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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. 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. 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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. 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": "\u003cp>Contra Costa County supervisors appointed retired Superior Court Judge Diana Becton as the county’s interim district attorney. Becton, who has served on the bench for 21 years, will be the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/12/contra-costa-supervisors-da-selection-would-be-first-african-american-woman-in-office-history/\" target=\"_blank\">first woman and the first African-American\u003c/a> to hold the office of Contra Costa County DA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton will fill the seat left by Mark Peterson in June. State prosecutors \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-contra-costa-da-charged-20170614-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">charged\u003c/a> Peterson with using campaign contributions as a personal slush fund and then lying about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton has promised she will work to restore public trust in the DA's office. She said her goals as a prosecutor include reducing racial disparities in sentencing, bail reform and restoring community-police relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Board of Supervisors’ meeting Tuesday, dozens of criminal justice advocates and community members spoke in support of Becton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am one of the individuals who was part of the problem,” said formerly incarcerated Richmond resident Antoine Cloird. “I changed my life about 14 years ago, and I just got my stuff expunged because of Diane [sic] Becton, because someone reached out to our community and saw the need for those who are really about change can get a second chance at a first-class life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Becton also faced opposition to her appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston called for supervisors to disqualify the judge and another applicant, Assistant District Attorney Tom Kensok over \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/18/unattributed-responses-from-contra-costa-county-district-attorney-candidates-spark-concern/\" target=\"_blank\">unattributed responses\u003c/a> on their applications for the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any applicant to the county who conducted themselves that way would be removed from the process of selection,” Livingston said. “Certainly a deputy sheriff would be removed. So I urge you, look at the remaining three candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unattributed responses came to light when anonymous packages targeting Becton’s application were delivered to their offices back in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I should have used quotation marks when I used the words of other people,” Becton said, “and what I want to tell you is that I own that mistake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she urged supervisors to focus on the core issues of criminal justice reform and racial equality that she was trying to highlight in those passages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton also said she would take into consideration a person’s immigration status when making charging decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to use our discretion and give wide latitude when negotiating plea deals when we know that there are immigration consequences,” Becton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton starts as interim DA on Monday. She will hold the office until voters elect a new DA in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two out of five front-runner applicants for the job of top prosecutor in Contra Costa County pulled quotes from other sources without attribution in their applications for district attorney, KQED has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Diana Becton pulled large sections of responses on her application from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/opinion/kamala-harris-and-rand-paul-lets-reform-bail.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times op-ed\u003c/a> on bail reform written by Kamala Harris and Rand Paul, Martin Luther King's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Have a Dream\u003c/a>\" speech, research papers and the websites of neighboring district attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant District Attorney Tom Kensok pulled paragraphs from a \u003ca href=\"https://hbr.org/1994/03/managing-for-organizational-integrity\">Harvard Business Review\u003c/a> article and implementation guides for mental health programs and violence reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are five finalists vying to fill the seat vacated by Mark Peterson in June. Peterson \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/06/14/contra-costa-da-due-in-court-wednesday-afternoon/\">resigned\u003c/a> as part of a felony plea deal with state prosecutors, who charged him with perjury and grand theft in connection with misuse of campaign contributions.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"LKxugg5bbnLL0a5iXk3UOZ6KVIu19FvP\"]\u003cbr>\nContra Costa County supervisors are tasked with selecting an interim district attorney to fill the seat until voters elect a new top prosecutor in June 2018. The five finalists for the position participated in a candidates' forum on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Supervisor Diane Burgis of Oakley received an anonymous package at her office listing seven sources that Becton quotes in her application without attribution. Several other county leaders also received similar anonymous packages. Burgis said she and her staff double-checked the copied passages in Becton's application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears that it's true,\" Burgis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anonymous sender solely targeted Becton and made no mention of passages copied without attribution from Kensok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no idea who they are or their motivation,\" Becton wrote to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgis said she is \"very disappointed.\" She considers this an important opportunity to recruit someone who can help restore confidence and integrity to an office that \"has been having a lot of challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I would hope that all of the applicants would approach this whole process in that spirit,” she said. “And to, you know, plagiarize right off the bat is not a good tell.”\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"jUiJEQp9XQ80qA7gXu1OiZeTDhqMg1dw\"]\u003cbr>\nBecton is president of the National Association of Women Judges and has been a judge in Contra Costa County for two decades. In an email, the judge said she had no intention of passing the words off as her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I borrowed liberally from criminologist and scholars as well as elected leaders and compiled them into summaries,\" Becton wrote. \"Although there are quotes contained in my questionnaire responses, I did not always have nor record source information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear from Becton's application that she is quoting the material, however. It is neither attributed nor surrounded by quotation marks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton wrote that her intent was to include the best thinkers and ideas on criminal justice issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgis said using other people’s words without attribution isn’t the norm professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's very intelligent,\" Burgis said. \"She's articulate. So, you know, it's concerning that she couldn't put what she wanted into her application without having to borrow it from other people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgis said she is still keeping an open mind about Becton. When Burgis spoke to KQED she had not yet had a chance to speak to the judge. The supervisor said her staff is checking the other applications for unattributed quotes as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Supervisor Candace Andersen of Danville said she has great respect for Becton and her tremendous work, but that she was \"disquieted\" by the unattributed passages in the judge's application. Andersen didn't want to comment further until she speaks with the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton wrote in an email that no supervisors had contacted her as of midday Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning of the unattributed passages in Becton's application, KQED analyzed the four other finalists' writings and found passages in Kensok's application that were also unattributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I failed to attribute sources for some sections of my application,\" Kensok wrote in an email to KQED. \"This was not done with any intent to deceive. With the Harvard Business Review Article, it was an oversight. I did not realize I had not gone back and rephrased those sentences. Thus, I neglected to place them in quotation marks. Regardless of reworking the sentences, I should have mentioned the author of the article. I believe it would have lent more authority to the plan.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior Contra Costa County Deputy District Attorney Paul Graves, who is also applying for the job, wrote in an email: \"If it's true, it's disappointing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a former prosecutor, I know that in order to keep our communities safe, citizens must trust that those in law enforcement are acting with honesty and integrity,\" applicant Judge Danielle Douglas wrote to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other finalist for the position, Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Vanier, did not immediately respond to request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Gioia said he will not comment on either Kensok's or Becton's use of unattributed sources. He said he is focused on preparing tough questions to ask each of the applicants when they are scheduled appear before the Board of Supervisors next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is Kensok's response to KQED:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I failed to attribute sources for some sections of my application. This was not done with any intent to deceive. With the Harvard Business Review Article, it was an oversight. I did not realize I had not gone back and rephrased those sentences. Thus, I neglected to place them in quotation marks. Regardless of reworking the sentences, I should have mentioned the author of the article. I believe it would have lent more authority to the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other cut and paste sections came from implementation guides for mental health programs and violence reduction. These are evidence based models being implemented in other jurisdictions and it would be my plan to follow them here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are using the Group Violence Intervention manual in Ceasefire, while the Stepping Up Initiative and County Roles and Opportunities in Reducing Mental Illness Documents are already in use in the county. These documents outline things already at work in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Roles and Opportunities in Reducing Mental Illness in Jails was produced by the National Association of Counties, while the Stepping Up Initiative is linked on the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) website. I did not mean to portray any of these things as original ideas and do not believe the Board of Supervisors was misled into believing I was supplying original content. Nonetheless, I should have supplied the citations. I am happy to discuss the sources for all the ideas expressed in my application.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here is Becton's response to KQED:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In preparation for the forum I did a significant amount of research on issues related to the problems in our criminal justice system, with an emphasis related to the problems in our criminal justice system, and reform. In the crunch, information was gathered from countless sources. I borrowed liberally from criminologist and scholars as well as elected leaders and compiled them into summaries. Although there are quotes contained in my questionnaire responses, I did not always have nor record source information. Even though the questionnaire responses were not written in the same manner, or with the same rigor that I would use when submitting an academic paper, I tried to bring the brightest thinkers and the best ideas to the discussion. The ideas are not new or based upon my original thought, and I do not attempt to pass them off as my own. Although I am in agreement with the thinking, my only intent was to highlight issues we face, such as bail reform, and other inequities that exist in our criminal justice system. I certainly do not take credit for the ideas, but I am a proponent of information that is advanced by the ideas.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here are a number of passages KQED identified from Kensok's application that are pulled from other sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"https://hbr.org/1994/03/managing-for-organizational-integrity\">Harvard Business Review\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The once familiar picture of ethics as individualistic, unchanging, and impervious to organizational influences has not stood up to scrutiny. An integrity-based approach to ethics management combines concern for the law with an emphasis on managerial responsibility for ethical behavior. This strategy can help prevent damaging ethical lapses, while tapping into powerful human impulses for moral thought and action.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From a Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://ric-zai-inc.com/Publications/cops-p280-pub.pdf\">group violence intervention guide\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Protecting the most vulnerable people starts with understanding who they are and how they’re connected. Evidence and experience show that a small number of people in street groups—gangs, drug crews, and the like—drive the majority of violence in troubled neighborhoods. Group members typically constitute less than 0.5 percent of a city’s population, but they are consistently linked to 60 to 70 percent of the shootings and homicides. The internal dynamics of the groups and the honor code of the street drive violence between those groups and individuals.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From a National Association of Counties' \u003ca href=\"http://www.naco.org/sites/default/files/documents/SJC-Mental%20Illness-Final.pdf\">guide for dealing with mental illness\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We need to develop pre-arrest and pre-booking diversion alternatives to help reduce the number of mentally ill people entering jails in the first place, and connecting them to treatment and other resources when they do encounter the justice system. This means partnering with community-based organizations and advocacy groups to provide Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training to law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behavioral health departments and providers are partnering with law enforcement agencies to staff mental health coresponders or jail mental health coordinators to help divert people from jails and connect them to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding is always difficult, but it can come from diverse and often blended sources. Enrolling individuals into health coverage and connecting them with care is crucial. Many counties are enrolling individuals with mental illnesses into Medicaid or other health care coverage whenever possible. Particularly in states that have expanded Medicaid, many justice-involved individuals with mental illnesses will qualify for coverage. Medicaid coverage can connect individuals to the care they need once they are in the community and can help lower health care costs by decreasing hospitalizations and emergency room visits. It can also decrease recidivism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, for example, a study found that individuals who received treatment for behavioral health disorders after release from the county jail spent an average of 51.74 fewer days in jail per year than those who did not receive treatment. Data collection is important for analyzing both point-in-time data as well as to track progress on any reform efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, using a validated mental health screening tool at booking, and including the results in a format that allows them to be analyzed later in an electronic case management system, will help identify and count the number of people with mental illnesses coming into jail. Without knowing this basic baseline information about the population, it can be difficult to help pinpoint the source of the problem. Collecting and analyzing this data over time will help to show progress – or lack thereof – with initiative activities.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here are a number of passages KQED identified from Becton's application that are pulled from other sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Martin Luther King's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm\">I Have a Dream\u003c/a>\" speech:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note, to which every one of us falls heir.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/opinion/kamala-harris-and-rand-paul-lets-reform-bail.html\">New York Times op-ed:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Our justice system was designed with a promise: to treat all people equally.\u003cbr>\n...\u003cbr>\nYet that doesn’t happen for many of the 450,000 Americans who sit in jail today awaiting trial because they cannot afford to pay bail. Whether someone stays in jail or not is far too often determined by wealth or social connections, even though just a few days behind bars can cost people their job, home, or custody of their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People awaiting trial account for 95 percent of the growth in the jail population from 2000 to 2014, and it costs roughly $38 million every day to imprison these largely nonviolent defendants. That’s about $14 million dollars per year.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From Toptenz.net \u003ca href=\"http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-worst-aspects-of-the-american-justice-system.php\">The Top 10 Worst Aspects of the Criminal justice System\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In 2006, the bipartisan Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons, found that 52% of former prisoners were re-convicted. ... While prison can be used to punish criminals and isolate them from society, it is also important to purse strategies that are proven to reduce recidivism because these strategies improve public safety. In recent years, programs focused on rehabilitation have proven a success in several states.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From The Juvenile Justice Exchange, \u003ca href=\"http://jjie.org/2015/04/24/rethinking-juvenile-detention-pew-report-points-to-better-outcomes-with-fewer-lockups/\">\"Re-thinking Juvenile Detention: Better Outcomes with Fewer Lockups\"\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>With the annual cost of keeping a teen in juvenile detention topping $100,000 in many states, there is an increased focus on community-based programs for youths who commit less serious crimes. The states that have pursued alternatives to lockup are seeing fewer repeat offenders and are saving money, according to a new analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From the San Francisco District Attorney's Advisory Group \u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/district-attorney-advisory-groups\">webpage\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Preventing crime involves working with the community to create meaningful partnerships to improve public safety. We are safer together when community members and law enforcement work together to identify public safety issues and solutions.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From a Harvard \u003ca href=\"https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/criminaljustice-backup/publications/da_cp_ag.pdf\">working paper\u003c/a> on community prosecution:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Around the country, prosecutors and their offices are adopting a community-oriented strategies to bring about confidence in the District Attorney’s Office – one that focuses the attention and efforts of prosecutors not only on processing cases presented to them by police, but on quality of life, crime prevention, problem solving, building partnerships with citizens in the community, and incorporating the priorities of citizens into their mission and operations.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/da/prosecution/DistrictAttorneyDepartments/Pages/The-Unit.aspx\">webpage \u003c/a>on Neighborhood Crime Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Neighborhood Crime Prevention is another model to consider, where Community Prosecutors are assigned to a particular community to build a technical team of law enforcement and government partners, to work together with the community to improve public safety and coordinate with local government and community based organizations in the effort. A Community Prosecutor can also be assigned to work on Truancy Abatement in their area of the county.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Becton's application below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3934678-Application-and-Questionaire-for-Contra-Costa\" notes=\"true\" text=\"true\" search=\"true\" sidebar=\"true\" pdf=\"true\" responsive=\"true\" page=\"1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Kensok's application below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3935055-Application-and-Questionaire-for-Contra-Costa\" notes=\"true\" text=\"true\" search=\"true\" sidebar=\"true\" pdf=\"true\" responsive=\"true\" page=\"1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Applications for all candidates for Contra Costa County district attorney are available \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracosta.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/46646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two out of five front-runner applicants for the job of top prosecutor in Contra Costa County pulled quotes from other sources without attribution in their applications for district attorney, KQED has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Diana Becton pulled large sections of responses on her application from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/opinion/kamala-harris-and-rand-paul-lets-reform-bail.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times op-ed\u003c/a> on bail reform written by Kamala Harris and Rand Paul, Martin Luther King's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Have a Dream\u003c/a>\" speech, research papers and the websites of neighboring district attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant District Attorney Tom Kensok pulled paragraphs from a \u003ca href=\"https://hbr.org/1994/03/managing-for-organizational-integrity\">Harvard Business Review\u003c/a> article and implementation guides for mental health programs and violence reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are five finalists vying to fill the seat vacated by Mark Peterson in June. Peterson \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/06/14/contra-costa-da-due-in-court-wednesday-afternoon/\">resigned\u003c/a> as part of a felony plea deal with state prosecutors, who charged him with perjury and grand theft in connection with misuse of campaign contributions.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nContra Costa County supervisors are tasked with selecting an interim district attorney to fill the seat until voters elect a new top prosecutor in June 2018. The five finalists for the position participated in a candidates' forum on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Supervisor Diane Burgis of Oakley received an anonymous package at her office listing seven sources that Becton quotes in her application without attribution. Several other county leaders also received similar anonymous packages. Burgis said she and her staff double-checked the copied passages in Becton's application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears that it's true,\" Burgis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anonymous sender solely targeted Becton and made no mention of passages copied without attribution from Kensok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no idea who they are or their motivation,\" Becton wrote to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgis said she is \"very disappointed.\" She considers this an important opportunity to recruit someone who can help restore confidence and integrity to an office that \"has been having a lot of challenges.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I would hope that all of the applicants would approach this whole process in that spirit,” she said. “And to, you know, plagiarize right off the bat is not a good tell.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nBecton is president of the National Association of Women Judges and has been a judge in Contra Costa County for two decades. In an email, the judge said she had no intention of passing the words off as her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I borrowed liberally from criminologist and scholars as well as elected leaders and compiled them into summaries,\" Becton wrote. \"Although there are quotes contained in my questionnaire responses, I did not always have nor record source information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear from Becton's application that she is quoting the material, however. It is neither attributed nor surrounded by quotation marks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton wrote that her intent was to include the best thinkers and ideas on criminal justice issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgis said using other people’s words without attribution isn’t the norm professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's very intelligent,\" Burgis said. \"She's articulate. So, you know, it's concerning that she couldn't put what she wanted into her application without having to borrow it from other people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burgis said she is still keeping an open mind about Becton. When Burgis spoke to KQED she had not yet had a chance to speak to the judge. The supervisor said her staff is checking the other applications for unattributed quotes as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County Supervisor Candace Andersen of Danville said she has great respect for Becton and her tremendous work, but that she was \"disquieted\" by the unattributed passages in the judge's application. Andersen didn't want to comment further until she speaks with the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton wrote in an email that no supervisors had contacted her as of midday Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning of the unattributed passages in Becton's application, KQED analyzed the four other finalists' writings and found passages in Kensok's application that were also unattributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I failed to attribute sources for some sections of my application,\" Kensok wrote in an email to KQED. \"This was not done with any intent to deceive. With the Harvard Business Review Article, it was an oversight. I did not realize I had not gone back and rephrased those sentences. Thus, I neglected to place them in quotation marks. Regardless of reworking the sentences, I should have mentioned the author of the article. I believe it would have lent more authority to the plan.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior Contra Costa County Deputy District Attorney Paul Graves, who is also applying for the job, wrote in an email: \"If it's true, it's disappointing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a former prosecutor, I know that in order to keep our communities safe, citizens must trust that those in law enforcement are acting with honesty and integrity,\" applicant Judge Danielle Douglas wrote to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other finalist for the position, Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Vanier, did not immediately respond to request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Gioia said he will not comment on either Kensok's or Becton's use of unattributed sources. He said he is focused on preparing tough questions to ask each of the applicants when they are scheduled appear before the Board of Supervisors next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is Kensok's response to KQED:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I failed to attribute sources for some sections of my application. This was not done with any intent to deceive. With the Harvard Business Review Article, it was an oversight. I did not realize I had not gone back and rephrased those sentences. Thus, I neglected to place them in quotation marks. Regardless of reworking the sentences, I should have mentioned the author of the article. I believe it would have lent more authority to the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other cut and paste sections came from implementation guides for mental health programs and violence reduction. These are evidence based models being implemented in other jurisdictions and it would be my plan to follow them here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are using the Group Violence Intervention manual in Ceasefire, while the Stepping Up Initiative and County Roles and Opportunities in Reducing Mental Illness Documents are already in use in the county. These documents outline things already at work in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Roles and Opportunities in Reducing Mental Illness in Jails was produced by the National Association of Counties, while the Stepping Up Initiative is linked on the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) website. I did not mean to portray any of these things as original ideas and do not believe the Board of Supervisors was misled into believing I was supplying original content. Nonetheless, I should have supplied the citations. I am happy to discuss the sources for all the ideas expressed in my application.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here is Becton's response to KQED:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In preparation for the forum I did a significant amount of research on issues related to the problems in our criminal justice system, with an emphasis related to the problems in our criminal justice system, and reform. In the crunch, information was gathered from countless sources. I borrowed liberally from criminologist and scholars as well as elected leaders and compiled them into summaries. Although there are quotes contained in my questionnaire responses, I did not always have nor record source information. Even though the questionnaire responses were not written in the same manner, or with the same rigor that I would use when submitting an academic paper, I tried to bring the brightest thinkers and the best ideas to the discussion. The ideas are not new or based upon my original thought, and I do not attempt to pass them off as my own. Although I am in agreement with the thinking, my only intent was to highlight issues we face, such as bail reform, and other inequities that exist in our criminal justice system. I certainly do not take credit for the ideas, but I am a proponent of information that is advanced by the ideas.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here are a number of passages KQED identified from Kensok's application that are pulled from other sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"https://hbr.org/1994/03/managing-for-organizational-integrity\">Harvard Business Review\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The once familiar picture of ethics as individualistic, unchanging, and impervious to organizational influences has not stood up to scrutiny. An integrity-based approach to ethics management combines concern for the law with an emphasis on managerial responsibility for ethical behavior. This strategy can help prevent damaging ethical lapses, while tapping into powerful human impulses for moral thought and action.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From a Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://ric-zai-inc.com/Publications/cops-p280-pub.pdf\">group violence intervention guide\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Protecting the most vulnerable people starts with understanding who they are and how they’re connected. Evidence and experience show that a small number of people in street groups—gangs, drug crews, and the like—drive the majority of violence in troubled neighborhoods. Group members typically constitute less than 0.5 percent of a city’s population, but they are consistently linked to 60 to 70 percent of the shootings and homicides. The internal dynamics of the groups and the honor code of the street drive violence between those groups and individuals.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From a National Association of Counties' \u003ca href=\"http://www.naco.org/sites/default/files/documents/SJC-Mental%20Illness-Final.pdf\">guide for dealing with mental illness\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We need to develop pre-arrest and pre-booking diversion alternatives to help reduce the number of mentally ill people entering jails in the first place, and connecting them to treatment and other resources when they do encounter the justice system. This means partnering with community-based organizations and advocacy groups to provide Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training to law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behavioral health departments and providers are partnering with law enforcement agencies to staff mental health coresponders or jail mental health coordinators to help divert people from jails and connect them to treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding is always difficult, but it can come from diverse and often blended sources. Enrolling individuals into health coverage and connecting them with care is crucial. Many counties are enrolling individuals with mental illnesses into Medicaid or other health care coverage whenever possible. Particularly in states that have expanded Medicaid, many justice-involved individuals with mental illnesses will qualify for coverage. Medicaid coverage can connect individuals to the care they need once they are in the community and can help lower health care costs by decreasing hospitalizations and emergency room visits. It can also decrease recidivism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, for example, a study found that individuals who received treatment for behavioral health disorders after release from the county jail spent an average of 51.74 fewer days in jail per year than those who did not receive treatment. Data collection is important for analyzing both point-in-time data as well as to track progress on any reform efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, using a validated mental health screening tool at booking, and including the results in a format that allows them to be analyzed later in an electronic case management system, will help identify and count the number of people with mental illnesses coming into jail. Without knowing this basic baseline information about the population, it can be difficult to help pinpoint the source of the problem. Collecting and analyzing this data over time will help to show progress – or lack thereof – with initiative activities.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here are a number of passages KQED identified from Becton's application that are pulled from other sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Martin Luther King's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm\">I Have a Dream\u003c/a>\" speech:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note, to which every one of us falls heir.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/opinion/kamala-harris-and-rand-paul-lets-reform-bail.html\">New York Times op-ed:\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Our justice system was designed with a promise: to treat all people equally.\u003cbr>\n...\u003cbr>\nYet that doesn’t happen for many of the 450,000 Americans who sit in jail today awaiting trial because they cannot afford to pay bail. Whether someone stays in jail or not is far too often determined by wealth or social connections, even though just a few days behind bars can cost people their job, home, or custody of their children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People awaiting trial account for 95 percent of the growth in the jail population from 2000 to 2014, and it costs roughly $38 million every day to imprison these largely nonviolent defendants. That’s about $14 million dollars per year.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From Toptenz.net \u003ca href=\"http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-worst-aspects-of-the-american-justice-system.php\">The Top 10 Worst Aspects of the Criminal justice System\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In 2006, the bipartisan Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons, found that 52% of former prisoners were re-convicted. ... While prison can be used to punish criminals and isolate them from society, it is also important to purse strategies that are proven to reduce recidivism because these strategies improve public safety. In recent years, programs focused on rehabilitation have proven a success in several states.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From The Juvenile Justice Exchange, \u003ca href=\"http://jjie.org/2015/04/24/rethinking-juvenile-detention-pew-report-points-to-better-outcomes-with-fewer-lockups/\">\"Re-thinking Juvenile Detention: Better Outcomes with Fewer Lockups\"\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>With the annual cost of keeping a teen in juvenile detention topping $100,000 in many states, there is an increased focus on community-based programs for youths who commit less serious crimes. The states that have pursued alternatives to lockup are seeing fewer repeat offenders and are saving money, according to a new analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From the San Francisco District Attorney's Advisory Group \u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/district-attorney-advisory-groups\">webpage\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Preventing crime involves working with the community to create meaningful partnerships to improve public safety. We are safer together when community members and law enforcement work together to identify public safety issues and solutions.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From a Harvard \u003ca href=\"https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/criminaljustice-backup/publications/da_cp_ag.pdf\">working paper\u003c/a> on community prosecution:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Around the country, prosecutors and their offices are adopting a community-oriented strategies to bring about confidence in the District Attorney’s Office – one that focuses the attention and efforts of prosecutors not only on processing cases presented to them by police, but on quality of life, crime prevention, problem solving, building partnerships with citizens in the community, and incorporating the priorities of citizens into their mission and operations.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/da/prosecution/DistrictAttorneyDepartments/Pages/The-Unit.aspx\">webpage \u003c/a>on Neighborhood Crime Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Neighborhood Crime Prevention is another model to consider, where Community Prosecutors are assigned to a particular community to build a technical team of law enforcement and government partners, to work together with the community to improve public safety and coordinate with local government and community based organizations in the effort. A Community Prosecutor can also be assigned to work on Truancy Abatement in their area of the county.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read Becton's application below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For decades Contra Costa County has worked with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold immigrant detainees in a county jail in Richmond. But now new legislation could change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county currently leases beds at its West County Jail to ICE to detain undocumented immigrants under a contract that funnels about $6 million to the county, according to Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a state bill making its way through the California Legislature, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/13/california-debates-whether-to-become-a-sanctuary-state/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 54\u003c/a>, would end all ICE contracts and bar local law enforcement from communicating and cooperating with federal immigration authorities, except in rare cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Livingston called SB 54 \"a disaster,\" saying it would hamper law enforcement efforts. “We couldn't share basic information about human trafficking or other cases with ICE unless the individual has a prior conviction for a serious or violent felony,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11466909\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11466909\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS24870_20170405_OaklandImmigrationRally_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS24870_20170405_OaklandImmigrationRally_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS24870_20170405_OaklandImmigrationRally_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS24870_20170405_OaklandImmigrationRally_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS24870_20170405_OaklandImmigrationRally_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS24870_20170405_OaklandImmigrationRally_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS24870_20170405_OaklandImmigrationRally_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS24870_20170405_OaklandImmigrationRally_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS24870_20170405_OaklandImmigrationRally_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS24870_20170405_OaklandImmigrationRally_Credit_BertJohnson-10-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a rally in Oakland, April 5, 2017 \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County’s contract with federal immigration authorities has drawn a steady stream of criticism and protests from advocates and family members of detainees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the Trump administration ramping up immigration enforcement, California state lawmakers have drafted several bills aiming to restrict the federal government's ability to enforce its immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another bill proposed by state Sen. 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On Wednesday, the Board of State and Community Corrections put Contra Costa County’s proposal -- which would include space for rehabilitation facilities -- at the top of its short list of recommended grant recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We desperately need a new mental health and re-entry building in West County Jail,” Livingston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CABSCC/status/864909829948678144\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Skinner's bill passes, Livingston says the choice is clear: He would cancel the county's ICE contract to stay in the running for jail expansion funds. Still, he would prefer to maintain both funding sources, as they are allocated to different needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/kqed-newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Newsroom\u003c/a>, Sheriff Livingston discussed in detail the county’s policies and interactions with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Interview Transcript\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: This transcript has been edited for clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thuy Vu:\u003c/strong> Contra Costa has a contract with ICE -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- to house federal detainees at your jail in Richmond. How long have you had this contract, and why did you agree to it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sheriff David Livingston:\u003c/strong> The contract actually began back in 1992 with the U.S. Marshals Service. More recently ICE has asked to also use that contract to hold some of their detainees in our facility, which is important to know is a dormitory-style building in West County. It is intended specifically for that type of population. They actually have keys to their own cell doors. It's minimum to low security and it's extra bed space. So we thought it prudent to go ahead and rent those spaces to ICE, generate revenue and reduce the operating costs to the taxpayers of Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> How much revenue do you get from it a year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingston:\u003c/strong> Typically it's about $6 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> And how many detainees on a given day, a given month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingston:\u003c/strong> Our average is about 200 a day, although that moves day to day by as many as 10 or 20 in either direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> So on any given day, most people in your jail are there for reasons unrelated to immigration. They may be awaiting trial. They're serving time for other crimes. But in this country all inmates have their fingerprints sent to the FBI database. So once federal immigration authorities figure out that some of the folks you have there are undocumented, what do they want you to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingston:\u003c/strong> So essentially anyone that's booked into my jail and for Contra Costa -- of course, we don't have a choice who comes in the facility -- everyone is booked into one of our jails. Those fingerprints are automatically sent to Homeland Security and to FBI. It's at that time that ICE determines that they may want to interview one of the persons recently arrested in my facility, for example, and they notify us that they'd like to talk to that person. Formerly they might put in a request for a hold. Holds are no longer allowed in California. We don't honor holds. If that person is subject to being released at a certain time we release them at that time. If ICE is present to interview them, we’ll allow the interview to occur. Otherwise, that person is released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> Do you ever proactively contact ICE to let them know that someone is about to be released?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingston:\u003c/strong> If there is a particular individual that has come to our attention as a violent offender or a serious offender or who self-discloses that they may be subject to ICE investigation, we’ll notify ICE that they may be interested in this person. But that doesn't happen very often. ICE typically knows who they want to interview. And by the way, when they come in to do that interview, in many cases, they do not remove the person into their custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> You know, a lot of people take issue with that, though. You've had a number of protests at your facility. People who feel it's wrong for you to do this, wrong for you to proactively contact ICE. 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This is really about the back end when someone who is already here, undocumented, has committed a new crime and now finds himself in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> Several cities throughout California have declared themselves sanctuary cities and now there's a bill, SB 54, a state bill that would make all of California a sanctuary state and prohibit law enforcement agencies like yours from cooperating with federal immigration agents. Where do you stand on SB 54?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingston:\u003c/strong> I, like nearly all of my colleagues in California and the State Sheriffs’ Association, are absolutely opposed to that bill. We think it's a disaster. It's the first time that we have heard of where the state government is trying to tell us who we can talk to and who we can’t talk to among other law enforcement agencies. It would hamper our efforts in a very demonstrable way. We couldn't share basic information about human trafficking or other cases with ICE unless the individual has a prior conviction for a serious or violent felony. And so putting those kinds of restrictions on our access to our federal colleagues and partners can be very damaging to public safety. We oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> Supporters of the bill, though, say that the flip side of this is that there would be damage to public safety from another angle, and that is, it would make undocumented immigrants so fearful of deportation that they would be less willing to cooperate with you and other law enforcement agencies, less willing to report crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingston:\u003c/strong> Well, we want everyone to feel comfortable coming to their local law enforcement agency or the sheriff's office to report a crime, of course, either to report a crime as a victim or a witness. We work in communities now, North Richmond, for example, where we already encounter those types of issues and it's very difficult to get people to come forward to work with us reporting crimes so ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> But wouldn’t those issues be exacerbated, though, if you keep on opposing this sanctuary bill?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingston:\u003c/strong> I don't believe so. In fact, if we have a situation where ICE has to go now into the community to take someone into custody who may be facing a felony or a very serious charge, when they could have had that interview conducted in the safety and security of a custodial facility, that's putting more people at risk. So we believe at least working with ICE to the extent that they can conduct an interview makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> You're currently seeking $95 million to expand the West County facility. State Sen. 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So we thought it prudent to go ahead and rent those spaces to ICE, generate revenue and reduce the operating costs to the taxpayers of Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> How much revenue do you get from it a year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingston:\u003c/strong> Typically it's about $6 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> And how many detainees on a given day, a given month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingston:\u003c/strong> Our average is about 200 a day, although that moves day to day by as many as 10 or 20 in either direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> So on any given day, most people in your jail are there for reasons unrelated to immigration. They may be awaiting trial. They're serving time for other crimes. But in this country all inmates have their fingerprints sent to the FBI database. 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This is really about the back end when someone who is already here, undocumented, has committed a new crime and now finds himself in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> Several cities throughout California have declared themselves sanctuary cities and now there's a bill, SB 54, a state bill that would make all of California a sanctuary state and prohibit law enforcement agencies like yours from cooperating with federal immigration agents. Where do you stand on SB 54?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingston:\u003c/strong> I, like nearly all of my colleagues in California and the State Sheriffs’ Association, are absolutely opposed to that bill. We think it's a disaster. It's the first time that we have heard of where the state government is trying to tell us who we can talk to and who we can’t talk to among other law enforcement agencies. It would hamper our efforts in a very demonstrable way. We couldn't share basic information about human trafficking or other cases with ICE unless the individual has a prior conviction for a serious or violent felony. And so putting those kinds of restrictions on our access to our federal colleagues and partners can be very damaging to public safety. We oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Vu:\u003c/strong> Supporters of the bill, though, say that the flip side of this is that there would be damage to public safety from another angle, and that is, it would make undocumented immigrants so fearful of deportation that they would be less willing to cooperate with you and other law enforcement agencies, less willing to report crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Livingston:\u003c/strong> Well, we want everyone to feel comfortable coming to their local law enforcement agency or the sheriff's office to report a crime, of course, either to report a crime as a victim or a witness. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jason Alston was 21 when he was issued a misdemeanor citation by Antioch police for a hit-and-run in the summer of 2015. A few weeks later he showed up to court on the date written on his police citation. That’s when he says a court employee at one of the windows told him there were no charges filed against him. So Alston went home thinking his case was cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Several months later my mother gets a call saying there’s a warrant out for my arrest because I missed my court date for my misdemeanor, and we were all confused,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, more than half of those charged with misdemeanor crimes investigated by Antioch police missed at least one court date. Many people, like Alston, didn’t even know they had a court date, according to public defenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were seeing this over and over again,” said Ellen McDonnell, an attorney with the Contra Costa County Public Defender’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonnell knows that missing court can lead to financial penalties, including arrests, and has seen how failure to appear \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/234371.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disproportionately\u003c/a> hurts people of color and those with low income. That’s why her office decided to partner with the Antioch Police Department in a program that’s seen success and is now being replicated in another Bay Area city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why Aren’t People Showing up to Court?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When police issue a misdemeanor citation, the officer also writes a court date on the ticket approximately six weeks out. But the district attorney’s office has a year to file charges and rarely does so by the time written on the citation, McDonnell said. Instead, if the DA decides to file charges, it’s often months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people, like Alston, often show up to court and think their case has been closed. Or they are unsure what’s supposed to happen next, said Blanca Hernandez, an attorney with the Early Representation Program in the public defender’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of fear and a lot of confusion,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the district attorney’s office files charges, many people have moved addresses or have life circumstances that make it a challenge to get in touch with them, Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people are hard to track down, and that’s primarily people who have serious drug addiction problems and transient people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How the Early Representation Program works\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa public defenders have partnered with Antioch police since July 2016 to run the Early Representation Program. The idea is simple: When officers issue misdemeanor citations, they also hand over a small colorful card with information in English and Spanish about how to reach the public defender’s office, which would then help guide clients through the court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contact cards were created that could fit in an officer’s pocket but that didn’t look affiliated with the police, said Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, there’s some hesitation by lots of people to call a phone number that’s been given to them by the police officer that just cited them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cards’ bright green and yellow colors make them stand out. In large letters the card encourages calling or texting the public defender’s office. The office also picks up every citation issued by Antioch police weekly at the station so attorneys can reach out to clients directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the partnership began in July 2016, the team of just one attorney and one assistant has helped almost 900 people who have been cited or arrested for misdemeanors in Antioch. The court appearance rate for arraignments has jumped from 43 percent in 2015 to 69 percent since the program began, Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Human and Court Cost Savings\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missing a court date goes on the permanent record and has the potential to impact future court decisions, Hernandez said. Failing to appear could also have residual effects on employment, child custody, financial loans and housing, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11452754\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11452754 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellen McDonnell and Blanca Hernandez started the Early Representation Program last year. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also, when someone fails to show up in court, a judge will sometimes issue a warrant for arrest, which is what happened to Jason Alston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was terrified,” Alston said. “I panicked. I didn’t know what to do. I expected the worst. But the public defenders got everything clear for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Early Representation Program is also meant to provide pre-hearing advice that could help soften rulings by the time the case reaches a judge. For example, if someone receives a drug- or alcohol-related misdemeanor, public defenders may recommend attending substance abuse counseling, said Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the time they do come to court, they’re more likely to have a better sentencing offer from the district attorney. They’re less likely to be taken into custody that first time,” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program could mean huge cost savings for taxpayers, too, said McDonnell. The early outreach could prevent the more than $100 daily cost to incarcerate someone in county jail, as well as court costs to process warrants and schedule hearings where no one appears, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Early Representation Program Also Helps Police\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people fail to appear in court, police are frustrated, too. If the district attorney files charges, the police officer who issued the misdemeanor is often required to show up to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to drop everything,” said Capt. Diane Aguinaga, who oversees field services for the Antioch Police Department. “You have to find child care. You have to find rides for your kids. There are no ifs, ands or buts about it. You have to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the public defender’s office contacted Antioch police to partner for the Early Representation Program, “it was an immediate yes,” Aguinaga said. “It was a no-brainer. There was no downside to this at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Program Spreads to Richmond\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea for the partnership was born from AB 109, which redirected responsibility for low-level offenders from the state to counties. Contra Costa agreed to spend $150,000 on the program, which included hiring an extra attorney and assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is now being piloted with the Richmond Police Department with a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. The public defender’s office is considering expanding to other cities in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this program is the future,” Hernandez said. “We want the program to succeed so that it is replicated statewide and countrywide.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Or they are unsure what’s supposed to happen next, said Blanca Hernandez, an attorney with the Early Representation Program in the public defender’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of fear and a lot of confusion,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the district attorney’s office files charges, many people have moved addresses or have life circumstances that make it a challenge to get in touch with them, Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people are hard to track down, and that’s primarily people who have serious drug addiction problems and transient people,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How the Early Representation Program works\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa public defenders have partnered with Antioch police since July 2016 to run the Early Representation Program. The idea is simple: When officers issue misdemeanor citations, they also hand over a small colorful card with information in English and Spanish about how to reach the public defender’s office, which would then help guide clients through the court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contact cards were created that could fit in an officer’s pocket but that didn’t look affiliated with the police, said Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, there’s some hesitation by lots of people to call a phone number that’s been given to them by the police officer that just cited them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cards’ bright green and yellow colors make them stand out. In large letters the card encourages calling or texting the public defender’s office. The office also picks up every citation issued by Antioch police weekly at the station so attorneys can reach out to clients directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the partnership began in July 2016, the team of just one attorney and one assistant has helped almost 900 people who have been cited or arrested for misdemeanors in Antioch. The court appearance rate for arraignments has jumped from 43 percent in 2015 to 69 percent since the program began, Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Human and Court Cost Savings\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missing a court date goes on the permanent record and has the potential to impact future court decisions, Hernandez said. Failing to appear could also have residual effects on employment, child custody, financial loans and housing, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11452754\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11452754 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/IMG_1623.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellen McDonnell and Blanca Hernandez started the Early Representation Program last year. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also, when someone fails to show up in court, a judge will sometimes issue a warrant for arrest, which is what happened to Jason Alston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was terrified,” Alston said. “I panicked. 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