lawn upside down.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Experts say the problem has gotten worse in recent years, especially after a series of wet winters has left moist soil teeming with grubs — a pig’s favorite food. Travis Mowbray of Menlo Park has followed these headlines. He’s never seen a boar, but he’s concerned about the effect they’re having on the natural spaces he loves.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Travis Mowbray: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’ve read that invasive wild boars present big problems for endemic wildlife, and for farmers, and for homeowners in the Bay Area. Do mountain lions or perhaps coyotes hunt these wild boars? Could they be convinced to try?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’s even got some ideas to help entice predators to take on the pigs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Travis Mowbray:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I was thinking maybe recipe cards or a sauce?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All kidding aside, the boars ARE out of control. Today on the show, we’ll take a trip to see some of their destruction, learn how they got here in the first place, and gather some ideas on how to get rid of them. I’m Katrina Schwartz and you’re listening to Bay Curious. Stay with us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sponsor message\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wild boars have been wrecking havoc in communities like San Jose, Morgan Hill and Lafayette for years. They can do a number on a lawn, but they’re also causing problems for wildland protection in some of our nature preserves. KQED’s Rachael Myrow did some rooting around to find out more.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Our question asker, Travis, and I met up for a tour of wild boar damage at the Máyyan ‘Ooyákma\u003c/span> —\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve, located in the Diablo Range south of San Jose.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Door slams sounds of driving in a truck over bumpy ground\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re with David Mauk, a Natural Resource Technician for the Santa Clara Open Space Authority, on a driving tour of this newish preserve, open to the public for only about two years. We rumbled up an old farm road in David’s truck.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of these grasses are actually non native, and these non native grasses were bred to be really hearty food for cows. So they grow a lot taller and denser than our native grasses would.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">David’s job is to help the native flora and fauna recover from this type of human intervention. The views are gorgeous everywhere you look in these rolling, yellow hills. That is…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sound of door slam\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until you look down and see soccer pitch-sized stretches of soil wild boars have turned over in their search for tasty treats underneath. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Primarily we’ll see them go after, like, grubs that are in the soil, insect larva, acorns and different kinds of you know vegetative material like that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All that vigorous digging boars do creates excellent conditions for invasive grasses and plants that love setting up shop in disturbed soil.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They’ll also go after bulb plants. Like, our soap plant is a popular target for them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s particularly distressing here…in this preserve..special because it’s one of the last protected areas for what’s called serpentine habitat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A very special set of plants and animals have developed over millenia to survive on this volcanic soil. For example, there’s the rare\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspaceauthority.org/whats-new/protecting-bay-checkerspot-butterfly#:~:text=Why%20is%20the%20Bay%20checkerspot,can%20still%20find%20the%20butterflies.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Bay checkerspot butterfly\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the official superstar species of this preserve, with wings that look like they’re dotted with confetti in a host of harvest season colors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s a host of native flora, too, like fragrant fritillary. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fragrant fritillary is one of our most sensitive species here on the ridge. There’s only a handful of spots where we have viable populations of them growing. The plant has a really short bloom window in the spring and can be sensitive to damage by, especially pigs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not just that the wild boars tear up the soil. They um — there’s no nice way to say this — they poop in the water. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And their poop can spread more than 30 infectious diseases, 20 of which can be transmitted to humans. Something to consider, as David explains that, especially in warm weather, pigs love to hang out in streams and ponds.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They’ll wallow in the water sources, which is one of the types of damage they do. Harms the sides of banks, causes a lot of erosion, damages the vegetation in those riparian areas, and really, destroys the habitat for other animals, like the California red legged frog.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Which is another threatened species. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So … how did the pigs get here? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the early 1700s, Spanish and Russian settlers introduced domestic pigs to California as livestock. Many became feral. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, in the 1920s, a wealthy land owner named George Gordon Moore introduced wild boar from the Ural mountains of Russia onto his property south of Monterey, as he proudly described in a letter to his neighbor.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Voice reading letter: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The biggest boar we ever killed on the ranch, when hung, measured 9 ft. from tip to tip. The skin on his neck was three inches thick; eleven bullets were found which over the years had been embedded in the fat.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moore \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">apparently\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> thought it was a great idea to release wild boars onto his property—because nothing says “wholesome weekend hunting trip” like importing a literal chaos pig from the Russian wilderness.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And shocker: it went exactly how you’d expect it to go. Some of those boars broke out—\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">because of course they did\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—and started getting very friendly with the now local Spanish pigs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the time, people didn’t realize just how damaging it can be to bring in an animal from another ecosystem and let it loose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sows start breeding as early as four months old—yes, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">four months\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—and the sows can pop out not one, but two litters a year. Most litters have 4 to 12 piglets, but some overachieving boars have cranked out eighteen\u003c/span>\u003cb>.\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Fast forward to today, and wild pigs are now running loose in 56 of California’s 58 counties. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, that’s how they got here and why they’re so damaging. But our question asker, Travis, wants to know whether they have natural predators that could help keep their populations in check.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their main predator where they originally came from in Eurasia were brown bears! We don’t really have brown bears here in the Bay Area anymore. So the job kinda falls to us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A young pig might be fair game for predators like coyotes and mountain lions. But adult pigs are another matter. Mature males weigh 200 pounds or more, females about 150-175 pounds. And where there’s a piglet, there’s a protective parent lurking nearby. Because pigs travel in packs, called “sounders.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their sounders can range from about, you know, 5-6 pigs, to sometimes, 10-12 pigs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most coyotes and mountain lions know better than to risk an encounter with a big, fast animal that travels in packs and sports super sharp tusks. Tracking and hunting these boars is difficult for humans too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Estimates put California’s feral pig population between 200,000 and 400,000, concentrated in central and coastal regions. Wild pigs are a designated pest that can be hunted year-round without limit, but in 2023-24 hunters only reported killing around 3-thousand of them. Meanwhile, David says, they continue to devastate the delicate serpentine habitat he’s keen to protect.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m compassionate towards the pigs, because they are an intelligent animal. It’s not their fault they’re here. It’s not their fault that they don’t have a predator like the brown bear here. We just need to do our role in the ecosystem to make sure they don’t cause the damage that they are causing.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, if you like to hunt, this sounds like… it’s bacon time. But it will come as no surprise to learn local authorities have local rules governing where and how you can go after wild boars. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Page: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We gets lots of calls, lots of hunters. ‘\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hey, what are you guys doing about your pigs? I’d love to come to your park.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s Dana Page, a natural resource program manager for Santa Clara County Parks. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a park, she says, authorities don’t want to risk the possibility that some hiker photographing a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspaceauthority.org/whats-new/protecting-bay-checkerspot-butterfly#:~:text=Why%20is%20the%20Bay%20checkerspot,can%20still%20find%20the%20butterflies.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay checkerspot butterfly\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will get shot. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also, there’s a county ordinance against hunting in parks. For another thing, if you’re close enough to shoot a boar, you’re close enough to be noticed by the sounder and attacked. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Page: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Definitely, you don’t want to get close to a pig. Hahah!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a third thing, Dana adds, pigs are really, really clever. If they notice they’re being hunted, they’ll retreat into the night, or move someplace else. Also, they’ll \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">breed more\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s hopeful science will eventually offer some solves, like maybe pig birth control. Whatever the case, she figures such strategies will only reduce the wild boar population, not end them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Page:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The population has gotten to a point where we have to realize that they are here and they’re never going to be eliminated from the landscape.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite that sobering thought, local officials are finally getting serious about dealing with the problem. Multiple agencies are teaming up to track the boars and working with professional outfits to trap and kill them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That was KQED Senior Editor Rachael Myrow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Travis Mowbray for asking this week’s question. If you’ve got a burning curiosity that you think we should investigate, head on over to baycurious.org. Right at the top of the page there’s a spot to submit your questions. And don’t forget to vote on what we should cover next while you’re there!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member supported KQED.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our show is produced by Christopher Beale, Gabriela Glueck and me, Katrina Schwartz.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Primarily, we’ll see them go after grubs that are in the soil, insect larvae, acorns and bulb plants,” said David Mauk, a Natural Resource Technician at the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority. Mauk took me and Mowbray on a tour of wild boar-disturbed areas in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.openspaceauthority.org/whats-new/mayyan-ooyakmas-rare-serpentine-soils-enchanting-find-bay-area\">Máyyan ‘Ooyákma — Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve\u003c/a>, which sits on 1,859 acres in the Diablo Range south of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preserve used to be ranchland and still bears the marks of human development, like grasses planted for grazing. Mauk’s job is to help the native flora and fauna bounce back, but the wild boars make it difficult. The common joke is that they’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kf8gJzWSrw\">rototillers\u003c/a> that poop, creating excellent conditions for invasive grasses and plants that love setting up shop in disturbed soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00271_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051714 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00271_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00271_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00271_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00271_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Mauk, a natural resource technician at Open Space Authority, drives through Máyyan ‘Ooyákma – Coyote Ridge, a preserve owned by Open Space Authority, in Morgan Hill on August 8, 2025. Wild Boars are an invasive species that endanger native plants and animals, as well as water sources. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The views are gorgeous in the Máyyan ‘Ooyákma — Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve, everywhere you look in these rolling, yellow hills. That is, until you look down and see soccer pitch-sized stretches of soil wild boars have turned over in their search for tasty treats underneath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preserves like this one are special because they are some of the last protected areas for what’s called \u003ca href=\"https://protectcoyotevalley.org/serpentine-habitat-101-a-rare-world-in-our-backyard/\">serpentine habitat\u003c/a>. A very special set of plants and animals has developed over millennia to survive on this volcanic soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the rare\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspaceauthority.org/whats-new/protecting-bay-checkerspot-butterfly#:~:text=Why%20is%20the%20Bay%20checkerspot,can%20still%20find%20the%20butterflies.\"> Bay checkerspot butterfly\u003c/a>, the official superstar species of this preserve, hangs out here because the ground hosts native flora like its favorite, the dwarf plantain. Many visitors come for the flora, too, especially during bloom season. In the spring, the fragrant fritillary’s flowers, for instance, hang down like tiny upside-down bells, and the petals also have a checkered or spotted pattern. The word “fragrant” is in its name because it gives off a sweet, gentle smell that attracts pollinators.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The fragrant fritillary is one of our most sensitive species here on the ridge,” Mauk said. “There’s only a handful of spots where we have viable populations of them growing. The plant has a really short bloom window in the spring and can be sensitive to damage by, especially pigs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boar poop poses another threat. It can spread more than 30 infectious diseases, 20 of which can be transmitted to humans, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-27-me-spinach27-story.html\">E. coli\u003c/a>. Something to consider, as Mawk explains that, especially in warm weather, pigs love to hang out in streams and ponds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ll wallow in the water sources, which is one of the types of damage they do,” Mauk said. “[It] harms the sides of banks, causes a lot of erosion, damages the vegetation in those riparian areas and really destroys the habitat for other animals that want to use those, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1941283/mark-twains-celebrated-red-legged-frogs-thriving-in-yosemite-valley\">California red-legged frog\u003c/a>.” The California red-legged frog, by the way, is another threatened species.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So … how did the pigs get here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the early 1700s, Spanish and Russian settlers introduced domestic pigs to California as \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Wild-Pig#:~:text=Overview,livestock%20and%20many%20became%20feral.\">livestock\u003c/a>. Many became feral, roaming the state’s scrubby hillsides in packs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in the 1920s, a wealthy landowner with more money than sense introduced wild boar from the Ural mountains of Russia onto his property, Rancho San Carlos in the Carmel Valley south of Monterey.\u003ca href=\"https://www.ventanawild.org/news/se02/pigs.html\"> George Gordon Moore\u003c/a> wanted to start a preserve he could hunt in with his friends and business associates, as he proudly described in a letter to his neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00140_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051712 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00140_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00140_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00140_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00140_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cows graze on the hills of Máyyan ‘Ooyákma – Coyote Ridge, a preserve owned by Open Space Authority, in Morgan Hill on August 8, 2025. The preserve used to be ranchland and still bears the marks of human development, like non-native grasses planted for grazing. Cows keep those non-native grasses in check. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“He told me that in trapping them four hounds had been killed and one helper badly wounded…The biggest boar we ever killed on the ranch, when hung, measured 9 ft. from tip to tip. The skin on his neck was three inches thick; eleven bullets were found which over the years had been embedded in the fat,” Moore wrote.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Before long, the Russian boars were mating with the Spanish domestic pigs, and they spread with abandon. Sows start breeding as early as four months old—yes, \u003cem>four months\u003c/em>—and the sows can pop out not one, but two litters a year. Most litters have four to 12 piglets, but some overachieving boars have cranked out 18. Fast forward to today, and wild pigs are now running loose in 56 of California’s 58 counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time, people didn’t realize just how damaging it can be to bring in an animal from another ecosystem and let it loose,” Mauk lamented.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hunters want to hunt wild boars, but it’s complicated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A young pig might be fair game for predators like coyotes and mountain lions, but adult pigs are another matter. Mature males weigh 200 pounds or more, females about 150–175 pounds. Where there’s a piglet, there’s a protective parent lurking nearby. Also, they travel in packs, called sounders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their sounders can range from five to six, to sometimes, 10–12 pigs,” Mauk explained. “Their main predator where they originally came from in Eurasia were brown bears! We don’t really have brown bears here in the Bay Area anymore. So the job kinda falls to us.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Most coyotes and mountain lions know better than to risk an encounter with a big, fast animal that travels in packs and sports super sharp tusks. Which means, the wild pigs have the evolutionary advantage on all of us. Estimates put California’s feral pig population between 200,000 and 400,000, concentrated in central and coastal regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wild pigs are a designated pest that can be hunted year-round without limit in California. According to the most recent Wild Pig Take Report from the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/Hunting/Special-Hunts/Wild-Pig\">Department of Fish & Wildlife\u003c/a>, returned tags indicate hunters took 3,327 wild pigs \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/7773/25\">statewide\u003c/a> during the 2023–24 hunting season, a quarter of them from Monterey County alone. Because, of course, that’s where they started this party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m compassionate towards the pigs, because they are an intelligent animal. It’s not their fault they’re here. It’s not their fault that they don’t have a predator like the brown bear here. We just need to do our role in the ecosystem to make sure they don’t cause the damage that they are causing,” Mauk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, if you like to hunt, this sounds like it’s bacon time. But it will come as no surprise to learn that local authorities have local rules governing where and how you can go after wild boars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get lots of calls, lots of hunters. ‘Hey, what are you guys doing about your pigs? I’d love to come to your park,’” said Dana Page, a natural resource program manager for Santa Clara County Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a preserve, Page explained, authorities don’t want to risk the possibility that some hiker will get shot. For another thing, if you’re close enough to shoot a boar, you’re close enough to be noticed by the sounder and attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitely, you don’t want to get close to a pig!” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051717\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00515_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051717 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00515_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00515_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00515_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-WILDPIGS_00515_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wild boar track indents the grass at Spreckels Hill, a protected property owned by Open Space Authority, in Morgan Hill on August 8, 2025. Wild pigs are a designated pest in California, and local agencies contract with professional outfits to trap and kill the feral creatures, which have poor eyesight and can be dangerous to humans if startled. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a third thing, pigs are really, really clever. If they notice they’re being hunted, they’ll retreat into the night or move someplace nearby, probably across county lines just to create jurisdictional confusion. Also, they’ll breed more vigorously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page is hopeful science will eventually offer some solves, like maybe pig birth control. Whatever the case, she figures such strategies will only reduce the wild boar population, not end them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The population has gotten to a point where we have to realize that they are here and they’re never going to be eliminated from the landscape,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area regional authorities know the local humans are getting fed up with the wild boars tearing up their lawns, defecating in their koi ponds, and treating their front yards like an all-you-can-root buffet. Multiple agencies are developing “a regional approach to feral pig management.” In plain English, officials are finally getting serious about tracking the boars’ whereabouts and even contracting with professional outfits to trap and kill boars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you spot wild boars, call the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/10933/636664045402970000\">local authorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> South Bay residents have been struggling with a weird garden invasion. Not hungry caterpillars, or cats pooping in the vegetable bed. No, think bigger. Think pigs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News Clip 1: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wild boars are increasing their range across open spaces in the Bay Area this year. From parkland to backyards, to water district properties and hiking trails.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wild pigs travel in packs, rip up suburban lawns and mess with sensitive habitats \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>News Clip 2: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OK, it has plagued Morgan Hill for years, the periodic pig fest, as in wild pigs feasting on neighborhood lawns and fields…\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>News Clip 3:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Look at this big clump of lawn. We talked to one homeowner who says he woke up to this this morning, after pigs turned his lawn upside down.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Experts say the problem has gotten worse in recent years, especially after a series of wet winters has left moist soil teeming with grubs — a pig’s favorite food. Travis Mowbray of Menlo Park has followed these headlines. He’s never seen a boar, but he’s concerned about the effect they’re having on the natural spaces he loves.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Travis Mowbray: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’ve read that invasive wild boars present big problems for endemic wildlife, and for farmers, and for homeowners in the Bay Area. Do mountain lions or perhaps coyotes hunt these wild boars? Could they be convinced to try?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’s even got some ideas to help entice predators to take on the pigs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Travis Mowbray:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I was thinking maybe recipe cards or a sauce?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All kidding aside, the boars ARE out of control. Today on the show, we’ll take a trip to see some of their destruction, learn how they got here in the first place, and gather some ideas on how to get rid of them. I’m Katrina Schwartz and you’re listening to Bay Curious. Stay with us.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sponsor message\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wild boars have been wrecking havoc in communities like San Jose, Morgan Hill and Lafayette for years. They can do a number on a lawn, but they’re also causing problems for wildland protection in some of our nature preserves. KQED’s Rachael Myrow did some rooting around to find out more.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Our question asker, Travis, and I met up for a tour of wild boar damage at the Máyyan ‘Ooyákma\u003c/span> —\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve, located in the Diablo Range south of San Jose.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cb>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Door slams sounds of driving in a truck over bumpy ground\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re with David Mauk, a Natural Resource Technician for the Santa Clara Open Space Authority, on a driving tour of this newish preserve, open to the public for only about two years. We rumbled up an old farm road in David’s truck.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of these grasses are actually non native, and these non native grasses were bred to be really hearty food for cows. So they grow a lot taller and denser than our native grasses would.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">David’s job is to help the native flora and fauna recover from this type of human intervention. The views are gorgeous everywhere you look in these rolling, yellow hills. That is…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sound of door slam\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until you look down and see soccer pitch-sized stretches of soil wild boars have turned over in their search for tasty treats underneath. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Primarily we’ll see them go after, like, grubs that are in the soil, insect larva, acorns and different kinds of you know vegetative material like that.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All that vigorous digging boars do creates excellent conditions for invasive grasses and plants that love setting up shop in disturbed soil.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They’ll also go after bulb plants. Like, our soap plant is a popular target for them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s particularly distressing here…in this preserve..special because it’s one of the last protected areas for what’s called serpentine habitat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A very special set of plants and animals have developed over millenia to survive on this volcanic soil. For example, there’s the rare\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspaceauthority.org/whats-new/protecting-bay-checkerspot-butterfly#:~:text=Why%20is%20the%20Bay%20checkerspot,can%20still%20find%20the%20butterflies.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Bay checkerspot butterfly\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the official superstar species of this preserve, with wings that look like they’re dotted with confetti in a host of harvest season colors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s a host of native flora, too, like fragrant fritillary. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fragrant fritillary is one of our most sensitive species here on the ridge. There’s only a handful of spots where we have viable populations of them growing. The plant has a really short bloom window in the spring and can be sensitive to damage by, especially pigs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not just that the wild boars tear up the soil. They um — there’s no nice way to say this — they poop in the water. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And their poop can spread more than 30 infectious diseases, 20 of which can be transmitted to humans. Something to consider, as David explains that, especially in warm weather, pigs love to hang out in streams and ponds.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They’ll wallow in the water sources, which is one of the types of damage they do. Harms the sides of banks, causes a lot of erosion, damages the vegetation in those riparian areas, and really, destroys the habitat for other animals, like the California red legged frog.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Which is another threatened species. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So … how did the pigs get here? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the early 1700s, Spanish and Russian settlers introduced domestic pigs to California as livestock. Many became feral. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, in the 1920s, a wealthy land owner named George Gordon Moore introduced wild boar from the Ural mountains of Russia onto his property south of Monterey, as he proudly described in a letter to his neighbor.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Voice reading letter: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The biggest boar we ever killed on the ranch, when hung, measured 9 ft. from tip to tip. The skin on his neck was three inches thick; eleven bullets were found which over the years had been embedded in the fat.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moore \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">apparently\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> thought it was a great idea to release wild boars onto his property—because nothing says “wholesome weekend hunting trip” like importing a literal chaos pig from the Russian wilderness.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And shocker: it went exactly how you’d expect it to go. Some of those boars broke out—\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">because of course they did\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—and started getting very friendly with the now local Spanish pigs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the time, people didn’t realize just how damaging it can be to bring in an animal from another ecosystem and let it loose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sows start breeding as early as four months old—yes, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">four months\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—and the sows can pop out not one, but two litters a year. 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Wild pigs are a designated pest that can be hunted year-round without limit, but in 2023-24 hunters only reported killing around 3-thousand of them. Meanwhile, David says, they continue to devastate the delicate serpentine habitat he’s keen to protect.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>David Mauk:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’m compassionate towards the pigs, because they are an intelligent animal. It’s not their fault they’re here. It’s not their fault that they don’t have a predator like the brown bear here. We just need to do our role in the ecosystem to make sure they don’t cause the damage that they are causing.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, if you like to hunt, this sounds like… it’s bacon time. But it will come as no surprise to learn local authorities have local rules governing where and how you can go after wild boars. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Page: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We gets lots of calls, lots of hunters. ‘\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hey, what are you guys doing about your pigs? I’d love to come to your park.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s Dana Page, a natural resource program manager for Santa Clara County Parks. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a park, she says, authorities don’t want to risk the possibility that some hiker photographing a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.openspaceauthority.org/whats-new/protecting-bay-checkerspot-butterfly#:~:text=Why%20is%20the%20Bay%20checkerspot,can%20still%20find%20the%20butterflies.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay checkerspot butterfly\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will get shot. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also, there’s a county ordinance against hunting in parks. For another thing, if you’re close enough to shoot a boar, you’re close enough to be noticed by the sounder and attacked. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Page: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Definitely, you don’t want to get close to a pig. Hahah!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a third thing, Dana adds, pigs are really, really clever. If they notice they’re being hunted, they’ll retreat into the night, or move someplace else. Also, they’ll \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">breed more\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s hopeful science will eventually offer some solves, like maybe pig birth control. Whatever the case, she figures such strategies will only reduce the wild boar population, not end them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dana Page:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The population has gotten to a point where we have to realize that they are here and they’re never going to be eliminated from the landscape.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite that sobering thought, local officials are finally getting serious about dealing with the problem. Multiple agencies are teaming up to track the boars and working with professional outfits to trap and kill them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> That was KQED Senior Editor Rachael Myrow.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Travis Mowbray for asking this week’s question. If you’ve got a burning curiosity that you think we should investigate, head on over to baycurious.org. Right at the top of the page there’s a spot to submit your questions. And don’t forget to vote on what we should cover next while you’re there!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member supported KQED.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our show is produced by Christopher Beale, Gabriela Glueck and me, Katrina Schwartz.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks for listening and have a great week.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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The new universal free meal program aims to lower barriers to higher education by addressing student food insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students continue to tell us that food insecurity was the biggest barrier that they faced,” district Chancellor Bradley Davis told KQED. “And we went about sculpting a program that would tackle that head-on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is the first of its kind among any college in the nation, according to Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Plenty of colleges have programs that address on a very limited basis food insecurity, but no other program applies to every single student at the institution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12055514 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/CommunityCollegeFreeMeal2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starting this fall, students enrolled in Santa Clara County’s West Valley-Mission Community College District are receiving one no-cost meal per school day. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Haley Tabor/West Valley College)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nestled within Silicon Valley, the district serves more than 17,000 students between its two colleges: West Valley College in Saratoga and Mission College in Santa Clara. About a third of district students reported struggling with food insecurity in the past 12 months, \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/West-Valley-Mission-CCD-Dining-Board-of-Trustees-Presentation-9.10.24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year, more community college students stop their educational process because of food and housing insecurity than those who start,” Davis said. 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The balance can be used to purchase a freshly made meal from the cafeteria run by food service management company Thomas Cuisine. Students can also purchase snacks and coffee from vending machines and on-campus cafes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have been a huge fan of the poké bowls,” Cuevas said. “It tastes really, really good … I’ve also heard some really good reviews about the Greek salad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any unused funds each week expire on Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district celebrated the launch of the program and both colleges’ newly renovated cafeterias at ribbon-cutting ceremonies this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis estimates the program will cost about $2.5 million annually and said local property taxes will fund it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meal program has already served over 22,000 meals to students in its first two weeks, according to Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the advent of this new meal plan, our new coffee shops and our cafeterias have become jam-packed with students,” Davis said. “The other day I went over to sample the food in the cafeteria, and I could not find a single seat to sit down with students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said the free meal program is not a direct response to federal cuts to food nutrition programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. 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