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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The sheriff-coroner of San Joaquin County came under scrutiny late last year after two physicians who conducted autopsies for his office quit in protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Bennet Omalu and Dr. Susan Parson \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/04/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement/\">accused Sheriff Steve Moore\u003c/a> of pressuring them to change medical findings, especially in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/11/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cases involving law enforcement officers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recently, questions have been raised about death investigations that were, in some way, connected to law enforcement action,” Moore acknowledged in a Facebook post Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore responded with a promise to conduct public inquests of all deaths that occurred in custody or during a pursuit or arrest. Moore wrote that he modeled his new policy on a coroner’s inquest system in neighboring Contra Costa County “that has proved successful, transparent, cost-effective, and can be completed in months, not years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Contra Costa County Benefits from Coroner’s Inquests\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the inquest hearing the coroner, a designated deputy or an independent hearing officer — typically an attorney — will select and question witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either the hearing officer or a nine-member jury of county residents can consider the evidence to decide whether the deceased person died as the result of an accident, homicide, suicide or natural causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a fan of it,” said attorney Matthew Guichard, who has conducted \u003ca href=\"http://cclawyer.cccba.org/2015/03/coroners-inquests/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coroner’s inquests\u003c/a> for Contra Costa County for 15 years. He says the hearing “puts out into the open the circumstances of the death and it doesn’t get into whether there’s criminal or civil responsibility on the part of anyone — either the policeman, the dead person or anyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County began conducting coroner’s inquests for all deaths that occurred in custody in the 1980s. The proceedings are open to the general public and the press. Families of the deceased may have attorneys submit questions on their behalf to the hearing officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648821/how-families-in-san-joaquin-county-pay-for-coroner-mistakes\">How Families in San Joaquin County Pay for Coroner Mistakes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11648821/how-families-in-san-joaquin-county-pay-for-coroner-mistakes\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Guichard believes the inquests have made a difference in how the public views fatalities involving officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Putting it out into the open — the circumstance — in my view has significantly reduced the number of lawsuits afterwards because parties, families oftentimes listen and go ‘OK.’ This is the first time they really hear an exhaustive story of precisely what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Some See Bias With Inquests Controlled by a Sheriff-Coroner\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics say the inquest system gives the public a false sense of impartiality because the sheriff-coroner runs the operation, selects the witnesses and jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A forensic pathologist who has worked in several Bay Area counties in California said the only way to completely avoid conflicts of interest or bias is to have the deaths reviewed by an outside expert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some officials in San Joaquin County are pushing to replace the sheriff-coroner system with an independent medical examiner’s office headed by a physician trained in forensic pathology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County officials have hired a consultant to look into how Moore runs the coroner’s operation and to provide a cost-benefit analysis of replacing it with a medical examiner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That report is due in April.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here’s a new book out about California that’s selling faster than Berkeley’s Heyday Books can print it. It’s called “\u003ca href=\"https://heydaybooks.com/book/the-california-field-atlas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Field Atlas\u003c/a>,” and it’s a thick book of maps. Not road maps, but hand-drawn watercolor renderings of wild California, with descriptions and reflections on its mountains, rivers, and creatures. It’s a kind of love letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was lost in a swoon for California,” says author \u003ca href=\"https://coyoteandthunder.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obi Kaufmann\u003c/a>. He’s an Oakland-based artist who’s walked thousands of miles of trail, from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/california/carrizo-plain-national-monument\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carrizo Plain\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/srnf/recarea/?recid=11476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Siskiyou Wilderness.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of his favorite spots is the mountain where he spent his childhood: \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mount Diablo State Park\u003c/a>, on the edge of the Contra Costa County suburbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11653149 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-1020x1422.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-1180x1645.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-960x1338.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-240x335.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-375x523.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-520x725.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut.jpg 1492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Diablo is depicted in one of the paintings in Obi Kaufmann’s new atlas of wild California, published by Heyday Books. Kaufmann grew up exploring Mount Diablo, close to his childhood home in Danville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Obi Kaufmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little gem of biodiversity, a little jewel of wilderness right here among all the sprawling humanity that surrounds it,” says Kaufmann as we begin our hike along a creek at the base of the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount Diablo, he tells me, rises at the point where the Central Valley meets the San Francisco Bay Area. Because of wind patterns, it captures seeds blowing from all over the state. So you’ll find plants here that are usually found only on the Central Coast or way up by the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we set off on the hike, Kaufmann warns me of the “fearsome four” we might encounter: scorpions, mountain lions, rattlesnakes and tarantulas. But he’s not personally afraid of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’ve taken so many naps unwittingly next to tarantulas,” he says. “They climb on me. I don’t know if they’re looking for dryness, or warmth, or just love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One creature that does scare him: wild pigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “If you see one, look for a tree, and climb it, ’cuz they have a bad attitude,” he warns. “They’ll bite. They’ll charge. They’ll hurt you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, one of the maps in this book shows all the California locales wild pigs roam — 56 of the state’s 58 counties. The book’s other stylized maps include one showing the fir trees of California, one depicting wildfire hotspots, and yet another locating the state’s dozens of wildflower gardens. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-800x925.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"925\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653148\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-800x925.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-160x185.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-1020x1179.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-1180x1364.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-960x1110.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-240x277.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-375x434.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-520x601.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut.jpg 1391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing what Obi Kaufmann calls California’s ‘oak gardens.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Obi Kaufmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m less and less interested as I go in years as a naturalist and as a painter in one specific thing, in one specific species,” says Kaufmann. “I spent the last several decades trying to figure out the names for all the flowers, the names of the trees and shrubs, rocks and birds. Now I’m much more interested in the way it fits together in these larger systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His watercolor maps depict the familiar California outline, filled in in unexpected ways. A California without roads. A map just of California’s rocks. Another of its rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obi Kaufmann fills his field atlas with watercolor paintings of California’s natural features, flora, and fauna. \u003ccite>(Paul Collins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]K[/dropcap]aufmann began making maps as a child during outings on Mount Diablo. He sketched out the tiny trails traveled by coyotes. He gave many of the trees he encountered individual names — taken from the names of the angels in Milton’s epic poem “\u003ca href=\"http://www.paradiselost.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paradise Lost\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it was some sort of basic childhood reaction to lots of time,” reflects Kaufmann. “Loneliness, even, in the pre-Internet era. I’d come up here to enjoy the quiet and the birds and the coyotes. I thought that was more rock n’roll than anything going on in the city. I thought nature was where my voice was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaufmann moved to L.A. from the town of Danville, in the shadow of Mount Diablo, when he was 5 years old. His father, \u003ca href=\"https://aas.org/obituaries/william-j-kaufmann-iii-1942-1994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William J. Kaufmann III\u003c/a>, was a world-renowned astronomer who headed the \u003ca href=\"http://griffithobservatory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Griffith Observatory\u003c/a> and passed away suddenly in 1994, at the age of 51.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He gave me my biggest perspective,” says Obi Kaufmann. “So even though I’m 20 years from the death of my father, I’m grateful to be afforded his opportunity to continue that conversation with the greatest scale of things. You know, that for me is California. For him it was the universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaufmann’s wearing a big straw hat and has a scraggly beard like \u003ca href=\"https://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/muir_biography.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Muir.\u003c/a> But, he says, guys like Muir weren’t really his big influences when he fell in love with nature as a teen in the late 1980s. It was more like “Lord of the Rings” and Metallica. Obi was a geek, a loner, a city kid who prefers sleeping out under the stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people say, ‘Oh, you’re living the John Muir lifestyle, eating berries and sleeping in trees,’” laughs Kaufmann. “It’s like, yeah, I do that, but I also live in an apartment in downtown Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likes his hipster coffee. He worked as a tattoo artist and designed graphics for a \u003ca href=\"https://juniperridge.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">natural fragrance company\u003c/a> before turning his attention to writing the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obi Kaufmann has also worked as a tattoo artist and a graphic designer. \u003ccite>(Paul Collins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s we climb the mountain, Kaufmann talks about how observing things at a walking pace is more interesting than what you can see driving. He likes how trails follow the natural topography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some contour, some feature of the topography that you can read,” he explains. “Looking from here, from the buckeyes and the blue oaks, coastal sage brush, up into the valley oaks and the gray pines. I think that kind of narrative, that really subtle story, only unfolds at a walking pace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653152\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-800x1205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1205\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-800x1205.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-1020x1537.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-1180x1778.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-960x1446.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-240x362.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-375x565.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-520x783.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Douglas iris. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Obi Kaufmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaufmann says his book, with its layers of watercolor wash, is trying to spell out that kind of narrative in a visual form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s geographic literacy,” he says. “We have to know what there is to conserve in order to conserve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him about the most unexpected thing encountered during his years of walking California. He tells me about an usually quiet moment in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hikelospadres.com/san-rafael-wilderness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Rafael Wilderness\u003c/a> area of Los Padres National Forest when he spotted something bright red and freshly killed in a stream bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked like someone had taken the fur off this baby bear, and removed it like a jacket, in one fell swoop,” he recalls. “There’s only one animal that does that: the mountain lion. That’s why the forest was quiet. The one thing about every single encounter I’ve ever had with a mountain lion is that she is control. You are not control, which is a very humbling experience for a human.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653155\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-800x662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-800x662.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-1020x844.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-1180x977.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-960x795.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-240x199.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-375x310.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-520x430.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain lion. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Obi Kaufmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think the process of writing this book and remembering that experience infuses the whole thing with a different sense of what it means to be in a natural participant in a wild system,” he said. “To let go of this facile need to own it and control it, because you can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kaufmann insists his field guide is not an environmental treatise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are getting so entrenched in their beliefs. I think it’s time to throw away all of what it is to be left, what it is to be right,” he says. “All that old language needs to go away. I don’t even like the word ‘environmentalist.’ I’m trying to figure out some other word, like ‘restorationist.’ Let’s keep what we have here. Let’s restore these habitats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]y the time we reach the summit of Mount Diablo and take in the breathtaking panorama stretching from the Sierra Nevada to the Farallon Islands, I am starting to see things from Kaufmann’s point of view. The watercolor view of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653156\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-800x1041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1041\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-800x1041.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-160x208.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-1020x1327.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-1920x2498.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-1180x1535.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-960x1249.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-240x312.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-375x488.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-520x677.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California condor. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Obi Kaufmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re up here in the crow’s nest of California,” says Kaufmann, pointing to the 400-mile-long granite spine of the Sierra Nevada. “It’s sort of breathtaking up here. It’s sort of like mind-breakingly beautiful. I always find when I get up here California makes sense. You can kind of see the whole thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true. On a clear day, you can see across to the Farallones, down to the Tehachapi Mountains, even all the way to Mount Shasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obi Kaufmann’s field atlas renders the state more beautiful by filtering out the urban stuff, so you only see its wildness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a 500-page book, maybe a little heavy to take with you on a hike. It’s not practical as a trail map, and it won’t point the way home. But it does open your eyes to a new way of seeing California.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>here’s a new book out about California that’s selling faster than Berkeley’s Heyday Books can print it. It’s called “\u003ca href=\"https://heydaybooks.com/book/the-california-field-atlas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Field Atlas\u003c/a>,” and it’s a thick book of maps. Not road maps, but hand-drawn watercolor renderings of wild California, with descriptions and reflections on its mountains, rivers, and creatures. It’s a kind of love letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was lost in a swoon for California,” says author \u003ca href=\"https://coyoteandthunder.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Obi Kaufmann\u003c/a>. He’s an Oakland-based artist who’s walked thousands of miles of trail, from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/california/carrizo-plain-national-monument\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carrizo Plain\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/srnf/recarea/?recid=11476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Siskiyou Wilderness.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of his favorite spots is the mountain where he spent his childhood: \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mount Diablo State Park\u003c/a>, on the edge of the Contra Costa County suburbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11653149 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-1020x1422.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-1180x1645.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-960x1338.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-240x335.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-375x523.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut-520x725.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29719_Mount-Diablo-qut.jpg 1492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Diablo is depicted in one of the paintings in Obi Kaufmann’s new atlas of wild California, published by Heyday Books. Kaufmann grew up exploring Mount Diablo, close to his childhood home in Danville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Obi Kaufmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a little gem of biodiversity, a little jewel of wilderness right here among all the sprawling humanity that surrounds it,” says Kaufmann as we begin our hike along a creek at the base of the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mount Diablo, he tells me, rises at the point where the Central Valley meets the San Francisco Bay Area. Because of wind patterns, it captures seeds blowing from all over the state. So you’ll find plants here that are usually found only on the Central Coast or way up by the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we set off on the hike, Kaufmann warns me of the “fearsome four” we might encounter: scorpions, mountain lions, rattlesnakes and tarantulas. But he’s not personally afraid of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’ve taken so many naps unwittingly next to tarantulas,” he says. “They climb on me. I don’t know if they’re looking for dryness, or warmth, or just love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One creature that does scare him: wild pigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “If you see one, look for a tree, and climb it, ’cuz they have a bad attitude,” he warns. “They’ll bite. They’ll charge. They’ll hurt you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, one of the maps in this book shows all the California locales wild pigs roam — 56 of the state’s 58 counties. The book’s other stylized maps include one showing the fir trees of California, one depicting wildfire hotspots, and yet another locating the state’s dozens of wildflower gardens. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653148\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-800x925.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"925\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653148\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-800x925.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-160x185.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-1020x1179.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-1180x1364.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-960x1110.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-240x277.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-375x434.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut-520x601.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29723_Wildflowers-Gardens-of-California-qut.jpg 1391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing what Obi Kaufmann calls California’s ‘oak gardens.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Obi Kaufmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m less and less interested as I go in years as a naturalist and as a painter in one specific thing, in one specific species,” says Kaufmann. “I spent the last several decades trying to figure out the names for all the flowers, the names of the trees and shrubs, rocks and birds. Now I’m much more interested in the way it fits together in these larger systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His watercolor maps depict the familiar California outline, filled in in unexpected ways. A California without roads. A map just of California’s rocks. Another of its rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29720_OBI_024-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obi Kaufmann fills his field atlas with watercolor paintings of California’s natural features, flora, and fauna. \u003ccite>(Paul Collins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">K\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>aufmann began making maps as a child during outings on Mount Diablo. He sketched out the tiny trails traveled by coyotes. He gave many of the trees he encountered individual names — taken from the names of the angels in Milton’s epic poem “\u003ca href=\"http://www.paradiselost.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paradise Lost\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it was some sort of basic childhood reaction to lots of time,” reflects Kaufmann. “Loneliness, even, in the pre-Internet era. I’d come up here to enjoy the quiet and the birds and the coyotes. I thought that was more rock n’roll than anything going on in the city. I thought nature was where my voice was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaufmann moved to L.A. from the town of Danville, in the shadow of Mount Diablo, when he was 5 years old. His father, \u003ca href=\"https://aas.org/obituaries/william-j-kaufmann-iii-1942-1994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William J. Kaufmann III\u003c/a>, was a world-renowned astronomer who headed the \u003ca href=\"http://griffithobservatory.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Griffith Observatory\u003c/a> and passed away suddenly in 1994, at the age of 51.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He gave me my biggest perspective,” says Obi Kaufmann. “So even though I’m 20 years from the death of my father, I’m grateful to be afforded his opportunity to continue that conversation with the greatest scale of things. You know, that for me is California. For him it was the universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaufmann’s wearing a big straw hat and has a scraggly beard like \u003ca href=\"https://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/muir_biography.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Muir.\u003c/a> But, he says, guys like Muir weren’t really his big influences when he fell in love with nature as a teen in the late 1980s. It was more like “Lord of the Rings” and Metallica. Obi was a geek, a loner, a city kid who prefers sleeping out under the stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people say, ‘Oh, you’re living the John Muir lifestyle, eating berries and sleeping in trees,’” laughs Kaufmann. “It’s like, yeah, I do that, but I also live in an apartment in downtown Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He likes his hipster coffee. He worked as a tattoo artist and designed graphics for a \u003ca href=\"https://juniperridge.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">natural fragrance company\u003c/a> before turning his attention to writing the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29721_obi-002-qut.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obi Kaufmann has also worked as a tattoo artist and a graphic designer. \u003ccite>(Paul Collins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>s we climb the mountain, Kaufmann talks about how observing things at a walking pace is more interesting than what you can see driving. He likes how trails follow the natural topography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some contour, some feature of the topography that you can read,” he explains. “Looking from here, from the buckeyes and the blue oaks, coastal sage brush, up into the valley oaks and the gray pines. I think that kind of narrative, that really subtle story, only unfolds at a walking pace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653152\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653152\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-800x1205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1205\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-800x1205.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-1020x1537.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-1180x1778.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-960x1446.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-240x362.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-375x565.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut-520x783.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29722_Douglas-Iris-qut.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Douglas iris. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Obi Kaufmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaufmann says his book, with its layers of watercolor wash, is trying to spell out that kind of narrative in a visual form.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s geographic literacy,” he says. “We have to know what there is to conserve in order to conserve it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him about the most unexpected thing encountered during his years of walking California. He tells me about an usually quiet moment in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hikelospadres.com/san-rafael-wilderness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Rafael Wilderness\u003c/a> area of Los Padres National Forest when he spotted something bright red and freshly killed in a stream bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked like someone had taken the fur off this baby bear, and removed it like a jacket, in one fell swoop,” he recalls. “There’s only one animal that does that: the mountain lion. That’s why the forest was quiet. The one thing about every single encounter I’ve ever had with a mountain lion is that she is control. You are not control, which is a very humbling experience for a human.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653155\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-800x662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-800x662.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-160x132.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-1020x844.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-1180x977.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-960x795.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-240x199.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-375x310.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS29724_Mountain-Lion-qut-520x430.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain lion. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Obi Kaufmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think the process of writing this book and remembering that experience infuses the whole thing with a different sense of what it means to be in a natural participant in a wild system,” he said. “To let go of this facile need to own it and control it, because you can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kaufmann insists his field guide is not an environmental treatise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are getting so entrenched in their beliefs. I think it’s time to throw away all of what it is to be left, what it is to be right,” he says. “All that old language needs to go away. I don’t even like the word ‘environmentalist.’ I’m trying to figure out some other word, like ‘restorationist.’ Let’s keep what we have here. Let’s restore these habitats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">B\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>y the time we reach the summit of Mount Diablo and take in the breathtaking panorama stretching from the Sierra Nevada to the Farallon Islands, I am starting to see things from Kaufmann’s point of view. The watercolor view of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11653156\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11653156\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-800x1041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1041\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-800x1041.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-160x208.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-1020x1327.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-1920x2498.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-1180x1535.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-960x1249.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-240x312.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-375x488.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/California-Condor-520x677.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California condor. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Obi Kaufmann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re up here in the crow’s nest of California,” says Kaufmann, pointing to the 400-mile-long granite spine of the Sierra Nevada. “It’s sort of breathtaking up here. It’s sort of like mind-breakingly beautiful. I always find when I get up here California makes sense. You can kind of see the whole thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true. On a clear day, you can see across to the Farallones, down to the Tehachapi Mountains, even all the way to Mount Shasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obi Kaufmann’s field atlas renders the state more beautiful by filtering out the urban stuff, so you only see its wildness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Newly obtained reports show that elevated levels of several industrial chemicals were found in air samples taken at the site of a smoky fire at a scrap-metal yard in Richmond late last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/31/smoke-from-scrap-metal-yard-fire-in-richmond-may-have-violated-local-air-standards/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blaze\u003c/a>, Contra Costa County health officials disclosed that high levels of benzene, a chemical known to cause cancer, were recorded near the site of the Jan. 30 fire at Sims Metal Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But reports from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District show several other toxic pollutants, including at least one other human carcinogen, were also detected during the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the air district's lab analysis, significant concentrations of butadiene, acrylonitrile, acetone and toluene were also found at the Sims facility within the first 90 minutes after the fire was reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whenever this happens, lots of bad stuff gets emitted,\" said Qi Zhang, a UC Davis professor of environmental toxicology who reviewed the air district's data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a big concern,\" Zhang said, adding that the report gives only a small snapshot of what was in the air that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting in Richmond last Wednesday, several residents indicated that the smoke made them sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We could smell it in our house,\" said Bruce Kaplan, a Point Richmond resident. \"It irritated my eyes. It's not good to put noxious stuff in the air.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Sims representative said the 20-foot pile that burned for about 11 hours was made up of refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers and office furniture, among other items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sims officials said they do not know what chemicals were in the air the night of fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air agency's lab reports, which analyzed smoke captured within the first two hours of the fire, found \u003ca href=\"https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/benzene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">benzene\u003c/a> levels that peaked at 318 parts per billion. Short-term exposure to the chemical, which is used in paints and gasoline, can cause eye, skin and respiratory tract irritation and, at high levels, unconsciousness -- and, longer term, central nervous system and bone marrow damage, according to the National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lab data showed 111 parts per billion of \u003ca href=\"https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/1_3-butadiene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">butadiene\u003c/a>, an industrial chemical used in making synthetic rubber. Butadiene is also a known carcinogen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhang said \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-08/documents/13-butadiene.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPA data\u003c/a> indicate that the acute or short-term toxicity of butadiene is low. The EPA's hazard summary for the substance says short-term exposure can cause irritation of the eyes, nasal passages, throat and lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district reports also showed peak levels of 81 parts per billion of \u003ca href=\"https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/acrylonitrile#section=Top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acrylonitrile, \u003c/a> a highly toxic compound used in manufacturing plastics, adhesives and synthetic rubber that is \"reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen,\" according to the NIH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-09/documents/acrylonitrile.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPA research\u003c/a> has found the acute toxicity of acrylonitrile -- which can cause mucous membrane irritation, headaches, dizziness and nausea with short-term exposure -- is high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cancer risks associated with inhaling butadiene and acrylonitrile are higher than benzene, according to Zhang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data also show elevated levels of \u003ca href=\"https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/acetone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acetone\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/toluene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toluene\u003c/a>, solvents that are not known carcinogens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A county health department press statement released three days after the Jan. 30 fire noted that the air district and a county hazardous materials response team also measured high particulate readings throughout the night of the fire. The press release notes that smoke particulates can irritate the throat, lungs and eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High benzene and particulate readings came from an air monitor in Point Richmond, the county health department release said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were no other elevated readings of any other chemicals that were analyzed or particulates on any of the other monitors,\" the department said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district's tests included five samples that measured the presence of 22 chemicals, most in low concentrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials, when asked why they didn't include a mention of the other compounds detected by the air district, defended their communication with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The announcement we prepared focused on the levels of benzene because the levels of the other 21 chemicals were either not detected or detected below a level of concern for short-term exposure,\" said Marilyn Underwood, the county's environmental health director, in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The level of benzene detected in three samples collected near the fire and from one community monitor were above a health comparison value developed by the state for short-term (1 hour) exposure,\" Underwood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underwood stressed that the department is uncertain about the long-term risks for those exposed to benzene or other chemicals the night of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the air district issued two notices of violation against Sims, one for public nuisance and another for illegal open burning. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a big concern,\" Zhang said, adding that the report gives only a small snapshot of what was in the air that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting in Richmond last Wednesday, several residents indicated that the smoke made them sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We could smell it in our house,\" said Bruce Kaplan, a Point Richmond resident. \"It irritated my eyes. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Alameda County prosecutors moved to dismiss their own case Thursday morning against an Oakland police officer charged with illegal sex with a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It signals an end to the most serious Alameda County prosecutions of a group of law enforcement officers accused of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexually exploiting\u003c/a> the teenage daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher. The case spanned six Bay Area jurisdictions, spawned a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major upheaval\u003c/a> in leadership of the Oakland Police Department and led to the filing of half a dozen lawsuits, most of which are still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I had the utmost confidence that this would be the result. Unfortunately, it took a year and a half to get here. I am happy. I look forward to getting back and serving the people of Oakland.'\u003ccite>Giovanni LoVerde,\u003cbr>\nOakland police officer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The latest move to drop charges against OPD Officer Giovanni LoVerde follows Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jon Rolefson's recent dismissal of related charges against two former law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutor Sabrina Farrell said in court that the charges against LoVerde -- felony oral copulation with a minor -- had facts similar to the case against former Contra Costa sheriff's Deputy Ricardo Perez, which Rolefson dismissed Wednesday. The judge ruled prosecutors failed to prove Perez should have known the teen who went by the name Celeste Guap was underage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Wednesday’s ruling on the 995 motion in the case against Ricardo Perez, the judge articulated his analysis of the law,\" Assistant District Attorney Teresa Drenick, who serves as the DA's spokeswoman, wrote in an emailed response to a request for comment. She added that the office disagrees with Rolefson's rulings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There exists a conflict in the law interpreting the criminal statutes that govern the crimes charged, and we have determined that we will seek an appellate remedy,\" Drenick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LoVerde, who was accused of having oral sex with now 20-year-old Jasmine Abuslin in an apartment entryway near Lake Merritt when she was 17, said after the hearing that the dismissal was \"long overdue.\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"UJtSNfWcyeFz6DiGwyHVfxIufMS3lD4T\"]\u003cbr>\n\"I had the utmost confidence that this would be the result,\" he said. \"Unfortunately, it took a year and a half to get here. I am happy. I look forward to getting back and serving the people of Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LoVerde said he's been on leave since he was charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His defense attorneys cast LoVerde as the victim of a case driven by a salacious scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you google his name, all this information comes up,\" attorney Jyoti Rekhi said. \"The allegations were unfounded and that should have been properly processed before a case was filed, and a case shouldn’t have been filed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Michael Cardoza said Oakland \"really should be ashamed\" for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/01/teen-tied-to-sexual-misconduct-case-relieved-by-oakland-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paying $989,000\u003c/a> to settle a civil claim brought on behalf of Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was working the streets,\" he said. \"It was her choice. We understand that at one time she was underage when she started, but her mother was a dispatcher for the Oakland Police Department. You mean to tell me the mother didn’t know what was going on in this situation?\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"dWZg1oWB7DEep22veT4dWAsSgmlajJtr\"]\u003cbr>\nSimilar lawsuits are pending against Contra Costa and Alameda counties, as well as Richmond, San Francisco and Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's testimony at preliminary hearings for former Oakland police Officer Brian \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/05/18/teen-at-center-of-cop-sex-scandal-to-testify-in-court/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bunton\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/29/former-contra-costa-sheriffs-deputy-to-stand-trial-in-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perez\u003c/a> was both graphic and grueling, with Abuslin describing various sexually explicit electronic messages swapped with the peace officers. In Perez's case, the former deputy repeatedly coaxed her to send naked pictures of herself, and he repeatedly sent her photos of his penis, according to Abuslin's testimony that referenced the messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her civil attorney, John Burris, said Wednesday that repeating that experience was taking a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It causes her to have a loss of faith, if you will, in the judicial system and really raises question in her own mind as to whether or not it’s worth it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors made their decision to scrap the charges before a preliminary hearing for LoVerde with that in mind, according to the district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are always mindful of how difficult it has been for the victim in these matters to testify in open court about her exploitation, and we made today’s decision in close consultation with her,\" Drenick wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is one criminal prosecution related to Abuslin remaining. Former OPD Officer Terryl Smith is charged with five misdemeanors for illegally accessing and furnishing confidential law enforcement records. The case is scheduled to go to trial early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 7:10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> An Alameda County Superior Court judge has dismissed criminal charges against a second defendant in a widespread law enforcement \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual exploitation case\u003c/a> involving dozens of Bay Area peace officers and the teenage daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors had \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/09/former-contra-costa-deputy-charged-with-sex-with-a-minor-in-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged\u003c/a> former Contra Costa County sheriff's Deputy Ricardo Perez with felony sex with a minor and two misdemeanor counts of lewd acts in a public place. The charges were based on a series of encounters between Perez and the now 20-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, also known as Celeste Guap, in the summer of 2015, when she was 17 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Judge Jon Rolefson ruled from the bench Wednesday that the prosecution had not met its burden to prove Perez was guilty of either charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s nothing in this set of facts that he knew or should have known [Abuslin's age],\" Rolefson said in court. \"The burden is on the prosecution to disprove that lack of knowledge. They did not do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the lewd conduct in a public place, Rolefson found prosecutors failed to prove a likelihood that anyone who could be offended would be at the dark spot off rural Fish Ranch Road in Alameda County, where Perez allegedly drove Abuslin to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s no reasonable expectation that someone would be present to see it and be offended,\" Rolefson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez's defense attorney, Joe Motta, said his client couldn't talk about the case because he's still a defendant in one of five lawsuits brought by Abuslin against Contra Costa County, Alameda County, San Francisco, Richmond and Livermore. Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/01/teen-tied-to-sexual-misconduct-case-relieved-by-oakland-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled\u003c/a> Abuslin's claim for $989,000 in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/29/former-contra-costa-sheriffs-deputy-to-stand-trial-in-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimony at a preliminary hearing\u003c/a> in the case against Perez described their initial contact on Facebook that quickly turned to sexually graphic messaging and swapping explicit naked photos. Perez sent several photographs of his naked penis to Abuslin between July 2015 and April 2016, according to the testimony and exhibits at the preliminary hearing. Abuslin, though sometimes she protested, sent several naked, sexually explicit photographs of herself to the former deputy, sometimes while he appeared to be on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Perez did nothing to exploit this young woman,\" Motta said. Abuslin appears to have been sexually trafficked since she was 12 years old, he said, but the prosecution didn't investigate her earlier life and what led her to cultivate relationships with so many law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By the time she was 17 or 18, she’s been a one-woman wrecking ball,\" Motta said. \"She’s destroyed lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dismissal of charges against Perez comes less than a month after Rolefson \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/13/charges-dismissed-for-ex-oakland-officer-in-police-sex-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tossed out charges\u003c/a> against former Oakland police Officer Brian Bunton for allegedly trading information on prostitution stings for sex with Abuslin, who was over 18 and working in the sex trade at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fizzling criminal prosecutions are in contrast to the major scandal that inspired them and precipitated a succession of police chief \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resignations\u003c/a> in Oakland last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County District Attorney's Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the dismissal Wednesday of charges against Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman called the dismissal of charges against Bunton in September \"disappointing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We firmly stand behind the criminal charges that we filed and wholeheartedly believe that the evidence supports the charges,\" the office said in a statement last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stanford Law School Professor Robert Weisberg said there's a difference between a major scandal in the news and criminal charges before a judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it is a highly morally fraught case, as these are, and the allegations -- even if they’re just allegations -- are very, very stigmatizing, then the case is going to look worse for the defendants at the very start because it’s all a big part of this scandal,\" Weisberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the cases proceed through the criminal system, they separate from each other and from the larger scandal, allowing defense attorneys to focus on the weaknesses of charges against individual officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It turns out that the evidence is much more equivocal once you have lawyers homing in on the specific allegations against the specific individual, and you really stick to the facts about that particular individual rather than some general sense that he is part of some wider scandal or scheme,\" Weisberg said. \"The cases look weaker when they’re looked at with great scrutiny on an individual basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's possible, Weisberg said, that pending civil claims will fare better than the criminal charges, due in part to a lower standard of proof in civil cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney John Burris, who represents Abuslin in those cases, agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The civil case is one place that you can get stuff done,\" he said. \"You don’t have the similar constraints that you have in criminal cases that I think prevents jurors and judges from really objectively evaluating police officers’ conduct if it can result in jail or prison terms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Abuslin's hours-long testimony in preliminary hearings concerning Bunton and Perez was difficult for her, and she's considering whether it's worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s very, very painful for her to put herself out like that and offer testimony and then to have it sort of rejected, if you will, later,\" Burris said. \"It’s been an eye-opener for her and certainly raises questions about whether she should go forward in any of these further criminal cases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's expected to repeat that process in Alameda County Superior Court Thursday morning, when Oakland police Officer Giovanni LoVerde is scheduled for a preliminary hearing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There exists a conflict in the law interpreting the criminal statutes that govern the crimes charged, and we have determined that we will seek an appellate remedy,\" Drenick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LoVerde, who was accused of having oral sex with now 20-year-old Jasmine Abuslin in an apartment entryway near Lake Merritt when she was 17, said after the hearing that the dismissal was \"long overdue.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\"I had the utmost confidence that this would be the result,\" he said. \"Unfortunately, it took a year and a half to get here. I am happy. I look forward to getting back and serving the people of Oakland.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LoVerde said he's been on leave since he was charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His defense attorneys cast LoVerde as the victim of a case driven by a salacious scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you google his name, all this information comes up,\" attorney Jyoti Rekhi said. \"The allegations were unfounded and that should have been properly processed before a case was filed, and a case shouldn’t have been filed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Michael Cardoza said Oakland \"really should be ashamed\" for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/01/teen-tied-to-sexual-misconduct-case-relieved-by-oakland-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paying $989,000\u003c/a> to settle a civil claim brought on behalf of Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She was working the streets,\" he said. \"It was her choice. We understand that at one time she was underage when she started, but her mother was a dispatcher for the Oakland Police Department. You mean to tell me the mother didn’t know what was going on in this situation?\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nSimilar lawsuits are pending against Contra Costa and Alameda counties, as well as Richmond, San Francisco and Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's testimony at preliminary hearings for former Oakland police Officer Brian \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/05/18/teen-at-center-of-cop-sex-scandal-to-testify-in-court/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bunton\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/29/former-contra-costa-sheriffs-deputy-to-stand-trial-in-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perez\u003c/a> was both graphic and grueling, with Abuslin describing various sexually explicit electronic messages swapped with the peace officers. In Perez's case, the former deputy repeatedly coaxed her to send naked pictures of herself, and he repeatedly sent her photos of his penis, according to Abuslin's testimony that referenced the messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her civil attorney, John Burris, said Wednesday that repeating that experience was taking a toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It causes her to have a loss of faith, if you will, in the judicial system and really raises question in her own mind as to whether or not it’s worth it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors made their decision to scrap the charges before a preliminary hearing for LoVerde with that in mind, according to the district attorney's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are always mindful of how difficult it has been for the victim in these matters to testify in open court about her exploitation, and we made today’s decision in close consultation with her,\" Drenick wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is one criminal prosecution related to Abuslin remaining. Former OPD Officer Terryl Smith is charged with five misdemeanors for illegally accessing and furnishing confidential law enforcement records. The case is scheduled to go to trial early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 7:10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> An Alameda County Superior Court judge has dismissed criminal charges against a second defendant in a widespread law enforcement \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/police-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual exploitation case\u003c/a> involving dozens of Bay Area peace officers and the teenage daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors had \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/09/former-contra-costa-deputy-charged-with-sex-with-a-minor-in-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged\u003c/a> former Contra Costa County sheriff's Deputy Ricardo Perez with felony sex with a minor and two misdemeanor counts of lewd acts in a public place. The charges were based on a series of encounters between Perez and the now 20-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, also known as Celeste Guap, in the summer of 2015, when she was 17 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Judge Jon Rolefson ruled from the bench Wednesday that the prosecution had not met its burden to prove Perez was guilty of either charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s nothing in this set of facts that he knew or should have known [Abuslin's age],\" Rolefson said in court. \"The burden is on the prosecution to disprove that lack of knowledge. They did not do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the lewd conduct in a public place, Rolefson found prosecutors failed to prove a likelihood that anyone who could be offended would be at the dark spot off rural Fish Ranch Road in Alameda County, where Perez allegedly drove Abuslin to have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s no reasonable expectation that someone would be present to see it and be offended,\" Rolefson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez's defense attorney, Joe Motta, said his client couldn't talk about the case because he's still a defendant in one of five lawsuits brought by Abuslin against Contra Costa County, Alameda County, San Francisco, Richmond and Livermore. Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/01/teen-tied-to-sexual-misconduct-case-relieved-by-oakland-settlement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled\u003c/a> Abuslin's claim for $989,000 in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/29/former-contra-costa-sheriffs-deputy-to-stand-trial-in-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimony at a preliminary hearing\u003c/a> in the case against Perez described their initial contact on Facebook that quickly turned to sexually graphic messaging and swapping explicit naked photos. Perez sent several photographs of his naked penis to Abuslin between July 2015 and April 2016, according to the testimony and exhibits at the preliminary hearing. Abuslin, though sometimes she protested, sent several naked, sexually explicit photographs of herself to the former deputy, sometimes while he appeared to be on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Perez did nothing to exploit this young woman,\" Motta said. 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