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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:36 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029300/former-antioch-officers-face-trial-for-alleged-conspiracy-civil-rights-violations\">former Antioch police officer\u003c/a> faces a federal criminal trial set to start Monday on charges he conspired with another officer to distribute steroids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors allege that Devon Christopher Wenger was part of a conspiracy to obtain and sell steroids with one-time co-defendant Daniel James Harris, who is expected to testify against Wenger as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’ll be the second time this year that Wenger defends himself against conspiracy charges in an Oakland federal courtroom, after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029444/ex-antioch-officers-corruption-trial-begins\">previous case\u003c/a> alleging he and other officers repeatedly violated suspects’ civil rights \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029643/bay-area-police-conspiracy-trial-shaken-up-by-mistrial-for-1-of-2-former-officers\">ended in a mistrial\u003c/a> for him last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The steroids case is the latest to reach a jury stemming from a widespread investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office where authorities unearthed a trove of racist and misogynistic text messages shared among officers in Antioch and some in Pittsburg, which was first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">announced\u003c/a> in the late summer of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation determined that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946551/antiochs-racist-police-text-message-scandal-could-mean-dropped-charges-in-other-cases\">14 Antioch officers\u003c/a> — including Wenger and fellow former Antioch police officers Morteza Amiri and Eric Rombough — exchanged those texts. Some indicated violations of civil rights, and many included racist memes and derogatory messages about Black and Latino residents. While about half of the department’s officers received those messages, none reported them to superiors or outside authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent\" href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Antioch Police vehicle sits in the parking lot of the Antioch Police Department on March 3, 2025.The texts were discovered while the FBI was investigating members of the Antioch Police Department on accusations ranging from alleged civil rights violations to faking college degrees, along with the allegations of steroid distribution. A federal grand jury indicted \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/file/1310956/dl?inline\">10 Antioch and Pittsburg officers\u003c/a> for those crimes in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opening statements are scheduled Monday on charges against Wenger alleging conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute anabolic steroids as well as destruction, alteration and falsification of records in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-antioch-police-officer-found-guilty-deprivation-civil-rights-and-falsification\">Harris pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in September to conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids, possession of anabolic steroids with the intent to distribute, and attempted possession of anabolic steroids with the intent to distribute, as well as bank fraud in another case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors expect Harris to testify that he purchased anabolic steroids from a source in Florida to use himself as well as distribute to other law enforcement officers, according to the government’s \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.416992/gov.uscourts.cand.416992.158.0.pdf\">trial brief\u003c/a>. Prosecutors allege Wenger was aware that Harris sold steroids and purchased some, later noting to Harris in a text that his “dad might want some too, he’s trying to cut fat and gain muscle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12036413 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250417-LAWYER-SETTLEMENT-MD-04-KQED-KQED-11-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg said it’s likely that the defense will play up the fact that Harris took a plea, but juries largely find police to be credible witnesses, especially if they’re persuasive on the witness stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cops may have more credibility even if they did something wrong, but it’s not a happy thing for a cop to testify against a cop,” Weisberg said. “It’s self-interested on Harris’ part, but that’s always true in these cases where the cooperator is self-interested. The fact is that there’s a blue wall, and if he’s willing to breach it, he may have more credibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger also allegedly connected Harris to a friend with the initials B.M. to purchase steroids, but law enforcement intercepted that shipment in March 2022 as Wenger was allegedly trying to retrieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 2, 2022, Wenger texted Harris and asked if he could “come by Monday or Sunday to pick up [B.M.’s] stuff?” according to the prosecution’s court filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m leaving to Long Beach on Tuesday, so I’ll pick your stuff up from Dan on Monday or one of those days before I leave!” Wenger wrote to B.M. a minute later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fuck yeah!” B.M. responded. “LET’S GET FUCKING JACKEEEEEEEEEED.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that month, law enforcement agents in Weatherford, Texas, seized Harris’ iPhone. Soon, law enforcement seized Wenger’s phone. Prosecutors allege Wenger attempted to delete full message threads and phone call logs between Wenger, Harris and B.M. from his phone prior to handing it over to law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of community members, families of police violence and activists joined a rally outside of the Antioch Police Department on April 18, 2023, to protest the racist and homophobic text messages shared among the department. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A forensic review was unable to retrieve any messages from Signal, an encrypted messaging service. Prosecutors say they’ll bring evidence to show Wenger “selectively deleted messages relevant to his purchase and distribution of anabolic steroids,” according to their trial brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That brief also says while Wenger may argue that he had “a mere buyer-seller relationship with Harris,” the evidence they plan to present at trial shows that Wenger’s facilitating sales between his father and B.M. showed he had a “knowing participation in the conspiracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment ahead of the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During jury selection, Dena Marie Young, an attorney for Wenger, posed additional questions to potential jurors, including those with law enforcement experience, family members who were in law enforcement, and those who worked closely with law enforcement. Several of the questions centered around whether testimony from those in law enforcement should have more weight than others, because “they take an oath.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029793 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/GettyImages-1459218231-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you open to the possibility that law enforcement officers might be mistaken, or even lie?” Young wrote in one set of potential questions. “Can you set aside your opinion and judge the testimony of law enforcement officers the same [as] any other witness?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-and-pittsburg-police-officers-and-employee-charged-various-crimes-ranging\">August 2023\u003c/a>, a federal grand jury also indicted Wenger — along with Amiri and Rombough — on charges of conspiracy against rights and deprivation of rights under color of law. Amiri and Wenger were each charged with one count of conspiracy “to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate residents of Antioch, California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Rombough pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and two counts of deprivation of rights under the color of the law. As part of his plea deal with prosecutors, Rombough testified at trial last month that he and other Antioch officers used premeditated violence, failed to report uses of force and then falsified police reports to cover up those acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger faced one count of deprivation of rights under the color of law for a specific incident: the allegedly unreasonable use of a 40-millimeter impact launcher. But on the third day of trial, Judge Jeffrey S. White \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029643/bay-area-police-conspiracy-trial-shaken-up-by-mistrial-for-1-of-2-former-officers\">announced a mistrial in Wenger’s case\u003c/a>, due to issues regarding Wenger’s representation by attorney Nicole Castronovo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The prosecution presents text messages on the first day of the federal trial against Morteza Amiri and Devon Christopher Wenger at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oakland on March 3, 2025. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The steroids case is the latest to reach a jury stemming from a widespread investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office where authorities unearthed a trove of racist and misogynistic text messages shared among officers in Antioch and some in Pittsburg, which was first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">announced\u003c/a> in the late summer of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation determined that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946551/antiochs-racist-police-text-message-scandal-could-mean-dropped-charges-in-other-cases\">14 Antioch officers\u003c/a> — including Wenger and fellow former Antioch police officers Morteza Amiri and Eric Rombough — exchanged those texts. Some indicated violations of civil rights, and many included racist memes and derogatory messages about Black and Latino residents. While about half of the department’s officers received those messages, none reported them to superiors or outside authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent\" href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Antioch Police vehicle sits in the parking lot of the Antioch Police Department on March 3, 2025.The texts were discovered while the FBI was investigating members of the Antioch Police Department on accusations ranging from alleged civil rights violations to faking college degrees, along with the allegations of steroid distribution. A federal grand jury indicted \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/file/1310956/dl?inline\">10 Antioch and Pittsburg officers\u003c/a> for those crimes in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opening statements are scheduled Monday on charges against Wenger alleging conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute anabolic steroids as well as destruction, alteration and falsification of records in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-antioch-police-officer-found-guilty-deprivation-civil-rights-and-falsification\">Harris pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in September to conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids, possession of anabolic steroids with the intent to distribute, and attempted possession of anabolic steroids with the intent to distribute, as well as bank fraud in another case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors expect Harris to testify that he purchased anabolic steroids from a source in Florida to use himself as well as distribute to other law enforcement officers, according to the government’s \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.416992/gov.uscourts.cand.416992.158.0.pdf\">trial brief\u003c/a>. Prosecutors allege Wenger was aware that Harris sold steroids and purchased some, later noting to Harris in a text that his “dad might want some too, he’s trying to cut fat and gain muscle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg said it’s likely that the defense will play up the fact that Harris took a plea, but juries largely find police to be credible witnesses, especially if they’re persuasive on the witness stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cops may have more credibility even if they did something wrong, but it’s not a happy thing for a cop to testify against a cop,” Weisberg said. “It’s self-interested on Harris’ part, but that’s always true in these cases where the cooperator is self-interested. The fact is that there’s a blue wall, and if he’s willing to breach it, he may have more credibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger also allegedly connected Harris to a friend with the initials B.M. to purchase steroids, but law enforcement intercepted that shipment in March 2022 as Wenger was allegedly trying to retrieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 2, 2022, Wenger texted Harris and asked if he could “come by Monday or Sunday to pick up [B.M.’s] stuff?” according to the prosecution’s court filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m leaving to Long Beach on Tuesday, so I’ll pick your stuff up from Dan on Monday or one of those days before I leave!” Wenger wrote to B.M. a minute later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fuck yeah!” B.M. responded. “LET’S GET FUCKING JACKEEEEEEEEEED.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that month, law enforcement agents in Weatherford, Texas, seized Harris’ iPhone. Soon, law enforcement seized Wenger’s phone. Prosecutors allege Wenger attempted to delete full message threads and phone call logs between Wenger, Harris and B.M. from his phone prior to handing it over to law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64569_010_KQED_AntiochPoliceRacistTextProtest_04182023-qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of community members, families of police violence and activists joined a rally outside of the Antioch Police Department on April 18, 2023, to protest the racist and homophobic text messages shared among the department. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A forensic review was unable to retrieve any messages from Signal, an encrypted messaging service. Prosecutors say they’ll bring evidence to show Wenger “selectively deleted messages relevant to his purchase and distribution of anabolic steroids,” according to their trial brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That brief also says while Wenger may argue that he had “a mere buyer-seller relationship with Harris,” the evidence they plan to present at trial shows that Wenger’s facilitating sales between his father and B.M. showed he had a “knowing participation in the conspiracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment ahead of the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During jury selection, Dena Marie Young, an attorney for Wenger, posed additional questions to potential jurors, including those with law enforcement experience, family members who were in law enforcement, and those who worked closely with law enforcement. Several of the questions centered around whether testimony from those in law enforcement should have more weight than others, because “they take an oath.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you open to the possibility that law enforcement officers might be mistaken, or even lie?” Young wrote in one set of potential questions. “Can you set aside your opinion and judge the testimony of law enforcement officers the same [as] any other witness?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-and-pittsburg-police-officers-and-employee-charged-various-crimes-ranging\">August 2023\u003c/a>, a federal grand jury also indicted Wenger — along with Amiri and Rombough — on charges of conspiracy against rights and deprivation of rights under color of law. Amiri and Wenger were each charged with one count of conspiracy “to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate residents of Antioch, California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Rombough pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and two counts of deprivation of rights under the color of the law. As part of his plea deal with prosecutors, Rombough testified at trial last month that he and other Antioch officers used premeditated violence, failed to report uses of force and then falsified police reports to cover up those acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger faced one count of deprivation of rights under the color of law for a specific incident: the allegedly unreasonable use of a 40-millimeter impact launcher. But on the third day of trial, Judge Jeffrey S. White \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029643/bay-area-police-conspiracy-trial-shaken-up-by-mistrial-for-1-of-2-former-officers\">announced a mistrial in Wenger’s case\u003c/a>, due to issues regarding Wenger’s representation by attorney Nicole Castronovo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The prosecution presents text messages on the first day of the federal trial against Morteza Amiri and Devon Christopher Wenger at the U.S. District Courthouse in Oakland on March 3, 2025. Amiri and Wenger face charges that they conspired to severely injure suspects over a period of three years. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s trial continued without Wenger and the jury returned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031189/federal-trial-of-former-antioch-police-officer-ends-in-limited-split-verdict\">a split verdict\u003c/a> in mid-March, finding him guilty of violating one person’s rights and falsifying a police report but not on the more sweeping conspiracy allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FBI remains committed to holding accountable any officer who violates their oath and deprives citizens of their constitutional rights,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Sanjay Virmani said in a statement following that trial. “The people of Antioch and communities everywhere deserve better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri is scheduled to be sentenced on June 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger is scheduled to be retried on the alleged violation of civil rights charges beginning on July 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Harris’ and Rombough’s plea deals are contingent on their cooperation and testimony, both are due back in court on Aug. 19, when Wenger’s two trials are expected to be completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>April 29: This story has been corrected to indicate that the Contra Costa County district attorney’s report from 2023 found officers exchanged texts including potential violations of civil rights, as well as messages that are racist.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Tariffs are not always bad, but a tariff war is a disaster for the United States economy and for the global economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Port Executive Director Kristi McKenney, who led the roundtable with Simon, said she is particularly concerned about blank sailings, when ships cancel particular port stops or even entire voyages, often because of lower demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those canceled incoming voyages also hinder exporting efforts because incoming shipping containers are often emptied to make room for outgoing goods, McKenney said. That could have a significant effect on American produce, dairy and other goods that flow out of Oakland, which is the country’s largest refrigerated port, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12035636 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/GettyImages-2209401664-1020x718.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Jacob, president of the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, an organization that represents marine terminal owners and operators along the West Coast, said bookings fell dramatically after President Trump first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034289/trump-launches-liberation-day-tariffs-saying-global-trade-has-plundered-us-economy\">announced sweeping tariffs\u003c/a> on nearly all U.S. trading partners earlier this month, and he’s already seeing canceled voyages from Asia as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost the exact same thing we saw at the beginning of the pandemic. We had a significant reduction in total throughput,” Jacob said. “We end up having fewer ships that are coming through, we have fewer longshoremen that are working, fewer truckers that are working, fewer warehousemen that are working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goods imported from China, a major source of trading for the Oakland port, are now facing a 145% tariff, but the import tax policy has been surrounded by uncertainty. Just days after initially announcing his so-called reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries, Trump declared a 90-day pause for most countries, with China excluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob said the pause will likely lead to a short spike in trade, with businesses hoping to sell or buy large quantities of international goods before the tariffs are reimposed, followed by a drop-off once the pause ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Port of Oakland on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while Trump has said he’s negotiating with China over the tariffs, the Chinese government and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said those talks have not yet started, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-time-china-switzerland-660aa519e9059de7d81368ec4eef4b38\">the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The far-reaching nature of the tariffs — and the confusion surrounding them — is vastly different from the import taxes Trump imposed during his first term, according to Jacob, who described the earlier tariffs as being levied on specific commodities in specific countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not what’s happening now, right? We had these sweeping, across-the-board tariffs that raised a lot of eyebrows, not just about the rates, which were exorbitant, but also about the method and the manner in which they happen,” Jacob said. “No one knows what the ultimate policy goal of those things were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Simon warned that “there’s a real potentiality of workers losing their jobs.”[aside postID=forum_2010101909222 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/Alexis-Madrigal-1020x574.jpg']“Listen, if there were no tariffs, Oakland would be in an emergency,” she said. “Now, we’re in ICU … we have to convince businesses to stay here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Tran, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, expressed concern for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034827/bay-area-business-already-tough-trumps-tariffs-preparing-pain\">effect on small, mom-and-pop businesses, which \u003c/a>will likely have to absorb the additional costs, raise prices or pull certain items from shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very important at this time that the community continues to support small businesses like all the restaurants and grocery stores in Oakland Chinatown,” Tran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon called the president’s tariffs a “no-win situation” and criticized his claim that tariffs will encourage businesses to move manufacturing operations stateside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all agree, we want manufacturing jobs here in the United States. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Jacob, president of the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, an organization that represents marine terminal owners and operators along the West Coast, said bookings fell dramatically after President Trump first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034289/trump-launches-liberation-day-tariffs-saying-global-trade-has-plundered-us-economy\">announced sweeping tariffs\u003c/a> on nearly all U.S. trading partners earlier this month, and he’s already seeing canceled voyages from Asia as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost the exact same thing we saw at the beginning of the pandemic. We had a significant reduction in total throughput,” Jacob said. “We end up having fewer ships that are coming through, we have fewer longshoremen that are working, fewer truckers that are working, fewer warehousemen that are working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goods imported from China, a major source of trading for the Oakland port, are now facing a 145% tariff, but the import tax policy has been surrounded by uncertainty. Just days after initially announcing his so-called reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries, Trump declared a 90-day pause for most countries, with China excluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob said the pause will likely lead to a short spike in trade, with businesses hoping to sell or buy large quantities of international goods before the tariffs are reimposed, followed by a drop-off once the pause ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036220\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250306-PORT-OF-OAKLAND-MD-04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Port of Oakland on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while Trump has said he’s negotiating with China over the tariffs, the Chinese government and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said those talks have not yet started, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-time-china-switzerland-660aa519e9059de7d81368ec4eef4b38\">the \u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The far-reaching nature of the tariffs — and the confusion surrounding them — is vastly different from the import taxes Trump imposed during his first term, according to Jacob, who described the earlier tariffs as being levied on specific commodities in specific countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not what’s happening now, right? We had these sweeping, across-the-board tariffs that raised a lot of eyebrows, not just about the rates, which were exorbitant, but also about the method and the manner in which they happen,” Jacob said. “No one knows what the ultimate policy goal of those things were.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Simon warned that “there’s a real potentiality of workers losing their jobs.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Listen, if there were no tariffs, Oakland would be in an emergency,” she said. “Now, we’re in ICU … we have to convince businesses to stay here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Tran, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, expressed concern for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034827/bay-area-business-already-tough-trumps-tariffs-preparing-pain\">effect on small, mom-and-pop businesses, which \u003c/a>will likely have to absorb the additional costs, raise prices or pull certain items from shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very important at this time that the community continues to support small businesses like all the restaurants and grocery stores in Oakland Chinatown,” Tran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon called the president’s tariffs a “no-win situation” and criticized his claim that tariffs will encourage businesses to move manufacturing operations stateside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all agree, we want manufacturing jobs here in the United States. Do we have infrastructure to create that? Was there an articulated plan to build infrastructure in the United States to bring back manufacturing jobs? Absolutely not,” Simon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other attendees at the roundtable discussion echoed that sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If tariffs are used in a wise way, in a way that’s tied together with the development of local manufacturing, it can be a good thing,” said Andreas Cluver, vice president of the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners. “But these kind of willy-nilly tariffs that are put in place for political reasons, for patronage reasons, are having a devastating impact on working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036576/oaklands-public-watchdog-starved-of-resources-loses-yet-another-top-official\">anti-corruption watchdog agency\u003c/a> is considering a parcel tax to fund its investigations and its stalled public campaign financing program rather than fall victim to the woes of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">city’s fiscal crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Ethics Commission, which investigates allegations against high-profile government officials such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022612/ex-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-3-others-charged-with-bribery-sprawling-corruption-probe\">former Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a>, also oversees the Democracy Dollars program. Although voters overwhelmingly passed the program into law in 2022, it has yet to be implemented in any election due to Oakland’s ongoing budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democracy Dollars promised to \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/RESO-89316-Campaign-Reform-filed-materials_2022-07-30-033124_scna.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1745530836557143&usg=AOvVaw3jo9C3Dyg8F0ZcQSkAMkbn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refresh Oakland’s public financing program\u003c/a>, inspired by a similar initiative in Seattle, Commission Chair Francis Upton IV said. It would distribute $100 vouchers to Oakland residents, who could then use the vouchers to donate to participating campaigns for public office, such as mayoral and City Council candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is to increase the number and diversity of the donors,” Upton said. “One of the problems that Oakland has is a lot of the money for the elections comes from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036921/lee-takes-the-flats-taylor-wins-the-hills-but-labor-unions-deliver-the-city\">rich people in the hills\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program costs around $2 million per year, but the ballot measure that created it requires funding to come from the city’s general fund — leaving it vulnerable to the city’s budget crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the city declares a fiscal emergency, which it has, then they have the right to cut anything they want from the general fund,” Upton said. “Democracy Dollars was one of the programs they decided to cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12015107 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1123\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/OaklandGetty-1920x1078.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Public Ethics Commission, known for investigating high-profile officials like former Mayor Sheng Thao, also oversees Oakland’s Democracy Dollars program—approved by voters in 2022 but still unlaunched due to the city’s persistent budget shortfall. \u003ccite>(Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ethics commissioners remained hopeful that they could secure the funding for Democracy Dollars in time for 2024, but that election came and went. Now, commissioners say 2026 is likely off the table as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of 2024, Upton said the city made do by temporarily reimplementing its previous public campaign financing program, which for 20 years had reimbursed candidates for certain campaign expenses. The pot of money was small in 2024, though — just $155,000 for eligible candidates to split, Upton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s 2025-2027 budget will be adopted in June, but Upton and Public Ethics Commission executive director Nicolas Heidorn said it is unlikely that city officials will be able to carve out the money to fund Democracy Dollars. In that case, the commission intends to go forward with the plan to put a parcel tax on the ballot for the 2026 primary election.[aside postID=news_12036576 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-07_qed-1020x680.jpg']Heidorn, who will be the commission’s second top official to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006538/oaklands-top-ethics-investigator-is-resigning-citing-a-chronic-lack-of-resources\">resign in the last year\u003c/a> when he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036576/oaklands-public-watchdog-starved-of-resources-loses-yet-another-top-official\">steps down in July\u003c/a>, said the agency does not have the resources to carry out its work investigating corruption in Oakland. It has just one investigator and a chief tasked with over 170 open cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a dedicated and stable funding source for the ethics commission is important to ensure that we can perform our role as an ethics watchdog agency,” Heidorn said. “And it’s also important for our independence. The commission’s budget should not be controlled by the same officials that the commission regulates from an ethics perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/PEC-Item-10-PEC-Ballot-Measure-Revenue-Options-03-19-2025.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1745530756367943&usg=AOvVaw34JxYD0VCy_eHfF2qbjpnp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staff report to the commission\u003c/a>, Heidorn outlined three different options for the parcel tax: one that funds just Democracy Dollars, a second that also funds the enforcement unit of the commission, and a third to fully fund Democracy Dollars and the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of those ranges from around $3.8 million to fund just Democracy Dollars, to around $7.2 million for the fully funded option. That translates to a parcel tax between $18.10 and $34.10 per parcel, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process to get a parcel tax on the ballot is not dissimilar from the ballot measure that created Democracy Dollars, Upton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the voters approved the parcel tax, which would include the Democracy Dollars, then it would certainly be implemented by 2028,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland’s school board voted Wednesday night to remove its superintendent, capping weeks of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035569/is-the-oakland-school-board-ousting-the-superintendent-depends-on-which-board-member-you-ask\">swirling rumors\u003c/a> about her employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell will leave her post on June 30 after agreeing to a “voluntary separation agreement,” passed by a 4-3 board vote. Previously, she was expected to remain at the helm through 2027 to ease the transition to her successor but step back from leading day-to-day operations at the end of this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Mike Hutchinson voted against the deal, saying that Johnson-Trammell, who was not present at the meeting, was pushed out after the board majority abruptly moved to change the terms of her contract earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have four [board] directors who are risking all of the gains that we made, forcing out the superintendent,” he said. “Don’t be confused. The reason she’s getting a payout is because she didn’t resign. This wasn’t her plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members who supported the superintendent’s renegotiation have not yet said why her contract was changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037458 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-16_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District board member, Mike Hutchinson, speaks during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the separation deal, Johnson-Trammell will be named “superintendent emeritus” of the district through mid-January. A new interim superintendent will be appointed July 1, according to board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before her contract was changed, Johnson-Trammell was expected to present an interim leadership plan divvying up responsibilities to members of her senior leadership team this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until June 2027, she would have continued to serve as the superintendent in name but focused on special projects, including networking with local and state partners and helping select her successor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I prepare to turn the page, I do so knowing that Oakland Unified is positioned to keep moving forward — with clarity, compassion, and courage,” she said in a statement on Wednesday night. “I will always champion the district and our students, with love and confidence that our shared commitment to joyful, thriving schools will continue to lead the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037460 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-17_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District parents, students and supporters attend a board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell has led the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-unified-school-district\">Oakland Unified School District\u003c/a> since 2017, walking it back from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12037097/oakland-schools-poised-part-ways-with-superintendent-state-oversight-ends\">brink of financial insolvency\u003c/a> and bringing stability to the embattled district for the first time since it declared bankruptcy and was bailed out by the state in 2003. She previously attended OUSD schools and spent 18 years as a teacher and administrator in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement of her departure was met with boos from the crowd gathered for the meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School on Wednesday night, many of whom credited her for getting the district back on track after years of volatility.[aside postID=news_12037103 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/230816-Dublin-Womens-Prison-Suit-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg']“The superintendent’s stability has really led to the growth of really strong programs and beginning of results happening for students inside the district,” said Kimi Kean, who heads the advocacy group Families In Action. “Just the stability alone means there’s not that churn constantly. During those eight years, she’s really grown and retained a really strong senior team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Johnson-Trammell’s appointment, OUSD had had nine superintendents and state administrators since declaring bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent financial audit conducted as part of the district’s exit from state receivership credited Johnson-Trammell with the financial progress made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understood from personal experience in Oakland how financial instability undermines our efforts toward student success,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her tenure, Johnson-Trammell oversaw near-constant money problems, as well as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, several teacher strikes, and several stalled — and reversed — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">attempts to close schools\u003c/a> in line with enrollment decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037467 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reading “we won’t wait for reading at grade level” is held by an individual during a rally calling for improved schools ahead of an Oakland Unified School District board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kean said she also began meaningful community engagement efforts to improve student learning outcomes, especially around early literacy, calling the superintendent’s approach “a real transparent and collaborative process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jumoke Hinton, a former school board member who voted to name Johnson-Trammell superintendent, said that she was responsible for improving high school graduation rates and completion of the coursework required for admission to the University of California system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was responsible for significant focus on student achievement during the pandemic, [and] thoughtful leadership around students having what they needed,” Hinton said in an email. “Kyla was pragmatic. She withstood teacher strikes and truly gave a lot to teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She brought resources, she built a trust with partners across Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037466 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District parents, students and community leaders rally in support of improved schools, ahead of an OUSD board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the district is set to exit state receivership after completing its final loan payments to the state this summer, it is not out of the woods financially and still faces significant challenges with enrollment, low test scores and teacher retention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit report commending OUSD’s progress also noted that the district has administrative inefficiencies and is operating 30 more schools than is fiscally responsible, which Johnson-Trammell and her senior leadership team had tried repeatedly to address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re finally free of the oversight of the colonial model that we’ve had to operate under for almost a quarter of a century, and we did it with our homegrown Black and brown leadership here in OUSD,” Hutchinson said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worries that the district could have to return to state oversight without steady leadership in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I assume many of our senior staff … will follow our superintendent out the door,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037465 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viveca Ycoi-Walton, an Oakland Unified School District parent, cheers during a rally calling for improved schools, ahead of an OUSD board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson accused the board members who voted in favor of the deal of colluding with the teachers’ union, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036400/oakland-teachers-union-moves-one-step-closer-possible-strike\">preparing to strike\u003c/a> for the fourth time in recent years on May 1 over fiscal transparency concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re openly colluding with [union] leadership. Today, they also refused to vote to protect the district against a strike,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cary Kaufman, the president of the administrators’ union, said during the meeting that leaders of the teachers’ union had threatened members in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one principal was told: “We control the board. We got Kyla fired, we can get you fired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Education Association President Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said Johnson-Trammell had made positive strides for the district, but noted that throughout her tenure, there have been three labor strikes, including one in 2023 that led to a weeklong instruction stoppage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037462 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronald Muhammad, an Oakland Unified School District parent, addresses the board during public comment at a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the vote on Wednesday, she said, that no matter who was superintendent after the meeting, it was important to the union to improve labor relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have had significant labor challenges in this district, and who takes [her] place is of interest for us,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people in the community who spoke with KQED said their top priority was a transparent, community-driven process to select a new leader — something they aren’t sure the current school board is committed to delivering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like when it comes to the board, there’s a lack of transparency for the majority,” parent Alisha Powell said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The superintendent’s stability has really led to the growth of really strong programs and beginning of results happening for students inside the district,” said Kimi Kean, who heads the advocacy group Families In Action. “Just the stability alone means there’s not that churn constantly. During those eight years, she’s really grown and retained a really strong senior team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Johnson-Trammell’s appointment, OUSD had had nine superintendents and state administrators since declaring bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent financial audit conducted as part of the district’s exit from state receivership credited Johnson-Trammell with the financial progress made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She understood from personal experience in Oakland how financial instability undermines our efforts toward student success,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her tenure, Johnson-Trammell oversaw near-constant money problems, as well as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, several teacher strikes, and several stalled — and reversed — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">attempts to close schools\u003c/a> in line with enrollment decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037467\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037467 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-5_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign reading “we won’t wait for reading at grade level” is held by an individual during a rally calling for improved schools ahead of an Oakland Unified School District board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kean said she also began meaningful community engagement efforts to improve student learning outcomes, especially around early literacy, calling the superintendent’s approach “a real transparent and collaborative process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jumoke Hinton, a former school board member who voted to name Johnson-Trammell superintendent, said that she was responsible for improving high school graduation rates and completion of the coursework required for admission to the University of California system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was responsible for significant focus on student achievement during the pandemic, [and] thoughtful leadership around students having what they needed,” Hinton said in an email. “Kyla was pragmatic. She withstood teacher strikes and truly gave a lot to teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She brought resources, she built a trust with partners across Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037466 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-1_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified School District parents, students and community leaders rally in support of improved schools, ahead of an OUSD board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the district is set to exit state receivership after completing its final loan payments to the state this summer, it is not out of the woods financially and still faces significant challenges with enrollment, low test scores and teacher retention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit report commending OUSD’s progress also noted that the district has administrative inefficiencies and is operating 30 more schools than is fiscally responsible, which Johnson-Trammell and her senior leadership team had tried repeatedly to address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re finally free of the oversight of the colonial model that we’ve had to operate under for almost a quarter of a century, and we did it with our homegrown Black and brown leadership here in OUSD,” Hutchinson said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He worries that the district could have to return to state oversight without steady leadership in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I assume many of our senior staff … will follow our superintendent out the door,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037465 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-4_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viveca Ycoi-Walton, an Oakland Unified School District parent, cheers during a rally calling for improved schools, ahead of an OUSD board meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson accused the board members who voted in favor of the deal of colluding with the teachers’ union, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036400/oakland-teachers-union-moves-one-step-closer-possible-strike\">preparing to strike\u003c/a> for the fourth time in recent years on May 1 over fiscal transparency concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re openly colluding with [union] leadership. Today, they also refused to vote to protect the district against a strike,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cary Kaufman, the president of the administrators’ union, said during the meeting that leaders of the teachers’ union had threatened members in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one principal was told: “We control the board. We got Kyla fired, we can get you fired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Education Association President Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said Johnson-Trammell had made positive strides for the district, but noted that throughout her tenure, there have been three labor strikes, including one in 2023 that led to a weeklong instruction stoppage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037462 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250423_OUSDSupe_GC-25_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronald Muhammad, an Oakland Unified School District parent, addresses the board during public comment at a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on April 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before the vote on Wednesday, she said, that no matter who was superintendent after the meeting, it was important to the union to improve labor relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have had significant labor challenges in this district, and who takes [her] place is of interest for us,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people in the community who spoke with KQED said their top priority was a transparent, community-driven process to select a new leader — something they aren’t sure the current school board is committed to delivering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like when it comes to the board, there’s a lack of transparency for the majority,” parent Alisha Powell said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The owners of Concord-based DeNova Homes first offered $10,000 and then tried to sweeten the deal with an additional $5,000 in cash stuffed inside a travel coffee mug branded with the company’s logo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged transaction by the father-son duo came after a city of Antioch planning agency opposed approval of DeNova’s proposed 533-unit Aviano housing development, saying the company had not completed all required public infrastructure improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment describes a video-recorded meeting on June 12 between Trent Sanson, a Walnut Creek resident, and the council member, during which Sanson allegedly asked the council member to place a motion on the City Council agenda to approve the next phase of the project. He said his father, who now lives in Montana, was willing to pay $10,000 in exchange for the favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1018px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037277 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Federal-indicment-Anticoh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1018\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Federal-indicment-Anticoh.jpg 1018w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Federal-indicment-Anticoh-800x313.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Federal-indicment-Anticoh-160x63.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evidence from a federal indictment shows a travel mug with the DeNova Homes logo containing $5,000 in cash, which was allegedly given to an unnamed Antioch council member in 2024 in exchange for favorable treatment with development projects in the city. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Northern District of California court records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You’re not going to see anything directly, but Dave will be doing something for you,” Trent Sanson allegedly told the council member during that first meeting, adding that his father would likely give $5,000 in cash and another $5,000 as a donation to a political action committee or as an independent expenditure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several weeks earlier, the council member had received a text from Trent Sanson requesting the meeting to discuss the project. The council member notified the FBI in advance, and agents set up the clandestine video recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reached for comment, former Antioch City Councilmember Mike Barbanica, who was on the Council last year, declined to say whether he was the official who reported the alleged bribe.[aside postID=news_12031189 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I’ve always had a policy that if there’s an active investigation, I don’t comment on it,” he told KQED, adding that elected officials had an obligation to “do business correctly, do business the right way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Winston Chan, David Sanson’s attorney, referred to his client as “a respected business leader and philanthropist” with a 30-year track record of building homes in Northern California. Without providing specific details or evidence, he said David Sanson had been “trapped into a web of deceit” orchestrated by “a controversial local politico, whose own suspect personal motivations we look forward to exposing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are reviewing the government’s allegations closely and caution against any rush to judgment based on mere allegations that present a one-sided story. We are confident the facts will show that Dave is innocent,” Chan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “It’s incredibly disappointing that Dave’s reputation — built on a decades-long career of creating opportunities for residents of cities like Antioch, that have struggled for years to keep up with housing needs and other challenges — is being dragged through the mud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for DeNova Homes, which has been building housing developments in cities across the Bay Area for 35 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/bay-area-housing-developers-charged-bribery-20289384.php\">told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the company was not implicated in the case and said that David Sanson is no longer involved in the company’s leadership or daily operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sanson is still listed on \u003ca href=\"https://www.denovahomes.com/about/management/\">the company’s site\u003c/a> as a founder and “Chief Executive Officer Emeritus.” There is no mention of his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged transaction by the father-son duo came after a city of Antioch planning agency opposed approval of DeNova’s proposed 533-unit Aviano housing development, saying the company had not completed all required public infrastructure improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment describes a video-recorded meeting on June 12 between Trent Sanson, a Walnut Creek resident, and the council member, during which Sanson allegedly asked the council member to place a motion on the City Council agenda to approve the next phase of the project. He said his father, who now lives in Montana, was willing to pay $10,000 in exchange for the favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1018px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12037277 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Federal-indicment-Anticoh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1018\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Federal-indicment-Anticoh.jpg 1018w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Federal-indicment-Anticoh-800x313.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Federal-indicment-Anticoh-160x63.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evidence from a federal indictment shows a travel mug with the DeNova Homes logo containing $5,000 in cash, which was allegedly given to an unnamed Antioch council member in 2024 in exchange for favorable treatment with development projects in the city. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Northern District of California court records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You’re not going to see anything directly, but Dave will be doing something for you,” Trent Sanson allegedly told the council member during that first meeting, adding that his father would likely give $5,000 in cash and another $5,000 as a donation to a political action committee or as an independent expenditure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several weeks earlier, the council member had received a text from Trent Sanson requesting the meeting to discuss the project. The council member notified the FBI in advance, and agents set up the clandestine video recording.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When reached for comment, former Antioch City Councilmember Mike Barbanica, who was on the Council last year, declined to say whether he was the official who reported the alleged bribe.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’ve always had a policy that if there’s an active investigation, I don’t comment on it,” he told KQED, adding that elected officials had an obligation to “do business correctly, do business the right way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Winston Chan, David Sanson’s attorney, referred to his client as “a respected business leader and philanthropist” with a 30-year track record of building homes in Northern California. Without providing specific details or evidence, he said David Sanson had been “trapped into a web of deceit” orchestrated by “a controversial local politico, whose own suspect personal motivations we look forward to exposing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are reviewing the government’s allegations closely and caution against any rush to judgment based on mere allegations that present a one-sided story. We are confident the facts will show that Dave is innocent,” Chan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “It’s incredibly disappointing that Dave’s reputation — built on a decades-long career of creating opportunities for residents of cities like Antioch, that have struggled for years to keep up with housing needs and other challenges — is being dragged through the mud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for DeNova Homes, which has been building housing developments in cities across the Bay Area for 35 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/bay-area-housing-developers-charged-bribery-20289384.php\">told the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the company was not implicated in the case and said that David Sanson is no longer involved in the company’s leadership or daily operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Sanson is still listed on \u003ca href=\"https://www.denovahomes.com/about/management/\">the company’s site\u003c/a> as a founder and “Chief Executive Officer Emeritus.” There is no mention of his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The move would follow discussions about Johnson-Trammell’s employment at board meetings over the last month, which had raised conflicting reports about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035569/is-the-oakland-school-board-ousting-the-superintendent-depends-on-which-board-member-you-ask\">whether she was being pushed out early\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell signed a three-year contract extension in August that would have had her oversee the district until the end of the 2026–2027 school year, though she had always planned to step back from heading its day-to-day operations this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent by the district after news of the superintendent’s potential departure initially broke earlier this month, Board President Jennifer Brouhard said that discussion of ousting Johnson-Trammell was “premature.” She did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Board listens to public comment during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Students, families, educators, and community members raised their concerns about a proposed merger of their schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell, an Oakland native and a former student and teacher in Oakland Unified classrooms, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11611940/meet-the-homegrown-superintendents-from-san-francisco-and-oakland\">took the helm of the district\u003c/a> amid a financial crisis — a position she has come to know well during her eight-year tenure. All of it has been under the watchful eye of the state since the district was bailed out of bankruptcy by California in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between declaring bankruptcy and the start of Johnson-Trammell’s term, the district had nine different superintendents or state administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the eight years since, [Johnson-Trammell] has led the district, and installed the systems that are digging us out of those financial challenges,” OUSD said in a statement Tuesday announcing its exit from receivership.[aside postID=news_12036400 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-9.20.34-AM-1020x550.png']“Since she became superintendent … Johnson-Trammell has had fiscal vitality and organizational resilience as two of her top priorities for the district, and that has led us to where we are today,” the district’s statement continued. “She understood from personal experience in Oakland how financial instability undermines our efforts toward student success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell’s first budget as superintendent required $9 million in cuts. Since then, the district’s budget has been squeezed by continued enrollment declines, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013739/oakland-school-board-spurns-campus-closures-plans-merge-some-schools-instead\">higher-than-advisable number of small schools\u003c/a> and significantly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949458/oakland-teachers-strike-ends-as-union-reaches-agreement-with-school-district\">increasing teacher wages.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the district said Tuesday that it has made considerable progress toward fiscal stability, recent budget planning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023461/ousd-on-track-run-out-of-cash-after-avoiding-hard-decisions-scathing-letter-says\">hasn’t been smooth sailing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the district certified its first negative budget in more than 20 years, indicating it could run out of cash to pay its bills in the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said the district would be in a bad spot if it loses Johnson-Trammell, whose top budget staff could leave with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know other senior staff will follow her out the door without a plan in place or replacement in place,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904318\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11904318 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7844-2-scaled-e1745361588134.jpeg\" alt=\"A bald man in a light blue hoodie stands for a portrait. Behind him a scattered crowd stands on blacktop at Prescott School.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1473\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Hutchinson, former Oakland school board director, stands on the blacktop of Prescott School in West Oakland during a rally on Feb. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An independent audit of the district’s finances, another step toward exiting receivership, found that the district is operating about 30 more school sites than is fiscally responsible and needs to increase its administrative efficiency. Still, it credited Johnson-Trammell and her budget team’s sustained leadership as the primary reason for the district’s progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson worries that losing this stable team, without qualified candidates ready to take over, could make the district’s independence short-lived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could potentially leave receivership on June 30th and get put right back in on July 1st if we don’t have a superintendent and leadership in place that [can] manage our decisions going forward,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OUSD still has a deficit of $70 million for the current academic year. It’s whittled down next year’s deficit, which was projected in December at $95 million, to $12 million after factoring in a laundry list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017719/oaklands-school-merger-plan-stalled-districts-huge-deficit-remains\">service cuts\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029001/oakland-school-board-approves-over-100-layoffs-a-day-after-similar-vote-in-sf\">layoffs\u003c/a>. Those will be reflected in the budget presented later this spring, by whoever steps in as interim superintendent should Johnson-Trammell leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School sites’ discretionary funds, individual supplies and community agency contracts, and capacity for overtime pay are all on the chopping block after the board approved a significant menu of cuts presented by Chief Budget Officer Lisa Grant-Dawson in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these cuts reduced next year’s expected shortfall, the district is still planning to spend more than it brings in each month. Nearly half of the projected savings from the budget-balancing solutions will be one-time savings, so further cuts will likely be necessary in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An item on the board’s closed-session agenda Wednesday night involves the final steps necessary to separate from Johnson-Trammell, according to Hutchinson. The move would follow discussions about Johnson-Trammell’s employment at board meetings over the last month, which had raised conflicting reports about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035569/is-the-oakland-school-board-ousting-the-superintendent-depends-on-which-board-member-you-ask\">whether she was being pushed out early\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell signed a three-year contract extension in August that would have had her oversee the district until the end of the 2026–2027 school year, though she had always planned to step back from heading its day-to-day operations this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent by the district after news of the superintendent’s potential departure initially broke earlier this month, Board President Jennifer Brouhard said that discussion of ousting Johnson-Trammell was “premature.” She did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Board listens to public comment during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Students, families, educators, and community members raised their concerns about a proposed merger of their schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson-Trammell, an Oakland native and a former student and teacher in Oakland Unified classrooms, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11611940/meet-the-homegrown-superintendents-from-san-francisco-and-oakland\">took the helm of the district\u003c/a> amid a financial crisis — a position she has come to know well during her eight-year tenure. All of it has been under the watchful eye of the state since the district was bailed out of bankruptcy by California in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between declaring bankruptcy and the start of Johnson-Trammell’s term, the district had nine different superintendents or state administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the eight years since, [Johnson-Trammell] has led the district, and installed the systems that are digging us out of those financial challenges,” OUSD said in a statement Tuesday announcing its exit from receivership.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Berkeley’s City Council approved updates to a policy this week intended to slash planet-warming pollution that comes from buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If homes do not meet certain efficiency requirements at the time of sale, outgoing and incoming homeowners put money toward upgrades like swapping out a gas furnace for an electric heat pump, adding insulation, or installing solar panels. The buyer is then tasked with completing upgrades and will be reimbursed for those funds once complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just really proud of our city council for being able to make this decision,” Berkeley Mayor Adena Ishii said. “The goal at the end of the day is that people are able to make the changes to their homes that will make them more climate-friendly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance is intended not only to reduce gases that heat the climate, but also those that pollute indoor spaces. A move toward greater efficiency can also reduce energy bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy will apply to one- to four-unit homes, of which there are roughly 29,000 in Berkeley, according to the city. City representatives said about 700 are sold each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one’s done something quite like this before,” said Ammon Reagan, sustainability program coordinator for the city of Berkeley. Reagan, along with others in the building efficiency space, called the policy a “first-of-its-kind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The time of sale is a great trigger point because many homes complete upgrades when a home sells,” Reagan, who manages the building emission savings ordinance, said. “And we want to ensure that those renovations include resilience measures and electric systems because those systems will be in their home for another 15–20 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen the effects of climate change, and our homes need to be more resilient in order to weather future climate events,” Reagan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy amends the current Building Emissions Saving \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/construction-development/green-building/building-emissions-saving-ordinance-beso\">Ordinance\u003c/a>, which asked homeowners to make energy-efficiency upgrades on a voluntary basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12035866 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-04-15%20Item%2001%20Proposed%20Amendments%20to%20the%20Building%20Emissions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new code (PDF)\u003c/a> requires upgrades, which can be done up to five years prior to a sale. Homeowners can choose from a variety of upgrades to a home, or instead make a $2,500 deposit that will be held in escrow. If that happens, the buyer must match that $2,500 deposit and then use those funds to improve their building’s efficiency. If they fail to do so within two years, the money will be used by the city for low-income electrification programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cheapest, simplest way to comply would be to install a heat pump water heater, according to the city, which estimated the average cost to do so in Alameda County is $6,700–$7,900. There are also tax credits and rebates to bring down this price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are exemptions for first-time homebuyers that meet certain income qualifications, condominiums and accessory dwelling units, and homes that already show high energy efficiency, like if the home already has a heat pump system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City representatives said the measure is intended to help Berkeley homeowners prepare for new requirements from the Bay Area Air District, which will prohibit the sale and installation of gas-powered water heaters and furnaces starting in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules will begin on Jan. 1, 2026, for one- and two-unit residential buildings and in 2028 for three- and four-unit buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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OUSD’s response to those requests has been delayed,” union president Kampala Taiz-Rancifer said. “They have cut members’ jobs, and we have to … understand what are the resources in the school district, along with whether or not the job losses are actually necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that union leaders’ recent discussions with the county superintendent and OUSD’s chief business officer seeking answers to budget questions have been unproductive and contributed to the call for a strike authorization vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-026_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-026_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-026_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-026_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-026_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-026_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-026_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Board listens to public comment during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland, California, on Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the meetings, Taiz-Rancifer said the union was given “data dumps” that were difficult to understand and parse through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are meant to confuse, meant to delay,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said it is committed to transparency and open communication with the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are hopeful that we can work together to find solutions and ensure a strong finish to the school year for all Oakland students,” a spokesperson said in a statement.[aside postID=news_12035005 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS26222_IMG_2896-qut-1180x787.jpg']The move comes after Oakland’s school board certified a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027158/how-oakland-and-sf-ended-up-among-7-ca-school-districts-who-cant-pay-their-bills\">negative budget\u003c/a> — meaning it doesn’t have the funds to pay its bills over the next two years — but quickly reversed course last month. The union has called the move misleading and accused the district of “manufacturing” a $95 million budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“OUSD has a pattern of saying that they do not have resources, and then at the end of the school year, they are operating with a surplus,” Taiz-Rancifer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its second interim report released last month, the district’s deficit shrank to $12 million, and it pulled back the negative status. The significant improvement followed the school board’s approval of a laundry list of “budget balancing solutions” in December and hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029001/oakland-school-board-approves-over-100-layoffs-a-day-after-similar-vote-in-sf\">possible layoffs\u003c/a> in February, which could cost about 100 full-time positions and exclude some summer work for even more — resulting in a pay loss for many employees, according to union leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the union does strike, it will be the fourth time since 2019. Just two years ago, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949458/oakland-teachers-strike-ends-as-union-reaches-agreement-with-school-district\">work stoppage paused instruction\u003c/a> for more than a week, only ending after the district agreed to a retroactive 10% raise and continued salary increase between 11% and 23% for staffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726890\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11726890\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS34714_20190118-30-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland teachers march during an unsanctioned 'sick out' on Jan. 18, 2019. On Saturday, the teachers union announced that the teachers would go on strike starting Thursday, Jan. 21.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS34714_20190118-30-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS34714_20190118-30-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS34714_20190118-30-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS34714_20190118-30-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS34714_20190118-30-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teachers march during an unsanctioned “sickout” on Jan. 18, 2019. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent budget conversations, the district has cited those costs as part of the reason for its current financial struggle. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 4:15 p.m. April 16\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/berkeley\">Berkeley\u003c/a> City Council unanimously approved a proposal Tuesday night to require a 5-foot buffer zone around houses, decks and outbuildings in a section of the Berkeley Hills with the highest wildfire risk — making it one of the first cities in the state to adopt such stringent landscaping rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the council signs off on the second and final reading of the ordinance next month, which is all be assured, some 900 hundred homes in neighborhoods bordering Tilden Regional Park will have to remove nearly all vegetation and other flammable materials from their immediate perimeters by January, when the new rules take effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrary to the expectations of many observers — this reporter included — the meeting remained largely positive and non-confrontational, with most public commenters voicing support for the proposed rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under what’s known as the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/city-council-meetings/2025-04-15%20Special%20Agenda%20Packet%20-%20Council%20-%20WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EMBER proposal\u003c/a>, drafted by the city’s fire department, Berkeley would change its fire code to require residents living in areas with the highest fire risk to remove most vegetation within 5 feet of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rules, prompted by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/eaton-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">catastrophic fires\u003c/a> in Los Angeles in January, would initially apply to homes mostly between Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Wildcat Canyon Road, as well as the Panoramic Hill neighborhood. The rules would also likely extend in the coming year to adjacent neighborhoods a bit further down the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters argue the 5-foot buffer zone — referred to as “zone zero” — is essential to help prevent embers from igniting homes during the kind of wind-driven wildfires that incinerated LA’s Pacific Palisades and Altadena communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to prevent the embers that fly out in these ember storms from igniting anything near your house that will then catch the house on fire and create a structure-to-structure fire,” said Brent Blackaby, a Berkeley City Council member who worked closely with the city’s fire department on the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that wildfire danger in the area has grown dramatically in recent decades amid a longer, hotter dry season and the rapid accumulation of fuels in the neighboring forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036096 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley City Councilmember Brent Blackaby in front of Berkeley City Hall on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The reality has changed,” Blackaby told KQED. “The facts of where we are in terms of climate change are not going to change. The only thing that can change is our response and our preparedness to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest version of the proposal, introduced last week, would also require homeowners in the area to remove all combustible materials within zone zero, including wood or vinyl fences, playsets, trellises, trash bins and attached window boxes. Trees in the zone would also have to be torn out unless they are taller than the house and their lowest branches are at least 10 feet above the roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Fire Chief David Sprague called the proposal a science-based, “holistic community” approach to reducing the risk of wind-blown embers igniting combustible material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When those receptive fuel beds have connectivity to a structure, the structure is far more likely to burn,” he said in a statement to KQED, citing separate \u003ca href=\"https://ibhs.org/wildfire/near-building-noncombustible-zone/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfire-mitigation studies.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1386\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-800x554.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-1020x707.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-1536x1064.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-1920x1331.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under proposed fire safety rules, about 900 homes in Berkeley Hills’ highest fire risk zone (shown in red) would be required to clear most vegetation within 5 feet of their structures. The regulations are set to take effect in January, with similar measures expected for adjacent zones in the future. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-02-11%20Special%20Item%2001a%20Effective%20Mitigations%20for%20Berkeley%E2%80%99s%20Ember%20-%20Fire%20Code.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous draft \u003c/a>(PDF) of the proposal, Sprague said the city had “a moral imperative to shift our focus away from only the response,” noting that the hills around Berkeley experience a “significant wildfire” about once every 20 years — and are well past due for another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is time to voraciously engage with what we know will save homes and lives,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed new rules would go into effect next January, with the city offering some financial and physical assistance to help lower-income residents comply, Blackaby added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The great part is if we pass this here, we’ve got at least six months of preparation time and ramp-up time until the new standards officially go into place. I think of this more about providing lots of carrots as opposed to sticks,” he said. “Yes, there will be enforcement … yes, there will be fines. But my hope is that we don’t get to that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that comes as cold comfort to some residents in the high-risk zone, many of whom have lived there for decades and lovingly nurtured the bougainvillea vines, camellia trees and other foliage that fringe the homes of their leafy, affluent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036044\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homes in the Berkeley Hills on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruth Langridge was among the slew of residents who wrote letters to the City Council opposing the proposal. The focus, she argued, should be on “not letting the fire happen in the first place” through better fire management in Tilden and more brush removal near power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If my wonderful pear tree remains in zone 0 and next to a stucco wall (a tree that I have nurtured for over 20 years and supplies me with abundant delicious pears each year), it will not be the cause of my house burning down in a fire,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janice Thomas, vice president of the Panoramic Hill Association, said the proposal was developed without adequate public input and goes well beyond what’s required in the state fire code.[aside postID=news_12035344 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250408-CAL-TECH-TESTING-113-ZS-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“This is really extreme,” she told KQED, arguing that stripping out vegetation in the 5-foot zone would also create serious drainage issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a hillside neighborhood. And if you have no vegetation 5 feet from the house, there’s a real concern about where that water will go and how it flows and what you have to do to capture it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Cindy Rosenthal, who lives in nearby Park Hills and is president of its neighborhood association, said she supports the proposal because the situation calls for collective action, no matter how unpleasant that may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that we can do everything possible to try to protect our homes, but if our neighbors are not also doing the things that they need to do to mitigate risk, then no one is safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry DeNero, president of the Berkeley FireSafe Council, whose group has agreed to help some residents remove their plants, said the proposed rules are essential first steps in a longer series of actions to manage vegetation and harden homes in the highest-risk neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036042 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home in the Berkeley Hills on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of the number one causes of a structure igniting is vegetation burning right next to the structure that eventually ignites the structure,” said DeNero, who lives in the hills just below the targeted zone. “It’s the most important element to prevent houses from igniting in an ember storm, which is what happened in Altadena and Pacific Palisades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And regardless, DeNero added, insurance companies may soon insist that homeowners do it anyway if they want to keep their policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s highly likely that these measures will be required in order to maintain your insurance in the near future,” he said. “That’s one of the things I think people aren’t thinking about. The Berkeley Fire Department’s trying to get out ahead of this, and I applaud them for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackaby is hardly surprised by the opposition the proposal has generated, particularly in a city where many residents are \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/08/08/yimby-bay-area-housing-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passionate about their flora\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, look, this is a hard ask. I get it,” he said. “I’ve lived in the same home for 20 years. I’m in this zone, so I’ll have to be doing the same kind of defensible space work around my home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, change is hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAACreV8g5aIxmhJvUk7AZMatAGIv0X&gclid=Cj0KCQjwh_i_BhCzARIsANimeoHs2shckqVFGJjLR4jomGmlKiW5KGyHTMdNCkarfqkuvYswkpL5UcsaAvLBEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Samantha Kennedy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters argue the 5-foot buffer zone — referred to as “zone zero” — is essential to help prevent embers from igniting homes during the kind of wind-driven wildfires that incinerated LA’s Pacific Palisades and Altadena communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to prevent the embers that fly out in these ember storms from igniting anything near your house that will then catch the house on fire and create a structure-to-structure fire,” said Brent Blackaby, a Berkeley City Council member who worked closely with the city’s fire department on the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that wildfire danger in the area has grown dramatically in recent decades amid a longer, hotter dry season and the rapid accumulation of fuels in the neighboring forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036096 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-01-KQED-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley City Councilmember Brent Blackaby in front of Berkeley City Hall on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The reality has changed,” Blackaby told KQED. “The facts of where we are in terms of climate change are not going to change. The only thing that can change is our response and our preparedness to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest version of the proposal, introduced last week, would also require homeowners in the area to remove all combustible materials within zone zero, including wood or vinyl fences, playsets, trellises, trash bins and attached window boxes. Trees in the zone would also have to be torn out unless they are taller than the house and their lowest branches are at least 10 feet above the roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Fire Chief David Sprague called the proposal a science-based, “holistic community” approach to reducing the risk of wind-blown embers igniting combustible material.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When those receptive fuel beds have connectivity to a structure, the structure is far more likely to burn,” he said in a statement to KQED, citing separate \u003ca href=\"https://ibhs.org/wildfire/near-building-noncombustible-zone/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wildfire-mitigation studies.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1386\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-800x554.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-1020x707.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-160x111.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-1536x1064.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/Fire-map-2-1920x1331.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under proposed fire safety rules, about 900 homes in Berkeley Hills’ highest fire risk zone (shown in red) would be required to clear most vegetation within 5 feet of their structures. The regulations are set to take effect in January, with similar measures expected for adjacent zones in the future. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025-02-11%20Special%20Item%2001a%20Effective%20Mitigations%20for%20Berkeley%E2%80%99s%20Ember%20-%20Fire%20Code.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous draft \u003c/a>(PDF) of the proposal, Sprague said the city had “a moral imperative to shift our focus away from only the response,” noting that the hills around Berkeley experience a “significant wildfire” about once every 20 years — and are well past due for another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is time to voraciously engage with what we know will save homes and lives,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed new rules would go into effect next January, with the city offering some financial and physical assistance to help lower-income residents comply, Blackaby added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The great part is if we pass this here, we’ve got at least six months of preparation time and ramp-up time until the new standards officially go into place. I think of this more about providing lots of carrots as opposed to sticks,” he said. “Yes, there will be enforcement … yes, there will be fines. But my hope is that we don’t get to that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that comes as cold comfort to some residents in the high-risk zone, many of whom have lived there for decades and lovingly nurtured the bougainvillea vines, camellia trees and other foliage that fringe the homes of their leafy, affluent neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036044\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homes in the Berkeley Hills on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruth Langridge was among the slew of residents who wrote letters to the City Council opposing the proposal. The focus, she argued, should be on “not letting the fire happen in the first place” through better fire management in Tilden and more brush removal near power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If my wonderful pear tree remains in zone 0 and next to a stucco wall (a tree that I have nurtured for over 20 years and supplies me with abundant delicious pears each year), it will not be the cause of my house burning down in a fire,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janice Thomas, vice president of the Panoramic Hill Association, said the proposal was developed without adequate public input and goes well beyond what’s required in the state fire code.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is really extreme,” she told KQED, arguing that stripping out vegetation in the 5-foot zone would also create serious drainage issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a hillside neighborhood. And if you have no vegetation 5 feet from the house, there’s a real concern about where that water will go and how it flows and what you have to do to capture it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Cindy Rosenthal, who lives in nearby Park Hills and is president of its neighborhood association, said she supports the proposal because the situation calls for collective action, no matter how unpleasant that may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that we can do everything possible to try to protect our homes, but if our neighbors are not also doing the things that they need to do to mitigate risk, then no one is safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry DeNero, president of the Berkeley FireSafe Council, whose group has agreed to help some residents remove their plants, said the proposed rules are essential first steps in a longer series of actions to manage vegetation and harden homes in the highest-risk neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036042 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-BERKELEY-PLANTS-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home in the Berkeley Hills on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of the number one causes of a structure igniting is vegetation burning right next to the structure that eventually ignites the structure,” said DeNero, who lives in the hills just below the targeted zone. “It’s the most important element to prevent houses from igniting in an ember storm, which is what happened in Altadena and Pacific Palisades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And regardless, DeNero added, insurance companies may soon insist that homeowners do it anyway if they want to keep their policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s highly likely that these measures will be required in order to maintain your insurance in the near future,” he said. “That’s one of the things I think people aren’t thinking about. The Berkeley Fire Department’s trying to get out ahead of this, and I applaud them for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackaby is hardly surprised by the opposition the proposal has generated, particularly in a city where many residents are \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/08/08/yimby-bay-area-housing-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passionate about their flora\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, look, this is a hard ask. I get it,” he said. “I’ve lived in the same home for 20 years. I’m in this zone, so I’ll have to be doing the same kind of defensible space work around my home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, change is hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAACreV8g5aIxmhJvUk7AZMatAGIv0X&gclid=Cj0KCQjwh_i_BhCzARIsANimeoHs2shckqVFGJjLR4jomGmlKiW5KGyHTMdNCkarfqkuvYswkpL5UcsaAvLBEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Samantha Kennedy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:05 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Oakland City Councilmember \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/loren-taylor\">Loren Taylor\u003c/a> holds a narrow lead over former U.S. Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/barbara-lee\">Barbara Lee\u003c/a> in initial results from Tuesday’s special election for Oakland mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor is ahead of Lee, 48%-46% in first-choice votes. When voters’ additional choices were included in a ranked-choice runoff, Taylor gained a 51%-49% advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those results will hold until at least Friday, when the Alameda County Registrar of Voters is expected to release its next update.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s early lead mirrors the one he had in the 2022 mayor’s race, which he ultimately lost to Sheng Thao once all the votes were counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a speech to supporters, Taylor called his run against Lee, who represented the East Bay in Congress for nearly three decades, “a true David and Goliath story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayoral candidate Loren Taylor takes a photo with a supporter at his campaign’s election results party in Oakland on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We may not know the outcome of this race tonight, we may not know this week,” Taylor said. “But what we do know is that it is important that we count every vote, that everyone’s voice is heard. Democracy must prevail in Oakland and beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vote-counting will continue for weeks, and another update is not expected from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters until Friday. Any ballot postmarked by Tuesday and received by the Registrar of Voters before April 22 can be counted. Election officials will also spend the next few weeks confirming the eligibility of voters who registered on Election Day, and others whose ballot signature did not match their registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010512/how-does-ranked-choice-voting-work\">city’s ranked choice system\u003c/a>, voters were able to rank up to five candidates in order of preference. Candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated in an instant runoff, and votes are redistributed until one candidate reaches a majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Taylor’s election night gathering at a former Kaiser Permanente office tower downtown, more than a hundred supporters cheered and hugged when they learned of the initial results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036210 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayoral candidate Barbara Lee takes the stage during her election night party on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just blocks away, Lee supporters swayed underneath a disco ball as a band played on a stage adorned by yellow and green balloons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee urged supporters to enjoy themselves as they await further results from what she described as a “tough campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to be a long week, but we’re doing very well,” Lee said. “We have to really be very vigilant right now with these votes as they come in, because we know that people just mailed them today, yesterday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033381 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00156_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winner of the mayoral election will finish out the remainder of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s term after she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">recalled last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an election for the District 2 City Council seat, Charlene Wang leads Kara Murray-Badal, 50%–26% in first-choice votes and 66% – 34% in the ranked-choice runoff. The seat, which includes neighborhoods around Lake Merritt, was vacated after Nikki Fortunato Bas was elected to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters appeared to embrace a sales tax increase, Measure A. Both Taylor and Lee agreed that Measure A would be crucial to fixing Oakland’s structural budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A was passing with 64% of the vote in initial returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a key component that anybody who is going to expect to do anything in the city is going to need going forward,” said Seth Olyer, president of the Oakland Firefighters union, Local 55.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036211\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters clap for Oakland mayoral candidate Barbara Lee during an election night party on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Thao was recalled, Oakland has had two interim mayors. City Council President Kevin Jenkins has served in the role since January, but he did not throw his hat in the ring to stay in the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, who in 2022 lost to Thao by less than 700 votes, ran a campaign focused on fixing “broken” Oakland, pitching himself to voters as a professional problem solver. He laid out ideas for tackling Oakland’s financial crisis at a granular level, while calling for a course correction from the decisions of the previous administration under Thao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan came out in support of Taylor, as did organizers of the recalls of Thao and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014858/alameda-county-da-pamela-price-concedes-recall-defeat-after-long-holdout\">former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price\u003c/a>, several members of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and other current and former local elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020556/barbara-lee-launches-campaign-for-oakland-mayor-after-contentious-recall\">entered the race\u003c/a> in early January after weeks of speculation and after a group of elected officials, business owners and other community leaders \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@oaklandneedsbarbaralee/oakland-needs-barbara-lee-1ee21c4e3ae6\">urged her to run\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12031370 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00061-1020x680.jpg']She ran on a platform of unity. 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Dellums\u003c/a>, who was also urged to run for Oakland mayor after a storied career in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s campaign spent nearly $400,000 through March 29, while Lee’s campaign spent slightly less, around $372,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036201\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, 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receiving money from Revitalize East Bay, which last year was a major backer of the recall of Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other contributions came from Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak ($70,000), Lafayette real estate developer Ronald Nahas ($50,000) and Marty Glick, an advisor to the Golden State Warriors ($20,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside spending for Lee totalled $379,507 through April 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Nurses Association PAC contributed $200,000 to independent groups supporting Lee, with other major donations coming from the CEO of Kaiser Permanente and union-sponsored PACs like IFPTE Local 21 TJ Anthony PAC Fund, SEIU Local 1021 Candidate PAC and International Association of Firefighters Local 55 Political Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036213\" 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participates in a media interview during her election party in Oakland on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A week and a half after Lee announced her candidacy in January, federal prosecutors announced that Thao, her boyfriend Andre Jones, David Duong, the CEO of Oakland’s recycling contractor, California Waste Solutions, and his son, Andy Duong, were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022900/oakland-officials-react-to-indictment-of-former-mayor-thao-in-corruption-case\">indicted on bribery and fraud charges\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scandal, coupled with the city’s looming financial troubles, hung like a cloud over the race, with both Taylor and Lee distancing themselves from Thao and proposing transparency and accountability reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both candidates said they would order an audit of the city’s finances. Lee also proposed launching a public portal displaying city contracts, while Taylor advocated for requiring nonprofits to register with the city when lobbying city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s early lead mirrors the one he had in the 2022 mayor’s race, which he ultimately lost to Sheng Thao once all the votes were counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a speech to supporters, Taylor called his run against Lee, who represented the East Bay in Congress for nearly three decades, “a true David and Goliath story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-MD-02-KQED-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayoral candidate Loren Taylor takes a photo with a supporter at his campaign’s election results party in Oakland on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We may not know the outcome of this race tonight, we may not know this week,” Taylor said. “But what we do know is that it is important that we count every vote, that everyone’s voice is heard. Democracy must prevail in Oakland and beyond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vote-counting will continue for weeks, and another update is not expected from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters until Friday. Any ballot postmarked by Tuesday and received by the Registrar of Voters before April 22 can be counted. Election officials will also spend the next few weeks confirming the eligibility of voters who registered on Election Day, and others whose ballot signature did not match their registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010512/how-does-ranked-choice-voting-work\">city’s ranked choice system\u003c/a>, voters were able to rank up to five candidates in order of preference. Candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated in an instant runoff, and votes are redistributed until one candidate reaches a majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Taylor’s election night gathering at a former Kaiser Permanente office tower downtown, more than a hundred supporters cheered and hugged when they learned of the initial results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12036210 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-02-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland mayoral candidate Barbara Lee takes the stage during her election night party on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just blocks away, Lee supporters swayed underneath a disco ball as a band played on a stage adorned by yellow and green balloons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee urged supporters to enjoy themselves as they await further results from what she described as a “tough campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to be a long week, but we’re doing very well,” Lee said. “We have to really be very vigilant right now with these votes as they come in, because we know that people just mailed them today, yesterday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winner of the mayoral election will finish out the remainder of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s term after she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012357/sheng-thao-accepts-defeat-in-contentious-oakland-mayoral-recall\">recalled last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an election for the District 2 City Council seat, Charlene Wang leads Kara Murray-Badal, 50%–26% in first-choice votes and 66% – 34% in the ranked-choice runoff. The seat, which includes neighborhoods around Lake Merritt, was vacated after Nikki Fortunato Bas was elected to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters appeared to embrace a sales tax increase, Measure A. Both Taylor and Lee agreed that Measure A would be crucial to fixing Oakland’s structural budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A was passing with 64% of the vote in initial returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a key component that anybody who is going to expect to do anything in the city is going to need going forward,” said Seth Olyer, president of the Oakland Firefighters union, Local 55.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036211\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250415-OAKLAND-MAYORAL-RESULTS-AC-03-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supporters clap for Oakland mayoral candidate Barbara Lee during an election night party on April 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Thao was recalled, Oakland has had two interim mayors. City Council President Kevin Jenkins has served in the role since January, but he did not throw his hat in the ring to stay in the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, who in 2022 lost to Thao by less than 700 votes, ran a campaign focused on fixing “broken” Oakland, pitching himself to voters as a professional problem solver. He laid out ideas for tackling Oakland’s financial crisis at a granular level, while calling for a course correction from the decisions of the previous administration under Thao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan came out in support of Taylor, as did organizers of the recalls of Thao and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014858/alameda-county-da-pamela-price-concedes-recall-defeat-after-long-holdout\">former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price\u003c/a>, several members of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and other current and former local elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020556/barbara-lee-launches-campaign-for-oakland-mayor-after-contentious-recall\">entered the race\u003c/a> in early January after weeks of speculation and after a group of elected officials, business owners and other community leaders \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@oaklandneedsbarbaralee/oakland-needs-barbara-lee-1ee21c4e3ae6\">urged her to run\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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