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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:30 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than four years after the Taliban took control of Kabul, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11898843/theres-a-lot-thats-not-working-within-the-system-afghan-evacuees-struggle-with-housing-and-immigration-bureaucracy\">thousands of fragmented Afghan families\u003c/a> are still waiting for the U.S. to fulfill promises it made to take them in for helping the American war effort. But now, the Trump administration appears set to kick thousands of recently arrived refugees out of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since the Soviet Union’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan turned the South Asian country into a war zone, waves of Afghan refugees have landed in California looking to build new lives and reunite with family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every Afghan has their own journey,” said Fouzia Azizi, who left Afghanistan in 1994. 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The business became a staple for the Afghan community in the East Bay, who have come together over the past three and a half years to create networks of support for incoming Afghan families, who fled their country after the Taliban takeover in 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886733/san-francisco-turns-out-in-solidarity-with-worldwide-protest-for-afghan-lives\">chaotic withdrawal of American troops\u003c/a> in 2021, roughly 198,000 Afghans have come to the U.S., according to internal government documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of them came with official refugee status or were granted special visas for working for the U.S. mission as lawyers, interpreters and drivers. They have a path to permanent residence and eventual citizenship. But tens of thousands more are in limbo, with only temporary humanitarian protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/13/2025-08201/termination-of-the-designation-of-afghanistan-for-temporary-protected-status#citation-26-p20311\">has terminated\u003c/a> one of those protections, known as Temporary Protected Status, for an estimated 11,700 Afghans. While some of them have obtained green cards, as the program ends on July 14, roughly 8,000 Afghans with TPS are now vulnerable to deportation. Some refugees have also sought temporary protection through humanitarian parole and are applying for asylum, but the Trump administration has deported people with pending asylum applications and could also revoke parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TPS has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020620/thebay-tps-trump\"> historically allowed people already in the U.S.\u003c/a> to stay and work legally if their countries are deemed unsafe. This includes countries experiencing armed conflict, natural disasters or other extraordinary conditions. The U.S. State Department still lists Afghanistan as “\u003ca href=\"https://2021-2025.state.gov/afghanistan-inquiries/\">Level 4: Do Not Travel\u003c/a>” because of the risk of terrorism, unlawful detention, civil unrest and kidnapping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing of the notice in the \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-08201.pdf\">Federal Register\u003c/a> rescinding TPS for Afghan refugees asserted conditions in Afghanistan are improving, noting that Chinese tourism there has increased, as the rates of kidnappings have dropped. In that same notice, Noem noted the number of those in need of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan has dropped to 23.7 million this year, compared to 29 million last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11890467 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/019_EastBay_JFCSAfghanResettlement_09102021-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As former governor of South Dakota, Noem\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1JG492yg8s\"> criticized\u003c/a> the Biden administration programs taking in Afghan refugees during and after the fall of Kabul, doubting the adequacy of the vetting process. In recent days, Matthew Tragesser, chief of public affairs at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, echoed that partisan language in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/USCIS/status/1921928708216045702\">post\u003c/a> on social media platform X announcing the end of TPS: “Bad actors are taking advantage of this humanitarian program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many who fled Afghanistan under the auspices of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/information-for-afghan-nationals\">Operation Allies Welcome\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.militaryonesource.mil/benefits/enduring-welcome-program/\">Operation Enduring Welcome\u003c/a> waited for years in third countries like Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar, often at U.S. military bases, as U.S. immigration authorities adjudicated their claims. Hundreds of thousands of people who have qualified to be in the pipeline for some kind of U.S. visa, including roughly 211,000 still in Afghanistan, now presumably have no hope of reuniting with family members in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 20, 2025, the Trump administration’s attack on immigration to the U.S. began with a \u003ca href=\"https://refugees.org/u-s-department-of-state-abandons-u-s-responsibility-for-safely-resettling-refugees/\">“no work”\u003c/a> order for resettlement services like JFCS East Bay. Since then, an unknown number of Afghans in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"https://abc11.com/post/department-homeland-security-deportation-afghan-refugees-triangle-receive-dhs-email-urging-deport/16188536/\">received emails\u003c/a> telling them to self-deport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afghan refugees in the U.S. have been trying to lay low since President Donald Trump’s inauguration. “They’re so afraid. 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In a statement, he condemned the decision to end TPS and called upon the administration to reverse course. He also called attention to the administration’s recent choice to extend refugee status to white South Africans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know many of my Republican colleagues feel the same, but it is time for them to grow a spine and stand up to Trump,” he wrote. “Trump is apparently more concerned with \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/10/afrikaner-refugees-trump-welcoming-white-south-africans/83557827007/\">protecting white South Africans\u003c/a> who have done nothing to protect American troops than he is with our Afghan Allies. It is unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mojadedi said he understands there’s a limit to what California’s predominantly Democratic representatives can do in a G.O.P.-dominated Washington D.C., but the cause of the Afghans is not politically partisan, any more than it was for Vietnamese refugees following the Vietnam War. 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We thought that, for sure, they would be supportive. And then on day one, they shut down the ongoing relocation program,” VanDiver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VanDiver said he’s been unable to meet with anybody in the second Trump Administration. It’s possible that other groups that are more politically conservative and not specifically nonpartisan, like #AfghanEvac, might have a better chance of getting an audience with the president. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s especially true, she added, for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894472/walking-from-san-francisco-to-mountain-view-as-an-ode-to-lgbtq-afghans-and-refugees\">children, women, religious and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people\u003c/a> and any Afghan who helped the U.S. military in the 20 years after Americans invaded in 2001 in response to the Sept. 11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re living in a limbo,” Azizi said. “There is a sense of trauma. There is a sense of anxiety. Mental health is to the next level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11888019\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51392_006_Fremont_MaiwandMarket_08272021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esmatullah Asadullah’s father buys Afghan bread made at Maiwand Market in Fremont on Aug. 27, 2021. The business became a staple for the Afghan community in the East Bay, who have come together over the past three and a half years to create networks of support for incoming Afghan families, who fled their country after the Taliban takeover in 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11886733/san-francisco-turns-out-in-solidarity-with-worldwide-protest-for-afghan-lives\">chaotic withdrawal of American troops\u003c/a> in 2021, roughly 198,000 Afghans have come to the U.S., according to internal government documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of them came with official refugee status or were granted special visas for working for the U.S. mission as lawyers, interpreters and drivers. They have a path to permanent residence and eventual citizenship. But tens of thousands more are in limbo, with only temporary humanitarian protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/13/2025-08201/termination-of-the-designation-of-afghanistan-for-temporary-protected-status#citation-26-p20311\">has terminated\u003c/a> one of those protections, known as Temporary Protected Status, for an estimated 11,700 Afghans. While some of them have obtained green cards, as the program ends on July 14, roughly 8,000 Afghans with TPS are now vulnerable to deportation. Some refugees have also sought temporary protection through humanitarian parole and are applying for asylum, but the Trump administration has deported people with pending asylum applications and could also revoke parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TPS has\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020620/thebay-tps-trump\"> historically allowed people already in the U.S.\u003c/a> to stay and work legally if their countries are deemed unsafe. This includes countries experiencing armed conflict, natural disasters or other extraordinary conditions. The U.S. State Department still lists Afghanistan as “\u003ca href=\"https://2021-2025.state.gov/afghanistan-inquiries/\">Level 4: Do Not Travel\u003c/a>” because of the risk of terrorism, unlawful detention, civil unrest and kidnapping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing of the notice in the \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-08201.pdf\">Federal Register\u003c/a> rescinding TPS for Afghan refugees asserted conditions in Afghanistan are improving, noting that Chinese tourism there has increased, as the rates of kidnappings have dropped. In that same notice, Noem noted the number of those in need of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan has dropped to 23.7 million this year, compared to 29 million last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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>After years of soaring rents, increasingly out-of-reach home prices and an enduring homelessness crisis that touches every corner of the state, California is finally creating a state agency exclusively focused on housing issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might wonder what took so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/BudgetSummary/HousingandHomelessness.pdf\">introduced a proposal\u003c/a> to split up the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency — an awkward grabbag of disparate bureaucratic operations — into two fresh agencies: One just for housing and homelessness-related departments and one for everything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature had until July 4 to veto the plan. It didn’t (though \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sr52\">some Republicans tried\u003c/a>). Now the work of standing up California’s first housing agency begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the bureaucratic reshuffle say the move is long overdue. In surveys, Californians regularly name housing costs and homelessness as among the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-june-2025/\">state’s top concerns\u003c/a>. That alone warrants the creation of a new cabinet-level adviser to the governor, said Ray Pearl, executive director of the California Housing Consortium, which advocates for affordable housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A cabinet-level secretary who will sit with other cabinet secretaries, whose purview will be housing … that is elevating the agenda to the highest level,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearl, like virtually every expert interviewed for this article about the new agency, described the reorganization as “just the first step” in bringing much-needed order and efficiency to California’s network of funding programs for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101910295 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/06/housing2.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply moving people around and giving them a new business card doesn’t change the system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the governor stressed that the creation of a new housing agency is part of a broader effort by Newsom to prioritize one of California’s most vexing issues. Since taking the helm of state government in 2018, the governor has \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/381011-newsom-threatens-to-sue-more-cities-over-housing\">ramped up pressure\u003c/a> on local governments to plan for more housing, urged them to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/05/newsom-encampment-sweep-ordinance/\">clear encampments\u003c/a> of unhoused Californians and pushed for legislation \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/06/ceqa-urban-development-infill-budget/\">aimed at ramping up construction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first administration to make this a part of our everyday conversation — putting a magnifying glass on the issue of homelessness and finding ways to effectively address it. These structural and policy changes are going to create a generational impact,” said spokesperson Tara Gallegos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the seven cabinet-level agencies, the BCSH has always seemed like the “everything else” wing of state government. Affordable housing grantmakers, lenders and urban planning regulators share agency letterhead with cannabis and alcohol industry overseers, professional licensors, car mechanic watchdogs and everyone at the California Horse Racing Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to call it ‘The Island of Misfit Toys,’” said Claudia Cappio, who ran both the California Housing Finance Agency and the Department of Housing and Community Development in the years immediately before and after 2012 when both were packed into the newly created BCSH. “Imagine a staff meeting of all those things … I learned a lot about horse racing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many financing systems is too many?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aside from giving housing and homelessness its own box atop Newsom’s organizational chart, the chief selling point of the reorganization has been to simplify the state’s hydra of affordable housing financing systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there is \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/\">one state organization\u003c/a> where affordable housing developers apply for loans, another where they \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/\">go for most grants\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.treasurer.ca.gov/ctcac/\">third\u003c/a> where they apply for the \u003ca href=\"https://shelterforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Final_Shelterforce-LIHTC-Explainer.pdf\">federal tax credits\u003c/a> that builders use to entice private investors to back their projects and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.treasurer.ca.gov/cdlac/\">fourth\u003c/a> for the \u003ca href=\"http://e\">bonds needed\u003c/a> to secure many of those credits. This doesn’t include one-off programs for \u003ca href=\"https://www.calvet.ca.gov/calvet-programs/veteran-homes\">veterans\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sgc.ca.gov/grant-programs/ahsc/\">transit-oriented development\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://bridgehousing.buildingcalhhs.com/\">short-term housing\u003c/a> for homeless people, which are sprinkled across state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating things further, the tax credit and bond funding programs — the backbone of funding for affordable housing development across the country — aren’t even under the governor’s control. Those programs are run by the state’s independently elected treasurer.[aside postID=news_12046718 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg']“Many, many states have what is essentially a housing finance agency that controls the majority of affordable housing funds,” said Sarah Karlinsky, who directs research at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation. California’s programs are split up, which is unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, “what makes California so unique,” said Karlinksy, “is the fact that the resources are spread across two different constitutional officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fragmentation appears to be adding to the cost of construction in California. A \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/reducing-the-complexity-in-californias-affordable-housing-finance-system/\">Terner Center analysis\u003c/a> this spring estimated that each additional public funding source delays a project by, on average, four months, and adds an additional $20,460 in costs per unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing construction is already distinctly expensive here. Building a publicly funded project in California costs more than 2.5 times more per square foot than in both Texas and Colorado, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/04/california-affordable-housing-costs-time/\">recent report\u003c/a> from the Rand Institute found.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The dance of secretaries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Will the new housing agency solve that problem? Not everyone is convinced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the many ways in which the scarcity of affordable housing affects most people, “the lines on the org chart” don’t crack the “top 100 list,” Sen. Christopher Cabaldon, a Napa Democrat, said about the governor’s proposal at a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258768?t=280&f=1c6b70cfd4945984f9bb6137feda8d9d\">hearing in March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabaldon noted that executive reorganizations are a semi-regular feature of California governance. The Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency is itself the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2012/07/03/news17617/index.html\">product of a reorganization\u003c/a> which spun off California’s independent transportation agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dance of the secretaries we do constantly, always with grand ambitions,” said Cabaldon. “Simply saying that it’s going to cause more focus, that it will be streamlined, that it will cause leadership level action — but \u003cem>how\u003c/em>?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As written, the new housing agency will consist of the current agency’s housing-related entities along with a new Affordable Housing Finance Committee, which will be tasked with coordinating the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/about/chha_overview.pdf\">housing subsidy programs\u003c/a> currently under the governor’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the major funding sources managed by the treasurer’s office will remain where they are. The California constitution wouldn’t have allowed Newsom to commandeer those functions from the independent treasurer even had he wanted to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a significant shortcoming, according to the Little Hoover Commission, the state government’s independent oversight agency, which reviewed the governor’s plan before it was passed along to the Legislature. In its \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Report-287.pdf\">final report\u003c/a>, the commission recommended that the governor and treasurer strike a formal deal to “create a unified application and review process” for all the affordable finance programs under their respective purviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the governor’s office nor the office of state Treasurer Fiona Ma would say if or how they are pursuing that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single, unified application for every one of California’s public affordable housing funding programs has been the bureaucratic holy grail of California affordable developers and policy wonks since at least the mid-1990s. Though the reorganization stops short of requiring that, it set up both constitutional offices to better coordinate in the future, said Matt Schwartz, president of the California Housing Partnership, a nonprofit that advocates for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be a bit of diplomacy” between the two executive branches to work out a joint application, said Schwartz, who spoke to CalMatters earlier this year after the governor first introduced the proposal. “That’s the longer-term prize that many of us will be pushing to come out of this process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some affordable housing advocates have urged lawmakers to be cautious in mushing the various bureaucracies together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CHC_BudgetCommittees_Reorg.pdf\">letter to four powerful Democratic legislators\u003c/a>, the California Housing Consortium stressed that the application systems administered by the treasurer’s office already “function extremely well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process “is not broken and doesn’t need fixing,” said Pearl, the consortium’s director. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply moving people around and giving them a new business card doesn’t change the system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the governor stressed that the creation of a new housing agency is part of a broader effort by Newsom to prioritize one of California’s most vexing issues. Since taking the helm of state government in 2018, the governor has \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/381011-newsom-threatens-to-sue-more-cities-over-housing\">ramped up pressure\u003c/a> on local governments to plan for more housing, urged them to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/05/newsom-encampment-sweep-ordinance/\">clear encampments\u003c/a> of unhoused Californians and pushed for legislation \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/06/ceqa-urban-development-infill-budget/\">aimed at ramping up construction\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first administration to make this a part of our everyday conversation — putting a magnifying glass on the issue of homelessness and finding ways to effectively address it. These structural and policy changes are going to create a generational impact,” said spokesperson Tara Gallegos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the seven cabinet-level agencies, the BCSH has always seemed like the “everything else” wing of state government. Affordable housing grantmakers, lenders and urban planning regulators share agency letterhead with cannabis and alcohol industry overseers, professional licensors, car mechanic watchdogs and everyone at the California Horse Racing Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We used to call it ‘The Island of Misfit Toys,’” said Claudia Cappio, who ran both the California Housing Finance Agency and the Department of Housing and Community Development in the years immediately before and after 2012 when both were packed into the newly created BCSH. “Imagine a staff meeting of all those things … I learned a lot about horse racing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many financing systems is too many?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Aside from giving housing and homelessness its own box atop Newsom’s organizational chart, the chief selling point of the reorganization has been to simplify the state’s hydra of affordable housing financing systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there is \u003ca href=\"https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/\">one state organization\u003c/a> where affordable housing developers apply for loans, another where they \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/\">go for most grants\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.treasurer.ca.gov/ctcac/\">third\u003c/a> where they apply for the \u003ca href=\"https://shelterforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Final_Shelterforce-LIHTC-Explainer.pdf\">federal tax credits\u003c/a> that builders use to entice private investors to back their projects and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.treasurer.ca.gov/cdlac/\">fourth\u003c/a> for the \u003ca href=\"http://e\">bonds needed\u003c/a> to secure many of those credits. This doesn’t include one-off programs for \u003ca href=\"https://www.calvet.ca.gov/calvet-programs/veteran-homes\">veterans\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sgc.ca.gov/grant-programs/ahsc/\">transit-oriented development\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://bridgehousing.buildingcalhhs.com/\">short-term housing\u003c/a> for homeless people, which are sprinkled across state government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Complicating things further, the tax credit and bond funding programs — the backbone of funding for affordable housing development across the country — aren’t even under the governor’s control. Those programs are run by the state’s independently elected treasurer.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Many, many states have what is essentially a housing finance agency that controls the majority of affordable housing funds,” said Sarah Karlinsky, who directs research at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation. California’s programs are split up, which is unusual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, “what makes California so unique,” said Karlinksy, “is the fact that the resources are spread across two different constitutional officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fragmentation appears to be adding to the cost of construction in California. A \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/blog/reducing-the-complexity-in-californias-affordable-housing-finance-system/\">Terner Center analysis\u003c/a> this spring estimated that each additional public funding source delays a project by, on average, four months, and adds an additional $20,460 in costs per unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing construction is already distinctly expensive here. Building a publicly funded project in California costs more than 2.5 times more per square foot than in both Texas and Colorado, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/04/california-affordable-housing-costs-time/\">recent report\u003c/a> from the Rand Institute found.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The dance of secretaries\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Will the new housing agency solve that problem? Not everyone is convinced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the many ways in which the scarcity of affordable housing affects most people, “the lines on the org chart” don’t crack the “top 100 list,” Sen. Christopher Cabaldon, a Napa Democrat, said about the governor’s proposal at a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258768?t=280&f=1c6b70cfd4945984f9bb6137feda8d9d\">hearing in March\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabaldon noted that executive reorganizations are a semi-regular feature of California governance. The Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency is itself the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2012/07/03/news17617/index.html\">product of a reorganization\u003c/a> which spun off California’s independent transportation agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dance of the secretaries we do constantly, always with grand ambitions,” said Cabaldon. “Simply saying that it’s going to cause more focus, that it will be streamlined, that it will cause leadership level action — but \u003cem>how\u003c/em>?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As written, the new housing agency will consist of the current agency’s housing-related entities along with a new Affordable Housing Finance Committee, which will be tasked with coordinating the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bcsh.ca.gov/about/chha_overview.pdf\">housing subsidy programs\u003c/a> currently under the governor’s control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the major funding sources managed by the treasurer’s office will remain where they are. The California constitution wouldn’t have allowed Newsom to commandeer those functions from the independent treasurer even had he wanted to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a significant shortcoming, according to the Little Hoover Commission, the state government’s independent oversight agency, which reviewed the governor’s plan before it was passed along to the Legislature. In its \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Report-287.pdf\">final report\u003c/a>, the commission recommended that the governor and treasurer strike a formal deal to “create a unified application and review process” for all the affordable finance programs under their respective purviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither the governor’s office nor the office of state Treasurer Fiona Ma would say if or how they are pursuing that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A single, unified application for every one of California’s public affordable housing funding programs has been the bureaucratic holy grail of California affordable developers and policy wonks since at least the mid-1990s. Though the reorganization stops short of requiring that, it set up both constitutional offices to better coordinate in the future, said Matt Schwartz, president of the California Housing Partnership, a nonprofit that advocates for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be a bit of diplomacy” between the two executive branches to work out a joint application, said Schwartz, who spoke to CalMatters earlier this year after the governor first introduced the proposal. “That’s the longer-term prize that many of us will be pushing to come out of this process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some affordable housing advocates have urged lawmakers to be cautious in mushing the various bureaucracies together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CHC_BudgetCommittees_Reorg.pdf\">letter to four powerful Democratic legislators\u003c/a>, the California Housing Consortium stressed that the application systems administered by the treasurer’s office already “function extremely well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process “is not broken and doesn’t need fixing,” said Pearl, the consortium’s director. Before monkeying with it, he said, “let’s get the agency set up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pearl and the consortium also noted that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240ab519\">past legislation\u003c/a> has already mandated the creation of a working group to propose a consolidated application. The findings of that group are due on July 1, 2026. That’s the same day the current BCSH is set to officially dissolve and the two new agencies will take its place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s also just five months before statewide elections will be held to replace Newsom and Ma, giving voters a chance to decide who will shape the future of affordable housing policy in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/07/california-construction-unions-housing-2/\">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>Four Bay Area residents were identified Friday as victims of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046998/fireworks-warehouse-in-yolo-county-a-major-bay-area-fireworks-supplier-goes-up-in-smoke\">deadly explosion at a fireworks warehouse\u003c/a> in Yolo County last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neil Justin Li, 41, and Christopher Goltiao Bocog, 45, of San Francisco, as well as brothers Jesus Manaces Ramos, 18, and Jhony Ernesto Ramos, 22, of San Pablo, were among seven victims named by the Yolo County coroner’s office. The three others killed in the blast were Joel Jeremias Melendez, 28, of Sacramento; Angel Mathew Voller, 18, of Stockton; and Carlos Javier Rodriguez-Mora, 43, of San Andreas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The July 1 blast, which released a mushroom cloud of explosives, debris and smoke and started a fire that spread for nearly 80 acres, is believed to have originated at the Esparto warehouse where the San Francisco-based company Devastating Pyrotechnics stored fireworks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days since, local and state officials have been working to determine how the “very rare” incident began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not seen anything like this,” Esparto Fire Protection District Chief Curtis Lawrence said at a news conference the day after the explosion. “This is obviously an incident of great magnitude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since, details have been slowly coming to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we know so far about the explosion and the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The explosion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the evening of July 1, the Esparto Fire Protection District and Cal Fire crews responded to reports of a potential fire and explosion at a commercial warehouse near County Roads 23 and 86A, about three miles west of Interstate 505.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence said the department arrived around 6 p.m. and worked to put out the blaze into the night. The incident prompted multi-day evacuation orders, and seven people were reported missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047755\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters assisting Yolo County at the scene of a commercial fire that spread into nearby vegetation on Highway 16 and Oakdale Ranch Lane, in Esparto, California, on July 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cal Fire LNU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On July 5, Yolo County sheriff’s officials announced they had found the bodies of the seven individuals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047521/a-week-after-deadly-fireworks-blast-families-wait-for-answers\">multiple of whom had already been identified by relatives\u003c/a>, including Jesus and Jhony Ramos, Contra Costa County residents who formerly attended school in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply saddened to learn that two SFUSD alumni are impacted by the explosion at the fireworks factory in Yolo County. Our thoughts are with their family, friends, and loved ones during this difficult time,” the San Francisco Unified School District wrote on Facebook earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a GoFundMe organized by SFUSD teacher Jeff Steeno, Jhony and Jesus had recently started working at the fireworks warehouse. Jesus, who was also expecting a child, was there for his first shift on the day of the explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both brothers were alumni of Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 School in the Mission District, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/buena-vista-horace-mann-mourns-jesus-and-jhony-ramos-brothers-killed-in-yolo-county-fireworks-explosion/\">according to\u003cem> Mission Local.\u003c/em> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news outlet reported that the brothers had gotten the jobs at Devastating Pyrotechnics through their step-brother, Joel Melendez, 28, who was an employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A larger investigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The unusual circumstances of the explosion and \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2025/07/10/this-is-a-huge-red-flag-fireworks-expert-raises-concerns-over-deadly-esparto-explosion/\">concerns from firework experts\u003c/a> have raised questions about the facility’s safety and compliance, especially after the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office told reporters that the incident was being treated as an active crime scene investigation and primarily as a “law enforcement incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, investigators with the Office of the California State Fire Marshal, along with officials from the Yolo and Sacramento county sheriffs’ offices and the San Francisco Police Department, were seen conducting a search at a residence in San Francisco’s Inner Richmond District. The home is listed as Devastating Pyrotechnics’ business address on its state licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Police Department officer in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Devastating Pyrotechnics owner Kenneth Chee has three state-level fireworks licenses for importing and exporting, wholesale and public display, law enforcement officials said that facilities like the one in Esparto must also meet federal explosive storage requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/fireworks-explosion-20761991.php\">The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> last week that Chee, who was previously convicted of assault with a firearm and firing a gun from a motor vehicle at a person, was denied a federal license by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.[aside postID=news_12046998 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230628-SAN-FRANCISCO-FIREWORKS-GETTY-SM-KQED-1020x680.jpg']The Chronicle reported that another man, Gary Chan Jr., obtained a federal license to run Devastating Pyrotechnics in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home on the 400 block of 2nd Avenue, where \u003ca href=\"https://hoodline.com/2025/07/bomb-squad-raids-inner-richmond-home-associated-with-devastating-pyrotechnics-after-deadly-blast-kills-seven/\">Hoodline San Francisco\u003c/a> observed officers conducting the search, is a previous address of Chee. The property is owned by Jack Lee, who is named as an employee of Devastating Pyrotechnics in contract proposals and company documents extending over multiple years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of the State Fire Marshal and other agencies KQED contacted for comment would not confirm that they had conducted a search of the site, but said, “Investigators are actively tracking down numerous leads and have served multiple search warrants as part of the investigation process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Wednesday, Douglas Horngrad, an attorney who is representing Chee, said: “Kenny [Chee] is innocent of any wrongdoing in connection with the Yolo fire. This incident is currently under investigation. Until such investigation is completed, we will have no further public comment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ties to local public safety agencies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Esparto property where Devastating Pyrotechnics’ warehouse was located is also the home base for Blackstar Fireworks, which Craig Cutright, a volunteer with the Esparto Fire Protection District, owns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackstar has an active public display fireworks license, according to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In text messages to \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/news/investigations/investigating-northern-californias-fireworks-explosion/103-2cae9b54-25c6-4d45-a9c6-9c639d7e1514\">ABC 10\u003c/a> the night of the explosion, Cutright denied that any of his fireworks were involved, the TV station reported. He pointed to Devastating Pyrotechnics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company documents name Cutright as an employee of Devastating Pyrotechnics as recently as 2022. He’s described as a “senior show producer” on proposals for fireworks contracts with city governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property where the warehouses are located is owned by Sam Machado, who operates his own ATF-licensed business, Sam’s Gun Sales, on the site and is a sheriff’s deputy in Yolo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few details about the Office of the State Fire Marshal’s investigation have been made public thus far, but the agency said in a statement that it is ongoing, adding, “Please know that we are committed to conducting a thorough and comprehensive investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: The fire that originated at the Esparto warehouse spread for nearly 80 acres, not miles, as this article previously stated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Four Bay Area residents were identified Friday as victims of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046998/fireworks-warehouse-in-yolo-county-a-major-bay-area-fireworks-supplier-goes-up-in-smoke\">deadly explosion at a fireworks warehouse\u003c/a> in Yolo County last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neil Justin Li, 41, and Christopher Goltiao Bocog, 45, of San Francisco, as well as brothers Jesus Manaces Ramos, 18, and Jhony Ernesto Ramos, 22, of San Pablo, were among seven victims named by the Yolo County coroner’s office. The three others killed in the blast were Joel Jeremias Melendez, 28, of Sacramento; Angel Mathew Voller, 18, of Stockton; and Carlos Javier Rodriguez-Mora, 43, of San Andreas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The July 1 blast, which released a mushroom cloud of explosives, debris and smoke and started a fire that spread for nearly 80 acres, is believed to have originated at the Esparto warehouse where the San Francisco-based company Devastating Pyrotechnics stored fireworks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days since, local and state officials have been working to determine how the “very rare” incident began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not seen anything like this,” Esparto Fire Protection District Chief Curtis Lawrence said at a news conference the day after the explosion. “This is obviously an incident of great magnitude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since, details have been slowly coming to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what we know so far about the explosion and the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The explosion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the evening of July 1, the Esparto Fire Protection District and Cal Fire crews responded to reports of a potential fire and explosion at a commercial warehouse near County Roads 23 and 86A, about three miles west of Interstate 505.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence said the department arrived around 6 p.m. and worked to put out the blaze into the night. The incident prompted multi-day evacuation orders, and seven people were reported missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047755\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FireworksExplosionEspartoCalFire2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters assisting Yolo County at the scene of a commercial fire that spread into nearby vegetation on Highway 16 and Oakdale Ranch Lane, in Esparto, California, on July 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Cal Fire LNU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On July 5, Yolo County sheriff’s officials announced they had found the bodies of the seven individuals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047521/a-week-after-deadly-fireworks-blast-families-wait-for-answers\">multiple of whom had already been identified by relatives\u003c/a>, including Jesus and Jhony Ramos, Contra Costa County residents who formerly attended school in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply saddened to learn that two SFUSD alumni are impacted by the explosion at the fireworks factory in Yolo County. Our thoughts are with their family, friends, and loved ones during this difficult time,” the San Francisco Unified School District wrote on Facebook earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a GoFundMe organized by SFUSD teacher Jeff Steeno, Jhony and Jesus had recently started working at the fireworks warehouse. Jesus, who was also expecting a child, was there for his first shift on the day of the explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both brothers were alumni of Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 School in the Mission District, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/buena-vista-horace-mann-mourns-jesus-and-jhony-ramos-brothers-killed-in-yolo-county-fireworks-explosion/\">according to\u003cem> Mission Local.\u003c/em> \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news outlet reported that the brothers had gotten the jobs at Devastating Pyrotechnics through their step-brother, Joel Melendez, 28, who was an employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A larger investigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The unusual circumstances of the explosion and \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2025/07/10/this-is-a-huge-red-flag-fireworks-expert-raises-concerns-over-deadly-esparto-explosion/\">concerns from firework experts\u003c/a> have raised questions about the facility’s safety and compliance, especially after the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office told reporters that the incident was being treated as an active crime scene investigation and primarily as a “law enforcement incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, investigators with the Office of the California State Fire Marshal, along with officials from the Yolo and Sacramento county sheriffs’ offices and the San Francisco Police Department, were seen conducting a search at a residence in San Francisco’s Inner Richmond District. The home is listed as Devastating Pyrotechnics’ business address on its state licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047757\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250418-SFPDFile-39-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Police Department officer in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Devastating Pyrotechnics owner Kenneth Chee has three state-level fireworks licenses for importing and exporting, wholesale and public display, law enforcement officials said that facilities like the one in Esparto must also meet federal explosive storage requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/fireworks-explosion-20761991.php\">The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> last week that Chee, who was previously convicted of assault with a firearm and firing a gun from a motor vehicle at a person, was denied a federal license by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Chronicle reported that another man, Gary Chan Jr., obtained a federal license to run Devastating Pyrotechnics in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home on the 400 block of 2nd Avenue, where \u003ca href=\"https://hoodline.com/2025/07/bomb-squad-raids-inner-richmond-home-associated-with-devastating-pyrotechnics-after-deadly-blast-kills-seven/\">Hoodline San Francisco\u003c/a> observed officers conducting the search, is a previous address of Chee. The property is owned by Jack Lee, who is named as an employee of Devastating Pyrotechnics in contract proposals and company documents extending over multiple years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of the State Fire Marshal and other agencies KQED contacted for comment would not confirm that they had conducted a search of the site, but said, “Investigators are actively tracking down numerous leads and have served multiple search warrants as part of the investigation process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on Wednesday, Douglas Horngrad, an attorney who is representing Chee, said: “Kenny [Chee] is innocent of any wrongdoing in connection with the Yolo fire. This incident is currently under investigation. Until such investigation is completed, we will have no further public comment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ties to local public safety agencies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Esparto property where Devastating Pyrotechnics’ warehouse was located is also the home base for Blackstar Fireworks, which Craig Cutright, a volunteer with the Esparto Fire Protection District, owns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackstar has an active public display fireworks license, according to Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In text messages to \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc10.com/article/news/investigations/investigating-northern-californias-fireworks-explosion/103-2cae9b54-25c6-4d45-a9c6-9c639d7e1514\">ABC 10\u003c/a> the night of the explosion, Cutright denied that any of his fireworks were involved, the TV station reported. He pointed to Devastating Pyrotechnics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company documents name Cutright as an employee of Devastating Pyrotechnics as recently as 2022. He’s described as a “senior show producer” on proposals for fireworks contracts with city governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property where the warehouses are located is owned by Sam Machado, who operates his own ATF-licensed business, Sam’s Gun Sales, on the site and is a sheriff’s deputy in Yolo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few details about the Office of the State Fire Marshal’s investigation have been made public thus far, but the agency said in a statement that it is ongoing, adding, “Please know that we are committed to conducting a thorough and comprehensive investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: The fire that originated at the Esparto warehouse spread for nearly 80 acres, not miles, as this article previously stated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/rohnert-park\">Rohnert Park\u003c/a> police officer Joseph Huffaker was found guilty on Friday in San Francisco federal court of six counts, including conspiracy, extortion, falsifying records and impersonating a federal officer to seize marijuana from motorists on Highway 101, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury deliberated for about 90 minutes before reaching a unanimous verdict. During closing arguments on Friday, prosecutors focused on phone records that placed Huffaker — who illegally stopped motorists to steal their marijuana as part of a conspiracy with other officers — at the scene of one of the suspicious stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense strategy was to blame Brendon “Jacy” Tatum, Huffaker’s former partner, who testified during the trial, among others. The jury was not swayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the verdict, Huedell Freeman, one of the victims of the seizure scheme, said he had goosebumps. Huffaker is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel like there’s a small measure of justice,” he said. “And I’m gratified that the jury was able to sort through the facts, because there was a lot of obfuscation put up by the defense, which is their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really gratified and feel happy that — finally — justice for the unfairly much-maligned cannabis farmer is finally being served. I mean, they made us out to be rich people that needed to be robbed, and we are not that. We are anything but that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Ceballos, Huffaker’s attorney, declined to comment, as did Assistant U.S. Attorney Abraham Fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years ago, KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\">first reported on a string of allegations\u003c/a> from drivers who said Rohnert Park cops, operating far outside the city’s limits, had unlawfully seized hundreds of pounds of cannabis during pretextual traffic stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recreational marijuana became legal in 2018, growers who had operated in the grey area of the medical cannabis market finally felt safe to come forward. Huffaker’s trial promises a rare window into how local and federal officials responded to long-silenced complaints of police corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a long time coming, and it is a very important case,” said Izaak Schwaiger, a defense and civil rights attorney who filed a lawsuit over the unlawful seizure scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said taking the case to trial demonstrates “the government’s willingness to start holding people accountable in a real sense — people who were given a free pass for so long precisely because they were cops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11897846 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_8039-scaled-e1737145446662.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a face mask and business suit walks into a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Brendon “Jacy” Tatum walks into the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly after KQED published its investigation in 2018, Tatum resigned. The city moved to terminate Huffaker but later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735983/probe-into-rohnert-park-cannabis-and-cash-seizures-will-stay-secret-despite-transparency-law\">agreed to a settlement\u003c/a>, ensuring that an internal affairs investigation into the interdiction team would remain secret, despite a new police transparency law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\">paid out more than $1.8 million\u003c/a> to settle civil lawsuits over the seizures. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889861/ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures\">federal grand jury indicted\u003c/a> Huffaker and Tatum in September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, Tatum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897845/ex-rohnert-park-cop-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-commit-extortion\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to conspiracy to commit extortion under “color of law,” falsifying records in a federal investigation and tax evasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Tatum, Huffaker chose to fight the charges, backed by the police union’s legal defense fund, according to court filings and documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, Huffaker has gone through at least seven different lawyers, including Chris Shea of Marin, who died unexpectedly just two weeks before Huffaker was set for trial in October 2023. Huffaker’s latest defense attorney, Richard Ceballos of Ferrone Law Group, said he can not comment on his client’s case until after the trial is over. The U.S. attorney’s office also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always been this gnawing feeling that these guys are still walking free,” said Freeman, who received a settlement from Rohnert Park. “They’ve never done any time for the crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with extensive public scrutiny, the lawsuits and a federal indictment, this case continues to present surprises. In February, KQED discovered that Sonoma County Code Enforcement had busted Tatum for a large indoor marijuana grow on his Santa Rosa property. In March, prosecutors dropped one of the charges against Huffaker. And then in May, a new witness — a coconspirator who said he sold stolen weed on the officers’ behalf — was added to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Brady’ cop\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the key witnesses expected to take the stand is Tatum, whose plea deal includes an agreement to testify against his former partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum was the sergeant in charge of Rohnert Park’s interdiction team, which oversaw the seizure of $3.6 million under civil asset forfeiture laws and at least 2.5 tons of marijuana between 2013 and 2018, according to documents obtained and analyzed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Rohnert Park’s mayor formally recognized Tatum for his drug suppression efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rohnert Park police officers Brendon Jacy Tatum and Joseph Huffaker are facing federal charges tied to alleged illegal stops and seizures of cash and marijuana along Highway 101. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But alongside the apparent success of the interdiction team, complaints about Tatum’s tactics and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\">credibility began to mount\u003c/a>. By 2016, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s office had placed him on its “Brady list” — a list of officers with known integrity issues. When Tatum takes the stand, Ceballos will likely introduce materials from his record to impeach his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a habitual liar,” said Schwaiger, who gave the DA evidence of Tatum’s dishonesty, which led to his placement on the list of problem cops. But Schwaiger said that in this case, Tatum’s testimony will be backed up by hard evidence. “So, I don’t think that the case is made or lost on the testimony of any given witness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum has spent the past four years out of custody awaiting sentencing, which is currently scheduled for September. While under pretrial supervision, KQED discovered that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022803/exclusive-ex-rohnert-park-cop-faces-few-consequences-illegal-cannabis-grow\">Tatum was fined by Sonoma County code enforcement\u003c/a> in 2024 for a large indoor cannabis grow on his property. Federal officials declined to comment on whether this violated the terms of Tatum’s $100,000 bond agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proffer admissions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In February 2022, court documents show that Huffaker sat down with the FBI and admitted that he and Tatum had “agreed to extort drivers under color of official right for marijuana in December of 2017, that they committed multiple such extortions, that Defendant expected to receive money from these extortions, and that he knew his acts were criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Rohnert Park on Commerce Boulevard in Rohnert Park on July 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huffaker made these admissions during a proffer interview — part of a plea process in which defendants offer information to the government in exchange for leniency. But in this case, the negotiations “fell apart,” court records show, and Huffaker walked away from the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior District Judge Maxine Chesney has allowed the government to use Huffaker’s statements during the proffer interview and to internal affairs as rebuttal evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear yet if Huffaker will take the stand, but if he does, Schwaiger said these “prior statements” are likely to be introduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A last-minute witness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the final month leading up to trial, prosecutors also introduced a new witness in their case against Huffaker: a man named William Timmins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timmins told the FBI that he saw Huffaker with Tatum around Dec. 4, 2017, and that he’d “assisted in unloading and loading of approximately 100 to 200 pounds of marijuana on the side of the highway,” according to court filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046768 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rohnert Park police officer Joseph Huffaker is on trial in San Francisco federal court, where prosecutors say he admitted to the FBI that he conspired to extort marijuana from drivers during traffic stops on Highway 101. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Barros/Nur Photo via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Timmins also said it was his job to sell the stolen cannabis and that he’d split the proceeds with Tatum, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense filed a motion to exclude Timmins’s testimony, noting that the FBI interviewed Timmins at least four times in the past two years and that his story has changed. It wasn’t until May 2025 that Timmins admitted his involvement in the scheme and told the FBI that he’d seen Huffaker on the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge will allow Timmins to testify. Court filings indicate he has been granted immunity in exchange for his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dropped charge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another witness long expected to testify for the prosecution is Texas resident Zeke Flatten. Flatten was the first driver to come forward and tell independent journalist Kym Kemp that on Dec. 5, 2017, officers claiming to work for the ATF — the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — stole three pounds of cannabis from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kemp began to ask around, court records show that Tatum and Huffaker met at Huffaker’s house and used his wife’s computer to draft a press release claiming responsibility for the Dec. 5, 2017, traffic stop. But the incident report details were all wrong: the make and model of the car, the amount of cannabis and even the presence of Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press release, written to cover up one incident, actually contained the accurate details of a different seizure and traffic stop that took place on Dec. 18, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ They issued a press release after the fact regarding the seizure, but got all of the details wrong because they were unlawfully seizing too many people to keep track of everyone,” Schwaiger said. “It’s like these cops — nobody questioned them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, Flatten has said that Tatum was not one of the officers who pulled him over. He has said Huffaker was there along with another older white man, both wearing green uniforms without name tags and large “POLICE” insignias. That man has never been identified and Huffaker later claimed he was not a part of Flatten’s stop.[aside postID=news_11673412 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut-672x372.jpg']Flatten’s complaints, filed with local, state and federal law enforcement, sparked public scrutiny and the FBI investigation that ultimately led to Tatum and Huffaker’s indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flatten’s case is hard to boil down into a tidy story. In March, prosecutors dropped Flatten as a witness and dropped one of the extortion charges initially filed against Huffaker related to the Dec. 5, 2017, stop. At the time, Flatten said he was disappointed he wouldn’t get the chance to face Huffaker in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After this many years and this much time put into it and very much life altering,” Flatten said. “And it’s not like I created something out of the air that didn’t happen. These guys were really doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in another twist, the defense added Flatten to\u003cem> its \u003c/em>witness list in June. In court filings, Ceballos argued that excluding Flatten from the case would confuse the jury. He also claimed that federal prosecutors dropped Flatten because he was a “paid FBI informant,” which hadn’t been disclosed. Flatten said he did work as an undercover informant for the FBI many years ago, but was not working as an informant on Dec. 5, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Chesney has yet to rule on whether or not Flatten can take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Brothers in blue?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Court filings show that the federal prosecution plans to focus on a single traffic stop — the one on Dec. 18, 2017, that Huffaker and Tatum conflated with Flatten’s stop on Dec. 5, 2017. However, more than two tons of cannabis were seized during the years that Tatum ran Rohnert Park’s interdiction task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffaker and Tatum pulled over Freeman on Dec. 29, 2016, and took 47 pounds of cannabis that he had grown legally in Mendocino County, for which he had documentation. The day after the stop, Freeman said he called Rohnert Park and spoke to Sgt. Eric Matzen, who assured him that he’d be able to get his property back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046903\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Rohnert Park Police Station on July 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few days later, Freeman’s attorney also contacted the city, but the department never returned his property, and his complaints were never investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived in terror for two years after that,” Freeman said. “They bankrupted me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matzen is listed as a witness for the prosecution, along with a handful of other command staff and records personnel from the Rohnert Park Public Safety Department, including former chief Brian Masterson, who retired in the wake of the scandal.[aside postID=news_12022803 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/5452-HALL-RD-RETURN-W-PIC_Page_4-1020x680.jpg']Four other officers took part in cannabis seizures alongside Tatum: Matthew Snodgrass, Nicholas Miller, Chris Snyder and Chris Medina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snodgrass is now a lieutenant for Rohnert Park. Snyder and Miller are deputies with the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. Medina worked for the Burlingame Police Department before returning to Rohnert Park, where he worked until 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, when Huffaker was set to go to trial in 2023, these men were on the prosecution’s witness list, court filings show. Now, if called, they will be witnesses for the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger said he hopes the outcome of this case sends the message “ to people who wear the uniform and the badge, that this is not a license to rob, to steal, to kill, to hurt people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he will be attending the trial and hopes for a guilty verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I feel bad about anybody that has to do time, but sometimes people deserve it,” he said. “I mean, they, really, really did incredible damage to a lot of people’s faith in law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the verdict, Huedell Freeman, one of the victims of the seizure scheme, said he had goosebumps. Huffaker is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel like there’s a small measure of justice,” he said. “And I’m gratified that the jury was able to sort through the facts, because there was a lot of obfuscation put up by the defense, which is their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really gratified and feel happy that — finally — justice for the unfairly much-maligned cannabis farmer is finally being served. I mean, they made us out to be rich people that needed to be robbed, and we are not that. We are anything but that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Ceballos, Huffaker’s attorney, declined to comment, as did Assistant U.S. Attorney Abraham Fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years ago, KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\">first reported on a string of allegations\u003c/a> from drivers who said Rohnert Park cops, operating far outside the city’s limits, had unlawfully seized hundreds of pounds of cannabis during pretextual traffic stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recreational marijuana became legal in 2018, growers who had operated in the grey area of the medical cannabis market finally felt safe to come forward. Huffaker’s trial promises a rare window into how local and federal officials responded to long-silenced complaints of police corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a long time coming, and it is a very important case,” said Izaak Schwaiger, a defense and civil rights attorney who filed a lawsuit over the unlawful seizure scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said taking the case to trial demonstrates “the government’s willingness to start holding people accountable in a real sense — people who were given a free pass for so long precisely because they were cops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11897846 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_8039-scaled-e1737145446662.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a face mask and business suit walks into a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Brendon “Jacy” Tatum walks into the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly after KQED published its investigation in 2018, Tatum resigned. The city moved to terminate Huffaker but later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735983/probe-into-rohnert-park-cannabis-and-cash-seizures-will-stay-secret-despite-transparency-law\">agreed to a settlement\u003c/a>, ensuring that an internal affairs investigation into the interdiction team would remain secret, despite a new police transparency law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\">paid out more than $1.8 million\u003c/a> to settle civil lawsuits over the seizures. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889861/ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures\">federal grand jury indicted\u003c/a> Huffaker and Tatum in September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, Tatum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897845/ex-rohnert-park-cop-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-commit-extortion\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to conspiracy to commit extortion under “color of law,” falsifying records in a federal investigation and tax evasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Tatum, Huffaker chose to fight the charges, backed by the police union’s legal defense fund, according to court filings and documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, Huffaker has gone through at least seven different lawyers, including Chris Shea of Marin, who died unexpectedly just two weeks before Huffaker was set for trial in October 2023. Huffaker’s latest defense attorney, Richard Ceballos of Ferrone Law Group, said he can not comment on his client’s case until after the trial is over. The U.S. attorney’s office also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always been this gnawing feeling that these guys are still walking free,” said Freeman, who received a settlement from Rohnert Park. “They’ve never done any time for the crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with extensive public scrutiny, the lawsuits and a federal indictment, this case continues to present surprises. In February, KQED discovered that Sonoma County Code Enforcement had busted Tatum for a large indoor marijuana grow on his Santa Rosa property. In March, prosecutors dropped one of the charges against Huffaker. And then in May, a new witness — a coconspirator who said he sold stolen weed on the officers’ behalf — was added to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Brady’ cop\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the key witnesses expected to take the stand is Tatum, whose plea deal includes an agreement to testify against his former partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum was the sergeant in charge of Rohnert Park’s interdiction team, which oversaw the seizure of $3.6 million under civil asset forfeiture laws and at least 2.5 tons of marijuana between 2013 and 2018, according to documents obtained and analyzed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Rohnert Park’s mayor formally recognized Tatum for his drug suppression efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rohnert Park police officers Brendon Jacy Tatum and Joseph Huffaker are facing federal charges tied to alleged illegal stops and seizures of cash and marijuana along Highway 101. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But alongside the apparent success of the interdiction team, complaints about Tatum’s tactics and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\">credibility began to mount\u003c/a>. By 2016, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s office had placed him on its “Brady list” — a list of officers with known integrity issues. When Tatum takes the stand, Ceballos will likely introduce materials from his record to impeach his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a habitual liar,” said Schwaiger, who gave the DA evidence of Tatum’s dishonesty, which led to his placement on the list of problem cops. But Schwaiger said that in this case, Tatum’s testimony will be backed up by hard evidence. “So, I don’t think that the case is made or lost on the testimony of any given witness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum has spent the past four years out of custody awaiting sentencing, which is currently scheduled for September. While under pretrial supervision, KQED discovered that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022803/exclusive-ex-rohnert-park-cop-faces-few-consequences-illegal-cannabis-grow\">Tatum was fined by Sonoma County code enforcement\u003c/a> in 2024 for a large indoor cannabis grow on his property. Federal officials declined to comment on whether this violated the terms of Tatum’s $100,000 bond agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proffer admissions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In February 2022, court documents show that Huffaker sat down with the FBI and admitted that he and Tatum had “agreed to extort drivers under color of official right for marijuana in December of 2017, that they committed multiple such extortions, that Defendant expected to receive money from these extortions, and that he knew his acts were criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Rohnert Park on Commerce Boulevard in Rohnert Park on July 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huffaker made these admissions during a proffer interview — part of a plea process in which defendants offer information to the government in exchange for leniency. But in this case, the negotiations “fell apart,” court records show, and Huffaker walked away from the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior District Judge Maxine Chesney has allowed the government to use Huffaker’s statements during the proffer interview and to internal affairs as rebuttal evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear yet if Huffaker will take the stand, but if he does, Schwaiger said these “prior statements” are likely to be introduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A last-minute witness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the final month leading up to trial, prosecutors also introduced a new witness in their case against Huffaker: a man named William Timmins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timmins told the FBI that he saw Huffaker with Tatum around Dec. 4, 2017, and that he’d “assisted in unloading and loading of approximately 100 to 200 pounds of marijuana on the side of the highway,” according to court filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046768 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rohnert Park police officer Joseph Huffaker is on trial in San Francisco federal court, where prosecutors say he admitted to the FBI that he conspired to extort marijuana from drivers during traffic stops on Highway 101. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Barros/Nur Photo via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Timmins also said it was his job to sell the stolen cannabis and that he’d split the proceeds with Tatum, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense filed a motion to exclude Timmins’s testimony, noting that the FBI interviewed Timmins at least four times in the past two years and that his story has changed. 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He spied a pallet with peppers stacked eight boxes high, and grabbed one from the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he inspected a box of pineapples with a nice color. “As far as retail goes,” he said, “they’re going to buy from the color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-50-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-50-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-50-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-50-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-50-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Mayeda, the produce manager at Village Market, walks through the Oakland Produce Market in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland in the early morning hours of July 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayeda and Farmers Produce owner Sammy Freccero had an easy banter that comes with sharing decades in the produce business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freccero said he’s been doing this work since 1979.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad used to drag me to work in the summers. I never had summer vacation and I hated it,” he said. “I said I would never do this, but it was the best thing he did for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Frecerro did the same for his son.[aside postID=news_12042713 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250301-ANDERSONVALLEYGRANGE-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I’ve been bringing him down here since he was six years old,” he said. “One of my customers made a little hand truck for him, and I have pictures of him pushing the hand truck around. If I’d say ‘Go grab me a box of this,’ he knew what to grab.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His son’s in college now. Frecerro wants him to have choices, to consider a life that’s not on this nighttime schedule, but this business is here for him if he wants it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, his father specialized in supplying corner markets, Frecerro said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mom and pop stores — they used to buy a lot, but then all these big chains came and took over and took all that business away,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Frecerro was able to adapt. He said that now, in addition to grocers like Mayeda, they sell to businesses that supply restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You go to a restaurant in Walnut Creek or anywhere in the area, we more than likely touched something at that restaurant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-53-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-53-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-53-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-53-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-53-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sammy Freccero holds photos of workers at Farmers Produce from the 1970s at the Oakland Produce Market in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland in the early morning hours of July 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You don’t have to run a restaurant or work for a grocery store to shop here, as long as you buy in bulk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 3:45 a.m., Mayeda walked through the market. He sniffed some mangoes and scoffed when he inspected a label on green seedless grapes from Peru — with a packing date over three months old. “You gotta be kidding me. Did they print that right?” he said, laughing, before moving on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 4:30 a.m., Mayeda reached Fujii Melons. He met R.J. Napolis, the company’s co-owner, decades ago. They both learned a lot about the produce business from Fujii Melons founder, Ronald Fujii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayeda could call in his orders, but he always comes in person, looking for something not on his list, something special that customers might want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe this Cara Cara orange Napolis just got in? Mayeda pulls a knife out of his pocket and cuts open the pinkish-red flesh.[aside postID=news_12029568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250308_BESANS-MARKET_DMB_00963-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“Most of the flavor is on the bottom side, so that’s where you want to try it. The blossom end, not the stem side. Same thing with melons, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He ate the fruit before declaring: “Sweet, juicy … no flavor. Looks really good though.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These Cara Caras weren’t quite up to Mayeda’s standards that day, but every week, he has a long list of produce to buy from Fujii Melons, like papayas, berries and clamshell containers filled with herbs. Everything gets wrapped up on a pallet to be delivered to Mayeda back at Village Market by 5:30 in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s this connection, Napolis said, between people and food that makes him love running a produce house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell somebody over the phone, ‘Try this, try that.’ It’s something that they have to see, and smell, to appreciate what it is,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he described his passion for this business, declaring he wouldn’t want to be anywhere else, a beatific smile crossed his face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you try to buy the best produce, and then when you see somebody looking for it and you give them that taste and they open up like, ‘My God, what was that?’ That’s what I love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-43-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-43-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-43-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-43-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-43-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Mayeda (right), the produce manager at Village Market, puts in an order with R.J. Napolis at Fujii Melons in the Oakland Produce Market in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland in the early morning hours of July 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plus, the folks who work here, at these hours? They’re a different breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re nightwalkers,” Napolis joked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nightwalkers, each with a specific job. Each day, before midnight, semi-trucks arrive from the Central Valley or Southern California ports carrying produce from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at night, “we have what’s called lumpers,” Napolis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the term for the forklift drivers who get paid by truckers to unload pallets of produce. Then, workers at the produce houses take over.[aside postID=news_12029560 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/CSRM_39595_p-1020x679.jpg']“Forklifts are running up and down the streets constantly,” Napolis continued. “We have pallet jacks for products going up and on the street. People with hand trucks up and down the street. So it’s like an inner world, with people just moving, and it’s 6:00 in the morning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all looked like barely controlled chaos, but with more time, the choreography of the movement revealed itself, as did the skill and experience that goes into the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little after 5 a.m., down the street at Golden State Fresh Produce, Ali Awnallah pointed out that the graceful movement of forklift drivers carrying pallets belies the reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to be careful. These forklifts are like Army tanks,” Awnallah cautioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Awnallah does quality control, but he’s a natural salesman Technically, all of these produce houses compete with each other, but you wouldn’t know it from how he interacted with his neighbors. If he’s out of a certain product, like chayote squash, Cervantes Produce will sell it to him practically at cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We help each other out like that,” Awnallah said. “Cervantes Produce has been in the market for many, many years. Number one in the market también.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-18-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-OaklandProduceMarket-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Mayeda, the produce manager at Village Market, inspects lychee to purchase for the store at the Oakland Produce Market in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland in the early morning hours of July 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His neighbor chimes in: “Mucho trabajo, poco dinero.” Many years of a lot of work, for not a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 7:00 a.m., Alfonso Gonzalez stacked boxes of tomatillos and tomatoes into his van. Where was he going?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re not going to believe it,” Gonzalez said. “All the way to Sonoma, California, two hours from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s owned La Morenita Market #3 there for 30 years, and has been shopping for produce here nearly as long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get it very cheap, and I’m going to sell it very cheap,” he said.[aside postID=news_12015282 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240715-StillLifeCafe-03-1020x680.jpg']By 7:30 a.m., sales at a lot of the produce houses were winding down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cities, similar markets were demolished years ago. For decades, there’ve been articles predicting this place’s imminent demise, but it’s still here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1917, the market moved to this location near the port and a railroad line, Gary Knecht said. He’s a retired city planner and historic preservation planner for the city of Oakland who has lived a few blocks away from the market for nearly 50 years, and used to lead historic tours of the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of produce vendors hired an Oakland architect to design these buildings, Knecht said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very simple and utilitarian look,” he said, looking at the squat buildings, with awnings extending over the sidewalks, like oversized hat brims. “They’re just plain, simple buildings that I really love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250703-OaklandProduceMarket-06-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250703-OaklandProduceMarket-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250703-OaklandProduceMarket-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250703-OaklandProduceMarket-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250703-OaklandProduceMarket-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Knecht, a retired city planner and historic preservation advocate, walks through the Oakland Produce Market on July 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The original doors were screens, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The produce that got delivered here would be indoors, with fresh air blowing in and out. Refrigeration is one of the biggest changes in the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes have also happened in the neighborhood. Over coffee, chicken and waffles at the Oakland Grill — a restaurant that’s been in the market since the 1970s — Knecht described the transformation of the waterfront, where many East Bay residents drink, dine or take the ferry to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was almost exclusively industrial up until the ’50s or ’60s,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lots of warehouses. Some converted to office buildings, and then, Knecht said, around 1990, zoning laws changed and a few condos came in. That really got some vendors and preservationists worried about the future of the market.[aside postID=news_12005160 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240903_MUSICALCHEESEMAKER-44-KQED-1020x680.jpg']He said, over the years, the city and developers have tried — unsuccessfully — to interest the vendors in moving the market to a different location. And, he added, plans to develop the Jack London District further have never quite taken off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that changes, the produce market does have some protections under Oakland’s zoning laws, Knecht explained. Designated “an area of primary importance” for its architecture, any major alterations or proposed demolition would trigger lots of reviews and garner a lot of attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I applaud the alarm. I even occasionally share the alarm,” Knecht said, referring to concerns over the market’s future. “But every day I walk through the market, and when it’s bustling like it is today, I feel okay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This story is part of the series \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://californiafoodways.com/\">\u003ci>California Foodways, \u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>about food, agriculture and the people that make both possible in each of California’s 58 counties.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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His street’s regular trash pickup day is Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chang admitted his surprise when Thursday morning rolled around and his street was still lined with trash bins. But he believes “the real fundamental issue is with the company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a strike or anything like that, I think it just kind of breaks the system,” Chang said. “And there’s no alternative option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chang said that although the trash buildup hasn’t caused any significant smells or inconveniences, he can expect that to change should the strike persist through the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also going to start causing some parking issues, maybe people will have to start moving neighbors’ trash cans to park their cars,” Chang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he may end up taking his trash out to the landfill himself, but he’s trying to avoid that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenda Muñoz is the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s executive director. 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Sen. Alex Padilla has \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/ice-agents-masks-bill-democrats\">introduced a bill\u003c/a> that would bar agents from wearing masks and require them to display their badge numbers. Many families have told media outlets, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/21/nx-s1-5439578/ice-detention-father-daughter-protest-immigration-department-homeland-security\">including NPR\u003c/a>, about the difficulties they’ve faced\u003ca href=\"https://sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/ice-has-disappeared-48-new-mexico-residents-attorneys-say/\"> trying to track down\u003c/a> loved ones in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has compiled a guide on how to navigate ICE’s online database when searching for someone in the system. Keep in mind this is not legal advice, and consulting a lawyer can help with your specific situation. KQED also has a guide on where to find\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\"> free or low-cost legal assistance in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/LosAngelesImmigrationRaidAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/LosAngelesImmigrationRaidAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/LosAngelesImmigrationRaidAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/LosAngelesImmigrationRaidAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police confront protesters outside City Hall during protests over federal immigration enforcement raids on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Use ICE’s online system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the person is an adult, you can use ICE’s \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">Online Detainee Locator System\u003c/a> to search for them, or you can call \u003ca href=\"https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1706?language=en_US\">(866) 347-2423\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You will need to have\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-27/what-to-do-if-relative-detained-immigration-officials\"> the person’s information\u003c/a>, like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Their “alien registration number” — or A-Number — is assigned by the Department of Homeland Security. This number can be found on a green card, work permit or other immigration documents, and is usually \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/glossary-term/50684#:~:text=or%20A%23)-,A%2DNumber/Alien%20Registration%20Number/Alien%20Number%20(,A%2DNumber%20or%20A%23)&text=A%20unique%20seven%2D%2C%20eight%2D,Also%20see%20USCIS%20Number.\">seven to nine digits\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their full name\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their country of birth\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their date of birth\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>According to the\u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/faqs-other-topics/#detained-loved-one\"> Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project\u003c/a>, it may take a few days for a person to appear in the ICE database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the name you’re searching for isn’t showing up in the ICE system — or if you’re concerned about their safety and possible deportation — you can seek out assistance from advocacy organizations such as\u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/\"> Freedom for Immigrants\u003c/a> through\u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/reunite\"> an online form\u003c/a> or by calling 209-757-3733. (You can also find immigration-specific free or low-cost legal support \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice#lawyer\">in this KQED guide\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Check the Bureau of Prisons’ search tool\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the National Immigrant Law Center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-12/trump-administration-immigrants-dublin-federal-prison\">this year\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">“ICE began using prisons run by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to hold people for immigration cases.” \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can use \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/\">the Bureau of Prisons’ search tool\u003c/a> to look up a person. NILC says that people who are being held by the Bureau of Prisons should also show up in the \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">ICE online locator system\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you know someone was detained near one of these prisons, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/locations/map.jsp?region=WXR\">you can try calling the facility\u003c/a> directly.\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\u003ch2>Looking for a minor?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are trying to find a minor you suspect has been detained, you can call ICE at 800-203-7001. You can also email the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2018-Jun/next-steps-for-families.pdf\"> Office of Refugee Resettlement\u003c/a> at information@ORRNCC.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reach out to an ICE field office\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations field office in San Francisco oversees an area that includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/field-office/san-francisco-field-office\">Northern California, Hawaii, Guam and Saipan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can contact the SF field office, located at 630 Sansome St., by phone at 415-365-8800 or by email at \u003ca href=\"mailto:SanFrancisco.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov\">SanFrancisco.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Please note: NILC warns that if you’re calling or emailing a field office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">“don’t give more information than you need to,”\u003c/a> and “only give the necessary A-Number or basic information, like name and country of birth, that you would use in the online locator.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you can’t reach anyone at the field office, San Francisco has an ICE Community Relations Officer who can be reached at \u003ca href=\"mailto:CommunityRelations.SanFrancisco@ice.dhs.gov\">CommunityRelations.SanFrancisco@ice.dhs.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Call a detention facility\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>ICE’s website lists \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detention-facilities\">five detention facilities\u003c/a> associated with the San Francisco field office, though not all of them are in the Bay Area — or even California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you know someone is \u003ca href=\"https://www.usa.gov/detained-by-ice\">being held at a detention facility\u003c/a>, you can call to try to get more information. The facilities include:[aside postID=news_12047018 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/IMG_1067-2000x1500.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/golden-state-annex\">Golden State Annex\u003c/a> in McFarland. The number is 661-792-2731 and you can call from 8 a.m.–3:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/mesa-verde-ice-processing-facility\">The Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center\u003c/a> in Bakersfield. You can call 661-859-1028 from 8 a.m.–3:30 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/federal-detention-center-honolulu-fdc-honolulu\">Federal Detention Center, Honolulu\u003c/a>, in Hawaii. You can call 808-529-1970 from 8 a.m.–3 p.m. Hawaii is three hours behind San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/guam-department-corrections-hagatna-detention-facility\">Guam Department of Corrections, Hagatna Detention Facility\u003c/a> in Guam. You can call 671-777-2976 from 7:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Guam is 17 hours ahead of San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/cnmi-department-corrections\">CNMI Department of Corrections\u003c/a> in Saipan. You can call 670-237-6000 from 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Saipan is 17 hours ahead of San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>According to ICE’s website, people detained cannot receive calls. You must leave a message with the facility that includes the detainee’s full name, alien registration number, as well as your name and telephone number where you can be reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Contact the person’s consulate\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">the NILC\u003c/a>, “All immigrants in ICE jails \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-management/national-detainee-handbook\">have the right\u003c/a> to contact their country’s consulate.” You can also try contacting this office yourself in an effort to find a person. However, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">NILC strongly suggests\u003c/a> that you \u003cem>not\u003c/em> do this if the person is applying for asylum or fears for their life back in their home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Look up their possible court date\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are worried someone is being subject to expedited removal, check if they have a court hearing. “If someone has a pending court date, they have not yet been subject to expedited removal,” said Jordan Weiner, the legal director of the Removal Defense Program at La Raza Centro Legal in San Francisco. “But once expedited removal is applied, their court date will go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can search for someone’s next hearing date by using their A number on the \u003ca href=\"https://acis.eoir.justice.gov/en/\">Executive Office for Immigration Review’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who are especially vulnerable to quick deportation without a hearing are those who are detained and do not have information showing up on the EOIR website – because they were never issued a notice to appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If someone has their case dismissed or didn’t show up on the system and then later shows up with an upcoming court date, “this likely means they passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047018/how-legal-experts-advocates-are-responding-to-the-detention-of-asylum-seekers\">their credible fear interview\u003c/a> and are back in proceedings before an immigration judge,” Weiner explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Which is good because it means they can fight their case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crackdown on immigrant communities has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043346/sf-rallies-for-david-huerta-california-union-leader-arrested-in-la-immigration-raid\">terrified and angered Bay Area residents\u003c/a>, prompting rallies and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047018/how-legal-experts-advocates-are-responding-to-the-detention-of-asylum-seekers\">actions to ward off arrests\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-03/los-angeles-police-immigration-kidnappings\">some have described as kidnappings\u003c/a>, especially given that ICE agents sometimes wear face coverings to conceal their identity. Sen. Alex Padilla has \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/ice-agents-masks-bill-democrats\">introduced a bill\u003c/a> that would bar agents from wearing masks and require them to display their badge numbers. Many families have told media outlets, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/21/nx-s1-5439578/ice-detention-father-daughter-protest-immigration-department-homeland-security\">including NPR\u003c/a>, about the difficulties they’ve faced\u003ca href=\"https://sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/ice-has-disappeared-48-new-mexico-residents-attorneys-say/\"> trying to track down\u003c/a> loved ones in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has compiled a guide on how to navigate ICE’s online database when searching for someone in the system. Keep in mind this is not legal advice, and consulting a lawyer can help with your specific situation. KQED also has a guide on where to find\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013522/free-legal-aid-in-the-bay-area-how-it-works-where-to-find-it\"> free or low-cost legal assistance in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/LosAngelesImmigrationRaidAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/LosAngelesImmigrationRaidAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/LosAngelesImmigrationRaidAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/LosAngelesImmigrationRaidAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police confront protesters outside City Hall during protests over federal immigration enforcement raids on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Use ICE’s online system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the person is an adult, you can use ICE’s \u003ca href=\"https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/search\">Online Detainee Locator System\u003c/a> to search for them, or you can call \u003ca href=\"https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1706?language=en_US\">(866) 347-2423\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You will need to have\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-27/what-to-do-if-relative-detained-immigration-officials\"> the person’s information\u003c/a>, like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Their “alien registration number” — or A-Number — is assigned by the Department of Homeland Security. This number can be found on a green card, work permit or other immigration documents, and is usually \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/glossary-term/50684#:~:text=or%20A%23)-,A%2DNumber/Alien%20Registration%20Number/Alien%20Number%20(,A%2DNumber%20or%20A%23)&text=A%20unique%20seven%2D%2C%20eight%2D,Also%20see%20USCIS%20Number.\">seven to nine digits\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their full name\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their country of birth\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Their date of birth\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>According to the\u003ca href=\"https://help.asylumadvocacy.org/faqs-other-topics/#detained-loved-one\"> Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project\u003c/a>, it may take a few days for a person to appear in the ICE database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the name you’re searching for isn’t showing up in the ICE system — or if you’re concerned about their safety and possible deportation — you can seek out assistance from advocacy organizations such as\u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/\"> Freedom for Immigrants\u003c/a> through\u003ca href=\"https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/reunite\"> an online form\u003c/a> or by calling 209-757-3733. (You can also find immigration-specific free or low-cost legal support \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025647/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-ice#lawyer\">in this KQED guide\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Check the Bureau of Prisons’ search tool\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the National Immigrant Law Center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-12/trump-administration-immigrants-dublin-federal-prison\">this year\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Locate-a-ICE-Disappearance.pdf\">“ICE began using prisons run by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to hold people for immigration cases.” \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can use \u003ca href=\"https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/\">the Bureau of Prisons’ search tool\u003c/a> to look up a person. 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